Ou Jue tightly gripped the phone, as if trapped in the depths of mory, his chilling aura starkly contrasting with the surrounding flas spreading about.
His eyes were as cold as a thousand-year glacier. Without waiting for the girl’s reply, he spoke again, "Because in kindergarten, the other children mocked Luoluo’s mom for being ntally ill, mocked Luoluo as the child of a ntally ill parent, mocked him as a little lunatic."
"Stop it... Please don’t say any more..." Xia Xiyan’s voice trembled, filled with unbearable heartbreak and helplessness.
She had never heard Ou Jue talk about these things before—not even a single word.
Now that she knew the whole truth, her heart was overwheld with an endless complexity of emotions, suffocating her with their weight.
She wanted so badly to hold him.
She wanted so badly to hold the little boy.
Truly, her heart ached for them.
"I want to beco stronger, to protect the people I want to protect, so they’ll be shielded from any rumors or slander."
"Ever since that incident, I completely hid my mother’s existence and arranged for her to receive treatnt at Ronghua Hospital."
"As ti and age passed, no one dared bring up this matter in front of anymore. But Ou Xiaoluo’s second personality had already been triggered—it’s an irreversible reality."
"And this matter has beco a lingering knot in my heart. This hereditary curse feels like a family spell, one I may never escape from."
On the other end of the phone, the sound of sobbing could be heard.
Yet the boy’s voice was gentle, an unprecedented tenderness in his tone, "Xia Xiyan, are you trying to drown yourself in tears again? Why are you crying, hmm?"
"Don’t cry. I can’t bear to see you cry."
"I’ve never lied to you—no first love, no childhood sweetheart, no other female friends. From beginning to end, there’s only been you."
"Loving you is real. Wanting to shelter you from the storms is real." Ou Jue’s voice grew low and hoarse as he continued, "All of it is real."
By the ti he spoke his final words, the surrounding flas had completely closed in on Ou Jue.
Oxygen was increntally stolen away, his breaths grew heavier, and his consciousness began to drift.
Noticing sothing was wrong, Xiyan abruptly stopped crying, "Ou Jue?"
"..." Only the sound of labored breathing answered her. The next second, the call was abruptly cut off.
His voice was wholly severed.
"No... no!" Xiyan shook her head in a daze, jolted back to her senses.
She glanced around frantically, wiped her tears with trembling hands, then grabbed a fire extinguisher from the ground and rushed toward the old house.
She had barely taken two steps before the firen in front of her stopped her, "Young lady? What are you doing? You can’t go in!"
"Let go! I need to save him!"
"We understand your desperation to save soone, but the fire is so fierce that even we can’t get in. If you go in, you’re just throwing your life away—do you understand?"
Xiyan seed to have completely lost her mind, "I told you to let go!"
The firen stood firm, "No! You can’t go in. Hold her back—don’t let her through!"
The extinguisher was forcibly taken from her hands, and Xiyan’s entire body was restrained, her irrational struggles stripped of all strength. "Let go! I’m not afraid of dying—I want to see him! I need to see him!"
In the chaos of pushing and pulling, it was as though all the strength had drained out of her.
She staggered and collapsed directly onto the ground.
Covering her face with trembling hands, for the first ti, she broke down into heart-wrenching sobs in front of everyone.
Ou Jue... He’s going to die...
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