My Mute Bride

“Mrs. Burton, what’s wrong with you?” As soon as Jennifer saw Rachel’s pained appearance, she hurriedly went forward.

Rachel felt as if something was about to burst out of her brain as she frantically gripped her forehead, but she failed to suppress the pain. As she let out a cry of pain, she fell to the floor.

“Mrs. Burton!” Jennifer’s face paled with fear.

The colorful world suddenly turned black and white as time wildly receded to that scene in the isolated mountainous area more than twenty years ago, where birds and animals fluttered among the mountains and

forests…

The dream that had been with her for more than twenty years was gradually becoming clearer at this moment. At this moment, the gentle silhouette that had its back to her for twenty years slowly turned around.

The woman’s long hair hung over her shoulder as she revealed a warm smile and dimples on her cheeks. “Katie, didn’t I ask you to stay at home with Grandma? Why are you following me up the mountain again?”

“Mom, it’s too boring at home, so I wanted to follow you up the mountain to collect herbs.”

“Don’t fall down. Come and hold my hand.”

“Okay!”

“Do you like collecting herbs?”

“Yes.”

“Then, I will teach you a song about herb-picking, okay?”

“Okay!”

“Poria seeds, peony flowers, forsythia, dahurica, mixed with red sand…”

Rachel’s lips vibrated. Despite the inability to make a sound, the memory of those children’s songs suddenly became incomparably clear to her with the name of each herb echoing in her ears.

“Mom, are we not going to pick herbs today?”

“Katie, we have guests at home. I have something to tell this man, so head out and play for a while. Grandma is at the back of the mountain, so go and find her, okay?”

“Okay!”

as it invaded her whole brain. She remembered what her mother looked like, how she became a mute, the man with the scar

look at what’s wrong with Mrs.

first help her to

around the bed, shining flashlights into her eyes and talking to her, but she could only see their mouths moving as she heard nothing. Her ears were filled with buzzing sounds that were interspersed with the childhood she had forgotten

wrong with her.

Someone spoke up, causing Rachel to snap out of it. She jerked up her hand to shield the item in her hands and looked warily at the

asked, “Mrs.

the doctor in a daze and finally responded. I’m fine;

nurses

should

by her tight grip. She never thought that she would remember the events of twenty years ago in such a situation. In her ears were the words of her grandmother, who once said, Memories will never disappear; you will get them back one

of the Somerset Mountain fire, and the guy

was that guy back

Jennifer!

and went to call for

Jennifer was

Give me the phone.

“Mrs. Burton, um…”

need to

Burton said that you are not allowed to contact the outside world. How about this? If you have anything to tell him, I will call him and

Just tell him that I have

Jennifer dialed the number

it’s me. Mrs. Burton is asking when you’re coming

the other end. “I’m busy with something

when will you be

After those three words were spoken, he hung up while a busy

for a moment and sat down on the couch in disappointment. Jennifer comforted, “Mrs. Burton, it’s okay. He will come over when he’s

need. I’ll just wait

her hand, she suddenly felt as if she was in a trance. The great elation she had felt earlier was washed away by twenty years of time and all of it suddenly felt

tortured her all this while. Besides, the origin of