[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

Jason has to go to school during the day. His grades have always been good, especially literature homework, which he can complete easily. So now he will choose to finish all his homework in school, and then run to Andrea to make cakes. After Andrea finishes her "work" in the first half of the night, he will go home with her to make cakes.

As a kid, Jason would just bake those little cakes, and Andrea would take them away and go to one of her customers’ stores and sell them out between 2 and 5 in the morning.

At six in the morning, when Andrea returns home, she can go to Jason's house to eat a bowl of generic cereal printed in Spanish. The portion is not large, but it is enough to warm her stomach. Then she will sleep until four in the afternoon, and then rush to the bar to "work".

Well, if she is unlucky enough to meet someone who not only wants to watch pole dancing, but also wants to sleep with her and even play s\\m, and that person happens to be the type that her man and backer cannot protect, and she has to accompany the guest, then naturally she won't be able to sell cakes in the second half of the night.

This fucked up life, sometimes Jason felt that living was quite painful. He secretly swore that if he was going to live like Andrea one day in the future, he might as well tie the pot at home to his neck and run to the port of Gotham and jump down to end it all.

Then one day Andrea announced to Jason that she was in love with her dentist. God knows how she could afford to see a dentist when she was so poor, but they still had sex.

He was a scumbag, Jason realized this when he went to deliver the cake, because the man had no intention of marrying Andrea and he was already married.

Andrea and Jason hid in the bathroom in a panic, crying like dogs.

"I am so miserable. Two years ago I had a house and a car, but now I am like a cheap prostitute hiding in a married man's bathroom, and his wife may come in at any time."

Jason glanced at her sideways: "Aren't you?"

Andrea gave him a middle finger: "I'm not cheap! I have a health certificate! If you want to sleep with me, I'm considered a middle-class consumer!"

Jason almost felt respect for Andrea at this moment.

But life's bad luck never ends. The dentist's wife was about to enter the bathroom. In order not to be discovered, Andrea opened the window while wiping her tears, preparing to hide on the windowsill outside for a while.

Jason, who was still very innocent and naive, could only follow. They were standing outside a completely unprotected window. If they went 10 centimeters forward, they would miss a step and fall from the 5th floor. Probably no one could survive from this height except Batman and Robin, and it was raining heavily outside.

Jason simply couldn't believe that the goddess of fate could write such a fate for him. He originally thought that having two holes between his legs was the worst thing in life, but it was obvious that he could be even worse.

He listened to the footsteps and said to Andrea in a soft, childish voice but with a murderous tone, "The woman went into the bathroom."

After a while, he judged from the sound again: "She closed the window and locked it."

Ok, this means they can only move step by step along this 30-centimeter area with no railings or protection to the balcony, jump in, and then escape as quickly as possible under the cover of the male owner.

Andrea burst into tears: "I have such a poor eye for people. How could my life be so miserable and a failure?"

Jason said venomously and accurately: "Nonsense, the fact that you chose the elementary school student son of a woman who is addicted to drugs and has gone crazy as a partner shows that you will never make it big!"

Andrea cried even harder, although it was not very noticeable in the pouring rain.

Then, as they were moving toward the balcony, hail began to fall from the night sky of Gotham, and both of them were hit hard.

Andrea said in a tearful voice: "I don't want to die."

Jason moved carefully and replied firmly, "I don't want to die either. I just found out that selling cakes can make money. I'm promoted to the fourth grade. I earned money for medicine for my mom. I don't want to die now!"

Andrea waved her fist. "Me too. I'm still fantasizing about making a comeback and redeeming the mistress apartment my dad gave my mom. We can move in together and hire a tutor for you!"

She pointed ahead: "Look! That's the penthouse!"

This finger almost made Andrea fall down. Jason screamed and grabbed the balcony railing, grabbed her collar and threw her back, then they broke the glass together and fell into the living room.

At that time, Jason didn't know that the Catwoman in the urban legend actually helped them secretly, otherwise, with Jason's strength, he really couldn't pull Andrea. It can only be said that on his way home from school, he occasionally fed the cat with the food he saved from lunch, which invisibly earned him some good luck.

Catwoman watched the two little guys successfully escape, her red lips slightly curled up, and she ran and jumped between the tall buildings with light steps.

When she saw Batman, she was called "Selina", and when she saw Robin, the kid would call her "Catwoman".

Who is she? She is Gotham's best thief and the freest black cat.

Jason later heard from Andrea that the dentist had divorced his wife, and he spat, "Serves you right," and went back to stirring the eggs and flour.

Then two months later, Andrea somehow got a good business - to make an extra-large cake for a wedding and deliver it to the wedding venue.

This was a huge test of Jason's skills. He simply couldn't understand why this business fell on them. Later, Andrea told Jason that it might be because the cupcakes he made were so delicious.

"My dear, even Robin came to buy cakes from us when he was on night patrol. Did you know that it was the eldest son of the Wayne family, Bruce Wayne's adopted son, who personally said that he wanted to eat our cakes?"

That's what Andrea said.

Jason stamped his feet angrily: "Let's not talk about why a young master like that would want to eat a cake from a small shop under an overpass that's less than 10 square meters. I can't even make a damn big wedding cake!"

Andrea patted him on the shoulder and said, "The methods are all thought up by people. If we can make this deal, we will earn $10,000!"

Then Jason received a cake-making cookbook.

At that moment, he really wanted to carry his own oven to the Gotham Harbor and jump off to end it all.

In order to deliver the cake to its destination in a decent image, Andrea took Jason to pry open the window of her former home in the middle of the night, then took out a maid costume from her childhood box and threw it to Jason.

The reason was that she had no decent little boy clothes and they couldn't afford decent little boy dresses.

Jason hissed, "I hate you, Andrea Martha Sionis."

Andrea smiled at him. "And I love you, dear Jessica Todd."

They also wanted to steal some valuables from Andrea's past houses and sell them for money, but in the end Andrea only had time to smuggle out a few rings and a pearl necklace, and then she took Jason and climbed into the ventilation duct and escaped. After that, the alarm sounded. It was obvious that Andrea, who was bankrupt, had no right to touch the property that once belonged to her.

During the escape, Andrea also praised Jason for his agility, saying that he might have a chance to compete for the position of Batman's follower in the future. If he couldn't be Batman's follower, he could still be Robin's follower. Anyway, he was a good candidate for the reserve of young superheroes.

Jason felt embarrassed by her praise and could only ridicule himself: "Come on, a freak like me can only do some petty thefts. If I apply to be Catwoman's henchman, she will complain that my lock picking skills are poor."

Although he does know how to pick locks and pry tires, those are common skills for children in Crime Alley, and Jason is a smart kid who loves to learn, so it's not surprising that he knows these skills.

But superheroes would never accept a deformed monster from Crime Alley as their henchman, and Jason never fantasized about that.

He is always good at dispelling unrealistic ideas so that he can be more calm when accepting the terrible reality. This is probably also a common skill for people in Crime Alley.

Then they went to attend the so-called wedding banquet filled with upper-class people.

After Jason received the room key from an old man and had his hand rubbed behind his back, he found Andrea, who had just received the check, and glared at her fiercely.

"Hey, there was an old man taking advantage of me, and there was that rich kid named Dick Wayne who touched my waist. I say it again, Andrea Martha Sionis, I hate you."

"I'll say it again, I love you, Jessica."

Andrea glanced at Jason and said, "Little maid, look here. This is the upper class society I've always dreamed of returning to. Don't you think it's beautiful here and the food is delicious? Look, there are even reporters from the Daily Planet from other places taking pictures!"

She pointed at the big man wearing glasses not far away, and Jason said, "This is Gotham. Who cares about reporters from other places coming here? I hate everything here except the food. I hate the way many people look at me. They have successfully made me feel like I am surrounded by pedophiles!"

"Hey, not every rich person is a pedophile. Besides, you look good, a pretty baby. It's normal for someone to like you."

Andrea was telling the truth, Jason was actually very good looking, with neat short black hair, blue-green eyes, and a stubborn yet delicate and childish face, which made many people want to pinch his face when they saw this little maid.

Well, although we cannot rule out the existence of pedophiles and perverts here, after all, Gotham is a place full of filth, whether it is the upper class or the lower class.

Anyway, they held hands and danced on the dance floor before anyone realized that the cake was actually made of Styrofoam, and then they immediately fled the venue.

The money did improve their lives later on. Andrea rented a small shop in a safer area and sold cupcakes and milk tea.

She stopped engaging in the sex trade and learned how to make milk tea. Jason didn't say it, but he was proud of Andrea in his heart.

This girl used to be a young lady, but later her family fell into poverty and she was tortured by fate. However, she still lived a positive life. Jason felt that he had learned a lot from Andrea. He even told the truth about his body to someone other than his mother for the first time.

After Andrea knew the secret, she was silent for a while, then she rubbed Jason's head and said, "You want to be a boy, right? Then let's save money together, and I will send you for a checkup in the future to see how to make you a healthy boy."

She is really a good girl. To Jason, she is not only a partner who encourages each other, but also a relative. Maybe after a while, when Jason overcomes the obstacles in his heart, he can call her sister.

However, Gotham probably really cannot tolerate happiness.

A few days later, Andrea was shot and killed in a robbery, and her belongings were robbed by men from the bar where she used to work.

Gotham is really a city that can make people shed tears. It is too difficult for a little person like Jason who is destined to be unfortunate since birth to live in such a city.