[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi":3,"chapter-rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-chapter-504":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1473745,1922,"Chapter 504: Ying Xue","rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-chapter-504",504,"\u003Cp>Silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bai Family said nothing, and neither did the Base Commander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai seemed to realize something, a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes, but he quickly masked it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"May I see her photo?\" Leng Yebai said, word by word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes... you can.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander hurriedly fumbled in his arms and took out an old pocket watch, carefully handing it over to Leng Yebai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai felt something warm placed in his hand, and when he looked down, he saw a pocket watch with its surface paint worn off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pocket watch looked very old, still carrying the body heat of the middle-aged man, and no longer emitted the sound of its ticking hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai gently pressed the button to open the pocket watch, but it did not spring open, showing no reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Leng Yebai notice that the pocket watch button had been pressed numerous times, and the raised button no longer had any elasticity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai could only carefully pry open the pocket watch with his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai quietly looked at the thumb-sized watch, inside which a small photo was embedded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time had left its marks on this photo, and the man inside looked much like him, but not him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside the man, sat a gentle woman, her pink cheongsam accentuating her intellectual beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible to tell she was a mother; she seemed more like an elegant lady from a noble family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai looked at her arms, where she held an infant. The photo had become somewhat blurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, he recognized immediately that the baby was himself as a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The orphanage didn’t have many playful moments, but they would still take photos of the children every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purpose of the photos was for couples looking to adopt, so they could better choose their future child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai’s appearance was very appealing; countless couples were interested in him. However, upon seeing his behavior that was inconsistent with his age, they gave up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps they feared encountering an autistic child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai had seen the photo of himself when first abandoned at the orphanage — just a bedsheet covering him, looking unwell, yet his features identical to the infant in the photo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference was that the baby in the arms of the woman in the pink cheongsam was rosy and seemed well-cared for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when he was left at the orphanage’s gate, he was nearly frozen and starved to death, his face pale, his cries very faint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai rubbed the photo gently with his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A photo from twenty-six years ago filled his mind with thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed to treat this baby very well, not resembling those who would deliberately abandon him at the orphanage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If, if he had grown up in such a family, would he not have been so lonely as a child?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai looked at the photo for a long, long time, until his eyes began to feel sore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did she die?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai closed the pocket watch and placed it in the Base Commander’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Overworked herself into illness.\" The Base Commander only said four words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the photo, it was obvious that this family led a privileged life, definitely not from an ordinary family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman in the pink cheongsam had fair fingers, not the kind that were used to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could ’overworked herself into illness’ describe such a woman?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must have been from the grief of losing a child, turning sorrow into illness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai said nothing more, withdrawing his gaze from the pocket watch, and simply sat beside Bai Xiqin, continuing to play with her fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For once, Bai Xiqin felt Leng Yebai’s fingers trembling slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another silence ensued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you want to know anything else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander held the pocket watch, his body slightly slumped, and at that moment, the once mighty Base Commander appeared helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noticed Leng Yebai’s reaction to the photo and was increasingly convinced that Leng Yebai was his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But would he acknowledge it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What right did he have to force him to recognize him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Birth but not nurture, severed fingers still owed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the mother who endured the hardships of pregnancy to give birth to him, while he didn’t make any effort and even because of his so-called brother, lost the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander’s mouth moved as if wanting to say something more, yet he remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t want to know anything.\" Leng Yebai lifted his head, glancing at the Base Commander, eyes full of indifference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he wanted to know, he already knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he wanted to see, he had seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were regrets, yet compared to knowing nothing, it was much better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander’s fingers rubbed the pocket watch, memories of the past resurfaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gentle wife was distressed daily due to the loss of their child, always searching, yet never finding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What stuck with him the most was each year on the child’s birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife used to say, their son surely didn’t know his own birthday, nor had anyone to tell him, how sad he must have been...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So each year, they celebrated the child’s birthday, even if he was the only one left, he still celebrated for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because aside from them, no one else knew the child’s birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your birthday is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander began, only to be interrupted by Leng Yebai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t know you before, how could you possibly know my birthday? I don’t even know my birthday.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai’s voice carried a hint of agitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander’s voice was abruptly cut off, his eyes dimming slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he still didn’t want to acknowledge it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiqin reached out and gently patted Leng Yebai’s shoulder, soothing him a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leng Yebai wasn’t one to whine. If his biological parents had lost him accidentally and searched for so many years, he might, at most, coldly say a few harsh words, but eventually, he would accept them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiqin glanced at the pocket watch in the Base Commander’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She understood, in Leng Yebai’s mind, if he didn’t acknowledge, it meant his real parents were someone else, perhaps his mother was still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It left a shred of illusory hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander looked up at the features resembling between his brows and his wife’s, letting out an almost imperceptible sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, the Base Commander still spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The 25th of the eleventh lunar month. That night, coincidentally, it snowed for the first time that year, it was beautiful. Originally, we named the child Ying Xue then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander’s face had a faint smile, as if he was once more in the midst of that snowy night, waiting for his first and only child to be born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sounds like a girl’s name, doesn’t sound good.\" Leng Yebai said with a frosty face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander chuckled softly, \"My wife picked it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife naively thought they’d have a beautiful daughter, little did she know she’d give birth to a handsome son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, a beautiful child is a beautiful child, might as well call him Ying Xue!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since a small child couldn’t speak yet, whatever name you called him, he couldn’t protest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little did they know, when that child first became aware and heard that name, it would be twenty-six years later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The name really sounds like a girl’s!\" Bai Yifan looked up from his book and commented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just thinking of Brother Leng’s handsome face being called Ying Xue made him... want to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alternative is available, we could call him Tie Zhu,\" the Base Commander said with a serious face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had picked that name, thinking if they’d indeed had a son, Ying Xue might not be suitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your kid is truly unfortunate!\" Leng Yebai still kept a cold face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Base Commander scratched his head, thinking Tie Zhu was also an acceptable name, sounded very strong indeed!\u003C\u002Fp>",1327,"2026-06-06T03:09:31.869Z",1,"novelbin.me","6e9cfd251d76131109fb981a54749ff49ae915f6198d5804de8f3ce546ebe3b4","rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-chapter-467","rebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-chapter-503",514,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Frebirth-before-apocalypse-my-whole-family-are-bi-cover.jpg"]