Gently tuck the corners of the quilt for Sunny, and then Lei Chan stood up and walked out of the room. After closing the door, he nodded to Daddy John, who was standing at the top of the stairs.

The two returned to the restaurant on the first floor with a tacit understanding, silently cleaning up the mess left after the feast. It wasn't until Lei Chan put all the garbage in a black plastic bag and easily picked it up to take it out and throw it away, that Daddy John suddenly stopped Lei Chan.

Lei Chan turned his head to look at Daddy John suspiciously, only to hear Daddy John's slow thanks. In his memory, it has been many years since he had spent a Christmas with his children like today. So even if it was very unpleasant to look at Lei Chan, he still had to thank him.

I saw Lei Chan shook his head and said softly: "Why is Shanni so estranged from you, I can see that although she will care about you and talk to her brothers and sisters, there is always a layer of estrangement between you, why?" ”

Daddy John was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect Lei Chan to ask this question at this time. He was silent for a long time before finally exhaling slowly, "That's a very long story..."

...

It is said that back then, the Federation was at war with a nation called Kamberaam. In interstellar warfare, every battle is a test of life and death for all soldiers. At that time, Daddy John was serving in a special operations unit that had infiltrated behind enemy lines. Basically, every day is a walk between life and death.

Finally, at the end of a mission, Brother John, who returned to the battleship, chose to retire and returned to his hometown. At this time, John's father was very happy, with a wife and four children, which was the envy of all his comrades. If it weren't for the fact that after a traffic accident and his wife was paralyzed and complications, Daddy John would have thought that his life would never be eventful again.

After the accident, John's wife was paralyzed at home and was unable to get up from the house. The little credit that the insurance company paid for, plus the little savings of John's father, quickly ran out. At this time, Daddy John made a choice that he still regrets very much - to return to his old business.

The cosmic battlefield is very unimaginable for civilians living on the ground. The only people they have access to are retired veterans from the cosmic battlefield. Needless to say, Daddy John, who returned from retirement from the Secret Service, is worth several times more than an ordinary soldier.

However, Daddy John, who was in dire need of money, chose another and more high-risk profession - mercenary.

Contacting people on the black market through his former comrades in the army, Daddy John sold himself for 3,000 credits for the first time, with the goal of assassinating a wealthy Middle Eastern man. That time, Daddy John, who picked up the gun again, seemed to have returned to the battlefield, and it was not just an ordinary person who died, but also seventeen bodyguards.

It was also this mission that earned Papa John the title of Tyrant.

What happened next almost imaginable, Daddy John was lost. He can only work hard to earn his wife's treatment expenses with his own hands and other people's lives outside, and he and his wife are gradually separated from each other. During this time, only Kidd, who was the elder brother, struggled to support the responsibility of taking care of his mother and younger siblings.

However, in this life, it is impossible for people to be satisfied with only material things, just like a few years ago in the 21st century, when people were already paying attention to spiritual life.

Because John's father was away from home all the year round, even his wife was depressed and could no longer comfort the four children. A family is gradually collapsing. What is lacking is nothing more than a fuse.

So, when a fuse appeared, the accident that changed everything happened.

The reason is simple, Daddy John's mission outside has succeeded in provoking a certain rich man. It probably cost 50,000 credits to reward the true identity of the 'tyrant'. The high bounty directly caused John's father's former comrades-in-arms to defect, and when John's father, who was outside, learned about it, he immediately rushed home. Although he succeeded in taking out three guys who tried to invade the house, it was too late.

The fire spread throughout the house, and the children and wife were trapped in the fire. With his wife paralyzed in bed, his child trapped in the fire, Papa John had no choice. Eventually, when he dragged Kidd and Gretel and Dimilli out of the fire, the fire engulfed the entire house. And the youngest, Sunny, was not able to come out because she was still in her mother's room...

After the fire was extinguished, Papa John crouched in the rubble and wept heartbroken. But in the exclamation of the firefighters, they ran frantically towards the second floor.

His wife's room was covered with charred marks, and the wreckage spoke for itself. But Daddy John's wife was not in bed, and she used her body to withstand a black mass. It wasn't burned, it was only vaguely seen to be a piece of wood. Only Papa John understood what was going on in an instant, and he frantically pushed away the lump of wood, revealing the fireplace behind it.

In the fireplace, a charred and dying little girl is lying in it...

John's father's wife traded her life for a glimmer of life for Sunny. And from that day on, Sunny paid the price of one eye, and with her only remaining eye, she looked at the world like a walking corpse. At that time, Sanny... Only five years old...

...

Daddy John recalled with some pain, but there was no doubt that telling the past was a good way to confide, at least Daddy John's face was much lighter.

"The child thought we had betrayed her and her mother, and threw them both into the fire to die! When she grew up, she found out what I had done, and hated me even more, because I killed her mother! Since then, I've barely seen her smile. ”

Daddy John sighed deeply, believing that until now, he was still burdened with boundless guilt.

Lei Chan didn't expect that such a thing would happen back then, which directly changed the lives of a family and five people.

This night was destined to be a night of listening, and Daddy John said a lot of things that Lei Chan really didn't know. Speaking of which, Kidd is a good big brother who is selfless and dedicated; Speaking of Gretel's dream of having a movie; Speaking of Dimilia, she is full of artistic cells; talked about Shanni, who was most worried about her, and also talked about her expectations for her four children.

This warrior, who once had blood on his hands and was once incomparably powerful, was so weak at this moment.

It wasn't until Daddy John was drunk and completely asleep that Lei Chan subconsciously looked at the fireplace on the other side. He slipped inside, turned on the lights inside, and rubbed every inch of the floor inside. Only then did I realize that every inch of the floor represented a sense of security that Daddy John wanted to give Sunny. Every nail and every wedge was hammered tightly into the metal plate, and a few protrusions were smoothed by a file. Even a few of the two hooks that were meant to be hung were covered with plastic covers.

There were only two photos in the empty walls, a photo of Sunny with her mother, and a photo taken with Sunny the last time Lei Chan came. The entire metal space in the fireplace appears empty. Lei Chan sighed deeply, caught a glimpse of Daddy John, who was lying on the sofa and fell asleep, and sighed again.

At this time, he saw the box next to the wall, and he was immediately interested...

...

Lei Chan took out a pen, solemnly wrote an English word on the wall, and finally smiled slightly, and the figure was blurred for a while, and disappeared into the fireplace.

On the wall of the fireplace, no longer blank, five photos of the family sleeping surrounded the photo, and in the middle a red watercolor pen was written a word: HOME

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