This story encompasses themes of apocalypse, a system, the world of The Walking Dead, rectifying past regrets, and features a non-single female lead (reader discretion advised).
Xu Mo transmi...
After some thought in his mind, Xu Mo also looked at Magna's left hand hidden behind her back and confessed directly:
"You don't have to hide your left hand. I already found the prison tattoo on the base of your left hand. I know you might have been a prisoner before, but I don't care."
Were they discovered? Hearing Xu Mo's words, Magna was also a little shocked.
The prison tattoo on the upper left palm of her hand was carved by other female prisoners when she was first imprisoned. She was already very disgusted with this prison tattoo, and after meeting Zara, this prison tattoo became a thorn in her heart, firmly rooted in her heart.
Now Xu Mo actually said that he didn't care about the prison tattoo, or even her identity as a prisoner. This made her feel touched and excited. She actually wanted to be accepted by others.
"You... really don't care that I'm a prisoner?" Magna looked up into Xu Mo's eyes, still a little doubtful.
After all, everyone can say nice things, and she wasn't sure what Xu Mo had just said was the truth.
Xu Mo nodded seriously and said, "Of course I don't care whether you are a prisoner or not. In this world, everyone has to do something to survive."
Magna looked at Xu Mo in silence. From Xu Mo's serious expression and sincere eyes, she really could not see any hypocrisy.
"By the way, I'm a little curious. Can you tell me what crime you committed that put you in jail?" Xu Mo asked curiously again.
Judging from the series of plots in the original drama, Magna is a very kind and good person. It is a bit puzzling to him that someone like Magna would go to jail.
“…” Magna lowered her head and said nothing. She was also hesitating whether to tell Xu Mo about this.
Seeing that Magna didn't seem to want to talk, Xu Mo waved his hand and said, "Of course, it's okay if you don't want to talk. It's not too late to tell me later if you want to."
Magna thought about it and slowly said:
"It happened about a year ago. I was still a college student then. One day, my best friend and I stayed in the library to study. It was already long after school, and most of the students had already left. I thought that apart from my best friend and me, no other students were left in school. I was wrong. A male classmate of mine not only stayed in school, but was even secretly monitoring me."
"But I didn't know about this at the time. I ran to the bathroom because I wanted to go, but the man followed me and blocked me in the women's room. He said a lot of obscene things to me, such as that he had been monitoring me and even took pictures of me. In the end, he even planned to rape me."
"But he didn't get his wish because I had practiced for a while and my fighting skills were pretty good. So when he was about to attack me, I kicked his thing and it exploded. He screamed and passed out in the toilet."
"My best friend and the librarian heard his screams and ran over. They called the police and an ambulance to take him away."
Xu Mo listened quietly, touching his chin from time to time as he thought.
He asked, "Shouldn't this be considered self-defense?"
Magna nodded and said, "That's what I thought at first."
"However, because there was no surveillance camera in the women's restroom and there were no other witnesses at the time, they concluded that I had intentionally harmed that male classmate and that I fabricated the story of being raped and acting in self-defense in order to escape legal sanctions.
"The most important thing is that the father of the classmate whose genitals I had blown up was a very senior member of parliament. He also bribed the judge and lawyers in the case. Due to these multiple factors, I was convicted of intentional injury and imprisoned."
Xu Mo fell into a brief silence after listening to this. He now understood why Magna in the original drama became a lesbian. On the one hand, it was due to Yumiko's influence, and on the other hand, this was probably the reason.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Mo asked solemnly, "Where are your parents? Didn't they protest against exposing this matter for you?"
According to the information he learned, the media should like this kind of news very much, such as the New York Times, CNN, BBC, etc.
"My mother...died shortly after I was born, and my father was a bastard. When I first started high school, he was in debt from drugs and gambling. He took away all the family savings and I don't know where he's hiding. Maybe he's dead." Magna said with a self-deprecating and bitter smile.
It’s a bit too tragic… After hearing Magna’s words, Xu Mo frowned solemnly.
Her original family was so miserable, and this kind of thing happened later. In the original drama, more than ten years after the apocalypse, Magna was still so kind. It was really precious and rare.
Xu Mo even felt a desire to protect Magna.
"How have you been living alone since your father left due to debt?" Xu Mo continued to ask.
Magna said with a hint of bitterness: "I work part-time as a waitress at my aunt's roadside restaurant."
In the original drama, when Magna and her team members joined the Alexandria community, they said that they had worked as waiters in a roadside restaurant. Unexpectedly, what Magna said at the time was indeed the truth, but later she was sent to prison for the reason mentioned above.
"I'm sorry for making you recall sad things." Xu Mo's face also showed a hint of apology.
Magna shook her head and said, "It's nothing. I've been suppressing these words in my heart for a long time. Now that I've said them out loud, I feel a lot more relieved."
Xu Mo also nodded, and after thinking for half a second, he said, "But I'm a little surprised that you can tell me so much. I didn't expect you to tell me so much."
The corners of Magna's mouth curled up slightly, "Really? Maybe it's because you're a good listener."
To be honest, there were three reasons why Xu Mo said this.
The first reason was that Xu Mo saved her, and Xu Mo was also very handsome, so she had a vague affection for Xu Mo in her heart.
The second reason was that Xu Mo said that he didn't care about her identity as a prisoner, and even said some words to comfort her. Although she couldn't be sure that what Xu Mo said was true, she felt very relieved and happy when he said so, even if it was false. What's more, Xu Mo had saved her, so she was willing to believe that what Xu Mo said was true.
The third reason was that she had always wanted to find a suitable person to confide in about her inner grievances, and Xu Mo happened to ask her about her experience in this regard. She couldn't find a better and more suitable person to confide in than Xu Mo.