Chapter 67: Entering the Space

That night, Shen Yunhe managed to get the children to sleep and went downstairs to check on Su Jian. To his surprise, she was being quite well-behaved. She even asked him where the bedroom was. Shen Yunhe pointed towards her room and, uncertain, called out her name.

“Jiang Banyue?”

Su Jian obediently responded and went upstairs to her room. Shen Yunhe let out a sigh of relief. The children’s mother had finally returned. He planned to have a good talk with her the next day.

As soon as Su Jian entered her room, she immediately pressed her ear against the door to listen to the sounds outside. She could hear the clinking and clattering of someone tidying up. After a while, everything went quiet, and the sound of the bedroom door opening reached her ears.

Su Jian excitedly covered her mouth. When she heard that no one was outside, she quietly opened the door and crouched low as she tiptoed out. The gate of the yard was tightly shut, but she decided to climb over the wall. She struggled to climb up, but then she heard the sound of a child’s voice behind her.

“I can take you out!”

Su Jian turned around and saw Jiang Huaijin.

“It’s you? You’re still awake this late?” she asked.

“Aren’t you awake too? Su Jian!” Jiang Huaijin tilted his head and smiled. It was a delightful feeling to find someone like him, someone who understood.

“I can take you out to play.”

“Really?” Su Jian brushed the dust off herself and ran over to the child. He raised his hand, holding a key.

Su Jian happily reached for the key, but the child quickly pulled his hand back with a pleased smile.

“I’ll open the door for you, but you have to take me with you.”

“Fine!” Su Jian decided that as soon as she got out, she would leave the kid behind.

Jiang Huaijin leisurely unlocked the door. Su Jian crouched down next to him and whispered, “Hurry up and open the door!”

“Why the rush? If you make too much noise, you’ll wake Dad. Do you want him to come down and catch you?”

Su Jian immediately closed her mouth and quietly waited for him to open the door. After the gate opened, Jiang Huaijin and Su Jian walked out, gently closing the gate behind them.

On the empty street at night, Su Jian happily started running. Jiang Huaijin followed closely beside her.

“Su Jian, are you happy?”

“Happy, of course!”

“I’m happy too, really happy!”

The mother and son ran aimlessly, until they were out of breath and finally stopped. They slowly walked along the roadside.

“Your name is Jin.”

“Yes.” Jiang Huaijin looked up at her for a moment.

“Although you don’t admit it, I, along with my younger brother and sister, were all born to you.”

Su Jian stopped walking. “But I don’t remember having children. Did I lose my memory?”

“You didn’t lose your memory. You’re just the part of Mom’s subconscious. Mom was too tired and wanted to rest for a while, so you appeared. I believe that once Mom has rested, she’ll come back.”

Su Jian suddenly felt a bit sad. “So, I’m not even a real person. I might disappear in the future. Everyone is hoping Jiang Banyue will return, and no one likes me.”

Jiang Huaijin comforted her.

“How could you think that? You are also Mom! I believe that if Huairou and Huaiyu knew you existed, they would like you.”

“But you’re still hoping Jiang Banyue comes back. Once she returns, everyone will be so happy, and no one will be sad about me disappearing.”

Su Jian squatted down on the ground, her head lowered in sadness. Jiang Huaijin squatted down beside her.

“Actually, I’m the same as you.”

“Huh?” Su Jian looked up at him, confused. “What do you mean?”

“Just as you think, Jiang Huaijin and I are two different people, just like you and Mom.”

Su Jian suddenly stood up. “No wonder I always felt like you were different.”

An old van drove by, and two men got out, grabbing Su Jian and Jiang Huaijin, trying to shove them into the car. The two of them looked at each other—human traffickers.

Jiang Huaijin lowered his head and slowly curved his lips. More prey was delivered right to his door. Don’t blame him for not being polite.

Su Jian excitedly shouted, “We’re being kidnapped by bad guys, how exciting!”

“You’re crazy!” One of the traffickers glanced at her.

“Did we grab a fool?”

Su Jian was enraged. She took a machete from her space and swung it.

“You’re the fool! Your whole family’s a bunch of fools! How dare you insult me, I’ll kill you!”

The trafficker didn’t react in time and was slashed by Su Jian. Panicking, he pulled out a long knife from under the seat and swung it, but he was facing the wrong way, away from Jiang Huaijin.

The trafficker had completely ignored the child, but Jiang Huaijin had a steel wire in his hand that he had taken from under the seat earlier. He quickly wrapped the wire around the trafficker’s neck, pulling it tightly. The trafficker struggled to look back, his eyes widening in terror at the sight of the boy grinning while slowly tightening the wire. The trafficker urinated in his pants.

The other trafficker was driving. When he saw the situation, he slammed on the brakes, but Su Jian quickly placed the knife to his neck from behind.

“Don’t, don’t kill me…”

The trafficker sat upright in fear. Su Jian remained unmoved, the knife cutting into his neck and blood dripping down. Each drop fell, and her hands were covered in blood.

She threw the knife aside and wiped her hands on the seat. The trafficker, seeing this, grabbed the knife she had thrown and slashed at her, but Su Jian pulled Jiang Huaijin away, disappearing.

The trafficker rubbed his eyes, reached out to feel the spot where they had been sitting, and jumped out of the car in terror, running forward, so scared that he wet himself.

“Damn it, there are ghosts…”

He ran while bleeding, the blood pouring from his neck, and finally collapsed on the ground, watching the blood spread. In his final moments, he closed his eyes in frustration.

Su Jian took Jiang Huaijin into her space, and the two of them curiously looked around. Su Jian spotted a peach tree, climbed up to pick some peaches, and threw a few down.

“Jin, here are some peaches for you.”

Jiang Huaijin caught the peaches. “Su Jian, where is this place?”

“I don’t know!” Su Jian bit into a peach.

“When I first became conscious, I found this place. There’s so much delicious food here. Could this be Jiang Banyue’s secret?”

Jiang Huaijin walked into the house, where there were lots of delicious things—he had eaten them before. They were from Mom. So, Mom must have taken them from here.

Su Jian followed him inside and pulled out a durian cake from the fridge.

“Come over here, there’s something good to eat!”

They sat on a chair, eating bite by bite.

“Can you make cakes? This is made by my mom. She’s amazing, right?” Jiang Huaijin proudly boasted about his mother.

“I can’t, I only know how to eat!”

“Hmph, my mom’s the best! Not only can she make cakes, but she also cooks delicious meals. The clothes we wear, she makes them with her own hands!”

“Ah, your mom must be exhausted, doing all those things!” Su Jian said casually.

Jiang Huaijin froze for a moment, stunned.

“Yeah, she’s so tired, but we didn’t understand her. We kept causing trouble for her. No wonder she hid away… we must have made her sad.”

Su Jian took a bite of the cake. “Serves her right. Maybe your mom won’t come back anymore! Anyway, I’m not your mom, so don’t expect me to take care of you!”