Rebirth
"Officer, when can I leave?" Peng Yue crossed his legs in the interrogation room, looking as relaxed as he could be. "I'm still waiting for my next trip."
The recorder ignored him.
On the other side of the glass, Cheng Xiaoxiang asked, "Boss, do you want to interrogate me?"
Chen An was silent for a while and said, "Leave it there." He turned and walked out of the observation room.
Ana had just gotten out of the car, lowering her head, not knowing what she was thinking. When she saw him come out, she took the initiative to greet him, "Officer, I have something to say."
Chen An silently opened the office door.
She sat in the seat where Yu Xiaowei had sat and started saying the opposite of what Yu Xiaowei said.
Anna looked up, took a breath, and then said with certainty: "I didn't kill anyone."
"I don't need to prove my innocence. I just want to know why you went to find Peng Yue and intended to assassinate him?"
"I didn't mean to kill him! I wouldn't dare!" Anna frowned, her hands resting on the table excitedly, "I was just trying to scare him!"
Chen An remained silent.
After a few minutes, Anna spoke slowly.
"I really don't know Zheng Tong well." Her not-so-delicate hands clasped together tightly. "I don't want to do anything to Zheng Tong. I have my own life, and I won't ruin it. I'm really not a bad person."
After saying this, his eyes were filled with tears.
In fact, Chen An had wavered in his previous opinion when he caught the two of them at the club. Initially, he also thought Anna was the most suspicious. After all, she had the most contact with Zheng Tong and was the most likely to cause conflicts and jealousy. But when he saw her threatening Peng Yue with a knife, the possibility that Jiang Li had mentioned flashed through his mind.
He carefully sketched the girl in her early twenties: her unruly hair, the freckles on her cheeks, her dry, flaky lips, and her simple white T-shirt and jeans. She was "Zheng Tong," a woman who had endured hardships, an imperfect "Zheng Tong," a "Zheng Tong" she couldn't accept herself.
Tears streamed down her cheeks and her face was miserable.
Chen An took a tissue for her and softened his expression. "People at the club said you and Zheng Tong had an argument. Why?"
She clutched the tissue she had used to wipe it with in her hand. "I have no ill intentions. It's Peng Yue's fault. He brought Zheng Tong into the club."
In mid-August, Anna had just finished her night shift. Although her drug dependence had eased considerably, she still found time every month to go to the club to get new drugs, so she wouldn't be unable to control her urges when they came. She was actually careless about her drug addiction. During the most painful period, she had nightmares every night and went to work listlessly during the day. This situation lasted for more than half a month, and then she completely lost sleep.
Living in a rented apartment, she watched the cars pass by outside the window every day, the lights hitting the wall so bright she could watch all night. At first, she felt somewhat relieved, as long as she stayed awake, she wouldn't have nightmares. But after a while, even steel couldn't withstand it. Her immunity and mental strength declined rapidly, and she became completely neurotic.
There are many middle-aged men in the factory. Every time Anna passes by, she shivers unconsciously and stares at them with a vigilant and fierce expression.
After a long time, even the factory foreman noticed that something was wrong with her and gave her leave to see a doctor.
She lingered at the registration window for a long time, not knowing which subject to register for. After much hesitation, she finally gave up.
Before she was called, she had been thinking about what to say in her mind. But when a male doctor came in, she suddenly lost the desire to talk.
It was almost noon, and the other party asked her to sit over here with a somewhat impatient look. Anna sat over there nervously.
"What's the problem?"
Anna began to explain the problems she encountered, but before she could say a few words, she was thrown a scale. She filled out the scale and was diagnosed with depression. It took no more than ten minutes. She watched quietly as the doctor wrote the name of the medicine on the list in a flamboyant manner.
"Go get the medicine."
She took the heavy bill with six hundred yuan written on it in her hand, crumpled it up and threw it into the trash can. She was not sick and had no mental problems. She just had some insomnia.
When she left the hospital, she took a special look at the hospital gate and vowed never to come to this hospital again.
But where else could she go if not to the hospital?
She didn't take the bus, but just walked aimlessly until she reached the school gate.
It was already twelve o'clock and the students had all gone home from school. I remembered that I hadn't eaten yet, so I just found a restaurant and went in.
A simple bowl of three fresh delicacies was served, and the boss said, "I see many students have gone home. This afternoon is a holiday, right?"
Today is Sunday and No. 1 Middle School has a half-day holiday.
Anna nodded, and the boss thought she was a student. He took a poached egg from the kitchen and put it in her bowl. "Go home and rest after eating. Senior year is really hard."
She didn't dare to say that she wasn't, so she could only lower her head and finish all the noodles and eggs. She wiped the bottom of the bowl and put a small sticker on the table.
"Are you still feeling anxious and stressed out?"
"Are you still crying alone in the middle of the night and suffering so much that you have nightmares?"
"Are you still arguing with your parents because they don't understand you?"
"Somnusclub solves all your troubles! Let you forget the pain, say goodbye to insomnia, and be happy forever!"
She left her contact information. At first, she only communicated with them on the Internet, and later they developed offline meetings. Everyone in the club was very nice to her. They would care about her when she was sick, and take her out of the factory for dinner when she was in a bad mood. Until she got a tattoo, she was coaxed into taking the drug again and again.
"They're not good people," Anna said, almost gritting her teeth. "Later, I quit my job at the factory. When I couldn't pay my dues, they beat me and cut off my medication. At one point, I was so distressed that I tried to commit suicide by cutting my wrists..."
Tears fell from her eyes, soaking her faded jeans. "But I got through it. I left there and started to quit smoking. I joined Yu Feiyue's club only because he had connections there."
"To be honest, I was jealous of Zheng Tong, especially after I found out that we had swapped lives." Anna's nostrils flared slightly, her eyes red, and she looked stubborn and aggrieved. "She is the orphan, not me!"
"But soon this jealousy was suppressed by something else."
"Inferiority complex." The other party easily said the truth that Anna did not dare to tell.
She is just inferior. Her pain makes her feel inferior. Everything she has experienced in the past has made her sense of deservingness decline again and again. She really listened to what Peng Yue said and she thinks she does not deserve these.
Especially the glamorous Zheng Tong in front of him.
She would be hurt by Zheng Tong's light.
"She has good skin and dresses fashionably. Even though many people dislike her, there are still boys surrounding her. Have you seen her parents come to pick her up?"
Anna smiled bitterly and said self-deprecatingly, "I was like a mouse peeping into someone else's happy life. I stood at the school gate and watched them take her away. I deliberately walked in front of them, but they didn't even look at me. Peng Yue told me to go back and take back the life that belongs to me. Is that possible?"
She leaned forward, her voice filled with tears, and said, "Officer, tell me, if it were you, would you accept that your daughter is a tainted and worthless person?"
She stared into Chen An's eyes, but the man opposite her showed no intention of answering her.
She stepped back and continued as if she knew the answer, "So Zheng Tong should just follow her own path. Even if she doesn't study hard, she can't get involved in this kind of thing."
Anna had just finished getting her medicine when she ran into them showing Zheng Tong around. Besides that small alley, they had a much larger base more than a dozen kilometers away. Yu Feiyue had rented a small Western-style building as his headquarters. Zheng Tong wore two large underwires and dressed like someone from the 1990s, with big eyes and blue eyeshadow, making her stand out in the crowd.
When a few people saw her, they tacitly didn't greet her.
At first, Anna just glanced at them indifferently, as if she didn't want to care. But before she left, she heard Xiao Wu introducing medicine to Zheng Tong, and she frowned subconsciously.
They were inviting her along.
Anna turned decisively and dragged Zheng Tong into the compartment. She closed and locked the door quickly and efficiently.
"Who are you? What are you doing?"
Zheng Tong broke free from her and opened the door to go out, but Anna dodged and blocked the doorway, saying coldly, "Don't touch these things, go home."
"Go home?" Zheng Tong sneered, "Why go home at eleven o'clock? Are you kidding me?"
"Zheng Tong, I don't care how late you stay up late, you must go home today and never come to this club again."
"You know my name?" Zheng Tong sat on the table nonchalantly, ruffling her hair. "It seems I'm quite famous."
Anna sighed silently, "What are you doing here?"
Zheng Tong said with a smile: "Let's play."
Anna's brows furrowed even deeper. Was taking drugs fun? How could a carefree young lady like her suffer so much? She actually regarded this as fun!
Anna suppressed her anger and advised, “This is not fun.”
"But I heard it's very exciting." Zheng Tong never showed any intention of giving up.
"Did Peng Yue bring you here?" Anna said, "He's not a good person. Don't listen to him. Leave here first."
Zheng Tong seemed to have his hippocampus circuit opened up, and suddenly recognized who she was, "I know who you are!"
Anna thought she was going to talk about the time they sat together, but...
"You're the one who seduced my boyfriend while I was away!" Zheng Tong seemed very angry, his eyes became sharp, and he grabbed her collar, "Tell me, what's your name!"
Oh, I didn’t even remember his name.
Anna was not as tall as her, and she felt uncomfortable being grabbed by the collar. "I don't care about your boyfriend! Zheng Tong, I'm warning you not to get involved in these things! Just be a good young lady!"
Her tone was a bit harsh, and Zheng Tong had never been bullied since she was a child, so the two of them started arguing immediately.
"That's the thing." Anna was still angry when she talked about this part. "Is she crazy?"
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