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  After the producer left, she sat on the long bench in deep thoughts. Her brother saw her depressed look and quietly picked up a dumpling to stuff in her mouth.

  She was shocked and had to force herself to swallow the dumpling. After that she glared darkly at her brother. “Hey, what do you think you’re doing?”


  “What are you thinking about?”


  The woman merely pouted and refused to answer him.

  He ruffled her hair and said, “This has nothing to do with us; you don’t have to let your thoughts run wild because of that actress.”


  “I have a bad feeling.”


  “Don’t spout nonsense.” The man embraced her and patted her shoulder gently. “Rest assured; as long as I’m around, nobody can hurt you.”


  “Xiao Jie……”


  “Hm?”


  “Do you still remember my adoptive mother and her daughter, Yun Na? I’ve mentioned them to you before. She’s the biological daughter of my adoptive parents.”


  “I don’t remember her name, but you’ve indeed mentioned her to me in the past.” After a pause, he showed a somewhat surprised look. “Why did you bring her name up all of a sudden?”


  “She suddenly went missing with my adoptive mother last year.”


  The man’s eyelids twitched harshly at that.

  Youyou had also mentioned this matter to him when the old man was admitted to the hospital.

  The boy had divulged something about himself and the mother-daughter pair. At that time, his nephew was looking down and out, too.

  Their disappearance was his doing. though the boy did not tell him exactly what he had done. He only said that he had dumped them into the sea like a bunch of rubbish, so he did not know the specifics.

  Toward the end of last year, the body of that adoptive mother was picked up by a fisherman when he was out fishing. Her body was badly eaten by fishes and he was told that she had died a horrible death.

  His nephew admitted feeling terribly guilty about what he had done. He also admitted that he was emotionally out of control when he issued that order to throw them out into the sea back then. That was why he could not recall the reason for his ruthlessness. It was as if he had been possessed.

  In fact, he could not remember what he had said or done at that time.

  Youyou did not know that he had an alter ego of a dark nature in him. This evil, secondary self of his was conceived after a prolonged period of traumatic childhood fraught with torment and misery.

  That incident was just a fuse that led to the boy fully developing a dissociative identity disorder. Once his other personality emerged, what he did was beyond his control. The kid did not know that he was capable of such cruelty, so much so that it left a lingering fear in his heart.

  Back then, he found out the various unkind deeds Yun Na had done to his mother through the thug Li Dongqiang’s mouth. He was immensely agitated to the point where evil consumed him. When he realized that a monster was hiding inside him, it truly caused him some discomfort.

  ‘Uncle, is it possible for someone to escape alive after being thrown into the sea?’


  His nephew had asked him then, believing the incident involving his grandfather might have something to do with his adoptive aunt.

  There was nothing to support his suspicion, of course, except for his inert sixth sense at work. Somehow, he got this feeling that one of the tragic pair had not died, and she was now lurking in the dark, biding her time as she secretly plotted each of their demise.

  The boy did not suspect his aunt at first, but that day when he was keeping watch of his grandfather, he heard the old man mumbling his biological daughter’s name in his dream.

  “Nana…… n-no…… st-stop……”


  The boy, who was next to his grandfather’s bed, instantly became alert when he heard that name.