My father raised a pair of orphan brothers to be bodyguards for my sister and me. The older brother was tall and imposing, and fell for my sister at first sight. That left me with only his younger brother, who had autism. I didn't want Gu Xingchuan sent back to the orphanage to be bullied again, so I accepted him as my bodyguard. He never spoke, so I took him to the best psychiatrists at major hospitals across the country. Every day, I set aside two hours to tell him jokes, even though he never responded. He couldn't protect me, so I learned martial arts to strengthen myself and begged my father not to send him away. I thought he was simply wounded inside. As long as I was patient enough, he would surely recover. Until the day our cruise ship capsized, when he forcibly stripped the last life jacket from me. For the first time, he spoke to me: “I'm sorry, but Yu'er’s life jacket is broken.” Yu'er was my sister. He watched as I slowly sank beneath the water, then gave my hand one last squeeze. “I wronged you in this life. I'll make it up to you in the next.” So his autism had only ever been around me. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day we chose our bodyguards.
