Excerpt from Diary of a Child (My Father)

My name is Chu Chen. My father called me "Chen" because my mother's name also had the word "orange" in it. But the word "orange" is not suitable for boys, so he gave me another word "Chen" because he said that each of us is the world.

A speck of dust, so it’s a good name!

I am four years old this year...but I can already read a lot of words, because my father has a lot of books, and he keeps bringing books to home, but those books are all about supernatural things, and my father doesn't like me to read them!

My habit of keeping a diary was brought to me by my father, because he likes to stay in the study room, read, study, and write books when he has nothing to do!

My father doesn’t like to smile. My father has never smiled at me. The only time was when my father was in the study. I sneaked closer and saw my father smiling through the crack in the door. He looked beautiful when he smiled, but he didn’t like to laugh.

, my father found me, but he was not angry. Instead, he held me in his arms, pointed to a painting on the blank page of the book and told me that that was my mother, but it was just a back figure, and I still didn’t see her.

What does your mother look like?

When my father is not staying in the study, he likes to stand on the balcony and look outside. Especially when I was four years old, my father sometimes stood outside the window for the whole day!

He said he was waiting for my mother to come back. I was also very happy because I had never seen my mother, not even a photo, but I waited outside for a long time and never saw anyone coming!

My father is a very powerful and smart man. Sometimes he is very mysterious and doesn’t know what he is doing. When I play with my friends downstairs, I often see their parents come to me and ask about my father.

Is he at home? He said he has something to do with him...

Every time they come, we can always have a lot of delicious food at our home, and I can also receive clothes and shoes from them!

Sometimes my father would be away for a while, and he would put me in the neighbor's house next door. There was a little girl about the same age as me, who was their daughter. Her parents were very good to me, and they had a lot of delicious food first.

Give me food, they all like to laugh, and they often laugh happily when we sit together, but I can't always laugh, because the little girl told me while lying on the bed and stealing snacks!

My father gave their family a lot of money and said that he might not want me anymore and asked me to be their son in the future. I didn’t believe it. I thought my father would come back to pick me up!

But the time my father was away was getting longer and longer every time!

Gradually I got used to staying at my neighbor's house!

Later, a long, long time passed, and another four years passed. My father said that my mother would come back, but I still didn’t see her!

That time my father left for a long, long time!

Until one day my father came back...

My father cooked a rare meal for me, and I realized that my father could cook, but he had never cooked it for me. The food my father cooked was so delicious. I thought it was the best meal I have ever eaten.

What a delicious dish!

My father looked at me very kindly. One day, instead of going to his study as usual, he took me to play chess and taught me how to play chess. I couldn't learn it. My father was also very patient. One day, my father told me

Most words ever!

"Xiao Chen... do you like your neighbor's uncle and aunt?" my father asked me!

I nodded because my neighbor's uncle and aunt were very nice to me!

"Father, tell you... I have given them all my savings, part of which will be used as self-help for your upbringing, and part of which will be used as funds for your future schooling. It will be enough for half your life. As for the rest of your life,

, there is no need for you to work hard in the future. When you grow up and make a difference in the future, you don’t have to be filial to me and just ask your neighbor’s uncles and aunts to be your parents!”

I heard my father's words and knew that he really didn't want me anymore as the girl said. I cried, crying very sadly. Although he was often not at home, I knew that he was my father and I couldn't live without him!

My father wiped away my tears very gently and apologized to me: "I'm sorry... I have to leave because I am going to find your mother. This may be my only chance. If I miss it, I may never find you again."

less than her

, so I have to go! Father can leave you nothing, only those books... You can do whatever you want with them in the future, but there are a few autobiographies that I wrote in my spare time. I hope

You were able to save it. In fact, you didn’t write anything, you just wrote the story of my life!”

My father still left, and on the day he left, my neighbor's uncle and aunt took me with him. I watched my father walk into the dark night, and kept looking at his back, never looking back. That was the last time I saw my father.

When he was 33 years old, I never saw him again, and I don’t know where he went, whether he was living well...or whether he was still alive in this world!

Until one day... I saw him on his deathbed. I was already 78 years old that year, and my health was getting worse. At dusk, I sat on the balcony and took a nap. For a moment, I seemed to have lost my sense of smell and taste, and could not

I felt cold. When I saw him, I didn’t even know if it was him, because he was still the same as I remembered him when he left me that year. He had never aged, he was still so young, but he didn’t seem to remember me.

, just came to tell me and come back to pick me up later!

In my life, I have never discarded any book left by my father. After reading his autobiography, I know that he is an extraordinary person. I have always hoped to see my father again one day, but I know that maybe there is no such thing.

I have a chance, so I told my daughter, hoping that she would know that she has an amazing grandfather, who may still be alive in this world, and he has a touching love story!

And I never had time to say a word to my father. I never blamed him for his apology to me that night, and thanked him for his upbringing... You will always be my only father!

29 years old……

I didn't give up... Chu Yan left this sentence in the last sentence of his autobiography!

Regarding the other world and the mystery of his life experience, he wanted to find the answer, but he didn't know where the answer was!

That morning... He seemed to have had a dream. In the dream, when he opened his eyes, he seemed to see Nan Cheng. She was dressed in white, just like when she saw him for the first time. He wanted to open his eyes and take a look.

, but no matter what, I couldn't open it, I could only look through a hazy line of sight through a gap!

Nan Cheng picked up his palm and left a mark on his wrist!

He heard what she said: "I carved this lotus mark for you and it will never dissipate. In this way, no matter what you become or where you are in the future, I can use this mark to find you!"

After she finished saying that, Chu Yan suddenly opened his eyes, but he was the only one in the room, and there was no Nan Cheng at all!

Are you really dreaming?

Chu Yan didn't believe it. This period of time was obviously the day when she came, but she never appeared. Until she appeared, it seemed like a dream?

But Chu Yan searched every corner and found no trace of Nan Cheng. All this told Chu Yan that Nan Cheng had not come back at all!

He really just had a dream!

But he couldn't wait any longer. He no longer wanted to live such a dark life. Nan Cheng did not show up on the usual day. After the first hope was shattered, Chu Yan did not continue to wait.

Start going out to search, what are you looking for?

Looking for a way to find Nan Cheng, all the records about the underworld, Nan Cheng’s identity, or about the battle, does anyone know, saw or participated in it...

Even if it's just a few words, can anyone tell him?

And the search lasted another four years...

33 years old…

This year Chu Yan didn't wait for Nancheng, he waited for someone else!

This woman, Chu Yan, felt like he didn't like her from the first time he saw her. Maybe it was because she was dressed in black, or because she had a slightly hypocritical smile on her lips, which made him feel weird!

He just doesn’t like him anyway!

"My name is Nanzhi...I am Nancheng's sister..."

After all these years, Chu Yan finally met someone related to Nan Cheng. He was a little surprised, but

Also a little cautious: "How can I trust you!"

"I know he left something for you!" Nanzhi said, taking Chu Yan's hand and drawing it on the wrist. The mark of the lotus that once appeared in the dream appeared in front of Chu Yan again!

All this tells Chu Yan that what he saw four years ago was not a dream at all. This lotus mark really exists!

"She went to a far away place to protect you. I don't know when she will come back. I came here specially to pick you up!"

Chu Yan looked at the person in front of him and couldn't help but believe that this thing was definitely not something ordinary people could do! He finally got the news about her, but he didn't know what to ask!

How is she doing, where has she gone, what happened, and how long it will take for her to come back? He wants to know all of this!

"But you are a mortal. If you die before she can wait for her, how sad you will be when she comes back!"

Chu Yan looked at her: "Then what should I do? Can you help me?"

"Of course...I can make you live forever until she comes back!"

"real?"

"Really...become the messenger of hell...so that you can live forever in the underworld, and then wait for her to return to the underworld one day!"

"Okay!" Chu Yan agreed almost without hesitation. Once upon a time, he wanted to go to the underworld and be with her more than once. Now he has got his wish. How could he not want to? This time

He waited for her in another place!

Nanzhi looked at him and smiled, like a successful cat: "Change a new name, a new beginning!"

New name? Chu Yan decided to abandon his last name and change it to a completely different name!

"Call Yan Chen..."
Chapter completed!