A bite of cake, and the man suddenly realized his mistake.
Why not tell him?
Student Xiao was different from everyone else.
Student Xiao was like him.
That meant...
"You... really want to hear it?"
His hesitant words made his already indistinct voice even harder to understand.
"If you're willing to tell me."
Xiao Xiao set down his fork.
"I'm all ears."
The man swallowed the cake stuck in his throat.
He... wanted to talk.
He'd always wanted to tell someone.
But no one was willing to listen.
No one was willing to truly believe him or understand him.
After being disappointed and hurt time and again, he stopped talking to people.
Even though, in other people's eyes, he was already strange.
He didn't want to become even stranger.
"No, it's not... a happy thing..."
the man murmured.
"I know."
The unexpected answer made the man suddenly look up at him.
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
The man couldn't help returning the smile.
Even though he couldn't see it, he knew the smile on his face was stiff and unnatural.
Of course.
Anyone could tell from the look on his face that it wasn't anything happy...
The man lowered his head.
After all these years, telling that painful story from his past again left him feeling as if it had happened in another lifetime...
Wei Xinhai had probably been in fourth grade when he first saw a yao.
As a child, he didn't understand what it meant.
And he showed, without the slightest hesitation—
what he thought was a perfectly normal reaction.
But in other people's eyes, he started to seem strange.
He couldn't remember many of the details anymore.
Before his parents first took him to the hospital, he hadn't even noticed