She really wanted to help him, but she was just a rag doll, unable to move, let alone do anything.

The next day, it was discovered that Xiao Lu Zhiyan had smashed the surveillance camera.

Two servants burst in from outside the door early in the morning. Xiao Lu Zhiyan was a light sleeper and woke up as soon as he heard the door being pushed open.

He quickly hid Su Ping under the blanket and patted her shoulder reassuringly, mimicking an adult's tone.

"Sister, wait here for me, I'll be right back."

Before he could put on his shoes and get out of bed, he saw a woman in a cheongsam walk in from outside.

The moment he saw her, Xiao Lu Zhiyan trembled slightly, clearly a little afraid of her.

Su Ping suddenly had a god-like perspective and recognized at a glance that it was Madam Lu in her youth.

However, her appearance was noticeably more stern back then than it is now, no wonder Xiao Lu Zhiyan didn't dare to meet her gaze.

Madam Lu looked down at the trembling little Lu Zhiyan, frowning with disdain, as if he were not her son.

If it weren't for the fact that he was still useful to Zhiyan and the Lu family, she really wouldn't want to see him again. They were both her sons, so why was there such a big difference between them?

Zhiyan was delighted to see that she could already run over to her with a smile and call her "Mom," and would also report to her what she had learned each day.

And look at this guy in front of me, he's so unpresentable every time he sees me, it ruins my good mood for the whole day.

She didn't want to look at him for even a second longer. Instead, she focused her gaze on the security camera he had smashed, her brows furrowing even more, and her words filled with anger.

"Didn't I tell you that children who break things should be punished?"

Upon hearing her words, Xiao Lu Zhiyan's face paled for a moment, but she quickly gritted her teeth and straightened her back unwillingly.

He broke it on purpose, but he didn't regret it because he could finally tell his sister what he had been holding back for so long.

But he couldn't let them find out about his sister.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lu Zhiyan got out of bed, mustered up his courage, and looked up directly at the woman who was called his mother.

"I'll go with you."

This was the first time Madam Lu had ever seen him dare to speak to her like that, so she was somewhat surprised. She snorted and walked outside.

At this moment, a servant came up and put the bag over his head, instantly covering his entire body.

This was the first time he had been punished. Because he couldn't see outside, he was filled with fear of the unknown.

But the thought of his sister waiting for him in bed gave him hope, and he knew he would come back to be with her.

Watching Lu Zhiyan being taken away, Su Ping felt a strange, indescribable feeling.

The God's-eye view disappeared after he was taken out the door.

[Huluwa, are you there?]

Su Ping didn't know where he would be taken, so he could only keep calling out to the Calabash Brothers.

But there was no response.

Su Ping was extremely anxious. Why did she have to become such a useless rag doll? She could have turned into a cat instead.

If she doesn't like it, she can go up and scratch it a couple of times.

Trapped on the bed in this room, Su Ping felt that time was passing very slowly, and she didn't know how Lu Zhiyan had survived the past twenty-odd years.

No one talked to him, no one cared about his thoughts, and no one even treated him like a normal person.

Lu Zhiyan did not return until evening.

Su Ping was extremely anxious. Even as an observer, she felt incredibly oppressed by this environment, let alone Lu Zhiyan, who was only a few years old.

Just as dawn was breaking, some noise finally came from outside.

Su Ping's omniscient perspective reappeared; little Lu Zhiyan seemed to be carried in by a servant, the tiny bundle looking as if he were asleep.

But her face was deathly pale; one wonders what she had gone through yesterday.

The servant's expression was somewhat unspeakable, but because he was deaf and mute, he couldn't say anything even if he wanted to.

They put Lu Zhiyan back on the bed, and when they lifted the blanket, they stared at Su Ping in disbelief.

However, the servant only paused for a second before quickly looking away and tucking Lu Zhiyan in as if he hadn't seen anything.

Then he quietly closed the door and left.

Su Ping was a little slow to react, and suddenly remembered that when she approached this place before, it was also the deaf-mute servants who pulled her away.

Therefore, these servants must know something, perhaps they have some unspeakable difficulties, after all, they are guarding the secrets of a large mansion.

Su Ping listened to Lu Zhiyan muttering to himself with his eyes closed, and the more she listened, the more alarmed she became.

"I won't do it again, please don't hit me."

"I don't want my finger cut off, can I not have it cut?"

As she spoke, tears streamed down her little face.

Su Ping subconsciously reached out to help him wipe it, but just when she thought it was futile, her soul seemed to pass through the small rag doll and reach out to Lu Zhiyan.

Whether it was her imagination or not, she seemed to actually feel the coolness of tears.

When she tried again, she passed right through that little face.

At the same time, Lu Zhiyan, who was sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes and stared fixedly in Su Ping's direction, as if he had sensed her presence.

"Sister, is that you?"

Because he had cried in his dream, his voice sounded a little hoarse and nasal. At this moment, he looked at Su Ping with a cautious and expectant expression.

At that moment, an uncontrollable force forcibly pulled Su Ping back onto the doll's body.

Disappointment flashed across Xiao Lu Zhiyan's face when she received no response, but she quickly put on a smile.

She lifted the blanket with her small hands and hugged Su Ping into her arms. Suddenly, her knees, which had been kneeling in the ancestral hall all night, didn't hurt so much anymore.

"Sister, I'm sorry I couldn't come back to keep you company last night."

His apologetic tone made Su Ping feel a little sorry for him. He had just been punished, but the first thing he did after returning was to apologize to her.

Because he injured his knee while kneeling, two doctors came in the evening, examined his knee, and drew two vials of blood.

Suddenly, his already pale face looked even more fragile, as if he might faint at any moment.

In the following days, Madam Lu did not contact him again, and it was unclear whether it was because of something he said that day. No surveillance cameras were installed in the room again.

However, it seemed that there were several more locks on the gate, and broken glass had been poured onto the wall.

Thinking back to when Lu Zhiyan escaped from here and was found by her, she wondered how he managed to climb over those walls full of broken glass.

However, Lu Zhiyan has been quite happy these past few days because he discovered that the servants had not told Madam Lu about the rag dolls on his bed.

That way, he could openly hold Su Ping and talk to her in the room.