Wei Su suddenly stopped the car on the side of the road, turned to look at Jiang Tian, ​​and asked a series of questions.

“His words to me were merely offensive, not harmful. I’m not that fragile.”

Wei Su's lips curled into a self-deprecating smile: "Then what constitutes harm? Does it have to be like Su Hanze, making your heart sick and forcing you to see a psychologist? Is that what constitutes harm?"

He's already trying hard to control his temper.

But Jiang Tian's words still angered him.

“I have always been grateful for everything Su Hanze has done for me. I told you, I don’t hate him, and I never thought of hating him. He has been very good to me.”

Wei Su squinted at her and said, "Is that considered being good to you? Completely restricting your personal freedom, using your sister and her child to tie your life down, every word, every action, what clothes you wear, what food you eat, what gestures you make will be controlled by others, and you will live a life without a single penny in your hands. Do you think that's good?"

"Jiang Tian, ​​do you know that what hurts me the most and what I hate the most is that you're always like this? You've given others the power to treat you however they want, so they'll treat you badly. Because they know they don't have to pay any price for treating you badly. You've given them the freedom to hurt you. Do you have to torture yourself like this?"

He was trying hard to suppress his voice and control his anger.

But he still couldn't control it.

He didn't know how to describe Jiang Tian.

Just like Cheng Yuanxu, do you think he didn't see the emotions that flashed in his eyes?

It was precisely because Jiang Tian gave off an impression of being lost, fragile, pale, and deserving of protection that the man repeatedly made excuses to get close to her.

This kind of person gets close to Jiang Tian to satisfy his own male chauvinism and the pleasure of redeeming others, but he will treat her as a burden and throw her aside later.

He had no idea how to truly save someone's heart; instead, he caused others secondary harm in order to satisfy his own heroic ego.

Wei Su hoped that he could help Jiang Tian avoid these risks and teach them a lesson.

But Jiang Tian refused; she even argued with him.

Wei Su suddenly felt somewhat injured.

Who was he doing this for? Wasn't it for her?

This woman is too soft, giving people the impression of being weak and easily bullied, which is why she has become so pitiful.

He hoped to help her become stronger.

After saying this, Wei Su actually regretted it a little.

He knew Jiang Tian was still sick and shouldn't be pressuring her like this.

Wiping his face vigorously, Wei Su said to Jiang Tian, ​​"Okay, I won't bother him anymore, you don't..."

“When I was little, my family was very poor. My parents were so busy earning enough money to feed the whole family that they had no time to take care of my sister and me.”

"My sister, in order to get ahead and leave that small mountain village, also filled her schedule to the brim. While other children were studying in the village, she had already found a place in the county. She told me to study hard and that when I went to high school, I would also go to the county."

“I listened to her advice and put all my energy into studying. My parents were also very good to me. They believed that studying would lead to a bright future, so they wouldn’t let me do farm work. I spent all my time doing my homework.”

"That day, my parents were working in the yard again, and I was home alone. The neighbor's son came to deliver a machine. My parents were busy outside, and I was doing my homework in the house when he came in..."

Jiang Tian stopped there and didn't continue.

Her lips trembled, and tears welled in her eyes.

Wei Su was hit immediately.

He suddenly felt a deep, piercing pain in his heart.

The pain, like being scraped by a knife, gave him a sudden feeling of helplessness.

He certainly has a lot of money, but he can't travel through time.

He almost frantically hugged Jiang Tian.

"Those things are all in the past..."

He had to speak in a trembling voice.

Jiang Tian answered him seriously: "There is no past. In fact, he didn't do anything. In other people's eyes, he might just be a young boy. He just touched something he shouldn't have. At that time, I kept thinking about whether or not to tell my parents."

"You should know how it ended. I didn't tell anyone. That secret was like a knife, and I swallowed it whole. So many years have passed, and I've received a lot of education since then. I've also learned that many people have had similar experiences. That person only touched me inappropriately; he didn't do anything else. But I've regretted it countless times. Why didn't I shout? Why didn't I fight back? I just pretended to do my homework and pulled my chair away after I realized what was happening. I remember a lot, yet it's as if I'm deliberately forcing myself to forget."

“I read something online. Someone said that many criminal suspects will keep recalling the scene after committing the crime, and their recollection is of reliving the pleasure of the crime. So I must also be recalling my crime, recalling the self that was hurt by my cowardice.”

Wei Su was so heartbroken he could barely speak.

He could only hold her.

“I know it won’t do any good to tell anyone. People will just think I’m making a mountain out of a molehill. After all, nothing happened, and my clothes were perfectly intact. It was just a little touch, that’s all. No one will think I’m the one who was hurt; instead, they’ll think my innocence is compromised. Later, when I grew up and brought it up, sure enough, my parents’ attitude was the same as I thought. They wouldn’t allow me to tell anyone. They even had a good relationship with that family.”

Jiang Tian subconsciously wiped the corner of her eye again.

This time there were no tears.

“You’re right. I gave others the power to treat me randomly. Because I know that apart from my sister, no one will stand by my side. I will always be a cowardly and incompetent person. I can’t escape the vortex of fate. I will only be swept deeper and deeper into that vortex and eventually be swallowed up.”

Jiang Tian looked at Wei Su: "Being with you is also evidence that I'm being swallowed up..."

Wei Su gritted his teeth, but tears welled up in his eyes.

He couldn't imagine how much inner struggle Jiang Tian, ​​who was so young at the time, must have gone through in the shadows, pretending that nothing had happened.

Some wounds never heal, just like her, who is always punishing herself.

"No, don't talk about yourself like that. If you were really swallowed up, you should have ended it all because of such a terrible life. But you didn't. You kept striving to move forward. You went to university, sacrificed yourself, and covered your medical expenses and your niece's tuition. You helped your parents escape the pain of unemployment. Even in university, you tried to help an isolated girl, making her remember that you were the warm light in her university life... You are good. It's my fault. I shouldn't have taken advantage of you and accepted your conditions at that time."

"But I don't regret it, and I will never give up. If you hadn't asked me for help, we wouldn't have started."

Wei Su looked at Jiang Tian and gently kissed her lips: "But now I have a question for you—when you're with me, do you feel the same disgust as you did back then?"