I Was Once a Legend

Dong Zheng's mother died at the moment he was about to be born.

The sudden amniotic fluid embolism during childbirth claimed her life within 5 minutes. No matter how skilled the doctor was, he was helpless in the face of death. He could only take out the baby in her stomach by cesarean section, and took off the oxygen mask and pulmonary artery. Floating catheter and dialysis machine, announced to Dong Yi outside the delivery room that the rescue was invalid.

Amniotic fluid embolism, amniotic fluid suddenly enters the maternal blood circulation during childbirth, leading to acute pulmonary embolism, anaphylactic shock, renal failure or sudden death, the most dangerous childbirth complications.

It was Dong Zheng who killed her.

For a long time, every time Dong Yi saw his newborn child, he couldn't help but think so.

Although he understands that he shouldn't be angry at a baby who doesn't understand anything, this thought is like a cobweb that cannot be broken away, entangled him all the time.

The more you struggle, the tighter you get.

Dong Yi hid all the photos of his deceased wife, as if not seeing that face could make the grief fade away slowly, so until Dong Zheng was seven years old, Dong Yi married his secretary Su Daijun as Dong Zheng's stepmother and cleaned up the house At that time, Dong Zhengcai dug out old photos in the storage room and knew his mother's face for the first time.

He is very much like his mother.

It was the woman in front of him who appeared in his dream.

Liu Yueqiang was only 23 years old when she died, in her best years.She is petite, with a pair of extraordinarily bright eyes, and the wide emerald bracelet sets off her slender wrists.

She was wearing a camouflage combat uniform, holding Emei thorns with both hands, standing in the dripping rain, facing Dong Zheng, her eyes were firm, and her eyes passed through Dong Zheng, as if she couldn't see him.

Dong Zheng's hands hanging by his side began to tremble uncontrollably. He clenched his fists tightly, tried his best to resist the urge to reach out and touch, and stared deeply, deeply at this familiar yet unfamiliar face. .

Never thought that there would be such a day.

He opened his mouth, faced her for the first time, and called out the name he had been calling Su Daijun for many years:

"……Mother?"

But Liu Yueqiang couldn't hear it.

"Have you figured it out?" The girl's voice came softly into her ears.

Dong Zheng turned around suddenly, only to notice a girl standing behind him and in front of her mother, about ten years old, with short hair, dressed in the Republic of China, holding a white oil-paper umbrella.

Chang Hui?

Dong Zheng immediately remembered what Cui Zuojing had told him, and it was almost certain that this girl had left something in his body, the rumored devil who followed desire.

Liu Yueqiang pursed her lips into a firm arc: "Well, I've made up my mind."

"Okay." Chang Hui smiled softly and satisfied. She turned the handle of the umbrella, and the rain scattered along the ribs in all directions. "Then after you die, you won't be able to become a prisoner. Your soul will be used by me directly. Do you agree?"

Dong Zheng was shocked.

--don't want!

Dong Zheng watched Liu Yueqiang nodded without hesitation, and said, "I agree."

"Say your wish."

"I hope that one day, if my child enters here by accident, he can have a hole card to save his life." Liu Yueqiang took out a black card, with complex golden patterns painted on the sides and back of the card.

Dong Zheng was stunned.

This is the black gold prisoner card he summoned Cui Zuojing.

"Please help me get this to 'him'."

He stretched out his hand in a daze and touched the familiar card.After his summoning was completed, a pattern representing Cui Zuojing's prisoner's name "Arabidopsis" and the Wheel of Fortune appeared on the blank card, which has now been fused into his left hand because of the blood contract.

Dong Zheng's hand passed through the card, and also passed through Liu Yueqiang's fingertips.Chang Hui took the prisoner card, looked down, and said, "This is a rare top-level prisoner card. You are about to reach the last step of the pilgrimage. Don't you want to keep it for yourself?"

Liu Yueqiang shook her head with a smile, and said softly: "I know my own level, and instead of wasting such a good resource, I might as well keep it."

She doesn't even know whether her child is a boy or a girl, what it looks like, or what its name is.

But still left the most precious hope to him.

"Okay, then the deal is concluded." Chang Hui stretched out her hand, and lightly tapped Liu Yueqiang's brow with the tip of her index finger, "I will give the card to your child in my own way."

The black red light sank into the skin, Liu Yueqiang frowned, resisting the discomfort.Dong Zheng held one of her hands and watched the light spot disappear, but he was powerless to stop it.

At the same time, a blood-red fingerprint appeared on the inside of Chang Hui's paper umbrella, and together with other dense blood prints, they formed a strange pattern with a fishy smell.

"The next time we meet, it's time for me to take your soul."

The rain stopped.

All the pictures disappeared in an instant, including the figure that Dong Zheng tried his best to keep, he stretched out his hand, but only caught the streamer.

At this moment, all the memories that had been deliberately sealed finally slowly emerged. It was what happened when he first entered the Pure White Realm.

The girl holding an umbrella stood outside the Haunted Mansion, and smiled at him who had just received the novice box reward: "An old friend asked me to hand over something to you, how about... just exchange it with the cards in your hand?"

And he was completely in a trance, and stretched out his hand uncontrollably.

A loud noise exploded in his ears, and Dong Zheng suddenly opened his eyes.

The thunder in the rainy night seemed to be ringing above his head, Dong Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and stared at the ceiling with the occasional lightning flashing outside the window.

That was... his mother.

After dying in childbirth, she entered the realm of pure white and became a powerful pilgrim all the way, even to the final level.

But on the eve of being able to fulfill her wish and leave here, she made a deal with Chang Hui and left him the crucial hole card.

Dong Zheng couldn't tell what the strong sourness in his heart was. At the age of 26, he finally saw his mother for the first time with his own eyes. Although it was only a few minutes, he couldn't get a word from her. A call, or a tender look.

He knew that she loved him very much, and she would not forget to take precautions to protect him at the moment of life and death, but...but from now on, the two of them would never see each other again.

Something was lodged in his chest, and he could barely breathe.

After Cui Zuojing woke up and came out of the prisoner's space, he saw Dong Zheng sitting on the bed in a daze. The man was facing the window, looking at the rain marks winding down on the glass, and his dark eyes were suddenly flashed from time to time. Electric lights illuminated.

He seemed to be a bit broken, and he didn't see the usual calm and self-restraint that armed himself from head to toe to the teeth.

Cui Zuojing: "?"

He frowned, it was the first time he saw Dong Zheng like this, he could even vaguely feel the unspeakable sadness deep in Dong Zheng's heart, touched his shoulder, and asked: "What's wrong?"

Dong Zheng turned his head and glanced at him. For some reason, Cui Zuojing couldn't help but think of the beast in the clown's circus, which was locked in a cage and silently licked its wounds.

Dong Zheng was just silent, just when Cui Zuojing thought he would not answer, he whispered: "I... dreamed about something."

"Huh?" Cui Zuojing sat cross-legged beside him. It was still dark outside, and no one turned on the lights. In this peaceful darkness, apart from the sound of rain, he could vaguely hear the other person's breathing.

"The prisoner card that summoned you was given to me by Chang Hui."

"Chang Hui gave it to you?" Cui Zuojing was startled, "Why did she give you this?"

"My mother used to be a member of the pilgrims." Dong Zheng said with some difficulty, "At the last moment, she used her soul as a bargaining chip to ask Chang Hui, if one day I also come here, let her take the black gold Give me the prisoner card as a hole card to save my life."

Cui Zuojing was stunned.

He had long thought that Dong Zheng's ability to get the black gold prisoner card to summon him must have been manipulated by someone, but he never expected...it would be like this.

Chang Hui noticed Dong Zheng from the very beginning, so it's not very strange to leave her own energy on Dong Zheng.

Cui Zuojing didn't know too much about Chang Hui, but he speculated that Chang Hui was not an aborigine in this world.Dong Zheng is 26 years old this year, and his mother made a deal with Chang Hui at least 20 years ago. Since then, has Chang Hui come to the Pure White Realm?

Cui Zuojing didn't know what to say for a moment, he never comforted others, although Dong Zheng didn't show it obviously, but the depression in his heart had already affected him.

But his feelings are still with the clown, he has lost all empathy and can't empathize with him.

Cui Zuojing even wanted to go back to the prisoner's space a little bit, to avoid this situation, and let Dong Zheng stay alone quietly to digest his emotions.

In the end he didn't.

After a while, Cui Zuojing asked softly, "Can you tell me about your mother?"

He didn't have much hope for Dong Zheng's answer. Dong Zheng is a very private person. Except that he was willing to bet on blackjack before, he never said anything about his family. Even when Cui Zuojing asked him for the first time When he had a relationship with Dong Linhai, he lied directly.

Maybe it's the inner depression that needs to be shared by someone, maybe it's the blood contract that makes the two people's emotions partly connected, or maybe there are other deep reasons that Cui Zuojing doesn't understand.Dong Zheng was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and for the first time in history, talked about his past: "My mother died because of my dystocia."

"Her amniotic fluid embolism happened too suddenly and violently, and it was too late to save her. My father felt like he was hiding from me because of this... how should I put it, and he was in the rising period of his career at that time. When I was young, I was almost always alone. people, or with a nanny."

"When I was a little older, my father gradually came out of the grief. He would take me to the company after picking me up from school, and let the secretary accompany me to do my homework in his office. The secretary was a graduate who had just graduated. My girl, in her twenties, has a good temper and is very patient, she will play with me and hold parent-teacher meetings for me."

When Cui Zuojing heard this, he could almost predict what would happen next.

"I liked her so much that when my dad asked me if I'd like her to be my mum, I said yes.

"She married my father less than a year, and Linhai was born. Of course, they paid more attention to the newborn child. I was already eight years old at that time. Although I was uncomfortable, I also knew a lot.

"She is good to me and has been taking good care of me, but of course the child she loves the most and cares about will always be her own. And my father, because I look more like my mother, thinks of my dead wife every time he sees me.

"He felt that he owed me because he didn't care when he was a child, so when he treated me, he didn't treat me as naturally as Linhai.

"So I always feel that I am the extra person in the family."

The voice gradually fell, and the bedroom became quiet again, and neither of them spoke for a while.

Sure enough, there is a reason for Dong Zheng's personality. Cui Zuojing always felt that he couldn't let go. Possessed by God, Dong Zheng has been disguising himself.

There is no doubt that Dong Zheng has the ability to be a leader, but if there is no need for him to stand out and someone else can lead the team, even if that person is not as good as him in some places, Dong Zheng will reduce his sense of existence and silently stay aside.

When he was in Hameln, he chose to let the man with glasses lead the action.

Dong Zheng is the captain of the group, but this responsibility is more like being thrown to him. Dong Linhai trusts and relies on him, and Ai Lun, who joined later, doesn't like to worry about it. As a recruited team member, Lin Hangzhi cannot be the core of leadership.

This is choice after no choice.

It's like he's playing what he should be in the eyes of others.

A calm, strong, well-organized captain who will arrange the next step and coordinate all parties.

No one knew that he would also sweat with fear when he met a ghost, and he would also want to not use his brain to worry about the future, just waiting for the order to come down.

……

Well, except Cui Zuojing.

Cui Zuojing blinked, saw that Dong Zheng was still facing the window silently, hesitated for a while, put his face in front of him to look carefully, and asked tentatively: "Are you crying?"

His eyes were instantly occupied by the young man's face, Dong Zheng was a little surprised, and subconsciously hid back: "No, why do you think so?"

Cui Zuojing saw that he didn't have any signs of redness in the corners of his eyes, and his voice was normal, so he returned to the original place embarrassingly, touched his nose and said, "I thought you would be very sad."

Dong Zheng smiled silently, and said: "I am not a child for a long time. Besides, everyone has difficulties and misfortunes that they can only understand on their own. Why bother to blame yourself? I was doing well in the real world before. Yes. Seeing her today... makes me a little uncomfortable."

Is it really good?

Cui Zuojing doubted the authenticity of this sentence, he thought for a while, snapped his fingers, and said: "Since you have told me such a private matter, to be fair, I will also tell you something about me How about it?"