Chapter 12 Bad Habits
Ren Fenghe hadn't expected that she had the ability to cry at any time.
In just two days here, she realized that she had a talent for acting. Maybe if she stayed here longer, she could hone her acting skills to win an Oscar.
As for why she was crying?
Because, at that moment, she thought of a social consensus: children who are afraid but brave enough to admit their mistakes can be forgiven after education, as long as they do not make mistakes of principle.
This is society's tolerance towards young children.
So, when she came up with the best reason, she immediately immersed herself in the pain of the past, and tears began to well up in her eyes.
Jiang Shen was stunned.
Did Yuanyuan touch his things? Why?
He hadn't hung up the phone yet, and Brother Jinsi was still confirming with him a convenient time to come over. Jiang Shen quickly said, "Wait, that's okay," and hung up the phone.
Tears dripped pitifully down Ren Fenghe's cheeks and fell into the bowl in front of her with two dumplings left.
His slender fingers gently wiped away her tears, and his handsome face after washing up moved along his bent back to Ren Fenghe's face and asked, "I won't scold you, it's okay, don't cry."
Ren Fenghe was still pretending to cry. The longer she cried, the less likely she would be suspected.
Jiang Shen did not continue to coax Ren Fenghe. He knew that if someone comforted her while she was crying, her emotions would become even more turbulent.
He didn't leave either. He still hunched his back and patiently looked at Ren Fenghe who was rubbing her eyes and crying, waiting for her emotions to calm down.
After all, those were acted tears. Ren Fenghe couldn't cry for long. She couldn't squeeze out any tears, so she covered her eyes to hide her ears and ears.
Her vision became weaker due to the obstruction of her hand, while her other senses became stronger. She could feel that Jiang Shen had been maintaining the same posture as before.
Ren Fenghe felt that the time was about right, so she put down her hand, looked at Jiang Shen with red eyes, and said carefully, "I'm sorry."
Jiang Shen once again wiped away the remaining tears on her face.
"Okay, calm down and let's talk. Can you tell me why you rummaged through my cabinet?"
There was no sign of anger on his face, only infinite patience.
"I want a cell phone to video chat with my mom."
This was the most perfect reason Ren Fenghe could think of, and it also connected to the scene yesterday when she tried to find out about Zhang Tuanyuan's mother's situation.
Yesterday I only agreed to send a voice message, but a child who misses his mother cannot be satisfied by just sending a voice message, at least a video call is needed.
Jiang Shen was silent. He didn't know how to explain why he couldn't let her see her mother.
Ren Fenghe looked at him eagerly, trying to convey the pleading in his eyes to the other party.
The sunlight outside the window shone on Ren Fenghe's face, making her tear-soaked eyelashes sparkle. She had been crying for so long that not only her eyes but also her cheeks were red, and she looked extremely pitiful.
After he said those words yesterday, he found that Zhang Tuanyuan became much more lively. He thought that Zhang Tuanyuan had let go of his anxiety, but it seems that is not the case.
He took it for granted.
What child doesn’t miss his mother? Jiang Shen slowly closed his eyes and opened them again.
When he was a trainee, didn't he always secretly wipe away tears after turning off the lights in his dormitory countless nights because he missed his mother?
He took a compromising breath and his shoulders dropped.
"Let me ask your mom first, if your mom has time, can I let you guys video chat?"
Ren Fenghe nodded.
"Are you full?" Jiang Shen changed the subject naturally.
Ren Fenghe nodded again.
"I'll clean up the dishes first, then I'll send you a message and tell you the result as soon as possible. You can read a book or play with your toys on the sofa first."
Ren Fenghe, who successfully survived the crisis, was very obedient. She immediately curled up on the sofa and grabbed the picture book that Jiang Shen gave her before dinner.
Watching Jiang Shen take the bowl into the kitchen, she suddenly collapsed on the sofa, feeling powerless.
It’s so terrible. It’s so terrible.
It has not even been two hours since she got up, but her emotions have already gone through several dramatic ups and downs on a roller coaster. She is so tired.
From the position where she was lying, she could just see the mysterious room.
It was this mysterious room that triggered a series of events.
Jiang Shen put the dishes into the dishwasher, took out his cell phone and saw the message sent to him by Brother Jinsi.
"What's going on?"
"It's okay. Yuanyuan wanted to use my phone to call her mother while I was asleep."
Jiang Shen stood in the kitchen, looking at the scenery outside the kitchen window.
In Yuan City in winter, most of the leaves have fallen, and only the artificial lawn in the community remains green.
Zhang Tuanyuan wanted to call his mother while he was sleeping. He had called his mother countless times using the public phone in the dormitory when his teammates were not paying attention. Every time he entered the phone number, he would hang up immediately.
Jiang Shen withdrew his gaze. Although there was not much green outside the window, the sky was still very blue and the clouds were very white.
He quietly closed the kitchen door, and in front of the door, he saw Ren Fenghe hugging a newly bought pillow, closing her eyes and resting because she was tired of crying.
After closing the door, he made a phone call and the call was quickly connected.
He lowered his voice and whispered, "It's me, Jiang Shen, how have you been lately?"
A woman's voice came from the other end of the phone. Her voice was softer than Jiang Shen's. She said, "Let's keep it that way."
Jiang Shen said: "Yuanyuan wants to see you and wants to video chat with you."
The woman sighed and said, "It's not possible now. I'm afraid of scaring her. Let's wait for a while. When the situation is right, I will send you a message."
Jiang Shen said, "Okay, I understand. I'll see how to coax her."
The woman said, “I’m sorry to trouble you.”
Jiang Shen said: "Don't say that. I have caused you a lot of trouble."
They didn't talk for long and soon hung up the phone.
Thinking that Zhang Tuanyuan’s wish would not be fulfilled, Jiang Shen pursed his lips, not knowing how to face the other party for a moment.
After a while, he took out a bag of snacks from the storage cabinet on the upper floor of the kitchen. The toys and snacks in the house were all bought by him at a 24-hour supermarket late at night last night.
“Round.”
Ren Fenghe, who felt regretful that everything he had done since this morning was blinded by greed, closed his eyes and reflected, then heard Jiang Shen's voice in his ears.
She opened her eyes tiredly, praying that she had not done anything wrong to cause a new crisis.
But she saw an open hand in front of her.
A piece of fruit candy wrapped in colorful paper appeared in front of her.
The hand spread out in front of her overlapped with the scene many years ago.
"Let's not cry anymore, right?" Jiang Shen said softly.
Ren Fenghe couldn't help pouting. Ever since he came here yesterday, the emotions that had been repeatedly surging and suppressed in the chaos finally burst out.
This time, she didn't pretend to cry, and she didn't want to cry, but she couldn't control her tears from falling. She bit her lower lip to prevent herself from crying out loud, and she didn't want her shoulders to tremble because of the physical reaction of crying.
I’m so fed up, so fed up, so fed up.
Ren Fenghe looked at the hand and kept repeating these three words in his mind.
He obviously let his fans down, so why should she want to forgive him for what he did wrong just because of this open hand?
So annoying.
Unable to hold back sobs, a sound came out of his throat.
"Okay, stop crying, or you'll tear your eyes out." Jiang Shen didn't expect that the candy he handed out to comfort the other person would make her cry again, and this time she cried even more miserably than before.
He patted the other person's back soothingly and said, "Don't cry."
Ren Fenghe snatched the candy from the other person's hand, unwrapped the candy wrapper, put the fruit candy into his mouth, and used the sweetness of the candy to drive away the bitterness in his mouth after crying.
This candy and these tears made Ren Fenghe clearly realize that she had not stopped being a fan at all.
The idea of turning from a fan to a hater is just self-deception.
Star-chasing girls are most likely to comfort themselves and forgive idols who make mistakes, because even if the moon high in the sky is covered with dust, it has pulled up the tiny stars around it from the trough tens of thousands of times.
So, what if the moon is covered in dust? The moon was still hanging in the sky, casting a bright light, illuminating the dark sky, even if the light was dimmer than usual.
This incident that day drained all of Ren Fenghe's energy. She didn't want to think about whether to take off her makeup or not, so she went back to bed and fell asleep.
It's just another dream.
This time Ren Fenghe didn't realize that this was a dream.
Ta-ta-ta——
The windows were banging.
Ren Fenghe, who was lying on the bed and had no energy to do anything, opened his eyes in boredom. The sound continued to echo in the room.
She had just returned home from the hospital.
She rested and recovered in the hospital for a long time. Her family also paid for a nutritionist and a private doctor. Except for the loss of a leg, she is now healthy enough.
But even so, she could still clearly feel her vitality flowing out through the missing body parts.
Tick-tick, tick-tick.
The frequency of the knocks on the window gradually increased. Ren Fenghe curled up with her hands under the quilt on her thighs, not daring to touch downwards. She didn't want to face or accept the fact that if she touched downwards, there would be nothing there.
It hurts so much! Ren Fenghe gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his right leg.
The pain started from the nonexistent sole of my right foot and continued to intensify along my calf. It felt like being cut by a knife, like being clamped by a giant clamp, or like being electrocuted tens of thousands of times. Once it rained, the pain intensified countless times.
Ren Fenghe was covered in cold sweat, and her wet hair stuck to her cheeks. She gritted her teeth and endured the pain, but it was no use, so she simply bit the quilt.
"Fenghe, I'm coming in." Aunt Wang knocked on the door and came in.
After coming in, she skillfully took out the noise-cancelling headphones from Ren Fenghe's drawer and put them on Ren Fenghe.
Ren Fenghe had no extra strength due to the pain and could only let her do whatever she wanted.
Aunt Wang connected the Bluetooth earphones to her mobile phone and played soothing piano music for Ren Fenghe. The earphones with noise reduction function blocked out the sound of the raindrops, and only the slowly flowing piano music was left in Ren Fenghe's ears.
The babysitter looked at the songs in the playlist and couldn't help but turn up the volume and asked Ren Fenghe, "You should like these songs, right? You used to like playing these songs when you practiced and did homework at home."
She knew that she would not get a reply from Ren Fenghe. Seeing that Ren Fenghe's face turned pale and he was sweating, she quickly took a towel to wipe the sweat off his face.
When she wanted to open Ren Fenghe's quilt and wipe the cold sweat off her body, Ren Fenghe couldn't control herself and yelled with her last bit of strength: "Get out, get out, get out!"
Aunt Wang was used to Ren Fenghe's temper tantrums without any warning after surgery.
"Okay, okay, I'll go out. You have a good rest. I won't touch you. I'll leave the towel here for you." She placed the towel on the bedside and looked at Ren Fenghe with understanding and sympathy.
Little did he know that the pain this look brought to Ren Fenghe was no less than the pain of the phantom limb.
It hurts, it hurts, it really hurts. The pain and shouting took up too much of her energy, and Ren Fenghe's breathing became weak.
Aunt Wang left the room. Ren Fenghe's hand holding the earphones was suspended in mid-air, and she wanted to pull them off fiercely. Perhaps the music that blocked the sound of rain did reduce her pain a lot.
The piano piece playing in her headphones is "Bad Habits," the song she plays when warming up.
She couldn't control her emotions and yelled, which is also a bad habit.
"Yuanyuan, are you okay?"
A warm hand was placed on Ren Fenghe's forehead, confirming Ren Fenghe's body temperature.
Ren Fenghe opened his eyes.
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