Upon entering the living room, the two sat side by side on a bench.

"Yun'er, do you remember what I asked you this morning?"

Sui Xin held Xi Yun's hand and asked.

"Hmm, is there anything you can't let go of?"

Xi Yun remained silent for a while.

"Actually, I remember everything that happened when I was a child, but I really don't want to think about it."

I nodded casually, and sure enough, I had guessed right.

"However, now that I have you, my parents, and so many friends, it doesn't matter anymore."

Xi Yun smiled. Compared to the misery of the past, the beauty of the present is the most important.

"Suixin, let me tell you about my childhood. It's been so many years, it's time to explain everything to you."

As Xi Yun spoke, she realized that she had always felt uneasy about lying to them back then, and that she should take this opportunity to make things clear.

"Or... if you really don't want to say it, then don't say it."

He initially thought to let it go, not wanting her to recall those unpleasant experiences, but then he reconsidered, thinking that perhaps it would be more comforting to talk about it.

Xi Yun nodded, leaned on Sui Xin's shoulder, and began her story.

"There are four people in my family: me, my parents, or maybe they can't be called parents, let's just call them the violent man and the enchanting woman."

And then there's my older brother, who's three years older than me.

I think I'm not their biological child. I overheard this during one of their conversations.

I don't know where that was. In my memory, I never walked out of that blood-stained gate. I only remember that we lived in a small courtyard with high walls and a quiet atmosphere. Occasionally, we could see crows flying by.

The violent man looked fierce, with several scars on his face, and had an extremely bad temper, often getting angry at me.

The fairy girl looks alluring, but beneath her beautiful exterior lies a heart of stone, and she's quite adept at tormenting people.

In my memory, they were pig butchers, but now it seems they were clearly cultivators, and evil cultivators at that, with extremely cruel methods.

Every morning, the first thing I experience is being dragged out of bed by them and then falling heavily to the ground.

They won't give you breakfast; you'll be sent straight out to mop the floor...

The ground was covered in blood, it was hard to tell if it was pig's blood or human blood, and there were also a lot of bone fragments and internal organs, which made people feel nauseous.

I vomit several times a day, but as soon as they see me vomit, they come over and beat me, punching and kicking me. It's common for me to be covered in bruises, and I'm used to it.

At that time, I didn't know I had a younger brother or older brother, nor did I know there was a secret room in the house.

That night, I was sleeping when I suddenly heard a noise outside.

I opened my eyes and listened carefully, and I was almost scared to death. The sound was absolutely terrifying; even now, thinking about it gives me goosebumps.

As she spoke, Sui Xin suddenly felt a chill in the small hand she was holding.

"I was terrified and couldn't help but cry out. I pulled the thin blanket over my head. But the sounds outside seemed to be responding to my cries. In a daze, I seemed to hear a miserable laugh, followed by the sound of banging on the door, footsteps... and then I lost consciousness."

When I woke up again, I was tied to a cross, and next to me was a pillar with a little boy tied to it—that was my brother.

The little boy was very thin, not much taller than me, and his body was almost all bones, with many bloodstains.

The surroundings looked extremely eerie, with howling winds like the lament of a wronged woman. There were many human heads and bones on the ground, and blood was everywhere.

I cried again, shouting and screaming, trying to ask where I was, but no one answered.

“This is your grave,” the little boy next to me said, turning around after I woke him up.

"Oh, the wind's awake, Mother's here to see you," the vixen's disgusting voice came from the side, making my scalp tingle.

"Hmph, you old hag," the little boy said angrily.

"Hahaha, curse away, curse away, you'll know what pain is in a moment," the fairy woman laughed, her face contorted with malice.

Then, a ball of emerald green flame rose from her palm.

I couldn't feel any heat at all; instead, an extreme chill emanated from the flames.

She slowly approached the little boy and threw out a cold flame. In an instant, the little boy was covered in flames.

There were no signs of burns on his skin, but his heart-wrenching cries could be heard.

It's still hard to believe now that his frail body could produce such a loud sound.

Being tied up to the side, I was so frightened that I fainted.

"I don't know how much time passed, but I was awakened by a whip, and standing in front of me was a fairy woman."

"Yun'er, it's time to get up," she said to me with a smile, but a sinister smile appeared on her face.

I instinctively screamed for help, but instead I was met with several more lashes.

Then, the fire reappeared in her palm.

........

As she said this, Xi Yun's body began to tremble, and her face turned pale.

"Sui Xin, it hurts so much, it really hurts, waaaaaah!"

After saying that, Xi Yun covered her chest and cried.

He couldn't see her, but her trembling body alone was enough to explain everything.

"Yun'er, it's alright, it's all over now."

Sui Xin turned around and hugged Xi Yun, tears quickly soaking her shoulders.

"Waaah, I...I endured...two years of that pain."

Even now, I still remember that kind of pain that is etched into my bones, a pain that is indescribable.

"How could she be so heartless? We lived together for three years!"

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