Seven-year-old Xie Yang's first reaction upon seeing his father was to tremble with fear. The gentler and more loving his father's smile, the more terrified he felt. Because before that, he had been deceived and hurt by that man many times.
No matter how nicely the man spoke, he didn't believe it, let alone be moved by it.
Until he said, his mother was sick.
Xie Yang's mother was certainly not a good mother to others, but for a child who had never received love from his elders before the age of six, his mother was the only person in the Xie family who cared about him.
After the other children of the Xie family joined forces to push him into the quagmire, his mother would have him dragged out and cleaned. Even if her tone was disdainful and her eyes were filled with contempt, he would only change into clean clothes after she gave the order, right?
After he was locked up and starved for three days and three nights, his mother would throw some steamed buns or cakes to him. Even though they were thrown on the ground, at least he could eat them to fill his stomach, right?
When he was beaten and dying, his mother asked the servants to give him some medicine to keep him alive. Although her tone was harsh and the medicine she gave was the worst, she still kept him alive, didn't she?
He had never seen a normal mother-son relationship, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Even though he later saw many loving mothers and filial sons in the Yun family, the Yun family was better than the Xie family in every way, so it was natural that the Yun family's mother was better than his mother, wasn't it?
Most children have a natural admiration for their mothers. Even if they are hurt or beaten by their mothers, they will instinctively want to be close to them. Xie Yang is no exception. Moreover, his mother has never beaten him, hurt him, and even provided him with food. This is much better than the other people in the Xie family.
So Xie Yang couldn't bear to leave his mother and wanted to go back to see her.
Moreover, he had already seen the embarrassment on the faces of the uncles and aunts of the Yun family. They were all very kind to him, and he was reluctant to see them in an awkward position.
Although he was only seven years old and did not understand the ways of the world, he vaguely felt that going back was the best thing for the Yun family, so he chose to leave with that man.
When leaving, little A Miao hugged him and cried bitterly, and even wanted to go with him at one point, but how could Xie Yang dare to let him go to the Xie family's den of tigers and wolves?
So Xie Yang, who shouldn't have made any promises, promised to come to Yuncheng to celebrate Yun Feimiao's birthday in the spring of next year.
The man smiled and agreed, but Xie Yang knew he was lying. But he thought he could ask his mother for help.
Mother is the best person in the Xie family who has treated him well, so she should agree, right?
He just came out to celebrate a friend's birthday. It's something that everyone in the Xie family can do, so why can't he do it even once?
But it turns out he really can't.
When he returned to Xie's house, he broke free from the man's hand and rushed to see his sick mother. Who would have thought that his mother was fine and was sitting with several aunts and sisters-in-law playing mahjong.
He heard his aunt say, "I didn't expect that little bastard Xie Yang to run away so suddenly. Now that he's back, you have to coax him and don't let this happen again. They spent a lot of effort and spirit stones to find him this time."
He heard his mother say, "Why are you still trying to coax him? I was too kind to him before, which gave him the strength to escape. His escape almost ruined my son's luck. I'll just break his legs next time and see how he can run again."
"During the past six months when he has been living in luxury in the Yun family, my son has suffered repeated setbacks. If my son had not completely replaced his fate, I would have killed him long ago to vent my anger!"
Xie Yang listened in a daze and finally figured out one thing. It turned out that his previous guess was true. He was not a child of the Xie family. The real Sixth Young Master Xie was someone else.
What about him? Whose child is he?
Since the Xie family could find ways to change his fate, his original family must be more powerful, right?
But what's the point of being so powerful? He didn't even know his own child had been replaced.
Xie Yang found it ironic and lost interest in his own origins.
Compared to that confused family and those relatives he had never met, he felt that little A Miao was more important. He wanted to go back to Yuncheng to find little A Miao, but he could no longer leave the Xie family. He was imprisoned in a dark secret room with heavy shackles.
There is plenty of spiritual energy in the secret room, and someone regularly sends him exercises and food, so he must practice well.
He thought so too. He should become stronger as soon as possible so that he could leave the Xie family and go wherever he wanted.
But every time he finished practicing, a large amount of his spiritual energy would disappear. The Xie family said that was because he had only a top-grade spiritual root, but was essentially useless. But Xie Yang knew that was not the case. He had been practicing in the Yun family and was fine before. It must be that the Xie family had done something to him.
But what could he do even if he knew? He was powerless to change it.
Xie Yang felt like he was going crazy. He counted the days in the secret room one by one, and before he knew it, it was February of the following year.
He knew that it took him half a month to get back to the Xie family from the Yun family, and Yun Feimiao's birthday was in March. If he wanted to celebrate Yun Feimiao's birthday, he had better get out of here as soon as possible.
But he knocked on the door for a whole month and no one was willing to pay attention to him.
On Yun Feimiao's birthday, he was still trapped in the secret room. Because he did not practice diligently, no one brought him food for three consecutive days.
Xie Yang was in despair. He felt that life was meaningless. Every time he endured a bout of torture, it seemed as if he would be faced with a more severe bout of torture. So, what was the point of struggling? He might as well just die.
He banged his head against the stone wall of the secret room, and it was not until blood seeped out of the room that someone realized something was wrong and opened the door.
Everyone in the Xie family was very angry that day because they didn't dare let Xie Yang die like that. They could only take out the Xie family's most precious resurrection pill to save Xie Yang's life.
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