Chapter 401 The Terrifying Castle Owner (61)

He needs to protect everyone's safety to the greatest extent possible.

After completing all the preparations, Tan Qing did not allow anyone to leave the confinement room, let alone go to the cafeteria for dinner.

No one can guarantee whether the blood corpse carnival will be held earlier, and no one dares to take the slightest risk.

In the corner, there was a pile of looted bread and fruit to temporarily fill their stomachs.

Tick, tick.

The second hand turned, and the rusty pins made an awkward sound, like the call of the coming of death, which made people's hair stand on end and their upper and lower gums tremble.

Wen Yan squatted in the corner, biting the dry bread numbly. Every time he swallowed, the bread chunks would scratch his throat, making it extremely sore.

She unscrewed the bottle cap and drank two sips of water, and the hunger gradually subsided.

Unable to bear the overly quiet atmosphere, Wen Yan chatted with Wang Ting in a low voice.

"At your age, you should only be in the third or fourth grade."

"After you get out, will you continue to go to school? Or will you go home and rest for a while?"

Wen Yan asked tactfully. In fact, she felt that not only Wang Ting, but she herself would need to see a psychologist after she got out.

It was as if I was having a long and terrifying nightmare.

She even suspected that she was still in a nightmare, and that she would wake up after going out, and Abin would be able to return to her side.

But Wen Yan knew that the possibility was very small.

Wang Ting thought for a moment and said crisply, "Let's go get our legs treated first."

These four short words made Wen Yan's nose sore and she was speechless.

Wang Ting heard a soft sob coming from above her head. She looked up and saw a pair of eyes that were quiet and pure.

There was no despair or pain of being imprisoned, only obvious concern and curiosity.

Wen Yan used to think that she was still young and didn’t understand anything, and couldn’t imagine the impact that breaking her leg would have on her future.

It was not until now that she realized that Wang Ting was not ignorant, she just appeared to be stronger than the adults.

"My dad said he could make me a prosthetic leg so I could continue to go to school. Next year I'll be in fifth grade. My grandma said she'd take me to KFC if I got a 90 on the final exam!"

When talking about her grandmother, Wang Ting's eyes sparkled and she became particularly excited.

Her father was busy with work, so she was raised by her grandmother. Her grandmother didn't allow her to eat junk food. She only had KFC once since she was a child, and she still remembers the taste. It was so delicious.

Wen Yan smiled and pinched her little face: "What about your mother?"

According to her, he should be a left-behind child, raised by his grandmother.

Then her mother must be very busy at work.

Wang Jianguo: "Xiaoting's mother and I are divorced."

Wen Yan looked over in surprise and saw Wang Jianguo sitting on the edge of the bed, looking down at the ground.

The calloused hands were clasped together, and the fingertips scratched the scars on the little fingers.

"I was busy with work and the time we met was very short, so I left."

Wen Yan really didn't expect that she would actually expose someone's scars: "I'm sorry, I didn't think about it that way."

"Nothing." Wang Jianguo shook his head and continued, "Tingting had just been born at that time, and I took a two-month leave to take care of her mother. But before I was even out of the confinement period, I received a call to return to the army."

"To be honest, I feel really sorry for her. She caught a cold during her confinement period and became ill. I didn't have time to be with her. Later, Tingting was awarded to her, but she didn't want it. I had no choice but to leave Tingting in my hometown and let my mother take care of her."

This was the first time Wang Jianguo mentioned his identity and real life to them.

Wen Yan had actually guessed it before. The calluses on his hands from years of handling guns and the clean and neat movements when he killed the blood corpse were enough to show that he was not an ordinary temporary worker on the construction site.

"Chen Yuan had suspected my identity before, and her guess was actually correct. I used to be a soldier and later joined the army to complete my mission. I was discharged when Tingting was five years old and went to work on the construction site. She has always stayed in her hometown with her mother and has never been to a big city. When I had time, I brought her to Zhanjiang to play, but I never thought I would hurt her..."

Wang Jianguo covered his face with his hands, his shoulders trembling, and a suppressed sound of pain and guilt escaped from between his fingers.

Wang Ting immediately ran to him and hugged her father's head to comfort him.

"Don't cry... Dad, don't cry. I'm not in pain."

Although it was very painful when her leg was bitten off by the big monster, it didn't hurt so much after Sister Wen Yan applied medicine on her.

When her father cried, she felt her heart hurt more than her legs.

"Don't cry, Dad."

The clumsy comfort infected the deserted confinement room. Wen Yan's eyes became slightly hot and she hugged her legs and sighed deeply.

"I work as a nurse in a top-tier hospital. This trip to Zhanjiang is my engagement trip with Abin. If nothing goes wrong, we will get married in March next year, in the spring."

Wen Yan sniffed. "He's a private basketball coach, teaching students basketball on weekends, so from Monday to Friday he'll stay home waiting for me to get off work. I often work the night shift, so he'll bring me food. He cooks all the dishes himself. You wouldn't be able to tell, but he really does have a face that doesn't know how to cook."

"He loves children. We once seriously considered having two children after marriage, regardless of gender. He would get sterilized after we had two. Happiness was already very close to me."

Wen Yan choked up several times, but finally couldn't hold back her tears.

Wang Ting ran over again to wipe her tears, using the same piece of paper she had used on Wang Jianguo.

It became wrinkled and soon became wet.

Oh, what's wrong with adults nowadays? She hasn't cried yet.

Now I’m too busy to handle it all.

After listening to the two people's stories, Tan Qing glanced at Tan Che on the bed and remained silent.

"What about you, Tan Qing? How old are you and your brother?"

Wen Yan asked him, tears still on her face and her eyes filled with bright curiosity.

With his black eyelashes drooping, Tan Qing finally spoke.

"Xiao Che and I are one and a half years apart in age. He's... my dad's illegitimate son. After my parents divorced, my stepmother brought him in. He's sweet-talking and good at pleasing people. My dad likes him even more. He often tells me that as the older brother, I should take good care of my younger brother."

Wen Yan fell silent.

No wonder Yuanyuan said before that the two brothers looked nothing alike. She thought one looked like his mother and the other looked like his father. She never imagined that they were half-brothers.

Judging from their looks, Tan Qing's mother should be the type with a gentle temperament, while Tan Che's mother is the type with stunning beauty.

He doesn't even look like that jerk dad.

Tan Qing's personality is much calmer than Tan Che's, and they are more inclined to obey Tan Qing's commands.

It seems that his composure was honed through forced effort.

"For a long time, I hated my younger brother and even maliciously wished he had never come to my house so that I could have toys, snacks, and even my father's love all to myself."

Tan Qing didn't notice that just as he finished saying this, the eyelids of the person lying behind him moved, but did not open.

"But he never realized that I hated him. He followed me around every day. My stepmother told him not to get close to me, or I would take his property, but he didn't listen and became even more attached to me. He used his pocket money to buy snacks and toys, always paying double the amount, and secretly stuffed them into my bedside table at night."