One Word Changed, Characters in Chaos

Li Mingyu watched Chen Yu’s gesture and couldn’t help revealing an expression of disbelief.

Xiaoyu, is he…

Wanting Ye Xiao to give him a hug?

After so much time had passed, this was still the first time he had reacted this way to someone else.

Whether it was she, his own grandmother, or the nanny who had taken care of him since he was little, none had received such treatment.

Ye Xiao was also surprised and couldn’t help but glance at Li Mingyu.

Li Mingyu hesitated for a moment, then walked over with Chen Yu in her arms.

She wanted to confirm whether Xiaoyu really wanted to get close to Ye Xiao.

When she reached Ye Xiao’s side, Chen Yu’s little hand naturally reached around Ye Xiao’s neck, and Ye Xiao naturally took him into her arms.

Chen Yu then lay on her shoulder and started crying softly.

Ye Xiao’s body stiffened.

This… what’s going on here?

Over two lifetimes, this was the first time she had ever held a child.

Help… help me.

But this child, Chen Yu, he was truly too heart-wrenching.

He lay on Ye Xiao’s shoulder, his little body quivering, making tiny sobs.

Worried that his tears would fall on Ye Xiao’s clothes, he kept wiping them with his own sleeve.

Ye Xiao’s heart softened, and she couldn’t help but whisper, “If you want to cry, cry it out.”

As if he had received some kind of instruction, the volume of Chen Yu’s crying suddenly increased.

He cried so loudly, so forcefully, as if he wanted to cry out all his fear, all his unease, all his pain, all at once.

Li Mingyu watched, her eyes also brimming with tears.

She had always wanted Chen Yu to cry out loud like this.

But no matter what she said or did, she just couldn’t bring Chen Yu out of his closed-off world.

She didn’t know what exactly had happened just now.

But she knew that her grandson had finally cried his heart out.

Some pain, if it can be cried out, can gradually be soothed a little.

But if it is constantly held inside, day and night, year after year, it will only drive a person mad.

Bai Shilan and Ye Bingtong exchanged glances, their brows slightly furrowed.

What’s with Chen Yu?

He had just been looking at Ye Bingtong, and now suddenly, he wanted Ye Xiao to hold him.

Ye Bingtong felt somewhat uneasy, she thought for a moment, then proactively approached Chen Yu again.

She revealed a gentle smile, “Xiaoyu, come here, let Sister hug you, alright?”

Chen Yu clung tightly to Ye Xiao’s neck, looking at Ye Bingtong with some resistance.

Ye Bingtong felt a bit embarrassed, and Bai Shilan couldn’t help but say, “Xiaoyu, Sister Bingtong jumped into the cold lake to save you! Your attitude seems a bit impolite.”

Ye Bingtong, however, appeared rather magnanimous, “It’s okay. I didn’t do it for anyone’s gratitude; I did what I should do.”

Chen Yu, looking at these two people shamelessly distorting the truth, puffed his cheeks in anger.

He turned to look at Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao had a gentle expression, and her eyes seemed to sparkle with light.

Chen Yu held her even tighter.

Then he turned to Ye Bingtong and said very slowly, with each word clearly enunciated, “You! Are! Lying!”

He spoke the three words very slowly.

Li Mingyu’s pupils dilated suddenly, and she looked at Chen Yu in disbelief.

Chen Yu… he spoke?

He actually spoke?

Li Mingyu dared not even blink, afraid that if she did, everything in front of her would disappear like an illusion.

Chen Yu had actually spoken—it was a scene she could only dream of in her dreams.

And now, it had come true?

Ye Xiao also looked at Chen Yu with some surprise.

She had just thought, while exposing Ye Bingtong, whether she could also help this poor child.

So, earlier in the plot,

she changed the line from the parents in Chen Yu’s hallucination: “We hate you.”

to “We love you.”

She didn’t know if it would have any effect.

But if it were possible,

she would unravel the knot in a poor child’s heart, which was better than simply teaching Ye Bingtong a lesson.

Now.

Chen Yu had finally begun to speak.

Ye Xiao couldn’t help but feel some relief.

The character she had revised ultimately proved to be of help.

This child had been trapping himself in pain and guilt, always believing that he was the cause of all the tragedy.

He must have had many nightmares, many hallucinations.

In the nightmares and hallucinations, his parents kept saying they hated him, constantly telling him to join them.

Chen Yu was thus trapped by these nightmares and hallucinations, seizing any opportunity to self-harm, seeking to join his parents.

But this time,

for the first time in his hallucinations, he heard the word “love.”

For him, it was undoubtedly a rescue.

A gap suddenly appeared in his closed heart.

With that gap, he could finally vent his pain to his heart’s content.

He cried his heart out, releasing some of the accumulated sorrow.

Now, he was finally willing to give himself a break, and at last, he spoke his first words since the car accident.

Chen Yu had started talking!

Ye Bingtong turned pale all of a sudden.

Wasn’t he a mute?

Why didn’t he remain mute forever!

Why would he suddenly start talking at such a time!

No, no, no, it must have been an auditory hallucination.

While looking at Ye Bingtong, Chen Yu said word by word again, “You’re lying.”

This time, his speech was smoother than before.

His voice was still somewhat hoarse, and his tone a bit strange.

“You’re lying,” Chen Yu repeated.

He said it over and over, four or five times, each time sounding more normal.

The last time, it was incredibly fluent.

Li Mingyu could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

This wasn’t a dream.

It wasn’t a hallucination, either.

Her Xiaoyu had finally begun to speak.

Chen Yu turned his head to look at Li Mingyu and softly called out, “Grandma.”

Li Mingyu’s body trembled, and after a long while, she responded, “Yes.”

Chen Yu spoke very earnestly, “Grandma, they are lying. I don’t like them.”

“Yes, yes. They are lying, Xiaoyu doesn’t like them, Grandma doesn’t like them either,” Li Mingyu said, her eyes reddening.

The expressions of Bai Shilan and Ye Bingtong changed.

This Chen Yu, mute for so many years, was now suddenly speaking.

Was this deliberate against them?

Bai Shilan couldn’t help saying, “Xiaoyu, you can’t just say anything. Was it that Ye Xiao who deceived you into having such wrong perceptions? Don’t forget, Sister Bingtong is still soaked because she tried to save you.”

Ye Bingtong shivered at just the right moment.

They were gambling,

gambling that Chen Yu, just a child, couldn’t lay everything out clearly.

Chen Yu glanced at them and suddenly said, “I saw a news story this morning. A child fell into a river, and someone bravely rescued him. The child’s parents were tycoons, they gave hundreds of thousands in reward, and even acknowledged their savior as the child’s godfather. Didn’t that brave person rise to the heavens in a single step?”

He had recounted word for word what Bai Shilan had said earlier.

At this, the faces of Bai Shilan and Ye Bingtong went completely pale.

This little rascal…

He could not only speak clearly but also too clearly.

Wasn’t he a fool?

Wasn’t he a mute?

Why had he suddenly become normal now!