Turbid Light
"Brother, I'm ready!" Xu Jiayan pulled his small suitcase and turned it around in front of Xu Jiahe. "Does it look good? This is my new suitcase!"
After this month, Xu Jiayan will be an adult, but his hobbies are still like those of a child. His children's backpacks, suitcases, and clothes are all cartoon-themed.
Xu Jiahe straightened his collar while answering the phone, and said with a relieved smile: "Xiao Qiao, can I take you away from here?"
"Okay, okay!"
Xu Jiahe looked at his brother's innocent smile and explained solemnly: "What I mean is that we should leave here forever and never come back."
Xu Mingwei didn't know until his death that Xu Jiayan had an intellectual problem. His mental faculties were only those of a ten-year-old. Huo Iris was the first to discover that he had an intellectual problem. After that, Xu Jiayan could only pretend to be innocent to cover up the fact that he was mentally retarded.
This kind of naivety was seen as cowardice and cowardice in Xu Jiaming's eyes. Xu Jiaming was born with the pride of being the eldest son, so he thought that everyone was inferior to him and should respect him. Xu Jiayan's avoidance catered to his self-esteem.
"Never come back..." Xu Jiayan frowned, then stretched out his hand and pressed it on his brother's brow. "Brother, don't frown. I'll go with you. Don't be sad."
Xu Jiahe clenched his hand, his tense body relaxing. After a few seconds, he pulled himself together and smiled sincerely, "Hurry up, we're about to board the plane. If we're late, we'll miss it."
"But isn't Mom coming with us?"
"Mom?" He was calling that woman. What a pity, she would never appear in their lives again.
Mother, I will escape from your world with the hurt you have given me.
"Mom has somewhere else to go and won't be coming with us. Xiaoqiao, please stay close to your brother, okay?"
"Um!"
It was only an hour before they left for the airport. Xu Jiahe kept looking at his watch and finally took out his ID card from his pocket. After many years, they finally got their own names back: Huo Yu and Huo Qiao.
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If precocity is a disaster, then Huo Yu is at the center of the storm.
He didn't learn about his life story from his parents, but from the rumors of the neighbors. His mother was a mistress, but when he questioned Huo Yuanwei, Huo Yuanwei said angrily that she was not a mistress, but they let another woman be the mistress.
Xu Mingwei had been absent from his life for eleven years. The first time they met was on a bed half-covered by curtains. He was carrying his schoolbag home from school. The three of them looked at each other, and he picked up a broom and hit the man.
After being beaten, Xu Mingwei didn't come for a while, but not long after, Huo Iris became pregnant, and rumors spread more and more. However, Huo Yu didn't quite understand the relationship between his mother and that man until the summer vacation.
For a moment, it seemed that everyone knew the identity of this foreign man and his mother, and also seemed to know his identity.
Huo Yu lowered his head, walked the fastest way ever, pushed the door open and asked what was going on outside.
Huo Iris frankly admitted that what they said was correct.
Huo Yu hated his mother's behavior the most. She acted like she didn't care what others said and pretended not to hear anything others said.
"Why do you want to be a mistress!" Huo Yu was very angry. He threw his schoolbag to the ground and questioned the pregnant Huo Iris.
Huo Iris was startled and stuffed a peach into his hand as if nothing had happened. "Why are you so fierce? If I hadn't been like this, you wouldn't have such a good life now, with new schoolbags to buy, new clothes to wear, and boarding school! You're so heartless."
Huo Yu stamped his feet in anger, "But I don't want this! I will be looked down upon!"
"Look down on them? Why do I look down on them? They are just jealous of you! When I give birth to your brother, you won't live here anymore. Who will recognize you then?" Huo Iris touched her belly, convinced that this baby must be a son, and felt complacent.
Seeing Huo Yu's face darken, she simply told him clearly, "I'm not the mistress, that woman is. Your father and I are in love with each other, and we are a couple. It's just that they got married first. He has no feelings for that woman. We just need her family's money."
Huo Yu's eyes widened. "What did you say?"
Huo Iris thought he didn't hear clearly, so she said it again, "So don't worry, we are a family, you are not the son of some mistress."
In Huo Iris's understanding, she and Xu Mingwei have been in love for many years and have even conceived a child early on. They are a family and she is Xu Mingwei's legal wife. It's just that he met a rich girl halfway through, and they just want money.
So when Xu Mingwei proposed that he marry into the family and come to pick them up after he got established, now Xu Mingwei has done it. He finally outlasted his "wife" and is coming back to pick them up. Isn't this a happy ending for everyone?
Huo Yu was so angry that he felt dizzy. Although he was young, he had loved serious literature since he was young, which had influenced him to some extent. Huo Iris had a low level of education and had only been to school for a few days. In her opinion, this might not be a problem, but Huo Yu, who was only eleven years old, knew it was wrong.
"What about that woman?"
Huo Iris's beautiful eyes rolled, "Hmm... I don't know. Lao Xu just said that we can move there in a few days."
It's easy to imagine that the original wife will not have a good ending. Huo Yu was shocked. First, his father, whom he hadn't seen since childhood, suddenly returned, and then he was told that his mother was a mistress and that he was the mistress's child. It made sense. Huo Iris never worked outside, but she always had money to buy him things. He had been in boarding school since he was six, and Huo Iris didn't pay much attention to his studies. She didn't seem to treat Huo Yu as a child.
His relationship with Huo Iris was very strange. They were neither like mother and son nor like friends. He was just accepting her money, but her money was obtained through fraud.
"You can't do this! This is immoral!" Huo Yu tried to get things back on track.
Huo Iris looked bewildered. "Immoral? I'm not immoral. I don't think it's a big deal. We got what we wanted, and she got what she wanted."
She believed that Mu Qiu loved Xu Mingwei, and Xu Mingwei created love for her with his companionship, so she should pay them back.
Huo Yu was like talking to a deaf person. He tried his best to explain: "You are ruining other people's lives!"
Huo Iris was also angry. She grabbed Huo Yu's thin arm and pinched it until it turned purple. "What about your mother's life? My life and my time are worthless! I gave birth to you and raised you for so many years, and have always strived for a better life for you. How come you don't understand me at all?"
Huo Yu fiercely threw off her shackles, "You're only doing this for yourself!"
Huo Yu knew her best. She had never truly cared for him. If she truly loved him, she wouldn't have sent him to school so early, boarding at the age of six. If she truly loved him, she wouldn't have left him alone to face the empty seats at the parents' meeting. If she truly loved him, she wouldn't have done anything immoral, causing her child to suffer the cold shoulder of others.
Every parent thinks that as long as they provide money and food so that their child can survive, they are raising him or her. However, raising a person requires care and attention. A life needs companionship, love and correct guidance.
Huo Yu didn't talk to her much during the entire summer vacation, but Xu Mingwei came frequently. Every time this time came, he would hide away and run to the public library, staying there for the whole day. It was also at that time that he began to read books crazily that were not suitable for his age. He longed to find answers from the books and longed for someone to tell him what he should do.
He did not find the answer. He did not get the answer in philosophy, sociology, psychology or even literature, but he understood that low moral bottom line is a disease, and this disease is one of the causes of social diseases.
Xu Mingwei and Huo Yuanwei both came from small places and had not received much education. They fell in love in the factory. One time, a business trip allowed Xu Mingwei to see a wider world. He wanted to go out and explore the world, but by chance he met Mu Qiu.
Even flowers raised in wealth can be misjudged sometimes, and Xu Mingwei can make a profit, so he will pretend until he gets what he wants.
After the summer vacation, everything was different. His younger brother was born, and the three of them broke into another person's house. He saw the child younger than him crying, and his moral character started to work again. But Xu Jiaming was very disgusted with them, and he knew that they could not sit down and talk properly.
Xu Mingwei has been in the upper class for too long, and he and Huo Iris have long lost their common language. Huo Iris cannot understand Xu Mingwei's plan, and Xu Mingwei cannot give Huo Iris the lifelong love she wants, so she turns her attention to Huo Yu, who has normal intelligence. She needs Huo Yu to be excellent, excellent enough to win Xu Mingwei's favor, and excellent enough to compete for the family property from Xu Jiaming. Huo Yu is Huo Iris's face.
As she wished, Xu Mingwei noticed him. After he grew up, he knew a lot of Xu Mingwei's dirty deeds and helped Xu Mingwei do a lot of dirty things. But in Xu Mingwei's eyes, he was not important. He was just a chess piece that could be discarded at any time to pave the way for Xu Jiaming.
The older Huo Yu gets, the more painful he becomes. The more painful he becomes, the more he thinks about why he has to endure all this, why his life starts like this, why his mother becomes a mistress, why his father lies, and why he does things that hurt others. Now, he is also a bad guy, right?
But he didn't want to be that kind of person. He wanted to get rid of this kind of life, a life controlled by his parents and condemned by morality.
He has always been in charge of the "Ren Ai" Children's Playground. He has been looking for candidates since he planned to escape. Xun Muke is his chosen ally, and she will definitely do anything for Ji Xiangyang.
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