Chapter Twenty-Nine: Life History
The South China Sea Phantom Butterfly is perhaps the most irresponsible parent in the world, they never raise their own children, but they have a unique way of reproducing, that is, when laying eggs, find a family with a young child, and replace the child with their own eggs.
I replaced Wan Wan in this way and became Wan Wan.
From the day I appeared in Wanjia, I was the only one left in the eyes of my adoptive parents, Wan Zuhong and his wife, and Wan Wan disappeared from the eyes of my biological parents forever.
He cried and struggled for several days, and finally, on a snowy day like today, he starved to death in his own home.
Is there a more tragic way to die in the world? I guess not, so in those years, I could always see Wan Wan's soul wandering pitifully outside the Wanjia Courtyard. Xu Chong, I know you have also seen that children's eyes are the cleanest, not to mention, you have a pair of eyes that are different.
Xu Chong, you are my best friend, in countless nights when I was tormented by Wan Wan's crying and felt guilty and couldn't sleep, you were always by my side, we warmed each other, and worked hard to grow up together in this stormy world.
If it hadn't been for the day twenty-eight years ago, if my adoptive mother hadn't stumbled upon that secret, I think I would have married you at the age of seventeen and made you the most loving couple ever.
Yes, you guessed that right, Wan Wan's skeleton was found by my adoptive mother, and although I quickly hid it, the small dried skeleton still frightened her, and reminded her of the child she always saw in her dreams. He said to his mother in a dream: I am Wan Wan, the child who has always been raised by your side, is a monster.
She told her adoptive father about it, but not only did he not believe him, but he also scolded her, saying that she should not be cranky and suspicious of his daughter.
But as a mother, she will not give up, and if she doubts the identity of her child, she will definitely find out. Xu Chong, I understand her, I really understand her, although she began to spy on me and test me, but I don't have the slightest hatred for her. I hate myself, my biological parents, for being so selfish and ruining such a happy home.
But my adoptive father could not empathize with his wife, and he watched her unusual behavior and indifference to me, and finally he could not resist getting angry one night, and after a big argument with my adoptive mother, he drunk himself.
The adoptive mother was already mentally fragile and on the verge of collapse, and now, seeing that her husband not only did not understand, but also scolded herself for being a crazy woman, she completely lost her mind.
By the time I heard the fight, everything was settled. The adoptive mother stabbed her adoptive father in the stomach with a knife, and then she was frightened and slit her own wrist.
She looked at me, her eyes not willing to close, and she asked me who the hell was I? Is it her child.
Xu Chong, I didn't dare to answer, I didn't know how to answer, I could only pounce on them and cry, I told her that I loved her, loved her like a mother, and begged her not to leave me. However, before she could take her last breath, she desperately pushed my hand away.
You should have seen everything that happened later, Xu Chong, I ate them, at that moment, I realized that as a demon, my thirst for blood was so deep, even though I was already grieved at that time, but I still couldn't resist the temptation of blood. I saw you too, and you were obviously frightened by me, and you ran away, panicking, and I knew that it was the last time I would see you in this life.
That night, I left Wanjia and ran all the way to a place I didn't know, but I didn't expect that this was just the starting point of my wanderings. In the years that followed, I was alone, from one city to another, from one road to another, I don't know where my end is, perhaps, this is the fate of the phantom butterfly, adrift, no way back.
However, I don't know if it's fate, I can always hear from you, people say that Xu Chong, the child of an ordinary family who came out of Maocheng, passed the imperial examination and became a general judge of Shuntian Mansion. He has repeatedly solved strange cases, made the bad guys frightened, and was appreciated by the saints, and he is a famous hot-handed detective all over the world.
Xu Chong, when I heard this, I was really relieved that one of the two of us finally walked out and walked out of the shadow of childhood.
But I didn't dare to go to you, because I felt very dirty, especially under the background of you now, I couldn't hold my head up humbly.
Later, I came across it, a cicada crawling out of a dead man's mouth. When it first saw me, it saw that I was its kind. I remember it laughing and saying, don't pretend, no matter how much you pretend to be human, it's not like that, they won't accept you, because no matter how well you disguise yourself, there will be times when you show your tail.
I hated it at first, it eats people, anytime, anywhere, whenever there is an opportunity. But gradually, I found it easy to be with it, it didn't despise my background, and it even told me that people are the dirtiest in the world, because he has seen too many people, and although they look like people, their souls have already stinked badly.
It also saved my life, and that day, I was pestered by a drunk, and he killed him without saying a word, but we were also wanted by the government, so I went to this valley with him. There are many wild things in the valley, and we live on them, but occasionally someone falls into the valley and is regarded as a heavenly feast.
I didn't expect to meet you in the valley, the first time I saw you, I didn't even recognize you, Xu Chong, you are completely different from when you were a child. I didn't expect that the thin and crying boy would turn into a man with resolute eyes and a tall posture.
I can only see from your eyes the little bit of your youth, but I know that you are still the same Xu Chong, the Xu Chong that I have not been able to forget for so many years.
"I was wrong, wasn't I?"
Ziyu, no, Wan Wan turned her head to look at Xu Chong and smiled sadly at him, "I was wrong, you have already changed." But Xu Chong, do you still recognize yourself? Do you remember how you used to be? ”