Every world is full of ghosts and monsters begging for hugs

He Mian stroked her face, leaned over and kissed her cheek, "Yaoyao, have a good rest, I'll go clean up."

Bai Yao yawned, pulled the blanket up to cover half of her face, and said "hmm" lazily.

He Mian picked up the garbage bag and glanced at the used items inside. He couldn't help but feel a sense of relief in his mind. Fortunately, he brought a box of things in his bag.

He collected his thoughts, tiptoed out of the cabin and closed the door.

Bai Yao was half asleep and half awake when she vaguely heard footsteps approaching. She thought it must be He Mian coming back. As the footsteps got closer, she gradually felt that something was wrong.

She opened her eyes from a light sleep and saw no one in the empty room.

Outside the wooden house, the disheveled woman was grabbed by the arm by the tall boy and dragged to the corner behind the wooden house.

There are so many shadows from the trees here that no sunlight can be seen through the shadows.

He Mian had a blank expression on his face, and there was a dark tide in his eyes like thick ink, "What do you want to do?"

"Xiao Mian, you haven't been home for a long time. I missed you." The woman smiled lovingly and gently stroked her son's face. "You have dark circles under your eyes. Didn't you get enough rest yesterday?"

She hurriedly said, "Stop working and go back to rest, okay?"

Feng Mo, this is his mother.

Anyone who doesn't know the inside story, seeing how caring and loving Feng Mo is towards her son, would probably think that she is just like most mothers in the world and that she must love her child very much.

Indeed, in He Mian's memory, his mother had been gentle to him, but this occasional moment of tenderness could not cover up the abuse and torture he had received in the past eighteen years.

He Mian's voice was cold, "Go back, don't come here."

Feng Mo smiled and asked: "That girl is so beautiful, is she your girlfriend?"

She was originally a beautiful woman and had been loved by many people, but after years of living a crazy life without seeing the sun, Feng Mo has lost her original appearance.

Even though she tried to show a gentle smile, it only made her sickly pale face look more distorted.

He Mian had already involuntarily increased his strength while holding onto his mother's arm. This emotion that he was still barely suppressing faintly revealed a bit of his madness, "Don't get close to her."

Ever since He Yuan disappeared, Feng Mo has placed all his emotions on his child.

When He Mian was in kindergarten, his teacher gave him a picture book. He liked it very much and would read it almost every day when he got home from school. But one day when he came back, the book had been torn into pieces and thrown into the trash can.

When he was in elementary school, he was not so withdrawn yet. He was no different from ordinary children. His classmates invited him to their home for a birthday party and he brought gifts with him. When Feng Mo came to pick him up, he asked him how he had fun with his friends.

He Mian, 6, said: "Everyone was very nice. They played games with me and gave me cake. Mom, I like playing with my friends."

The next day, a friend he had just made was pushed off a slide in the park and was seriously injured.

Later, He Mian had no friends and he stopped communicating with other people. Gradually, he became known as a freak. In his second year of junior high school, he secretly picked up a stray cat and raised it in an abandoned park. This stray cat seemed to become his only friend that he could talk to.

However, the cat was eventually found drowned in the water.

Feng Mo once said while holding the little child in his arms: "Xiao Mian, your father doesn't want us anymore. You are the only one I have. You are the only one I have. You must not abandon me. You absolutely cannot!"

He Mian held onto her mother's arm tightly, letting her sob softly and shouting in fear: "Xiao Mian, you're grabbing me and it hurts."

His eyes were like the abyss, dark and deep. The storm engulfed his shattered sanity and swallowed up his remaining humanity. "Don't even think about getting close to her, or I will kill you."

Feng Mo was stunned.

When He Mian returned to the cabin, Bai Yao was sitting on the sofa hugging a blanket with lifeless eyes. It was obvious that she had just woken up and was in a daze.

But as soon as the familiar hand touched her face, she leaned forward lazily and hugged his waist.

He Mian laughed, sat down, held her in his arms, and braided her hair skillfully.

Bai Yao said: "I will start school in more than a month."

He paused for a long while and then uttered a low "hmm".

Bai Yao raised her eyes and smiled, "I'll wait for you to come find me."

He Mian has been working very hard and saving money so that he can leave Minghu Town one day and have a new life.

Bai Yao has always believed that the small Minghu Town cannot trap him.

He Mian's heart felt hot, and his blood heated up as well. "You...will wait for me?"

"Of course." Bai Yao nestled in his arms, her face against his chest, playing with his fingers from time to time, and said as a matter of course: "Maybe it will take a long time, but it doesn't matter. If I can't help missing you, I will definitely come back to see you."

She will wait for him.

She would miss him.

When she said she wanted to have a future with him, it wasn't just something she said to coax him out of a momentary infatuation.

He Mian's face froze and he forgot to breathe for a short while. He never knew that he could be loved and cherished by someone. Many times, even though he had been fighting against fate for more than ten years, he felt that his life was like this.

Being tattered and living like a piece of trash, this is the life he expects to end.

He Mian lowered his head and buried it in her neck, desperately sucking in her breath.

Bai Yao felt a little itchy, and also felt like she was hallucinating. Otherwise, how could she hear the sound of someone sniffing?

"Yao Yao, I love you."

Bai Yao touched his head, "Yeah, I know you love me."

As night falls, a heavy rain is about to fall.

He Mian prepared dinner and opened the bedroom door, but did not see the woman.

He immediately had a bad feeling and hurriedly called Bai Yao. After a while, the call was connected. "Yaoyao, where are you?"

"I'm at home."

He Mian asked: "Are the doors and windows locked? Has anyone else entered the room?"

Bai Yao was puzzled: "Aunt Fang locked the doors and windows before she left. I didn't see anyone else. Everyone is here. I know it will rain tonight, but I'm not afraid. You don't have to worry about me."

In fact, she was worried that he would come to the manor in the rain again.

After a flash of lightning and thunder, the signal was cut off.

He Mian turned and walked out, wanting to rush to the manor, and the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of the corner of the bedroom.

On the wall with human-shaped mold spots, a black figure that had existed for more than ten years was still in that corner. It raised its hand and pointed in a direction.

He Mian looked out the window.

That's the manor... No, that's the direction of Ming Lake.

After a thunderclap, the signal was cut off and the power in the manor went out.

Lan Ge asked everyone not to worry and he went to see if there was something wrong with the circuit breaker.

Luo Xuan accompanied her mother to the hospital, so only Lan Ge came back.

Bai Yao said: "There is a flashlight in my room, I will go get it."

After that, she groped her way up the stairs with the dim light from her cell phone.

Luo Xiao said: "This is an old house. It's easy for power outages to occur when there's thunder."

Xiao Beichen stood up, walked to Luo Mianmian, and said to Luo Xiao: "Uncle, if you need anything, you can tell me."

He said he was taking care of Luo Xiao, but in fact he wanted to protect Luo Mianmian.

A figure flashed in the corner of Shi Li's sight. He originally thought it was Xiao Beichen, but Xiao Beichen appeared in the opposite direction.

Shi Li followed his feeling and looked towards the stairs. On the steps, a muddy footprint vaguely appeared.

Mud footprints.

In the hallucination he had at the lake before, it was also a thunderstorm day, and the figure with muddy footsteps walked all the way into the water holding the girl.

Shi Li's face suddenly turned pale.