Chapter: 4111

Ye Chen said, "Don't tell her yet, let her focus on what she's doing. This way, she won't be distracted, and I'm not going anywhere today anyway. I'll just wait for her at the store."

Li Xiao Fen giggled and nodded, saying, "That's a great idea! You can surprise her with that at the store!"

As Li Xiao Fen was speaking, she hastily beckoned to the girl who was tidying up the shelves inside the store, "Claudia, come quickly! This is the guy I've been telling you about, Ye Chen!"

The girl named Claudia turned around and looked at Ye Chen, politely waving goodbye with a shy smile, saying, "Hi... Mr. Ye..."

Ye Chen saw that this Claudia was only 17 or 18 years old, her appearance seemed to be a mix of Eastern and Western features.

Her blue eyes, long eyelashes, high-bridged nose, and brown-black hair made her facial features almost flawless.

Although her five facial features were very beautiful and her face shape was perfect, there was an obvious burn scar on the right side of her cheek that extended all the way down to her neck. The scar was extremely noticeable, with the entire skin area completely disfigured and even a bit terrifying.

Claudia also seemed to deliberately turn away from Ye Chen, trying not to let him see her scar, and she even unconsciously pulled up her collar to cover it as much as possible.

Claudia looked at Ye Chen with a smile, saying, "Thank you, Mr. Ye, for your kind words..."

Next to her was Li Xiaofen, who introduced Claudia to Ye Chen, saying, "This is our shop's number two employee, Claudia Di Nozio. Her mother is from China, and her father is Italian, so she has half Chinese blood and has been studying Chinese since childhood, just like us."

Ye Chen nodded lightly, his thoughts wandering.

Claudia became slightly nervous and told Li Xiaofen, "Xiao Fen sister, the bread on the counter is gone. I'll go to the storage room to get some more."

Li Xiaofen hurriedly agreed and said, "Go ahead!"

Claudia went into the storage room, and Li Xiaofen whispered to Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, Claudia is a bit introverted, and she had a traumatic experience in her past - her parents and two younger brothers were killed in a fire, and she was severely burned on her face and neck, so she's always been a bit self-conscious. However, she's a good person with a kind heart and can endure hardships."

Ye Chen nodded thoughtfully, feeling sympathetic for Claudia.

Li Xiaofen sighed softly and said, "Her family is now just one person left - herself. Her schoolmates also often bully her, so she dropped out of school and had no source of income or place to live, eventually ending up working at our shop."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "Is that why you brought her here?"

"'She's Li Aiyi,' Li Xiaofen said. 'When her mother was alive, she would occasionally come visit and leave her youngest little brother at the daycare, so she became good friends with Li Aiyi. Moreover, her mother had left Gold Mountain a few years ago, which made her a true local, so Li Aiyi and she got along really well, but who would have thought that suddenly something unexpected would happen...'"

"Speaking of which, Li Xiaofen continued, 'After Claudia's family had an incident, she went missing for nearly half a month, and Li Aiyi was still looking for her. Later, when she came back, Li Aiyi decided to leave her at home.'"

"'That time period, Claudia didn't dare go out to see people, nor did she go to school. Later, she didn't want to eat stale food every day, so she insisted on coming to the shop to help, and Li Aiyi thought this would be good for her to quickly leave her shadows behind, so she let her come.'"

"Ye Chen nodded thoughtfully."

"Right then, Claudia walked out with a stack of sliced bread, and Li Xiaofen hurried over to help her."

"Ye Chen saw the workload wasn't too heavy, so he didn't go up to help but instead turned around and walked to the entrance of the convenience store."

"Ye Chen stood at the door, pulled out the oral hygiene candy he had just taken out, lightly pulled out a piece, opened it, and put it in his mouth. He was chewing while looking left and right."

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