Chapter 376 The Terrifying Castle Owner (36)
The words of comfort were stuck in his throat, unable to move up or down, making Shen Yuan feel extremely uncomfortable.
She chuckled twice and stiffly withdrew her outstretched hand.
"Ha, so that's the reason."
Fu Qi's expression flickered under the light in the room, making it difficult to see clearly. One could only hear his occasional breathing.
Chen Yuan pursed her lips and reached out to rub Fu Qi's head.
The palm of my hand feels fluffy and soft.
It’s easier to touch the underage Fu Qi. If it were five hundred years later, with his bad temper, there’s no way he would let her touch him.
"What's the big deal? Why should I care about the bullshit they say? They say you're a dog slave, does that mean you've really become a dog?"
The corners of Fu Qi's eyes were flushed, and an uncomfortable sourness spread from his eye sockets to the root of his tongue. His thin crimson lips trembled again and again, and he seemed to have lost the ability to speak in an instant, and couldn't utter a word.
This was the first time someone told him not to care about the shit others said.
It was also the first time someone stood on his side.
Wolf cubs who have lost the protection of their mother in the deep mountains will breathe out when they encounter humans, trying to show their ferocious fangs to scare away the enemy.
But as long as it senses a hint of kindness from humans, it will restrain its animal nature.
Feeling something in his eyes, Fu Qi sniffed and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Then why are you laughing? Are you making fun of me..."
As he spoke, he pointed at the corners of Shen Yuan's lips that couldn't help but rise.
Shen Yuan immediately pressed it down manually: "Uh, I was born with smiling lips."
Smiling lips?
Fu Qi came over curiously and tilted his head: "What are smiling lips?"
Chen Yuan: "...You're curious about this too?"
Fu Qi blinked, his long and curly eyelashes fluttered, and his dark pupils were like two dazzling gems.
"Let me think about how to explain it to you."
Chen Yuan propped up his cheek and thought for a while: "Smiling lips refers to this person. Although the mood is not very high, the lips will habitually curl up, making it look like smiling, so it is called smiling lips."
Fu Qi seemed to understand: "So it doesn't mean that this person is happy, right?"
"Well, it's an outward trait, not an emotional trait."
Seeing Fu Qi nodding up and down, indicating that he understood, Shen Yuan paused and then said
"But my mother said that people born with smiling lips will have a good life."
"Good luck?"
Fu Qi felt as if he had been struck hard, and he kept repeating these two words over and over again.
The next moment, I felt a strange touch at the corner of my lips.
Shen Yuan stretched out two fingers and poked the corners of his lips.
"Yeah, so just smile more, good days are waiting for you in the future."
In the future, he will have supreme power and the ability to decide the fate of others.
Unfortunately, Fu Qi didn’t know all this. He didn’t even know whether he had a future, or whether he would ever leave the cemetery alive.
But at this moment, just because of Shen Yuan's words, Fu Qi suddenly felt a little bit of anticipation and curiosity, curious about what his future would be like.
"0723, are you telling the truth?"
"Shen Yuan."
Fu Qi looked at her in confusion.
"No need to call me by my work ID. My real name is also Chen Yuan."
Fu Jinan once said that doing good deeds without leaving a name is what saints do.
She saved Fu Qi, she wanted to leave her name, she wanted Fu Qi to remember her.
The butterfly flaps its wings. Will her behavior at this moment affect Fu Qi five hundred years later?
Will he feel differently about himself?
Fu Qi's pupils trembled uncontrollably for a moment, and heavy and complicated emotions poured out.
Being in the clouds, everything that happened in the past two days seemed like a dream to him.
He was so afraid that if he closed his eyes, when he opened them again, Shen Yuan would become the original 0723, navigating the situation among several men with ease, charming and strange.
After a long time, Fu Qi finally spoke.
"Do you know why I'm called this?"
"Why?"
"Actually, my original name was Fu Xichao, which means rising sun."
Chen Yuan leaned lightly against Fu Qi's side, without saying a word, and listened quietly to him telling his own story.
"My mother's family is a well-known and wealthy family on the south bank of the Yangtze River. My mother was a reclusive, dignified and polite lady from a prominent family. Just like those clichéd stories in the vernacular novels, my mother met that man while she was praying in the temple."
Fu Qi was even unwilling to call him father because he was not worthy.
"My mother's family didn't discriminate based on family background. The only requirement was that he pass the imperial examination and give my mother a house to live in. He did it. He sold my mother's jewelry, bribed the invigilator, and then bought a large house in the frigid north of the Yangtze River.
Later, the two of them were quite loving. After I was born, my mother's health deteriorated. Near the end of the year, she coughed up blood day and night and could not get out of bed. I always thought that she had contracted the disease when she gave birth to me. Later, I found out that she had been suffering from the abuse of that man, both in bed and outside the bed.
Chen Yuan's heart skipped a beat and he hesitated to speak.
"Are you wondering why my mother didn't leave or tell the clan?"
Shen Yuan nodded truthfully.
"She did, but she didn't realize that among the jewelry the man used to bribe the invigilator was her birth bracelet. My mother's clan has a custom that when a child is born, they make a piece of jewelry—a bracelet for a girl, a crown for a boy—and brand the jewelry with the clan seal. He threatened my mother that if she dared to complain, he would expose the bribery of the invigilator, and the clan seal on the bracelet would be evidence."
"But in fact, he didn't keep his mouth shut and told everyone. The people in power at the time attached great importance to the imperial examinations and sentenced his entire family to exile and confiscated all their property."
"My mother was controlled by others and blamed herself endlessly. She wasn't used to the climate in Jiangbei, so she caught a cold and was bedridden. Before she died, this worthless woman finally steeled herself to do the right thing. She knelt down and begged me to help her get revenge."
"You can probably guess what happened next. Because of my father's murder, I was imprisoned in this cemetery and became a lowly worker. I also lost my name and became Fu Qi."
"I was born in the morning sun and with great expectations, but now I have become someone abandoned by everyone."
Fu Qi's tone was flat, without any other emotions, as if he was not the protagonist of the story.
In this cemetery, he came into contact with things he had never seen before.
A communicator that allows for conversation at any time, an iron shovel, a hammer, and even corpses that resurrect at night.
All of this overturned Fu Qi's entire cognition, and he thought he had arrived in another time and space.
It was as if Li Hongzhang had gone to Britain for the first time. Fu Qi was also unable to accept his own backwardness, and a thorough feeling of powerlessness swept over his body.
He tried to protect himself with special means, but the electric baton was so painful that it bit his bones.
Later, Fu Qi understood a truth.
That is, don't resist and be an obedient punching bag.
Human nature is evil, and there is always a desire to destroy people's pride.
But if you face a soft bone, there will be no excitement or challenge, and it will be boring.
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