Ding Ning restricted my freedom.

She had people lock me in the room and cut off all my external contacts.

During the day, someone would come to deliver three meals a day.

But they had no verbal interaction with me.

I felt like a prisoner, under close watch.

At night, Ding Ning would come to my room to accompany me.

Sometimes she would play games next to me, or make me watch movies with her.

If it weren't for the sealed iron bars, I might even have felt like I had gone back to my childhood.

Back then, she used to like sticking close to me, chatting with me with starry eyes.

She said I was the best brother in the world.

She said she would marry me when she grew up.

Then we grew up.

But she forgot what she had said.

Days passed by.

I became more and more desperate.

During that time, Ding's mother came once.

My mental state was already very poor at that point.

I asked her to help me get out.

She said to me, "I disagree with Ning Ning marrying you, but she loves you, and I won't oppose you being together. Ning, I've already lost one child because of your father, I don’t want to lose another one."

Meaning, she wanted me to keep staying here, accompanying Ding Ning.

That night, Ding Ning, as usual, sat in my room.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

The voice on the other end sounded particularly clear in the silence.

"Ning Ning, dad asked about the progress of our engagement banquet preparations."

It was the voice of Qi Jiabai.

Ding Ning showed impatience and got up to walk out.

When she came back, I asked her, "Ning Ning, how are you going to explain my existence to Qi Jiabai?"

"Our affairs have nothing to do with him."

"I don't believe any husband would allow his wife to be involved with another man."

At these words, Ding Ning suddenly laughed lightly.

She walked over to my face, "You don't want me to get married?"

And then kissed my lips, "Don't worry, Qi Jiabai and I are just in a business marriage, there are no feelings involved. After marriage, I will continue to stay at the Ding family, and you will continue to stay by my side."

"I don't want to stay by your side."

Ding Ning's face darkened, "Don't even think about leaving."

At that moment, I finally understood.

Why Ding Ning never mentioned Qi Jiabai to me from start to finish.

Why after so many years, even though Ding Ning seemed to dislike me, she never let me go.

Because she had been sick for a long time.

She couldn't accept that she loved me, but she still had feelings for me that she couldn't let go."

On the day Ding Ning got engaged, when she left, as always, she came to my room.

She was wearing a beautiful light veil, looking as beautiful as a fairy.

She said, "Wait for me obediently."

During the day, everyone from the Ding family went to the ceremony venue, leaving only an aunt at home to cook for me.

This was the best opportunity for me to do something.

The windows were welded with iron wire mesh.

I found a lighter in the cabinet.

With a piece of paper in hand.

As long as I lit the paper and threw it on the sheets.

I could end this nightmare soon.

At that moment, I was a little moved.

Since birth, I had been dependent on others.

After my father passed away, my mother revolved around the Ding family, showing no care for me.

Later on, my mother also passed away.

Her dying wish was for me to continue repaying the debt.

It was truly absurd.

The fire quickly started burning.

I sat in front of the desk, looking through the iron wire mesh at the backyard of the Ding family.

There was a pear tree there.

It was planted by me and Ding Ning when we were young.

Lush and tall, growing as high as two stories.

I don't know who once said, pears are homonyms for separation, it's not auspicious to plant them in the yard.

I didn't believe it before.

But now I finally did.

As the fire grew rapidly, I suddenly heard the sound of a chainsaw.

Then a person climbed up from the window on the second floor, gripping a chainsaw in an exaggerated manner.

And there was a young girl standing below, looking at me with bright eyes and white teeth, smiling, "I've come to take you away, my little brother."