"When I divorced the child's father, the child was awarded to Shu Jianming. I wanted to fight for it, but my income was unstable and I didn't have any property, so I was forced to give up custody."
Dong Zimei sighed and said, "It's all my fault. If I had brought Yu Nan to live with me, none of this would have happened."
Su Man paused her pen.
"So you mean that Shu Yunan's illness is related to Shu Jianming?"
Dong Zimei's eyes flickered, and she picked up the glass of water on the table and took a sip.
Su Man noticed her uneasiness and comforted her, "Don't worry, you can tell the police no matter what happens."
Dong Zimei sighed, "Okay."
She pondered for a moment and said slowly, "Shu Jianming is an extremely dangerous person."
Su Man started writing again, "How is it specifically reflected?"
"His control."
According to Dong Zimei, after she married Shu Jianming, Shu Jianming always suspected that she was having an affair.
At first he was a worker, but in order to be able to supervise her at all times, he actually quit his job and started driving a taxi.
Because this way he can monitor her whereabouts at any time.
Dong Zimei was also a factory worker at the time. Because of her beautiful appearance, many male workers liked to talk to her.
People in that era were relatively conservative. No matter how much they said, they would just say hello when they came to work and say goodbye when they left work.
But in Shu Jianming's eyes, this was considered indecent and flirtatious.
Every time he would hide outside the factory and record who talked more to Dong Zimei and who she smiled with.
He suddenly appeared, grabbed her and dragged her back to the car.
Speaking of this, Dong Zimei seemed to still have some lingering fears.
"Occasionally, when a colleague he disliked spoke up for him, he would get mad and start a fight with him."
"If I had said anything more, he would have taken me to the woman's house and told her wife that I was having an affair with her husband."
Su Man frowned as she took notes. Isn't this just a rule of thumb about not talking to strangers?
However, these are only Dong Zimei's one-sided statements at the moment, and the details can only be confirmed after a visit.
Dong Zimei continued, "...many times, the factory director would talk to me and ask me to deal with the family issues. But Shu Jian knew the factory director was talking to me alone, and he even beat him up."
"I couldn't continue working in the factory, so I quit and took up some tailoring work."
Su Man nodded. "Did Shu Jianming stop behaving like this later?"
Dong Zimei shook her head, "No."
"Even when I was home every day, he would still be suspicious. One time, I took a job knitting a men's sweater. He found out and insisted that I was cheating on him and burned the sweater."
Dong Zimei lowered her eyes and said, "I spent a lot of time knitting that sweater. If I sell it, I can buy Yunan the red leather shoes she likes."
"I refused to let him burn it, so he used scissors to cut it. He tore it too hard and accidentally cut my arm open."
Dong Zimei lifted her sleeves and saw a noticeable scar on the inside of her forearm.
Although it has been a long time, looking at the raised scars and proliferation, it is not difficult to imagine how deep the wound was at that time.
Dong Zimei lowered her sleeves and said, "After that, I divorced Shu Jianming."
"But I didn't expect that he would transfer this desire for control to his daughter."
...
Dong Zimei said that Shu Jianming initially refused to divorce and even threatened to kill her entire family.
After half a year of pestering, he finally agreed, and then he used various excuses to prevent her from seeing the child. He said that the child hated her for abandoning him and didn't want to see her.
Dong Zimei wiped away her tears when she spoke of this. "I thought the child really blamed me for the divorce, so I only dared to visit him secretly. It wasn't until the child started junior high school that I learned from others that it was Shu Jianming who was behind all this."
Su Man narrowed her eyes and thought of what her neighbor Aunt Zhao said.
When Shu Yunan was in junior high school, she often quarreled with Shu Jianming, and the relationship between father and daughter deteriorated.
Aunt Zhao understood that Shu Yunan was in adolescence, but according to what Dong Zimei said, it was very likely that Shu Yunan met Dong Zimei and found out through talking with her that it was not her mother who didn't want her, but her father who didn't let her see her mother.
No wonder the relationship between father and daughter deteriorated.
Su Man pressed on, "And then, did Shu Jianming know that you were meeting privately?"
“He didn’t know it at first.”
Dong Zimei understood how strong Shu Jianming's desire for control was. She was afraid that Shu Jianming would get angry at Shu Yunan after knowing it, so she kept it from him.
But paper cannot cover fire, and the skirt that Dong Zimei bought for Shu Yunan was accidentally discovered by Shu Jianming.
Shu Jianming was furious. He thought that Shu Yunan had met some shady person and had done something with him, which was why he bought these things.
He scolded her for being just like her mother and wanted to have her expelled from school.
As a last resort, Shu Yunan revealed that he had secretly met with Dong Zimei.
Shu Jianming became even angrier when he found out, and actually started to control Shu Yunan just like he had controlled Dong Zimei back then.
He would send her off on the way to school, follow her on the way home from school, and even follow her when she went out with her classmates.
"I was afraid he would make too much trouble and make it hard for the child, so I had to temporarily not see the child. I told Yu Nan that as long as she got into university, she would be free in the future."
"only..."
Dong Zimei's emotions suddenly broke down. "I didn't expect that he would drive my daughter crazy."
"Driven crazy?"
Su Man wanted to ask about the details, but Dong Zimei was already crying and couldn't speak. She cried and said, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have divorced."
"I didn't think highly of Yu Nan..."
Seeing Dong Zimei like this, Su Man didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Seeing Dong Zimei crying with tears and snot, Su Man looked around for a tissue but found none on the coffee table.
Su Man happened to see it on the kitchen counter, so she went over to get it.
The kitchen was open. Su Man came back with the paper towel and glanced into the open master bedroom.
Back on the sofa, Dong Zimei was crying uncontrollably, and Su Man could only wait for her to calm down.
a long time
Dong Zimei said with red and swollen eyes, "I'm sorry for making you laugh."
"It's okay, I understand."
Seeing that she had regained her composure, Su Man continued to ask, "You just said that Shu Yunan was driven crazy. What happened?"
Dong Zimei's voice was hoarse. "She is just a child. Even an adult like me can't bear it. How can she bear it?"
In fact, Shu Yunan had already shown signs of depression when she was in high school, but at that time Dong Zimei kept encouraging her, saying that she could get rid of all this by getting into a distant university.
"But we didn't expect Shu Jianming to change her choice."
Su Man was thoughtful. Could it be that she guessed wrong?
Shu Yunan suddenly started to study hard, not because she fell in love with someone, but in order to escape from Shu Jianming's control?
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