She also forgot about the bracelet she was holding tightly in her hand. It wasn't until her current mother carefully tried to help her take it off that she remembered the little sister who was still waiting for her in the snow.
Her current mother asked her if she could show it to her. She shook her head in horror, fearing that the gentle mother in front of her would go to the little sister and abandon her after seeing it.
She still remembered when she and her little sister were captured by their uncle Scar and brought to a pair of uncles and aunts who were wearing somewhat shabby clothes. The aunt originally wanted to take her away, but she saw the little one who was taken away later. When she was a sister, the aunt didn't want her and took the little sister away. If Uncle Scar hadn't asked them to give them more money, the little sister would have been taken away.
In her opinion, being taken away by her uncle and aunt must be better than being beaten and starved next to Uncle Scar.
So when faced with the concerned and curious inquiry from the aunt in front of her, she hesitated and tightened her bracelet tightly, not daring to show it to her or tell her that the little sister was still waiting for her.
Her current mother didn't even ask her to come and see it. She just told her that since this thing was so important to her, she should keep it well and don't lose it.
She nodded nervously and said yes, holding the skewer tighter, wanting to let go but not daring to let go.
The bracelet dug deeper and deeper into her palm, and became tighter and tighter... It suddenly seemed to turn into a swimming snake, and as if it had autonomous consciousness, it slowly emerged from the gaps between her fingers, spitting at her in a sinister way. Snake Xinzi, its face slowly turned into that little sister's face...
She screamed in horror: "Ah..."
Shangguan Linlin sat up in shock amid the screams, dripping with cold sweat.
She looked at the bracelet in her wrist in panic, and as if she saw some monster, she tore it off in panic, threw it to the ground, and looked around at a loss.
The room was dark everywhere, not the vast expanse of endless white snow in the dream, nor the five-year-old her, nor the little sister.
She didn't even know the little sister's name. She only knew that she was taller than her, so she instinctively called her sister.
At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Xiao Yu'er, what happened?"
It was the voices of Shen Zhengyang and Lan Yeru.
Shangguan Linlin regained consciousness for a moment, looked at the door, and said to them in shock: "No, it's okay, I had a nightmare."
"Is it really okay?"
Lan Yeru heard her voice was unstable and still felt uneasy, "You open the door first and let mom go in to see you."
Shangguan Linlin hesitated and said "hmm", got up, turned on the light, and opened the door. His legs were still a little weak.
Lan Yeru saw the sweat on her head and her face that was too pale, and couldn't help but worry: "What did you dream about? Why does your face look so bad?"
"I... seem to have dreamed about my childhood." Shangguan Linlin said hesitantly, "I dreamed that I was kidnapped by human traffickers, and then I escaped. I was alone in the ice and snowy mountain forest, in the dark, with nothing. I So scared, just..."
Shangguan Linlin's voice stopped as he spoke, his eyes still frightened and confused.
Shen Linhai, who came up after hearing the movement, looked at her in shock, with tears in his eyes as he listened to her description of her childhood.
Lan Yeru's eyes were also red.
This was also the first time she heard Shangguan Linlin describe what happened to her in the days when she was missing. Every time she asked her before, she refused by saying she couldn't remember, and didn't want to answer the question.
They were also worried that she would have a stress reaction to that memory, and they never forced her to recall it.
Shen Qingyao, who also arrived, looked at Shangguan Linlin with complicated eyes and said nothing.
Lan Yeru didn't say anything. He stepped forward and hugged her gently, whispering comfort in her ear: "It's all over."
Shangguan Linlin said nothing and let her hold him, his eyes widened, and he was still in the state of shock after waking up from a nightmare.
Her heart was beating very fast, cold sweat broke out on her back, and her mind was filled with thoughts of the little sister she had deliberately forgotten in the snow when she was a child.
In fact, she had always vaguely remembered this memory, but it was so old that she couldn't tell whether it was real or a dream.
Probably because there was still a life hidden in this memory, she always subconsciously avoided thinking about it.
She almost couldn't even remember why she had treasured that bracelet since she was a child. It turned out that it wasn't that it was precious to her, but that she was afraid of being seen, so she kept holding the bracelet and didn't dare to show it to others, but she didn't. Thinking that her parents now mistakenly thought that the bracelet was very important to her, they always let her wear it close to her body.
With the passage of time and deliberate forgetfulness of memory, she slowly forgot the meaning of this bracelet. She only knew that it was something she had worn since she was a child.
