Nurse Yu thought it over again and again, glancing several times toward the room at the very end before finally telling them about the strange things that had happened to Yu Jian.
"Yu Jian never knew his father. I raised him by myself."
"He was a very sensible child and never gave me cause for worry. On top of that, I was usually very busy with work, so he was often home alone."
"I don't know when it started, but little by little, he stopped wanting to talk to me. I felt guilty, so I always bought him lots of things and encouraged him to play with the other children."
"The first incident happened when he was seven. I was at work when I suddenly got a call from a neighbor, who said Yu Jian had gotten into a fight with their child and had nearly poked their eye out."
"I was furious. When I got home, I hit Yu Jian, but I noticed that while I was beating him, he kept looking at me with this terrifying expression."
"He was crying, but he didn't make a fuss. He didn't make a sound or beg me to stop. He just looked at me like that, as if asking why I was doing this to him."
"After that, the incidents kept getting worse. It was like he hated talking to people deep down. Whenever he saw other children, it was as if he became a different person. He wanted to destroy their happiness."
"After he started school, he got a little better at controlling himself, but nobody wanted to be his friend. He grew more and more irritable and withdrawn. He said no more than five words to me each day, and by middle school, he'd basically stopped talking to me