Chapter 17 — My sister gave birth and then left. I took the baby and knocked on the door of my great-grandfather's house

It felt like there were thousands of painful needles pricking in my heart.

“Co Du Chau.”

I gathered all my courage, raised my head, looked straight into his eyes.

“That accident, was aimed at me, right?”

The text says it very clearly. They didn't want me to live past the age of eighteen. Co Du Chau's body stiffened slightly. You didn't answer my question. Just reached out and gently hugged me. His arms are very warm. Brings with it the faint smell of antiseptic. It made me feel peace of mind like never before.

“There won't be a next time.”

He leaned close to my ear and spoke in a warm, committed voice.

“I won't let anyone hurt you again.”

My tears fell without even trying. I buried my face in his chest. A sad voice exclaimed:

“Me too.”

“You are also not allowed to get hurt anymore.”

His arms tightened around me. Neither of us said another word. Just quietly embracing each other. It seems that only this way can dispel the fear and insecurity in the other person's heart. A while later. I just raised my head from his chest. I looked at him, blurting out the biggest question that was always lurking in my heart.

“Is all this related to the girl named ‘On Niem’?”

When I mentioned this name. I clearly felt Co Du Chau's body immediately tense up. He looked at me, his eyes filled with surprise and disbelief.

“You… how do you know this name?”

This name, is like a taboo. A taboo that was covered in dust deep in his memory.

“You answer me first.”

I stubbornly looked at him.

“Is that so?”

He was silent. There was a long silence. To the point where I thought he wouldn't answer me anymore. Finally he spoke, in a dry, tired voice. Just one word. But it was like a roar of thunder in my head. Indeed she is.

“Who is she?”

I asked.

“She is… my ex-fiancee.”

Co Du Chau's voice is very light, very faint. As if telling a story that has nothing to do with me.

“Our families are close friends, we have been engaged since we were children.”

“She is very beautiful, very outstanding, everyone thinks we are a match made in heaven.”

“However, when I was eighteen years old, she suddenly disappeared.”

“In life, no one is seen, in death, there is no body.”

"Our Co family has mobilized all forces to search for her."

“Ten whole years, no news.”

“Until… you appeared.”

He looked at me, his eyes became extremely complicated.

“She and I grew up very similar.”

“Almost identical.”

I was completely stupid. Me and Gu Yuzhou's ex-fiancee who has been missing for ten years are identical? How is this possible? In this world, are there really such coincidences?

“So, they mistook me for her?”

I seem to have understood something.

“The person they want to kill is not me, but Wen Niem?”

“And I am just an unlucky dead person?”

Co Du Chau shook his head.

“At first, I thought the same thing.”

“But now, I don't think so anymore.”

“Because of you.”

He looked at me, his eyes burning hot.

“You are so special.”

"So special that it makes me feel that your appearance is not a coincidence."

“It was an arrangement that had been planned for a long time.”

My heart was pounding.

“I mean Star?"

“I investigated your background.”

“Your adoption records were recorded on the second day after you were born.”

“In other words, your biological parents gave you away as soon as you were born.”

“Furthermore, the place where I was sent was the Hua family.”

“A family that has no connection at all with the On family, it can even be said to be a world apart.”

“This doesn't make any sense.”

He paused for a moment, looked at me, and said a guess that made my scalp numb.

“Unless, someone deliberately hid my identity.”

“Or you could say, they want to use the bad environment of the Hua family to 'ruin' you.”

“I want you to become ordinary, cowardly, self-conscious, I want you to never be able to come into contact with our world.”

"I want you to never discover the secret of your own identity."

My mind was buzzing. The whole body's blood seemed to freeze. His speculation was too bold, too terrifying. But it seems to explain everything perfectly. Explains all the injustice and suffering I have endured over the past eighteen years. Right now. The golden letters appeared before my eyes again. Confirm what he said. But at the same time, it threw out an even more horrifying truth. 【He guessed half right.】 【But he didn't know…】 【You and Wen Niem, are not two different people.】 【You guys, are the same person.】