Night Rose Chen Shanye stood outside the door of the banquet hall. He couldn't let go of his worries and followed the direction where Ruan Mei left.
He looked at the crack in the door that was not closed tightly. The banquet hall was dim and chaotic, and he could only see two blurry figures swaying under the candle-like wall lamp.
obscene.
My heart sank, as if it could never reach the bottom.
It hurts, stop now, he said to his heart.
He suddenly remembered something that happened when he was in elementary school.
It was the summer of fourth grade. There was a girl in my class whose breasts had developed slightly. Her family didn't seem to realize it and only let her wear a thin vest and an almost semi-transparent school uniform shirt. There were always a few naughty boys who made fun of her.
Chen Shanye was often the first to arrive in the classroom, and the girl was the second. When he arrived in the classroom, he would lie on the table and take a nap until morning reading time. He never chatted with the girl much.
But one day, when Chen Shanye was about to lie down on the table, he saw the girl hurriedly walk into the front door of the classroom, with her hands crossed in front of her chest, pulling the two red schoolbag straps very tight, and looking a little panicked.
The bright red scarf fluttered loosely on his chest.
He rarely spoke and asked her what was wrong and whether she was feeling unwell.
The girl sat down in her seat, shook her head and said it was okay, but Chen Shanye, who was sitting in the last row, saw the girl's back bent down, like an ostrich, wrapping herself tightly.
Later, this situation happened one or twice more. One day, the girl walked to his desk, as if she wanted to say something to him, with tears in her eyes, but in the end Chen Shanye did not wait for her.
It was not until the girl's mother accompanied her to school after school one day that Chen Shanye found out what had happened.
A man who claimed to be a parent repeatedly followed a girl into school at the school gate. The school was empty in the early morning. At the corner of the stairs with a sign saying "Study hard and make progress every day", a middle-aged man reached into the girl's collar with a red scarf.
"The first time he asked me...why was I wearing so little in such a cold day? He wanted me to touch it and see if it was cold..."
"The second time, I, I forgot what he said... I just touched him..."
"This is... a school..."
That day, Chen Shanye was huddled in a corner of the office taking a math make-up exam, quietly listening to the girl's mosquito-like voice describing the process of being molested - at that time he didn't understand such a complicated word as "molestation", but he had seen words like "indecent assault" on TV.
He looked at the doubled equations on the test paper, and in the end, he didn't solve a single problem.
The man was not caught later.
Perhaps the man heard the news and never appeared at the school gate again. In addition, the girl was too scared to look at the man's face and could not describe his appearance. The incident seemed to have become the girl's one-sided statement. The school let it go, and gradually no one mentioned it again.
Later, the girl stopped going to school. I heard that she moved to her relatives' home in Shaotong and studied in the city.
Chen Shanye recalled the man in a white suit in the reception area. His fists were clenched tightly, the veins on the back of his hands bulged suddenly, and the magma inside was about to burst out.
The standoff in the small banquet hall continued.
Chen Shanye heard Ruan Mei's mother angrily scolding her and telling her not to slander and insult her brother-in-law.
"Mingjun is the most obedient, hardworking, and capable student I've ever taught. He would never do such a thing! What is your motive for constantly accusing him of this?"
Ruan Mei had already released her hand, but for some reason, she didn't dare to raise her hand again. She could only rub her wrist indignantly, which was hurt by Ruan Mei's grip.
Ruan Mei also felt exhausted.
This is ridiculous. How could a mother prefer to trust an outsider rather than her own daughter?
But this kind of thing happened to her, and she was powerless to change it.
She was very tired from all the hard work year after year and no longer wanted to waste time on things that she no longer felt were important.
She had lost all her affection and patience for this family and just wanted to leave, so she worked hard to grow her own wings and to have the confidence and ability to compete with her.
"Whatever you think, whatever you believe or not, I don't care."
Ruan Mei shrugged, walked a few steps to the side, and said with her back to Lin Bina, "You should go back quickly. There may be other VIPs coming later. You have to be busy entertaining them, right?"
Lin Bina's face looked grim, but today was Ruan Lan's big day, and she really couldn't leave for too long.
She wanted to say something to Ruan Mei, but the words were on the tip of her tongue and she couldn't say them. She had to grit her teeth and walk away. In the end, she was so angry that she turned back and cursed, "If only I hadn't given birth to you!"
She angrily opened the heavy wooden door. After being in the dark for so long, she felt a little uncomfortable when she saw the brightly lit corridor. A white light suddenly appeared before her eyes.
She rubbed her eyes and for a moment forgot that she had put on eye makeup tonight.
When the white light slowly faded away, Lin Bina saw a man leaning against the door.
It’s the man who accompanied Ruan Mei to the wedding banquet!
She looked him up and down quickly.
The man was too tall. Even when he was leaning lazily against the wall, he was still a head taller than her. He didn't look at her, but only looked down at the phone in his hand.
Thinking that he might have seen her being suppressed by Ruan Mei just now, Lin Bina became even angrier and walked past him with a snort.
After taking a few steps, Lin Bina suddenly felt like a thorn in her back. She turned her head sharply, thinking that the man was glaring at her, but no, the man still maintained the same posture without moving.
Watching the woman's figure getting smaller and smaller as she walked away quickly, Chen Shanye stood up, pushed open the half-closed wooden door and walked into the banquet hall.
At first glance, I saw the poor little thing with its head down playing with its nails.
The door was pushed open and light poured in. Ruan Mei also looked towards the door. She couldn't see the person's face clearly against the light, but she naturally knew it was Chen Shanye.
Look, this figure with broad shoulders and narrow waist is so pleasing to the eye.
She raised her hands to him and opened her mouth only to find that her voice was filled with tears: "Chen Shanye, hug me."
For many years to come, Chen Shanye will always remember Ruan Mei at this moment.
She is a fragile glass doll, being smashed to pieces again and again, and she collects her glass fragments again and again and glues them together piece by piece.
From a distance, it seems crystal clear, but when you get closer, you can see cracks all over it.
She had to make so much effort to get out of such a quagmire on her own.
It takes many years for a seed buried deep in the soil to grow into a gorgeous wild rose.
And it seems that all he can do now is to give her a hug when she needs it.
Chen Shanye closed the wooden door, walked up to her, held her hips and picked her up, sighing helplessly: "Don't cry."
"But, it still hurts..." Ruan Mei's lips were already chattering, her teeth were chattering, and she was trying her best to endure the sour feeling that was rushing to her forehead.
Chen Shanye gently held her neck, pressed her to his shoulders, and said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, then lie on me and cry."
————The author’s serious words————
My elementary school classmate, I hope you are living a happy and fulfilling life now.
Today's chapter is also dedicated to every girl who has seen darkness and still stood up firmly.
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