but she didn’t implement it immediately.
She first called me over to ask for my opinion.” Yu Ning said.
He saw that Ji Mingxia’s cup was empty and he refilled it for him.
He also put some snacks in front of Ji Mingxia so he could just raise his hand in case he wanted to eat.

 

“Asking for your opinion?” Ji Mingxia did not notice Yu Ning’s actions.
His attention was all on Yu Ning’s words, he could not help but frown, “You were only four or five years old at that time and you wouldn’t know what that meant.
How could you make such a decision!”

 

Yu Ning said, “Yeah, they also thought that I would be convinced, but they forgot that I could see things that normal people couldn’t see.”

 

When the head of the circus saw Yu Ning, his eyes lit up and he was extremely satisfied with him.

 

For a place like the circus, what is most feared is mediocrity.

 

Yu Ning’s eyes, which ordinary people found horrifying, were a bright feature for the circus people.

 

At the time, Yu Ning was no more than four or five years old, and the circus director could have taken him away from the orphanage as long as he agreed.

 

It was not difficult for most adults to persuade a young child.

 

The circus head brought many toys and snacks and handed them to Yu Ning, persuading him to join the circus.

 

Everyone thought that Yu Ning would be impressed by the colourful toys and snacks.

 

However, only Yu Ning knew that all the toys were stained with blood, and that behind the seemingly amiable circus head were countless resentful spirits of children that would not dissipate for a long time.

 

The dead children still looked as miserable as they did before they died.

 

Some had their eyes gouged out, some had their skulls opened, some had their limbs chopped off, and a few children had even been sewn together.

 

Like a black fog, they sprawled behind the circus head and converged into a huge faceless man stretching out his hands towards Yu Ning to grab him.

 

Yu Ning was frightened away.

 

Although he saw through the circus’s plot and escaped in time, he hid outside for three whole days to avoid being “harvested” and “cut”.

 

A four/ five year old child, without an adult to look after him, wandered around for several days until the circus left Funan County and he returned to the orphanage.

 

He was already very unpopular in the orphanage, and after this incident, Yu Ning became completely invisible in the orphanage.

 

It was not until he was admitted to the best primary school in the county, and with the highest score, that everyone looked at him again.

 

He was a strange, withdrawn, gloomy student with an excellent academic performer.

 

The label had been with Yu Ning for most of his life and had not gone away until now.

 

At the same time, the search page on Ji Mingxia’s phone finally popped up.

 

When Ji Mingxia first heard about “singing dogs” and “beautiful snake women”, he thought it was a circus show program.

 

It was only when the news and pictures on the internet popped out that Ji Mingxia realised that this was actually a genocidal “harvesting and cutting”. 

 

The word “harvest” meant to take, to collect; “cut” meant cutting the raw material.
These were usually young children who had developed normally. 

 

In simple terms, it meant to take a living, normal human being and turn them into a strangely shaped and disabled freak by cutting with a knife, hacking with an axe, or other means.

 

The artificial creation of cripples or “freaks” was used as a pretext to gain the sympathy of the world or, as in the case of circuses, to attract the attention of the public and to obtain large sums of money from passers-by.

 

Because the adult body is already full-grown and difficult to cut or sculpt, the cruel and perverse practice of harvesting and cutting mostly occurred with young children.

 

The so-called “singing dogs” and “beautiful snake women” are young children whose limbs had been cut off and made into artificially transformed into “human-headed, dog-bodied” or “human-headed, snake-bodied” freaks, so as to achieve the purpose of attracting eyes and getting money.

 

At this point, Ji Mingxia remembered why he didn’t remember this circus yet he had obviously seen it.

 

He had been deceived by false advertising.
Instead of seeing what he wanted to see, he saw all sorts of weird and bizarre performances.

 

At that time, he was too young to understand what the singing dogs represented behind the scenes, but he instinctively felt uncomfortable.

 

It wasn’t until after leaving the circus that he returned to normal.
He was a young child after all, and he soon put the incident behind him, so much so that only now could he barely recall it.

 

Ji Mingxia looked at the photos of the victims who were harvested and cut, then at Yu Ning in front of him, and he was simply terrified.

 

The impact of such a thing was even greater than the frightening ghosts.

 

He and Yu Ning, who obviously lived in the same place, were of a similar age, yet their childhoods were very different.

 

Ji Mingxia lost both parents before he reached adulthood, and in the eyes of many people, was a pitiful child.

 

He was indeed sad and depressed for a long time, but when compared to Yu Ning, at least he had a happy childhood, and even if his parents were gone, he still had his loving grandmother.

 

What made Ji Mingxia most sad was that Yu Ning had such an experience, and was in a way, also “artificial”.
The story of his past was summarized as “growing up in an orphanage “

 

The novel started at Yu Ning’s university life and focused more on the adventures of Yu Ning and Pei Yuan, with little detail on the past.

 

The easiest way for authors not to waste ink on portraying family members was to make the protagonist all alone.
The most common setting was to have both parents dead and the protagonist growing up in an orphanage.

 

Ji Mingxia had even seen many protagonists who came straight out of mental hospitals.

 

When you’re used to seeing that kind of persona, you don’t even think about how the protagonist survived the first ten years or so when you read the novel.

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