When Lin Yan adopted Little Hu Jian, he was less than twenty years old.
This made Hu Jian very curious about what this man had been through, or what he was running from.
He always made Hu Jian have a feeling that he was not as simple as he looked.
A twenty-year-old youth had chosen to take in an abandoned girl, and had endured an ordinary life in a small city for a whole decade.
This was something that was unbelievable and even more intriguing.
"Don't you feel bored?" Hu Jian lowered her head to look at him and suddenly asked.
Lin Yan raised his head and met Hu Jian's eyes. A hint of doubt flashed across his good-looking eyes.
Hu Jian pursed her lips. "Accompanying a teenage girl and living in a city that you don't belong for ten years, don't you feel bored?"
Hu Jian's diary had mentioned that Lin Yan had once said that he was her father's comrade-in-arms, and only came to this small city for Hu Jian.
A smile flashed across Lin Yan's eyes as he continued to lower his head and focus on treating Hu Jian's injuries. "Perhaps."
Hu Jian frowned. "You could have had a more exciting life."
Lin Yan curled the corners of his lips. "What is exciting?"
Hu Jian was stunned for a moment. She had never thought about this question before.
Perhaps, her previous life could be considered an exciting life?
Lin Yan bandaged Hu Jian's final wound. As he tidied up the medicine on the table, he said, "As long as it's the life I want, it's an exciting life for me. What about you? What is the life you want?"
When he asked this question, Lin Yan's fingers curled up slightly.
Little Hu Jian used to like him very much. When she turned 16, she even took the initiative to ask him to possess her, but Lin Yan refused. He had always used the excuse of waiting for her to be older.
But in reality, Lin Yan was worried that Hu Jian would regret it.
After all, she was only a 17-year-old girl now. Her life was still full of endless variables.
He didn't want her current impulsiveness to affect her future life.
Therefore, he had always wanted to know what kind of life Hu Jian wanted, but he subconsciously avoided asking.
However, Lin Yan's question touched Hu Jian's heart.
Her eyes flashed, and a hint of confusion flashed in her eyes.
The life she wanted, was exciting?
What kind of life did she want?
This question had never crossed her mind in her previous life.
"I don't know, because... I've never had the right to choose the life I want," Hu Jian answered truthfully in a low voice.
Lin Yan's face turned pale. Was Hu Jian implying that his appearance had restricted her life and interfered with her right to choose how to live?
He curled his fingers and revealed a relieved smile. He turned his head, squatted down, and looked at Hu Jian seriously. "Listen to me. From now on, no matter what kind of life you want to choose, I will support you."
Hu Jian met Lin Yan's eyes. She saw a hint of struggle, a hint of despair, and a hint of relief in the man's eyes.
Hu Jian knew that he had probably misunderstood her meaning, but she did not intend to explain anything, nor did she know how to explain it.
But Lin Yan's words seemed to remind her that, yes, she now had the right to choose her own life.
She no longer owed anyone, and she had already given up her most precious life. She seemed to have no reason to set foot on that path again, and there was no reason to give up her life for that person again.
From the moment she was reborn as Little Hu Jian, she had the right to choose her own life.