I waited for my parents to answer.
The wait shouldn't have been long, but every second felt stretched into a year.
My heart raced in that brief moment.
And in that brief moment, I saw the subtle changes in their expressions.
I knew my parents, and they knew me just as well.
Our eyes met, and in that instant, we understood each other's thoughts.
I waited quietly, but my heartbeat had already returned to normal. I felt completely calm.
"Just once. After that, we moved, changed jobs, changed our phone numbers, and never contacted him again." Dad shook his head.
Just as I'd expected.
But this wasn't the kind of outcome I wanted.
Looking back, perhaps I'd exposed my ability when I called the police as a child. Ye Qing came to see me, but realized that at the time, I was too young and immature to be trained directly. My parents wouldn't have agreed to it, either.
So he chose to watch from afar, quietly keeping an eye on me while our family remained unaware, and preparing for everything that came later.
"Okay, let's go eat." Dad changed his tone and tugged at my arm.
I got up and watched their backs as they walked ahead of me. My heart grew heavy again.
I still hadn't asked the key question I wanted to ask. And they hadn't told me everything, either.
They hadn't even asked about what I'd been through this past year, let alone Ye Qing.
They were still avoiding the subject.
The weight on my heart hadn't lightened after this conversation. If anything, it had grown heavier.
Maybe... maybe someone among my parents' siblings really had died because of me when I was little.
Maybe it was the uncle they'd mentioned with such resentment. Maybe he'd set