"Ah~"
Father Chen and Mother Chen sighed heavily in unison.
Chen Xi didn't listen any further.
She didn't dare listen any further.
In a daze, she returned to bed and pulled the quilt over her head.
Two sentences kept repeating in her mind—
She couldn't see.
Mom and Dad thought she was a burden.
The thought that Mom and Dad considered her a burden frightened her even more than losing her sight. It even filled her with despair.
The sigh she'd heard from Mom and Dad behind the door kept echoing in her ears.
Louder and louder.
She covered her ears. Her eyes burned, but her face felt cold.
"Meow~"
Huan lay on a pillow not far from the girl, quietly watching her.
"Huan Huan..."
She murmured, and in her dark field of vision, she could make out the outline of a small shadow. Its golden eyes left her a little dazed.
Since losing her sight, the only color she could see besides black was gold.
It was Huan Huan's eyes.
Huan Huan had only one eye.
She didn't mind at all.
That beautiful gold was like the color of sunlight.
It lit up her dark world.
Actually, she hadn't failed to notice that her parents seemed to have something to say about Huan Huan, but held back.
She was blind, so why could she still see Huan Huan?
No, she couldn't see Huan Huan completely, either.
She hadn't told Mom and Dad that, to her, Huan Huan always seemed to be shrouded in a thin mist, looking somewhat hazy and unreal.
Only that one golden eye was perfectly clear.
It always left her utterly dazed.
For the sake of that glimmer of gold, she was willing to ignore everything that felt wrong.
She just didn't