Chapter 17

Alysia's first salary, with nothing left, went to her house, electricity, water, and rent. She has already left the place where she used to live; it is too big for him and she also doesn't want to add to her great debt to Benedick; she is already ashamed of it.

She wants to train herself not to ask for help from other people. As long as she can endure, she will, as long as she doesn't ask for help from it. She wants to think that not all the time Benedick is there. What if he has his own family? How can she be hurt even more when she sees him with another woman? He loved it and she might not be able to handle it. Only now is she able to train on her own without him.

It would be better for him to avoid and forget the young man. She didn't want to add to the pain in her heart. She took a deep breath as she stared at the coin in her hand. She had to settle the seven hundred pesos left

over from her salary after she paid the bills. At the height of the price now, it's hard to make ends meet even though she has soap on her body. She just perseveres with safeguard even though she doesn't want her body.

But she perseveres with food. That's enough. You do it twice a day because she doesn't have money, and sometimes she just makes bread to reduce her hunger. Alysia was aware of the tears dripping down her cheeks as long as they leaked into her eyes because her emotions were already mixed.

She just wanted to die because of the hardships of life. Until now, she still can't accept that she doesn't even have a centavo. She wants to buy something, but she can't because she has no money. If you are sick, you cannot get treatment because there is no money. You want to eat delicious foods, but you can't buy them because there is no money.

You want to buy clothes because your clothes will be too tight at first. You can't buy them but you don't have money. In the end, you'll just persevere with tight and small clothes because you don't have anything to buy yet. You work hard so that you have to earn money, but when it comes to salary, the due date and due are already there. We are waiting for you when you will pay.

What happens is that there are no savings on wages that have gone through because they just went to expenses and bills. She didn't want to mess up her hair, so she raised her two legs and put her chin on it.

Alysia's mind entered her prosperous life back then at the Hacienda, where she had no problem; everything was already with her and everything was laid out in front of her. A vast piece of land owned by the people or clan of the Zaragosa. Hacienda Zaragosa is a 4,435 hectare sugar plantation in the town of San Roque. owned by the Zaragosa family. They are the richest clan in the entire Philippines. They have traditionally observed that the next generation during this period will inherit everything. Because Alysia was the last generation alive in their clan, her father inherited it from her before she died. As Alysia looks back on the past, she feels bitter now because all the wealth she had disappeared. She is crying.

"Hija, daughter?" The woman woke up when she felt the shaking in her body.

"Dad..." The woman immediately calls for the old man, who is wearing all white clothes, and he smiles at the woman.

"Daughter..." The woman immediately hugged the old man. She burst into tears in her chest. She released the resentment that she had harboured in her chest for a long time.

"Daddy, I'm so tired!" Crying, says the woman.

"Alysia, in this world, you shouldn't give up. Fight, daughter! Don't give up. It may just be a test. But I believe you can overcome it after you suffer! Just trust yourself, daughter? " He advises the woman to lose the weight she feels.

"But, Dad?"The girl woke up suddenly. Unbeknownst to him, she fell asleep in that position and the tears dried on her cheeks.

She thought it was a good dream that she hugged her father. She felt her comfort him through the dream, no matter how relieved she felt.

"Daddy, thank you. I will do my best to handle all this." Should I be the father?For the sake of you and Mommy, I will be brave in all the challenges of life and on the path to follow. "

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Alysia took a deep breath. As she contemplates the condition of their hacienda, She doesn't know how she can get it back from her stepmother, who doesn't have to be in pain, but she knows it's unlikely to happen because Sheilla is a bad person and money is important to him, not the memories of the hacienda and how important it is to their ancestors. When it finally disappeared, her mother would be sad.

Hacienda Zaragosa is the richest village because it is surrounded by mountains and majestic trees. It is also rich in marine resources such as gold. Farmers live quietly here. But after the death of her father, the hacienda was in turmoil because of Shiella's management of not giving the right wages to the farmers and the suffering of the farmers' lives.

She sighed again and stood up to take a bath. She took the coins on her desk, which she put one by one in her wallet. Is she still discouraged? She has been through a lot, and she has gone through it all. So she knew she could handle this difficulty in her life.

It's a good thing she's not in the office now, so she can somehow rest and especially with the pain in her feet from walking every day. If she still rides, it's a waste of her twenty pesos. It's just a matter of time. She said to herself, "Just patiently!" Alysia looked at the clock and her eyes widened at 9 pm. The speed of time. She looked at the door. There was a knock there. Who would be her guest at this time?

She immediately opened it and stood up in shock when the person she was trying to avoid opened up to him. She immediately closed the door, but it prevented the door from closing, so she ran immediately, but it caught him by the hair.