0046 Night Rose, Night.46 (48 hours 1 post bonus)...
Can I call you Meimei from now on? ...
You are great, be more confident, Meimei...
Meimei, from now on you will be my only family...
Happy graduation! Will you marry me, Meimei?
Meimei, I love you...
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"Meimei."
The dense treetops covered the moon tightly, the still leaves tore the sky into pieces, and the street lights cast dark shadows of the trees, like a faceless monster crawling out of the cracks in the ground and biting Ruan Mei's feet. Its cold and poisonous sharp fangs bit her leg flesh, and its sharp claws like cracked dead branches pinched her heart, as if it would pierce into the rapidly beating heart valves in the next second.
Chen Shanye's voice in the Bluetooth headset suddenly stopped. She looked at Huang Mingyan, who had disappeared for more than a year, and suddenly appeared in front of her, feeling dazed for a moment.
Suddenly the wind blew, and the monster pounced on her. Its sharp claws curled up the ends of her hair and played with it between its fingers. Its broken and split nails scratched across her cheeks that could not stop shaking, causing pain.
The streetlights held a mouthful of sticky yellow. The man stood dignifiedly under the circle of yellow, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose becoming blurred.
As chaotic as in a faded memory.
Did Huang Mingyan look like this before?
It seems so.
He had fine bangs hanging down slightly in front of his forehead, and his narrow, slightly drooping eyes were covered by thin silver-framed glasses. He was wearing the usual blue-striped shirt with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. One hand hung down at his side, and the other was tucked into his ash-gray trouser pocket.
But it doesn’t seem like it.
He was no longer the boy who ran laps with her in the sports field to lose weight, rushed to the audience to hug and kiss her after winning the inter-school basketball game, and was always filled with the warm sunshine of early spring.
Ruan Mei couldn't see through the eyes behind the lenses, nor did she want to understand.
"Ruan Mei, what happened? Who's there?"
A sound like the warm tide of spring rushed into her ears, and Ruan Mei came back to her senses. She did not reply to Chen Shanye, and the reunion scenes that she had rehearsed many times began to flash in her mind.
Huang Mingyan took a step towards her: "Meimei..."
Ruan Mei suddenly raised her hand, like a traffic police officer stopping a car: "Wait, stand there and don't move."
She shook her right hand. Okay, she could still move. She hadn't been so angry that she was shaking and had no strength left.
She broke free from the stalking shadow and took two or three steps to stand in front of the man.
He raised his right hand, pulled the bow back, released it, and the arrow flew off the string.
A crisp sound caused the air to crack, and the monsters seemed to be frightened and rolled back into the cracks in the ground. Huang Mingyan's face was knocked crooked, and his glasses fell out of orbit, hanging on the tip of his nose like a crumbling planet.
Sparks were bitten from his back teeth, burning his tongue, and then a scorching smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Ruan Mei cursed with a smile: "Huang Mingyan, fuck your uncle."
Huang Mingyan took a deep breath, exhaled, and was about to adjust his glasses when another palm of wind came at him.
Bang!
The bangs on his forehead kept shaking, and his glasses fell out a little.
"Excuse me, how dare you show up in front of me? Are you here to pay me back?" Ruan Mei shook her burning hands with all her strength. She shook her head and snorted in disbelief.
"I'm sorry..."
Bang!
Huang Mingyan was knocked back a step, and the planet finally fell in a mess, falling into the swaying shadows of the trees. The swaying leaves occasionally let in light, which was reflected on the lenses and stung the corners of his eyes.
"Don't tell me you're sorry, you don't deserve it."
Her right hand, which had exerted too much force, began to tremble slightly. She clenched it into a fist, and her slightly long nails dug into the hot flesh of her palm.
She looked directly into Huang Mingyan's eyes hidden behind his half-closed eyelids, and tried to make her voice sound calm and composed, not wanting to be like the crystal clear ice flowers falling from the sky, which would shatter into pieces with the slightest touch.
A voice came from the headphones.
"Don't hit him. Does your hand hurt? Don't get into a fight with him. Is there anyone on the path? Stand under the streetlight. If that doesn't work, walk to the gate of the old lady's yard next door. I'll be there now."
As soon as the man spoke, Chen Shanye rode towards Ruan Mei's shop. Every time a slap sounded in his headphones, his heart felt like it was being punched, and the air in his chest swelled to the point of making him feel nauseous.
The ride of less than five minutes seemed so long to him. The cars and people on the road were moving so slowly, and the road was stretched into a long and narrow curve by the street lights.
He spoke into the headphones, but it was like he was talking to the air.
He listened to Ruan Mei's heavy breathing, her giggles, and her pretended ease in the headphones, and his eyelids twitched twice again.
Chen Shanye wondered how he could be so far away from Ruan Mei, so far away that he was powerless to do anything.
*
The leaves rustled, but Huang Mingyan did not pick up his glasses. He lowered his head slightly and still said "I'm sorry".
"So what are you doing here? Why didn't you pretend to be dead a little longer? Are you going to pay me back? If so, hurry up."
Ruan Mei took a step back and spread her prickly palms in front of Huang Mingyan. "I won't charge you the interest. Please settle the 500,000 yuan you owe."
His left cheek should be hurting, but he couldn't feel it. He only felt that his chest hurt a hundred times more than that.
Huang Mingyan cleared his throat: "...How did you repay that high-interest loan?"
"Heh...why?" Ruan Mei laughed dryly a few times as if she had heard some extremely funny joke.
She withdrew her hand, folded her arms across her chest, and smiled a little more deeply, but without any warmth. "Of course I'll pay it back with my body. The tricks those debt collectors use are nothing more than the same ones: pouring red oil, feces and urine, sticking big posters of you who owe money everywhere, and forcing you to work as a prostitute..."
"Ruan Mei!"
Chen Shanye felt a pain in his temples when he heard this and spoke out to stop her from making up stories.
Seeing the pedestrian traffic light flashing green, he turned the handlebars and accelerated across the zebra crossing.
Huang Mingyan swayed slightly, his hands hanging beside his pants, his fingers trembling slightly, and a ball of wet cotton choked his throat: "Meimei, I'm sorry, I really couldn't find so much money at the time... I'm so sorry..."
"I was told not to apologize to me. Why didn't you think of me when you used my ID card to borrow money? Now that I've almost paid back the money, you come out and say sorry, expecting me to forgive you? Is there such a good thing in the world, Huang Mingyan?"
"They...really forced you to do it..." Huang Mingyan couldn't utter the word, his eyes filled with bitterness: "I thought you would borrow money from your family first..."
Ruan Mei laughed angrily: "Oh, what's my relationship with my family like? Don't you know? I'd rather starve myself to death than borrow money from them."
She spread out one hand and counted for him: "The money I saved over the years, plus the money I sold the car and some miscellaneous things, such as that little diamond ring..."
Huang Mingyan's whole body visibly shook again.
"I borrowed the remaining 200,000 yuan to fill the hole of your loan sharking. Otherwise, the interest alone would be enough for me to pay back."
The inner street was quiet at night. Ruan Mei kept suppressing her anger while speaking, but her words were blown into the air by the wind. She heard someone upstairs opening the window to watch a good show. The old lady's two puppies began to bark wildly, as if cheering her on.
A few hours ago, Ruan Mei was still thinking that she didn't believe in fairy tales, but in fact, she believed that the down-and-out princess and the lonely prince would live a happy and beautiful life.
But the bubble of fairy tales burst long ago, leaving only a sticky and ridiculous life.
Long legs, old, aunt, whole,
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