Daddy, Chasing Mommy Back is On Us!

Jason frowned immediately. "What happened to your hand?"

"Nothing." Mayaboy was too afraid to meet his gaze as she spoke.

"Show me!" He forcefully tugged on her hand before he gently rolled her sleeve up to reveal her arms. They were covered in scars that looked like they had been made by a whip!

"How did this happen?" Jason felt his heart thundering at the sight of the brutal scars. Some of them looked fresh as they were still bloody, while scabs had already formed over others. There were a number of scars that looked like they had been around for an even longer time, and the old and new wounds overlapped each other in a random, disorganized pattern.

She quickly pulled her hand away. "It's nothing. My mother-in-law has a bad temper. She beat me after I accidentally dropped a bowl during dinnertime. That's all." The smile hadn't left her face as she told Jason about the incident; she made it sound as if it was nothing more than a common matter.

Jason felt his heart aching for the girl before him. "Your mother-in-law beat you up so badly over a bowl?"

to deal with their in-laws' tempers,

He sank into a pit of guilt. If I had managed to run away with her in the past; if I had returned to look for her after I left this place; if... Well, there's no use for wishful thinking now... He didn't understand the culture in Mayaboy's village, but he had hoped that her life would improve after she got married. All he knew back then was how poor her own family was, so he had assumed that her quality of life would've improved after

smile hadn't left Mayaboy's face even then. “I should really thank you for what you did then, townsman. I'm really thankful that you were willing to bring me along with you back then. Although we didn't manage to leave in the end, just the fact that you

have brought you away from this place. It's all my fault. I

the rest of my life. Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you this earlier. What brought you here again? Are you still here on a trip

response. "No. I'm here to

for me?" She stared at

past." His gaze was gentle as he looked at the woman before his eyes. Even though she was no longer the beautiful young girl he had met all those years ago, he realized that