Fear of the dark. [YiZhan FF - Mystery Thriller]✔️

30 - Return to the Institute 1 /+/ Review

30 - Return to the Institute 1 /+/ Review

It has been a full five years since my last entry in this diary. A very long time, but not long enough to forget the horrors of that time.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever write another entry in this diary. But I think I can write down the events of the past 5 years here in a short form, before I move on to the current things and then close this diary, forever.

Let's start with this. Zhan and I decided at that time, after thinking and talking a lot, to take the compensation. So did everyone else in our group. No one wanted to go away empty-handed and everyone wanted to be compensated at least a little bit. And the payments we received were even much higher than we thought before.

It doesn't compensate for what we suffered, even if we don't have to worry about money for the rest of our lives, but, it helped us to start again.

First to Zhan and me before I say anything about the others.

Zhan and I have been a very, very happy couple for five years. After we received the money at that time, we decided not to rent an apartment and bought a nice little house on the outskirts of the city. It has a nice garden and there is even a pool. Our only criterion was, there should be no forest in the near surroundings.

Even now, five years later, it is still difficult for us to enter a forest and not feel afraid. The memories keep coming back and that's why we never stay in a forest for more than an hour, if at all, and if we do, we stay very close to the road.

A year after our return, I found my own way to deal with it all. I quit my job and wrote a book. Actually, I wrote it just for myself, like this diary, but Zhan thought I should send it to several publishers. And to my own amazement, one of the biggest publishers here offered to publish my book.

At first, they printed only 2000 copies, besides publishing the e-book. But these 2000 books were sold so fast that they had to reprint new ones quickly. Now, more than 250,000 printed books have been sold and my book has been read and downloaded more than 100,000 times on the Internet as an e-book.

Zhan has started his own business as a graphic designer and photographer. He even has his own small studio. His paintings that he paints himself and his photographs are very popular. One series of photos was even recently displayed in a gallery and received very high praise.

Two years after our return, Zhan and I took our first vacation together and horror-free. We traveled through Europe. We also took the opportunity when we were in Cologne (Germany) and got married there.

Of course our parents were not very enthusiastic because they could not be there. However, the huge family party we hosted when we got back made up for everything.

Even before we got married, Zhan and I often talked about wanting to have one or two children of our own someday. Then a year after our wedding, we went to the US to find a surrogate. Using Zhan's sperm, we were then able to hold our babies in our arms another year later. Twins! A boy (Ley) and a girl (Xin).

The twins are now a year old and are keeping us quite busy. Ley is very attached to Zhan and his first word was Daddy. While Xin is totally attached to me and follows me everywhere. Her first word was grandpa. Because Grandpa Xiao spoils them both through and through.

When Zhan's father found out he became a grandfather, he cried with joy for two days and then threw a big celebration. Since the birth of the twins, he is with us at least once a week and always can not separate from the twins.

Also my parents spoil the two very much and are happy grandparents. My mom was so happy when she found out she was going to be a grandma that she invited the whole neighborhood to a street party.