This actor is full of tricks.

"Myself" including my parents have all turned into animals.

"Your water." Li Changming walked over at this time and handed the water to Lin Jue.

"Thank you." Lin Jue took the water and said thank you.

That memory was real, which meant that the predecessor had a mental illness at that time.

His father's betrayal, the changes in his family, and the abrupt end of his beautiful childhood weighed on him so much that he felt suffocated. He chose to escape and imagined himself and his family as animals, as if only in this way, all the things were not happening to him, but to the animals.

The animal images that parents and "oneself" turn into should be based on the zodiac.

In the diary, all the names have also changed.

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

[The rat and the ox had a quarrel, and the tiger hid in its den.]

[The cow is crying, and the little mouse has disappeared again.]

The tiger comforted the cow, and the cow sang the ballad again. It seemed that the cow was ready to stop playing with the mouse and go find new friends.

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

[The little mouse was sick, so it went to see a doctor. The doctor said that it had been provoked by bad people, and it became more and more easily angry, and its temper became worse and worse.]

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

The little mouse looked at the cow and the tiger with increasingly unfamiliar eyes. It was no longer the little mouse it once was.

If it weren't for the previous diaries, these diaries would look like fairy tales. The predecessor at that time wove his own experiences into one animal story after another, so that all the misfortunes and pains seemed to have happened only in fairy tales.

Lin Jue closed his eyes. In his memory of April 2014, 4, his father with a rat-like hair style came back drunk, holding a bag of medicine in his hand.

During that time, my father had problems at work. He was demoted because of a mistake. Also, because of family matters, his reputation in the company was not good, and he was always ostracized by his colleagues.

So, my father started to have problems because the medicine he brought back that day contained lithium carbonate tablets.

This is a medication for mania.

My memories of what happened afterwards are not very clear because my mother arranged for my predecessor to live in the school dormitory and I could only go home once a week on weekends.

Fragmentary memories show that my father's illness was getting worse and worse, and he would get angry over the slightest thing. My mother also temporarily left home after arranging for my predecessor to live in the school.

Later, my mother had several phone calls with my predecessor and learned from him that my father had changed a psychologist and used both psychological and physical treatments. I heard that his condition was under control.

But my predecessor found several times when he went home on weekends that his father with a rat-like haircut looked at him in a strange and unfamiliar way, as if he was staring at a stranger.

"Getting stranger?"

Lin Jue had a bad feeling in his heart. Around 2014 was the beginning of the fog, and some strange events may have happened during that period.

Could it be that the father was replaced?

He thought of the person in charge of the exhibition hall who was replaced by the sculpture, and wondered if his father had encountered a similar situation at that time.

But it may also be because the other party no longer has any feelings for the predecessor.

My predecessor must have noticed something was wrong at the time, and didn't go home even on weekends for the next month.

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

Tomorrow is the weekend. The mouse called the tiger and told him to come home early from school. He said he wanted to celebrate his birthday and also called the ox back home.

[This seems to be the first time in a year that the Rat has taken the initiative to want to be with the Rat, Ox, and Tiger.]

The tiger returned home and saw only the mouse sitting in the living room. The walls and floor seemed to be covered with red flowers. The mouse said, "The cow is in the kitchen..."

[Also in the refrigerator, toilet, and bedroom...]

It feels like there are many cows in the house.

This passage made Lin Jue's heartbeat accelerate uncontrollably, and his pupils shrank at this moment. This was not controlled by his own emotions, but a reaction of his body, as if he was back to that day.

On that day, not long after my father finished the call, my mother also called and said that she was preparing to go to another province and would bring my predecessor with her once she was settled. She also promised to celebrate his birthday this year with my father before leaving.

When his sixteen-year-old predecessor opened the door, what caught his eye was blood all over the floor. His father, with a rat-like head, was sitting on a small stool. The burning candles on the cake on the table reflected the blood-stained axe in his hand.

"Are you back?" The rat head heard the voice and turned to look at him, his eyes bloodshot and filled with cruel murderous intent.

"Your mother is not very obedient."

"I wanted to live with you guys, but she still wouldn't give up. I had no choice but to separate her."

At this moment, Lin Jue felt an emotion he had never experienced before. His heartbeat stopped, his adrenaline surged wildly, and his whole body was cold, as if he had been poured with a basin of cold water from head to toe.

"Is this fear?" Lin Jue was a little curious. This was a feeling he had never had before. He understood that this was not his own emotion, but the residual emotions in his body activated by memories.

He saw the "himself" in the memory with weak legs, stumbling into the kitchen, then rushing into the bathroom and bedroom, and saw the various parts of the cow, like a complete puzzle being broken into pieces.

No mother would refuse to spend a complete birthday with her son before leaving, but it was this nature that was exploited by the terminally ill father, who eventually died tragically.

"Your mother is disobedient, I hope you can be obedient."

The sound of a mouse sounded behind him. He slowly turned around and saw the mouse standing outside the door frame. The mouse's tall body was hidden in the darkness of the house, and the axe in his hand was still dripping with sticky blood.

Memory stopped.

Lin Jue's heartbeat slowly returned to normal. He stared at the diary and remained silent for a long time.

On the day after the predecessor's sixteenth birthday, the already shaky family completely collapsed. The ending was not the parents' divorce, but the father murdered the mother in an extremely cruel way.

He didn't know what emotions were in his heart. Although this incident happened to his previous incarnation, the unforgettable pain and despair emerged in his body along with the memory scenes.

He didn't experience it personally, but he could feel it firsthand. The despair and pain were like ants slowly gnawing at his body.

After taking a sip of water, Lin Jue exhaled deeply the foul air that was pressing in his chest, and then continued to flip through the diary.

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

The tiger was collared and locked in a cage. The mouse fed the tiger and brought back fresh meat and blood every day. It wanted to make the tiger the most obedient pet.

No memory emerged.

It must be because it was too painful, so painful that the previous incarnation had no choice but to escape and directly erased all memories after the mother's death. Only this diary tells about everything that happened afterwards.

But even without any memory, the words in this diary vividly describe the bloody experiences of the previous life.

He was imprisoned by his own father, whose illness was so severe that anything out of his control would make him furious.

Every day, my father would bring back "food" from outside to feed my predecessor.

Lin Jue understood that the so-called flesh and blood here was definitely not edible meat. He was not sure whether it was related to the weirdness, but it was definitely not a good thing.

Because the last sentence is that the mouse wants the tiger to become the most obedient pet.

The flesh and blood could represent something, like the red candle used by the hooded man, some kind of strange device that controls the person if consumed, or perhaps a psychotropic drug. (End of this chapter)