Chapter 3 — Eight Unworthy Lives

"You ask yourself, do you deserve to live in this house? Do you deserve to be loved by your parents? Do you deserve to be my older sister?" The fire grew bigger and bigger. Lam Kieu Kieu suddenly changed her face and desperately shouted towards the door: "Help! It's on fire! She... she accidentally burned the curtains! Save my life!" The door was immediately thrown open. The moment my brother rushed in, a burned crossbeam overhead was loudly falling towards me and Lam Kieu Kieu. Almost without thinking, he leaned in front of Lam Kieu Kieu. That move made me panic for a moment. There was a time when a group of evil children threw stones at me, he also stood in front of me like that, his voice was firm and steady: "Nguyet Nguyet, don't be afraid, I'm here." "Kieu Kieu, don't be afraid, I'm here." I don't know which life's memories have overlapped with reality, making the boundary blurry. When he raised his head again, he was hugging Lam Kieu Kieu, passing by me who was falling to the ground. He just lost patience and threw back a sentence: "Why are you still standing there? Don't quickly follow!" Looking at their backs getting farther and farther away, I stood still. I didn't run away, nor did I call for help. I turned around, crawled into the rusty cage in the corner of the room, hugged my knees with peace of mind, and curled myself close to the wall. Indeed, this is the place I deserve to stay. Firelight and thick smoke rushed in, like a tide swallowing vision. This scene overlapped countless images in memory. My eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. I'm finally... about to be liberated. …… The brother hugged Lam Kieu Kieu and rushed out of the sea of fire, running straight for more than ten meters before stopping and panting. He turned his head to look back, suddenly stunned. There's no one behind. His face immediately turned pale: "Where is Nguyet Nguyet?!" At that moment, the main door of the villa was suddenly pushed open. The housekeeper held the camera connection device and rushed in, leading his pale-faced parents. The three people looked at the small building being swallowed by the fire, their pupils simultaneously constricted. 5 The housekeeper was the first to react: "Where is the eldest lady?" Only then did the parents come out of their stupor. Her mother's eyes turned back and forth many times, but from beginning to end she still could not find that small figure. Instinctively, she tightened her father's arm, her voice trembling: "Nguyet Nguyet... Nguyet Nguyet hasn't come out yet?" Dad opened his mouth. It took a while for him to turn his head and look at his brother incredulously: "Lam T. Tu Ngang! Did you leave Nguyet Nguyet inside?!" Lam T. Tu Ngang did not answer. He blankly looked at the firelight ahead. My whole body felt like I had just been stabbed by something, and there was a "bee" sound in my head. Suddenly, without warning, an image flashed before his eyes... Thick smoke, heat, and a small hand covered with ash, living and dying, holding the hem of his shirt. That was Lam Nguyet Nguyet at seven years old. The girl was clearly a head shorter than him, but she tried her best to pull him out of the fire. The moment she used all her strength to push him to safety, the little girl herself was buried by the collapsing beam. He remembered screaming her name until his voice was hoarse. He remembered that at the end, the whole family lay neatly in the middle of a blackened ruin. He is the only one still alive. What is it? He has never had such memories! But the image was so clear that it looked like he had actually experienced it. His face was pale and panicked: "Nguyet Nguyet..." Seeing that he was lost, Lam Kieu Kieu quickly pulled his sleeve. She said weakly and gently: "You... maybe I ran out the back door?" "Anyway, the fire was set by her own hand. She must have left a way out for me." If it's normal, Lam

Tu Ngang will definitely obey her and nod. But this time, the unreasonable fear in my heart overcame all reason. Almost without hesitation, he threw Lam Kieu Kieu's hand away, turned around and rushed back into the sea of fire. "You!!!" Lam Kieu Kieu shouted, the expression on his face immediately shattered. She was stunned on the spot, as if she completely did not expect him to do such a thing. My parents were also stunned, raised their hands to stop, but in the end they stopped. 6In the sea of fire, the thick smoke was acrid and the heat could almost knock people over. Lam T. Tu Ngang kicked open the half-collapsed door. Finally, in the blackened cage next to the wall, he saw a figure curled into a mass. The vague memories that had gone through countless lifetimes in my head suddenly overlapped with reality. At that moment, his heart felt like it was being squeezed by something. "Nguyet Nguyet!" He rushed forward, reaching out to carry the person in the cage out. The person in the cage seemed to be awakened, sleepily raising his head. When I saw him, there was undisguised fear in those eyes. She immediately shrank back. Lam T. Tu Ngang's hand stiffened in mid-air. His throat seemed to be blocked by something, unable to utter a word. "Miss, it's me."