One day in November 2022, Li Miaomiao studied until late at night again. She became more and more interested in psychology and learned a lot of knowledge. As her spoken English became fluent, she became more and more confident.

One day at work, the work became leisurely, the fatigue after the 20th meeting gradually decreased, and the intrigue also made people look tired. Ji Yixiang followed the greasy uncle out, and Guo Xiaoting also left with them.

Ever since the aphrodisiac incident, Guo Xiaoting not only did not feel disgusted with Ji Yixiang, but their relationship took a step further.

Ji Yixiang can neither drive nor ride a bike. In addition, his intestinal function has not been very good recently, he often suffers from incontinence, and his waist is not in good condition. He will feel tired and have pain in his waist and legs after walking for a while.

Guo Xiaoting, who is 1.56 meters tall, rides a bike every day to take Ji Yixiang, who is just over 1.6 meters tall, out. At the same time, Liu Meiyi, who is less than 1.5 meters tall, rides a bike to take Zhou Yuqing, who is 1.8 meters tall. The picture is really beautiful.

Sometimes Afang would also carry Li Miaomiao along the way, and the picture of the two of them would be much more harmonious.

"My Chinglish is pretty good, isn't it?" Li Miaomiao spoke a few words in English and looked at Afang with a proud look.

Afang smiled, looked at Li Miaomiao's beautiful Hengshui script, and said, "Your writing is neat and your speaking is good. Your English is getting better and better."

"It's a pity that I still can't do the reading. I make a lot of mistakes every time. My vocabulary is still not enough." Li Miaomiao said with a hint of determination in her tone.

"Did you take the postgraduate entrance examination last year?" Afang asked.

"I didn't take the exam last year, this is the first time this year." Li Miaomiao answered naturally.

“Why didn’t you take the exam last year?”

"My family won't let me. They're paying for my brother to go to a private junior high school. I doubt he'll be able to get into high school with his poor grades. My parents definitely won't be willing to let him go to a technical secondary school or vocational high school. It will cost a lot of money in the future. I'm already very grateful that they didn't ask me for it."

Li Miaomiao sounded a little helpless, and Afang listened quietly. She thought the two would become good friends. However, because of Afang's warmth in the past few months, Li Miaomiao had already forgotten her previous judgment of "not making friends with colleagues".

During the 20th National Congress, work was extremely busy and Li Miaomiao had no time to study. Now that the postgraduate entrance examination is approaching, she is doing her best to eliminate all distractions.

That night, the epidemic suddenly broke out and the city was closed again. The community where Li Miaomiao lived was designated as a serious danger zone and she couldn't even leave the house.

Many times when something like this happens, people go on a shopping spree, just like looting, and animality overwhelms humanity.

The family stocked up some food, enough for Li Miaomiao and Anlina to survive. Anlina had experience working from home before, so she didn't care too much this time.

Li Miaomiao was a little anxious and didn't want to go to work, but since she couldn't go for the time being, it gave her a chance to study.

For more than a week, no one went to work. After a week, some people gradually returned to work, but Li Miaomiao's place was still a severely affected area and was sealed off very tightly.

Li Miaomiao has been having nightmares these days. She always dreams of some brutal scenes in Japanese movies. The brutality of the Japanese always carries a hint of horror, disgust, and perversion.

Li Miaomiao was traumatized by Japanese songs when she was a child. When she was in the first grade of junior high school, a girl insisted on playing "Red Wedding Dress", followed by a Japanese horror song. Li Miaomiao heard it by accident and felt nauseous.

After seven, eight, or ten years, the sun shone brightly on the land of China, and Li Miaomiao's mood gradually improved. She never met a gloomy-looking person like that classmate again, and she gradually got better.

But as luck would have it, this time when she came to work, she met such a person, the head of her enemies, Ji Yixiang. Because Ji Yixiang liked to watch those kinds of content, Li Miaomiao was affected and started having nightmares.

Li Miaomiao had previously reminded Ji Yixiang not to post those scary contents, but Ji Yixiang was very mean and read out those explicit words to Li Miaomiao.

Blood, violence, perversion, horror, and endless nightmares spread in Li Miaomiao's life. She felt that her illness was getting worse, her dark circles were getting deeper, and she seemed to be turning into a gloomy person.

When Li Miaomiao was a child, she read the original novel "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" by Mr. Jin Yong. She vividly remembered the scene where the Six Immortals of Taogu tore Cheng Buyou into four pieces.

"I hate brutal scenes." Li Miaomiao suddenly said this, scaring Anlina so much that she almost fell off the bed.

In the blink of an eye, a week passed and everyone went to work, but Li Miaomiao couldn't go. Suddenly, Afang answered the phone.

Li Miaomiao always regarded Afang as her good friend. When she answered her call, she heard a not very happy voice.

"Why didn't you come to work?" Afang's tone had never been so serious.

"This place is sealed off, I can't get out."

"So we're all here? But you're not coming? Are you trying to be special?"

This sentence made Li Miaomiao sit on the stool. She didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Before Li Miaomiao could reply, Afang said, "Didn't you ask for leave? If you don't come to work, you need to ask for leave, otherwise it will be considered as absenteeism."

"I've taken leave, and I've been taking leave every day. I really can't go out. I didn't know the lockdown had been lifted in your area."

"We all came to work, but you didn't?"

"My words don't count. If I could control it, I'd want you all to just stay home and get paid."

The two had an argument on the phone. Afang became sarcastic, which made Li Miaomiao a little breathless. Li Miaomiao suddenly heard someone on the other end teaching Afang how to speak. It was Liu Xi's voice.

After the two hung up the phone, Li Miaomiao's heart was pounding and she couldn't calm down for a long time.

"Miaomiao, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? Did you have a fight with someone?" Anlina asked Li Miaomiao with concern.

"Yes, it's Afang."

"Afang? Isn't she a nice girl? Why would you quarrel with her?"

Anlina couldn't connect the dots between Li Miaomiao and Afang, and Li Miaomiao never imagined that Afang would quarrel with someone, and that the person she was quarreling with was herself.

She wondered, "Am I being betrayed by my best friend again? Just like when Guo Lingling betrayed me for no apparent reason, thinking I didn't care about her?"

There is also Yang Mengxin. I regarded her as my best friend in college. Because of her, I ignored Jiang Yin many times. After graduation, she betrayed me. I don’t know whether she was a man or a woman.

And that little bitch Chen Ailin, she stole men and cheated on me while we were dating, and more importantly, the man she stole was my ex-boyfriend.

Li Miaomiao's eyes became dull and empty. Anlina poured her a cup of hot water. She drank it as if she had no consciousness, as if everything had lost its taste.

In the past, Li Miaomiao and Afang often chatted like close friends and family, but after this phone call, they seemed to have lost touch and never chatted again.

Li Miaomiao felt that she could no longer bear the betrayal. She looked at Anlina's beautiful back and thought to herself, if a good friend can betray me, will she betray me in the future too?