Thankfully, Stellar reacted quickly and caught her in time.
“Ma’am, may I ask—are you related to Coco?”
“I’m her distant aunt. My name is Maggie Lee! Coco’s had a hard life. Her parents and brother bullied and exploited her since she was a child.
“I couldn’t stand watching it, so I took her in when she was young and raised her in my home.”
Maggie herself had also been a victim of a family that favored sons over daughters.
She was mistreated growing up and eventually sold off for a one-hundred-dollar dowry to an old bachelor in the next town.
Though the man was older, he had an honest nature.
The two of them managed to live a fairly stable life.
But just a few months later, he died in an accident.
Maggie was then branded as cursed and was driven out by her in-laws.
Her own family wouldn’t take her back either.
From that point on, she built her life from the ground up—farming, selling vegetables, doing everything she could to survive.
Eventually, through sheer effort, she managed
