This silent night didn't even last long, at least half an hour had passed before the bell broke the silence, and everyone looked blankly at the source of the sound.
Never expected...
The first story actually comes from Zhang Dazhi.
"The name of the story, I call it my failed first half of life."
"In my world, the Qi Lie people, who are the most numerous and powerful people, are quite discriminatory towards sub-race people with impure blood, thinking that they are the foot-licking servants of the devil. Therefore, the lives of all sub-race people have changed since their birth.
No one of this subrace has yet been born who is struggling to survive and live to the end of his life at the age of fifteen hundred years."
"Unfortunately, I am just a humble person of the Kirie subrace."
"Because of this sin-stamped identity, I cannot get a regular job, and there is no group for me to live in. I am like a piece of drifting duckweed wandering outside this world."
"No one knows that I, a piece of floating duckweed, was once a strange young man born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Yes, before everything is finalized, I am really a strange young man, not a lowly person.
People of the Kirie subrace..."
"Yes, my parents are both serious Qi Lie people. The child they gave birth to was also a Qi Lie person. I was a kind-hearted ordinary person. At that time, I had dreams, I had money, and I always
Looking for the meaning of being in this world."
Zhang Dazhi's voice is always steady. Even though his tone is very stiff, most people can perfectly understand it through the three words "ordinary people", and understand the meaning in the narrator's sentence without even any adjectives.
The impermanence of fate.
"Because I came from a distinguished family, I naturally had countless lofty ideals and longed to do something big that would shock the world. For example, I sympathize with the people of the Kirie subrace, and I hope that I can become a righteous leader, like I once did.
I have led ethnic groups, and like an old grandfather, I have worked hard to break these unfair treatments, or make all discrimination in the world disappear..."
"But my vision is too narrow. I only saw my grandfather's majestic momentum hundreds of years ago, but I ignored his helplessness and sadness when he finally became dejected and abdicated to make way for others."
"Fifty years ago, I was four hundred years old and just came of age. The strange thing is that I didn't awaken my power like my classmates. I even failed to awaken my own power during the assessment. What's funny is that I never realized it.
Keep this kind of thing in mind until——"
"I suddenly lost my privileged life and realized that my family was completely different from other ordinary families."
"However, even though I lost my formidable family background, I still strive for self-improvement and am proud of myself for being obedient and sensible, as well as getting full marks in more than three subjects. I have been working hard for my dreams and for
To become excellent is to become what parents call ‘other people’s children’;”
"It's just that I never imagined that apart from myself and the five dragonflies I secretly kept under the bed, there would be no seventh being who would be happy for my excellence."
"It all happened because my father accidentally offended a very important person and was imprisoned for this."
"To put it into perspective, that was before I inexplicably turned into a person of the Kirie subspecies. The scene when I witnessed him being pressed on the roof of the car and tortured away may have been the beginning of my going astray..."
"He was sentenced to a hundred years. I know that he will stay there until he breathes his last breath. He will never have a chance to see the light of day again."
"I don't know how he offended those people, so that even after they put him in jail, they still didn't calm down their anger, and even targeted my mother, me, and grandparents. On a nice winter day,
Warm light shone on the earth, and my family and I were driven out of the big house, like a few bereaved dogs."
"Grandpa suffered a stroke and was admitted to the hospital, and he never came out. He died three years later. Maybe he was depressed because of this, or maybe it was just because he was in poor health. After all, he was more than 1,400 years old.
He is suffering from advanced age, high blood pressure, heart disease, and various diseases of the elderly, but we do not have better conditions to treat him."
“The hemp rope only picks and breaks at the thinnest point, and bad luck only seeks out the miserable.”
"After my grandfather passed away, the last layer of protection for my mother and I was also torn apart. Even though he had great authority and a few old friends often helped our family, the favors would be slowly worn out by asking for them day after day.
All."
"It wasn't until I was diagnosed as a cripple who couldn't awaken my power, and even carried the recessive Qi Lie subspecies gene, that I never saw my grandfather's old friends again, let alone their grandchildren - those who are keen to follow
A 'good friend' whom I call a brother-in-law..."
"The news that my father has entered the bureau is like spices boiling in a pot. Along with a series of news about my inability to awaken my power and my lowly descent of the Kirie subrace, these news are gradually boiling in the air, classmates.
He looked at me like he was looking at a bed bug."
"I asked my mother to take me away from this ethnic group that had no place to live, but my mother refused. She looked at me with a very strange look, and within half a minute, she looked away, as if she couldn't bear it.
"I didn't know why at the time. Why did my mother always resist seeing my face?"
"Later, I happened to do it inadvertently, and it wasn't quite random, because I would always stare at my face for a long time by the sink. At that moment, I seemed to see my father's face through the glass."
"That's an ugly face."
"My father was ugly, so he hoped that his offspring would inherit better genes, so he tried his best to marry a beautiful woman. With his inadvertent display of generosity and lavishness, he successfully defeated
He attracted many suitors and 'captured' my mother's heart."
"But I believe that my mother has no love for him."
"Because when she looked at me, she looked exactly like the fat guy who bullied me."
"I once imagined that if my mother and I settled in another ethnic group, would everything be completely different?"
"Imaginations are always just assumptions. After all, I cannot predict my own destiny and make changes for it."
"My mother is so beautiful that even though she is nearly a thousand years old, there are still countless people willing to abandon their families and children for her, regardless of gender."
"However, not all beautiful women have a kind heart."
"Not all mothers can love and protect their children. This is what I suddenly understood after I clearly expressed to her one day that I was very resistant to going to Qi Lie Academy and accidentally cut my arm by her."
"I became taciturn, my personality became more and more introverted, and my grades got worse and worse. My excellence was like a flash in the pan, and eventually, like my mediocre appearance, it became a thing of the past."
"The turning point of my life...or rather, the breaking point; I will never forget what happened that day. Smelling the sweet smell of pastries in the air, a large group of people blocked me in the alley next to the cake shop.
"..."
"...They laughed."
"I thought it was over, but it turned out that I was overthinking it and it was not over."
"Until the fat man picked up a staff..."
"Half a month later, I returned to Qi Lie Academy with my leg in a cast."
"The night before the second turning point in my life, I mustered up the courage to ask my mother a series of questions. Those questions accumulated in my heart, like the dead bodies of ancient plants accumulated together, condensing into layers of charred...
coal."
"It was completely ignited in this moment."
"Is there really a biological mother who hates her own child? Is the child she gave birth to after several months of pregnancy just a dispensable waste? Why didn't she choose to kill the child from the beginning? Why did she
Why don't you make selfless sacrifices for the continuation of your life like other mothers?"
"There was a strange look in my mother's eyes again. This time, she suddenly showed a smile to me."
"My mother's smile is really beautiful. She is still as beautiful as the beauty in the old photos, and her style is still the same. It is a kind of beauty that makes men flock to her."
"But as her child, I only feel...sad for her."
"The next night, I came home a full hour and a half late. At this time, I was surprised to find that my mother was sitting at the dining table like a sculpture. She actually cooked a table of dishes for the first time, including braised pork and Coke chicken wings.
, eggplant with minced meat, steamed pork with rice flour..."
"It turns out that my life is destined to fail."
"I suddenly realized this one cold early morning."
"After the cold early morning, I opened the door of my house."
"I was handcuffed to the hood of the car like my father."
"I looked up and realized it was a sunny morning."
