“I… I didn’t… ”


  He frantically explained, “Brother, I didn’t bully you…”


  “What about the amethyst bracelet I gave you?”


  Youyou quickly lowered his head to look at his wrist. The amethyst bracelet on his wrist had disappeared. “Where’s the bracelet?”


  “You lost it!” Little Yichen picked up Yueyao and said hatefully, “Yueyao, let’s go. Let’s ignore him!”


  Yueyao looked at him coldly and turned around to nestle in Little Yichen’s arms. Without another look at him, they turned around and walked into the sea.

  Youyou panicked and ran after them, but Little Yichen carried Yueyao further and further away. Half of his body was submerged in the sea now.

  “It’s dangerous! Come back!” Youyou rushed into the sea after them and shouted hysterically, “Don’t abandon me!”


  …


  “Brother, Yueyao, don’t abandon me! Wait for me!”


  A wave hit him, and he was instantly engulfed by the seawater. The salty water gushed into his mouth through his lips and teeth. He struggled with all his might, but his body sank deeper and deeper as he drifted towards the seabed.

  He struggled to open his eyes. In between gasping for air, Yun Na’s sinister and terrifying face flashed before his eyes.

  “It’s you!” He opened his mouth in shock as seawater surged into his lungs.

  His hands reached out in despair, as though trying to grab onto a life-saving straw. In the boundless sea, he found nothing to hang on to as the waves attacked him relentlessly…


  When he woke up again and opened his eyes, he found himself in a white and clean room.

  Surrounded by snow-white curtains, snow-white walls, and the snow-white sheets of the hospital bed, he sat up with a jolt and looked around. There was no one in the room.

  He was completely flustered. He cast the blanket aside and ran to the door, but it wouldn’t open.

  He pounded on the door in despair and cried, “Mommy! Mommy!”


  “Daddy! Daddy, where are you guys?”


  “Little Yichen, help me, help me…”


  …


  The door suddenly opened.

  He rushed out, only to find a group of strangers standing there. They regarded him coldly and whispered to each other quietly.

  “An unwanted child.”


  “Poor thing… he has no parents…”


  “An orphan, so pitiful…”


  “I have a daddy! I have a mommy!” Youyou shouted angrily.

  A voice came from overhead. “All that you see is your imagination. You have no mother or father.”


  “You’re lying!”


  He suddenly turned around, only to see darkness. Turning back again, the group of people had disappeared. He was in complete darkness, unable to see his own fingers.

  It was as if the ground he stood on was hollowed out and there was a bottomless abyss beneath him. He carefully took a step forward and heard footsteps approaching from ahead.

  Youyou spun around, and now saw Yun Shishi walking, slowly with her back to him. She was dressed in white, and her black hair was tied up with a headband. She looked gentle and beautiful.

  “Mommy!” Wiping away his tears, Youyou felt aggrieved and ran after her. “Mommy, don’t leave Youyou behind! Mommy, Mommy… I want a hug…”


  He caught up to Yun Shishi and reached out to carefully grab the corner of her shirt. “Mommy, Mommy, I want a hug…”


  The woman snapped out of her dazed state and flung his hand away. “Who are you?!”


  Caught off guard, he fell to the ground. He raised his head in confusion, and saw that Yun Shishi was looking at him coldly. “I’m not your mommy!”


  “Mom… ”


  “Don’t call me Mommy!”


  Yun Shishi’s expression instantly turned hostile as she said frostily, “You’ve got the wrong person!”


  “Sob sob sob…”