Hearing Violet's question, Louis on the other end of the line began to tell the story of Summer.
Summer's adoptive mother, Louis' aunt, has never been able to conceive a child.
At this time, one of her cousins became pregnant out of wedlock.
In order for her to marry a good family in the future, her cousin's family secretly took the newborn Summer to her aunt to raise, claiming that the child died.
The aunt consulted her husband and adopted Summer with his consent.
Summer's biological mother, however, was greatly stimulated when she learned of the loss of her child and became postpartum depressed, jumping to her death from the sixth floor one day
Summer didn't know she wasn't biological as a child, so she was very close to her adoptive parents.
But sometimes there are many people and no impermeable walls in the world.
When she was ten years old, she heard about her origins from a person who somehow managed to run away to her real mother.
Of course, her real mother is no longer there, and she wandered around that area where her mother had been for two days.
Her adoptive parents almost died of anxiety, and when they found her, she was cowering by a garbage can, her eyes a little dazed.
At the time of seeing her adoptive parents, she was still resistant to their approach.
Her adoptive parents only thought she was stimulated by her birth, and brought her home and patiently enlightened her.
But Summer has been a different person since then, from her former lively and cheerful self to her silent self.
This went on for a long time, and her adoptive parents took her to a psychiatrist, but with little success.
Until one day, a neighbor found her with a sharp knife and stabbed her adoptive father's brother.
It was only afterwards that we learned that this man, the one who told Summer about her life.
The reason Summer stabbed him is because ......
Louis narrates the story, pausing as Violet listens intently.
"Because of what?" Violet asked in a rush.
Louis did not answer directly, but asked, "Where did you drive to? It's not safe to drive and call on the road, I'll talk to you in detail when I get back."
Violet: "...... "
This person, don't be so appetizing!
Either you don't say it, or you say it all!
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