Chapter 497 Born a Bad Seed (27)
In the house filled with thick fog, the stalemate continued.
To Jia Qing, no one was more important than her children. As long as it was good for her children, she would do it without hesitation, no matter how outrageous and insane it was.
She had always tried to maintain the image of a good mother in front of Chu Zhao, to be a mother who favored him, but the reality did not allow it.
Jia Qing was covered in blood, her expression slightly insane, and she was holding her husband's heart in her hands, which was completely different from the image of a good wife and mother she usually displayed.
She tried to regain her usual gentleness and explained in a loving tone, “Chu Zhao, I know for so many years you have always felt that I favor Chu Ye and I don’t love you, but these are just illusions. I have no choice but to deceive the heavens, make them believe that Chu Ye is my most beloved child, make fate believe that Chu Ye is my only child, make everything in the world believe that he has replaced you, only in this way can he replace your fate.”
“As long as he dies, you will be fine.” Jia Qing approached Chu Zhao and said with joy, “With his death, you can deceive fate, and you can get rid of the frail body from childhood to adulthood and have a healthy body.”
Chu Zhao seemed to be recognizing his mother for the first time. To this day, he still finds it hard to imagine how she and his father had pretended for so many years?
Even he believed that he was just an unloved child, and Chu Ye was the one who attracted everyone's attention, the favorite son of his parents. However, now, his mother said that all those years of "favoritism" were just a performance.
He was the child that his parents loved the most, and Chu Ye was just a destined sacrifice.
"You once said that your health was not good. Your grandparents used the same method to sacrifice another child, your sister..."
"No, she is certainly not my sister!" Jia Qing was inexplicably excited, and her expression was a little distorted. "She is just a dead baby my parents bought from Boss Wu. Boss Wu made a paper man in my image and let her soul attach to the paper man, so she has the same face and body as me. From beginning to end, she is just a substitute for me and can't be compared with me at all!"
Just like Jia Qing and Chu Sheng had to "spoil" the child Chu Ye in order to cheat fate, Jia Qing's parents had to ignore their own daughter and "spoil" Jia Qing's substitute.
Jia Qing had also experienced the moment when Chu Zhao learned the truth. She was in disbelief, fear, and confusion. Later, when she looked at the so-called "sisters" who were burned, she actually felt a sense of pleasure.
The sister who thought she was loved by her parents turned out to be a thing destined to be sacrificed, and she was the child who was loved by her parents.
It was as if the pain of being ignored for so many years was suddenly vented, and the reversal of status made her feel proud.
However, the memory of being ignored and treated as a transparent person in her childhood was always deeply rooted in her mind. Even after so many years, she still couldn't forget the self who once stood behind her excellent sister and felt inferior and cowardly.
Even though "she" had been dead for decades, Jia Qing still couldn't forget everything in the past.
She knew that the memory of herself being like Xiao Chou would accompany her throughout her life.
Jia Qing stared at her son closely, her eyes revealing more morbid emotions, "Chu Zhao, I know that you have been suffering in the past ten years because everyone paid more attention to and loved Chu Ye. It's okay. I have also experienced the same stage of life as you. Mom promises you that I will make up for the neglect I have shown you in the past ten years."
She stretched out a bloody hand and tightly grasped the child's arm. At this moment, a gentle expression appeared on her face, "You should know that you are my only child. I don't want anything. I only want you. Chu Zhao, you are all I have now."
Chu Zhao looked at his mother with a gradually unfamiliar look.
Rather than saying that Jia Qing is pouring all her maternal love into Chu Zhao, it is better to say that she is looking at her former self through Chu Zhao,
a poor person who has lived under the shadow of her sister since childhood and cannot escape the shadow even though her excellent sister has passed away.
Chu Zhao said: "You killed Dad."
"I don't want to kill him, but he must die!" Jia Qing's emotions were agitated again, and her originally gentle face was replaced by obsession. "To complete the ceremony, it is not enough to just burn the substitute, it requires the blood sacrifice of a close relative. Chu Zhao, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if your dad is not here, you only have me!"
She suddenly showed a warm smile again, just like all the gentle mothers in the world, "Mom will love you more than anyone else in the world, just like Mom only has you, you only need Mom."
The emotions in Chu Zhao's eyes became fainter and fainter, "You said that you have burned Chu Ye, can I understand that you have burned him to death?"
"Of course. The purpose of his existence is to protect you from disasters and keep you safe. The paper man's ending is to be burned. He just fulfilled the purpose of his existence."
Jia Qing smiled, "Chu Zhao, look, you are your most beloved child. There will no longer be Chu Ye, and no other children will take away your love for you. You don't have to be afraid anymore..."
As the sound of the knife piercing the flesh rang out in the dim space, the room was already filled with the smell of blood. It was unclear whether it was the man who had been disemboweled on the ground or the woman who was standing but stabbed in the chest with a knife. The pungent smell of blood was even stronger.
Jia Qing took a long time to react. The heart in her hand fell off and she touched her injured chest. She slowly raised her head and looked at her son blankly, "Why..."
Chu Zhao's calm appearance slowly broke apart and fell into twisted madness. The knife in his hand stabbed deeper, "How dare you kill him!"
She said: "I killed your father just..."
"Chu Ye!" Chu Zhao grabbed his mother's neck with one hand and shouted wildly: "He is so dazzling. When everyone ignores me, he is the only one who cares about me the most. He is like my god and the person I love the most. How can you kill him!"