15-Year-old Su Wenwu was blinded by the blue light from Penta Kill on his mobile phone - the "Glory" in the game was more real than the blue cloth school uniform in reality. Dad was drunk and pushed open the door. The smell of alcohol mixed with Zhang Yan's perfume broke the blue cloth apron that Mom used to choose vegetables in the kitchen. He was very familiar with that apron. On the white washed blue cloth, the word "Xiao Wu" with crooked stitches was painted with correction fluid when he was in elementary school.
He thought he was going to be crushed in the heat of adolescence and the coldness of his family, until he found a rusty iron box at the scrapyard...
At the bottom of the box is a yellowed pregnancy test sheet, the date is his birthday, and the name is "Zhou Shulan"; inside the box lies a crooked letter, with mom's handwriting soaked in tears: "Xiao Wu, mom is not your real mom, but I gave up half my life to keep you alive." There is also an old photo of a young mom wearing a blue shirt and holding a baby wrapped in red cloth in her arms - the scar on the baby's back is exactly the same shape as the acne mark on his neck now.
"It turns out I'm not your biological child."
On a rainy night, he rushed home with the tin box in hand and saw his father throwing Zhang Yan's bag. Zhang Yan screamed and ran away. Dad stumbled and knocked over the chair. Blood dripped from his forehead on the floor. It was exactly the same color as the blood that his mother had shed when she shielded him from a car accident twenty years ago.
"Xiao Wu, come here." Mom rushed out from the kitchen, her blue cloth apron stained with hangover soup oil stars. Only then did he realize that his mother's hands were shaking - they had mended school uniforms 17 times, survived 28 bowls of hangover soup, and hid 36 sick leave notes (each one said "Zhou Shulan, dizzy during pregnancy, asking for half a day off"). "Mom, you lied to me for twenty years." His voice trembled.
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