Chapter 142 - Past that was Never Mentioned (1/2)

After a few minutes of consideration, Professor Luo Xia observed Ariana and Chen Nan's serious expressions. He frowned when he saw them kneel because the first time they did was when they got married. On that day, He made them swear that unless it is at a life and death situation; they were not allowed to kneel.

Since the couple didn't have biological parents at the wedding, he was the person who performed the role of an elder. He remembered how he stacked their hands together and the bright smiles that they had on their faces.

Now, they were kneeling in front of him; trying to plead for permission to seek death. After a while, his lips parted, and voice rung the ears of those in the room. ”Get up. Do you two remember what you've promised me on your wedding day? I'm not dying nor dead yet. I don't need you two to kneel to me.”

The couple intertwined their fingers tightly to form their own fist and shook their heads.

Ariana replied, ”we remember our promise, but this is exactly why we are kneeling. If we go, we are clear about the possibility of never coming back. You already know that we wouldn't go without your permission.”

Chen Nan added to her words, ”Grandpa Xia, likewise, we also treated you as our family. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here today. We wouldn't have gotten married, but grandpa...we've experienced similar pain as well.”

Hearing his words, the elderly man cleared his throat indicating for them to continue talking. Although Ariana and Chen Nan were both saved many years ago, they never spoke about their past. It was a wound that had never been stitched or closed. Ever since the day that they've successfully escaped, they have worked their hardest to maximize their potentials for their future avengence.

This day has finally arrived. They were this close to hunting down the main culprit behind the labs; how could they give up now? Ariana gripped Chen Nan's hand tightly as she recalled the night that she never wished to talk about.

She closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths and sucked on her lips nervously. Inhaling a deep breath, her eyes opened and her eyes found the courage to meet the elderly man's mindful gaze. Her voice rasped up, sounding as if she had just choked from eating and was recovering from it.

”Haa..Grandpa Xia, I..I had never dared to mention what had happened to me before I was kidnapped and placed as a test experiment. Over these years, you've never mentioned much about your wife and only recently, you shared the whole story with us. Grandma Xia left when she was still alive and there is a chance that she may be breathing the same air as us right now.”

Her eyes maintained eye contact with him as it gradually turned pink. ”There is a chance that you could still reunite with her, but this..this reunion can never happen to me. When I close my eyes, I bring myself back to that night when I witnessed the cold blooded murder of my loved ones. The images are so vivid and real that it felt like those old screen movies in black and white with only their blood painted in color.”

”But no matter how far my arms could stretch out, I can never help them nor bring them back to my life. Do you know why I never celebrated my birthday every year? Why don't I eat any cakes? Because my birthday was the day that my parents were slaughtered in front of me. They bought a cake for me, and I was about to blow out the windows when two men barged into my house.”

”My mom and dad shouted for me to run away while they blocked the two men. I tried to run, but there were more people waiting for me outside that door. They captured me and brought me into the house where their men tortured my parents in front of me. Was it five stabs? Six? Or seven? I've already lost count.”

Sweat formed on her forehead as she shut her eyes tight and wrinkled her brows. Her tears flowed out uncontrollably as her left hand clenched on her chest painfully. ”I watched them disable my dad's limbs and then my mother's too. They were alive at that time and stared at the door, hoping to not see me there. But I was.”

”It was as if they were trying to say for them to let me off. I begged them to stop, and I even said I would leave with them. One of their men whispered to me, 'they will bleed to death. I'll make you watch.' Another man forced my face to rotate towards where my parents laid as their people stomped on my dad's body until blood was spitting out of his mouth...”

”He coughed a few times before they slit his throat in slow motion. My mom was sexually assaulted as he was bleeding to death. One man twisted his head facing her as she was being violated. She was whimpering in pain, in tears and looking away in shame. I knew he was dead with the amount of blood that surrounded him.”

”At the end, my mom was faced towards me as her hands were chopped off. Very soon, she also died. Their bodies were burned down with that house. And I wasn't able to do anything. I was in shock and brought to a very dark, cold place where I was chained. They forced food down my throat, and I frantically remembered searching for a way out.”