Interstellar 2035, cold winter.
In the Amity Sanatorium on the outskirts of the main star's capital, Furlong City, the flowers and plants in the courtyard have been covered with ice and snow. Under the third building, blood-red roses are still blooming against the snow.
This was originally a sanatorium built by Emperor Rende hundreds of years ago to help his mentally ill brother escape from exile. Now, it has become a place where children of the royal family and nobles escape from legal sanctions.
After Ni Qingyan got out of the car, she avoided Ni Ruhui's supporting hand. She followed the nurse into the third building tremblingly on crutches.
The building was very quiet. There were two robot guards guarding the door of each ward. Since entering the building, Ni Qingyan did not look away. Her old face was very calm. Only the hand that gripped the wooden stick showed that she was very deep inside. Not calm.
She remembered that the last time she met Ni Jia, it was a bright afternoon. The girl came to give her a holiday gift on behalf of her family. She shyly told her that she was engaged and would be getting married soon.
The worried tone and confused face reminded her of Ni Jia's mother Ai Zhen, an outstanding researcher, an orc who successfully awakened the blood of the snake clan, and her favorite student.
Unfortunately, her favorite and best student fell in love. As the daughter-in-law of the Ni family, she had to give up her career and devote herself to the social life of the Ni family.
Later, when Ai Zhen gave birth to Ni Jia, she had a difficult delivery. When she was dying, she held her hand and said, "Teacher, you are the only one who can teach her. After I leave, I ask you to raise her personally."
When the idea of raising a child herself came to her mind, her first reaction was rejection.
She was used to being a loner, and she really didn't know how to get along with children.
Fortunately, her nephew was not willing to let her young daughter follow her to Kata, so she felt at ease and did not follow Ai Zhen's last wish.
She had stayed in Kata Star for many years, until a few days ago, she suddenly dreamed of Ai Zhen. After waking up, her mind was filled with the idea of taking a look at Ni Jia.
Unexpectedly, he learned from his nephew Ni Congjun that Ni Jia had made a huge mistake and was sent to Amity Nursing Home.
"You have half an hour, please make reasonable arrangements." The nurse opened the door and stepped aside.
Ni Qingyan and his group walked in. The girl with waist-length hair turned her back to them and sat in front of the dressing table, combing her hair.
The white hair on his head stung Ni Qingyan's eyes.
Endless annoyance filled her mind.
"Little sister, we brought my aunt to see you." Ni Ruhui said.
But Ni Jia had no reaction.
Ni Ruhui's hand tightened. She approached Ni Jia, squatted down, and her voice became softer: "Little sister, we are here to see you."
Ni Jia still had no reaction. She combed her long hair mechanically, her eyes were empty and her face was dull, as if she was immersed in her own world.
"Back then, didn't your father say that he would take good care of Ni Jia? How could this happen? She is Ai Zhen's child." Ni Qingyan wanted to touch Ni Jia, but was afraid of disturbing her, feeling sour and guilty inside.
"We are sorry for our mother and our little sister. If we had paid more attention to her, she would not be what she is today." Ni Ruhui opened her mouth and couldn't help but shed tears.
Compared with the mother's care and love that she and her elder brother and younger brother had enjoyed, Ni Jia had lost too much.
"Have you not taken good care of her yet? Because of what her mother said, everyone in the family pampered her. She was vain and comparison-minded at a young age, and she had a vicious mind. Just because the tutor was a little strict, she was thrown into the swimming pool."
“Because her father praised sister Zhou Wen next door, she locked her in a dark room because she had claustrophobia.
Jealous of senior Linna's beauty, she drugged her skin care products.
Her father always said that he would discipline her well, but every time she cried, you would be soft-hearted and help her clean up the mess.
It's fine now. Just because she thought Brother Lu Chen was going to regret his marriage, she blew up the laboratory. She was so stupid and bad, and she should go to prison to repent. "
Ni Nan didn't understand why her sister was still blaming herself for not taking good care of Ni Jia today. Why did her father and others still protect Ni Jia after she had done so many wrong things, and sent her to prison at all costs in order to let her escape trial? come here.
"If someone must have caused her to be like this today, then it must be the fault of my sister, father, brother and aunt. It is your connivance that made her vicious heart swell more and more."
"She didn't lose her mother alone, right? Why did she become like this alone?"
Ni Nan looked disgusted and didn't want to look at Ni Jia, as if looking at her one more time would make him unable to hold back the hatred in his heart.
"How could this happen..." Ni Qingyan's pale hand touched Ni Jia's hair. Ni Jia still had no reaction under Ni Nan's intense emotions.
Something seemed to separate her from everything around her.
Ni Qingyan was a little confused, how could Ni Jia be like this? She should have a happy life.
What made her become what she is today? Ni Qingyan couldn't understand.
Until the nurse reminded them that the time was up, Ni Jia didn't look at them. She seemed to be really immersed in the world in the mirror.
Ni Qingyan reluctantly left the ward. This time she did not refuse Ni Ruhui's support. She was exhausted both physically and mentally and suddenly felt at a loss.
She turned around and saw the nurse about to close the door. She raised her hand to stop it. Ni Ruhui seemed to have read her thoughts and dissuaded her with a thick nasal voice: "My little sister is safe here. We can continue to come next week." Visit her.”
"Will she be locked up in this small room her whole life? She is only 23 years old."
"Brother Lu Chen is only 30 years old. The victims who lost their lives because of her selfishness and stupidity are also about the same age as her. At least she is still alive, right?" Ni Nan mocked.
"Ni Nan, she is your sister." Ni Ruhui glared at him.
"So I felt disgusted and ashamed that I had the same blood as hers."
If it weren't for the request of his father and brother, if he wasn't worried about his sister and great-aunt, how could he come here to visit her? He wished he had never had this sister.
Ni Qingyan felt the pain, and what appeared most in her mind at this time was Ai Zhen's face.
"Great aunt..."
A shrill shout suddenly came from the ward.
With a "bang", the door that was about to be closed was suddenly opened.
"Fake, everything is fake..." Before Ni Jia could rush out, he was controlled by the robot guard who reacted.
Ni Qingyan and Ni Ruhui couldn't help but stepped forward, and the door was already closed.
"My sister?" Ni Ruhui looked at the nurse who was notifying people to deliver medicine.
"The patient is very emotionally unstable. I'm sorry you have to leave."
Facing the nurse's expulsion, the group had no choice but to leave even if they were worried and anxious. Ni Qingyan thought that maybe after going back, they could learn more about what Ni Jia had gone through in these years.
She couldn't believe that Ai Zhen's daughter would be the vicious and selfish person Ni Nan said. Ni Cheng, Ru Hui and Ni Nan were all so outstanding. They were also Ai Zhen's daughters. How could Ni Jia be vicious?
Getting further and further away from the third building, when Ni Qingyan finally looked back, she seemed to see Ni Jia sitting by the window.
In the blink of an eye, she saw Ni Jia moving his lips, as if saying to her: "Help me."
Just when she thought it was an illusion, a figure fell from the sixth floor and landed heavily among the rose bushes.
Roses in winter seem to be more and more delicate.
"Ni Jia..." A collapsed cry.
Is it Ni Jia?
It's her.
She is dead.
…
The furlong roses withstood the severe cold of winter and bloomed brightly in the cold wind.
In the corridor of the hospital, Ni Ruhui brought back the first rose that bloomed in the morning for their mother.
She held her younger brother in her hand and waited for her mother who was giving birth at the door of the operating room.
There were footsteps behind her, and when she looked back, she saw that it was not the father she was expecting, but Secretary Yan.
"I'm sorry, miss, second young master, sir, he has very important work and can't come..."
Ni Ruhui couldn't hear the rest of the words clearly and didn't want to hear them. Although she knew she wouldn't come, she was still a little disappointed and a little bit sad for her mother.
"Sister..." Ni Nan found that his sister's hand was bleeding.
Ni Nan was a little confused as to how a mere thorn on a rose could prick her sister's hand.
But before he could ask, he saw the doctor hurried out to look for the patient's family.
Secretary Yan walked up. I didn’t know what he said, his face changed drastically, and he called his father immediately.
Later, his father came, as did his eldest brother who was undergoing closed training at the Star Alliance Military Academy, his aunt came, and many people he didn't know.
His sister let go of his hand, and the roses she took him to pick fell to the ground. The originally green flower stems were dyed the same color as the petals.
Perhaps he was too short for adults to notice him, and the six-year-old was forgotten outside the ward.
Until a pair of dry and warm touches touched his head, he looked up and met a pair of eyes filled with sadness.
"I am your great-aunt. Now, go see your mother."
In this way, Ni Nan was brought into the ward by the woman who claimed to be his aunt. There were many people in the ward, but when they saw him, no, it was his aunt, they all stepped away and gave way. The path to the hospital bed.
They walked to their mother's hospital bed. The mother who had just given birth was weak and haggard. Ni Nan felt that his heart ached.
He instinctively looked up for his sister, wanting someone to rely on, but found that her eyes were red and swollen. He thought that maybe the thorns of the rose were too sharp and caused her pain.
But why do my father and brother also have red eyes?
He doesn't understand, just like he doesn't understand what death is.
"Is this my sister?" Ni Nan asked, looking at the baby next to her mother.
"Yes." Ni Nan frowned after hearing her mother's affirmative answer. Sister, are you a little ugly?
But as her brother who is connected by blood, he will not dislike her.
Immediately, Ni Nan heard his mother say to his great-aunt: "Teacher, Jiajia has not awakened her bloodline. She is an ordinary human being. Can you teach her personally? Only you can teach her."
It turns out that my sister’s name is Ni Jia, but why does my mother’s voice sound desperate and sad? Is it because my sister has not awakened her bloodline?
His parents are both purebred snake tribesmen. He and his sister and brother also inherited their parents' blood, and they were able to control their own mutations when they were four years old.
As a descendant of a purebred orc, it is obviously very unreasonable to have no talent for awakening bloodline.
Ni Nan felt inexplicably pity for his newborn sister.
He looked up at his great-aunt and found that her expression was very complicated. After a while, his great-aunt hugged his sister and said, "I will take her to Kata Star. She will have a stable and happy life."
As his aunt finished speaking, he saw his mother closing her eyes, and the hand her mother held on him lost strength for an instant.
Ni Nan's heart ached again, as if something important was disappearing. He held his mother's hand, and some moist liquid dripped on her hand. He wiped it and found that he couldn't finish it. I found out that they were my own tears.
At the funeral three days later, six-year-old Ni Nan understood two words for the first time: death and farewell.
Ni Qingyan was still in a daze when she woke up from her dream. She seemed to have dreamed of Ni Jia again just now.
I dreamed about Ni Jia in her previous life. The girl who seemed to want to say something to her fell from the sixth floor of the nursing home. The plain blood was dyed red. At her funeral, Ni Qingyan met the girl who made Ni Jia for the first time. The heart-warming researcher Lu Chen.
Strangely, when Lu Chen arrived, she heard a voice in a daze: "The collection of love value is 100%, and the collection of cruelty value is 100%. Congratulations to the attacker for reaching the end of life and death, and earning 30,000 points."
"Leaving the game world..."
After that voice, she went back to the afternoon of that day in a trance, the day when Ni Jia first came to Kata Star to give her a gift.
At first she thought it was a dream, because Ni Jia, who came to give her a gift, did not have a loving fiancé, nor did she have the sweet smile in her memory. She was full of sharp thorns and refused to be approached by anyone.
They didn't even talk. Ni Jia left in a hurry after sending the gifts. After Ni Jia left, Ni Qingyan spent thirteen years in Kata in a hazy state. The thought of looking for Ni Jia in her mind drove her back to the main star. .
I heard the news about Ni Jia again. It was that she had already eloped with the interstellar bandit and was expelled from the family. Later, there was that strange voice.
"The heart-torture value collection rate is 100%...the mission is completed, and the points reward is 4,000..."
When she woke up again, she returned to Kata Star. She thought that she should go to the main star to find out the truth of the matter, but when she walked out, she met Ni Jia who came to give a gift.
Today, Ni Jia is pure and cute, with a sweet smile on her face and a pair of big black eyes staring at her, like an innocent baby bird.
She proposed to return to the main star with Ni Jia, who had given her a gift, but on the day she left, she suffered from an old illness and could only change into her animal form and recuperate in the medicinal spring.
When she regained consciousness, several years later, she deliberately went to learn about Ni Jia, but learned that Ni Jia was entangled with her uncle's eldest son, the son of the current head of the Gao family and his ex-wife, and was exiled by the family. .
She went to the place of exile to look for Ni Jia and witnessed Ni Jia's death again. On the day of the funeral, she heard the strange sound again.
Later, Ni Qingyan no longer knew how many times she had witnessed Ni Jia's miserable life. Every time, no matter how hard she tried, her and the child's lives only intersected three times. Her birth, giving her a gift, and then witnessing her... die.
She witnessed Ni Jia's seemingly cursed life time and time again, and regretted every night why she had not agreed to Ai Zhen's request. If she had brought Ni Jia back to Kata, far away from all the power and wealth of the main star, would Ni Jia have There will be a peaceful life.
This question and the endless guilt towards Ni Jia tortured her every day.
Until she woke up again and heard the life steward telling her that Aizhen was giving birth.
She rushed to the main star, agreed to Ai Zhen's request, and brought Ni Zhen back.
No matter whether this world is true or not, no matter what the purpose of those so-called missionaries approaching Ni Jia, she doesn't care. She only knows that this is the child Ai Zhen entrusted to her, and she wants to protect her.
