The gardener wiped the tears from his face.

He carefully put the picture back into his arms.

"My story with her is over. It really only took a few hours..." She seemed a little emotional.

Wen Can silently poured a cup of warm water and pushed it over, then asked, "What happened next? Weren't you dealt with by the Qin family?"

"..." The gardener's expression became a little subtle. "I think so too, but Young Master Qin... even in my opinion, he is indeed a person with a little problem in his brain. After he was rescued, he never leaked the news that he saw me on the ship. I hid at home for a while, and was even found by the Qin family. They also deducted a few days of my salary. I was sure that Young Master Qin didn't mention me at all."

"After that, I stayed in the Qin family for another two or three years. During that time, no one bothered me. I just didn't want to do it anymore, so I asked for retirement. They did as they said before and gave me a large pension every month. I donated all the money to the stray animal shelter. My daughter used to love cats and dogs. I didn't need much money myself. I could support myself by working as a cleaner and sweeping the streets. My friend Ye Kong would occasionally ask people to come and see me and treat me to a meal. I was living a pretty good life."

"Most importantly, the Qin family has completely forgotten about me."

She said softly, and pushed the old but well-preserved camera forward.

"It was precisely because they didn't care about me at all that I was able to steal this thing - even Master Qin didn't even think that I stole it."

Wen Can looked at the camera, touched it with his finger, slowly moved it in front of him, and asked, "What's inside?"

"It's Ye Kong's surveillance at the Qin family."

The gardener said, "I discovered it by accident. Master Qin has been in a low mood since he was discharged from the hospital. All the young masters and daughters in Nangang have come to play supporting roles for him and even made bets on who can make him laugh the most. This camera was brought out by a cousin of Master Qin. He said he went to the Qin residence's old housekeeper and Madam Qin and got it after going through a lot of hardships."

"He publicly projected the contents of the camera at a banquet, and was then smashed on the head by Young Master Qin, nearly beating him to death."

Wen Can remembered that he had vaguely heard of this matter.

But when he heard this topic again, which was always accompanied by Qin Wu's arrogant and perverted personality, he had a strange and cold premonition - it felt like ice water that had been accumulated all night in the winter was dripping down the eaves and falling right into his heart.

He curled his fingers slightly, but finally turned on the camera.

The battery is low, and the picture is not as high-definition as today's, but it is enough to project the blurry picture into the viewer's eyes and then into the brain, allowing him to understand what it is within a second.

The man's black pupils shrank, and before his brain could react, his hand slammed the camera down as if by reflex.

The picture disappeared, but the sound of punches and kicks with electricity could still be heard from the camera.

"Run? You want to run again?"

"You little girl, you're pretty good at hiding even though you're not that big. I've been watching you for so many days and you didn't realize you were trying to run away?"

"My wife said she wants to teach you a lesson. Do you see the camera over there? You kowtow a few times so that we can report to the authorities..."

"You don't want to talk, right?! I told you not to talk..."

……

Wen Can wanted to turn off the camera.

But he had lost the reaction and strength he had just now.

Amid the sounds of merciless beatings, he felt as if being poured with an endless supply of ice water, freezing everything from his skin to his blood.

Or the gardener realized that his reaction was wrong, and reached out tremblingly to turn off the camera.

In the steamy silence the gardener looked up at his face.

She looked at this man who was more handsome and more beautiful than Qin Wu, frozen like an ice sculpture under the dim light. There was still some color on his face just now, but now the blood color faded away layer by layer, making his eyes look even darker and his pupils shrank extremely tightly.

She saw his hands again, his fingertips were trembling slightly, perhaps he himself was not even aware of it.

The gardener was silent for a long time, and finally smiled with relief: "It seems that she has really found someone who can give her love - I knew she would find it."

"..." Wen Can then moved his eyes and looked at her like a slow robot.

The gardener sighed.

This mother, who had been humble and powerless all her life and didn't even have the courage to take revenge, but had to be her daughter's tombstone all her life, only then revealed something that even people like Wen Can who had wealth and power could not immediately possess - an indescribable feeling after going through a long period of hardships... perhaps it was detachment and wisdom?

"If you continue to watch and keep staring at her, you will find that her hands are always tightly grasping the ground, and her whole body is as stiff as a piece of iron - she is ready to fight back immediately when she encounters a fatal attack. She never shows any pain or vulnerability from beginning to end."

"She was beaten like that, but her eyes didn't even turn red, let alone shed a single tear."

"Don't you think she's amazing?"

The gardener's presbyopic eyes were surprisingly bright. "I stole the camera not to hide her embarrassed side. In fact, I don't think she was embarrassed at all. I just didn't want the camera to stay in the Qin family and be used as a stimulant by the Qin family. And I always feel that the things in it will be useful sooner or later."

She looked at Wen Can who still had no reaction.

I always felt that he seemed to be still immersed in the noisy voices just now, and I couldn't help but ask again: "Just like Master Qin was angry at that time, it was because he felt that Ye Kong's pitiful side was exposed to outsiders - do you also feel sorry for her?"

"..."

The man then showed some reaction.

He raised his head, but his eyes were not focused, and he said in a dry and cold voice: "I don't know if she is pitiful or not, I just know that I can't bear to see this now."

He seemed to have something else to say, but he closed his mouth the next second, rolled his Adam's apple hard, and then turned his head to avoid the camera.

The gardener exclaimed, "Ah!" and asked hesitantly, "Then, do you want me to take it away?"

"No." Wen Can subconsciously stopped him, and then lowered his voice, "Stay here."

"And the diary?"

"..."

Wen Can glanced at the palm-sized diary and slowly flipped through it in silence.

The yellowed pages rolled between his fingers like the waves of time. On this rainy and snowy winter night, he seemed to touch through the waves the girl who had silently struggled and fallen in a cage in a foreign land seven years ago, who had stepped into the abyss but finally swam towards the dawn.

"This...is more suitable for you to keep."

He whispered, "It should have stayed with the one who witnessed it all."

Just as he was about to push the diary back to the gardener, Wen Can seemed to suddenly realize something, paused, and opened the diary again.

After the sound of turning pages, he stopped at a certain page.

The long summer recorded in words suddenly had two pages torn off here.

"what is this?"

"Oh," the gardener stood up and took a look, and said, "she tore it herself. I don't know where it went. Maybe there was a typo or something..."

No, Ye Kong is the kind of person who would just cover up a typo and continue writing.

There are no signs of torn pages in the entire diary. Obviously, the purpose of her writing the diary is to completely record her memories to prevent them from being tampered with. With this purpose in mind, she should not tear them up directly even if there are mistakes or rewrites.

Wen Can tilted his head, not understanding something, and stopped thinking about it.

It's raining outside the window at night.

In the cold rain in the same city, Ye Kong fell asleep in the tent while drawing.

Perhaps what you think about during the day will appear in your dreams at night, she actually dreamed of swaying deep blue waves.

Faint light penetrated through the sea, illuminating the rippling waves. Just as she was about to swim upstream, she saw two wet pieces of paper.

Seven years later, Ye Kong turned his head in that young body, raised his hand in the waves, and grabbed the two pieces of paper.

When she wanted to see what was on the paper clearly, her feet suddenly touched the land.

The deep blue water waves turned into a cramped space with no windows or doors.

She looked down and saw an old water tank in front of her.

The white cover was lifted up and put aside, revealing a transparent waterproof bag in the water tank. In the waterproof bag were the two pieces of paper she saw in the sea.

-

In an instant, flames swept through the brain.

In the bright scarlet flames, she saw a woman with blood all over her head and bright black eyes.

She stared at her, her red lips slightly opened and closed, and she smiled and said something: "Tell me..."

"Thank you."

The huge blast made her sit up suddenly.

After staying still for two seconds, she looked up and saw the light blue sky through the transparent plastic window.

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