The cruelty inflicted by humans upon their fellow beings can be unimaginably evil at times.
His master beat them, starved them, broke their limbs and dragged them outside to beg, then scavenged all their money, devising rules that made them too afraid to resist, too afraid to flee.
Du Lai thought this was Hell and his master was the demon in charge of Hell.
But after this demon died, a group of territorial people came, more demonic than demons, disgusted by the meager profits from petty thievery, wishing to package and sell them overseas as slaves.
True, bona fide slaves.
Facing employers with all sorts of fetishes, the younger the slave, the more valuable they were. If their looks were decent with a certain degree of physical flaws, the price would be even higher.