Chapter 1051 - Seven Children [2 in 1] (1/2)
Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97
The whole book was filled with entries of cruel and gory stories, but the last page consisted of a warm, sweet dream. His fingers caressed the handwriting on the page. Fatigue overwhelmed him like waves. Chen Ge hugged the book, closed his bloodshot eyes, and collapsed to the ground. He was under enormous strain and pressure after spending ten sleepless days and nights in the world behind the door. It was little wonder that he was at his limit already.
After leaving Yu Jian’s world, he finally snapped, and his last layer of defense was broken. The backpack dropped beside him, and Chen Ge fell asleep just like that. Next to him, on the single bed, Yu Jian slowly awakened from his slumber. Hugging the thin blanket, Yu Jian took a glance at Chen Ge before slowly burying his head into his chest. Yu Jian’s mother, who stood at the door, took in everything. She had no idea what had happened in the room and what to make of it. Chen Ge had promised that he would help cure her son, but from her perspective, before Chen Ge got involved, only Yu Jian was the one that needed treatment; however, after their interaction, it appeared that both Chen Ge and Yu Jian needed some kind of intervention.
“Jesus, what am I supposed to do now?” Yu Jian’s mother walked into the room, attempting to drag Chen Ge out. She gave the young man a tug and tried to drag him out, but she realized that she was too weak to move Chen Ge by even an inch, so in the end, she surrendered. With a deep frown, she walked out from the bedroom without noticing the many blood red shadows that appeared behind her. If she had done something to harm Chen Ge earlier, perhaps the whole building would have been awash with blood as a result.
At eight o clock in the morning, Chen Ge was woken up by the alarm that he had set on his phone. His eyes flickered blurrily open, but his eyes were still slightly bloodshot. Holding his head that was still pulsing, Chen Ge looked out the window. The sun filtered through the curtains into the bedroom. A well-dressed Yu Jian was sitting at the study table.
“You are finally awake?” Hearing the movement from Chen Ge, Yu Jian turned around. He was impeccably groomed like he was ready to leave and go somewhere.
“I am still suffering from a bit of a headache.” Chen Ge picked up the backpack and placed everything inside it. “You should still remember the dream from last night, right?”
Yu Jian shook his head. “I can’t say that I remember every detail clearly, but I have not forgotten the words that you told me.”
He grabbed the several pieces of paper from the table, collected them in a stack, and handed them over to Chen Ge. “This is the list of crimes that I have committed. I will go and see Miss Zhang one last time before going to the police to surrender.”
The content on the white paper was shocking. It was filled with horrible thoughts and despicable curses. Three of them jumped out as being the most serious. The first incident happened when he was still very young. Under the influence of the ghost fetus, he had almost poked his neighbor’s child blind. The second incident was when he ran away from home during secondary school. It was during this period that he had surrendered himself completely to the ghost fetus and allowed the ghost fetus to make use of his blood to help complete the setup of the nine children. During this period, the ghost fetus had harmed many different innocent people, including Wu Jinpeng’s younger brother. It was him who shoved his hand into the fan.
At the time, the ghost fetus wanted to take away the sense of sound from Wu Sheng, but Wu Kun, whose mental acumen was much lower than a normal person’s, was not afraid of the ghost fetus. He tried his best to stop him, but the man was unfortunately no match for the ghost fetus, and thus, he had to suffer because of it.
The third incident was related to Yu Jian’s own biological father. If not for his fateful encounter with that teacher, Yu Jian would probably have been pushed down the road of no return by the ghost fetus.
“I knew he was merely using me. From the very beginning, I knew that he would not have chosen me,” Yu Jian said as Chen Ge pored over the pages of confession. “I am the same kind of person as him. He hated people like us from the bottom of his heart. The source of his hatred came from the innate disgust at himself.”
Yu Jian was the living person who had spent the longest time with the ghost fetus. In a way, he could be considered the person who knew the ghost fetus the best.
“Since you knew that you were just being used by the ghost fetus, why did you still choose to help him?” This was something that Chen Ge did not understand.
“Like I said, we were kindred spirits. In that fleeting moment, it felt like he was my only friend, the only person who understood me in this world.” Yu Jian’s body was weak and feeble. He took back the pieces of papers and pulled back the curtain of the bedroom. The room was flooded by sunlight, something that had not happened for a long time. Yu Jian looked out the scenery from the window. “Actually, this world is quite beautiful.”
Stuffing the paper inside his school bag, Yu Jian turned away from the sun, opened the bedroom door, and walked out from the small room that had been his hiding hole for so many years. In the corridor, when Yu Jian’s mother saw her son walk out from his bedroom so well-dressed, her face was filled with disbelief.
“Son…”
“I wish to go for a walk.”
“Of… of course. Sure!”
The door was pushed open, and Yu Jian left with his schoolbag. At the same moment, Yu Jian’s mother rushed into the bedroom, and she looked at Chen Ge with awe and shock on her face. “How did you manage to do it? Yu Jian appears to have gotten much better! He volunteered to go out on his own to go for a walk. I feel like it is going to rain red today!”
1“Yu Jian was never sick to begin with. He merely did not know how to love this world and how to love the people around him.” Chen Ge stared at Yu Jian’s mother. “If you do not wish for Yu Jian to revert to his former state, then sit down and have a talk with me. And this time, I beg you to stop with the lies and deceit.”
After a deep conversation, what the ghost fetus had revealed behind the door was confirmed. Yu Jian was indeed a child born out of wedlock. His biological father wanted nothing to do with his mistress and his illegitimate son while Yu Jian’s mother used him constantly as bargaining chip to get something from his father. From a very young age, Yu Jian never knew what love was, and that gave the ghost fetus the opening to enter his life. The hatred and ugliness of the world was specifically amplified, and his mind and psyche became more and more twisted.
Yu Jian’s mother felt guilty toward Yu Jian, so she did the best she could to take care of him, but at the same time, she wanted to cultivate Yu Jian into someone who was better than his father, so she was also very strict with him. Banned from any kind of entertainment and social life, Yu Jian’s mother demanded only two things from him. One was to have good grades, and two was to have a valuable skill so that he could take care of himself in the future.
After the deep conversation, Chen Ge discovered a much deeper layer of problems. Yu Jian’s mother actually noticed the problems with Yu Jian at a very early age, but even after Yu Jian had done more than a handful dangerous actions toward others, which should have raised a red flag for the mother, Yu Jian’s mother chose to blind herself to the severity of the problem. Her love and guilt toward her son blinded her eyes. All she ever did was provide excuses for her son, and that caused her to miss the chance to really educate her son again and again.
“It is not entirely his fault that Yu Jian ended up in this state.” Chen Ge picked up his backpack. “If there is a chance in the future, I suggest you go and meet the teacher that was fired due to Yu Jian. She was the real hero who had entered Yu Jian’s life to save him.”
After getting down to the bottom of everything, Chen Ge prepared to leave.
“Wait a minute.” Yu Jian’s mother stopped Chen Ge. “Even though I have no idea what kind of method you have used, you have indeed helped Yu Jian solve the problem in his heart. How much do you need for this session? How should I contact you if Yu Jian locks himself up in his bedroom again in the future?”
“I do not do this for the money.” Chen Ge stood inside the bedroom and looked around. In the end, he picked up a mud statuette from Yu Jian’s study table. “In terms of payment, I shall that this statuette as compensation.” He took the mud statuette with Yu Jian’s name carved on it, stuffed it into his backpack, and left Yu Jian’s home. He took the elevator to the ground. Chen Ge walked into the safety corridor, and he knelt down to look at his own shadow. “When will you be able to wake up? I have many questions that I wish to ask you.”
Taking out the mud statuette with Yu Jian’s name from his backpack, Chen Ge placed it on his own shadow. The black red blood leaked out from the mud statuette and seeped into his shadow. An oppressive presence was slowly waking up. “After I find the rest of the mud statuettes, it’ll be about time for you to wake up, right?”
1Chen Ge had not forgotten about what had happened behind Yu Jian’s door. He felt like he had gained a new understanding of the girl who was living in his shadow. Picking up his backpack, Chen Ge hurried back to New Century Park before it was open for business. Without saying a word to explain himself, he hurried to the dressing room to help his employees with their make-up and prepared to start the business. The haunted house opened its gate to the visitors ten minutes late, and Chen Ge felt quite apologetic about it. He personally walked to the queue of visitors and presented them with some bottles of water and knickknacks from New Century Park for making them wait.