Infect others, and make your existence meaningful and valuable.
They are not Zhao Xu, yet they are all Zhao Xu.
At this moment, Li Wan finally understood what Yu Tang meant.
The slender girl placed her hands on her lap, her grip on the hem of her skirt tightening, her lips pressed together, but the corners of her lips turned down, and finally, tears fell one by one.
Yu Tang handed over a tissue and offered gentle words of comfort, but when she looked up, she noticed a young woman with a pale face sitting on the other side of Li Wan.
“I guessed right.” Qin Junyang stood up from Yu Tang’s shoulder, his gaze falling on the woman. He then asked Yu Tang to search for photos of Li Wan’s mother online. Sure enough, the photos matched the woman’s appearance.
"I can see the causal threads on their bodies." Qin Junyang's strength has recovered considerably during this period.
If you simply pinch the finger to look, you can see the white, semi-transparent thread connecting the woman and Li Wan.
"That barrier was to keep this woman out," Qin Junyang said. "Now that we've taken Li Wan outside, this woman finally has a chance to get close to Li Wan."
Yu Tang snapped out of her daze and asked Qin Junyang softly, "Is she an evil spirit?"
Qin Junyang narrowed his eyes: "She has killed people, so according to common sense, she can be considered an evil spirit."
"But it's strange that she didn't lose her mind."
"And from what I saw, she didn't seem to hate Li Wan at all."
As they were talking, the woman also saw Qin Junyang. She was immediately terrified, her eyes widening as she tried to run away, but the enlarged Qin Junyang grabbed her by the back of her collar with one hand and pulled her back.
"Why are you running?" Qin Junyang pointed at the crying Li Wan and said, "Don't worry, I won't eat you. If you want, I can even arrange for you to meet your daughter and fulfill your wish."
The female ghost, held in his hand, listened to his words in shock, then turned and knelt before Qin Junyang: "You...you really can help me?"
She grabbed Qin Junyang's robe and said, "As long as you're willing to help me, it doesn't matter if you eat me!"
I just want to see my daughter, to talk to her. I have so much to say to her...
It was my fault for not protecting her properly; I'm so sorry to her…
As she said this, the female ghost's eyes were already wet.
After becoming a ghost, tears are a luxury.
But at this moment, the female ghost knelt down and cried uncontrollably.
He kept bowing down to Qin Junyang, pleading, "Please, please help me this time..."
The female ghost's attitude stunned Yu Tang and Qin Junyang.
They exchanged a glance, and Qin Junyang pulled the female ghost up, saying, "You don't need to beg me; I'll help you anyway."
He thought of the wedding and said, "Only the reward is something else."
For the rest of the time, Qin Junyang was responsible for watching the female ghost, while Yu Tang waited until Li Wan calmed down before asking her, "Miss Li, may I take you somewhere else?"
"Where?"
You'll know when you get there.
This time, Yu Tang did not let Li Wan's driver take them.
Instead, he drove Li Wan to a musical theater.
I contacted a friend in advance, and there weren't many people around on a weekday.
So they helped Yu Tang and Li Wan clear the theater.
The stage was then cleaned up and rearranged.
When Yu Tang and Li Wan arrived at the theater and opened the door to the performance hall, they saw an old-fashioned piano on the stage that looked quite old.
“Mr. Yu, what is this…” Looking around, Li Wan’s eyes flashed with disbelief.
Long-forgotten memories were stirred up, emerging from my mind like peeling away layers of silk.
"This is me..."
"Thump—"
Before she could finish speaking, the empty piano suddenly emitted a slightly heavy sound.
Then it turned ethereal.
The black and white piano keys automatically began to play a tune.
It is a piano piece called "Für Elise".
The smooth and melodious rhythm seems to depict to the world the good deeds performed by a gentle and lovely little girl.
The middle section resembles a girl taking light, quick steps, twirling and dancing in the forest.
She was laughing, laughing happily.
Slightly different from the original, it should be more cheerful and inspiring.
In the empty performance hall, the piano automatically played a sound. In the distance, Li Wan stood straight, stunned like a statue. When the performance ended and the black and white keys played the last sound, the girl's tears, which she had managed to hold back, burst forth instantly.
She leaned on the chair beside her, almost unable to stand. Her eyes wide with tears, she looked at Yu Tang and stammered, "Mr. Yu, who is playing this piece? Is it her?"
Is he the one I'm thinking of?
“It must be her…” Li Wan cried, “My mother is an excellent pianist, and the piano music she played is the best music I have ever heard…”
"This piece of music was arranged for me on my eighth birthday. I was her first listener..."
"She told me that day, 'I dedicate this piece to my angel, hoping she will always remain kind and happy...'"
She grabbed Yu Tang's clothes and asked him, "Mr. Yu, do you know where she is? Can you allow me to see her?"
"I...I miss her..."
Seeing Li Wan's increasingly unstable mental state, Yu Tang felt a pang of sadness.
He placed his hands on Li Wan's shoulders and said to her, "Miss Li, close your eyes."
"Okay, okay." Li Wan immediately obeyed and closed her eyes, her fingertips trembling as she did so.
Yu Tang exchanged a glance with Qin Junyang on the stage in the distance. Then, she gently helped Li Wan turn around.
Just like Zhao Xu buying Chen Yuhan a windmill lollipop in the film "Sunrise," he gently tells the girl, "Now, open your eyes."
Li Wan opened her eyes almost impatiently and was shocked to see a woman appear on the stage where there had only been a piano just moments before.
She was wearing a plain white dress, her face was ashen, and her eyes were sunken.
But he smiled gently at her.
Call her: "Wanwan..."
Li Wan's heart was pounding so hard that she didn't want to think about what was going on.
Why would someone who has passed away appear in front of me?
She simply took a step forward.
Another step forward.
Finally, start running.
Run!
Until she came to the stage, she tightly embraced the ice-cold person, and cried out hysterically in a hoarse voice.
"mom--"
Chapter 24
Died for the villain for the ninth time (24)
This call caused the female ghost to lose control of her emotions, and tears streamed down her face.
He could only hold Li Wan tightly in front of him and feel the warmth his daughter brought him.
She hadn't touched her daughter in so long.
After death, due to her deep resentment, she turned into an evil ghost, lost her memory, and went mad for a long time. It seems that she even killed the person who kidnapped her and Li Wan.
When he regained consciousness and went to find Li Wan, he discovered that a Taoist priest had erected a barrier around the Li family's house.
She couldn't get in at all.
All they could do was wander around and wait outside.
Today I can finally see my daughter with my own eyes, touch her body, and feel this warmth.
How could she not burst into tears of joy?
"Wanwan, it's Mom's fault." The female ghost pulled Li Wan to a seat in the theater, and Li Wan leaned against her.
Even though it's very cold, I still want to get close and hug you.
"Mom, it's me who's sorry." Li Wan's voice was hoarse from crying: "If I hadn't insisted on going out to play that day, we wouldn't have been kidnapped."
You wouldn't have suffered so much, and you wouldn't be in this state now..."
These words had been weighing on her mind for over a decade, and every time she recalled those experiences, it felt like a knife being stabbed into Li Wan's heart.
Before, she was naive and, after being rescued, all she knew was to cry and constantly seek comfort from her relatives.
Little did she know that her mother had endured far more pressure and pain than she had.
Later, when her mother died in front of her, she was stunned. When she finally realized what she had lost, she broke down and began to self-harm uncontrollably.
She not only felt dirty and disgusted, but also felt sorry for her mother, always believing that she was the one who caused her mother's death.
"Wanwan..." The female ghost hugged the girl's face and kissed Li Wan's forehead: "Don't say such things."
“You did nothing wrong to me, you are Mommy’s precious baby. It was Mommy who wanted to take you out to play, it was Mommy who wanted to protect you. I only hate that I wasn’t strong enough, which is why you got hurt like that…”
She tenderly wiped away the girl's tears and said, "Wanwan, I came here to tell you that you will always be the most precious baby in your mother's heart."
"You are kind, lovely, lively and cheerful, and also understanding. You have many wonderful qualities."
"Where there is light, there is shadow. Behind a clean and tidy city, there are mountains of garbage and waste. We were dragged into the abyss by people in the shadows. My mother couldn't take it anymore and chose to die, but she did not find relief from it."
"Hatred and resentment turned me into a demon. When I regained my senses, I found myself having killed those who had hurt us. And in the years that followed, I always thought of you..."
"Whenever I stand outside the Li family's door, looking at the house where your lights used to be on, I think of the happy times we had together when you were a child."