Chapter 1: The Crematorium
At the end of the speech, there was thunderous applause from the audience.
Xia Keqing walked off the stage holding her speech.
"Comrade Xia Keqing, your speech was amazing!"
"You look so confident on stage, like the blazing sun at eight or nine o'clock. I admire you. Are you willing to make progress with me?"
Xia Keqing mechanically turned her head to look at the boy who was talking, with an expression that was hard to describe.
But the mouth is faster than the brain.
"I don't want to, ugly refusal."
Chen Zhou didn't understand, "What?"
Xia Keqing changed her position, "Nothing, Chenzhou, I think I'm making good progress on my own."
Chen Zhou chased after him, "But Xia Keqing, we clearly..."
Xia Keqing was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, "Mingming what?"
Her reaction was very big and her voice was a bit loud. Many people looked over. Chen Zhou was startled and subconsciously stepped back a little, half a meter away from Xia Keqing. Xia Keqing smiled sarcastically and turned her head away from him.
She was clearly sleeping at home, was she dreaming?
Suddenly, a strange memory appeared in her mind.
As I recall, her name was also Xia Keqing. She was the first college student in the village, but her family was poor and she had no money to go to college, so her family arranged a marriage for her. The man had been a soldier for many years. In that era, people who had been in the army were considered reliable.
Her parents arranged the marriage without her consent.
She was desperate.
She really wants to study and doesn't want to get married so early. What's more, she's marrying someone she's never even met.
Xia Keqing likes reading and literature. Her dream is to become a great poet like Tagore. But if she wanted to marry Shen Jichuan, whom she had never met, she would have to become Mrs. Shen and accompany the army to take care of Shen Jichuan's life.
From then on, I became a housewife whose life was predictable.
This is not the life she wants.
She secretly wrote to Shen Jichuan without telling her parents or family, telling him about her dream. Unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better and her fiancé who was far away in the military was willing to support her college education.
So she went to college.
After entering college, she met Chen Zhou, who also loved literature.
The two young people appreciated each other and developed feelings for each other as they got along.
She started dating Shen Jichuan and Chen Zhou without telling her family. The two young people were in poetic and picturesque relationship every day and had spiritual resonance, but gradually they were no longer satisfied with simple spiritual resonance.
In Chenzhou's dormitory, the two of them ate the forbidden fruit for the first time and got into big trouble.
She could only confess to Chen Zhou.
She was so nervous that she didn't notice Chen Zhou's pale face.
Although she and Shen Jichuan have not yet married, it is illegal to disrupt a military marriage.
But she was still very optimistic and felt that Shen Jichuan was a reasonable person who would not force her, a person she already loved. She wrote a letter to Shen Jichuan to tell him about her love and her ideals.
The other party really chose to let go and fulfill her wish.
She and Shen Jichuan soon broke off their engagement.
But when she found out she was pregnant, she had to give up her studies and marry Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou's parents obviously didn't like her. Although she was a college student, she got pregnant before she even graduated from college, and her hometown was also in the countryside.
Her parents-in-law looked down on her and gave her the cold shoulder. Chen Zhou was caught in the middle and did nothing. As time went on, the gap between them grew wider and wider.
The free love based on spiritual resonance finally turned into long-term cold violence.
She also discovered that Chen Zhou was a habitual cheater.
He was originally an educated youth who went to the countryside. He got married in the countryside before going to college, and his first child was already several years old. After they got married, he still pua her, complaining that she didn't care about her appearance after marriage, no longer loved reading and writing poetry, and was no longer his spiritual partner.
So he found another girl for spiritual resonance, and she completely broke down.
Later, she had difficulty giving birth to another daughter, and was disliked by Chenzhou's parents for not being able to give birth to a son.
Anyway, it was a miserable life.
As for his ex-fiance Shen Jichuan, it is said that he is on a blind date again, and the woman is the daughter of the leader.
After Shen Jichuan got married, his career was prosperous and he rose rapidly.
She and I are from completely different worlds.
Xia Keqing suddenly realized, isn't this the novel she finished reading last night?
The title of the book is "The Sweet Little Wife of the Cold-Faced Officer in the 1980s".
Unfortunately, the sweet little wife is not her.
Xia Keqing sighed. Is she traveling through a book? I traveled into a novel about a military marriage and became a background cannon fodder, a background cannon fodder with a tragic end.
Travel through the book crematorium!
She is mentioned only a handful of times in the original text.
After all, the protagonists are her fiancé Shen Jichuan and his sweet little wife.
But now she has become the cannon fodder Xia Keqing in the article, and she can't continue to commit suicide.
The quality of college students in the 1980s was very high and they could be assigned jobs after graduation, which is completely different from the unemployment after graduation in later generations.
As long as you don't commit suicide and get entangled with Chen Zhou, you won't live such a miserable life.
Xia Keqing made the decision in an instant.
She didn’t dare to think about the original male protagonist Shen Jichuan, but she definitely couldn’t want the scumbag Chen Zhou.
She wants to stay away from the scumbag and live a good life!
She turned her head to look at Chen Zhou, and he smiled a self-proclaimed handsome and confident smile.
Xia Keqing almost vomited.
Director Chen looked OK, but his skin was dark. He wore a white sweater and a grey scarf. His ordinary yet confident look could fool the original owner who had never seen the world in that era, but it couldn't fool her.
She rolled her eyes and avoided him.
Suddenly she remembered that the scarf around his neck was knitted by her. The stitches on it were very rough. This was the first time the original owner had knitted a scarf.
Without even thinking, Xia Keqing pulled the scarf off Chen Zhou's neck.
Chen Zhou was confused.
He exclaimed, causing everyone sitting around to look at them.
Chen Zhou had no choice but to suppress his anger, and leaned over and whispered, "Comrade Xia Keqing, what on earth do you want to do?"
Xia Keqing's expression didn't change. "Comrade Chenzhou, this is the scarf I gave to my fiancé. It's not for you. Please give it back to me."
Whenever Xia Keqing thought of what the scumbag Chen in the original text had done, she was so angry that she wanted to kill him!
The scarf that the original owner had worked so hard to knit was better to be thrown into the doghouse and used as a mat for the dog than to be given to him.
Chen Zhou's expression became even uglier. "Comrade Xia Keqing, you clearly said this was a gift for me."
If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely feel guilty.
But Xia Keqing was not the original owner, so she did not feel any psychological burden. Instead, she asked confidently, "When did I say that? Do you have any evidence?"
Most people in this era are conservative, and it is impossible to give a scarf to the person you like in front of outsiders.
So Chen Zhou really couldn't produce any evidence.
He was choked and speechless.
Xia Keqing had already taken out the small scissors hanging on the key chain, cut the scarf into pieces, and threw it directly into the trash can.
"My fiancé will definitely not want me after you soiled me!"
She had a look of regret on her face and her classmates around her were pointing and talking.
"I didn't expect Chen Zhou to be this kind of person."
"How can he take away a gift that someone gave to his fiancé?"
Chen Zhou's face turned even darker
Some people also expressed doubts, "Xia Keqing and Chen Zhou are usually close, and I thought they were dating."
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