Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 418 Shangguan Yan's Memories
She would never forget the damp garbage dump where she and her mother, whose body was covered with acne, lived.

"It's just eczema. It's okay. It will be fine when your dad takes us back."

In Shangguan Yan's memory, her mother always said such things, but she couldn't even remember what her father looked like.

But my mother stubbornly emphasized the surname Shangguan over and over again, as if this name could bring food. It was obvious that in this place, the name was not important at all and the nickname was the name.

"Red-haired kid...red-haired..."

Everyone else called her that, except her mother, who called her Xiaoyan. She said that she had the same surname as her father, Shangguan, and she repeated that she almost died when she was fourteen years old when she gave birth to her.

Her mother said that she also left from this place, and she seemed to be only seven or eight years old when she left.

She was sold by her mother, Shangguan Yan's grandmother, and then was luckily picked out, washed clean, and dressed in clean clothes to meet those people outside.

Then, the mother was chosen and told that she could leave here forever. She lived in a very large and clean house where the air was always filled with the scent of flowers.

Shangguan Yan didn’t have much impression, but she also felt that her mother was not lying.

She vaguely remembered her childhood, as if she had indeed spent it in a very large house. Outside the window, people in black and white clothes were walking back and forth, both men and women.

But she had never seen that kind of clothes in the slums, so for a long time afterwards, this impression was regarded by her as an illusion lingering in her memory.

Those impressions might be what she dreamed about when she was very young.

It was not until later, much later, long after she had escaped from the slums, that she learned that they were called servant clothes and Western clothes.

Before leaving that place, she and her mother made a living by picking up garbage.

Occasionally they would find edible leftovers in the garbage, but earlier on she had eaten better.

She remembered as soon as her mother and those people walked into the house.

Then, she just needed to squat at the door and wait for a while. After her mother came out, she could go and eat some biscuits and bread.

Unfortunately, her mother suffered from eczema and she never had a normal meal again. The situation did not improve until her mother died and she became self-reliant.

Thinking about it now, Shangguan Yan still feels very regretful. If she had realized the convenience of violence earlier, perhaps her mother would not have died.

No...it's just wishful thinking. She was doomed to die a long time ago.

But violence is indeed a good thing. She does not now despise her bad experience. This extreme environment has made her who she is today.

In short, when she met Xia Shou for the first time, the atmosphere was actually very tense, and she was really considering whether to kill this well-dressed man.

Looking back now, she felt that it was not entirely her fault, and at that time, Xia Shou was indeed too suspicious.

What he did was so similar to what she had heard from her mother, who said that she would take her away from here and would always support her.

When faced with something like that, who would think that the other party has no ulterior motives?

However, after several contacts, she was still taken away. After "asking" the other party for medicine several times, she fainted on the spot due to fever. When she woke up, she was already in a room with a fragrance in the air.

He pulled her out of the slums, gave her food to eat, gave her clothes to wear, treated her wounds and illnesses, and provided her with a warm environment.

She didn't dare to eat the beautiful food on the plate, as if there was some dangerous intention hidden in the food that no one knew about. Even she herself didn't know what she was guarding against.

She was unwilling to rest on the soft Simmons mattress and liked to curl up in the corner of the bedroom wrapped in a quilt at night. Any slight movement could wake her up from her sleep.

She saw through the world very early on. It's not that no one has left the slum, but most of those who left did not have a good ending.

From her mother's failed life, she learned to doubt everything, never believe anything easily, and vowed never to repeat her mother's mistakes.

After being taken in by the man, she had been waiting for him to reveal his true purpose.

However, what I finally got was a notice to go to school.

It was from that place called school that she began to realize that there was another way to live in reality.

The first time she was bullied at school, she poked out one of that person's eyes... That was the first time she was taught a harsh lesson and scolded by Xia Shou.

And she did not make any compromise, smashing the vase on his face, and the mask broke. She saw his true appearance, but he seemed to be a different person, although he was also very gentle and had a similar tone.

But Shangguan Yan knew very well that it was not the person she met.

From then on, she knew that Xia Shou was the real Xia Shou only when he was wearing a mask.

This also made her feel that the other party was even more suspicious.

She was unwilling to change herself in the slightest and kept reminding herself that she must not end up like her mother.

After the fight, she transferred to another school and began to adapt to her new life.

The first thing she learned was a normal fight.

Then, the second thing she learned in school was a very important skill that she needed in her later experiences.

That is reading.

Books taught her many things.

As the days and years passed, she was carefully taken care of and enjoyed a comfortable life that an orphan should not have, but she never showed any gratitude.

For a long time, she firmly believed in her heart that Xia Shou's surname was not Xia, but Shangguan.

And he took care of her only out of guilt towards someone.

This delusion tormented her for a long time, but she could not find any evidence and could only attribute some unfounded meaning to the crying and laughing mask.

She knew many people around him and now remembers every name.

Dongfang Ya, Lu Sha, Li Tianhe...

and all the other adults who come and go in the home.

Each of them was very friendly to her, but she never really got to know them.

And then, until that happened.

Until now, Shangguan Yan has understood that the other party adopted her, which must be related to her special physique.

But this time, she believed that this was not the real reason.

Shangguan Yan stretched out his arm tiredly, hooked the handle of the drawer with his index finger, pulled it open, and took out the photo frame from it.

In the photo, Xia Shou, wearing a crying and laughing mask, sits on a stool and makes a very childish scissors hand gesture to the camera.

In the other hand, he held a crayon drawing held together by tape.

That was her drawing, and when he found out, she tore up the crayon drawing and threw it into the trash.

Unexpectedly, he actually picked it up and fixed it with tape. I don’t know who took this photo for him.

A deep purple crack appeared in the space behind Shangguan Yan, and a sheep-headed skull walked out from behind the curtain of the dimension.

"Are you regretting that you didn't behave better before? That you didn't listen to him and tell him what was in your heart?"

The goat-headed demon asked in a mocking tone.

Shangguan Yan did not answer.

The goat-headed demon then muttered to himself, “Actually, I shouldn’t blame you. A man who seems to have split personality picked up a girl for no apparent reason, brought her home, fed her, gave her a place to live, and let her receive a good education.

It is impossible to do such a thing without intention.

I think your judgment is actually correct, but before his intention was exposed, he was cut into pieces and put in a cardboard box. "

(End of this chapter)