Yun Qiqi thought she was just like herself, so she tentatively asked, "Does the Doctor know about your escape from the lab?"
Tong Xi understood she had misunderstood and said, "I escaped a few years ago."
"What?"
"Did the people in the laboratory tell you that some of us had health issues and needed to be sent elsewhere for treatment?" Tong Xi's face was much calmer as he spoke softly, "Actually, that's not the case. We were meant to be secretly executed. They initially planned to euthanize us, but at the time, Assistant Jiang couldn't bear to do it, given how young we were, so they secretly let us go, and that's how I managed to escape..."
"The other children who escaped with me all died on the way, leaving me the only survivor. They pursued me for a while too, but later, when they saw I was already dosed with amnesiac drugs in the lab and deemed an insignificant failure, they stopped chasing me..."
