Even at the costume party before, Zhou Yaya never took the initiative to take off the mask on her face.
So this was the first time Jiang Xuxu saw her like this.
Unlike what she imagined, Zhou Yaya did not completely merge with Lu Xuexi's facial features, at most she merged with her cheek skin.
It's just that it's obviously just starting to merge, so it doesn't look too obvious.
Looking at Zhou Yaya's face in front of him, one could still see the proliferation of various scars.
They were scattered all over most of her face.
It's really enough to give people nightmares.
There was not much surprise in Jiang Xuxu's eyes.
If she had to say, the circle of scars around Zhou Yaya's mouth bothered her more than the scars in the grooves on her face.
Zhou Yaya's lips were a little small, obviously her original appearance, but around the edge of her lips, there was a circle of scar hyperplasia, as if...
Jiang Xuxu thought of a possibility, but still couldn't help asking out loud.
"What's with that circle around your mouth?"
Zhou Yaya originally took off her mask to see if Jiang Xuxu would have any special reaction, but she didn't expect that Jiang Xuxu was not scared by the scar on her face. Instead, he asked about her lip scar first.
Her eyes trembled slightly, but only for a moment, and then she quickly calmed down.
He slowly raised a sinister smile to her on his scarred face, pointed at the edge of his lips, and asked her,
"Can't you guess what this scar is? What kind of wound would leave a scar like this?"
"Of course it is. Repeated stitches with needles would leave scars like this."
Jiang Xuxu's eyes darkened slightly, but she did not interrupt her. She just waited quietly for her to speak.
Zhou Yaya obviously had no intention of hiding anything from her. She stared straight at Jiang Xuxu and spoke again slowly after a while.
"You know, my real name is not Zhou Yaya."
"My original name was Yaya... the Ya in dumb."
"My parents wanted me to be a mute, and I've been called this since I was old enough to understand."
"You should have guessed my ability. In the Xuanmen, you call it the power of words. But in our place, we call it the crow's mouth. It doesn't work for good, but it works for bad."
"But whatever I say is very effective. When my parents first knew about my ability, they tried to get me to say something they hoped would come true, such as making them multi-millionaires or making their illness disappear..."
"But I was still young at the time and couldn't fulfill their outrageous wishes, so I just wanted them to become millionaires and help their mother, who had suffered postpartum injuries, recover..."
Although she did not meet their expectations, her parents were still happy and even said more than once that she was their baby.
But as they wanted more and more and she couldn't do it, they would scold her.
Later they mastered a rule: as long as they did not use it continuously, the effect of the power of words would become stronger as time accumulated.
So they started not allowing her to speak.
Whenever she spoke, she would be severely reprimanded.
Later, her parents would even poke her mouth with a needle to let her know that she couldn't speak casually.
This situation continued until my mother became pregnant for the second time.
Dad pointed to Mom's belly and asked her to say that the baby in her belly would be a boy.
She didn't know why her parents wanted a boy.
But she did it anyway.
She felt that as long as her parents were happy, they would treat her well.
She really helped her mother give birth to a boy.
But after having a younger brother, she was treated even more harshly.
Only when they need money or have a wish they want to fulfill will they be a little more caring towards her.
Later, the younger brother started to grow up and imitated his parents, occasionally throwing his bowl at her. If she dodged, he would cry.
Her parents would come together and beat her.
Whenever her brother said he wanted to ride a horse, she would lie on the ground and let him ride her around, even if her hands and knees were pierced and bleeding, she would continue crawling.
When her younger brother said he wanted to get a dog, she was locked in a cage like a dog.
Then the brother imitated those dog abusers and poked her everywhere with a stick.
Zhou Yaya didn't dare to resent her parents, but she resented her younger brother.
Obviously, he was born into this world because of himself.
So that day, she used the power of her words on her brother.
"You'll be strangled to death by your mother."
That night, my mother had a nightmare and almost strangled my brother to death in the dream.
Just a little bit.
Although my brother was saved, his intelligence was damaged due to lack of oxygen to the brain.
When her parents learned the truth, they were furious. They beat her half to death and even sewed her mouth shut with a needle to stop her from speaking.
If the needle and thread come loose, they will sew it again...
"It really hurts to have a pin pierce through your flesh."
Zhou Yaya touched the scar at the corner of her mouth, hatred in her eyes. Even after all these years, she felt a dull pain in her mouth every time she thought of it.
"Then I became completely mute, until one day a few years later, I secretly cut the thread on my mouth..."
Zhou Yaya looked at Jiang Xuxu and said word by word,
"I let them die in a fire."
She said,
“My life is like a catastrophe.
I thought I could start my life again after getting rid of them, but my face was burned by the fire, and the wounds on my face festered, leaving irreparable scars. I became a monster that everyone hated.
No one loves me, and everyone can step on me, just like you did before."
Zhou Yaya said,
"Jiang Xuxu, I used to think we were the same."
They both have the same extraordinary talents, but neither of them receives any care or love from the world.
"You were abandoned by your adoptive parents. They used you and raised you like a tool for Guan Ruirui...
Even if you leave that home and return to the so-called wealthy family, they will still only favor Lu Xuexi, an outsider, and repeatedly ignore your existence.
We should be the same.”
They could have been like-minded.
With their abilities, they can even take revenge on the entire society.
But Jiang Xuxu disappointed her.
She abandoned her.
So now, she was going to abandon her too.
"You know what? Although I overused my power of words, which made it difficult for me to speak, after changing my voice, I feel that my ability has returned to my best."
Zhou Yaya said, looking at Jiang Xuxu with dangerous eyes, and slowly opened her mouth.
"Like right now...your tendons are about to be cut."
Jiang Xuxu's eyes trembled, because the moment Zhou Yaya finished speaking, the incandescent light above his head suddenly exploded without any warning.
The fragments of the light bulb flew directly towards Jiang Xuxu's wrist...
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