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Translated by Twelve_Months_of_May

You're really stupid, always causing me trouble.

Pang Qian sat at her desk, chin in her hands, in a daze. She thought about what Gu Mingxi said on their way to school. He said that his father felt ashamed of him.

That sentence was like a needle pushed into my heart. After all these years, I'd already gotten used to the way Gu Mingxi was, to his particular way of doing things. But you can't deny that once we leave the familiar surroundings of school and the Golden Compound, Gu Mingxi would inevitably become the focus of much attention.

Was it because of this reason that Uncle Gu never took Gu Mingxi out to play?

Gu Mingxi wasn't afraid to go outside.

When the school had spring and autumn outings, sports events, movie activities, etc., he would attend them all. In his free time, he would also take the bus with Pang Qian to go to the Children's Palace, the amusement park, or the library. It was only that there would be strangers who, either out of curiosity or sympathy, would ask Gu Mingxi what happened to his arms.

Pang Qian thought that this was very annoying. They didn't know those people after all. There would be some older aunties who even reached out to touch Gu Mingxi's disabled shoulders. And when he tried to move away, they would sigh that he was really very pitiful.

The thing she couldn't stand the most was that Gu Mingxi never put on a long face to those people. He wouldn't explain in great detail about how he lost his arms, but would simply say, "When I was younger, I got electrocuted by high voltage."

Some people would persist, "How old were you?"

Gu Mingxi answered, "6 years old."

Every time she heard his response, Pang Qian would get into a very bad mood. She would walk over to Gu Mingxi and nudge at his back or pull at his empty sleeves to take him away, angrily shouting, "Let's go, we're going to be late!"

At the time, Pang Qian didn't know how much anxiety she would have for this situation. Actually, it was because every time those people asked, it would bring back her memories of that summer day. That hot, stuffy afternoon. And what happened to Gu Mingxi's body was a memory she never wanted to return to in her life.

Inside of everyone's heart, there is an unopened bottle of regrets.

When people meet some kind of unfortunate situation, they'll think, if I hadn't done that back then, things wouldn't have turned out like this.

Though Pang Qian was only a 10 year old child, she would sometimes foolishly think, if she hadn't tossed that frisbee up on that high shelf that year, Gu Mingxi would probably be like her right now. He would be a normal student. Or he would be even more outstanding, and Uncle Gu would be proud of his son, the most amazing kid in the Golden Compound.

Even without arms, he won an award at the Hua Luogeng (famous mathematician) competition. The drawings he made with his feet were 100 times better than the ones that Pang Qian made with her hands. His literary composition was entered in a provincial competition, and it even won an Excellence Award. It was printed as part of an anthology of excellent children's essays, and was even sold in bookstores.

If that year, Gu Mingxi hadn't climbed up that shelf, what would the outcome have been?

It was the summer of 1990. Gu Mingxi had already graduated from kindergarten, and he was happily enjoying his last summer break without homework. Li Han had already bought him a new backpack and notebooks. When school started in September, he would become an elementary school student.