Chapter 08
"Thank you for what I did."
After packing up her things, Xue Ling walked up to Wen Jiuze.
She just came over to say hello according to social etiquette, and was prepared to go back to the dormitory to have a midnight snack to soothe the emotional damage she had just suffered after he said it was okay or simply ignored her.
But Wen Jiuze asked her, "Why don't you just reject him directly?"
Xue Ling was surprised that he would ask this out of the blue. She was stunned for a moment before she smiled helplessly: "I'm not very good at rejecting others."
Xue Ling has developed a habit of not being able to refuse since she was a child.
Her parents divorced when she was very young. In order to successfully complete the divorce and obtain her custody, after a long period of negotiation, her mother voluntarily gave up the family’s savings and house and left the house with her almost empty-handed.
The pressure of working outside with young children who need care makes single mothers feel even more stressed.
Her mother often lost her temper for no reason and would suddenly sit in the living room and cry. The young Xue Ling was very afraid of her mother being angry, and even more afraid of her crying.
So Xue Ling knew at a very young age that she should not make her mother angry or upset, because her life was so hard because of her.
Xue Ling has always been an obedient and sensible child, so when her mother had to work in another place and could no longer take her with her, she entrusted her to her uncle's family. Xue Ling, who was only in elementary school, did not cry and agreed obediently.
Her uncle's house was not big, so Xue Ling had to live with her cousin who was two years older than her.
When she first arrived at her uncle's house, her cousin burst into tears and wouldn't let her enter the room, saying that it was her home and her room, and she didn't want her to steal it, and threw her bag out the door.
My cousin made a fuss for a long time about her living at home. Although she later accepted her to live with her, she would still say "This is my home, I don't want you to live in my home" when she was playing around or getting angry.
It was not until the two of them grew up and became sensible that she stopped talking about chasing her away.
When people talk about these childhood conversations again, they treat them as jokes at the dinner table, joking about how the two cousins quarreled when they were young, but now they have such a good relationship when they grow up.
The days of living under someone else's roof accumulated over time and shaped Xue Ling into a person without temper.
She didn't dare to lose her temper like her cousin. She would cry or make a fuss whenever she wanted. She also seldom made any requests and caused trouble for others, whether it was a school bag, notebooks and pens, toys, or new clothes and shoes for the new semester.
She would take the initiative to help with cleaning, cooking for her aunt, and even when washing her own shoes, she would not forget to wash her cousin's shoes.
Everyone praised her for being obedient and sensible, but Xue Ling was just afraid that they would think she was not well behaved and kick her out.
Even though she knew that she would not be driven away easily, the fear of being driven away at any time and having nowhere to go still permeated her childhood and adolescence.
Only during the New Year holidays, when her mother comes back from working away from home, does she feel a sense of security when she is standing on the ground.
After graduating from high school, her mother said that she had grown up and her mission was accomplished. She got married for the second time and found a stepfather for her, and she settled down with him in another place.
Her mother's relieved expression made Xue Ling refuse to follow her to the new family and choose to rent a house outside.
Not only in front of his family, but also in school, Xue Ling is recognized as a good person with no temper.
If you ask her for help, even if she is embarrassed, she will agree as long as you ask her a few more times.
She is afraid that others will get angry because of being rejected, and that others will dislike her and ignore her.
Everyone said she was gentle, kind, and had no temper. After so many comments, Xue Ling gradually framed herself in other people's words, and in order to cater to the praise and expectations of those around her, she unconsciously tried to please everyone.
This incurable "old illness" continued into college, and because she was not good at saying no, it brought her a lot of trouble. What bothered Xue Ling the most was the various confessions of love.
In fact, she was not very pretty. She had the appearance of a beautiful girl from a small family, and her looks were as harmless as her temperament and personality.
This is the worst thing, because not many boys would dare to pursue a girl who is exceptionally pretty, but with a girl like her, many boys would be confident and think they can give it a try.
Most of them don't like her, but they just think she's suitable as a girlfriend, and the chances of being rejected by her are lower.
Even though she rejected them, because she didn't say anything harsh, they felt that she was still trying to give in and was unwilling to give up.
When Xue Ling stood in front of Wen Jiuze, a boy she was not very familiar with, and said helplessly, "I'm not good at saying no," she was already thinking about how Wu, who had failed in his confession, would continue to pester her.
She was in a bad mood and had lost the energy to continue a conversation.
Wen Jiuze said, "You won't reject others? I don't believe it."
His expression was one of disapproval and a hint of amusement.
Xue Ling didn't know why she was so anxious, and explained: "Really, I..."
Wen Jiuze interrupted her, leaned his hand on the railing and said with a smile: "Then you can be my girlfriend, how about that?"
Xue Ling was stunned again, staring at the look of anticipation on his face, and nodded for some unknown reason.
Wen Jiuze was also stunned now. He just said something to choke her, but he didn't expect that she would actually agree to it.
He was silent for a moment, looked at her with a strange look, and said, "Okay, now I believe it."
Xue Ling was so embarrassed that she wanted to hide in the trash can next to her. She just had a complete brain short circuit -
"Tell me, what do you think?" Wen Jiuze seemed to be trying to understand her train of thought.
Xue Ling controlled her embarrassment of wanting to run away, and under Wen Jiuze's gaze, she squeezed out a reasonable explanation from her folds of her head:
"Because, that boy will definitely come to me again. It happened before. This kind of thing is quite troublesome, so I think if I find a boyfriend, this kind of thing will not happen again..."
The real reason was a bit hard for her to understand.
If the person who just confessed his love looked like a boy, and Wen Xuan looked like a handsome guy, then Wen Jiuze in front of him was a handsome guy with a great figure and attractive temperament. Everyone would take a second look at him when he walked on the street.
She was just fascinated by the beauty and nodded in a daze.
After listening to her explanation, Wen Jiuze nodded: "Okay, that's it."
So what? Xue Ling was picking at his slippers with his toes again. He wished time could go back and not come over to talk to him.
"Then we are boyfriend and girlfriend. Oh, I forgot to mention, my name is Wen Jiuze."
"Ah... My name is Xue Ling."
She stared blankly at Wen Jiuze standing up, looked up to see his chin, and heard him chuckle.
They established a relationship in this inexplicable and casual way.
Wen Jiuze was a very bad guy. Xue Ling realized this soon after they established their relationship.
The phrase he often said at that time was: "You won't be angry? I don't believe it."
Then he started to do dirty things. It was strange, Xue Ling had endured so many things that caused high blood pressure in the past, but every time she was always broken by Wen Jiuze's casual remarks.
When it comes to making her angry, Wen Jiuze is extremely keen on using all kinds of methods, and the results he gets are well worth his efforts.
Xue Ling had been a temperless soft dough ball for twenty years, but he turned her into a hard Russian black bread.
Everyone who knows Xue Ling says that she has changed and become much more irritable.
There are fewer friends around her who often ask her for help, and there are no more boys who express their love for her and flirt with her for no reason.
They lamented that her temper had gotten worse since she got a boyfriend and they were afraid to offend her.
Yes, her temper was developed by Wen Jiuze.
In just over a year, he easily changed her into a different person.
Xue Ling once wondered if Wen Jiuze broke up with her so nonchalantly because he felt she had changed.
Isn't there a classic reason for guys to break up? It's "Why are you different now?"
Could this really be the reason? Damn Wen Jiuze, it was clearly his own fault!
Xue Ling suddenly got angry. She no longer doubted herself. She was so angry that she wanted to go crazy! Go crazy!
She raised her head from the passenger seat, looked at the road ahead and saw that it was in good condition. Suddenly, she raised her hand and hit Wen Jiuze, who was driving next to her, hard.
Wen Jiuze hissed and shrank back: "I don't think I have offended you, what's wrong?"
Xue Ling turned a deaf ear to him, flailing his limbs around and banging the back of his head against the backrest.
"Stop hitting it. Your head is already flattened. If you keep hitting it so hard, it will be flattened." Wen Jiuze stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of her head.
There was a lot of noise in the narrow car. Wen Jiuze stopped the car on the side of the road, let go of her, and carried her out of the car.
"Come on, move your hands and feet as much as you want outside." He squatted on the side of the road and looked at her and said, "Why are you like a cat, making a fuss in the car?"
Xue Ling ignored him and walked around in circles nearby. Wen Jiuze followed her slowly. When she calmed down, he hugged her back into the car and drove on.
He didn't know where to go. Except when Xue Ling suddenly went crazy, he would stop the car and let her out for a walk. He never had much rest. He ate some convenient compressed dry grains and canned food while driving.
After a smooth road, there was a small road that had not been used by cars for a long time. Wen Jiuze had to get off the car and push away the cars that were stuck on the road.
He was already very strong, but now it's even more amazing. He can push smaller cars aside by himself using a crowbar and flexing his muscles.
If it is larger, you can tie a rope to a car and pull it to clear it.
While he was clearing the road, Xue Ling was hanging around.
The desolate world is covered in dust, with abandoned cars, houses and zombies everywhere.
Xue Ling walked a little further away and saw a few of their kind wandering around.
There are wild zombies everywhere. She was also wild before, but now she is captured. The humans who captured her didn't see her and came looking for her soon.
A wild fellow smelled the food and rushed over excitedly, but he fucked him with a crowbar.
"You ran too far away. I couldn't see you anymore." He grabbed her arm with the bloody crowbar and led her back to the car.
While he got out of the car and pushed the cart again, Xue Ling found another direction to stroll in.
She saw a drainage pipe overgrown with weeds on the side of the road, bent down and slowly squeezed herself in.
The mouth of the dry pipe was very clean, with nothing in it except a little dust. Xue Ling lay quietly inside.
She had slept in this kind of pipe before to avoid humans, and it was pretty good, quiet and clean. But one time it rained heavily in the middle of the night and she was almost drowned.
Not long after, she heard Wen Jiuze's shout.
"Xue Ling."
"Xue Ling."
"Xue Ling."
He called his name, the voice sometimes far away and sometimes near.
No one responded, so he stopped shouting.
Yes, zombies can't understand, so what's the point of calling out their names? Xue Ling thought, still motionless.
The wind blew the weeds at the pipe mouth, making them sway.
The weeds swayed for a long time, and a large, rough hand pushed aside the weeds. Wen Jiuze squatted at the mouth of the pipe and leaned down, smiling and asking, "You are playing hide-and-seek with me, and you are hiding so well."
Wen Jiuze was not tired of it and found her again and took her back.
The seventh attempt to leave failed.
On the way he was taking her back, Xue Ling thought, everyone said she had a good temper, but in fact Wen Jiuze was the one with the best temper, and she had never seen Wen Jiuze angry.
Sometimes she was also curious about what Wen Jiuze looked like when he was angry.
But even in this case, when she deliberately hid herself and made him look for her for a long time, he didn't get angry.
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