Chapter 264
Chapter 264
Xiaoshuai lowered his head without answering. A good person? Perhaps.
“Xiao Bo, let me tell you a story.”
Unlike people on television, Xiaoshuai did not believe news like this was better delivered later.
What you thought was good for someone might not be what they wanted at all.
“Do you know the Zhao Group?”
“Of course. I once dreamed of working for the Zhao Group after university.”
“What if I told you I was the Zhao Group’s eldest heir? Would you believe me?”
Liu Sibo stared at him in shock.
“When I was born, my second uncle switched me with another baby. I grew up in an orphanage, where I had to fight the other children for food. If you didn’t fight, there was nothing left. There was never enough. For one person to eat their fill, somebody else had to go hungry. I was small and thin, so I often failed to get any and went hungry all the time. But later, I met someone…”
Xiaoshuai placed his hands behind his head, a bitter smile on his face.
“She was one of our caregivers. Whenever I failed to get food, she cooked extra meals for me and even spent her own money buying me things to eat. I was the only child in the orphanage she treated that well! She even bought me new clothes and a game console. Once, I burned myself getting hot water, and she was even more anxious than I was!”
Some viewers online were moved.
“What a wonderful teacher!”
“Right. She must have treated Xu Fei like her own child.”
“She must have been the person he cherished most!”
“And then?”
Liu Sibo’s expression had changed, veins bulging across his face.
“Then… I killed her. With my own hands.”
The viewers: “…”
That turn came far too quickly!
“Why? She treated you so well! Why did you kill her?”
Liu Sibo suddenly became agitated and shot to his feet.
The others stared in surprise. Wasn’t this boy mute? How was he suddenly speaking?
“Because she wanted my heart. My heart matched her sick son’s. She wanted to use it to save him! She fed me extra meals to prevent malnutrition from affecting my heart.”
Xiaoshuai lowered his head, found a pack of cigarettes in the desk, took one out, and lit it.
“Xiao Bo, kindness without a reason can be even more deadly.”
“Why… Why are you telling me this?”
“You already understand, don’t you?”
Xiaoshuai looked at him.
“Impossible! You’re… you’re lying! It isn’t true! It can’t be!”
“Of course, this is only my guess. You’ll need to uncover the truth yourself.”
“Hey, Liu Sibo! Who knew a mute like you could talk? Come on, say something for me…”
Boom!
Liu Sibo knocked Zhao Ze to the floor with one punch.
“Aah! Murder!”
Seeing Zhao Ze covered in blood, the students screamed and fled. Even the teacher collapsed onto the floor in fright.
Only Liu Ye continued sleeping soundly, drool covering his desk.
“Don’t kill him yet. He may be connected to the truth. Let’s go to your house first.”
Liu Sibo let go. Blood dripped steadily from his hand.
They left the classroom. Brother Biao and the others hurried after them, carrying Liu Ye.
Before long, they returned to Liu Sibo’s home. His mother was not back yet, so Liu Sibo took out a key and opened the door.
Everyone entered the home of Liu Sibo’s mother. Though old, it was extremely clean, with every item neatly arranged.
“Does your mother support the household by herself?”
“Not entirely. I also worked odd jobs after school. But that man took most of what we earned. The food we normally ate was rotten vegetable leaves discarded at the market.”
Liu Sibo gripped a chair until veins bulged across his hand and tore off its backrest.
“My mother is a good person! You must be imagining things!” An ugly smile appeared on his face.
Xiaoshuai said nothing. He took out a wire and opened a locked box in the wardrobe. Inside were a bankbook and several photographs.
He removed everything and stared silently at the pictures for a long time.
“What is it? They’re only photographs. They must be from when I was little…”
Liu Sibo took them, only to see not himself, but… Zhao Ze!
There were pictures of Zhao Ze at every age and from every angle.
“No! It can’t be!”
Liu Sibo frantically searched for even one photograph of himself, but found none.
“And these… are remittance slips. The recipient is also surnamed Zhao. Maybe not all your mother’s money was taken by your father…”
“Shut up!”
Liu Sibo roared. His hands trembled, his face covered in tears, and his eyes were stretched wide as he stared at what he held.
“Why? Why would she do this to me?!”
Xiaoshuai lowered his head. He understood Liu Sibo, because something similar had happened to him.
After learning the truth, he too had hated his parents. Why had they saved John instead of him?
If one of the two had to be abandoned as bait, why did it have to be him?
He had resented them and suffered. He had never been forgiving. Anyone else who deceived him would already be dead. But… now he could not even find someone to hate!
Hate John? None of it had been John’s choice. John was only slightly better off than he was.
Why did John drink coffee with so much sugar? Because it was the only way he could taste the tiniest trace of sweetness.
Hate his parents? Both were dead. Even if he cursed them, he could only curse cold tombstones. What purpose would that serve?
So he understood what the adult Liu Sibo had done. If Brother Liu had not existed, Xiaoshuai might have done the same.
He was a man without limits too.
Whoever had designed all this was a bastard. He repeatedly tore open wounds in people’s hearts and forced an ordinary boy into darkness.
Yet they were serving as that bastard’s assistants. To escape, they had to push Liu Sibo off the shore with their own hands!
Xiaoshuai did not believe any of this was coincidence. A family as poor as Liu Sibo’s could never afford a camera.
The photographs were well composed and high quality. Someone had clearly sent them deliberately.
“Brother Fei, does that guy lack money? His… his father is a wealthy businessman! He can have anything! Why did she still send him money?! Then what am I?! Why couldn’t she give me even a tiny bit of love?!”