Xu Yuan gently wiped her tears and turned to look in the direction of the emergency room. She felt very uncomfortable. After so many years, she thought that Zuo Yue had long forgotten about those things when she was young. She did not expect that after so long, she would see Zuo Yue run out to build a snowman and freeze herself to this extent.
Xu Yuan had no idea what kind of psychological damage Zuo Yue had suffered to suddenly become the cowardly child who only knew how to hide in the corner when she was young.
âWhen Zuo Yue was seven years old, she had just started elementary school.âXu Yuan said softly,â When she was young, her personality was not as carefree as it is now. Although she was very innocent and cute, she was always too tolerant. Whether it was towards her family or her classmates and friends, Zuo Yue, who was still very young at that time, was often bullied by her classmates because of her soft personality. After all, in all the schools that Zuo Yue attended, the classmates and children around her were all from extraordinary families. There would always be a few children who were really spoiled by their families. They used Zuo Yueâs weak personality and did not like to talk and liked to bully her.â
âBut at that time, we didnât know about Zuo Yueâs situation in school. She didnât tell us about it at first, nor did she complain. It wasnât until a year later that Zuo Yue couldnât take it anymore. There were a few times when we had dinner at home that she told us that she was bullied by her classmates in school. She also complained to us softly, but weâ¦â Xu Yuan frowned and sighed.ââWe were too busy at that time and only treated Zuo Yue as the youngest child in the family. We didnât have the mood to consider her childishness. No one took the words of a seven-year-old girl and her silent plea for help seriously because Zuo Yueâs father and I never had the time to go to school to take a look. At that time, we didnât know that Zuo Yue had been growing up under the suspicious gazes of her classmates because we never saw her parents. Therefore, the teachers and parents of some students in her school secretly thought that she was the illegitimate daughter of the Zuo family.ân/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âWe only found out about this later on. We never thought that we would neglect Zuo Yue because we were busy with the companyâs matters at that time. We never thought that she would live under such rumors and gazes. Moreover, because she was too soft and quiet, many people bullied or mocked her as a habit.âThe more Xu Yuan spoke, the redder her eyes became.â When Zuo Yue was eight years old, she went on a winter trip arranged by the school. It was on a mountain near Los Angeles. The normal trip was one day and one night, and she would be back the next day. However, she didnât come back the next day. We waited for the whole night, thinking that their event had been delayed, but it was not until the morning of the third day that we felt that something was wrong.â
âLater, I contacted their teacher and found out that because of the teacherâs negligence, Zuo Yue seemed to have been left behind at the location of the winter outing and did not follow the schoolâs bus.âXu Yuan frowned.â When we rushed over to look for her, we found Zuo Yue walking down the mountain. Because it was deserted, there were no people or cars passing by. She was too young and timid to be a villain. She lost all her strength halfway up the mountain and was constantly freezing. She was frozen on the mountain alone for almost the entire night. She built many snowmen beside her. At that time, Zuo Yue had already fallen unconscious and was lying among the snowmen as if she was no longer thereâ¦â
The more Xu Yuan spoke, the more she couldnât control her emotions. She raised her head and covered her mouth to cry for a while. Then, she looked up at the emergency room again.âAt that time, Zuo Yue was given emergency treatment in this hospital and was sent to the ICU for observation. After three days, she was out of danger. However, since then, her physical condition has deteriorated a lot. It was only after she grew up that she slowly recovered to a healthy state.â
âHow could Teacher be so negligent? Even if Zuo Yue did not get into the car at the beginning and was not discovered, would she not go back to school to take attendance? Why did he have to let such a small child spend the night alone in the snow?âXu Chengfeng narrowed his eyes coldly, his eyes containing a silent storm.
Xu Yuan shook her head.â At that time, the teacher had just given birth to a baby. Half a year later, she went back to work. When she returned from the winter outing, the teacher received a call that her child had a fever, so she rushed back and neglected the students on the bus. Zuo Yue only told me a few years later that a few of her classmates who liked to bully her had deliberately played a game of hide-and-seek with her, causing her to hide in a corner when she left and not be discovered by everyone. It was only later that I found out that those classmates who liked to bully her had deliberately treated her like that.â
âWhatâs with the snowman?â Xu Chengfengâs voice sounded calm, but that was all.
â Zuo Yue was alone on the mountain. She was not only cold, but also scared. There was no one or a car around her. She could only make many snowmen to accompany her. I canât imagine how she could last that night on the mountain, nor can I imagine how she could make so many snowmen.â
âBut later, I found out that the incident left a shadow in Zuo Yueâs heart. When she was twelve, she felt isolated because of some things between her father and me, as well as some things in the Zuo family at that time. If she felt afraid and lonely, or even felt like she was abandoned, this could happen. But she was fine before, so why would she suddenly explode with such intense emotions? What was she doing in the middle of the night? Who provoked my daughter to this extent? She had not been like this for many yearsâ¦
Today, when I saw those snowmen, my heart almost broke⦠I thought those shadows were gone, but sheâ¦â
Xu Yuan suddenly couldnât bring herself to continue. She raised her hand and placed it on her face as she cried silently,ââZuo Yue did not have to worry about food and clothing since she was young, but she was always neglected by us when she was young. She once said that the people closest to her in the Zuo family were not her parents and grandfather, but Wang Ma and Uncle Chen. Zuo Yue only got closer to me after she grew up. When she was young, I didnât do much to fulfill my responsibility as a mother, including Hancheng. I was too busy with my careerâ¦â
â Chengfeng, I know that you feel sorry for Zuo Yue, but the things that happened to her when she was young are a part of her past that she doesnât want to talk about. Her personality has changed a lot now. Sheâs no longer as weak and timid as she was when she was young. Sheâs becoming more and more lively and sheâll say whatever she wants. Sheâs no longer as introverted. However, in the situation tonight, Iâm afraid that sheâll reject everyone because of her unstable emotions. After all, I donât know why sheâs like thisâ¦â