Candy Box
Have a good night's sleep.
When Zhou Yiting opened her eyes, she saw Zhou Min pretending to be asleep with his eyes tightly closed. She thought it was a little cute and a little funny.
This person must have woken up at some point and had been staring at her, so he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep the moment she opened them.
Zhou Qiting moved closer, raised her head and kissed Zhou Min's forehead, then she noticed that her hand, which was still around her waist, froze for a moment.
So he pressed his lips against her eyelids again, and then moved away a little, seeing that her eyelashes couldn't help but tremble slightly in panic.
He rubbed the tip of his nose against hers affectionately, and her breathing became irregular as expected.
In order from top to bottom, the next thing should be——
Zhou Min waited quietly for a while but didn't feel the soft touch on his lips. He opened his eyes tentatively a little and saw Zhou Qiting staring at him with a smile in her eyes.
The next second, the long-awaited kiss finally touched my lips, and the lazy voice that had just woken up rang in my ears:
"good morning."
Zhou Min didn't know whether it was because he was embarrassed by pretending to be asleep, or because of the good morning kiss, but he felt his ears suddenly get hot.
But at such a distance from each other, she didn't know where else she could hide. She could only force herself to keep her eyes on Zhou Qiting and pretend to be calm, saying, "Good morning."
Zhou Qiting was in a rare good mood and stopped teasing her. He loosened his arms, lifted the quilt, and sat up from the bed. Just as he was about to move his legs to the edge of the bed and stand up, he found that his legs were too sore. He turned around and glanced at Zhou Min dimly.
Zhou Min looked at the person who was halfway through the action and the eyes that seemed to be stabbing with a knife, and immediately understood. He jumped up from the bed, stood diligently beside the bed, held Zhou Qiting's shoulders with one hand, and passed the other hand through the knees, picked him up horizontally, and walked towards the bathroom.
Yesterday, when the two of them came back from outside and entered the room, it was already past noon. They had been in the car for a long time, and Zhou Qiting fell asleep without eating the lunch prepared by the servant.
Zhou Min followed the instructions and held her to sleep, not even daring to breathe too heavily for fear of waking her up.
But time passed minute by minute, and when it was time for dinner, Zhou Qiting was still sleeping soundly in Zhou Min's arms.
Zhou Qiting has lost a lot of weight these days. If he goes hungry for a few more meals, I wonder how long it will take for him to recover.
Zhou Min then gently woke her up from her sleep and coaxed her to have dinner.
Later, after waking up, eating, and regaining some strength, the young lady naturally vented all her bad temper on Zhou Min.
After all, it was she who caused the young lady to lack sleep, and it was she who woke her up, so it was only right that she should suffer a little.
After washing up, Zhou Min accompanied Zhou Qiting to have breakfast, and then she took his hand and walked out the door.
The car parked in front of the door was not the same one from yesterday. Outside the car door, Zhou Qiting hooked the collar around Zhou Min's neck and kissed her on the corner of her mouth.
He leaned close to her ear and whispered softly, "Be good and wait for me at home."
The vehicle gradually drove out, and Zhou Yiting watched the outline of the manor in the central rearview mirror gradually disappear from her sight. Then she took out her mobile phone. Before preparing to deal with yesterday's pile of work, she opened her private mailbox as usual. She saw an unfamiliar email at a glance.
After opening the email and quickly reading it, his originally calm expression suddenly became solemn.
"How could it be..." Shocked, she lost her composure and expressed her inner disbelief in words.
Without the slightest hesitation, she suppressed her trembling voice and ordered the driver: "Turn around immediately, I want to go back."
The driver didn't do as he was told. A trace of guilt flashed across his face. Not wanting to offend Zhou Qiting, he hesitantly explained, "I'm sorry, Miss... The chairman has instructed me to take you to see her."
In an instant, Zhou Qiting understood his situation and what Zhou Xihe wanted to do.
The blood had already faded from his lips. Zhou Yiting forced himself to suppress his anxiety and opened the monitoring software on his mobile phone with trembling fingertips.
The surveillance camera covered the entire room. Zhou Qiting stared at the familiar figure, his heart twisted into a knot, becoming more and more tense as the vehicle continued to move away.
She could sense that the surface peace she had worked so hard to maintain was rapidly collapsing in an irreversible direction.
What she had always worried about finally happened.
Zhou Xihe has only one daughter, Zhou Qiting. She knows Zhou Qiting best, and Zhou Qiting also knows her best.
Zhou Yiting knew very well that her mother always had a plan in mind, and her plan had already been completed when she got into the car.
Sure enough, not long after, a bodyguard walked straight into the room, handed Zhou Min a mobile phone, and motioned her to answer the call.
Zhou Min took the phone, looked at the number displayed on it, hesitated for a moment, but still put it to his ear.
The surveillance video could not reveal what Zhou Min heard on the phone. She only frowned and thought for a while, and then her expression gradually became broken, as if she had collapsed in that instant.
After a long time, Zhou Qiting saw that after Zhou Min asked the bodyguard for a folding knife, he decisively inserted the blade into the gap between the neck and the collar, and cut the collar neatly with his backhand.
Zhou Minqing finally placed the folding knife and the broken collar on the counter beside the bed. It was a silent scene, but when he saw the resolute back, everything around him seemed to collapse in Zhou Qiting's ears.
Then, Zhou Min turned his head, as if he wanted to look in the direction of the surveillance camera, but he stopped and left the room without looking back.
The person who said she would never leave Zhou Qiting just walked out of the shelter that Zhou Qiting had carefully built for her.
Zhou Yiting helplessly let the phone slip from her hand and did not try to call anyone to keep Zhou Min.
During this period, Zhou Min has been living under the surveillance of Zhou Qiting, and Zhou Qiting has been living under the control of her mother for the past 25 years.
The bodyguards around her are both her mother's protection and her mother's surveillance of her.
She understood very early on that the freedom and power she had as Zhou Xihe's daughter were always within a limited scope, and this scope could only be defined by Zhou Xihe.
But how can the freedom given by others be called freedom?
Zhou Qiting has never been able to step out of the cage that Zhou Xihe carefully built for her.
And those deceptions under the pretext of love are the chains that Zhou Xihe uses to reinforce this cage.
Why did I initially believe what my mother said about Zhou Min having ulterior motives?
The shock of learning the truth and the powerlessness of not being able to keep Zhou Min gave Zhou Qiting a splitting headache and a stuffy feeling in his chest.
She lowered the window slightly, and a gust of cold wind rushed into the car, ruffling the hair on her cheeks and making her red eyes sore.
Zhou Yiting grabbed the side armrest, took a deep breath of the fresh air, closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat, trying to calm himself down.
But under this huge impact, the scars that she had not dared to touch were torn open bloodily——
Clang——
In the room of the welfare home, a loud noise woke Zhou Yiting up. She was still sleepy and saw in the moonlight coming through the half-open window that there was an object on the floor next to the windowsill, which was originally empty.
With doubt in her mind, she sat up from the bed, walked to the object and picked it up.
It was an iron candy box, she recognized it, it was the one she gave to Zhou Min.
Compared to the heavy weight when it was delivered, this iron box was much lighter. She shook it subconsciously, and the iron box unexpectedly made a slight impact sound.
She opened the lid and saw a crumpled piece of paper lying in the box, slightly stained with icing sugar.
Zhou Qiting unfolded the note and read the crooked pencil writing in the moonlight.
"Same time, same place tomorrow, I'll wait for you."
What happened later had been repeated countless times in nightmares, and only this seemingly ordinary beginning was deliberately buried in time by Zhou Qiting.
It turned out that the gift I gave to Zhou Min was a box of peach-flavored candy. It turned out that after so many years, Zhou Min still remembered it.
Zhou Qiting's other hand, which was originally placed flat on his leg, was clenched into a fist, with his fingertips digging deep into the palm of his hand.
In fact, at the beginning, Zhou Qiting could not be sure that these were left by Zhou Min based on the candy box and the vague note.
But no one could explain how Zhou Min, a ten-year-old child, found the kidnappers' hiding place in the deep mountains and dense forests, and how he rescued Zhou Qiting by himself.
So many investigators from the Investigation Bureau couldn't do this, not even the all-powerful Zhou Group could.
Zhou Yiting has known since she was a child that not all questions have answers. For some questions, she needs to deduce the answers from clues.
After ruling out all the unthinkable possibilities, Zhou Qiting had a vague guess in his mind -
Zhou Min may be related to the kidnappers.
If the video of the woman adopting Zhou Min was evidence of her guess, then what the mother said directly put the final nail in the coffin for this guess.
My mother must have known most of the truth at that time, but she still chose to lie to her.
During the time when Zhou Min kidnapped Zhou Qiting, he accused Zhou Qiting of never trusting her, either in the past or now.
Every sentence is full of blood and every word is heart-wrenching.
What Zhou Min said at that time was correct, but Zhou Qiting's arrogance made her subconsciously unwilling to admit that she might have had a misunderstanding back then.
It was because of Zhou Qiting that Zhou Min was later retaliated by the kidnappers and fell into such a desperate situation.
She finally understood why Zhou Min said that the robot was left on the beach forever after the movie ended that day.
Zhou Min was also trapped in that cruel period forever, never rescued and never able to escape.
In her memory, she counted the scars on Zhou Min's body that he had never explained.
But how can you count the scars when they are piled up on top of each other?
Zhou Qiting thought again of the "hostage rescue" story Zhou Min had told her. It turned out that she had told him about that tragic experience a long time ago, but she didn't understand it at that time.
How could Zhou Min say he had no resentment in such a nonchalant tone?
All this is because of Zhou Qiting, and all the blame goes to Zhou Qiting.
Unable to stop the tears from flowing from the corners of her eyes. She didn't know if it was because of the cold wind or the cold tears, but Zhou Yiting was so cold that she couldn't help shivering all over. She let the tears flow down her cheeks.
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