Why are all the heroines falling for me, the villain?

The woman unconsciously looked out the window, as if she could see the little girl shivering in the corridor even through a layer of cement wall.

"No, she's too weak. She might not even live to be seven. Considering her usual heart care and treatment, how could we possibly afford such medical expenses?"

Men should be more rational. He clenched his old leather shoes, feeling cold, and the cigarette between his fingers burned slowly. His face was full of conflict.

The woman was silent for a moment, looking at the letter on the table, and suddenly said with disgust, "This mother is really heartless, just abandoning her daughter like that? And who is she trying to impress with that hypocritical tone?"

[My dearest Yin'er, I'm sorry, but I have to make a very difficult decision: to send you to an orphanage, while I go to a faraway place to find happiness. We both have a future to look forward to.]

[I'm sorry, please don't blame your mother, okay? My husband, your father, is a complete bastard. How dare he abandon us and run away? Such scum should be thrown into the river to feed the fish. Not long ago, the doctor said you have a congenital heart condition and wouldn't live past nine years old.]

[Do you know, this home is like a bottomless abyss, with no hope in sight. I'm just a stay-at-home mom without a job. I'm still young, and I can't let my life be trapped in this bottomless abyss. Please forgive me, I love you very much, my darling, and I think you should understand. But we really need to separate so that happiness can come.]

"Look, look! The letter is so beautifully written. If it weren't for the fact that the little girl outside is dressed even less than me and looks so thin, I would have believed her nonsense." Perhaps it was a woman's maternal instinct that disgusted her with this behavior, as she pointed at the contents of the letter and kept talking.

The welfare home has no shortage of family tragedies and melodramatic stories; they've seen far too many.

The man didn't speak, but he understood that the little girl's pitiful state couldn't have been created overnight.

Perhaps she was often starved, beaten, or resented by her mother, but both the girl and the mother seemed to be able to endure all of this. The turning point was when she was diagnosed with heart disease.

Let's put ourselves in the young mother's shoes. She quit all her jobs to become a stay-at-home mom, only to have her husband cheat on her. He then simply left her and her daughter behind and ran away. At that moment, all her love turned into hatred. She hated everything about her husband, including her daughter.

So her temperament changed drastically, and she would beat and scold her daughter. If she was in a good mood, she would give her a bite to eat, but if she was in a bad mood, she would kick her out of the house to suffer from the cold and hunger, and treat her like a servant.

Even so, she hasn't considered abandoning her daughter. After all, her six-year-old daughter can still help her with laundry, cooking, and running errands, so she's somewhat useful. All she has to do is go to bars to hook up with rich guys.

Not long ago, she was suddenly diagnosed with congenital heart disease. In addition, most men looked disgusted when they saw that she had a child, so marriage was even more impossible.

Only then did she realize that her daughter was the real culprit, the root of all misfortune.

She decided to get rid of this burden!

So, could the true meaning of that letter be the words he once said to the little girl?

Why don't you just die?

"Do you know how much trouble you've brought to my life? All my misfortunes and pain started after you came into my life. Without you, perhaps Shota wouldn't have left. I could live a very easy life on my own without you. I would have found my other half long ago without you."

"You're my child, so can't you be a little more sensible? Do I have to tell you to just obediently die?"

"See? Even the heavens can't stand it anymore. Congenital heart disease is the punishment. Even if you don't die, I'll stay away from you. We'd better never see each other again."

In the end, the two people from the orphanage took the little girl in.

The woman was a teacher at the orphanage. When she held the girl's hand, it was like holding a withered twig—cold and stiff, the bone separated only by a layer of skin, seemingly ready to shatter at the slightest pressure.

How can someone be this thin?

The teacher brought her hot water for a bath and gave her warm clothes to wear. All the children in the welfare home have winter clothes, which are donated by kind-hearted people.

However, during the bath, the girl's thin body was covered in bruises, old ones not gone but new ones appearing, and her congenitally damaged heart was beating with difficulty in her fragile chest. All of this made the teacher's eyes redden and he was somewhat moved.

What a pitiful child.

The truth is probably, perhaps, even more cruel than they guessed.

Snowflakes drifted gently down the corridor, while the girl inside remained calm, her eyes as pure as a sapphire, holding a hidden depth.

She looked so clean and well-behaved that the teacher liked her more and more. She believed that no one could dislike such a cute child.

Apart from her parents.

"Are you still cold?" the woman asked gently.

The girl shook her head and subconsciously touched the scarf around her neck. Her body, wrapped in a down jacket, finally looked a bit more alive.

"What's your name?"

The teacher smiled as she helped her adjust her scarf, and couldn't resist pinching her cute cheek.

"Haiyin".

A clear, youthful voice echoed in the movie theater.

At that moment, Li Zhu, who was sitting in the audience, instantly woke up. His eyes widened, his face full of surprise and doubt, and he almost jumped up from his seat.

The name stirred up memories buried deep in his heart.

"What's wrong with you?" Chika, who was eating popcorn, noticed Rin's unusual behavior and asked.

"No, it's nothing."

Li Zhu licked her dry lips, feeling an overwhelming sense of panic, and rubbed her hands lightly against her thighs.

Could it be a coincidence? After all, there are plenty of girls named Haiyin; you can't just grab any one of them and call her your Haiyin sister.

He felt that the reason he had such a strong reaction was because the story took place in an orphanage, since he had spent his childhood there in his previous life.

Qin Yin was so engrossed in watching that she didn't get distracted. She had a very familiar feeling about these scenes, as if they often appeared in her hazy dreams.

"Great name! Haiyin will be a member of our welfare home family from now on. Let's go."

The teacher patted her head and took her hand as they walked outside.

"Are they sending me away again?"

Haiyin stared quietly at her teacher's face, her eyes revealing neither joy nor sorrow. You couldn't imagine that such a numb, emotionless expression could appear on the face of a six-year-old child.

Several times, her mother smiled, patted her head, took her hand, and walked out of the house, abandoning her.

As a result, she believed that whenever adults smiled and held her hand, it meant they were going to abandon her.

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Chapter 143 "Heart" (Part 2)

Although the teacher was puzzled as to why Haiyin would say that, she immediately squatted down to comfort her, "Silly child, we will not send you away again unless you want to leave yourself."

"So, do I have to live here from now on?"

"Ah."

Later, the teacher took her to integrate into the orphanage. At first, everyone wanted to get close to her because she was cute.

It's normal for girls to like cute things. They eagerly put pretty hair clips on this adorable little girl, pinch her cheeks, or hug her.

The boys were perhaps a little shy, wanting to go forward but not daring to, so they ended up teasing each other to try and attract Xiao Haiyin's attention.

As it turned out, the method did work. Haiyin looked at them with a strange expression, as if they were monkeys in a zoo.

Later, one time the boys wanted to play a trick on Haiyin. They weren't satisfied with small actions like pulling her hair; they wanted to give her a big surprise, but the surprise turned into a shock.

Because Haiyin couldn't handle the sudden fright, she had a heart attack and collapsed to the ground. The boys were terrified and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, the teacher arrived in time and took her to the hospital. Otherwise, we would have had to say goodbye to this beautiful little girl forever.

The director was furious and convened a meeting of the entire orphanage. He not only explained Haiyin's illness but also severely punished the boys who liked to play pranks.

Those boys will probably understand later that liking someone isn't about constantly teasing them, unless you're Mrs. Nishikata.

The dean's protective declaration was very effective. Gradually, everyone stopped paying attention to Haiyin and would keep their distance when they met, for fear of accidentally triggering her illness.

She was like a piece of porcelain that would shatter at the slightest touch, covered with fine cracks, beautiful yet fragile.

Most of the time, Haiyin would sit on the swing and watch the children playing from afar.

"It turns out I was destined to be alone."

Haiyin clutched her chest; the terrible disease could take her life at any moment, and she had suffered far too much malice because of it.

Her biological mother abandoned her, and rumors about Haiyin gradually spread throughout the orphanage. Sometimes, when people passed by, they would loudly discuss those embarrassing things. Although she was alive, she was no different from a walking corpse. There was no one in the huge orphanage with whom she could confide her true feelings.

"Damn it, these guys are still so annoying even in the movies." In her past life, Li Zhu had often gone up against them because of Hai Yin, only to get ganged up on and beaten up in the end...

Li Zhu felt uncomfortable and a little irritable. When she saw everyone happily welcoming her, she thought that Haiyin in the movie would be different from the real Haiyin and would have many friends. But the screenwriter really made her as miserable as possible.

Qin Yin, engrossed in watching the movie, unconsciously clutched her chest. The scenes in her dream became increasingly vivid, and her heart felt a faint burning sensation.

Chika finished her popcorn and decided to go outside for some fresh air.

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The doctor said she wouldn't live past nine, but now she's eight, her life flickering weakly in the wind.

The children in the orphanage come and go, some are adopted, and then new children arrive.

Haiyin had been asked about her many times, but was repeatedly abandoned. This terrible disease meant that no one would adopt a weak, sickly, and short-lived burden.

She no longer goes to the swing to watch the children playing in the distance, because interacting with people always brings too many sad things. She prefers to stay in her room and read quietly.

The scene shifts to a handsome little boy, led by his teacher, walking onto the stage with his schoolbag on his back to introduce himself.

"Hello everyone, my name is Li Zhu..."

"Wait a minute! What's this?!"

Li Zhu's brain was constantly issuing red alerts; he swore he had encountered this scene somewhere before, no, he had experienced it.

Sure enough, everything happened as he expected. The little boy, who had lost both parents, was ostracized and bullied. He met Haiyin, who came to his rescue, and the two, who were in similar situations, quickly became best friends who could talk about anything.

The background music became more upbeat, and even the sunlight seemed brighter.

"How could this be?"

Looking at the boy and girl chatting and laughing on the screen, Li Zhu was stunned and leaned back in her chair, muttering to herself.

If the last movie only made him feel somewhat uncomfortable, then this movie is practically a reenactment of his experience.

"Same name, same surname, same experiences—is this another me in a parallel world? Or a projection of the real world?"

A tremendous panic and fear of the unknown began to spread in his heart. Although he was in the game world, he received some inexplicable hints and amazing coincidences.

"Hey, why is the male lead's name the same as yours, Li Zhu?" Qian Hua asked, somewhat surprised when she heard the boy's self-introduction as soon as she sat down.

"...I don't know either, it might be a coincidence. Anyway, let's see how it goes." Li Zhu wasn't in the mood to pay attention to her; he was still thinking about some things that had been overlooked.

Time began to fly by.

The scenes of the two of them together, from the blooming flowers of spring to the lush foliage of summer, and then to the chilly autumn, are all so beautiful.

The childish yet whimsical plot made everyone in the theater laugh for a while.

After all, happy times are always fleeting, aren't they?

Four o'clock in the morning.

In the quiet night, another heavy snow fell. Outside the window, the snow was white and the sky was covered with snow. Haiyin lay on the hospital bed with her eyes closed. At eight years and nine months old, her life was about to come to an end.

The film begins by blending memories into a dream sequence, with melancholic music that touches the hearts of the audience.

"What are they playing? It looks like they're having a lot of fun."

"What's so fun about those things? When your older sister has money, she'll take you to buy toys."

Haiyin grabbed Lizhu's hand, not wanting him to play with others.

"Sister Haiyin, someone else wanted to adopt me today, but I wanted to stay with you, so I didn't agree."

"Fool, what's so good about you staying with a patient like me? Do you want to spend your whole life in a nursing home?"

She now understands many things, which is why she gently poked Li Zhu's head with her finger, her tone reproachful, yet her face seemed to be filled with an undisguised smile.

"Sister Haiyin, do you think we'll still be here ten years from now?"

"That stupid question is definitely out of the question. You need to focus on your studies, find a decent job after graduation, and then get married and have children..."

She paused for a moment, then looked down at Li Zhu, who was a year younger than her, and he looked at her with a sweet expression.

"Sigh, study hard, you have a bright future ahead of you, you know?"

With a stern face, Haiyin looked like a little adult.

"Yes, yes, I know. Sister Haiyin is only one year older than me, but she's even more talkative than Aunt Qing."

Yes, how could someone with no future dare to hope for anything?

An indescribable sadness washed over me, like a drowning person watching helplessly as they fall into the deep sea, unable to utter a sound except to wait for death.

Haiyin woke up with a start. The faint moonlight shone through the window onto her pale face, and she couldn't help but gasp for breath.

Then tears streamed down my face.

Having originally learned that she wouldn't live past nine years old, she suddenly didn't want to die like this anymore.

She could lose her family who didn't love her, she could lose a group of hypocritical friends, but her story with him had only just begun, and she really couldn't bear to leave Li Zhu.

"If there truly is a god in this world, could you grant me another ten years to accompany him?" Haiyin said, her eyes blurred with tears and her voice choked with sobs.

Perhaps only those who are utterly desperate will believe in the existence of gods.