Extra 2
Ade was not called Ade at first. He was just one of the children brought back by Old K. He didn't even have a name and didn't even have a number.
Old K has his own standards for choosing children. Either they show cruelty at a young age, or they show intelligence at a young age. He has neither.
His only "advantage" was probably that he looked particularly "strong" among those skinny children.
Although he was strong and majestic, he would be terrified at the slightest sound at that time. A kid like him didn't even have the chance to enter the underground cage and watch.
Children like him who were brought here accidentally, are useless, and don't seem to have very bright brains, should be "dealt with".
Ade has always been stupid, but that time he was extremely smart and realized that the solution they were talking about was not to let him go, but to let him die.
At that time, Qu Bai was 17 years old. It had been a year since he sent Chi Xia away, but his memory was still blank.
He was a witness to the death of children like them.
Because Old K wanted him to continue to witness the deaths of these children and witness them plundering each other.
He wanted to let Qu Bai know that in this place, life and death were just a matter of thought, and he gave Qu Bai the supreme glory and the greatest tolerance.
After days of torture, Ade couldn't even open his eyes, but he still wanted to see what color the sky was and what people looked like before he died. If people had an afterlife, he didn't want to be a human anymore.
When he tried his best to open his eyes, he saw Qu Bai. He was only seventeen years old, but he was already strong enough to make Ade envious.
How nice it would be if it was him standing there.
Their eyes met, and for some reason, Ade suddenly smiled.
"Leave him alone."
Qu Bai had just finished a memory test and was still very weak. He coughed, "I want it."
Someone laughed, and when Ade heard the voice, he realized that Lao K was there too.
"Why do you like him?"
Old K asked Qu Bai: "This child has nothing but flesh and a dull mind. If you want him, I will find you a smart one."
"I want him." Qu Bai said, "The ones who are too smart will scheme, I want a stupid one."
In his daze, A-De always felt that his words did not sound like praising himself, but he soon heard Lao K say, "That's fine. He looks intimidating, but he is not smart. As long as you treat him well, he will treat you well. People like him are the most reliable."
He heard Old K ask again: "What's the name of this child?"
No one knew what Ade's name was, so Qu Bai spoke first: "Just call him Ade."
It was just a title, so Old K naturally had no objection, so Ade was pulled out of the quagmire and brought to Qu Bai.
He called a doctor to treat him, take him to exercise, and teach him how to survive in this terrible place.
The most important thing is that he told Ade that in this place, since he was Qu Bai's man, he didn't have to be afraid. If someone hit him, he would hit back and he would take responsibility for everything.
But Ade doesn't have any big pursuits, and he feels that being with Qu Bai is the best life for him.
He deliberately made himself less sensitive to the cruelty of that place and not to provoke anyone.
Qu Bai likes the food he cooks, so he learns how to cook well. He wants Qu Bai to eat delicious meals every day.
He followed Qu Bai every day and watched him being taken to do that damn memory test every two days.
Although Old K valued him so much, he was still ruthless when it came to hurting him, even worse than others. At that time, Ade also wondered, how could he protect Qu Bai?
He was afraid that Qu Bai would not be able to hold on one day.
But every time, Qu Bai told him: "It's okay, Ade, it's okay, my destination is not here."
Not long after that, Old K sent Qu Bai to school, although according to his age, he should not have gone to that grade.
During that time, Ade lived with him outside, and someone was responsible for watching them every day.
Ade remembered that day, it was the third month that Qu Bai had entered that school. Qu Bai did not come back as usual after school. He knew very well that he was taken there for memory test again.
Both he and Qu Bai were used to such situations. The only difference was that when Qu Bai was sent back that day, he was extremely weak and had a high fever by the evening.
Ade was responsible for taking care of him. At three o'clock in the morning, Ade was drowsy and Qu Bai grabbed his arm.
His palms were burning hot, he held Ade's arm tightly and said, "Ade, I know who she is."
"who?"
"sun."
Ade looked out the window. The sky was gloomy that day, and there was not even a star outside: "What sun?"
"It's the sun."
He was burning with fever, but his face was full of smiles: "She didn't let me down, you know, she lives like the sun."
Ade didn't understand, but he knew that this was the happiest day for Qu Bai since he had been with Qu Bai.
Qu Bai struggled to sit up. His palms and arms were covered with wounds from the test. Blood smeared on the bed sheets and Ade's clothes. But Qu Bai was in high spirits, his eyes were bright, and he said, "Ade, I want to go home."
Ade thought he was confused because of the fever: "You said we have no home."
"Yes." Qu Bai's nails were about to dig into his flesh: "Ade, we have a home."
Ade asked him: "When can we go back?"
"Give me some time. Give me some time."
He was so seriously ill, but so happy, so happy that Ade felt a little excited.
"I'll help you." Ade said, "Let's go home together."
Qu Bai smiled, nodded, reached out his hand to rub Ade's head, and said, "Ade, you have to help me."
At that time, Ade never thought that they would have to walk this road home for more than ten years.
After that night, Ade no longer focused on cooking.
He forced himself to enter that cruel world and forced himself to stand out from Qu Bai's protection. He also had people he wanted to protect, and he wanted to protect them just as Qu Bai protected him.
A few months later, Qu Bai stopped going to that school, and Ade knew that another round of test from Old K was over.
Two years later, Old K got some news and suddenly decided to leave Dongzhou. He kept Qu Bai and put him in charge of all affairs in Dongzhou.
The night they learned the news, he and Qu Bai were so happy that they couldn't sleep all night . They just sat on the ground, watching the sky outside the window turn from dark to white.
But the fact is, although Old K left , the restrictions around Qu Bai did not decrease. Instead, more and more people were watching him, especially the tests on him. Coupled with the obstruction of Chi Xiao and Cheng Jiu, Qu Bai did not sleep well in the first two years.
The only consolation for Ade was that his fists could now at least give Qu Bai some relief.
After that, Old K returned to Dongzhou less and less frequently, and Qu Baike had more and more room to display his abilities, until five years ago, when the case of Chi Xia's adoptive parents occurred.
Over the years, Chi Xiao has become more and more influential around Old K. She uses the code name Fox and a name similar to Chi Xia. From time to time, she instills the lie that they were once a family into Qu Bai, and at the same time instigates Old K to conduct more and more frequent memory tests on him.
Qu Bai watched her direct and act out the show coldly. When Chi Xia's adoptive parents were murdered, Qu Bai was recuperating after the test, and Chi Xiao took advantage of this opportunity.
After this incident, Ade realized that due to various tests and experiments over the years, Qu Bai's health had been getting worse and worse.
He hated Chi Xiao, hated people like Cheng Jiu, and hated everyone who relied on Qu Bai but always tried to hurt him. He began to express his hatred for these people openly and confronted them without thinking, especially when Lao K came back.
This is also what Qu Bai meant. They need to make Lao K realize that Dongzhou is no longer able to do without Qu Bai.
While doing this, they also tried their best to make Old K understand that they and he had to be in the same boat and they had no choice but to rely on each other.
Fortunately, they did a good job, Qu Bai said, and he did a good job too.
He asked Qu Bai: "Sir, can we succeed? Can we go home?"
"Of course." Qu Bai always had only , and he never wavered in what result he wanted.
"Ade." Since five years ago, Qu Bai has been saying, "Help me find the best doctor."
He did not give up hope of returning home, nor did he give up on his body. This was the most gratifying thing for Ade.
Knowing that the day Chi Xia returned to Dongzhou, Qu Bai did not go anywhere. He just locked himself in the room for the whole day, and in the evening asked Ade to cook a table of dishes.
He showered, changed his clothes, and drank wine while eating.
"Ade," he said when the meal was over, "it's time to go home."
The next day, the plan began.
He prepared a lot of lychee candies in the bar and tried every means to research the ingredients and methods of making sleeping soup. Ade felt that he was happier every day, happier than any previous day.
The time when Chi Xiao asked those drunkards to deal with Chi Xia, he didn't have to take action at all.
But he said, "Ade, I want to see her."
He went despite knowing the risks. Ade did not stop him. He just said, "I'll cover for you."
Over the years, Lao K, Chi Xiao, Cheng Jiu and other people have sent too many people to monitor Qu Bai. Ade has handled it very well. If they want to know Qu Bai's movements in this place, they have to get through Ade first.
That night, Qu Bai gave Chi Xia the lychee candy he had given her. He took her to the bar and gave her sleeping soup as he wished. Everything was so beautiful that he felt dazed.
But Ade knew that the policeman named Luo Xun beside Chi Xia had suspected Qu Bai from that moment on.
Sometimes Ade couldn't figure out whether Chi Xia was naturally close to Qu Bai before she recovered her memory, or whether she had already discovered some clues. Why would such a cautious person accept Qu Bai's sleeping soup so easily?
It was a long time before Ade asked Chi Xia this question. Chi Xia thought for a while before saying, "When we first met, I went to the hospital to treat my wound. He gave me his favorite lychee candy. When I ate the candy, I could feel his gaze on me."
Ade asked her, "What look?"
"He looked for me for a long time."
Chi Xia said: "I am also looking for someone. His gaze and the smell of sugar make me feel that he is the one I am looking for."
Ade remembered the day when Qu Bai finished the test. He wanted to see her even though he was covered in wounds. They hid in the dark and watched Chi Xia walk slowly back. Qu Bai said that Chi Xia was his medicine.
Later he asked, "Ade, do you have someone you want to protect?"
Of course he did. He wanted to protect Qu Bai and everything that Qu Bai cherished. Chi Xia was Qu Bai's home, but Qu Bai was also Ade's home.
"Where should I go when you come home?" Ade couldn't help asking while planting flowers with Qu Bai in the manor.
Qu Bai stopped what he was doing and looked at him: "Are you afraid that I will abandon you?"
Ade didn't want to hurt his feelings, but he still nodded honestly.
"What a fool I found."
Qu Bai just said this, and after that, he would bring Ade with him whenever he went to see Chi Xia.
When they went to see Gesang together that time, Ade was actually a little sad. They were so happy and seemed like a family, and he seemed like a superfluous person.
I am indeed a fool, he thought to himself, feeling sad but not daring to show it.
Until Chi Xia waved at him: "Ade, why are you standing there? Come here."
Ade was flattered.
Chi Xia dragged him to take a group photo, and then took a photo of him and Qu Bai. She instructed them to do the movements so familiarly that he felt at that moment that he was also a part of this family.
"Are you still sad?" Qu Bai asked him with a funny gesture: "Do you still feel that you are not part of this family?"
Ade's eyes were filled with tears, and the empty space in his heart was filled, as if someone was carefully supporting the fragility and fear deep in his heart.
"I don't feel that anymore." He smiled under Chi Xia's command: "I'm stupid."
"You are just a fool." Qu Bai laughed at him.
That day, Chi Xia took a lot of photos. Qu Bai was very happy, and Ade was also happy.
Chi Xia sent all the photos to him, and he liked every one of them. He printed out the photo of him and Qu Bai and put it in the pocket closest to his heart.
On the day they decided to move up the plan, the three of them met in the villa, knowing everything and having a tacit understanding.
In all these years, Ade has never been happier than that day.
When Chi Xia forced him to pout for photos, he thought to himself that there was no place better than home, and it would be great if they could live like this in the future.
After returning, the photo close to Ade's heart was replaced with a photo of the three of them.
In that photo, he was pouting, Chi Xia was laughing so hard that her teeth were showing, and Qu Bai's face was red from laughing.
So this is home, the destination they have been pursuing, working hard for, and struggling to reach. This is it.
They waited, and after ten years of persistence, they finally reached their home.
When he and Qu Bai entered the operating room, Ade called Chi Xia over.
"Photos." He said, "Give me the photos."
Chi Xia asked: "What photo?"
Ade said, "In the clothes."
Chi Xia found their photo from his clothes. Ade tilted his head and said, "Put it here."
"When you come out, I'll take more pictures of you. As many as you want."
Chi Xia put the photo aside so that Ade could see it by turning his head.
Ade and Qu Bai entered the operating room together. He kept staring at their photo until the anesthetic took effect.
At the last moment, Ade thought: When they open their eyes again, they will face a new world. They will no longer have to plan, worry, or stare at the darkness at night and stay awake.
The whole family, three meals a day in all four seasons, watching the sunrise and the moon, appreciating the flowers and fishing.
They returned home and their new life began.
