Because they had promised to take Rong Yu back home for the New Year, the two began preparations as the year drew to a close.
The two spent the whole day shopping, buying lots of things, which they piled up in the living room. After a simple meal of cooked food, they lay down on the sofa to rest.
I'm not going back until tomorrow, but I'm already feeling nervous today.
This was the first time in both of Yin Chengjue's lives that he was preparing to bring people back to the Yin family's old residence, and it would be a lie to say he wasn't nervous. However, seeing that Rong Yu was even more nervous than him, Yin Chengjue tried his best to suppress his own anxiety and gently comforted Rong Yu.
"It's alright, we can just run away again. You see, when we ran away from your house, we gained some experience," Yin Chengjue said.
I didn't feel comforted at all.
Yin Chengjue: "My grandfather is a man with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Although he looks fierce at times, he is actually very easy to get along with."
Yin Chengjue added, "My uncle has known about you for a long time. With his help in speaking to Grandpa, things will go much more smoothly for us. His words will also please Grandpa."
Rong Yu nodded, then couldn't help but ask, "Given your family's situation, shouldn't you call him uncle?"
"Well, it's a long story." Yin Chengjue: "When I was little, I always called him Uncle, but... I wasn't very popular back in the Feng family's hometown. Normally, I should call Feng Chengda's older brothers Uncle, but they wouldn't let me. They felt ashamed and even scolded me. I was young then, and I felt very wronged. I came back and cried to Yin Qiushi."
Yin Chengjue recalled his past self and felt a little embarrassed. He actually cried to Yin Qiushi because he couldn't call him "uncle." But Yin Qiushi couldn't interfere with this kind of thing. People just don't allow you to call them that. Can you chase after them and call them that, deliberately annoying them?
Although Yin Qiushi seemed to be a principled person, he was actually a doting father. When he saw his little nephew in his arms with tears in his eyes, he said, "Then you can call me uncle. Other children also call their mother's brother uncle. I can be your uncle too. I am both your uncle and your great-uncle. That way you will have both a great-uncle and a great-uncle."
So when Yin Changhong and Yin He discovered that Yin Chengjue had started calling Yin Qiushi "uncle," they tried to get him to change his address, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
As he grew up, Yin Chengjue realized that this way of addressing him was wrong, but he had been calling him that since he was a child. Although he knew it was wrong, he couldn't change his way of speaking, so he just kept using it.
Yin Chengjue still remembers writing an essay before. He doesn't remember the title or the specific content, but there is one sentence that made the class laugh for a long time: "My family has an uncle and an aunt. The uncle's name is Yin Qiushi, and the aunt's name is also Yin Qiushi."
"Did you used to cry a lot, brother? I don't remember." Rong Yu looked unconvinced.
Yin Chengjue coughed lightly: "I was also very concerned about my image when I was a child."
Rong Yu was somewhat dissatisfied: "My brother has never cried in front of me."
Yin Chengjue: "..." You're younger than me. It's so unmanly of me to cry in front of you!
Yin Chengjue: "Speaking of this, it seems your mother was interrupted by your axe before she could finish what she was saying that day." Yin Chengjue frowned slightly: "She said we had been hypnotized before for some reason."
Rong Yu was taken aback: "What?"
Yin Chengjue: "Didn't she tell you?"
Rong Yu: "She only told me that I was sick when I was a child, the kind of illness I told you about before, and then they sent me abroad for treatment."
Yin Chengjue: "You've been receiving treatment abroad? Then how did you manage to follow and secretly film me?"
Rong Yu blinked: "Brother, do you think I'll stay put obediently?"
Rong Yu: "I ran away back to China several times, but for a long time I didn't understand why I escaped from the hospital. And even though I had already escaped there, I didn't go anywhere else, but instead returned to China, back to a place where it would be easy for them to catch me again."
Yin Chengjue understood: "You also forgot some things because you were hypnotized?"
Rong Yu lay sprawled in Yin Chengjue's arms, one arm around his waist, the other hand touching his fingertips, gently playing with them, and whispering, "So that's it, it's hypnosis..."
Rong Yu: "However, that kind of thing has a greater impact on children because the human brain has a forgetting curve. Memory from childhood is the easiest to forget. With a little guidance, they will gradually forget some things, or they will think that those things are just stories, stories they heard from others. If they are not things that left a deep impression, they are even easier to forget. They don't even need a special psychologist. As long as adults often instill other wrong memories in children's ears, over time, the children will be misled."
Yin Chengjue gripped Rong Yu's hand tightly: "So, we really were together before... but why were you able to remember that later?"
"..." Rong Yu: "I can't really remember much either. If I hadn't seen my paintings and photos that I had hidden in some secret places, and hadn't interrogated the nanny and bodyguard who worked at home during that period... uh, cough cough cough, anyway, that's how I pieced together the information from their mouths, and roughly knew that there was such a person as you."
Rong Yu: "But as you know, every time I sneak back, I get caught and taken back to the hospital not long after. When I find another chance to escape, the first thing I do is go to you."
Yin Chengjue was genuinely surprised: "You came looking for me?"
Rong Yu: "Of course! You look so beautiful in the photo, I thought you were my fiancée."
Rong Yu: "When I went to find you, I even bought roses!"
"I..." Yin Chengjue said somewhat flusteredly, "I don't remember..."
Rong Yu: "Of course you don't remember, because I didn't give you the flowers directly. I always thought you would be a beautiful young lady. Even if you went to school and changed, you would still be a reserved and gentle lady, not a cute and cuddly little girl. But when I came to your school with the flowers and saw you wearing a boy's uniform, I was completely devastated."
Rong Yu said expressionlessly, "Then I threw the roses away."
Rong Yu: "I even stomped on it several times in anger."
Rong Yu: "In a fit of anger, he burned all those paintings and photos."
Rong Yu: "But I regretted it before it was even finished burning. By the time I finally managed to put out the fire, almost everything I had thrown in was burned, and the clothes I used to put out the fire were tattered."
Rong Yu clenched her fist: "What's most infuriating is that I happened to see you when I was in such a sorry state!"
Rong Yu looked at Yin Chengjue: "I still remember, you were wearing your school's boys' uniform, holding a wad of paper in your hand, and you just walked straight towards me."
Upon hearing this, Yin Chengjue felt as if he had indeed witnessed a similar scene.
Thick smoke was rising from the alley, something must have caught fire, so he walked over as if possessed, crumpled the two perfect test papers into balls, and tore them into pieces.
To his classmates, a perfect test paper that could earn them pocket money was worthless. They figured his dad wouldn't praise him anyway, and his mom was too busy to even see him.
It's better to burn it.
So he walked over.
Rong Yu: "...You walked up to me, but didn't look at me. Instead, you looked at the extinguished fire and said..."
"How did it get destroyed..." The two voices rang out simultaneously.
Rong Yu: "You remembered?"
Yin Chengjue sighed, "That... was it you?"
Yin Chengjue: "So, the reason you pushed me away so suddenly was because you hadn't accepted the fact that I'm a boy?"
Rong Yu: "...This is only one of the reasons." The main reason is that she was worried that Yin Chengjue would feel guilty if he saw what the pile of things he was burning was.
Yin Chengjue also realized this other reason, saying, "I really didn't see what was being burned at the time, and it was already just the edges and corners left, so I couldn't tell what it was."
Rong Yu: "So you stirred up another spark, set the paper in your hand on fire, and set the fire on fire again, burning away everything I had painstakingly protected!"
Yin Chengjue coughed lightly: "You already hit me back then."
Rong Yu: "You fought back too!"
Yin Chengjue: "I'll treat you to some barbecue skewers as an apology."
Rong Yu: "...If it weren't for buying you roses, I wouldn't be penniless!"
Rong Yu: "That day was a nightmare for me when I was a child! So much so that I dreamed about a beautiful older sister several times, and then her skirt would be lifted up..."
Yin Chengjue: "..." I'm so sorry!
Rong Yu: "But after thinking it over and over, I was very unwilling to give up. Those paintings and photos that were burned were things I had cherished for a long time! So I finally decided to repaint and retake them!"
Yin Chengjue: "So, you started stalking me back then?"
Rong Yu: "How could I be so free? I could be dragged back to the hospital by them at any time, so I bribed someone to film for me."
That's why there are so many different angles in those photos, and the shooting techniques are also different!
Yin Chengjue pinched Rong Yu's waist: "Xiao Yu, even if you wanted to take pictures and paint back those things that were burned back then, it wouldn't take that many years, right? Hmm?"
Rong Yu felt ticklish and grabbed Yin Chengjue's hand. "How can I explain this? They've already sent me the photos, I can't just not pay them, can I?"
Rong Yu: "Well! I'm gradually getting used to the fact that you can lift your skirt up just like me!"
Yin Chengjue: "...I've never worn a skirt before!"
Rong Yu: "Blame it on the fact that you were too pretty when you were little."
Yin Chengjue: "..." Oh well, it was my fault.
“Speaking of this, brother, I’ve always wanted to ask you this.” Rong Yu hooked her arm around Yin Chengjue’s neck, making him look at her: “Is there really such a big difference between my appearance now and before? Let’s forget about when I was younger, but that time we fought because of the fire, why didn’t you think of me?”
Yin Chengjue: "...You said it yourself that you got into a fight because of the fire. Your face was covered in soot, and your clothes were tattered..."
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