After seeing the emotion color, they all turned pink.

This was the first time Xu Chuan had left school at noon.

Although as a privileged day student, he could freely enter and exit the campus after school, he usually ate lunch at the school cafeteria with his four assistants, which was more convenient.

After leaving the school, Xu Chuan took a taxi directly to Qinghe Community.

We need to hurry, mainly because the lunch break at No. 4 Middle School isn't very long. If he can't get back to his seat before the afternoon English listening test...

Even if you skip class.

Then your sister Min and uncle will have to perform a backflip four steps while calling out the honorable name of Old Xu or Empress Dowager Su.

Although Xu Wanxing lived in the same Qinghe Community as Xu Chuan, they lived on different streets.

In fact, Xu Chuan wasn't very familiar with the terrain of the community outside of his own street.

I finally found the right street after asking several elderly women.

Fortunately, the buildings in the street still follow the same architectural style.

Xu Wanxing lives in apartment 402 of building 3.

In Yiyue City, most of the old apartment buildings built in the last century are two apartments per floor facing each other.

I entered by looking at the building number and started climbing the stairs.

But when Xu Chuan climbed to the second floor, he suddenly heard a noisy commotion. A woman's thin, sharp voice echoed loudly in the empty stairwell.

When I climbed to the third floor, the echo was even louder.

The sound source is on the 4th floor.

And it seems to be related to Xu Wanxing.

Why?

Because Xu Chuan heard the woman call out Xu Wanxing's name directly.

Press and hold the F key to start eavesdropping.

"Xu Wanxing, do you think I'm just wasting my time here with you?"

After saying this, the woman banged on the iron gate twice, making two loud, jarring sounds, and then continued.

"You can go to school if you want, or find a job to earn money if you don't. Tell your teacher not to call me anymore; I have so many things to deal with every day..."

"Did you hear me?"

The woman knocked on the iron gate twice more, and the rust from the old gate seemed to stick to her hands. Her tone became impatient.

"You don't want to go to school, so you take the money I send you for living expenses and hide in this shabby place. You're such a spineless coward. I'm saying this one last time, get out here!"

Still nothing.

"If you don't come out now, don't ask me for living expenses anymore. If you don't have money, go ask your deadbeat father for it yourself! I'm not putting up with this anymore..."

Before the woman could finish speaking, Xu Wanxing's trembling voice suddenly came from inside the door.

"No... I don't need you to serve me. I won't take your money anymore!"

"ha!"

The woman let out a high-pitched laugh, and then spoke.

"Fine, Xu Wanxing, you've got guts. You really don't want to continue, huh? Fine, then tell your teachers not to call me again. If they ask, just say your mother is dead!"

"..."

Niu Fu...

Xu Chuan was shocked by those few words.

Judging from this woman's tone, she must be Xu Wanxing's mother. What a mother...

No wonder Xu Wanxing is so deeply entrenched in darkness, and so earnestly so.

Xu Chuan unconsciously put himself in her shoes and thought about what would happen if Empress Dowager Su treated him like that...

I dare not even think about it.

It seems that Little Star is mentally very strong; she was able to hold on until the episode where she appeared on her own last Sunday, which is really impressive...

So, is that why she told Xu Chuan she wasn't feeling well and wanted to decline today's daily hug?

"Clatter..."

After talking for a while, the woman seemed to have finished speaking. She waited at the door for a couple of seconds before walking down the steps and going downstairs.

The footsteps drew closer.

Xu Chuan, who was located on the third-floor steps, also began to walk up.

He didn't stand still; that would be too obvious, and anyone could tell he'd been eavesdropping.

Going upstairs, you can pretend to be a resident of the building going home.

The woman turned the corner of the stairs and came into Xu Chuan's view.

With just one glance, Xu Chuan determined that this woman was Xu Wanxing's biological mother.

Face is secondary; it's probably the difference in personality that leads to the saying "appearance reflects the heart."

Although this woman is good-looking, her face always has a kind of meanness about it.

More importantly, it's talent... I never expected that these two things had such strong genetic factors.

However, his physique and appearance did not surprise Xu Chuan much.

After all, with the rapid development of the internet today, the ubiquitous beakers on TikTok have already raised people's threshold for such behavior significantly.

What truly shocked Xu Chuan was the way this woman outlined her emotions.

Bright red and purple, flowing alternately.

It was particularly eye-catching. Not only that, the color flowed extremely fast in the outline, making Xu Chuan's eyes a little blurry.

It hurts my eyes...

One went downstairs, and the other went upstairs.

As the two brushed past each other, Xu Chuan caught a whiff of a strong perfume scent.

The well-dressed woman frowned the entire time, seemingly disgusted by the old neighborhood.

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

Xu Chuan apologized.

The woman turned her head and glanced at him, but didn't say anything, and continued downstairs.

When the two were standing side by side, Xu Chuan gently brushed against her shoulder.

It randomly absorbed some of the purple energy from her body.

Unfortunately, I didn't get that bright red one.

There's nothing I can do; the color outlines flowed too fast. Why did this happen?

It's a truly amazing phenomenon; since awakening his superpowers, he has witnessed something new once again.

Before going up to the fourth floor, Xu Chuan tasted the woman's purple.

The taste was familiar, yet slightly different.

Xu Chuan now recognizes the colors purple as representing: tension, embarrassment, awkwardness, fear, and confusion.

This woman's purple hue also falls into this category, but no emotion can accurately describe the feeling of her purple...

It's very messy, like it's been mixed together.

Her purple hue is more like a kind of shrewdness and calculation born from the anxiety, tension, and trepidation that arises from a brain under long-term high pressure...

This woman's life experience is extraordinary.

Xu Chuan leaned against the fourth-floor stairwell window, looking down. The woman raised her hand to shield her eyes from the midday sun, her figure finally disappearing around the corner of the street…

"Thump, thump..."

Xu Chuan walked to the door of 402, stood silently facing the iron gate for a moment, and then raised his hand to knock on the door.

no respond.

"Xu Wanxing".

He called her name, then raised his voice slightly.

"I've come to find you. I'm Xu Chuan..."

After these words were spoken, there was a two or three-second silence on the other side of the door, followed by a series of rustling noises.

Immediately afterwards, the security door inside the iron gate opened with a crisp sound.

"Creak—"

Xu Wanxing, slightly hunched over, emerged from behind the security door, gripping the doorknob.

She pursed her lips and tilted her head back.

The old community's iron gate is old and has two layers, with an inner security door.

The outer layer also has vertical, cage-like perforated seams at the top and bottom, with copper-colored rust spots along the edges.

Through the gaps in the outer door, the two people looked at each other.

Xu Chuan was stunned for a moment.

The lights were probably off inside, and the curtains weren't drawn; even though it was midday, it was pitch black.

But even with the faint light shining from Xu Chuan's stairwell, he was still able to see clearly.

The outline of Xu Wanxing's body turned completely black again.

Exactly the same as that Sunday afternoon.

This is tricky...

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