Without anyone telling him, he could tell. The child was relieved to be able to send Askan to hell in his place.
He understood it intellectually, but it also stirred up complex emotions.
If the researcher had asked Askan the same question, he would have answered without hesitation that he would take the experiment instead of the child.
But something didn’t sit right about the child happily accepting this situation.
Askan wanted to save the child from hell, but the child was willing to throw Askan into hell if it meant he could be saved.
The difference was clear.
He felt twisted inside.
The intent of the researcher who created this situation was obvious. It was a message to stop pointless emotional play.
The researcher laughed, looking at Askan, who was standing silently.
He didn’t say anything, but his expression said it all.
“See, this is what your game of friendship amounts to.”
Askan felt like he had been doused with cold water.
“Big bro, big bro. You’re going to go in my place, right? Please…… I’m weaker than you, bro.”
The child was willing to sell out anyone to avoid the pain he would receive. Even if that meant Askan, who had been helping him all along.
“I thought I knew him well…….”
Askan felt it once again.
He was alone in the world.
There was no one who would hold Askan’s hand and walk with him to hell.
The researcher’s calculation was infuriatingly accurate. Askan didn’t think he could treat the child the same way anymore.
While taking the experiment on behalf of the child, he wondered what face he should make in the future. But that was a pointless worry.
By the time he came back, the child had already become a cold corpse.
It was a terribly empty ending.
“Just for this……”
Did he ask to take the experiment instead because he couldn’t even hang on one more day?
Askan just stared blankly as the child’s corpse was taken away like trash.
He wasn’t sad. His heart had just frozen cold.
In fact, Askan’s future wasn’t much different from the child’s. The order was just different. He would die from an experiment at some point.
He wasn’t born because he wanted to be born. He was just breathing because he was alive.
He thought it wouldn’t matter when he died. He had no regrets about life……
“I heard my child is here. Please, please. Please find my child.”
The moment he saw the woman pleading with the guard with a pale complexion, the world Askan knew crumbled.
“What! How did you know to come here! Get rid of this woman now!”
The woman being dragged away harshly looked as if she wouldn’t be able to fully return from here. She probably came prepared.
High walls, numerous guards.
Even if they didn’t know what kind of place this was, anyone would know it wasn’t ordinary.
He never asked once. Where the child came from, what his name was, how old he was.
The only thing he knew was that he was called No. 1890. Even if it was the child’s parents he had been waiting for so long, Askan wouldn’t be able to recognize them.
He had always taken it for granted. Since no one had ever come looking, they must all have been abandoned.
Although Askan couldn’t ultimately tell if the person he saw was really the parents No. 1890 had been waiting for, he realized that the children he thought were all in the same situation might be different.
He thought everyone was alone, but in fact, maybe only Askan was a loner.
He used to think the child was stupid, but looking back, Askan didn’t even have a name he could call out at the moment of his death.
He was terribly alone.
He thought that humans are selfish, so they use and throw away even family if they need to. But when he realized that might not be the case, for the first time, he didn’t want to die here.
“Could someone else risk their life for me like that?”
He had never experienced love, and the kindness he gave never returned.
To him, the word ’emotion’ was like a fairy tale, not at all realistic.
But after seeing the woman who came to find the child, he began to be curious about the outside world for the first time.
For Askan, the world inside the frigid laboratory was all there was, but the thought occurred that if he were to leave this place, a different world might open up.
Hope.
An emotion he had never experienced before sprouted in his heart.
He decided to revolt for the first and last time rather than die in the laboratory.
From the moment he decided to escape, there was nothing difficult. Even if he failed, Askan had nothing to lose because he had nothing.
Although he succeeded in escaping at the risk of his life, the world he saw was not much different from the inside of the laboratory.
“That boy only dressed in ragged clothes, we don’t know if he’s a real slave. Can we sell him like this?”
“Don’t worry about useless things. What does that have to do with us? We just need to make money.”
Those who took advantage of Askan, who was lying down, and made a profit by making him a slave.
“That one? The slave who Tanashia Miss often bullies?”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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