The abnormality started when Su Yi asked this question.
"Two weeks later, my sisters came to me and said that Uncle Wang was a little strange and they were very scared."
My younger sisters, who are 12 and 11 years old, said that when they were playing in the yard, they always felt someone was watching them, and they even seemed to hear the sound of a shutter clicking.
That kind of weird gaze kept sticking to them, making them very uneasy. And every time this kind of gaze appeared, Wang Suren would appear and greet them lovingly.
The confused sisters did what Su Yi had done three years ago: secretly checking Wang Suren's cell phone, computer, and all the electronic products they could get their hands on.
Soon, the sister was horrified to find that Wang Suren's spare mobile phone contained many photos of their daily lives. Most of them were taken when they were playing in the garden. The angles were strange, with the focus on the knees, calves, bare arms and necks below the skirt.
The folder in the computer even includes photos of them eating, with the focus fixed on their open mouths, bulging cheeks, and the slight amount of juice on their faces after eating.
...I don't know what to film if things continue to develop. Will I run into their bedrooms?
"Su Yi, look at these - what should we do?"
My sister's voice was so anxious that she sounded like she was about to cry.
"don’t worry."
The 13-year-old Su Yi deleted all those photos and gently comforted her sister: "Don't be afraid, I will take care of it."
He quickly completed the hospitalization procedures for his sister and told the housekeeper that his sister's condition needed to be observed and she would not be returning to the villa for the time being.
The housekeeper naturally reported the news to Wang Suren, but Wang Suren continued to be busy with the work at hand and did not take any extra action.
This matter just seemed to have passed like this.
This not only failed to dispel Su Yi's doubts, but instead aroused his suspicion, because the hypothesis that "Wang Suren adopted them because he had a perverted habit" had been ruled out by him at the very beginning.
Just like solving a math problem, an answer that has been proven to be false can never become true, but it suddenly becomes the standard idea and appears in the answer analysis.
Su Yi frowned. From the age of six to thirteen, Wang Suren had always had a normal girlfriend. If these were all disguise measures to conceal his true self, then Su Yi would not believe that someone could act perfectly under his observation for seven years.
And it just so happened that when he asked "why adopt", Wang Suren suddenly developed a perverted habit. He started taking pictures of his sisters secretly and saved them openly on a spare mobile phone and computer without adding a password, just waiting for someone to find them.
...So unnatural.
This unnatural feeling was limited to Su Yi's heart. To his sisters, it was all very natural, and all the questions had reasonable explanations: Why adopt these unwanted children? Why give them such good material conditions? It was all for this disgusting purpose!
"Besides that, even the foundation has become problematic." Su Yi and Bai Ye said:
"I secretly checked the accounts at that time and found that there were several recent transactions with large amounts of money that seemed a bit strange. It might be money laundering."
"…?"
Bai Ye frowned as he listened. Things began to develop in a direction that he could not understand at all. He tried to sort out what Su Yi said and said:
"That is to say, before you asked the question [why adopt], everything was normal. But when you asked this question, Wang Suren developed a perverted hobby, and the foundation, which had been normal until now, also started to launder money?"
"Yes." Su Yi nodded.
Bai Ye was speechless for a moment. How could... such a strange thing happen?
"But I'm the only one who feels strange." Su Yi suddenly said.
Bai Ye thought about it and suddenly came to his senses. Indeed, except for Su Yi himself, no one knew that a six-year-old child had long been suspicious of his respected entrepreneur adoptive father, and had been secretly investigating on his own for seven years, eliminating all suspicious possibilities one by one.
Su Yi: "My sister hasn't been as cautious as I have been since she was a child, but teenage girls are very sensitive. They also feel that such a wealthy life is... unreal."
so--
Bai Ye lowered his head and thought. Su Yi's question "Why adopt?" was a watershed. Influenced by the "Being Stared At" incident, the sisters would never believe in such a fairy-tale-like "good story" as "being adopted by a kind-hearted philanthropist". Rather, they had a vague "prediction" in their hearts that the truth was evil.
So, Wang Suren gave them the evil answer they had predicted.
So, when the secret filming incident was revealed, they all thought: As expected, this makes sense. Although they were shocked and disgusted, they did not feel strange.
The same goes for the foundation.
In the end, Wang Suren was hated and alienated by all his adopted sons and daughters, and this reaction was within Wang Suren's expectations. In his opinion, this was a very normal development result, or rather... this was the effect he wanted.
--for what?
[Charitable entrepreneur]’s “fairy tale is fake”, [perverted entrepreneur]’s “dark story is not true either”, Bai Ye was completely confused, so what is the truth?
After all, why did such a dramatic change happen just because of Su Yi's words, a question from a 13-year-old kid? This is too bizarre...
Thinking of this, Bai Ye suddenly remembered what Su Yi had said before: his adoptive father was very afraid of him.
It is not common sense for a successful male entrepreneur in his forties to be afraid of a helpless 13-year-old child. Unless in Wang Suren's eyes, [Su Yi] is not just a 13-year-old child, but... something more awe-inspiring?
Bai Ye was guessing in confusion, when suddenly, he heard Su Yi's laughter coming from the wheelchair.
"What's wrong?"
Bai Ye was like a student who got a question wrong, feeling a little embarrassed when being laughed at: "What's so funny? Did I... guess wrong?"
"No, no." Su Yi smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes, looking very happy.
If it was another person who heard him say this today, he would probably just think that there was a flaw in his investigation when he was a child, and that his adoptive father had always been a pervert, but it just happened to be exposed at that time. The same goes for the foundation. How could a child possibly understand any accounts?
There is absolutely no doubt about the whole thing. Don't overthink it and scare yourself.
——No one will believe what he says, and they don’t even want to listen to it, let alone think along his lines.
Bai Ye lowered his head in confusion, and Su Yi saw himself in his eyes, a small pair of eyes that filled two eyes. Bai Ye was looking at himself intently, and Su Yi wanted to hear what he said next.
"At that time, I suspected..." Su Yi continued, "Wang Suren wanted to conceal the real purpose of adoption."
It doesn't matter if the adopted children misunderstand me as a pervert, or if I'm caught laundering money, but I must never let them realize the real "purpose of adoption."
Bai Ye: "…What is the real purpose?"
Su Yi didn't say anything, just frowned slightly. Realizing this, the 13-year-old self no longer asked his adoptive father openly. He learned to keep all his questions in his heart and wait for the future to see if he could get an answer.
[Sister’s photo] and [Signs of money laundering] happened? One week later, the results of the first monthly exam for the first grade of junior high school came out.
The math test was very difficult and the students' scores were very bad. In order to make everyone reflect better, the teacher required that the test papers must be signed by parents.
"I was waiting in the study with the test paper in my hand." Su Yi said to Bai Ye.
After a while, the door opened quietly, and Wang Suren walked in quietly and stealthily approached Su Yi who was sitting at the desk.
Su Yi felt it, but he didn't say anything and pretended not to hear it.
Wang Suren moved behind him, just behind the back of the chair, his tall figure casting a shadow on the desk, and then he stretched out his hand -
Su Yi was almost trapped. He raised his head and saw a flash of fear across Wang Suren's face, as if he was surprised.
The next moment, Wang Suren smiled knowingly, his hands trembling a little as he placed the papers on the desk. Then, he said something that left a deep impression on Su Yi:
"You knew that, didn't you?"
A child who thinks his adoptive father is a pervert will not wait alone in the study with a test paper in his hand for his signature, nor will he remain indifferent after his adoptive father approaches him or even extends his hand.
Their eyes met in the air. Su Yi raised his head and said nothing.
He knew that Wang Suren was not a pervert, and Wang Suren also knew at this moment that those pretended appearances did not deceive him, and he still doubted [the purpose of adoption?].
So, what actions will Wang Suren take next?
Thirteen-year-old Su Yi was waiting. Suddenly, there were two knocks.
Wang Suren tapped his knuckles on the surface of the papers on the desk and laughed twice:
"You actually know the answer to this question, right? Did you get it wrong on purpose?"
...What a lame cover-up.
Xiao Suyi was thinking silently in his heart. Wang Suren picked up the pen on the table and circled the question casually:
"It's really unlike you to make mistakes on math problems. This problem should be easy for you, right?"
Su Yi replied casually: “I was careless.
This question is the last question of the last big question in the math test. It is a geometry question. It requires you to prove the relationship between triangle ACR and triangle BDR when the moving point moves to point R.
The relationship is not difficult to see, they are definitely similar, but it is difficult to prove? Su Yi, who was in the examination room, estimated the difficulty and decided not to prove it.
Ever since he won the first place in the National Mathematical Olympiad at the age of six and was adopted, Su Yi has been feeling uneasy deep in his heart. He knew that if he stood out, he would attract attention, and then a series of unpredictable events might happen.
If he had not participated in the Mathematical Olympiad that year, or if he had participated but manipulated his scores to make himself fail, would he have continued to grow up in an orphanage?
The conditions in the welfare home are certainly not as good as the villa he lives in now, but it is more secure. At least, he won't be doubting this and that all day long.
Compared to other children who long for victory, glory, praise and admiration from others, Su Yi longs to live an ordinary life, like a small tree blending into the forest, quietly growing in the sun, without anyone noticing him.
In elementary school, he entered the class as a prodigy in math with a heart attack. No matter where he went, everyone looked at him and commented on him in whispers. Su Yi didn't like it very much, as if countless pairs of eyes were staring at him like bats. Now he is in junior high school, with a completely new environment and new classmates, and he can finally make himself "a little more ordinary" by controlling his scores.
In the first monthly exam, Su Yi just wrote a line of random words on this question and got it over with. He was deducted four points, which was the only "losing point" in the entire paper.
He thought that this was the last small question of the last big question, and it was a reasonable point for losing points, and no one would doubt him.
But Su Yi never expected that after controlling the points, he still won the first place in the grade. Maybe he should control the points a little more next time.
Swish, swish. Wang Suren didn't say anything else. He signed the paper. The phone in his pocket rang. It was probably a business call. He turned around and left the study.
Su Yi picked up the test paper and looked at it. In addition to signing, Wang Suren also circled the question he got wrong.
The position of the circle was a bit strange, Su Yi frowned.
If Wang Suren just wanted to express his regret for getting the question wrong, he could have circled the question number or the question stem directly, but Wang Suren very accurately circled the letter R in "When the moving point moves to point R."
…R?
Did Wang Suren just circle it casually, or does it have any special meaning?
Thirteen-year-old Su Yi didn't want to understand it, but this little thing has always been engraved in his heart.
"A similar strange thing happened two years later." Su Yi said:
"I caught a cold in the third year of junior high school. My condition worsened and I was hospitalized. One night, I had a high fever..."
Su Yi was lying on the hospital bed, half asleep, when he felt someone touching his forehead.
The fingers were soft and slender, and should be a female's, perhaps a nurse or an aunt who took care of him in the bed. She put something on his forehead and circled it.
He didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was an ice towel.
The next day, Wang Suren came to see him, carrying a briefcase and apparently having just rushed over from the company. There were also several media following him for interviews.
Wang Suren talked about his views on charity in his ward. The sick Su Yi leaned on the hospital bed, acting responsibly as the background board for his frail adopted son.
After the interview, Su Yi saw Wang Suren talking to the doctor in the corridor, probably asking about his condition.
The doctor was holding several A4 paper reports and talking to Wang Suren.
Su Yi was leaning on the hospital bed, catching up on the missed physics simulation paper; the high school entrance exam was approaching.
After saying this, Wang Suren casually took the report and walked into the ward without putting it into his briefcase.
He seemed to want to fulfill his nominal responsibilities as a foster father. Seeing Su Yi doing his homework, he began to express his concern verbally:
"If you are sick, please take some time off from studying. I have already told the teacher, it's okay."
Su Yi hummed, but did not stop writing, because these questions were very simple, like 1+1=2. He did not feel tired, he was just doing them to pass the time because he was bored.
With a rustle, Wang Suren put the reports on the bedside table, put his briefcase on top of them, and then moved a chair to sit next to the bed:
"Do you feel better today? Oh, I'm doing my physics paper. Let me see..."
Su Yi stopped writing, thinking that Wang Suren was just taking a casual look, but he didn't expect this guy to take away his pen and the mock exam paper in a serious manner and start looking at the paper carefully.
Su Yi had nothing to look at for a moment, so he looked around and suddenly caught a glimpse of the report on the bedside table, which was pressed by the briefcase with only a corner exposed.
——It was his physical examination report, which included his gender, height, weight, vision, lung capacity, chest circumference...
Junior high schools will also organize physical examinations for students, and the items tested are basically the same as these. However, healthy junior high school students will also take tests such as the forward stretch and sit-up.
Su Yi didn't care about the report at first. He just glanced at it, and suddenly, he saw an abnormal item!
Different from the physical examination form of his junior high school classmates, his physical examination form has a box called "head circumference" below the height, weight, and chest circumference.
…What physical examination requires measuring head circumference?
“Look at you…”
At this moment, Wang Suren, who was looking through his physics paper, spoke:
"For this capital U, you should write the vertical line as a big ?u, otherwise it will look like a V when you write it quickly, and the teacher will deduct points from you when he grades your papers."
Su Yi: “…Oh.”
Inexplicable? Strange?.
Which question in the mock test was related to physics voltage? He wrote a formula: U=IR, voltage equals current multiplied by resistance, and that's why he was criticized.
Although Wang Suren was his adoptive father, he basically adopted a laissez-faire approach towards them and seldom lectured them like this, which Su Yi found a bit strange.
"Then you should have a good rest. Do the test papers when you have time, and don't do them when you are tired." Wang Suren returned the mock test homework to Su Yi, got up and left.
The paper of the test paper was pinched tightly by his fingertips, and Su Yi saw Wang Suren gently circled his paper on the ?U of U=IR.
…U?
What does this letter mean?
This little confusion remained in Su Yi's heart until he was 17 years old and Wang Suren had a car accident.
"It rained all day that day."
Su Yi spoke to Bai Ye in a calm voice.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, the haze was like a moldy sponge, and the air was wet with moisture.
During the second class in the afternoon, Su Yi felt a little unwell, so he asked his teacher for leave to go home and called the driver to pick him up.
The white rain was like silk and fog, connecting the vast sky and earth. Su Yi held an umbrella and stood under the eaves of the school gate guard. The rain like a water curtain splashed on the ground along the eaves, leaving a boundary between dry and wet.
Not long after, a black BMW drove in the misty rain.
The automatic door opened, and when Su Yi sat in the back seat, he found that there was someone in the passenger seat.
"I heard from the teacher that your grades improved a lot last time."
The co-pilot's seat, Wang Suren, turned his head and smiled, then spoke to Su Yi in a relaxed manner.
The years have left marks under the corners of his eyes. When he smiles, his eyes are curved, but the corners of his eyes are wrinkled.
Su Yi hummed and didn't say much.
Wang Suren rarely came with his driver to pick him up, and it was only a little after four o'clock, so he should be busy at the company.
"The meeting ended early today. Master Yang was about to send me home when I received your call. I decided to come over and pick you up."
Wang Suren sat in his seat and opened a piece of paper. Su Yi thought it should be the report card given to Wang Suren by the teacher.
"This time you have improved to the top ten in your grade, that's great. Which school do you want to go to for the college entrance examination?" Wang Suren asked.
Su Yi: "I haven't thought about it yet."
He usually controls his scores to stay in the top 50 in his grade. However, he did not expect that the last exam was so difficult. As he could not sense the difficulty, he controlled his scores in the exam room as if he were taking any normal exam. As a result, all his classmates scored poorly, but he maintained a normal level of score control, which showed as a great improvement in his grades.
The car was driving steadily on the asphalt road, the wipers were brushing the glass in front of the car, and the round little water droplets were crushed by the wipers one by one.
Almost home.
Su Yi saw the villa hidden in the green grass. He put on his schoolbag and prepared to get off the car.
The wheels slowly slowed down and finally stopped in front of the villa's gate.
Su Yi discovered that the car did not drive into the underground garage, which meant it just stopped here. Maybe the driver would take Wang Suren to another place later.
The automatic car door slowly opened. Su Yi was about to get out of the car and hold an umbrella. A shadow was cast outside the car door. Wang Suren was already standing outside with an umbrella:
"Let's go back and ask Aunt Jiang to make you a bowl of ginger soup to get rid of the dampness."
Su Yi hesitated for a moment and did not open his umbrella again. He got out of the car, Wang Suren held the umbrella for him, and the two walked forward.
The black umbrella that Wang Suren was holding was very big, enough to accommodate three people. Su Yi watched the raindrops dripping continuously from the sharp corners of the umbrella, forming thin chains like silver threads.
Today's? Wang Suren is very weird.
Su Yi thought to himself that most of the time, Wang Suren was conscientiously acting as an ATM, rather than being a father. Picking up children from school and holding an umbrella with them were very normal actions in a parent-child relationship, but seemed very strange when applied to an ATM.
A black umbrella, like a black flower, blooms on the garden path in front of the villa.
despair.
Suddenly, Su Yi heard a slight noise, as if something fell.
He looked down and saw a puddle of water in the mud of a roadside garden, with a golden button lying in the water.
Look at my adoptive father's sleeves again. There is a blank spot on the left sleeve of his suit, and the cufflink is gone.
Celebrities like Wang Suren usually wear high-end custom-made clothes. Such a small cufflink is also very valuable. Su Yi quickly reminded:
"Lose…"
"fine."
Wang Suren interrupted him, holding the umbrella and walking forward, trying to stop Su Yi from turning back to pick it up:
"After so many years of use, it's time to hit the road."
…?
Su Yi was a little confused after hearing this. Would a normal person use the term "on the road" to describe [the scrapping of a button]?
Walk to the door of the villa.
Wang Suren: "I won't go in. I have some social engagements later."
Su Yi nodded, and he was about to push the door in -
"Su Yi."
At that time, Wang Suren rarely called him by his name.
Su Yi turned around and saw his slightly old adoptive father holding a black umbrella, standing in the rain. He smiled slightly and said to him:
"You are the smartest child I have ever met."
Wang Suren handed him the transcript, said nothing more, turned around and left.
This sudden praise made Su Yi feel very strange.
The hand that was pushing open the door paused, and Su Yi had a bad feeling.
He held up his umbrella, walked quickly back to the garden, and found the small puddle.
Su Yi bent down and picked up the button. His fingers felt the wetness of the rain and the iciness of the metal.
Wang Suren's suits are all custom-made. The center of this golden cufflink has the brand's logo engraved on it:
It's a capital N.
Su Yi was stunned at this moment.
The R point on the math test paper, the U voltage on the physics homework, and the N on the cufflinks of a suit, from the age of thirteen to seventeen, the four years spanning three simple letters:
——Run! !
That rainy night, Wang Suren never came back.
The sound of a police car was heard outside the villa, and it was the news that the adoptive father had been in a car accident.
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