Urban.

An ordinary apartment building.

It's not near the city center, but it's not as remote as Jiang Chanji's life, the location is good, there are schools, hospitals and supermarkets nearby.

Chen Yiyi entered the elevator of the apartment building and pressed the floor button.

The elevator starts and ascends smoothly to the designated floor.

She stepped out of the elevator, pulled out her key to open the door, and entered her theoretical home.

It's getting late now, and as a high school girl, if she hadn't said hello in advance and came home so late, her family would definitely be in a hurry, but she knew that no one would care when she would come back.

"Phew, I don't eat this, this doesn't taste good!"

At the dinner table, a teenage boy sits like an emperor, spitting food from his mouth onto the floor.

"Okay, if the baby doesn't want to eat it, let's not eat it. ”

On the left and right of the boy sat a man and a woman, coaxing him in every possible way.

The woman did not blame the boy for his impolite presumptuousness, but simply picked up the food he spit on with toilet paper and threw it in the trash.

A table full of meals, with a huge birthday cake in the middle.

"Here, baby, try this, steamed sea bass, not a single thorn!" the woman scooped up the most tender piece of fish from the fish with a spoon, carefully checked that there were no thorns, and handed it to the boy's mouth.

"And this, a butter crab for nearly two thousand yuan, bought for you specifically!" The man used a crab eating tool to pry open the crab shell, and then scooped up the full crab roe and crab meat with a spoon and brought it to the boy's mouth.

The boy is very fat, with a fat head and big ears at a young age, and a napkin around his neck, and even then there is a lot of soup and greasy on his clothes.

He doesn't have to pick up the vegetables himself, just open his mouth, eat with a mouth full of oil, and spit it out if he is slightly unsatisfactory.

Whether it was fish or crab, he ate only the best part and stopped eating the rest.

Soon, there was a mess on the dining table, and if the etiquette teacher of Momiji Academy saw this eating appearance, he would have to explode on the spot in anger.

He is not a year or two younger than Zixuan, but he feels like a ...... A spoiled giant baby.

The man and woman are obedient to him, smiling no matter what he does, whispering and coaxing, and his doting eyes are overflowing, just like many people dote on pets, but he is not a harmless pet, but a child, a child who grows up and will one day become an adult.

Chen Yiyi walked into the room by herself, glanced at this scene she was used to, and there was no wave in her eyes.

The three people in the house are her parents and younger brother, and she belongs to the superfluous people here.

If outsiders see such a scene, they may think that the parents of this family are patriarchal, but this is not the case, at least this is not the whole reason.

A long time ago, when her brother was not born, her parents were still very good to her, but the birth of her brother changed everything.

The birth of the younger brother did not go smoothly from the beginning of the mother's pregnancy, and there were several near-miscarriage crises in the middle, coupled with the dystocia at birth, which almost killed the mother, and the younger brother was almost unable to be born in this world.

After he was born, his younger brother was frail and sickly, and he had a fever at every turn, and his parents always carried him to the hospital in the middle of the night to hang the emergency department, and became a frequent visitor to the hospital.

It may be because of these reasons that since he was born, his parents began to spoil the child extraordinarily, taking care of him everywhere, for fear that he would die - if he is a few months old, or a child of one or two years old, two or three years old, it doesn't hurt to take care of it, human nature, but as the younger brother grows up, such excessive doting not only does not decrease, but later becomes more and more pathological.

Parents' energy is limited, it is difficult for two children to level the bowl, and the more attention one gets, the less attention the other gets.

If life were a video game, there would certainly be an invisible favorability progress bar that was irreversibly sliding from the middle to the side.

Chen Yiyi knows that her younger brother is frail and sickly, and she lets her younger brother everywhere, never fights with him for anything, including the attention of her parents, and will take the initiative to take care of her younger brother when her parents are not at home.

Later, after his younger brother was four or five years old and sensible, he learned to read words and emotions like a cunning puppy, and he knew that his parents doted on him more, so he tested his parents' bottom line step by step.

At first, it was to rob her pocket money, then to spit on her food, and then to tear up her homework, and it was even more common to throw things at her when she lost her temper.

Parents always say that her younger brother is still young and frail and sickly, so she lets her give her younger brother more.

In fact, at this time, the younger brother's health is not so bad, and he no longer has frequent colds and fevers, but the impression of his frail and sickly body has been deeply rooted in the minds of his parents, no matter how tall and fat he grows, he is still the seedling that needs to be cared for in their hearts.

Chen Yiyi endured it again and again, but forbearance did not bring good results, and gradually, it has become the norm for her to be bullied by her younger brother, and the family is also used to such a normality.

The connivance of his parents made the younger brother even worse, and later, on the pretext that he needed a studio to learn to paint, he even seized her bedroom and forced her to sleep in the storage room.

And the so-called painting is just random graffiti, and I spent a lot of money on the training class to learn nothing, because other people's children are learning, so the parents also enrolled my younger brother in the class.

After going to primary school, his younger brother's academic performance was not very good, and his self-care ability was even worse, and the teachers at school were anxious for him, but his parents always said that his younger brother was still young, and it would be good to grow up.

It's as if at a certain age you're going to become a different person overnight.

From the first night she slept in the pantry, she already knew that she was the superfluous person in the house.

She tries to avoid being in front of them and often avoids them at home, so that as long as they can't see herself, she won't be bullied.

Later, her parents and brother really didn't seem to see her, and even when she walked in front of them, they would ignore her as long as they didn't make a noise to alert them......

It would have been nice if it had been like this, but her classmates and teachers gradually lost sight of her, and she was slowly marginalized in the class, but it didn't matter, because she soon graduated from junior high school.

She doesn't know where to go in the future, she is too young to work, and no one wants her, and others may not be able to see her, but go to high school...... Her parents probably won't pay her to go to high school.

Her family was originally a well-off family, but since her brother was born, she has been spending extravagantly, spending money like water, of course, all on her younger brother, strollers to import, milk powder to import, vegetables to organic, clothes to brand, in order to strengthen the body, all kinds of tonic drugs in TV commercials are indispensable...... Which well-off family can withstand such a toss for a long time?

Although it may seem like a lot of money, the family's financial situation is actually quite stretched.

When Chen Yiyi was about to graduate from junior high school, everyone was planning for the future, and a few female classmates were going to apply for the Red Leaf Academy, but she didn't know what she was going to do in the future anyway, so she also went with an indifferent attitude, and she didn't go until the last day, and the reason for going was just because there was no tuition there.

Then her life changed......

The scene of a happy family of three has no room for her to intervene.

After she entered the house, she went straight into the storage room where she lived, took off the school uniform of Momiji Academy, and changed into her previous civilian clothes.

The casual clothes are a little small, but her parents bought them for her a few years ago, and then her parents stopped buying her new clothes, so she could only wear school uniforms, from the school uniform of junior high school to the school uniform of Red Leaf College.

But what she has to do next is not to reveal her identity, so she has to change into civilian clothes, which she has common sense.

"Come on, it's time for cake, baby!"

"Daddy lit a candle for you!"

The leftovers on the table had been removed, and a few plates of fresh fruit sat next to the huge ice cream cake.

Dad is putting candles in the cake, and Mom is peeling apples with a knife.

My brother's belly was already round, and he smiled like a fool.

Chen Yiyi has forgotten the last time her parents celebrated her birthday.

Dad put ten candles on the cake, got up and said, "Turn off the lights and light the candles!"

As he spoke, he turned off the lights and lit ten candles with a lighter.

"Happy Birthday to You~"

"Happy Birthday to You~"

The parents clapped their hands and sang the birthday song in unison.

In the eyes of those who don't know the inside story, what a beautiful picture of family happiness this is!

The younger brother laughed wildly and blew out the candle in one breath.

"Alright, turn on the lights and cut the cake!"

Dad stood up, turned the lights back on in the room, and began to cut and divide the cake with a plastic knife and fork, giving the most ice cream to the younger brother, who shook his head, meaning to ask his mother to feed him.

Mom smiled and fed her brother the cake with a spoon, while Dad took over Mom's previous task of peeling the fruit.

"Well, where did you put the knife for peeling fruit?" asked Dad holding the apple.

"No, it's ......," Mom pointed to the dining table, "Oh, weird, I remember I put it there before you turned off the lights...... Why is it gone?"

"Are you mistaken?"

"It shouldn't be...... If you look closely, it should be right next to here......"

The younger brother was slow to feed the cake and began to make a loud noise.

"Forget it, don't look for it, you go get another handful, the baby will eat fruit in a while, the baby only eats the sliced, not the whole." Mom waved her hand impatiently, and continued to feed her brother the cake with a smile on her face.

"Good. Dad laughed, "I'm afraid that you put the knife in the wrong place, what if you hurt the baby?"

"Why, baby, but my heart is a bump, isn't it?" said Mom dotingly.

The happy scene is gone.

Chen Yiyi closed the door and left the house, holding a fruit knife in his hand, and plunged back into the darkness outside.