GOR Chapter 563 Curiosity

Nightmare felt extremely unfortunate.

Talking about unfortunate circumstances, his was quite an unfortunate one. He was one of the typical left-behind children of China. When he was still very young, his parents had left for the city to find work, leaving him at home with his grandparents in a township (class 4). ^[1]

As his grandparents were old, they no longer have much energy. Additionally, there was still a need to attend to domestic chores. Thus, it was only natural for them to not care for Nightmare properly.

The quality of education of his township’s schools was also most concerning. Over time, Nightmare drifted along through life and began visiting the internet cafes in his township. Eventually, he became a resident wastrel there.

Truth be told, he simply did not possess any talent in gaming. However, he did become friend with some delinquents. Most of them were left-behind children like him. And thus, they established a XX Clan of punks – that was all the rage a few years back.

The days he spent without anyone restraining him was quite carefree. Although his grandparents had no strength to discipline him, they did care for him when it came to food.

In the summer of last year however, all of that fell apart.

His parents who had gone together to work in the city divorced each other.

Nightmare heard that his mother had married into the family where she had been working as a nanny. She married the head of the family, a 40-year-old widower. As for his father, he had hooked up with a waitress where he was working at.

Most unfortunately, after separating, neither one of them was willing to take care of Nightmare – their own child, Zhao Tiezhu.

As his mother was marrying into...