"I think you should know that I'm French."

Sitting at the head of the bed, gently stroking her daughter's dry head, Miss Philippe said in a very strange tone: "My father was an upright but old-fashioned officer, and my mother was the daughter of a merchant, and they both doted on me, so that the days in Paris were probably the happiest of my life......

Whispering about the past a long time ago, Miss Philip looked out the window at the sun-filled world with confused eyes, as if she had returned to that carefree era.

Sitting in the only chair, John listened intently and shifted into a more comfortable position, as it sounded like it was going to be a long story......

Miss Philip is indeed a little strange today, suddenly loud and whispering, as if she had completely let go of the knot, and completely displayed the first half of her life in front of John.

Essentially, it's an old-fashioned love story.

Born in Parisian high society, Anna Philippe was not beautiful enough, but she was smart, wise, and resolute, and showed extraordinary talent in the fields of music and art since she was a child, becoming the best of her parents' three children, at least her father lamented more than once why Anna was not a boy, otherwise he could inherit his career and become an elite member of the French 6th Army.

But as with all corny love stories, as an adult, Anna meets someone, a man who changes her life.

When Anna met the wandering painter André on the streets of Paris, she quickly fell in love. Anna supported André's painting career without asking for anything in return, and worked hard to recommend his work to her friends until her parents showed her a kick. After a violent family quarrel, Anna and Andre, who yearn for freedom and love, eloped, and they took a cruise ship to New York 6 and took root in New York City.

"And then, there was Serena."

Looking at her daughter with a blank expression, Miss Philip darkened and said in a low voice.

"Hoo ......"

When he heard this, John couldn't help but let out a soft breath, and the expression on his face was slightly embarrassed. In later generations, people would have praised the couple, but in the 19th century, even the most accommodating Westerners would not have been able to accept it. So after hearing these words, John suddenly had a feeling of snooping on other people's secrets.

"Her birth was like an angel descending."

Caressing her daughter's little face, Miss Philip muttered in a daze: "I always thought so, even though we had already spent all the savings I had brought and were forced to move out of the rented apartment, but Andrei's paintings have already begun to be appreciated, and I have found a job as a tutor, and the future looks very good, doesn't it?" ”

John nodded silently.

Different people have different definitions of goodness, but at least he appreciates Miss Philip's view that hope is good.

"When she was a baby, she looked good."

Miss Philip said with a dull expression: "Although I may be a little excited, I swear to God that everything is normal!" She was like any other child, she could eat normally, laugh normally, cry normally, and I let him stay in the same bed with me every day, never thinking that there would be any demonic existence in her little body! ”

"Goo-dong!"

Hearing this, John couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. Although he knew that Miss Philip probably meant that the child was sick, the way it was expressed in this era still made him cold.

"But...... I'll never forget the moment I realized I might have something wrong with her! ”

As if she had seen the most painful picture of the human world, Miss Philip closed her eyes, and the muscles on her face twitched and said, "Because after that day, all the qiē will be different......"

Miss Philip's voice had lost that longing and remembrance, and had become indifferent, and full of exhaustion beyond words to describe.

"I was doing the laundry in the house that day, and I let her sit on the bed and play, and I could still hear her laughing and muttering to herself, and I was in a good mood, and I was doing my best to do the laundry, and I was ready to go to cook after playing with Serena for an hour. So after ten minutes I had washed all my clothes, stood up and smiled and walked up to her, and now she was sitting at the head of the bed, drawing red lines on the white sheets with her fingers. I didn't care at all until I walked up to her and reached for her......"

I screamed.

As if she had really returned to that moment, Miss Philip in reality suddenly raised her voice, which made John's heart suddenly tighten and his scalp tingle!

"It's horrible!"

There was not a pause at all, and Miss Philip shuddered, "Serena's right index finger is fleshy and fleshy—she is drawing those lines on the sheets with her own blood, bright red lines!" ”

"Bang dang!"

Hearing this astonishing fact, John stood up abruptly, his chair slammed into the table behind him, and he himself exclaimed, "What did you say?!" ”

"Mr. Huntelaar, is something wrong?"

Just as John was shocked, a loud inquiry from the coachman Fett came from outside the door.

"No, it's fine!"

John immediately came to his senses, and responded to the coachman first, and then looked at the little girl on the bed who was playing with herself. Perhaps because the neurogenesis of infants and young children is not yet perfect, some children have a slightly duller sense of pain than adults, but use their own blood to draw lines on the sheets?

This is out of the normal range!

As John's mind churned, Miss Philip, who seemed to regain her composure after the coachman's interruption, continued: "I was in a great panic, but Serena only smiled at me, and I realized that her teeth were also red, that is, she bit her own finger and bled out to play with ......"

"W-what's going on?"

Listening to Miss Philip's voice, John's face became extremely solemn.

"I don't know."

Subconsciously, Miss Philip answered John's question, which was more like talking to herself.

Looking at Selina with an innocent smile on her face, John sighed inwardly. Although he knew that the doctors of this era could only do nothing about it, after thinking about it for a while, he still asked, "Miss Philip, have you taken Serena to the doctor?" ”

"I've seen it, and they don't have anything they can do."

Miss Philip said expressionlessly: "So in the end, we can only rely on ourselves, and Andre and I tried all kinds of ways to try to tell her that her fingers can't be bitten, but every qiē is in vain, even if we beat her ass, pinch her arm, and pump her mouth, it doesn't make any sense." What's more, Serena has learned to threaten us with this, putting her finger in her mouth and biting us whenever something doesn't go her way...... John, you know what? ”

Smiling miserably, Miss Philip looked at John and said, "When the wounds on her fingers appeared one after another, and when she learned to walk and her feet began to bleed day after day, I had no fear of her hurting herself!" ”

Miss Philip's expression was so strange at this time that John became cold when he saw it.

He instantly understood Miss Philip's expression, because in his previous life he had seen the faces of many patients with chronic terminal illnesses, it was a silence after experiencing shock, panic, fear, and helplessness!

Gently holding her daughter in her arms, Miss Philip's eyes were empty, and she said softly: "Andre finally couldn't bear this torment and left, he even madly scolded his daughter for being a monster, and we ...... John, do we have a future? ”

"Future?"

When he heard the word again from Miss Philip's lips, John heard only a thick bitterness and the deepest despair, and in her gray eyes he also saw what kind of nightmare had befallen a family that had been full of hope!

"What can I do?"

Almost instinctively, John's brain spun and searched for memories that seemed to be very old.

Painless!

This kid doesn't feel pain!

This is a possibility that John considers first, no matter what the girl's problems are, but human resistance to pain is an innate instinct, so if she is willing to harm herself and never feels pain, this is the possibility that he has the highest priority.

Diabetes, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorders, spinal cord injury......

One by one, the possibilities that could lead to painlessness flowed through John's heart, and then he vetoed them one by one, for such a young child, these possibilities are almost zero!

Soon, though, he thought of another possibility, and the one with the highest odds.

Then, just as John's eyes lit up, and he looked up to explain to Miss Philip, his body suddenly froze, as if he had been directly bombarded by a bolt of lightning, and his expression and body froze!

A moment later, like a rusty machine, John slowly turned his head to look at Serena in Miss Philip's arms.

The girl seemed to notice his gaze, tilted her head, licked her lips, and suddenly smiled.

This innocent smile was so dazzling in John's eyes that he didn't dare to look at the girl at all, so he could only turn around quickly, and at the same time his head drooped deeply......

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