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"Go back and have a good rest. It's easy to catch a cold."

After a moment of silence, Ryo replied.

He always felt that his sister seemed to know something, and she always behaved strangely tonight.

"Well, I'm going back."

After hearing Ryo's urging, Hotaru returned to her former more lively side.

"Good night."

"Good night."

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"Excuse me."

Liang bowed and thanked the well-dressed old man in front of him. He knew very well that without the other party's mediation, let alone compensation, he might also be implicated.

He still thinks things too simply, and things in the world will not go according to his ideas.

"It doesn't matter. After all, you are Qiu's family member. I should take care of you both emotionally and rationally."

"I just didn't expect that after Qiu left, your family would actually become like this."

The old man sighed and said that although he knew that the Kitagawa family had experienced changes in the past few years due to the sudden death of their eldest daughter, he did not expect that only Ryo and Hotaru were left.

"Would you consider working in our troupe? Maybe you have a talent in this area too."

"Just like Autumn."

With the intention of finding something rare to live in, the old man turned his gaze to Liang, and his breathing became a little heavy when he thought that the boy in front of him was the younger brother of the talented theater actor.

I heard the name I least wanted to hear.

"No need, I can live with it now."

He declined with a smile.

"Really, that's really a pity."

The old man also came back to his senses briefly, and he smiled self-deprecatingly. How can an actor like Qiu be so good?

Reminiscent of the fact that at that time, the Beichuan family almost entirely relied on the eldest daughter to make money, and the parents also favored the other, and the remaining two children received almost no attention.

"Thank you! Thank you very much for your attention to the Beichuan family. If you want to cooperate, please call the contact information on the business card."

In my memory, the last time I saw Ryo, he and his sister were handing out business cards behind her sister and greeting guests in a low voice.

"Then I'll leave first."

"Well, walk slowly."

Watching the old man's back walk away, Ryoya took a deep breath and calmed down his mood again.

"Go to the hospital."

he said to himself.

ps: This chapter corresponds to Megumi Karuizawa's BE: As a victim of campus bullying, he closed his heart and became a parasite.

ps2: This volume is probably the most difficult one for me to write so far. I wrote it very slowly, but it is very important and I have to write it.

ps3: Thank you for reading and subscribing. The next chapter corresponds to Horikita Suzune's BE: A child growing up twisted in the shadow of a genius.

The Abyss of Youth: Chapter 4: Everyone has their own way

"Ryo is a child without talent."

"Compared with Qiu, it makes people doubt that he is not my biological child."

Although I have forgotten almost everything about my childhood, this sentence still appears abnormally in my dreams.

Standing in the blurry and distant place, his father looked down at him condescendingly.

Liang's biological father was once a famous actor in a theater troupe in this city. Although Liang and Qiu had never seen his performances in person, the stories on the stage and in the spotlight were regarded as bedtime stories by this man over and over again. Generally speaking.

"——I hope that you can also become a drama actor, preferably as good as me."

At the end of the story, the man always ends with this sentence.

At the request of their father, the older two began practicing drama.

"Then, please Ryo and I will become the best actors you can be."

In the rigorous training day after day, both of them actually need the existence of a companion who can feel and understand, so the relationship between their siblings quickly becomes closer.

"Which of Shakespeare's four tragedies is Ryo's favorite?"

Liang began to read the scripts. They were all old manuscripts that his father had read, and they were always filled with dense notes.

After Ryo read some scripts, Qiu began discussing drama with him.

"My favorite is indeed 'Hamlet'. Why does Ryo like 'Macbeth'? The role of Lady Macbeth is obviously not as good as Ophelia."

"Although it's all about love, a girl's blossoming love is the most desirable thing."

When he was in elementary school, Qiu showed an outgoing personality that matched his appearance.

She showed off her charm in front of Liang without any care. She raised her white dress, held the flowers in her hands, and smiled innocently at Liang:

"Ryo should enjoy Hamlet with me."

"Because they are exactly the same, they are like real family."

"I hope when people see us, they know we are brother and sister."

So Qiu and Liang wore the same color pajamas and the same style of slippers, ate the same breakfast, and went to school holding hands while carrying the same schoolbags.

Hotaru always missed a lot of school classes due to her health, so at that time she could only lie by the window and wave to her brother and sister.

"Liang, recite the third act ten times with emotion. I'll come back an hour later to see if you've made any progress! Don't be lazy!"

But as soon as he returns home, in the huge soundproof room with nowhere to escape, Ryo will receive "guidance" from his father.

It is undeniable that my father's appearance is very good. Even though he is nearly forty years old, he still looks handsome, very graceful, and he really feels like an actor.

But his poor personality makes him look more like an apple that looks bright on the outside but is completely rotten on the inside.

And when he starts to exercise violence, his face will become even more distorted, like an evil ghost.

Ryo failed to show his talent in drama. He would be in a trance and lose his mind unconsciously. If his father discovered this, Ryo would face severe corporal punishment.

As long as you perform well enough, this situation will definitely change.

Comforting himself with this thought, Ryo, who was practicing desperately, was still walking in place day by day.

In stark contrast to Ryo, Qiu is an extremely talented child.

"Qiu is really like me, and the improvement in her acting skills is impressive. If she continues to improve like this, she won't be too far away from the level of a professional actor."

My father often made such compliments.

"Ryo really doesn't look like my biological child. If you want to keep up with Qiu, you have to spend more time practicing."

Liang and Qiu are compared by their father every day, and then the other is punished based on their merits.

"Qiu will definitely become a famous actor. Ah, my child will be seen by everyone one day. Others will know that this is my child, this child is my daughter, and she will be the most popular in this city. A dazzling pearl!"

"Liang! Why are you distracted again today? I've practiced the lines for the second act so many times, why can't I memorize them all at once? Feet! Move, pay attention to your movements, don't stand stupidly like a wooden stake! Eyes! Look! Where is it?"

Like having two faces, his father enjoyed the game law of "the weak and the strong". He encouraged Chu Liang and Qiu to fight in a zero-sum game, giving rewards and punishments from the highest position.

The mother could not go against the father's ideas, she just watched the situation develop.

"Father...Father, dear..."

"Your sister has passed the entrance test and she will make her debut as a drama actress tomorrow."

With an intoxicated expression on his face, his father waved a ruler in his hand towards Ryo.

The hard ruler collided with Ryo's right calf, and the pain beyond the limit even gave Ryo the illusion of sparks flying in front of his eyes.

"Tsk."

"Fathers will not tolerate their children forever."

The man put away the bat, put his right foot on Liang's waist, and pushed him to the ground.

"It'll be okay, don't worry, I won't hurt my face."

"But education always comes with pain."

"boom!"

Ryo felt a sharp impact on his back.

My thoughts went blank, I had hallucinations, as if blood was flowing out, and rapid pain and burning.

"Please remember this pain and work hard next."

In the snow-white world, Liang only heard these words and the scream of someone who didn't know who it was.

A foot kicked him in the stomach, but the child's coldness rolled along the ground for several meters and did not stop until it hit the wall.

I couldn't breathe in my throat, dull pain came from all over my body, my internal organs seemed to be screaming, and I couldn't see clearly what was happening in front of me.

How long did this violence last?

After this violence that made Liang doubt whether he could survive, his father brought medical supplies from outside and treated his wounds delicately.

"Ryo is a good boy."

"Worked hard and did a great job."

As if praising his children for getting good grades, his father's tone was very gentle.

"cold...?"

"What, father... why?"

The person who came in from outside the room was Qiu who had not yet taken off her stage performance clothes.

"This is a lesson for losers."

"If I can't join a theater troupe to earn money for my family, what's the point of supporting you."

The father asked Qiu Fa, who was confused:

"Are you uncomfortable seeing your brother like this?"

"Ah... um."

Qiu replied vaguely. It seemed too difficult for her as a child to understand the situation in front of her.

"Then remember this feeling for me! When you rehearse "Hamlet" in the future, when your character Ophelia sees Hamlet going crazy, think back to your current feelings!"

The father roared and spoke as if he was crazy, then ignored Qiu and pulled Liang, who was already in a trance, up:

"In the competition between you and Qiu, the other party has never lost a match so far. Why is Ryo so unimproved?"

"Shouldn't the same blood flow in your bodies?"

"Your last name is all [Beichuan]!"

In the full six months after that, Qiu, who debuted as a child actor, ushered in his heyday, and even appeared in the Central Theater as a starring role.

And every rise of autumn marks the sinking of coolness.

The talented sister stepped into the paradise surrounded by flowers and applause on the stage of the troupe, while Ryo, who had no talent and could never catch up with her, fell into the abyss step by step.

After several failed auditions, he was completely given up by his father.

As Qiu became popular, the Beichuan family's income also increased day by day. They lived in a larger and more spacious house. His father bought a luxury car and his mother wore expensive jewelry.

People often come to visit the house, and Ryo, who has been given up, and Hotaru, whose physical condition cannot support her to embark on the path of drama, have become like concierges.

"Thank you! Thank you very much for your attention to the Beichuan family. If you want to cooperate, please call the contact information on the business card."

There will also be guests who come and go asking about Liang. After all, they have heard that the two siblings studied drama together.

When the elder sister is so good, the younger brother shouldn't be much worse.

Liang himself will try hard to participate in some dramas, but because of his status, the leaders of those theater troupes often have higher expectations of him.

The results obtained through hard work are taken for granted, and in the end, what they get is just a slightly mediocre evaluation that cannot be tried out.