CHAPTER 606: CHAPTER 358: GU WENYU’S POSSESSIONS, RAINBOW WINGS COMES VISITING (DOUBLE-LENGTH)

"Big brother mentioned before, he didn’t want you all to know he was Black Cocoon because he didn’t want you to worry about him, and... If you knew his identity, it would restrict him and be very inconvenient."

"...Did Wenyu really say that? Why would he think that way at the time?"

The local time is 8:30 AM on August 18th, a morning of clear sunlight and wandering white clouds.

The early sun rises from beyond the horizon, hanging high under the slightly blue sky. The streets and alleys are once again shrouded in a hazy summer heat, with cicadas on the trees calling frantically.

At this very moment, in a corner of China Li Jing, within a residential building in the Old Jingmai District which had been extensively relocated and rebuilt by the police and was set up with a cordon.

Inside the second floor, in the room near the balcony.

The light blue curtains sway gently, blocking the sunlight from outside completely.

The floor is dark yet rippling with dappled shadows. The blades of the upright fan buzz as they turn, slightly lifting the curtains, dispelling the scorching heat.

Su Zimai sits on the tatami in the corner, staring blankly at Gu Wenyu’s wardrobe.

Gu Zhuo Case sits hunched on the bed, slightly tilting his head, silently scanning the room’s walls covered with messy game posters. To him, every item in the room seems as glaring as the sun, making him dare not look directly.

Only now does he realize he knows nothing about this child, Gu Wenyu. Despite not having seen him for several years, he paid all his attention to Gu Qiye and Su Zimai, ignoring this overlooked child.

Yet it is precisely this child he ignored the most who made the greatest sacrifice for this family, which is what pains and regrets Gu Zhuo Case the most.

The room is quiet at this moment, not a sound of cicadas can be heard.

Su Zimai hasn’t been home for a long time, but now her gaze wanders inside the wardrobe. Each piece of clothing she sees, she can still recall how Gu Wenyu looked when he wore them.

The times when they bickered in the living room sofa seem like things from a very long time ago.

Upon seeing that "Swallowing Silver Fan T-shirt" in the wardrobe, she suddenly paused, then couldn’t help but puff her cheeks slightly and let out a low chuckle.

As though laughing at Gu Wenyu’s ever-present mischievousness, and also because despite all this time, she didn’t notice the glaring similarity between Black Cocoon and Gu Wenyu, which is...

——They are both die-hard fans of Swallowing Silver!

Gu Wenyu openly showed this side in front of them, even repeatedly hinting, yet she and Gu Qiye never considered this possibility.

After all, who would associate their day-to-day family member with the crazy, ever-singing, and dancing lunatic moth outside?

"Such an idiot..." Su Zimai murmurs absent-mindedly with lowered eyelids.

After a while, she gently reaches out, touching the clothes in the wardrobe, staring at the wrinkles on the white shirt, then takes down a T-shirt from the rack, hesitates for a moment, and brings her nose close to lightly sniff the scent on it.

Noticing Su Zimai suddenly silent, Gu Zhuo Case bows his head in silence for a moment, then asks again:

"Xiaomai, why did Wenyu refuse to tell us he was Black Cocoon even until the end?" He has pondered this repeatedly in his mind over the past days but still hasn’t understood.

If Wenyu had revealed his identity from the start, wouldn’t their collaboration have been simpler, without needing so many detours? Why did Wenyu do this? He didn’t seem like a foolish child.

Su Zimai gazes at the shirt in her arms, dazed, "Because he said, if you were always thinking about how to protect him, he would implicate you, and you wouldn’t be able to focus on your own tasks."

She paused for a while, "He was only concerned about your safety, never considering himself... He didn’t want you to worry about him, wanted you to hate him, so he purposely grabbed your weaknesses to anger you."

Upon hearing Su Zimai’s answer, Gu Zhuo Case stood dazed for quite a while.

After some time, he asked ponderingly: "Did he... say that to you?"

Su Zimai shook her head, "He didn’t tell me."

"Then how do you know?"

"Because he told my captain, the captain was the first to know his identity, otherwise I’d still be kept in the dark..." Su Zimai said nonchalantly, "Big brother often does this, he can’t say a word in front of people he cares about, but he spills everything to those he doesn’t care about."

Gu Zhuo Case fell silent for a long time, then exclaimed, "I paid so little attention to Wenyu before, even though he was the one who needed care the most in the family."

Su Zimai lowered her eyelashes, her voice diminishing, "When he revealed his identity to me, he didn’t give a reason, just told me to keep it secret from you all. He said he would bring you all back, I was too foolish then and believed his nonsense..." As she spoke, her voice suddenly faltered, carrying a hint of sobbing, "If I hadn’t kept it secret, wouldn’t you have been able to protect him?"

Gu Zhuo Case was taken aback. He slowly lowered his head, feeling a vague pain in his chest.

After a moment, Su Zimai took a deep breath, and suddenly raised her head.