I tell fortunes for NPCs in a horror game

My name is Zhang Yizhi, and my father passed away when I was in elementary school. My mother always gives me the feeling that nothing in the world can trouble her.

I didn't quite understand the meaning of death at that time, but I knew that my mother was very sad and would always cry silently when looking at family photos. But as long as she sees me, she will wipe away her tears and become that invincible woman.

In junior high school, I went through a brief rebellious period. I didn't like going to school, so I learned to skip classes and wander around with a group of bad friends.

Because only when I am with these friends can I feel that I am surrounded and loved.

The reason why the rebellious period was short-lived was because my mother directly carried me by the ears to my father’s tombstone.

She was not hysterical, she just stood there and stated in the calmest tone: "The child has grown up and I can't control it anymore. If you are still here, maybe you and your son will have more topics to talk about. I have tried my best to take care of you. Him, if one day I can’t hold on any longer, you can’t blame me.”

I have been living with her for several years, and I have never seen her like this. At that moment, fear rushed from the soles of my feet to my forehead. I clearly realized that even if she was my mother, she would not tolerate me unconditionally. It seems like she can stop loving me at any time...

I no longer skipped classes, sat obediently in the classroom, and became a good student and a top student in everyone's eyes.

When the teacher saw that I had changed my ways, he said to me: "I am learning this for my own benefit. Look, you are doing so well now."

However, I silently retorted in my heart that it was not for myself, but for my mother.

As my mother wished, I was admitted to the best university in the province, and my mother finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On the day I got the admission notice, my mother hugged me and cried for the first time without any scruples, telling her many years of grievances.

It wasn't until she said, "I'm so afraid that I didn't raise you well," that I realized belatedly that it wasn't that she didn't love me, but she just didn't dare to dote on me because our family really didn't have the conditions for me.

……

When I was in college, I had new changes. I had more time. Without missing out on my studies, I started working part-time to improve my family's conditions.

In the six-person dormitory, there are two from well-off families who rented separate houses off campus after finishing the first year. Of the remaining four, one is busy socializing in the student union, and the other is busy preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination early in the academic career. On the road, only one other classmate and I went to and from get out of class.

When I learned that the conditions at his home were not that good, I felt quite sympathetic.

One day during my sophomore year, I had already made an appointment with him to have a nice meal. That day was my birthday, and it was a celebration I had prepared for myself, but I didn’t tell him because I didn’t want to be pretentious.

Halfway through the meal, he answered the phone, gestured to me and walked towards the door of the small restaurant. I thought he was going to deal with some private matters that were not convenient for others to know. After all, everyone has their own secrets.

But I didn't expect that when he came in again, he would be holding a small birthday cake in his hand.

"Happy birthday." He grinned, showing eight beautiful teeth.

This is not my first birthday, but it is the first time that someone other than my family has specially come to celebrate my birthday.

At that moment, I felt like the blood all over my body had solidified, and the whole world seemed to have suddenly stopped.

He said it was to thank me for introducing him to a part-time job.

But I still couldn't help but feel my heart beat because of his behavior.

Xiang Chen, his name has been imprinted on my heart from that day on.

During the four years of college, Xiang Chen only had one girlfriend. The two of them reached the stage of meeting their parents, but they eventually broke up because the girl's parents were dissatisfied with his family's conditions.

On the day we broke up, he bought two boxes of beer and went back to the dormitory. He cried so much that his nose and tears were wiped all over me, and he asked me: "Is money really that important?"

Of course money is important, I thought silently in my heart, but said nothing.

I thought, I must leave a sober person here, so I didn’t drink much. He drank a box and a half by himself, and vomited and vomited after drinking.

In the end, he pressed one hand on the sink and held my neck with the other. He was drunk and talking to me with lofty words: "One day, I will be successful!"

I comforted him, like coaxing a child, and asked him to rinse his mouth again after spitting. To be honest, it was because he always came close to me to talk, and the smell was so strong that I couldn't bear it.

Fortunately, he didn't get any vomit on him. After struggling all night, he finally fell asleep.

There were only two of us in the quiet dormitory. I helped him take off his outer shirt and prepared to help him change clothes.

My cold fingertips accidentally touched his skin, and the warm touch made me lose consciousness for a moment. Instead, he murmured something and turned over, which scared me so much that I retracted my hand. It took me a long time to recover from my nervousness, and I hurriedly covered him with a quilt.

After the breakup, Xiang Chen was still depressed for a while, but love affairs could not withstand the oppression brought by reality. His mother suddenly fell ill. Although she was rescued, the debt problem left by the medical treatment made the family even worse.

When his mother was ill, I lent him most of my savings for emergencies, and because of this, the relationship between the two of us got closer.

He said: "Yizhi, you are the best brother in my life."

I smiled and promised him to make money and enjoy happiness together in the future.

I know that Xiang Chen doesn't like men, so he won't like me.

But I never thought about letting him know that I like him.

That doesn't matter, right?

……

During school recruitment, Xiang Chen and I were fortunate enough to enter the same company as interns and successfully passed the assessment to become full-time employees.

We are still roommates, but instead of taking classes side by side, we have become comrades in the workplace, and our relationship has become even closer.

In the second year of my work, my direct supervisor was promoted, and I also prospered. I was lucky enough to be promoted and became the youngest supervisor in the company.

Everyone else said I was lucky, but he was the only one who knew that I suffered from severe stomach problems and insomnia because of this job.

We entered the company at the same time, but I was promoted much faster than Xiang Chen. I was always worried about whether he would have a psychological gap, but his attitude was as usual, which gave me some relief.