“When I was a child, I lived not far from his house. On this day, his mother would beat him. You could hear her beating and cursing all over the alley, saying that she shouldn’t have given birth to him and so on.”
The mere mention of this matter made Zhu Yuan angry and somewhat agitated.
Back then, many parents in the area would scare their children by telling them, "If you don't behave, we'll switch you with Jiang Cheng."
This trick works very well.
Many children immediately obeyed after hearing this.
Zhu Yuan was mischievous from a young age and was often scared like this by his parents.
So when this topic came up, he couldn't hold back anymore. He took a sip of instant noodle soup and continued, "Cheng-ge has always been tough since he was a child. He never cried out when he was beaten. If his mother hadn't been yelling like a madwoman while beating him, we wouldn't have known that he was always being beaten at home, and that the beatings were so severe."
"Even Cheng-ge's ears were..."
Zhu Yuan's face stiffened, and he abruptly stopped talking.
Pei Xi frowned and asked, "By what?"
Zhu Yuan turned his face away and muttered in a panic, "Oh no, Brother Cheng is going to beat me to death."
Pei Xi's face turned anxious as he pleaded, "Tell me, what happened to his ear?"
Zhu Yuan pursed his lips and scratched his head. After hesitating for a while, he decided to give up and lowered his voice to Pei Xi, saying, "Brother Cheng actually... can't hear in one ear. It's because... his mother beat him when he was little, causing bleeding in his inner ear. She didn't take him to the hospital, and later... he's been deaf ever since."
Pei Xi's fingertips trembled instantly, and his whole body went cold.
The scene from her dream kept replaying in her mind.
The little boy with dark eyes, even with his face covered in blood, still had a stubborn expression.
It's exactly the same as it is now.
Pei Xi blinked, and then, with a rustling sound, tears streamed down her face.
When Zhu Yuan saw her crying, he panicked and slapped his own mouth, muttering, "It's over. Jiang Cheng will definitely beat me to death now."
Just as he was about to say a few words of comfort, Pei Xi suddenly turned around and ran back the way he came.
She suddenly realized what was different.
It's heartbreaking.
When you like someone, you feel heartache.
In her dream, the way she looked at Jiang Cheng was cold, yet filled with pity.
She didn't like him at all.
But she is different.
They are completely different.
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