Twenty-seven years ago. Huashan Hospital.
The smell of disinfectant.
Lilies by the bed.
Pain in the leg bones.
"Ms. Chi, we regret to inform you..."
Whose voice is that
"Wire accident... Spine... Leg bones... Permanent damage..."
“No more dancing… no more acting…”
"After seven years of waiting for a big-budget movie... the female lead has changed."
An empty heart, a desperate roar, and finally, a sincere and heartfelt voice from the man named Xu.
"Xiao Qiu, it doesn't matter if you can't act anymore. Marry me and I'll support you. It's just right that if you can't act anymore, we can spend more time together."
"In the future, we will have two children, both with your last name. We met in the summer, and one child, regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl, will be named Chi Jixia. As for the other child, since my last name is Xu, he will be named..."
When she put the ring on her finger, the whole ward was filled with cheers like a canary being put into an iron cage, her dream of performing arts that would never come true.
The tears that couldn't fall finally solidified on the cheeks.
besides…
Another child.
What is the other child's name
…
"My dad and mom met in the summer. My dad's name is Xu Xia, so I'm called Chi Jixia." Chi Jixia held up the flashlight on her phone and looked around. "Of course, they divorced after I was born. Because my dad cheated... At the beginning, everyone said that they were a perfect match made in heaven. My dad is a young entrepreneur. He started pursuing my mom when she was 18 years old and was a dancer. He pursued her until she became a movie actress. He never left her side until she broke her leg while hanging on wires and was almost paralyzed. He proposed to her in the hospital holding up a Bulgari ring. In order to get her, he agreed to give her the child her last name. Everyone said that he was so affectionate, so affectionate, and it was a good life."
"My mom believed it, and she retired from the entertainment industry and made a living for many years, and then had two children... In fact, the people who are making trouble don't care so much, they just say it's a perfect match if it's a man and a woman. By the way." Chi Jixia glanced at An Yelin, who was full of sympathy, "It's the same if it's a man and a man. Just like you and Fu..."
The sympathetic look on An Yelin's face disappeared, replaced by veins: "You'll die if you get a little sympathy from others, right?"
An Yelin turned around and continued looking for someone. Chi Jixia also continued, "Later, my father was in his thirties but still liked the eighteen-year-old dancer. He cheated on her, spent a lot of money to promote the actress to act in movies, and spent money to smooth the relationship to get her awards, so we divorced."
"... Yeah." An Yelin felt a pain in his heart.
"I know my mom doesn't really want me. After all, I have the blood of the man she hates the most. But when I was five years old, her best friend from when she was acting took me to the set to replace a crying kid in a parent-child commercial. Everyone said that I was good-looking, not stage-frightened, and cooperative, and I was born to act. So she took me away when she divorced." Chi Jixia shrugged and pretended to be relaxed. "She took me away because she wanted me to act for her, and it would be best if I could win a Best Actor award or something, so that she could vent her anger and realize her dream when she was young... Damn it."
Chi Jixia was startled. A calico cat jumped out from the bushes and slid away from him.
An Yelin remained silent. Actually, Chi Jixia didn't want to say so much. It was just that he got scared when the atmosphere became quiet, and when he got scared, he wanted to talk a lot. When he was alone, he talked to the system, and now that there was one more person, he talked to An Yelin.
In fact, he didn't care how An Yelin spoke harshly to him: "Why are you silent?"
An Yelin: "I envy you for having a mother."
Whether in his past life or this life, An Yelin has never had a mother. His biological mother belonged to An Yeyun from the moment he was taken away by mistake.
"Why does this sentence sound like an insult... Anyway, I was asked to learn acting and become a child star when I was seven years old. My mother was very strict with me. For example, my protein intake. She controlled my protein intake every day and even made a growth plan, so that my height could reach 182 cm when I grow up - this is the optimal height for male actors that she scientifically calculated." Chi Jixia chattered on and on, "She read some medical books and measured my height every day according to the height model curve above. Once I drank an extra cup of yogurt at school, and she flew into a rage when I got home, saying that I had ruined her plan to make a star and her entire life..."
"Later, I continued to act. Whenever I didn't perform well, my mother would ask for leave from school and let me stay home for a day. She would come to guide me. So later, I really didn't like going to school and became a hopeless illiterate. Sometimes I felt that she was not raising a son, but trying to raise me into someone she imagined."
An Yelin: "No wonder you make me want to hit you whenever you talk."
It turned out that I didn't have normal relationships with people of my age when I was a child.
"Yeah, I haven't even been to the Children's Palace. When I was a kid, I envied those who could go to the Children's Palace... Who told me that? Forget it, anyone." Chi Jixia said nonchalantly, "Later..."
Later, he met the system. "… When I was in my teens, I made a name for myself in the film industry. My mother finally looked favorably upon me. Then I became arrogant and got an offer for a film. I don't know what I was thinking, but I wanted to finish the film on my own. In between, there was also a drama performance. I went to perform in The Elephant Man without her knowledge. She never allowed me to perform in dramas because my father was a drama actor when he was young. I really wanted to perform because I felt like the Elephant Man, like a monkey in a zoo, a deformed child, performing for people."
"Act on your own?" An Yelin grasped this word.
"Don't worry about what this word means. Anyway, after the play, I saw my mother screaming at the door... Later, I messed up the movie. My mother couldn't stand the stimulation, scolded me hysterically, and was admitted to a mental hospital." Chi Jixia shrugged, "Then I retired from the film industry. I just starred in some stupid idol dramas and lived a gangster life."
“…” An Yelin said, “I’m sorry.”
He looked at Chi Jixia's slender, pretending to be nonchalant profile, and for the first time he knew that this extremely ignorant and foul-mouthed teammate of his had such a miserable past.
Although this feeling was dispelled the next second.
"What are you sorry for?" Chi Jixia said, "At least I have a mother, but you don't. Your mother is An Yeyun's mother."
An Yelin: ... No one should know that Chi Jixia was assassinated here.
He looked up at the sky. Suddenly, he felt his forehead twitching slightly.
That strange feeling came back.
In the distant night sky, the dark clouds that had been blocking the bright moon dispersed, and the extremely large and round moon showed its pale shape from behind the clouds.
Like a...
"The eyes that are looking at the ground." said Huigong.
He stood in front of the French window of the Blue Light Building, holding a bottle of whiskey. Behind him, Qin Xuexin sat on the sofa, wearing a burgundy princess dress with dark patterns, twisting her fingers.
She is very nervous.
Huigong turned around and grinned at her, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. Princess in distress, how about this script?"
Qin Xuexin obviously didn't believe it completely.
“You said the same thing to those girls,” she said.
Huigong laughed. He suddenly changed the subject: "What do you think freedom is? Or... what do you think people will do after they gain absolute freedom?"
Qin Xuexin didn't understand.
"He will be lonely, he will be irritable, he will feel constrained - there is never absolute freedom. You think you are free only because you can no longer see the boundaries of freedom. You will wonder, what does He want from you by giving you freedom? Why did you become one of the millions of people He gave you the power to do whatever you want?"
"I hate the word 'gift' - ah, I must understand what I mean by 'dependence' at that time."
"I don't understand what you are saying." Qin Xuexin said in panic.
She heard the Blue Light CEO beside her smile.
"You will want to explore His tolerance, the boundaries of freedom. The closest humans come to God is when God is angry with humans. Just know His anger. You can control Him - just like this!"
Bang!
He smashed the wine glass against the window and it shattered.
"I replaced the bulletproof glass." said the president of Blue Light.
Huigong said indifferently: "Unfortunately, no matter what I did at that time, how I insulted, how I broke the law, how I tempted, He never got angry. Since they are human beings that even the gods who rule this world don't care about, why do they ask me to cherish them?"
He looked down at the broken wine glass: "Even if it falls from the upstairs."
Qin Xuexin didn't dare to speak. The Blue Light CEO said, "You should take medicine."
Huigong took out the medicine from his pocket and ate it. He squinted at the moon in the distance, with a dazed look on his face, as if he was trying to catch a beam of gaze.
Finally, he started to work.
"I'm going out for a while," he said.
…
The old street lamps on the street creaked. Insects circled around the lamps.
Xiao Chong's shadow fell on Bo Jiang, who was sitting next to the woman.
The woman was wearing a light camel coat with a fur collar of the same color, and a light blue and white striped hospital gown underneath. She sat very straight, her posture like a former dancer, and her face still had the beauty of her youth.
She must have been a very beautiful woman.
Bo Jiang knew that she was Chi Jixia's mother.
The woman didn't look like an aggressive psychopath. But Bo Jiang didn't dare to provoke her. He sat beside her in a natural manner and typed a text message to Chi Jixia on his mobile phone.
The insects in the grass were chirping. The woman said, "Excuse me, what time is it now?"
Bo Jiang paused and said, "Eight o'clock."
"Eight o'clock. The Children's Palace closes at seven. I'm here to pick up my son." The woman said to herself, "I'm here to pick up my son. I promised to come to the Children's Palace to pick him up."
Are you talking about Chi Yixia
Bo Jiang was typing text messages through her coat, which was not very convenient, but it was within her control. The woman was still looking in the direction of the Children's Palace, which was clearly a building that was about to be demolished.
The Bo family tried to buy the land here to turn it into a villa area... but then it was shelved. What was the reason
Bo Jiang seemed to remember that someone had jumped to his death there before.
A student.
But the imperial palace is like this, and the Children's Palace is no exception... Speaking of which, did Yi Wan also learn calligraphy in the Children's Palace
I don’t know if this is the Children’s Palace here.
The woman was still waiting for her son. Bo Jiang felt a little compassion in her heart.
He didn't have such a mother. The royal family had a weak parent-child relationship. He had never been trained to be a good son since he was a child. From birth, he was trained to be a prince.
The woman reminded him of his mother. Before he became the crown prince, Bo Jiang had also been hugged by his mother. He still remembered her warm embrace and the fragrance of her clothes.
But later on, she never held him again. Because he was born a prince. His mother chose him as the prince and threw him away as a child.
The prince is born to bear the responsibilities of a prince, to possess dignity and to defend dignity.
…My head started to hurt again.
"Your son," Bo Jiang calmed her down and started a conversation with her, "studies here?"
The woman nodded. "Yes. After I divorced him, he lived with his father, but his father didn't care about him. He usually stays here."
The woman added: "… In xx, he studied painting here, and later he studied calligraphy."
With dad
This doesn't seem to match Chi Jixia's life, and the time doesn't seem to match Chi Jixia's age.
Maybe he is really crazy and his memory is confused.
The phone in her pocket trembled, probably because Chi Jixia received a message and replied. Bo Jiang glanced at it, and Chi Jixia said, "Don't let her go."
Bo Jiang lost interest and thought about his own album.
Why on earth did I end up coming out to look for someone
But the woman was really pitiful. She said: "My son is this tall and is very good at writing essays... I don't want to see his father, so I haven't visited him for a long time."
The more you talk, the less like Chi Jixia he is.
"But the children all have to go home. It will be good when they return home," the woman continued.
Bo Jiang's heart moved.
Go home. If he could travel back to the past like Xie Ziyu, he could also go home.
Bo Jiang coaxed her patiently. He looked at his own shadow under the light and felt like a lunatic.
Maybe he himself is a psychopath. When the woman asked him about his childhood, Bo Jiang couldn't say that he grew up in the palace.
Bo Jiang suddenly felt a strange sense of home, even though this feeling happened between him and another psychotic woman.
"Young man," the woman suddenly said, "can you use a cell phone?"
“Can you help me get to my voicemail?”
Unfortunately, Bo Jiang is the person in the entire group who is the least capable of using modern technology.
But he still patiently took the woman's phone, checked it on the browser, and opened her voicemail.
An old-fashioned cell phone.
No messages.
"There was a message. How come there is no message? I remember there was one... I came out of the theater and was about to open it to read..." The woman murmured, "Can you make a call for me?"
"He blocked Mom... right?"
Even stranger.
Bo Jiang dialed a number according to the woman's instructions.
No number available.
Is this the son in my imagination
Bo Jiang had been worried about the woman's reaction. Fortunately, she didn't go crazy because of the mental stimulation. The woman said in a hopeful tone: "Can you help me check the text messages?"
Short message.
The text messages were full of meaningless advertisements. The woman said, "Can you help me search for a name..."
"What's the name?"
"I can't remember..." said the woman.
Bo Jiang was silent. After a long while, the woman seemed to have been reset. She mumbled a lot to herself, and suddenly said, "I'm going to testify for Yu Rongshi."
"What?" Bo Jiang didn't hear clearly.
The woman seemed to have traveled through time again and said, "I'll wait for my son to come out of the Children's Palace. He wanted me to pick him up, but I never did. I'll take my son with me to testify."
"Why?"
"Because his younger brother... I want to teach his younger brother how to act... My head... My head hurts..."
The woman covered her head and began to scream. Two footsteps were heard behind her.
Chi Jixia and An Yelin.
Chi Jixia rushed to the woman. An Yelin said to Bo Jiang, "Thank you."
"Nothing." Bo Jiang looked at Chi Jixia and the other person.
Chi Jixia tried to calm the woman down. But he had never had any experience communicating peacefully with his mother, and finally, he became angry: "Don't daydream, don't daydream! You only have me as a son!"
The way he scolded his mother was the same way his mother scolded him.
"What, am I so bad that you have to keep fantasizing about having another son?!" Chi Jixia yelled.
His shoulders were held down by Bo Jiang.
"Respect your mother!" Bo Jiang's face was uglier than ever. "She is your mother, she can't control herself!"
"You, an outsider, don't know shit!"
Seeing the two quarreling, An Yelin could only mediate. Chi Jixia watched Bo Jiang comfort his mother until the woman calmed down.
He then became even more miserable.
An Yelin was shocked. In his impression, Bo Jiang was extremely cold and indifferent, and definitely not someone who could comfort others.
Because of this shock, he did not notice Chi Jixia's expression.
Chi Jixia is really about to explode.
The unexpected encounter, the escape for an unknown reason, the non-existent brother he kept talking about, and even the interfering Bo Jiang was closer to him than he was.
The only thing echoing in his mind, constantly calming him down, was the system's voice.
But he was still going to explode.
Seeing Bo Jiang turning around, Chi Jixia said, "Who asked you to come here? Why, do you also want to play the role of a filial son?"
An Yelin pulled his sleeve: "Chi Jixia, speak calmly."
"I'm leaving now." Bo Jiang said, "Chi Jixia, you are worse than those staff members."
Chi Jixia: “… !!”
An Yelin: "Thin..."
Bo Jiang left without looking back.
He took many steps, the cold wind blowing across his back, and he realized that in his effort to walk away quickly, he had already walked into the abandoned Children's Palace. In the night, the Children's Palace was like a deserted ghost town, and the tattered curtains were blown out of the windows and swayed in the wind.
He was really pissed off by Chi Jixia.
Now that she was here, Bo Jiang raised her head and looked around.
Bo Jiang: ...It doesn’t look like a palace.
There are not even carved beams and painted buildings.
On the wall next to it is a huge group photo of the Children's Palace. I don't know when it was taken, and the picture is a bit yellow and blurry.
As the crown prince, Bo Jiang was trained from a young age to remember everyone's face.
So after he briefly glanced at the photo... he took a step forward.
His eyes were fixed on one of the faces.
The boy stood next to another bright boy. Because they were shoulder to shoulder, his complexion seemed a little dim. But this did not prevent Bo Jiang, who had received professional training, from recognizing him at a glance...
"...Yi Wan?" he murmured.
On the honor roll next to it was a photo of the eye-catching boy standing next to Yi Wan. He was holding the award certificate and smiling brightly.
His name was written under his photo.
"Gu Ruchao".
Gu Ruchao... Such a familiar name.
In order to see more clearly, Bo Jiang took two steps forward. Suddenly, he realized that he was stepping on a pool of black stuff.
Black stuff.
Bo Jiang raised his head slowly.
The sky cut into squares by buildings, and the top floor of the stairs at the Children's Palace.
The teenager who jumped off the building... The marks left on the cement floor will last forever...
Bo Jiang understood what this was.
He should have known what this thing was... After all, after he jumped from the tower, he had wandered around the world as a ghost for so many days. But he didn't dare to look at the remains of his own body.
Bo Jiang felt sick. This sickness was not only because he was stepping on the last trace left by another person. He covered his mouth and walked out of the Children's Palace quickly.
So disgusting.
It's getting more and more disgusting.
He walked very fast, faster and faster, so he didn't see the pale moon and the dark shadows in the Children's Palace. The area around Lushan Sanatorium was very quiet at night. He didn't want to see Chi Jixia again, so he walked in one direction as fast as he could, and kept walking...
The trees rustled and the moon was dim. Just as his sanity was about to break, he heard a familiar voice.
"You've got the wrong person." The man said, "I'm not Shen Zhong..."
The moon is getting brighter.
"How could I be wrong? You are! Gu Ruchao often brought you home... Don't you remember your aunt? I am..."
"I'm Xie Ziyu's mother!"
"Xie Ziyu is a monster now... You have to help me, you have to help me, Shen Zhong? Shen Zhong??"
"Don't go! Don't go!"
The voices of Shen Zhong, Xie Ziyu, Gu Ruchao, and Yi Wan.
What the hell is this?!
The surroundings were as bright as day. Bo Jiang suddenly raised his head from shock, and at that moment, he could never forget the scene he saw.
Giant moon!
Pale, round, and motionless.
The moon illuminated the place like a searchlight, as if the whole world became excited after hearing the word "Shen Zhong". He was stunned by the scene, and then heard the woman's roar and the footsteps of another person.
Yi Wan is running.
No…
Yi Wan is escaping!
There were footsteps stopping behind him. A lazy voice said, "I haven't seen a moon like this for a long time... Well, the last time I saw one was when I was dying."
"Long time no see." The man wearing sunglasses smiled at him, "Bo Jiang, right? I'm Xie Ziyu now, but you can also call me by my old name, Gu Ruchao."
"you… "
"You want to go back to the past, right?" Gu Ruchao grinned, "Prince Bo Jiang."
“… !!”
"Don't be nervous, we should have a lot in common." He said, "After all..."
He pointed to the tall buildings.
"You jump, ijump, too," he said, "right?"
"Talk?"!