When Tsukinomiya Chixia was four years old, her younger brother Tsukinomiya Jun was born.

Run, a premature baby, was born, and after birth, his father's first concern was his wife, who was exhausted from the hospital bed.

Chixia was the first family member to hug Run, albeit not steadily.

The baby's first cry on the cold ground, Chinatsu's heart sprouted not only guilt, but more love.

Yes, when Qianxia was four years old, she knew her consciousness of being an older sister.

Chixia has an enviable family. His father, Atsuya Tsukimiya, is an executive of a company, and although he works weekdays and often works overtime on business trips, his salary is very high, and his family lives in a large villa. My mother was a well-known folk dancer before marriage, and after marriage, she was a full-time wife and loved her husband with affection.

The grandfather who lives with them, Mitsuki Tsukinomiya, is a stern and serious person, although he has not yet reached retirement age, he has been idle at home early, and his body is tough, whether it is his body or face, the traces of time are not obvious. Grandpa is a good drinker, and he will go to the time-honored brand every day to sell a pot back, and he can dance some pen and ink, and he is strong in writing poetry, but the style is still lacking, especially good at Sichuan willow. Grandma is a traditional woman who lives alone in an old house in the countryside, insisting that the old house cannot be unpopular, but she still takes the subway every weekend to share the housework with her daughter-in-law.

In Chinatsu's impression, her father is a tall man who has a very high opinion among the neighbors. Handsome and golden, eloquent and knowledgeable, he did not communicate much with his neighbors, but he always spoke with the humor of some cultured people, which made the women hide their faces and laugh at rare sights.

The neighbor women were extremely envious of Chinatsu's mother, who always boasted about her husband with them. I feel sorry that she never participates in drinking parties and pastimes other than work, and after working tirelessly every day, she will rush home as soon as possible and take the initiative to share the housework, for fear that she will be tired. The occasional good dish is also a family looking forward to it.

Although Chinatsu's father often works overtime and is rarely seen once on weekdays, Chixia has nothing to do with him. Every two weeks on Sundays, my father would spend at least half a day with the whole family to eat and play. Frequents the flower beds, botanical gardens, parks, zoos and playgrounds around the city. Chinatsu's favorite is an adventure-themed breakout game room, which is a type of secret room that requires the family to work together. The atmosphere of the game is tense and terrifying, but her father's reliable intelligence always makes her feel at ease and admired.

If the time is really tight, Chinatsu's father will set up a barbecue stand in the backyard of the villa, cut a steak and half a beef shank, and an indefinite variety of poultry or goat meat. The mouth-watering aroma would make the neighbors itch, and the father would always smile and invite the children outside the courtyard to put the cut and roasted meat into a few plates to share with the neighbors.

Such a happy family died suddenly when Qianxia was ten years old.

It was his father's long-lost vacation day. After several days of staying up all night, this father inevitably felt guilty about his children, and now that he had free time, he took Chinatsu and Yun to the playground to play. Although it is a little regrettable that his wife is a little unwell and cannot come together, he is holding his naughty son who is about to enter elementary school in one hand and holding his sensible daughter who is just beginning to look pretty in the other.

On the way, Run said something he would regret for the rest of his life, "Daddy, Daddy, I'll tell you." Recently, my mother and grandpa have a better relationship than before, and I see them hugging each other and kissing each other. ”

Ten-year-old Qianxia still didn't understand the impact of this scene, and six-year-old Runnaturally could say it happily.

As a result, their playground plans fell apart. Tsukinomiya led the two of them home in a hurry, pushing open the bedroom door, and the constantly shaking bed board made him angry.

The siblings were terrified, and the angry father and the disheveled grandfather quarreled violently, shaking the whole house slightly.

For the first time, Chixia saw her elegant and easy-going father become so angry. The father, whose face was ruddy, raised his fists several times, and the angry hair that rushed to the crown darkened his hideous face to the point of ghost-faced fangs. By the time Grandpa was covered in punches and kicks, the bickering seemed to stop, but the parents began to talk for hours.

Chixia and her younger brother were reprimanded by their father angrily several times, and the two were locked in the bedroom, and they could only hear the arguments outside. The two of them were worried, scared, completely unaware of what was happening, and they did not know what fate awaited them.

After a long time, there seemed to be another fierce quarrel outside the door, but the sound was more terrifying, the muffled sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground and the tragic cries for help of desperate people were hellish songs that hit the hearts of two young people. The rapid-climax melody lasted only a few minutes, and a deathly silence ensued, mixed with a pungent smell.

The two siblings were locked in the house and starved for two days and two nights.

The one who opened the door was his pale father.

The villa was deserted and no one else was seen again. No matter how Chixia asked her father, what she got was a resounding slap in the face after a long silence. This was the first time Qianxia had been beaten, and she covered her face and held her doubts in her heart.

But the truth is pieced together bit by bit, and what you get is only a stunned sorrow.

Before Chixia's mother married her husband Atsuya, she was a resident dancer at the Dongjun Opera House, and she was still young, but she had extraordinary qualifications and was favored by the bigwigs in the industry. Such a glorious future was buried by his own hands. She fell in love with Chixia's grandfather, Mitsuki Tsukimiya, and knew that the other party was nearly 30 years older than her and had a happy family, but she still had no hesitation in being together.

Moon Palace Mitsuki relies on some talent and appearance, and often looks down on his disgraced wife at home. Perhaps he was a restless man, always mingling in various drinking halls and clubs, and one day in order to show off his taste and character, he spent a lot of money to buy tickets to the opera house, who knew that he happened to capture the heart of this young dancer. Subsequently, Guangxi hid from his wife and adult son, and spent time with his lover, so unhappy.

And Qianxia's mother is an extremely emotional person, who loves one person to the point of madness, and loves so much that she is willing to give everything for the other party, and soon spoils Mitsuki's child in an accident. She is obsessed with the crystallization of this love and refuses to give up the life in her belly. Guangxi didn't dare to speak out, nor did he dare to admit that this illegitimate child, after several struggles, actually made an extremely absurd decision.

Introduce a pregnant lover to your son.

Chinatsu's mother is obedient to her lover and finally agrees to his plea. Soon, she got along with Atsumi Tsukimiya intimately, and became Atsumiya's one-sided lover and the emotional sustenance of two generations. They got married quickly and gave birth to a daughter, which is Moon Palace Qianxia.

After ten years, when Atsushiya Tsukinomiya revealed the truth with his own eyes, his heart must have been desperate. In the eyes of others and in the eyes of his parents, he will always be an excellent man, self-disciplined and self-reliant, and he has worked hard all the way, and finally got what he is today. Atsuya had never been in a relationship until he met his wife, and he was dedicated to working hard to give his future partner solid happiness. In a time of stress, his father introduced him to a dancer. This dancer is young and beautiful, with a gentle and skillful personality, and always comforts and encourages him when he is tired and lost. Falling in love with someone may be so simple, but sticking to someone is so difficult. But at least Atsumi Tsukimiya is a dedicated person, he dotes on his wife almost without a bottom line, and gives all the beauty in the world to his beloved.

Now, the bed is in disarray, Moon Palace's heart is like stagnant water, and the treasures that he has tried his best are maliciously destroyed by his loved ones. He couldn't bear it anymore and beat up the beast in front of him dressed as a so-called "father".

Soon, Atsumi Tsukinomiya quieted down, he forgave his wife, and comforted him softly, thinking that he couldn't let his wife, who had been forced to come here, be sad again. He even decided to sever the father-son relationship with the beast, and the life of the husband and wife would continue as usual in the future, so that nothing would happen and blow away his wife's nightmare.

But he was wrong, he couldn't have imagined that what his wife had always loved was the beast father.

"Get out of here, this family doesn't have your share, it's just a dispensable tool, there's no need to show your temper here, looking for that humble sense of existence in the dust. You! Didn't get anything from me! Not a single one! ”

These are the words that Atsumi Tsukimiya's beloved wife said to him. Atsuya suddenly realized that this was a joke being played by his loved ones. I remember that when I was a child, he once raised a rabbit, but his strict father actually threw the rabbit to death before it grew up to eat meat, completely ignoring his feelings. It turned out that this was not the first time that he had snatched love with a knife, and the fake and serious beast had been dormant in human skin since he was born.

Atsuya was crazy, completely insane, and he toppled the table and chair, rushed into the kitchen, and clenched his knife.

Ignoring the screams of the man and woman, he slashed open their chests one by one, took out the hearts in them, and clenched them with both hands. "Oh, so your heart isn't black, haha, haha, ahaha." He laughed maniacally.

Murder should pay for his life, but Atsushiya Tsukimiya survived.

Chinatsu's grandmother took the blame for him. I don't know if the judge was sympathetic or deceived by the mother-son's leaky performance, Atsushiya Tsukimiya did not leave any evidence of guilt.

Grandma was a tragic woman. Throughout her life, she was constantly betrayed by her husband and experienced loneliness alone. At the end of his life, he knew that he could not afford to raise two innocent children, so he could only try his best to keep the last pillar of the family.

But, if Grandma had lived to this point, she would have regretted it.

After experiencing this, Atsumi Tsukimiya became insane and decadent, and was soon fired from the company for long absenteeism and trouble. He drank heavily all day long, took his family savings, spent all day drinking, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and lived his most hated life.

Atsumi Tsukinomiya once roughly pulled off a few handfuls of hair from the two sisters and brothers, and slammed the door. When he returned, his attitude towards Chinatsu changed like a demon enemy, but he was extremely gentle towards Run, and even more so than ever. After such a change, Chixia is also much more precocious than her peers, and she understands that she is not her father's flesh and blood, but the aftermath of a sinful catastrophe.

The father was away from home all day long, and the food of the two sisters and brothers became a problem, and at first they could go to the nearby supermarket to buy some fresh food, but in the long run, the picky Moon Palace Run gradually couldn't eat it. The family's savings were hidden by her father, and the monthly living expenses could not support the consumption of expensive ready-to-eat food, so in order to take care of her younger brother, Chinatsu began to learn to cook and do housework. But how difficult is it for a child from a rich family like her?

For the first six months, the staple food of the two was either burnt pot or raw rice. Meals are always rubbing, bitter leaves, salty scrambled eggs, roasted fish without offal, lettuce only eats green leaves, and finally has no choice but to compromise with vegetable salad.

In addition to cooking, housework is also a problem for Chinatsu. She has been learning folk dance with her mother for four years since she was a child, and her hands and feet are smooth and delicate, and her limbs are slender and weak, which is only suitable for gentle and elegant dancing. Now I suddenly have to face the splash of oil smoke, soapy water erodes the skin, and there are often red and messy marks on my hands, which stings to the touch.

When Qianxia was eleven years old, a beautiful aunt came to the house, who kept the house in order and treated the two siblings as if they were their own children. I often spend most of the day with them, buying them some new clothes, cooking some delicious food, and taking them out to play. It was a happy time that Qianxia had not seen in a long time.

My younger brother Run didn't like this aunt, and always said that she didn't have a good heart, and even insulted her in front of her and hit her with things. But the aunt was not annoyed, every time she went to the kitchen to bring out Run's favorite bamboo whole chicken, and then watched him eat it with a smile.

Chixia and this aunt used to sleep in the same bed for several days in a row, and whenever she was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night and sat up, the aunt would always comfort her softly and pour some hot water for her. In the arms of this aunt, often the nightmare in the second half of the night will disappear, and the eyes will be closed in one breath.

"Does love come and go for no reason?" Chixia once asked her aunt this.

The answer was, "With me, love will appear for no reason, but it will not disappear for no reason." ”

Chixia chooses to trust her aunt and even wants to change her brother's opinion.

But she was soon slapped in the face by reality. As Run said, how could such a glamorous woman fall in love with her father who is as wasted as mud? Soon, the family's savings were gone, and the aunt never appeared again.

Atsuya Tsukimiya was forced to sell his villa and car, and the family moved to a cramped gray-walled bungalow. The Qian sisters and brothers who sold the house still can't be reached, and Atsuya still doesn't return all night, only coming back once at the beginning of each month.

The monthly money is getting less and less, and Jun is at the age of elementary school again, spending more, and Chinatsu has to go out to look for work in her spare time. At this time, the management of child labor was not strict and in place, but at the age of 11, she was still not accepted by any boss.

Fortunately, her mother has not completely forgotten the dance knowledge taught her, and by chance, Chixia became the youngest female dancer in the "Laughing and Forgetting" dance hall with her transcendent dancing talent. At the beginning of the work, the spectators were very curious about the dancing of elementary school girls, and Qianxia gained a lot from it, which was completely enough for daily expenses, and even saved a small amount.

Slowly, Qianxia began to become famous in the bright lights of Neon Street, and many song and dance halls of the same type also competed to invite her to perform. But Qianxia felt that overwork was not necessary, she had already become a sign of laughter, and the continuous performance from 6 pm to 11 pm had made her still immature body unbearable, so she could only dance for one day and rest for two days, and she could not accept local performances at all.

By the age of thirteen, Qianxia was already in the second year of junior high school, and she had secretly saved 100,000 yuan in savings from her father. In the past two years, as long as she has the strength to rest, she will go to the dance hall to perform, go to school to work, do laundry and cook, take care of her younger brother, and her cooking skills are growing day by day. With her own dance job, Qianxia is not short of money to buy some nutritious meat, and occasionally she can go to the mall to pick out beautiful clothes with high cost performance. His younger brother Moon Palace Jun was taken care of as white and tender as ever, and there were often neighbors around him who looked at him with strange eyes. I probably can't figure out why this child, who has no one to take care of, can live a healthy and decent life that is different from that of the poor.

Chixia has always regarded her father as if she did not exist, and has slowly ignored and forgotten the increasingly scarce coins he left behind every month. Qianxia plans to rely on her hard work like this, even if her waist and limbs are sore, she has to take care of her younger brother's healthy growth, but she is still naïve.

Chixia shouldn't ignore her father's existence.

At this point, Tsukinomiya Atsuya's savings were finally depleted, and his temper was vicious and irritable after years of profligateness, and he tore open his wallet like a beast, clutching the only remaining five-dollar bill into a small fold of hard money.

Walking down the street, he let out a terrible roar regardless of the different eyes of the crowd. Then, crying and laughing like a madman, he climbed a high bridge and prepared to leap down.

But Atsumi Tsukinomiya didn't jump off immediately, and after thinking for a long time, he went to the supermarket to grab a fruit knife, left the last five yuan at the counter and hurried home.

His thoughts are extreme, and he just wants to kill Chixia and Jun to give the aunt and nephew a happy relief.

The moment he pushed open the door, he was still thinking about killing him with a knife. The tip of the fruit knife is long, and if it is slashed directly in the heart, it will make the face of death too ugly, and it will not make his own son Run suffer too much pain before he dies.

But the scene in front of him stunned Atsumi Tsukinomiya, this month, he only left 200 yuan, but Qianxia and Yun are still healthy. There are many dishes on the table, and Chinatsu is even filling a bowl of fragrant broth with Run.

Atsumi Tsukinomiya sensed a certain possibility, immediately threw down the knife, and searched through the cabinets in the room, and found nearly 100,000 cash in the cracks of the bed, in the plastic bag at the bottom of the refrigerator, in the top compartment of the cabinet wall and the innermost layer of the school bag, and even on the lamp tube of the large table lamp.

Under the intimidation and coercion, Atsuya learned about Chinatsu's work as a part-time cabaret dancer, and he was ecstatic, ignoring Chixia Kazurun's crying and obstruction, and immediately took all the money into his private pocket, grabbed the door, and ran to the entertainment venue with peace of mind.

Originally, Atsuya Tsukinomiya just ignored Chixia and Run, and only regarded it as a burden to spend money. But now not only does he not have to spend money to feed them, but he also has a thriving cash cow, of course he refuses to do it. After inquiring in several ways, I found the song and dance hall where Qianxia was, and every month I would overdraft my due salary to the boss in advance.

If Chixia kept the same amount of work, she would not earn a penny, and she kept increasing her workload in order to be fed. But her insatiable father always ramps up the exploitation and squanders much of the money she has earned so hard, leaving only the barely subsistence money for her siblings.

Qianxia became weaker and weaker, often with inexplicable fever, weakness in her limbs, and her studies were delayed. Every time, my bones were so sore that I rested in bed all day, and then I gave all the energy I had accumulated so hard to the dancing job. Chixia knew that she had reached the limit of her workload, so she knelt down and begged the owner of the dance hall, crying that she must get the money to buy meat for her brother. The boss may not be able to bear this hard-working girl, and finally reached an agreement that no matter how much her father made a fuss, he would leave her 2,000 yuan in cash every month.

"No matter how difficult life is, my sister will let you grow up healthy and believe in my sister." Every time Moon Palace Jun was so distressed that he held Qianxia's slender hand in front of the bed, he would definitely hear such thoughtful words.

"Why don't we run away! If this continues, my sister's body will not be able to bear it. Run, with tears in his eyes.

"Where can we escape, no matter where the earth is, the parasite can't be shaken off." Chixia had already had this thought, but how could the keen Atsumi Tsukinomiya let them run away easily?

"Then we'll kill him! This kind of father, don't do it, I'll go and prepare weapons tonight, and the next time he comes back, I'll kill him! "Tsukinomiya Run, who will turn ten years old, can also say such murderous words.

"No, Run'er, you're a good boy, you can't do such a thing." A knife-wielding kid and a tall middle-aged man fight for their lives, and Chixia certainly doesn't want Jun to take such a risk. Even if the murder of his father is successful, and Qianxia gives him a prison sentence, he does not dare to guarantee that his younger brother, who has no affairs in the world, can survive alone. Therefore, Qianxia swallowed all the grievances, "He is our father after all, so he should repay the kindness of his upbringing." Don't worry, my sister is fine. ”

"Don't, I'm going to protect my sister!"

Qianxia burst into tears, "Listen to my sister, please, Run'er." ”

"Sister is just too cowardly!" Moon Palace Jun will definitely obey his sister's words, but he is not reconciled and shouts fiercely.

Yes, Chixia also knows that she is cowardly.

If she had been alone, she would have picked up the knife and stabbed her brother in the chest, cutting off the absurd curtain of this human comedy. However, as long as people have the object they want to protect, they will probably become cowardly. After thinking about it, I didn't dare to take any risks, even if I was bruised all over my body, I had to lick my bones and bear the damage of suffering alone.