Chapter 4 — Childhood Only Has Leftovers

My parents can work with peace of mind, and my brother can also study at university with peace of mind. It's just that I'm the only one who sacrificed myself. I smiled with relief and sent each photo to the group. The group chat that was noisy just now immediately fell silent. The photos I sent were of leftover rice and leftover soup that I had recorded, along with the graduation travel plan that the family of four had agreed upon. I arranged the words and sent them to the group. "Hello, elders. These are the meals that my family left for me during the two months I worked part-time during the summer." "I always thought this was a normal thing, until one time I saw my mother leaving food for my sister. She would pick up untouched food from each plate and put it on a small plate. Not only was there water left in the soup bowl, but she also carefully selected all the ingredients for her." I sent the message. The message took a long time but no one in the group spoke up. Then I continued to send another sentence. "Since I was little, I have never had a school opening gift. This year's budget of ten thousand yuan, my parents can split it between my brother and sister. My brother is in third year, about to graduate, and the family's graduation travel plan that my parents prepared does not include me." Long, long after I sent that message, the eldest son sent a voice message. "Sister, you are really doing something like that." "To the point of favoritism." This is too much, no wonder she's not close to you." There are also a few relatives who still stand by my parents' side. But I was no longer in the mood to mess with them, so I directly left the group and blocked all strange phone numbers. Bang Thanh is a city with a rapidly growing technology industry. I chose this place precisely because of that point. So the first winter break of college, I didn't go home. I started working more. I vaguely have a direction in my heart, but I don't dare tell anyone. I try to work part-time. In addition to keeping tuition and living expenses, I put all the remaining money into making a short interactive film using AI. It's only thirty minutes long. The content is about a world with strange rules. Players can choose to play the role of parents, brother or sister, the sole purpose of which is to prevent the second daughter from becoming dark. Initially, the short film did not create any buzz. I'm not surprised, because it's not considered new or interesting. But half a month later, the movie somehow became popular. Just because a game blogger tried out my AI interactive movie. He posted the video along with the text: There is absolutely no possible ending to the game. Soon, more and more people started to try out my AI interactive movie. The second daughter in the game is given a title by the player: More skeptical than Cao Cao, more sensitive than An Lang Dung. Because when choosing college aspirations, if you choose to let her study in the city, she will immediately become dark and crazy, causing many players to fail right here. What was beyond my expectations was that this short film turned a profit. Not only is it enough for me to pay for my next tuition, but it also helps me live very comfortably. So when everyone wanted to interview me, the game developer, I chose to connect live with the game blogger who made the work known. I covered my whole body and sat in front of the camera. I originally thought that netizens would scold me fiercely. But they're all just begging for a way to get through the game. After hesitating for a long time, I spoke up: "In the first choice, don't choose to let her order food from outside or heat the food herself, but click on the dining table." My one sentence immediately caused a big stir. All

The players were stunned. Only then did they discover that the dining table could be clicked on. So, when everyone clicked on the dining table and saw that there was only cold, hard rice and a few yellow vegetables on the table, everyone was speechless. My calm and gentle voice rang out in the live broadcast room: "Actually, the second daughter just wanted everyone to leave a meal for her, not leave leftovers." A sentence that brought tears to many people who had the same experience in the live broadcast room. Many people have also been inspired by that saying. When choosing college aspirations, they are no longer limited to advising her to study close to home or letting her think for herself. Instead, they opened the second daughter's drawer and discovered a postcard from Bang Thanh. Finally, for the first time, someone actually beat the game. They thought it would be a reunion, the whole family wrapped the cake together. But after passing, the second daughter still pulled her luggage and left. Because a three-meter-thick frozen lesion cannot form in just one day. Only thing is, in the game's over ending, she doesn't turn dark, turn into a monster and then eat her family. She just smiled and waved goodbye to her family. That ending was both unexpected and reasonable.