Chapter 189 Extra 4: Zhu Ze
Chapter 189 Extra 4: Zhu Ze
My name is Zhuze, but actually I don’t like this name. I prefer others to call me No.1, and I also prefer my master to call me Xiaoyi.
I was picked up by my master, Pei Sheng, and taken home when I was twelve years old. Strangely enough, my master was only one year older than me when he picked me up. But for some reason, when I saw him, I had an urge to follow him, as if a voice in the dark told me that following him was my only way to survive, and that my master and I were of the same kind.
Having been with my master for many years, I have laughed at my own delusions countless times in my heart. I actually felt that my master and I were of the same kind. My master was the light of salvation in my life, while I was just a humble existence stuck in the mire. How could my master and I be of the same kind?
He is so good, I just want him to live a long life.
But later, until my master died, I suddenly realized that my master was really the same kind of person as me. He and I were both stuck in the mud, unable to turn over or struggle out.
The sea water gradually swallowed my consciousness. As my consciousness blurred, a vague memory emerged - it was the scene of my first meeting with the master, clear yet distant...
When my master picked me up, I had just been kicked out of the house by my biological father. My body was covered with bruises, all marks of violence inflicted by that man.
In the cold winter, I was wearing thin pajamas and barefoot, and walked numbly and skillfully to the trash can on the corner of the street and curled up myself.
I couldn't focus my vision, and the cold wind felt like ice chips drilling into my neck, but it was still not as cold as the bone-chilling coldness in my heart.
I am an illegitimate child, but unlike other illegitimate children, my biological mother is the daughter of the prestigious Zhu family in Jiazhou City, and is also the current mistress of the Zhu family. And my biological father, according to the style of romance novels, has a general name called White Moonlight.
My biological father came from a poor family, and when he was with my biological mother, he was opposed by the Zhu family. In order to break them up, the Zhu family quickly married my biological mother to the Zhao family, which was a well-matched family. My biological father was disheartened and went abroad, but my biological mother was unwilling to break off relations with him. While my biological father was abroad, she imprisoned my father and gave birth to me during that time.
But the good times didn't last long. When I was five years old, my existence was finally discovered by the Zhu family. The scandal of my biological father and mother was exposed. In order to suppress this scandal, the Zhu family forced my biological mother to drive my biological father and me to a farther place. Before my biological father left, he was still dreaming that he was forced to separate from his lover.
But I have clearly heard that my biological mother was tired of my biological father and me. She wanted to be the daughter of the Zhu family and a good wife to the mistress of the Zhao family. So she exposed the two of us in front of the Zhu family and, through them, abandoned me and my biological father.
It took my biological father two years to see through such poor acting. I just thought he was so stupid. He was so stupid that in order to cover up his stupidity, he pushed all the faults onto me, and this went on for nine years.
Thinking of this, I just felt ironic. If possible, I don’t want them to be my parents at all. It’s fine like this now. They shouldn’t have come into this world in the first place. Let them just leave this world like this, I thought numbly.
Just as I was waiting to die silently, my master appeared. He was wearing expensive leather shoes and stood in front of me.
I slowly raised my head, and my eyes unexpectedly met his. His eyes were cold and slightly sad.
He said, "Will you come with me?"
I said, "Yes."
From then on, I became Number One around my master, so people thought it was a code name, but it’s not. I was called Number One because my master picked me up at Number One, and I wanted to remember this day, so I was Number One.
My master is very powerful. He knows a lot of things. I even feel like he can predict things. Since I have followed him, everything he has done has developed according to his expectations, without exception.
I gradually got used to the master's mystery until he told me that human hearts were really hard to understand over the years. I didn't answer him, but I knew he was talking about those traitors who betrayed him and were finally dealt with by him. In order to make sure that he would not have any worries, I studied psychology and became a hypnotist. Since then, there have been fewer traitors around him, because they can't remember him, but will always obey him.
I became the most capable assistant to my master, and we were doing well until Lu Anan showed up.
The appearance of Lu Anan made me feel a sense of crisis for the first time, not because the master was very interested in her, but because I found that since her appearance, every plan of the master would be disrupted, but the master would not allow us to kill her, or even allow her to get hurt.
The master watched Lu Anan destroy his plan step by step, but he never killed her. Even if he kidnapped Lu Anan, it was only to give her a head.
I was very uneasy. What made me uneasy was that the master treated Lu Anan in a special way.
As we were defeated step by step, the master's indifferent attitude never changed, which allowed me to slowly glimpse his true thoughts. However, this glimpse brought me a chill deeper into my bones than when I was kicked out of the house by my biological father. It was a chill that struck directly at my soul and made my heart as cold as ice.
My master doesn't want to live, but I wish every year for him to live a hundred years. How can such a good master die? How can I let the only salvation in my heart die!
So, I secretly made a plan. I would kill Lu Anan the moment she was tied onto the boat. As long as she died, my master could live.
But I underestimated how well my master knew me. Just a simple threat was enough for him to know my thoughts.
He used Lu Anan's hand to shoot himself, and then let himself sink into the sea.
I was in pain. Number One was the master's Number One. Without the master, I didn't want to be Moroze, so I jumped down following my master.
My body was still sinking to the bottom of the sea. I tried hard to get closer to my master, but my consciousness gradually became blurred.
Never mind, this is fine.
The Master and Number One are never separated.
NFBE