My Healing Games

Chapter 890 At that moment, his world collapsed.

People always yearn for things they've never had, and once they have them, they long for what they've lost.

Two children sat very close to each other on a bench in the aquarium. Countless tourists hurried past, but the two of them remained seated in the same spot.

Gao Xing, who has always been confined at home, is the eyes of his blind parents. His family rarely comes to crowded places like this.

A hint of unease lingered in his bright, beautiful eyes; the noise of the tourists made him feel apprehensive. Gripping the armrest of the bench, his gaze was fixed on the aquarium shop, where his blind mother was buying him penguin ice cream.

Today might really be a special day; his parents would never have bought him something like that in the past.

A blind mother carefully carried the ice cream out of the store. She couldn't see anything, so she could only protect the food her child wanted with her hands, bending slightly and groping her way in the direction she remembered.

My mother's world was pitch black; the only thing that could guide her was her own voice.

Just as Gao Xing was about to call out to the blind mother, another woman came out carrying two ice creams. She was confident, beautiful, and stylishly dressed, seemingly radiating light.

The two mothers stood side by side, their contrast so stark that it was as if they came from different worlds.

The lady was very polite and kind. She smiled and helped the blind mother walk through the crowd toward the bench.

The scene before her eyes was something Gao Xing could never forget: "If only she were my mother..."

Gao Xing looked at Gao Cheng beside him. The blind child couldn't see anything, but he wasn't afraid at all. He seemed to know that his mother would definitely come to pick him up, and he could always wait for the person who loved him deeply.

"Shouldn't this be what family is?"

The blind mother thanked the woman repeatedly, then handed the ice cream she was holding to Gao Xing.

A little bit of the penguin ice cream melted at the edge and landed on the blind mother's fingers. She didn't even notice and just licked her lips.

She couldn't bear to buy it for herself, so she gave the ice cream to Gao Xing.

But Gao Xing was feeling a little inferior and lowered his head. He saw the woman eating ice cream with her blind child, using a tissue as a cushion.

Because Gao Cheng was blind, the lady patiently described everything in the aquarium to him. In her words, the world was so beautiful that even though he couldn't see, everything seemed to be full of color.

After finishing her ice cream, the woman left, holding her child's hand.

He slowly bit into the egg roll, and involuntarily stood up, taking a step toward the woman's back.

"Have you finished eating?" The blind mother heard the sound and stood up as well. "Let's go and walk around some more. After all, the tickets are so expensive."

"it is good……"

Gao Xing held his mother's hand and followed the lady from a distance. He didn't know why he was doing this; perhaps it was just a longing for something beautiful.

They walked together through the underwater tunnel and the polar park, and watched the water show. That day was the happiest day of his life, and the day he laughed the most.

Gao Xing had no idea what would happen to him next; he just felt very happy, and perhaps a wonderful life was about to begin.

He temporarily forgot his blind parents, his impoverished family, and his memories of being bullied. He truly spent several hours like a child.

As the park was about to close, Gao Xing still didn't want to leave. He finally walked out of the passage with his blind mother after being urged by the loudspeaker.

Reluctantly leaving, I was overjoyed to see my blind father again. To save on a ticket, my father didn't go into the aquarium; he stayed at the station and sat there for several hours.

The joy in my heart was overshadowed by another emotion. No matter how many times I visited the aquarium, that indescribable feeling would still linger in my heart like a thorn.

The blind father returned to the station without a word of complaint.

As the sun set, the bus they were waiting for still hadn't arrived when a very expensive-looking car suddenly stopped in front of them.

"Aren't you the kid who followed me around the aquarium all day?" A familiar female voice came from inside the car, a smile on her face. "It's getting dark. Where do you live? I'll take you home."

Gao Xing was surprised that the woman knew he had been following her, and feeling a little embarrassed, he stood still.

At this moment, his blind father's reaction was also a bit strange. The father seemed to remember the woman's voice: "Did you also go to the Third Eye Hospital?"

“Yes, my child has a congenital visual impairment, so I often take him to the Third Eye Hospital for treatment.” The woman was very polite. She opened the car door, preparing to let her child sit in the passenger seat, but Gao Xing was unaware that he was walking towards the passenger seat himself.

"Get out of my way, don't block me and Mom!" Gao Cheng accidentally bumped into Gao Xing because he couldn't see, but he wasn't going to apologize.

Before Gao Xing could say anything, his father, who was always timid and never argued with anyone, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Gao Cheng's hand tightly.

"What are you going to do?" Gao Cheng was startled because he couldn't see.

The blind father raised his arm, almost slapping Gao Cheng across the face: "In this world, you are the only one you cannot bully."

Although the blind parents couldn't see, they knew perfectly well that they had secretly switched the two children, and that Gao Cheng was their biological son. It was only after recognizing the other child that the blind father chose to take action directly.

"He's the only one who can't bully me?" Gao Xing was a little confused. Before he could figure it out, his blind father took Gao Xing and his wife's hands and walked away into the distance.

Fate gave Gao Xing a hint, and a small focal point appeared in their intertwined lives.

After it got completely dark, Gao Xing returned home with his parents.

The cramped and narrow room, the persistent odor no matter how much cleaning it did—these things brought Gao Xing back to reality.

"Yes, this is my home, my life."

As usual, after helping her parents with all the housework, she happily returned to her little room.

So much happened today that he couldn't fall asleep. Even in the middle of the night, he still didn't feel sleepy.

Sitting up from the mattress, Gao Xing could vaguely hear his parents arguing about something.

He didn't turn on the light, but gently opened the door.

Gao Xing's family only has one small bedroom. His blind parents left that room for him, and at night they would spread out their bedding in the living room, which would become their bed.

"Do you really want to do this?"

“The most suitable eyes in the whole city are the happy eyes. As long as he is willing to donate them, our children can live a normal life, and that lady will also give us money that we could never earn in our lifetime. Our family can all have a change.”

"But that's so unfair to Gao Xing."

“I know we already owe that child too much.”

The couple stopped talking, both of them feeling incredibly tormented.

Do we need to sign an agreement?

"do not know……"

The couple chatted in hushed tones, unable to sleep. Little did they know that at that very moment, Gao Xing was standing right outside their bedroom door, having overheard everything.

“Our child? That child? Am I... not their child?” Gao Xing’s face began to contort erratically, his eyelids twitched, and his thin body became somewhat deformed.

He stood there until his parents fell asleep, then quietly went to the other side of the living room and kept rummaging through his parents' pockets.

He eventually found an agreement hidden in his father's clothes, in which the hospital hoped that the blind parents could "donate" Gao Cheng's eyes.

These past few days, the blind parents have been going to the ophthalmology hospital, not to have their eyes checked, but because they've been hesitating.

"Why? Why give my eyes to someone else? Aren't I your child? Didn't you say I was your eyes? Why give your eyes to a stranger? Why make me live in darkness like you?"

His happy face and body began to contort rapidly, his entire memory was changing, and ugly human faces grew on all the objects.

Tables, chairs, blankets, houses—familiar objects around us transform into twisted human figures, intertwined like ropes, weaving a suffocating web of relationships.

Some people have skin covered in mucus, severe physical deformities, and are cunning and shrewd, thriving in the web of deception.

Others were bound by ropes, gradually suffocating and sinking, while more deformed individuals climbed up on them.

This is the real world as seen through Gao Xing's eyes, a world full of evil.

The frail and happy girl tumbled in this terrifying world, while far away, the blind Gao Cheng was also calling for help.

In my memory, besides the two of them, only Han Fei has not turned into that kind of deformed and ugly monster.

(End of this chapter)