"...Why didn't you tell him?" Ruyi quietly asked.
Cai looked down, staring at his clasped hands with no particular emotions in his eyes. The gas stove was turned off and the night's silence returned into the kitchen.
"I don't know…"
At some point, the shape of his hands looked blurry to him until he realized that his own eyes were the culprit.
"I think I knew Bro would melt with the news. He has a kind heart. He would forget all the miserable things they put us through…especially him. He was on a mild spectrum, and it was very clear that they didn't like that. They found it too burdensome to care for a child with special attention when all they wanted was to climb the corporate ladder. They completely sidelined him and never cared what he wanted."
