The night seemed endless and there was a heavy rain outside the car, but inside the car was completely silent. The only thing I could hear was my even and steady breathing.

……who is it?

Jiang Siyue raised his head, trying hard to see the face of the person driving in front of him.

But maybe it was because it was too dark, or maybe it was because the car was too dark. It was as if a thin veil was covering her eyes, making it impossible for her to see clearly.

Just then, she suddenly heard herself asking, "Mommy, where are we going?"

Mommy?!?!

Jiang Siyue's scalp suddenly felt tingling.

This woman... is her mother? ! !

But after waiting for a long time, the woman in the driver's seat did not answer, but just tightened her arms.

Jiang Siyue suddenly realized that he was actually held in her arms? !

Strange, is this her memory before she was three years old?

I don’t know if this “mother” is a dream or a real memory…where should I take her?

"Mommy, why don't you speak?" Little A Yue in the woman's arms was also puzzled. "It's dark... Baby is sleepy..."

"Don't sleep!"

The woman finally spoke, her voice was urgent and sharp, and even the arms around her tightened again.

Little A Yue in the dream had probably never heard her mother scold her so harshly, and she was scared and cried at that time.

But when the little brat opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't cry at all, and could only sob in grievance.

She raised her head through tearful eyes and seemed to see the woman's lips move soundlessly.

Judging from her mouth shape, her mother seemed to curse: "Fuck."

Jiang Siyue: ...It's fine if you don't like her, but why are you scolding her? Isn't it because you, as a mother, scared the little brat to cry?

However, the next second, the woman suddenly stepped on the brakes!

The car skidded to a stop in the rainy night. Little A Yue heard her mother unbuckle her seat belt and reach into her coat pocket, looking for something.

A few seconds later, the little brat's soft cheeks were pinched and a small bottle cap of unknown liquid was forced into his mouth.

"Cough, cough, cough——!" The sweet medicine blocked her throat for a moment, causing little A Yue to choke and cough uncontrollably.

But the woman didn't hesitate for a second. She put the medicine cap on and stuffed it into her fleshy palm. She then took a blanket from the passenger seat and wrapped her tightly in it.

The rain outside the car continued to pour down. The woman rushed to open the door, took off her coat to cover her head, and quickly walked towards the dimly lit narrow alley opposite.

"Hold on to the medicine! Don't lose it!" Amid the sound of rain, the woman's voice rang out again, and it was obviously more urgent than the first time.

medicine……?

Little A Yue clenched the red medicine bottle in her hand in a daze. Suddenly, she felt cold all over and her eyelids felt heavy as if they were filled with lead.

"Mommy, the baby is so cold..." She murmured drowsily, "Why...why did we run out? Did...Xiao Bei make Mommy angry again..."

The woman was silent again.

Jiang Siyue could clearly feel that she was enduring.

What is she enduring?

It was a rainy day, and the kid was still running a high fever. Instead of going to the hospital, he drove to such a remote place...

Some speculation gradually came to my mind.

The long-forgotten memories suddenly broke through the rainy night, and even evoked a trace of long-numbed sadness from the most secret corner of Jiang Siyue's heart.

This was a dream, she thought for sure.

But it must be her real memory.

So... was this the night she was abandoned more than 20 years ago?

The young mother didn't even want to say a word to her, and the two times she spoke were both stern and impatient.

The young A Yue didn’t understand, and the grown-up Jiang Si Yue understood even less.

If you decided to abandon her, why did you feed her medicine and wrap her in a blanket?

Do you still have to pretend to hold her in your arms and not want her to get wet by even a drop of rain?

The narrow alley was filled with miscellaneous items from every household on both sides. The woman didn't walk far before she put her under the eaves of a low shed.

She half-knelt down in front of him - even though the distance was so close, Jiang Siyue still couldn't see her face clearly.

Actually, it’s no wonder, after all, she really doesn’t remember what her mother looks like.

But the strange thing is that, apart from the woman's face, everything else around her seemed to be deeply engraved in her mind.

For example, the flickering street lamp on the opposite wall, a must-have in horror movies;

Another example is the woman's upright posture even when she is half squatting, and her ice-cold hands wiping away tears from her eyes.

"Mommy, your hands are so cold...quickly take the coat off the baby's head!"

Poor little A Yue had no idea what was about to happen to her, and even until the very last moment she was still concerned about her vicious mother who was about to abandon her.

The "evil mother" really stopped little A Yue from raising her hand to tear off her coat, and raised her index finger, making a "shut up" gesture.

Jiang Siyue: Okay, you even know not to shout.

I don’t know if I was too obedient when I was a child, or if I was really confused by the fever.

As soon as the woman made a gesture, she really shut her mouth obediently, forced her heavy eyelids to keep her eyes open, and stared at her blankly.

The street light on the opposite wall flickered a few times, and finally there was complete silence.

The visibility in the night became even lower, and little A Yue, who was suffering from a high fever, almost fainted in the darkness.

The woman seemed to have noticed this as well.

Xiao Ayue saw her glance towards the alley entrance, and then used her cold hands to hold up her burning red face...

Hmm? It seems not as cold as before.

Even a little warm.

Little A Yue looked at the woman in surprise as she put her forehead against hers and whispered something.

So back then...did she leave me a message? Jiang Siyue thought.

However, she apparently never heard her "evil mother's" final farewell again - because she didn't remember it at all back then.

But in fact, you can guess it easily. It's nothing more than meaningless remarks like "Don't hate mom", "Mom is sorry for you", "Mom really has no choice".

In the final analysis, it is just to find an excuse for one's own irresponsibility.

Eventually, they feel mentally balanced and think that abandonment is not a sin but is just a last resort. The truly unlucky ones are always the abandoned children.

As for her scumbag father who never showed up from beginning to end...

He doesn't even have the qualifications to be "hated" by her.

But even though Jiang Siyue had already let it go, little Ayue who was still in the dream could not.

After all, it was she who had just been abandoned.

In addition to astonishment, helplessness and panic, what follows is overwhelming fear and anxiety.

She is still so young, she still has a fever, she is not even able to take care of herself completely... How can you bear it?

The night is so thick that it cannot be dissolved.

Little A Yue stood under the simple eaves that could barely keep out the rain but were leaking wind from all sides, staring blankly at the woman in front of her who didn't even turn her head back.

Until her back disappeared in the heavy rain, until she could no longer be seen.

The little brat looked down at the medicine bottle in her hand, which was half a size bigger than her hand. Tears as big as beans rolled down her face unconsciously, soaking the bottle.

……

Late at night, the lights in Ward 714 were brightly on.

The nurse, who was working the night shift, held the needle in her right hand, tightened the cold white back of her left hand, aimed at the blood vessel and stabbed it decisively.

As the needle hit the blood, Jiang Siyue on the hospital bed slowly opened his eyes.

"Ayue?!" Zhou Shiyan, who had been standing by the bed without blinking, was the first to notice that she was awake. He quickly reached out and touched her face. "You finally woke up. I was scared to death!"

The nurse fixed the needle, picked up the treatment tray and said with a smile: "Good that you're awake. I'll go call Director Huang!"

The door of the ward opened and closed again. Jiang Siyue glanced at the back of his hand blankly: "I..."

As soon as she said one word, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

Zhou Shiyan's frown did not relax.

After helping Jiang Siyue sit up, he immediately brought a cup of warm water from the bedside table and fed her while explaining: "It's three o'clock in the morning."

"When I came back from the company at two o'clock, you were already asleep."

"Mr. Huang said the nurse took your temperature for the last time before you went to bed, and because everything was normal, she rescinded the doctor's order for the time being."

"I mainly want you to have a good sleep, so that you won't be disturbed when you're asleep, which will affect your recovery."

"I didn't expect that while I was taking a shower, you would suddenly feel hot all over and look very bad."

"The first time I took his temperature it was only 37.7C, the second time it shot up to 39.8C, and no matter how much I called him I couldn't wake him up."

"I tried all kinds of physical cooling methods, but the effect was minimal. So I had no choice but to give him an emergency fever-reducing injection."

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