Chen Mu has been able to piece together the story that follows.

The family looks bright and beautiful on the outside, but is crumbling on the inside.

This high-pressure cycle is able to operate thanks to Qin He's always first-place performance.

However, with just one failure, the entire chain collapses.

Finally, a year ago, after failing an exam, Qin He returned home with the test paper.

This day was his eighteenth birthday.

But on the dinner table, there was no cake, only the test paper with 92 points.

Everyone sitting around the dining table had a cold expression on their face, like cold sculptures.

Qin He lowered his head and did not dare to look directly at his family.

The joy brought by an eighteenth birthday is far less than the failure in a monthly exam.

Dad took the cake knife and cut the test paper into four pieces, one for each person.

"Eat it. This is your 18th birthday cake. Everyone should eat one and keep this shame in mind."

Dad said so.

The ink on the test paper was bitter and hard to swallow.

After Qin He finished dinner, he saw a brightly colored cake in the trash can in the kitchen.

The cake was originally intended to celebrate for him, but the failure in the exam ruined everything.

Is one exam enough to ruin a wonderful birthday?

Perhaps it was never an exam that ruined a birthday.

Qin He went upstairs silently.

On that cold winter night, Qin He jumped off the roof.

Originally, you wouldn't die if you jumped from the second floor roof.

But before Qin He jumped down, he buried a table knife in the hard soil on the ground.

This table knife is the one used to cut the roll cake on the dinner table.

What kind of mentality was Qin He in when he looked at the wall of the villa yard before he jumped?

According to the old lady, the villa's courtyard originally had no walls. It was Dad who built a high wall around the courtyard because he was worried that Qin He would see the outside world and be distracted from his studies.

From then on, I could no longer see the scenery outside from inside the villa.

The warm home was transformed into a solid cage.

After Qin He's death, his father, who wanted his son to be successful, almost collapsed.

He invested more than four million yuan in Qin He and supported him for eighteen years. He always got top grades and was about to be admitted to university, which put a perfect end to everything.

As a result, he jumped off the roof!

Fall short!

This feeling is like playing a game for a long time, but the computer crashes right before completing the game, and the game hasn’t been saved yet!

Dad knew that the golden age of his career had passed, and he would not have the money, energy, or time to support Qin He for another 18 years.

It's all over!

"Waste! You are the one who raised all of this waste!"

Dad pointed at Mom's nose and scolded her, "You eat and drink for free at home every day, and even if I asked you to raise a son, you can't even do it!

What's the point of keeping you?"

The argument turned into a violent fight.

The old lady never wanted to mention what happened next in the villa that night, so Chen Mu had no way of knowing.

The old lady just said that there was a raging fire in the villa that night.

Dad, Mom, and grandma, none of them escaped the fire.

The flames devoured everything, engulfing this twisted family.

As for who set the fire, no one knows.

After becoming a weirdo, Dad got the dinner knife.

The dinner knife can damage weirdness and is a powerful weapon.

With this powerful weapon, Dad regained control of the family.

Only pain can make people reflect.

After Qin He's death, both my mother and grandmother were hit hard. They realized that there seemed to be something wrong with this path.

Faced with Dad’s persistence, Mom and Grandma expressed their opposition for the first time.

Dad was shocked by grandma's opposition.

He stared at his grandmother and said word by word: "From childhood to adulthood, you have always educated me in this way, and this is how I succeeded.

Now you tell me this is the wrong way?

No, I have verified that this path is correct!

It was Qin He. He was too spoiled and couldn't stand any setbacks.

We will welcome other children, they will be stronger and more sensible. They will take Qin He's place in the journey he has not yet completed!"

Grandma finally realized that Dad had gone crazy, and she had planted the seeds of madness herself decades ago.

In order to prevent grandma from interfering with his plans, Dad locked her in the basement.

As for Mom, she had to be kept to help, so Dad didn't lock her up in the basement. Instead, he used a table knife to control her and continued to let her carry out his plan.

The players have arrived, and the “new kids” that dad talks about have arrived.

Dad will continue to educate Qin He through them.

Mom is obedient enough and dares not go against Dad's wishes.

Therefore, in most cases, she still mechanically and numbly carried out her father's instructions.

However, she also hid key hints within the rules.

Perhaps deep down in her heart, she also believed that Qin He's tragedy should not happen again.

In order to avoid being noticed by Dad, Mom concealed the key clues, hoping that the players could figure it out on their own.

Dad hides himself behind the scenes again

Grandma has a way to escape from home. Dad knows this.

He once forced his grandmother to hand over the thing, but his grandmother just shook her head calmly to express her refusal.

His grandmother raised him personally, and he couldn't bear to kill her, so he had to lock her up in the basement and strictly forbade players to go there.

Because he knew that in the basement, grandma would provide help to the players.

When she said this, grandma came to a wardrobe. She stretched out her trembling hands and opened the bottom drawer of the wardrobe.

In the drawer, there is a key and a birthday candle.

"This is the key to the villa's front door. With this key, you can leave here."

Grandma said this and handed the key and birthday candle to Chen Mu.

If nothing unexpected happens, this birthday candle is the special prop in this ghost door.

Chen Muben thought that the prop would be the table knife, but he didn't expect it to be a candle.

"Let's go now. It will be too late. Don't make the same mistake again."

The old lady waved at Chen Mu, signaling him to leave quickly.

Chen Mu didn't waste any words. He waved at the old lady, turned around and ran out of the basement.

Xiaoxi was still waiting at the door. As soon as Chen Mu ran out, he pulled Xiaoxi and ran quickly towards the stairs.

Eighteen minutes have passed, and in two minutes, Mom will have to get up and wash!

We must race against time!

As soon as the two of them reached the first floor, Chen Mu did not run towards the door immediately, but turned back and ran towards the kitchen.

Chen Mu calculated that it took him twenty seconds to go to the kitchen, which means forty seconds to go back and forth.

The remaining one minute and twenty seconds, half a minute to run to the gate, and half a minute to open the door.

In terms of time, it’s just in time to leave!

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