My Healing Games

Chapter 958 I Will Give You All My Happiness

"After midnight, the knight would escort the princess on patrol. This sanitation worker who adopted abandoned babies seemed to only go out to clean after all the shops in the commercial district had closed."

Comparing the absurd nightmare fairy tales with real-life events, Han Fei continued to flip through the photo album.

As the girl grew up, her congenital mental illness became more and more severe. Sometimes she couldn't control herself and would do things that were hard for ordinary people to understand. The shopkeepers on the street hated her and thought that this madwoman was delaying their business.

Everyone is just trying to make a living. No one should have to pay any price for a stranger. The sanitation worker understands this very well. To prevent his daughter from getting into trouble, he stays by her side, just like when he first adopted her, protecting his child with his not-so-strong body.

As the girl grows up, the sanitation worker gets older, the photos in the album become clearer, but the people in the photos look old and tired.

Even when things are tough and tiring, the father and daughter always smile when taking photos; it's a gift they leave for the world.

When the adopted daughter is with the sanitation worker, she is always quiet and "docile," but once she is left alone at home or separated from the sanitation worker for too long, she becomes agitated and extremely aggressive.

Some of the outstanding bills in the box seem to tell the story. The adopted daughter didn't want to be locked up at home, so she ran out to find sanitation workers, only to be bullied and chased by shopkeepers. Many times, the police had to be called to take her away.

"On February 19th, I scared the customers queuing at the milk tea shop, which seriously affected the shop's business and resulted in a debt of 300 yuan."

"On February 25th, I was looking at clothes outside a clothing store window. I was chased away but refused to leave. I got into a fight with the sales assistant and scratched her face. I owed 800 yuan, of which I have paid back 315 yuan."

"On March 16, he stole leftover food from customers. After being caught, he tried to escape, which seriously affected the customers' dining experience. He owes the restaurant 300 yuan."

"On April 1st, he suddenly rushed into the street, startling the customers waiting for him. He owed the hotel, the fruit shop, and the milk tea shop fifty yuan each."

"April 29th..."

The family didn't have much money at all. The sanitation worker's savings were all used to buy medicine for his adopted daughter. He couldn't afford to compensate others for their losses, so he could only write an IOU.

Even in nightmares, the IOUs remain clear, and the person who wrote them has no intention of defaulting; he thinks about repaying the money all the time.

“The initial IOUs were normal, but some of the later ones seemed more like the merchants were working together to drive the father and daughter away. The crazy daughter would leave home almost whenever the sanitation workers weren’t there, which was very abnormal. It felt like someone was deliberately luring her out, unlocking the door for her, letting her cause trouble on the street, and then pinning all the blame on her.”

Before he knew it, Han Fei had flipped to the last photo album. The fire had destroyed many photos, and the last one Han Fei could see was taken in a wooden shed.

The wooden shed was exactly the same as the one on the west side of Ping'an Street. A hunched and frail old man stood by the bed, braiding his grown-up daughter's hair.

Examining the photo closely, Han Fei noticed the windows and door locks: "There seems to be a third person in the photo?"

Half of a boy's head peeked out from the wooden window sill; the boy looked just like the little boy Han Fei had seen earlier.

However, the boy in the photo was fair-skinned and clean, with no dirt on his face and skin so tender it looked like you could squeeze water out of it. The little boy Han Fei saw on the west side of the street, on the other hand, had dry, sallow skin and a dirty face.

"Two families with vastly different backgrounds appeared in a photo. What is the little boy peeking at from the girl's window? Is it these two brothers who let the girl, who suffers from mental illness, out of the house every time the sanitation workers are not home?"

"The girl adopted by the sanitation worker has mental problems and cannot communicate normally with the sanitation worker, so she is actually being wronged every time?"

"The two brothers said that their family used to be in charge of this street. Are they trying to use this method to drive the father and daughter away? Or is this just a simple prank by the two brothers?"

The merchants rent shops on Ping'an Street. Whether it's a limping sanitation worker or a girl with mental problems, it could affect their business, so they are on the same side as the street management.

"There are many ways to drive people away, so why did the wooden shed end up burning down? Was it an accidental fire, or was it arson?"

The most despairing part of this nightmare is that the fire burned away reality, and death paved the way for a new peaceful street.

Footsteps came from outside the secret room, and the players came in.

"They came pretty quickly." Han Fei put away the photo album and went to the deepest part of the burned room, hoping to find the princess's "glass slipper".

After clearing away the ashes from the walls, Han Fei discovered a small compartment behind a charred bed board, filled with all sorts of girls' shoes and clothes.

These shoes all appear to have been handmade by sanitation workers for their daughters. Some shoes are sparkly, while others have cute doll portraits sewn on them. Each pair of shoes is filled with a father's love.

"The princess's dressing room?"

There were a few words written crookedly on the wall of the cubicle, and the character for "hat" was even written incorrectly.

Just by looking at these, Han Fei could already imagine the scene in the photo: two people who were afraid of the outside world hiding in this simple wooden shed. The daughter was lying on the bed, excitedly watching her father make beautiful clothes and shoes for her by hand, and then she couldn't wait to try them on, with a pure smile on her face.

Flawed souls nestled together, bathed in the soft glow of the lamplight, making them radiant.

"The princess's glass slipper should be here."

There were many shoes in the cubicle, from baby girls to little girls to young women, all kinds of shoes stacked together, representing all the love a father has for his daughter.

"The glass slipper is the key to Cinderella becoming a princess. The glass slipper of the sanitation worker's adopted daughter must be the most important pair of shoes for her, and the shoes that changed her life."

Squatting in front of the cubicle, Han Fei searched for a long time and found a pair of shoes that were quite unique.

These shoes were bigger than any other shoes in the cubicle, covered in bright shards and various well-preserved cartoon stickers.

Sanitation workers rarely spend money to buy stickers; they mostly collect leftovers from others. Therefore, the stickers collected by the adopted daughter are mostly tattered and worn. She cherishes the well-preserved ones as her most precious treasures and is reluctant to use them. But these shoes are covered with complete cartoon stickers.

“It’s unlikely that a sanitation worker would use his daughter’s precious items to make shoes, and besides, these shoes are very big…” Han Fei picked up the large shoes: “Could these shoes have been made by the adopted daughter for the sanitation worker? The glass slipper turned Cinderella into a princess; being adopted by the sanitation worker turned an abandoned baby with mental illness into a princess of Ping’an Street.”

The abandoned baby is a princess, the ever-present black knight is a sanitation worker, the golden pumpkin carriage is a garbage truck, and the tall, majestic black horse is the black stray cat they once fed on the street corner.

The destitute adoptive father tries his best to fill his daughter's world with color.

The abandoned baby's fate was changed by a sanitation worker; her glass slipper was her adoptive father's love.

In this rubble-strewn house, which had been destroyed by fire, the tiny princess dressing room evoked feelings in Han Fei that he had never experienced before.

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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and all the best!
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