This actor is full of tricks.

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Today I wanted to buy an Ultraman toy that lights up and makes sounds, but my dad thought it was too expensive and refused to buy it for me.

【Not happy at all! ! ! ! !】

This is the first unhappy diary entry. In the memory that emerged, Lin Jue made a scene in the mall for a long time, but was still taken back by his father, so he was unhappy for several days.

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

Mom said Santa Claus will come to read my diary tonight and fulfill my unfulfilled wishes. I'm so excited that I put my diary in the most conspicuous place on my desk so that Santa Claus can see what I want.

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

When I woke up today, I saw a huge Ultraman figure on the table. It was the one I had always wanted to buy. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Santa Claus really read my diary and gave me my favorite Ultraman. I now have another person I like!

Next year I will pretend to be asleep, secretly see what Santa Claus looks like, and say thank you to him.

The happiness in the memories affected the real Lin Jue. He curled the corners of his mouth unconsciously and was infected by the child's purest happiness.

As an adult, he naturally knew that there was no Santa Claus. It was just that his mother saw that "he" wanted the toy and found an excuse to secretly buy it for him.

It can be seen that the previous incarnation lived in a very happy family. Even at the age of ten, when he had begun to gradually develop a sense of independence, he still clung to his parents.

This is only the case for children who grow up happily in the love of their parents.

Lin Jue flipped through his diary page after page. He grew up little by little, and his joys and sorrows increased. But on every Christmas Eve, there would always be the gift he wanted by his bedside.

Favorite shoes and clothes, toys you want to buy, tickets to the oceanarium you’ve always wanted to visit, etc.

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

Today is my birthday again, but my dad didn’t come home. Only my mom was with me. I hid in my room and heard my mom arguing with my dad on the phone outside.

Dad doesn't seem to love Mom anymore

My mother hugged me and cried for a long time that day. There was no cake for my birthday this year, but she gave me a White Rabbit candy. I have never really liked this kind of candy, but today's candy was especially sweet, as if it could dilute the bitterness in my heart.

Another memory emerged. When I was in the first grade of junior high school, I returned home from evening self-study, but there was no cake and candles as I expected. There was only my mother sitting alone on the sofa.

It seems like I haven’t seen my dad for several days.

"Sorry, little tiger, Mom is a little tired after get off work today and forgot to buy you a cake." Mom stood up from the sofa, with tear marks on her face.

"It's okay, Mom. I'm old enough now. I don't need to celebrate my birthday anymore."

Lin Jue heard his own voice in the picture. The voice of the child who was in the voice changing period was a little hoarse. "He" walked over and hugged his mother. Even through the memories, he could feel "his" own sadness.

The mother took out a White Rabbit candy from her pocket and patted the head of the child who was now as tall as her. "You should have something sweet on your birthday. Have a candy first. Tomorrow I will buy you the biggest cake."

The toffee melts little by little in your mouth, and the sweet taste spreads in your mouth.

That day, "I" couldn't sleep. He heard his father come back in the middle of the night, and a fierce quarrel broke out in the living room, accompanied by the sound of violent throwing things.

Dad was gone again. When I left the room, I saw Mom crying loudly amidst the debris. Dad had betrayed the family, and Mom had discovered it.

The two were getting divorced, and their once happy family was on the verge of crumbling and falling apart.

It can be seen from the diary that "I" have resentment towards my father because the way he addresses him has changed from "Dad" to "Dad", while the way he addresses his mother remains the same as when he was a child.

So, is this why the father in the closet has no face?

Lin Jue continued to flip backwards.

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

Dad came home today. He and Mom seemed to be talking about something. After seeing me come back, both of them stopped talking.

At night, my mother came to my bedside and told me that she might be leaving for a place far away. She said that my father would be with me in the future. She also sang my favorite song from childhood for me.

In Lin Jue’s mind, “his” mother was sitting beside the bed, humming a ballad softly.

It was a soft and soothing nursery rhyme, coming through memories. Under the gentle melody, Lin Jue felt that the restlessness in his heart was slowly dissipating.

The mother's singing voice is gentle and kind, enough to soothe all the pain, but the singing voice is getting farther and farther away, like a hydrogen balloon that has slipped out of her hand and can no longer be caught.

In a daze, I seemed to hear my mother say: "If you miss me, just sing this song you like most, and I will come to you."

The later diary entries recorded too much unhappiness of the young "self". His father came home less and less often, his mother cried all day long, and the atmosphere at home began to become depressing.

The two did not divorce, and the father promised to break up with that woman and return to his family.

The mother compromised for her child, but the family atmosphere showed no signs of getting better. It was like a broken mirror, which could never be restored. Even if it was glued together with the best glue, there would still be cracks that would always exist.

A father’s betrayal is always a bottomless chasm that splits the once happy family into two halves.

The couple communicated less and less, the family never went out together again, and the house was always dead silent, without any life.

"I" also became more and more withdrawn. The changes in my family made the originally cheerful "I" gradually become introverted and timid, always keeping my head down.

No one is friends with me, no one will pick me up after school, and there is no time for the three of us to go out and play together anymore.

But every Christmas Eve, there will still be gifts by the bed.

Life may have fallen apart, but Santa Claus is never late.

At this moment, memories came flooding back like a spring. Even without reading the diary, Lin Jue could see all the things that happened when his previous life was young.

He saw that one day, his predecessor stood in front of a mirror, and the mirror surface gradually distorted. The appearance of "himself" in the mirror began to change, growing fine hair and long beard, just like the tiger on the cover of the diary.

Looking back, I saw that my mother, who was cooking in the kitchen, had cow horns growing out of her head and a black tail growing out of her back. The mist on my father's face, who was sitting on the sofa smoking, gradually dissipated, revealing a rat head.

In "his" eyes, the whole family has become animals.

(End of this chapter)