Outside, it was snowing heavily and the north wind was howling. The temperature had dropped drastically.
Yu Qiubai stood guard at the entrance of the basement. He didn't know how Shen Xi was doing inside. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was so strong that he couldn't help but shiver. A layer of snow covered his body, and he looked like a snowman.
It was still quiet inside. From the moment she entered, there had been no movement at all. He listened for a while longer and waited. Finally, he walked a little further away and took out his phone to make a call.
He didn't have Li Yuen's number, but he had Yun Jinping's number. After calling her and getting Li Yuen's number, he made up his mind and called him.
No matter what, since Hye-hee already knew about it and didn't say or do anything to him, the Li family's matter probably didn't have much to do with him or his mother.
Time ticked by, second by second.
He stood guard at the door, but his eyes were fixed in front of him. About half an hour later, that person finally appeared in the snow.
From afar, the person's figure was a little blurry through the snow. His footsteps were hurried, and soon, he was in front of him. He nodded slightly at him.
Yu Qiubai nodded back at him. He pointed at the metal door behind him and discreetly retreated.
He didn't show any hostility. He suddenly felt that he was overthinking things. If he wanted to find someone, no one could hide from him.
He didn't find him or his mother. This was enough to show that he didn't want to find trouble with them. It wasn't because he and his mother were good at hiding.
Behind him, the old metal door made a soft sound.
He didn't turn around. Whatever happened next had nothing to do with him. This was all he could do. He still had to go home to see his mother. He still had many things to ask her.
This time, his mother would probably tell him the whole story.
The snowflakes were blown into the basement by the north wind.
Li Yuen stood quietly at the entrance of the basement. His tall body blocked the wind and snow from outside.
The cold white light in the room enveloped the entire room. The air was filled with a fishy, cold, and damp smell.
Everything here was exactly the same as what he remembered. Everything here existed in his deepest and most loathsome nightmare.
This was a place he had once dreamed of escaping from, a place he had wanted to destroy.
He had once thought that he would never come near this place again, but at this moment, he was here. He had returned to the place he hated the most in his life.
He looked at the tiny figure curled up in the cage, hugging her knees, and his heart clenched in pain.
In addition to the disgusting and hateful smell in the air, the unique fragrance that belonged to her also assaulted his nostrils. It was as if it had a magical power that calmed his heart.
He walked over step by step, squatted in front of her, and reached out his hand to her. In the quiet space, his voice was gentle, warm, and slightly moisturizing the cold air. "Hye-hee."
The cold air around them seemed to warm up as well.
Shen Xi, who had trapped herself in the cage, rested her chin on her knees. Her somewhat confused eyes seemed to be covered with a thin layer of mist. She looked at him, and tears suddenly fell down her cheeks.
Sparkling and translucent teardrops fell drop by drop into the cage, making very soft dripping sounds, but it was as if they were falling drop by drop onto his heart.
He reached out his hand in a panic, wanting to wipe her tears, but no matter how hard he tried, they wouldn't dry. She just looked at him quietly and seriously, as if she wanted to engrave his appearance in her mind, bones, and blood.
He could not hold it in any longer. With a tug of his hand, he pulled the little girl out of the cage. She fell head first into his embrace. Her little hands were tightly wrapped around his waist. Her little body could not help but tremble as she tried to suppress her sobs.
At this moment, he didn't know how to comfort her. He could only hold her tightly. His chin rested on her shoulder, and he gently rubbed the side of her face. His voice was very low and very gentle. "It's all in the past."
The pain, the despair, and the memories of being trapped in the nightmare hell were all in the past.
His mother once told him that there was light in this world. He didn't believe it at first, until that day, at that moment, he saw her.
Her appearance was like a ray of light. It was the light that he saw in the deepest part of hell. It was the light that he spent his whole life trying to catch and pursue. It was so beautiful and so warm.
He once thought that he didn't deserve to have her in this life. He searched for her for so many years, but he couldn't find her.
But just when he was about to fall into despair, she appeared again. So unexpectedly, she bumped into his heart.
The man's low, warm voice wrapped around her little by little. Like a warm current, it seeped into her heart and warmed her limbs.
She didn't know what she should say, nor did she know what she wanted to say. She could only hug him tightly. Only by hugging him, feeling his warmth, and listening to his heartbeat could she not be so flustered and uncomfortable.
She knew that he had lived a difficult life. She knew that he had experienced a lot of bad things, but she never knew that the suffering he had endured was a hundred times, a thousand times more painful than she had imagined. He had crawled out of a bloody hell!
This place was his hell, the hell that imprisoned him.
She didn't dare imagine what he had gone through here. He had been so young at that time. He was just a child who didn't know anything.
This cold, bloody, and cruel room, this cold cage, was the place where he had once lived.
Those people from the Fifth Family all knew of his pain and knew that he was innocent, but not a single person helped him or cared about him. They were all beasts, and all of them deserved to die! No one was innocent!
"She told you everything." Li Yuen's heart ached. He gently patted her back to calm her down.
He didn't know how much she had told him, and Yu Qiubai didn't know what they had talked about.
He should have gone to look for her earlier. He shouldn't have let the little girl know about these things. The past was the past.
"Brother." Shen Xi suddenly looked up. Her teary eyes were red and swollen. Her bloodshot eyes locked onto his. "Are they all dead?"
Those who had hurt him, those who had watched coldly from the sidelines, those who had betrayed his mother, were they all dead?
She couldn't imagine what kind of beast that person was to do such a cruel thing to his own son. If he was still alive, she would definitely find him and return the pain he had inflicted on him a thousand times over.
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