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Yang Bai is no different from other rich kids. He has a dad who is very profitable. He lives in a resplendent villa and goes to places where celebrities gather.There is a younger brother who is particularly prodigal in the family, and a stepmother who is younger and more beautiful than Peony.

Well, maybe there is still a little difference from others.

But it's definitely not like a storybook, where the stepmother has a heart of snakes and scorpions, trying every means to murder her.Yang Bai's stepmother treats her pretty well, if there is anything at school, the young and well-dressed stepmother will show up on time, but Yanhong has never met the father who is particularly profitable.

Rumors always said that Yang Bai's biological mother divorced because of family conflicts, but after all, these rumors themselves did not have much credibility.

As for whether her parents divorced because of conflicts, there is no way to know. The only thing Yanhong can be sure of now is the proud young lady in front of her. Her mother is long gone.

"...Are you kidding me?" Yan Hong raised her eyebrows and looked at Yang Bai. "your mom……"

The other party looked straight back at her and nodded. "Any questions?"

Her tone was taken for granted, as if she was just talking about a matter of failing to rank in the exam.Yan Hong was a little embarrassed, she didn't know what to say, she was silent for two seconds, then she nodded.

"Yes. So you transferred money to your brother because of your mother?"

The expression on Yang Bai's face was a little heavy, maybe it was because of the light.Then she hummed without replying.

Yanhong endured it, and said calmly as much as possible: "But it's a bit unreasonable to ask you to transfer all the living expenses last month."

Yang Bai smiled. "What, so you already know."

"I don't think it would be difficult for such a big thing to be in the dormitory, right?"

Yang Bai let go of his hand, and then sat back on the bed.Explained in a light tone: "My family is a single family for eight generations, that's all."

"I'm still the only seedling of my family." Yan Hong rolled her eyes and muttered.

A flashlight suddenly shot out of the window, as if the dormitory inspector came to the door.Yang Bai reacted quickly, he stretched out his hand and pulled Yan Hong to his bed to hold her down.

The two waited on the bed for a long time, looking at each other in dismay. The dangling flashlight gradually faded away without hitting anyone.

Then Yang Bai sat up and looked up at the water stains on the ceiling.

"Yu Le always said how boring the only child is, but I really envy her."

Yan Hong slowly got off the bed and returned to her side. "Maybe she also envies that you have a younger brother."

Yang Bai chuckled twice. "The prodigal son who can eat up my living expenses for a month in one day."

"What the hell is he doing? Forty thousand a day is too extravagant, isn't it?"

"Pick up girls."

"Fuck..." Children are too difficult to raise nowadays.Yan Hong silently wiped a cold sweat from her heart.Then she frowned again. "But since it's your mother, why do you still do it?"

Yang Bai tilted his head, and said quietly: "She really dotes on my younger brother."

"...Huh?" Yan Hong was taken aback, as if she couldn't comprehend any special meaning from her answer. "So you voluntarily listen to someone who is no longer alive?"

Yang Bai was still quiet and calm, repeating word by word: "My parents, elders, and relatives dote on my younger brother. Because our family is a single heir for eight generations."

"so what?"

"Since I was sensible, my family has revolved around my younger brother."

"Huh? Is your brother the sun?"

Yang Bai just smiled and shrugged his shoulders as a matter of course. "My mother died of dystocia when my younger brother was born. She always felt guilty for failing to fulfill her duties as a mother. As the only person who could see her and her only daughter, I naturally shouldered the responsibility of taking care of my younger brother instead of her. .”

Yan Hong frowned, trying her best to let her thinking keep up with Yang Bai's words.

But I don't know if it's because she hasn't experienced the so-called family life since she was a child, and she hasn't seen any people passed down by blood, so after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't understand what the other party said.I just feel that the matter of constantly transferring money to my younger brother because of the words of the dead mother is like a plot in some kind of bloody TV series that is specially used to torture people.

4 yuan a month is much more than the wages of employees in many industries.Yanhong's focus is always unconsciously centered on this non-essential issue. After several attempts, she decided to give up, shaking her head and saying, "No, I still don't understand."

Yang Bai asked back: "Why do you have to understand? I don't need you to deport my mother. It's fine for her to stay here..."

"Fuck." Hearing what she said so naturally, Yan Hong finally couldn't help it. "Are you sick?"

"Yeah." Yang Bai nodded, with an indifferent expression on his face.

Following the wishes of the dead is simply torturing one's own wishes and has been unwilling to turn back.The dead mother formed an obsession with her son's guilt and constantly forced her to make sacrifices, yet Yang Bai still felt that there was no problem with this. Puppets at the mercy of.

Yanhong is an orphan, she doesn't understand the feeling of being dependent on her parents, before considering this dependence, she may be more inclined to choose a way that can free herself from the obsession of the dead.

For example, let Mu Yu come to see the snake woman for the last time that day.

She remembered that when school was over, Yang Bai stood alone outside the school gate and waited for the bus. No matter how long it had been, the people around him came and went with a look of arrogance that he was used to.Only the shadow changes in depth with the flow of clouds.

Such a person - Yan Hong frowned, looked at Yang Bai opposite in the dark bedroom and remained silent.

——This kind of person is not like Yang Bai who would rush to kick other people away when Yu Le was injured.

She didn't know which one was the real appearance of this young lady.But Yanhong feels that Yang Bai's mentality of waiting to be manipulated and never struggling is inexplicably familiar.

The person involved didn't want Yanhong to interfere at will, so she was embarrassed to pester her. Since Yang Bai said that there was nothing wrong with the black shadow called her mother staying here, and it didn't cause any harm to Yanhong, she could only open her eyes. Close one eye.

The person who put in so much effort will not appreciate it, there is no need for Yan Hong to waste too much time here, and Yang Bai is not Mu Yu.

Although she still felt that it was necessary for her to remind the eldest lady that ghosts existed around her for a long time.

"I know." Yang Bai nodded indifferently, and then said, "But I think it's okay."

"……as long as you are happy."

After all, he was a child who had never faced death directly, so he thought it was just like going to the mall to buy a massage chair, something that could be solved by lying down and closing his eyes.

No one can face it calmly when the moment of real life and death decision comes.

Everyone is the same.Yan Hong thought to herself.

Since the conflict that day, their relationship has subtly changed.

Yang Bai also seems to be able to see the ghosts that Yan Hong sees, occasionally walking on campus with the three of Yu Le, a middle-aged man wearing black and white sportswear approached him, Yan Hong and Yang Bai stared at him at the same time. In seconds, he tacitly pushed Yu Le aside.

Yu Le, who was pushed away, looked at them with a puzzled face, and they looked at each other with a puzzled face.The three of them were awkwardly silent for a few seconds before Yan Hong said sullenly that I forgot to take something.After speaking, she turned around and left quickly, leaving Yang Bai and Yu Le behind. She didn't look back once, so she didn't know what Yang Bai told Yu Le after that.

But normal people should not tell the truth that they can see ghosts, right?

Yan Hong thought about it, and found that Yang Bai, who would voluntarily give in to her dead mother's request and never consider her own situation, might not be able to judge his behavior at the level of a normal person.

She once asked that person curiously: "Yang Bai, why didn't your father come to the parent-teacher meeting?"

Yang Bai played with his mobile phone and replied casually: "He has gone to my brother's place."

"Do you feel lost?"

"Why are you lost?"

"……Too."

Just like Yanhong was used to the snake woman not coming to her parents' meeting, Yang Bai obviously thought that it was normal for her father not to come to see him.

In the past, she didn't feel anything when she put it on herself, but now, as a bystander, she sees a case similar to herself, and Yanhong finds that the helplessness she always thought was ordinary can be reflected so lonely.

Even if Yang Bai said not to pay attention to her mother anymore, after all, there is still a long generation gap between the dead and the living, which cannot be bridged, nor can they hold the beautiful fantasy of coexistence.

She is a young and weak girl, independent and proud.

Maybe it looks no different from those rich kids who call the wind and rain, with famous brands at a young age, but when she looks at it now, Yanhong finds that it is not really the case.No matter how glamorous the appearance is, it still has no sense of reality, just like she was standing alone at the school gate, Yang Bai was always lonely and resigned to his fate.

Fortunately, Yang Bai just kept sending money to his younger brother, and when the money was gone, he asked his family to get it again, and at most he would be scolded.

At least judging from the young lady's expression and remarks, she didn't seem to think it was a big deal.

Then about three or four days later, Yan Hong bumped into Yang Bai when she went shopping with Yu Le on the weekend.Across the shelves of the shopping mall, I saw her following a boy with a childish face from a distance, as if he was choosing wine with him.

"That seems to be her younger brother." Yu Le stood on tiptoe to look, and said so.

"Ah." Yan Hong pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and involuntarily glanced at Yang Bai secretly. "But it's okay to buy wine at such a young age?"

"Didn't you see Yang Bai dressed coquettishly? It looks like he is going to pretend to be an adult and buy it for his brother."

Yu Le was right, Yang Bai was still wearing short skirts and stockings in the cold weather, with makeup on and long wavy hair, at first glance she really looked like a beautiful woman who had come out to work.

Yan Hong secretly sighed, watching her younger brother skillfully select the wine on the shelf at a young age, lamenting that children are getting more mature these days, so she reluctantly followed Yu Le to the other side.

Yu Le muttered about the location of the seaweed he saw before, but he took several bags of shredded squid without hesitation, which made Yan Hong feel his mouth dry.

She suddenly remembered that she didn't seem to see the shadow of Yang Bai's mother just now, and wondered if she was hiding somewhere.

After buying snacks, it was already two hours later.Yu Le played with her mobile phone and complained that she didn't want to go home yet, so Yan Hong could only walk around with her in a good-tempered manner.She thought that it was the weekend anyway, it was still early, and there was no homework, at most, the final exam was due tomorrow.

Well, exam.Calmly repeating that word in her heart, Yan Hong didn't feel the slightest fluctuation in her heart.

They were walking aimlessly on the street when they suddenly heard someone call Yu Le's name.

They looked at each other suspiciously, and looked in the direction of the sound together, and found a boy carrying a black schoolbag trotting towards them from the opposite sidewalk.

Yu Le first stared at the boy with a look of who is that person, and finally blinked as if he had come to his senses.

"Zhu Lei?"

Who is it?Yan Hong was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that Yang Bai had said before that there was a school grass-level figure who heard that he liked Yu Le, and it seemed that his name was also like that.But this month's school grass title seems to be snatched by the son of an upstart.

Zhu Lei ran over and said with a sunny face, "What a coincidence, are you out shopping?"

Yu Le nodded and asked him, "Where are you going?"

"Oh, my dad's hotel has an event today, and I'm going to attend." Zhu Lei patted his backpack. "I just went to cram school, and I put all my suits in my bag."

"Ah, so that's it." Yu Le said as she turned her head and glanced at the distance, Yan Hong followed her gaze, and saw a building with a golden exterior wall, clearly standing among tall buildings. "Then go quickly." Yu Le then said to Zhu Lei.

"Hmm... well, I'm actually not in a hurry to go there." Zhu Lei hesitated for a moment, and just about to point in a certain direction, Yu Le suddenly turned his head to look at Yanhong.

"Yanhong, when do you think Yang Bai will come?" She was caught off guard and asked.

"what?"

Yan Hong and Zhu Lei were stunned at the same time, looking at her inexplicably.

"Yang Bai?" Zhu Lei frowned. "Just now I seemed to see her walking towards my hotel with a group of boys."

"..."

"..."

Zhu Lei's father is said to have invested in two hotels this year, and the golden building in Lekan just now is one of them. It focuses on European-style dining and atmosphere. There is a large crescent-shaped artificial lake in front of the door, with silvery white floating above it. boat.It was named Dolphin Bay, and Yanhong didn't know if it was a good name, anyway, she felt that it was fine if others liked it.

The three of them walked into the resplendent lobby of the hotel, and saw lifelike dolphin reliefs engraved on the surrounding pillars. The ground in the center seemed to be transparent, revealing a piece of blue transparent glass, with a huge dolphin model underneath.

At first glance, it is indeed very shocking.

The staff in the hotel seemed to know Zhu Lei, and when they saw him coming, they hurriedly bowed and called him the young master.

Zhu Lei walked up to the service counter and asked the nervous receptionist directly, "Did a woman with red wavy hair come here with a group of boys just now?"

"There is such a thing. I don't know if she is..."

"She's my friend. Where has she gone?"

"Someone reserved a standard room for her yesterday, on the twelfth floor."

"Give me a room card."

"Huh? But..."

"I'll pay it back later, it's okay, just take a look."

Later, Zhu Lei walked up to Yu Le, playing with the silver-white room card in his hand, and handed it to her with a happy face. "Here, it's okay, go on a date with me after the exam."

"Yeah." Yu Le took the room card blankly. "Thanks."

"Then I'll wait for you here."

Yu Le nodded, then pulled Yan Hong past him and went straight to the elevator.

Just as someone came down, they waited for the guests with children to get out of the elevator and immediately jumped in, and then Yu Le pressed the twelfth floor.Yanhong looked at her casually looking at the silver-white room card, and sighed involuntarily: "You are so great."

"Great?" Yu Le was taken aback for a moment, then realized. "Oh, you mean the date thing."

"To be honest, you don't know Zhu Lei very well, do you?"

"Anyway, it's just a meal." She shrugged and answered casually. "Having a meal with others, and letting Yang Bai be taken advantage of, I think the latter is more serious."

Yan Hong said: "But brother Yang Bai is still young, isn't he? His friends are probably not too old, and kids shouldn't be so... scheming."

Yu Le raised the room card in Yang's hand. "Yang Bai is a minor, but the hotel still gave me a room. I guess her parents made the reservation in advance. It is said that Zhu Lei and Yang Bai's parents once had dinner together. We have discussed this matter. As soon as the phone call from above, we will nailed it."

"Oh……"

"However, Yang Bai kept telling me that her parents wouldn't let her spend the night in a hotel outside, so she probably didn't ask for this room."

"Her brother wants a room? But why?"

"Think about why he bought wine before, and why did so many boys come to the hotel together after buying the wine?"

shit.

Yan Hong was taken aback in her heart, remembering that Yang Bai kicked the boys away from Yu Le one by one during the autumn outing, and was just about to say that the man was not so delicate, maybe he just slapped the person who wanted to take advantage He was half dead, but at the same time, the black shadow of Yang Bai's mother flashed in his mind.

"No way..." she muttered in a low voice.

Yu Le didn't care that Yan Hong was meditating alone, the elevator quickly ascended to the twelfth floor, and she quickly ran out the moment the door opened.Yan Hong was taken aback and quickly followed.

There are many oil paintings hanging on the walls of the corridor, and the artistic atmosphere spreads over the surface.But Yu Le ran directly to the door corresponding to the room card, unlocked it with a bang without courtesy, and pushed the door open.

Yan Hong slowed down by two steps, and heard the boy's swearing and crackling chaos coming from the room.

She found a deep water stain in front of the door, with a strange shape.

Rushed into the room, just in time to see Yu Le kicking Younger Brother Yang Bai to the ground, where several boys covering their crotches rolled in disorder.And the familiar black figure was screaming at her angrily, and the water stains on the wall became more and more obvious with the screaming.

It's a pity that Yu Le can't see it, and can't feel its anger.

Yan Hong turned her head and found that Yang Bai was standing by the door, with two cut wounds on his hands, bleeding.But she obviously didn't care, and stared at Yu Le in disbelief.