Chapter 55 The Dust Settles (Part 2)
Zhou Xun is an orphan.
He didn't know who his biological parents were. The director said that he was abandoned at the door of the orphanage shortly after he was born.
When he was six years old, a man named Zhou Mingwei took him away from the orphanage.
The dean said that he was very lucky because the family that adopted him had no children and were very wealthy.
At first, he also thought so because he had a family. His adoptive father was Zhou Mingwei, a policeman, his adoptive mother was Xia Yuan, very gentle, and he had a cousin named Xia Ying, who was as delicate as a doll.
Later he gradually realized that this was not luck, but a nightmare!
His adoptive father was a monster. He could always see through his thoughts easily. He was strict and demanding. He liked to lose his temper when he was drunk. He was very fierce and scary.
The adoptive mother is a lunatic. She is gentle only occasionally and is crazy most of the time. She is very nice to him when she is normal, but when she is crazy, she will not recognize any relatives and will make a mess of the house.
My cousin is a fool. She has dull eyes, doesn't like to talk, and only knows how to cry. She cries every night, hiding under the quilt, crying in the closet, and sometimes hiding under the bed. She is like a porcelain doll and can be scared by any sound.
He felt that this whole family was sick. He was afraid and wanted to go back to the orphanage. However, just as he had this idea in his mind, he was discovered by his adoptive father. The man locked him in the room while smoking, and ruthlessly told him that his name was now Zhou Xun, not Shi Feng.
Later he finally found out why he was adopted by the Zhou family.
My adoptive mother Xia Yuan's family home was robbed and the whole family was killed. On the day of the disaster, my adoptive mother did not escape. The delicate and pretty little cousin was a survivor, but she also witnessed the killing of her relatives with her own eyes, causing indelible psychological trauma, so she became like this.
The adoptive mother was pregnant at the time and was due to give birth in a month. After hearing about the accident, she ran away and was involved in a car accident. She lost the baby and her uterus was removed.
After losing her child, the adoptive mother was on the verge of collapse day by day, so the adoptive father went to the orphanage to adopt him as a spiritual comfort.
He didn't like the atmosphere at home and wanted to go back to the orphanage, so he planned to leave secretly. As a result, that night, he accidentally discovered his adoptive father's secret.
Who was he calling? The gist of the call was that someone in the Public Security Bureau was blocking his way, and he wanted to eliminate the dissident and hire someone to kill him.
Frightened, he kicked over the trash can, alarming the people in the study. He didn't know what to do, so he ran away instinctively.
In a panic, he ran to his little cousin's room. The door was open and there was no one in the room. He knew she had hidden in the closet again, so he opened the closet.
Sure enough, someone was sleeping inside.
She had nightmares at night and would hide in the closet to catch up on her sleep during the day. Because he was afraid, he shook her awake, then pushed her into a corner and crawled in himself.
The little girl rubbed her eyes, looked at him sleepily, and then said something to him.
"Brother, are you scared? Are there bad guys trying to kill you?"
This was the first time Zhou Xun heard her speak after half a year. If she hadn't cried so often, he would have thought she was mute. He didn't expect that she was just like that man and could see through his thoughts at once.
Before he could say anything, the scary man came. He opened the cabinet door and stared at him. He didn't dare to look up, let alone look into his eyes, because every time the two of them looked at each other, he could always see through his thoughts.
In fear, a soft little hand held his hand, and then the small body blocked him behind. She was shaking violently and looked at the man crying. She was obviously afraid, but she did not forget to block him.
Everyone knew that her action was not because she regarded the man as a bad person, but because she was so eroded by the nightmare that she regarded everyone as a bad person.
The man didn't say anything, he just reached out and touched the little girl's head, then turned and walked away.
Since that day, Zhou Xun seemed to have found a backer. He discovered that although this little cousin was a fool, her adoptive parents doted on her very much. When she cried, even her adoptive mother, who was in a crazy state, would feel sorry for her like a baby. Although her adoptive father was fierce, he had never lost his temper with her.
So, Zhou Xun began to follow her intentionally or unintentionally.
Later, the adoptive mother went crazy again and scratched the adoptive father's face. The little cousin's condition became worse and worse. She had nightmares for longer and longer periods of time. She couldn't hear any noise and would hide in the cupboard and cry if a cup fell to the ground.
Then, the adoptive father took them to see a psychologist. Slowly, the adoptive mother was no longer crazy. She seemed to have forgotten a lot of things. The little cousin's condition was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Not long after, the adoptive mother had plastic surgery and the little cousin was sent abroad by the adoptive father.
It was two years later when I saw my little cousin again. She had changed her name from Xia Ying to Xia Beibei. She had changed a lot. She no longer hid in the closet or cried secretly.
She has become much more cheerful, but still often has nightmares at night. Her adoptive father is very busy, so her adoptive mother is usually with her. When her adoptive mother is busy, she lets him stay with her.
When she had a nightmare, she would throw herself into his arms, her body shaking violently, and she would mumble "Grandpa". Zhou Xun didn't know how to persuade her and could only accompany her silently.
The adoptive mother always cried her heart out.
"I've seen the best psychologist and hired the best hypnotist, but it's useless. Why can't this child forget what happened that day? It's really strange."
It's really strange that even the adoptive mother can be hypnotized, but this little girl is extremely defensive. Fortunately, it's not completely ineffective, and her spirit is getting better and better.
After waking up, her vitality was astonishingly strong. She was entangled in nightmares, but she tenaciously healed herself.
The Zhou family finally had peace for a while, and he lived a peaceful and warm life. He became the true eldest son of the Zhou family, Zhou Xun. In Xia Beibei's memory, he was her cousin.
After getting to know her, he was surprised to find that she was just like his adoptive father, always able to see through other people's minds at the first moment. He asked her several times, but she always kept silent. Later he found out that she was just like his adoptive father, able to read people's minds through their eyes.
Slowly, he began to learn to hide his true emotions and thoughts.
She relied on him as if he were her own brother, but his feelings for her became more subtle as they spent more time together.
She was very dependent on him. Except for the incident that happened that year, she would share all her secrets with him, share all her snacks with him, secretly save money to buy him birthday presents, and would be the first to comfort him when he was sad.
When he fought with others, she would rush out to protect him. When he was injured, she would cry. When he was scolded by his adoptive father, she would deliberately find fault to divert his attention. When she was awakened by a nightmare, she would run and crawl into his arms.
He asked her why she was so nice to him, and she smiled and said, "Because you are my brother, I will protect you and my aunt."
In her heart, he and her adoptive mother had the same status as her only two blood relatives left in the world, so she tried her best to protect them after she woke up.
However, since when, an idea in his mind became stronger and stronger. They were not biological siblings, they had no blood relationship, so he could secretly like her, but it was not the love between relatives.
It was this love that made him sink deeper and deeper until he reached hell.
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