"What?"
Everyone immediately looked toward the pond and saw that the surface of the water had suddenly become calm again.
Then, in the next moment, a bubble suddenly burst through the surface and the young boy was pulled out of the water.
...
An endless cold burrowed into his marrow, and during such moments, Li Yao even thought about curling up— unsure whether freezing or drowning would come first.
The life of a twelve-year-old was too short to witness the real world. The young boy grew up under the arrangements of others; when his aunt said to study hard, he diligently did so, when she stepped back to show respect in the presence of others, he did not know how to deal with malice from others. The distorted, willful laughter still faintly surged in, but he was already nearly unable to hear it...
It was then, suddenly, that the pain left him.
