In love with my Torturer

Chapter 2 Her darkroom

His expression was still cold, there was no warmth for her forever.

The report was like a yellow withered leaf falling at her feet. She was squatting down to pick it up. There was a little lost in her eyes.

Each of her subjects was 100 points.

She was full of joy thinking that he would look at it more, that as long as she studied hard, he would like her, even if only a little, a little... it would be for her.

"Thank you, uncle!"

She whispered, holding her report. She went to the door, and looked down at the name ‘Ji Ye’.

How many years later, this name would be forever in the deepest and softest place of her heart.

She smiled happily. It was good that her uncle would sign for her. It was okay. It must be that she hasn't done good enough, and that's why her uncle didn't like her.

As long as she worked harder and did better, her uncle would like her.

Putting on her old cloth shoes, she went downstairs.

"Uncle..."

The same young voice as Ji Li's echoed so that she could not help but stop and stand in the middle of the stairs and look upwards.

A girl in a white lace nightgown walked out of a room hung with dolls. The skirt covered her ankles, revealing her soft little feet. Her face was red in white and very cute, and her hair was the natural curly kind.

She sleepily walked to the door of Ji Li, calling constantly.

After hearing the sound, Ji Ye took a step out of the room and held up the little girl, "My Xue Er baby, why are you awake?" he pinched her little nose and kissed her little face lovingly.

"Uncle, Xue Er has a nightmare. It's horrible. It's very scary." She hugged the neck of the Ji Ye and shivered.

Ji Ye gently patted her back, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, with uncle sleeping with you, you won't be afraid."

He succeeded in calming her down.

"Yeah, Xue Er liked to sleep with uncle. Xue Er loved uncle the most." She kissed happily on Ji Ye’s face.

The same scene, Ji Li has seen countless times. Each time she was the same lost and sad. She envied Xue. She also wanted herself to be loved by her uncle, and she wanted her uncle to hold her in his arms.

It was her biggest wish.

So in many of the cases, even if the uncle was not smiling at her. As long as she saw his smiling face, she would be happy for a long time.

Ji Ye perceived a small figure in the shadow at the corner of the stairs. She was looking quietly with eager eyes open.

"Ji Li, you should go back to your room." He spoke into the dark with a cold voice.

Then came the sound of tiny footsteps, very light very soft.

In the dark, she was a little angel without wings, because she could not fly without light.

Ji Li went into the darkroom. A cold feeling immediately came over.

She pulled on a lamp that was not much brighter than candlelight, and there was a dim, faint glow in the room.

This was a damp and cold sundry room. It was located in the cellar below the villa stairs. There were no windows, so the sun couldn't shine in and the moonlight can't come in. There was a lingering gloom all year round.

The room was cluttered with almost everything. Already worn out broken legs of the table and chairs, only the red cover of the lamp, and a miscellany of other things.

Her bed was an old wooden table, and the bedding was gray, between white and black.

The bedding was only a thin layer, which was not enough to resist the cold inside the room in the cold winter night.

Climbing up, she put her little feet inside. It was cold tonight. There was no heating on the glove room.

Ji Li has lived here for three years. She has lived in this dark room since she was adopted at the age of 6.

In the dim light, she picked up the report and touched the name on it, over and over again.