Some things are supposed to stand in the sunlight.
However, since maggots always breed in the darkness, what should have been just and bright has become something unspeakable.
Unexpectedly, Ji Chengxuan's biological father turned out to be a man who sacrificed himself for justice.
"So, what happened later?"
As soon as she asked this question, Yun Que'er regretted it a bit.
Although she didn't know what had happened at that time, Yun Que'er could faintly sense that it must not be a good memory.
Otherwise, Ji Chengxuan's face wouldn't be filled with such pain.
"Later, one day..."
Ji Chengxuan closed his eyes slightly.
One day, Ji Chengxuan, who was still in kindergarten at that time, was playing with his friends in the yard.
They had a great time that day and were reluctant to go home. By the time they parted, it was already late at night.
Ji Chengxuan returned to his two - story house.
Before he even entered the door, he suddenly heard a thumping sound coming from the second floor.
One after another, the dull sounds became a pain that he could never let go of for the rest of his life.
Ji Chengxuan didn't know what that sound was yet, but for a moment, there was a void in his heart, as if something was about to happen.
Then, the next second, the window of the bedroom on the second floor creaked open.
A person, no, to be exact, half a person was hanging out of the window.
Ji Chengxuan looked up and saw his mother.
She was hanging beside the bed, and blood was dripping from her hair, all the way onto Ji Chengxuan's face.
She hadn't completely died yet. Her eyes were wide open, and she just saw Ji Chengxuan.
Then his mother's lips moved.
Ji Chengxuan understood. He turned around and ran. He ran a long, long way before he finally stopped.
He gasped for breath, and the scene he had just seen flashed through his mind.
His mother had exhausted all her strength and told him with lip - reading.
"Run, and never look back."
Ji Chengxuan wandered on the street for a while. During the day, he was like a beggar, picking up the leftovers in the park, and at night, he slept on the bench.
I don't know how long it had passed when a charity organization found him.
After investigating his identity and background with no results, and since Ji Chengxuan always refused to talk, he was sent to the welfare home as an orphan.
He finally had a place to settle down, but no children of his age liked him.
Because he was withdrawn and strange, everyone regarded him as a freak.
So Ji Chengxuan would sit at the back door of the dormitory building for a long time, looking at the clouds during the day and the stars at night.
Later, Ji Chengxuan was adopted by a family.
It was a family of medical professionals, so it was natural for Ji Chengxuan to enter the medical college when he grew up and become a genius doctor in the eyes of others.
If it hadn't been for this time - travel, maybe Ji Chengxuan would still be living his life of saving the sick and wounded.
After listening to what Ji Chengxuan had said, Yun Que'er felt really bad.
"It must have been tough, right?" Yun Que'er's voice was a bit hoarse.
Ji Chengxuan didn't hear clearly. "What?"
"Those years, they must have been tough, right?"
Ji Chengxuan looked at Yun Que'er silently for a while, and then suddenly buried his head.
Yun Que'er couldn't see Ji Chengxuan's face clearly, but she knew that Ji Chengxuan must be crying.
They sat in silence. It was not until a long time later that Ji Chengxuan finally found his voice.
"There's something I've never told anyone."
"I'm all ears." Yun Que'er said.
"When I was a sophomore in college, a middle - aged man found me."
Ji Chengxuan said in a low voice, "He told me something about that year. He said he was my father's colleague and had been looking for me for many years. He also told me what happened after my mother passed away."
The day after her murder, when the neighbor went out in the morning, he saw the woman hanging outside the window at a glance.
She only had her upper body left. Her thighs had been sawn off, and the blood on her body had dried up.
After the police came, they found her legs in the bathtub of the bathroom.
She had suffered inhumane humiliation before her death and was finally killed by her enemy.
Before the man left, he patted Ji Chengxuan on the shoulder heavily.
"You've never been an orphan. You're the son of a people's policeman. Your parents have sacrificed everything, even their lives, for this. Although it can't be made public, you should remember them. As long as you don't forget, their sacrifices won't be in vain."
Yun Que'er felt mixed emotions.
Those memories were so tragic and yet so heroic.
Yun Que'er gently held Ji Chengxuan's cold hand. "Your parents would be proud of you."
Ji Chengxuan said nothing. After a long time, he continued.
"Actually, I'm really grateful for this time - travel. I really regard them as my own parents. Yun Que'er, I don't want to experience the pain of loss again."
People always spend their lives chasing something, such as what they can't get or what they've lost forever.
"I understand." Yun Que'er said softly.
Maybe most people won't understand why Ji Chengxuan lost his composure today, but as long as there's one person who understands him, that's enough.
"Let's not talk about those unhappy things." Yun Que'er changed the topic. "You said you used to sit on the porch in a daze when you were in the orphanage? What a coincidence. I used to do the same when I was a kid."
Yun Que'er pulled Ji Chengxuan up and chattered with him as they walked.
"Actually, I envy you. At least there are still the shadows of your parents in your memories, but I don't even know what they look like. According to the aunt in the orphanage, I was picked up at the door of the neonatal department of the hospital. That means I was abandoned as soon as I was born."
"The children in the orphanage are all abandoned. In fact, who is better than who? It's just the pot calling the kettle black. But those kids always take pleasure in it. I really don't understand. Since we're all the same, why do we still laugh at each other for this? Compete about who was abandoned later?"
"Later, I understood that it was probably to soothe the pain in our hearts. But I didn't understand at that time and didn't want to be with them. Just like you, I would sit on the steps at the downstairs door and watch the scenery."
As Yun Que'er was talking, she seemed to remember something interesting.
"Hey, let me tell you. There was a little brother who also didn't like to play with everyone at that time. We would both go and sit there during the free - activity time every day. One on the left and one on the right."
Yun Que'er's eyes curved with a smile. "But he was really strange. Logically speaking, we should have been very familiar, but we weren't. In my memory, he hardly ever talked to me. Guess what was the first thing he said to me?"
Ji Chengxuan looked at Yun Que'er. "What?"
Yun Que'er coughed twice and put on a serious look.
"Please don't sing such childish nursery rhymes. They're vulgar."
Ji Chengxuan paused for a moment and then burst out laughing.
"You're laughing? Not sad anymore, right?" Yun Que'er grabbed Ji Chengxuan's sleeve.