Chapter 23
Gu Yuan slowed down the speeding car, allowing Wang Zhengfang to cross the road safely.
The two walked towards Wang Wenhua's house. Dong Yun was picking vegetables in the yard. Seeing Gu Yuan, he smiled and said, "The girl is here again."
"Hello, Auntie."
"Are you here to eat the food cooked by my aunt?" Dong Yun asked casually without stopping.
Gu Yuan shook his head: "No."
"That's to look for Wenwen." Dong Yun was stunned. "But Wenwen went to school. Didn't you see her at school?"
Gu Yuan explained his purpose: "I came to see you specifically because I wanted to take another look at your bracelet."
"To see the bracelet?" Dong Yun hesitated. "You came here specially to see the bracelet? Why do you suddenly want to see this?"
"My friend likes bracelets very much. I told her that you have a particularly beautiful one and she wanted to see it too." Gu Yuan pointed to Lin An beside him.
"Your friend?" Dong Yun's gaze fell on Lin An.
"She is our class monitor. Didn't Wenhua tell you about it?"
Dong Yun suddenly realized, "I remember now. Wenhua said there was a super academic master in their class who ranked first in every subject. It turned out to be you."
Lin An took a step forward and said, "Hello, Auntie."
"You came all the way here just to see the bracelet?" Dong Yun asked curiously, "But shouldn't we go to school today?"
"We've transferred to another school, and the new school is closed today."
"So that's how it is." Dong Yun nodded. "Wait for Auntie to wash her hands, and then I'll show it to you."
Dong Yun washed her hands hurriedly, took out the bracelet and handed it to them, "Just watch it first, I'll go wash some fruit for you."
Gu Yuan asked in a low voice: "What should we do next?"
Lin An: "Have you learned to ask your conscience?"
Gu Yuan: "I will."
"Then use your conscience."
Gu Yuan paused and asked worriedly, "But will asking... hurt her?"
Lin An shook his head and explained, "No, she has no physical body."
Gu Yuan nodded: "Okay."
Gu Yuan pinched the bracelet, and two forces under her fingertips competed with each other, almost breaking free from her control.
Lin An lowered his head and stared at the bracelet quietly. But after a moment, his restlessness was calmed down and it no longer resisted Gu Yuan's power.
Gu Yuan: "Why are you doing this?"
"They shouldn't treat her like this. I can't stand seeing them bullying her like this."
Gu Yuan: "We want to know everything."
"She and I are alike, and he and he are alike. They are the same."
She changed the subject and said slowly, "I have some respect with my father, but my mother has none at all. If I speak on the phone, my father will listen patiently."
"If it was his mother, he would have just hung up the phone, using the excuse that he was in a hurry."
"So the task of getting my father home for dinner fell on me, and I didn't feel it was an honor to complete this task."
"My mother always urged me to go and ask my father to come home for dinner, but I didn't know what to say. After the call was connected, I just called out 'Dad' and handed the phone to my mother, who then talked to him."
"This is very troublesome. It's always his mother who talks to him, but he just doesn't want to hear his mother's voice first."
"They are a couple I can't understand."
"As for my father, I think he loves me sometimes, but this love disappears from time to time. My mother's love is always there, but her love is heavier than my father's."
"For a while, she often listened to Buddhist teachings. She saw through some things and felt disheartened, but she still managed to control herself."
"So we often hear her say, 'I stayed here for you. You are everything to me. I will just take good care of you for the rest of my life.'"
Dong Yun was about to push the door open with the cut fruit in her hand when Lin An raised his hand and froze her in place, unable to move. The voice from the bracelet continued, "She often said this. My initial worry and heartache gradually turned to indifference."
"Gradually, I was at a loss because I had grown up and she wanted a response from me."
"She's been stuck in this state for too long. She wants to hear what I have to say, but I don't know how to respond. That person is my father, and I can't say anything insulting. I can only respond to her with 'yes' and 'hmm'."
"Gradually, she stopped expecting a response from me, and that was the most painful thing I thought about later."
"Father, the little face I had in front of him grew as I grew up. He became much kinder and rarely lost his temper in front of me."
"Maybe it's because when guests come, he needs me to sit by and pour them drinks, or nod in response to their deeds, or achievements, as it were. That's the face I earned."
"I didn't drink before, so I could only run around doing things for them. Later, I picked up a glass of wine, and everything became different."
"I now have a seat at their dinner table. The first time I drank baijiu was during Chinese New Year. One of my brothers didn't come, so there were only my father and another relative. There were too few people, so the drinking party wasn't lively."
"My father dragged my mother over for a drink. He exaggerated how capable she was and how much she could drink."
"I didn't know my mother was a heavy drinker at the time. I was surprised and worried the first time I saw her. I was afraid my father was exaggerating to save face for her."
"Later, when I saw she was drinking more, I stopped worrying. They weren't bullying her anymore. But my mother still seldom drank. She seldom drank since she got married. She only drank when my father asked her to."
"My mother drank, and my father encouraged a relative to compete with her in drinking. The relative was my mother's junior, and after a few drinks with my mother, he waved his hand and stopped."
"The drinking party wasn't lively anymore. I took the wine glass in front of my mother, raised my head and drank it all. My father was surprised. I said it was nothing, not spicy at all."
"In the second half, they watched me drink. I only had four glasses. Then the drinking party ended and the relative went home."
"I told my father that I felt dizzy, and he smiled and said that was normal. He seemed very happy."
"After my mother passed away, my sister and I took over the responsibility of taking care of him."
"But I found that I hated him. Why could he still live peacefully? He even wanted to find another wife."
"Does he have no heart? He really doesn't seem to have one. My mother is like his nanny, but he doesn't pay her much salary."
"Later, he really found a new wife, and that wife took my sister out one afternoon, causing her to have a car accident."
"My father's response was that he didn't want to drink anymore that night, but he still ate two bowls of rice with a good appetite."
"I wanted to dig up his body and take it out to see if he had a heart. I thought about it and I did it. He actually had a heart. How could he have a heart?"
"I was captured and killed, and my soul entered the bracelet in front of my mother. I didn't have the strength to get out."
"Our valuables were divided up among our relatives, and I was sold somewhere else."
"For hundreds of years, I was confused and unable to do anything. Then I met a man who gave me strength. That's it."
Lin An: "Have you been doing evil things for a long time?"
"That's not my fault. There are so many people like him, and I just don't like them all."
Lin An gently placed his fingertips on the bracelet on Gu Yuan's wrist, and the sound from the bracelet disappeared.
Gu Yuan: "Sister An."
Lin An asked back, "She only wants to continue doing evil now. Are you sure you want to let her go?"
Gu Yuan pursed his lips and asked hesitantly, "Is there no other solution?"
"No." Lin An shook his head. "For some things, there is only one solution from beginning to end."
Gu Yuan paused after hearing this, lowered his eyes and remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.
Lin An's fingers moved slightly, but Gu Yuan suddenly pulled them back.
Gu Yuan: "Take away her power, then she won't be able to harm anyone anymore."
Lin An said calmly, "It's actually more painful for her to watch everything and not be able to do anything."
Gu Yuan: "Take out her soul, and I will find a stable and happy family for her to rest in."
Lin An was silent for a moment, and finally said, "It's up to you."
As soon as she finished speaking, she raised her hand, took the girl's soul out of the bracelet, and put it into Gu Yuan's bracelet.
"Thank you, Sister An."
Lin An: "No need to thank me."
Gu Yuan smiled.
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