Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 34 - Why are you so afraid of a small, weak, and pink butterfly?

XG 34 - Why are you so afraid of a small, weak, and pink butterfly?

"Only my memories travelled through time."

Adjusting her gaze down in fear her emotion could be seen, Wong Xue Guo released a deep, shaky breath as she fought to sound calm. "Okay. I will wait here."

Although she had thought of it, it was another thing to confirm it. To think it was true that they would finally look at her only after she died. That explained why her mother would suddenly show this much affection to her. She does not know whether to be happy that her dream comes true, or cry that only her death could change her mother.

"Guo Guo, lock the door, okay?" Suzie Yap told her daughter worryingly.

"I will. Be careful of those zombies."

"Don't worry, it's unwelcomed thieves that sneaked into our house. Our country's military force isn't that weak, and the virus spreading won't be that quick to reach our compound. It should take a few days for the virus to reach here."

Obediently locking the door after her mother leaves, she sat on a chair heavily, her eyes staring unfocused at the door.

She thinks she was now at a worse stage than Chen Yibo. The innocent Chen Yibo believed that one day his father would look at him. She had mocked him that it could only happen after his death, but unknowingly it actually happened to herself.

Karma really bites hard.

A year after the kidnapping incident, she finally comes to terms with the reality that her parents would never look at her properly. Then, she learned to respect them, love them, and place them as the highest priority on her list without asking anything in return.

Love could not be forced, just as she could not stop her love from flowing towards them.

Between her and Chen Yibo, she was the actual nut job that invited abuse even after being slapped by truth twice. The ironic thing was the third time being slapped with facts still does not change much of her mind.

A seventeen-year-old girl sat on a two-seater sofa while hugging her knees, staring at the muted mini TV with the announcer talking about the bombed Diamond shopping mall.

The mall had only started operating for less than six months, poor thing.

Surprisingly, the government told the truth that the shopping mall was bombed to curb the infection. The cameraman poured oil into the fire of people's hearts when the lens zoomed onto the crying family members of the victims that were not allowed to approach the shopping mall. Some were caught by the camera, scolding the soldiers for being heartless and the hysteria protesters were restrained before they started being physical to vent their agony.

The news does not help much in distracting the weak chicken Wong Xue Guo from imagining what was going on outside the room. She felt no pressure in not rushing out to help with whatever it was, letting the bodyguards do the job they were paid.

Her counting of how many gunshots she heard was fired was disturbed again when her mind constantly wandered. Her mother had better not get injured!

She rested her face between her arms and sighed heavily. Thinking of her mother always made her suffer complex feelings that often had her wonder if she was bipolar. She only dared to explore the love for her mother but refused to confront the dark corner of her heart where she might actually hate her mother.

If it was any consolation, at least her mother did a 180-degree change after her death. It means her mother did love her, right?

To the teachers that said your parents love you the most, I guess I can retract my curse from you.