Enschede, The Netherlands.
There is a dilapidated-looking building on the river bank in the west of the city, near the Demore Animal Center.
This used to be a nursing home, but it was later relocated and left unused. It has been uninhabited for a long time and looks a bit run-down.
The landlord originally wanted to renovate the house and rent it out, but rumors of it being haunted spread around the place.
Towards evening, when the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the river, a pale little face was faintly revealed behind a window on the second floor with the reflection of the river water.
Passersby who noticed this scene were shocked and walked faster.
"Xue'er, what are you looking at?"
In the dim room, a clear child's voice was heard.
"Well, I'll see when my eldest sister comes back!"
By the window, a little girl about eight or nine years old turned around and smiled.
Just looking at her face, with her bright eyes and white teeth, she is a potential beauty. However, due to malnutrition, her eye sockets are a little sunken, and her hair is dry and yellow, like a small bean sprout.
Opposite her, there was a slightly older girl sitting on the floor beside the bed. She seemed injured, with one foot wrapped in gauze. She was raising her little hand to wave to her.
"Come back soon, my elder sister said you are not allowed to go near the window. If someone finds us, we will have no place to live!"
"But, Ali... why hasn't Big Sister come back yet?"
The little girl called Xue'er pouted, looking unhappy, and walked back slowly. Halfway through, she rolled her eyes and ran to the only desk in the room. There was a mirror on it.
In this room that was said to be haunted, the decoration was warm and clean, with a girl's simple elegance. But for some reason, the dirty windows were left unwashed.
Seeing the little girl standing there fiddling with something, the girl named Ali rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "You're fiddling with big sister's makeup again, be careful she'll come back and beat you up!"
"Hehe, my eldest sister loves me the most, no way! She even praised my beautiful painting yesterday!"
"Humph, elder sister just spoils you too much!"
Ali curled her lips and looked at her injured foot with melancholy, her little face showing a deep sadness that was inconsistent with her age.
They were a group of orphans from an orphanage, but a year ago, the old director passed away, and the new director wanted to secretly sell these unadopted girls abroad for unspeakable activities.
The eldest sister, who was already 16 years old at the time, beat the dean impulsively, fled with a group of girls, and gradually ended up here.
The group of children had no special skills, and in order to ensure that everyone had enough food to eat, the eldest sister relied on her unique makeup skills to find opportunities to sneak into high-end places to steal things, while the others hid outside the windows to support them.
Of course, this method is not always effective. Before, because they were discovered, Ali broke her leg while running, and the big sister was also beaten up.
Among these children, the only one who had not yet gone out to "work" was eight-year-old Xue'er. The eldest sister thought she was too young and ran too slowly, and the others were reluctant to leave the youngest sister behind.
Meanwhile, in the back alley of a nightclub.
"Bobo, run!"
A delicate face suddenly appeared from a small lattice window on the back wall, and shouted anxiously, before someone grabbed the hair and pulled it back.
The children waiting under the window were stunned. Then, the tallest blonde girl pulled the people around her and shouted, "We've been discovered. Run!"
"But elder sister..."
When someone hesitated, the girl named Bobo said angrily, "The elder sister can get away, let's not drag her down! Run!"
At this time, the locked back door was pushed open, and several tattooed burly men came out angrily. A girl with a boyish face running behind suddenly dropped the bag of bread in her arms, and when she turned back to pick it up, someone grabbed her hair.
"Jerry!"
Bobo yelled in shock, threw away the things in his arms, picked up stones and threw them at the people chasing him. The others who had already run a distance ran back and rushed towards the strong men shouting.
Unfortunately, the girls were too young and had been suffering from long-term malnutrition, so they were completely helpless against these strong thugs. Soon, they were all knocked to the ground.
"Bang!"
Someone suddenly rushed out from the back door. When everyone looked up, a woman with blood all over her head was madly rushing to the beaten Bobo, shouting angrily: "Stop hitting them, they are still too young, hit me if you want to hit them!"
"Do you think you can run away?"
A man with disheveled clothes and scratches on his face rushed out from the door behind him and shouted angrily, "Fuck! You dare to come to my territory to steal things? I'll beat you to death!"
There was a sudden shouting and crying in the dark alley, and blood quickly appeared on the bodies and faces of several children.
Seeing this, the woman lying on Bobo's back suddenly gritted her teeth, took out a knife from somewhere, and flew towards the man standing there with his head down lighting a cigarette. But before she could reach him, the big man behind her grabbed her hair.
The man grinned, threw away the cigarette, snatched the knife, and stabbed it into the woman's abdomen with his backhand.
"Big sister!"
"I'm going to kill you!"
Angry shouts rang out, then faded away as punches and kicks came.
Just then, a handsome man with a travel bag passed by the alley, glanced at him inadvertently, and hurriedly turned in.
"Stop it!"
…
Two hours later, in the old building by the river, the woman looked at the children kneeling and crying around her, and looked at the man who rescued them with pleading eyes. The man hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.
"Don't worry, I will take care of them!"
"Huh..."
The woman seemed to want to laugh, but she couldn't, and her hand that was reaching out to Xiaoxue'er fell halfway.
"Wuwu, big sister! Don't..."
The sound of crying in the dark and eerie building made passers-by even more afraid to approach.
At this moment, the little girl named Xueer suddenly picked up the blood-stained knife thrown on the floor, turned around and ran out. The little girl named Bobo shouted "Xueer" and hurriedly chased after her.
"Hey? You two come back!"
The man was just one step slower, and by the time he chased them out of the building, the two children had disappeared.
"What a willful child!"
As if thinking of something, the man cursed inwardly and hurried to the dark alley where the incident happened. When he arrived, he saw the two people disappearing at the entrance of the alley.
In the alley, the man who had been scratched on the face by the big sister before was walking out of the back door drunkenly with two of his men.
"I'll attract their attention, and you go kill the one with the scar on his face!"
Bobo said something quickly, leaned over to pick up a bottle from the wall, shouted and rushed over. But the little girl named Xue'er hid in the shadows.
Shouting and cursing suddenly broke out in the dark alley. Two men stopped Bobo, and the drunk leader snatched the bottle away while cursing. Just as he was about to smash it on her head, Xiao Xueer jumped out from the dark, holding a knife in her little hand and stabbed him in the back.
"Fuck~ah!"
Screams rang out, and the man pounded the small body behind him like crazy, but the latter just held the knife tightly and stabbed hard. Seeing that the corner of his mouth was bleeding, he didn't say a word.
The two men left Bobo and turned back to help. At this moment, a flash of saber in the darkness slashed across their necks.
The two men knelt down, holding their necks. The figure who suddenly appeared stabbed the man who beat Xue'er twice in the chest. Then, without looking at the result, he grabbed Xue'er and held her in his arms, while pulling Bobo out of the alley.
That night, a small funeral was held in a field full of tulips in the suburbs. The only people who attended the funeral were a group of little girls covered in blood and a man who was smoking silently.
After dawn...
"My name is Jacob, and you will follow me from now on! I will send you to school, give you a place to live, and you won't have to go hungry anymore."
"Well, should we call you daddy?"
"No, forget it. I'm so young and handsome, how can I have a daughter as old as you?"
"Then let Xiaoxue be your daughter. She's the right age!"
"Go away! I'm still single, don't yell like that. What if I can't find a wife in the future?"
"Oh, so that's how it is. Xue'er, call me daddy! He will be your daddy from now on!"
"dad… "