Noel was once a victim of human experimentation.
The criminal was finally caught by the police and sent to an orphanage.
In the orphanage, he met many bad kids. The kids who were jealous of his looks threw dirty water on him. The kids who couldn't stand his intelligence wanted to push his head into the water...
However, he designed some traps. The former was scratched by a cat, and the latter slipped into the river while playing. As long as he showed a sympathetic expression, everyone would think that it had nothing to do with him. After all, who would doubt a poor little thing?
If you want to protect yourself, let the perpetrator fall into the trap first.
This is the survival method of genius.
However, after being adopted, he no longer needed those intrigues.
His adoptive father is a well-known musician and his adoptive mother is an international jewelry designer. They treated him very well and gave him piles of books as long as he mentioned it.
In the deep night, he held the book in his hands, as if floating in a dark and sweet fantasy. He read the mirror figure in Jane Eyre who was sent to Lowood Orphanage. It turned out that this world really does not pity the humble and lonely people. Once docile, they will be docile every day. He read the perfect villain Thénardier in Les Miserables, who is the embodiment of all the dark forces in society, but because of his bad intentions, Jean Valjean was cleared of all charges, and he accidentally completed the only good thing in his life. He also read about Youqing's absurd death. The moonlight shone on the road, like salt.
"Noel, what kind of person do you want to be?" One day, the adoptive mother was watering the golden sunflowers in the backyard: "A writer? A mathematician? A physicist?"
"adventurer."
He answered under his fluffy golden hair.
"Adventurer...that's romantic too." Instead of saying anything like "you have no future" or "you must have a proper job", the adoptive mother was very supportive of him.
They talked about the world in books, the scenery of various places, and the sunflowers in the backyard... The precocious child and the romantic adoptive parents seemed to be peers.
My parents loved romantic activities, musicals, hand-tossed balls, puppet shows... There were many wooden dolls in the room, and the family would always perform dramas with silk threads in their spare time. My father played the male lead, my mother played the female lead, and Noel played the child.
Noel felt comfortable and even developed a slight attachment to this kind of life... Is this considered "love"?
Whenever he looked in the mirror and saw the hideous surgical scars on his body, he felt like a broken glass bottle that was slowly being filled with happiness.
One by one, colorful star candies fell into his chest, clinking and sparkling in the bottle.
When Noel was twelve years old, his adoptive father mentioned someone: "This time I went to Longguo for a performance and saw the famous pianist Ms. Lin. She was not in good condition. I don't know if it was because of her five-year-old child."
Noel didn't care about the strange Ms. Lin, and only asked: "Is the scenery in Longguo beautiful?"
"Our adventurer, if you want to travel around the world in the future, you must visit Dragon Country! It's very beautiful there." The adoptive father stretched out his hands and lifted him up high.
Noel fluttered in the air. How old was he, and he was still being lifted up like this!
The whole family burst into laughter.
The room was filled with the scent of lavender. Outside the window, the fields stretched as far as the eye could see. Windmills were embedded in the azure sky, like butterflies flapping their wings slowly. The golden sunflowers were swaying, as if the happy time would never end...
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【Youqing was the first to die suddenly.】
[“Youqing will not come this way.” said his mother.]
[——《To Live》]
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Noel has finished reading all the one thousand books on the bookshelf, but he has not asked his parents for new books because they had a quarrel.
The reasons for quarrels are nothing more than those: trivialities in life, differences in some concepts, and parents' nagging.
In the evening, his parents took him to the amusement park. Noel thought that they had not reconciled yet, so he refused to follow them and entered the Ferris wheel alone.
As the Ferris wheel rose, his parents waiting on the ground moved farther and farther away from him. He opened the book he carried with him and read attentively.
——So he didn’t hear the screams on the ground.
In the dim evening, he leaned against the small door of the Ferris wheel, curled up and read the translation in the book, like a cat half asleep and half awake.
The moonlight shone on his golden hair, like an eternal glow.
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"[…I looked at the path that curved toward the city. I could no longer hear the sound of my son running barefoot. The moonlight shone on the road, as if it was covered with salt.]"
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“You—who are you—!”
"——Where are your children?"
"What kid, I don't understand what you are talking about."
"——I thought he could be easily taken away from the orphanage, but you adopted him. It seems that you really love him. Poor parents... You don't seem to know what happened to him. He is our most outstanding experimental subject."
"What kind of experiment...you guys..."
"——What a pity, your kindness has brought you into a big trouble. Your mistake was that you shouldn't have adopted him."
"Tell Noel to run! Fanny, shout—"
“Bang! Bang!”
There were two soft noises, like the sound of a silenced gun.
Then, there was the sound of two bodies falling to the ground, not heavy nor loud.
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"[…It was time to bury Youqing, but I couldn’t bear to do so. I sat in front of my parents’ grave, holding my son tightly in my arms and refusing to let go. I let his face rest on my neck, and Youqing’s face looked frozen…]"
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