I'll wait for you to give me a reason.
Will you let me listen?
He Xiao said these two sentences.
After he said this, Tang Miao raised her drooping eyelashes and looked at him. He Xiao sat on the chair in front of the desk, and the light cut out a clear outline of light and shadow. She could only see the part covered by the shadow. In that part, his pupil color was darker and darker than usual because of the shadow.
Tang Miao looked into his eyes and fluttered her eyelashes slightly.
Tang Miao has almost reached a critical point.
Ever since she met He Xiao last week, her mind and heart have been tangled with a mess of threads. The threads are of different thicknesses, colors, and even materials. They look like they were thrown there after being abandoned. Tang Miao's memories and heartbeats are bound and entangled by these threads. No matter how she combs them out, she can't get rid of them. No matter how she tries to get rid of them, she can't get rid of them. During the time she was with He Xiao, her threads became more and more numerous, more and more complicated, and more and more tightly entangled. Now, it has reached the point where she can no longer think or feel her heart beating.
Under such circumstances, He Xiao cut a hole in the tangled threads for her, giving her the ability to move and the opportunity to sort out her hair. Now, He Xiao sat in front of her, waiting for her to choose to come out of the hole, or to create some messy hemp threads to tie herself up again.
The two of them were silent in this small space. In the narrow room, the air was filled with the heat from Tang Miao's fever, making the whole dormitory moist and warm.
She and He Xiao stared at each other, the two of them seemed to be in an invisible stalemate. In the end, Tang Miao's tense eyes were like a knot that was untied, peeling off layer by layer, revealing her emotions layer by layer.
In the end, only sadness remained.
"I feel very uncomfortable." Tang Miao's eyes were filled with sadness that was about to overflow. She looked at He Xiao and said this to him.
After she finished speaking, the sadness in her eyes slid down from the corners of her eyes along with her recondensed tears, and finally flowed along the corners of her eyes into her black hair.
"It's not just the body." Tang Miao's tears flowed heavily.
"And in my heart."
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Tang Miao has never felt good.
She lost her parents when she was six years old. After her parents died, she was sent to live with her only relative, her aunt.
The life of my aunt's family is not bad. My uncle-in-law is a car mechanic and earns enough to support the family. My aunt is a housewife and takes care of this cousin who is one year younger than Tang Miao.
In the eyes of most people, housewives do not earn money, they just take care of the house and do not bring money home, so they are basically freeloaders. And now the freeloader has brought in another freeloader, and the uncle-in-law is not very satisfied.
He was a person with a bad temper. He liked to drink alcohol and would abuse his aunt and cousin when he was drunk. After Tang Miao came home, his fists fell on Tang Miao. Although they were blood relatives, blood ties were different. When the uncle-in-law went crazy, the aunt could only protect the cousin, so Tang Miao was basically the only one who got beaten in the end. Since he came to his aunt's house at the age of six, Tang Miao had no good skin.
And her pain does not only come from life.
And in school.
Her father was in prison for murder. The son of the man her father killed was one grade higher than Tang Miao. After Tang Miao entered school, school violence began in the first grade of elementary school and continued until she graduated from junior high school.
She had books thrown at her, was trapped in a small corner of the playground and beaten, had her hair cut, was insulted and cursed at, and even her desk and chair were chopped with an axe.
Her life, whether at home or at school, was filled with violence, ridicule and indifference. Growing up in such an environment, Tang Miao felt that she was not normal.
She is definitely not normal.
She learned to deal with all this shrewdly since she was a child. She would inadvertently reveal her experiences to the teacher, asking the teacher to talk to the other party, criticize her, and find the parents.
She would condone the students who beat her, making them think she was weak and intensify her violence. After the violence intensified, she directly sent a letter of complaint to the Education Bureau. Under pressure from the Education Bureau, the principal persuaded the students who beat her to leave the school.
She would even endure the sexual assault of her uncle-in-law.
She was not always the six-year-old girl. After entering junior high school, her body had grown into that of a girl.
As she grew up, her uncle-in-law's domestic violence against her escalated. He began to touch her, and her aunt did not resist or say anything when she saw it, and she acquiesced to it all.
Tang Miao did not resist either.
She couldn't resist.
Because she wants to study.
After her parents passed away and she had no one to rely on in the world, Tang Miao knew that she could only rely on herself.
She has no money, no parents, and she grew up in this poor small town. If she wants to change her current life situation, the only way for her is to study.
But she needed the financial support of her aunt to study. So she had to endure all this, only in this way could she survive.
But her patience did not bring her the results she wanted.
After the junior high school entrance examination, her aunt asked her to drop out of school and not continue to attend high school.
Because of the nine-year compulsory education, she didn't have to pay for primary and junior high school. However, when she reached high school, tuition, books, accommodation and living expenses would be a considerable expense. In addition, she was already sixteen years old, and she could earn tens of thousands of yuan every year by working outside, which could also help support her family.
This is where my uncle-in-law’s plan came to fruition.
And after her aunt told her that she could not go to school, her disguise and patience came to an end.
She did not break up with her aunt's family, but agreed to everything her aunt said. Later, when her uncle-in-law was touching her, she was seen by the neighbors. Later, she ran out of her aunt's house in dishevel, followed by her drunk and crazy uncle-in-law.
She ran out to call the police, and her uncle was taken to the police station, shouting that he was innocent. The police collected evidence from the neighbors and even found her uncle's semen and stains on her coat. The evidence was irrefutable, and her uncle had to go to jail for attempted rape. After learning all this, her aunt found her and asked her to go to the police and say that it was all a misunderstanding. But she told her aunt that it was not a misunderstanding, and she had planned it all.
Since her uncle-in-law started to touch her, she deliberately took advantage of his drunkenness to make him lose control of his behavior, and even touched her in front of the neighbors, so that the neighbors all knew that he was plotting against her. This was a trap she had set from the beginning.
In addition to the eyewitnesses, she even picked something up from the trash can, got it on her coat and then ran out, which is physical evidence.
The evidence on both sides is conclusive, there is no way he can be released.
When her aunt found out what she had done, she wanted to tell the police, but no one at the police believed her and Tang Miao completely disappeared.
Tang Miao left the small town and went to South City.
When she arrived in Nancheng, she wanted to earn some money first, then go back to her hometown to transfer the family materials, earn a few years and then continue her studies.
However, after arriving in South City, the spaciousness of the city broadened Tang Miao's thinking about the path she could take in life. She knew that there was more to life than just going to college and learning general knowledge. She could also learn other things. As long as she studied, she would have her own specialty and she would always have a career and life of her own.
When she arrived that year, she went to work in a piano store and came into contact with the piano.
After the contact, she learned about the piano teachers' salary and qualifications, and had the opportunity to audit and touch the piano. She had some talent for piano and liked it, so she lived in the piano store, spent a year, consulted piano teachers, practiced and took exams, and finally became a piano teacher.
After becoming a piano teacher, Tang Miao also made other changes to her life plan. She decided to continue on the path of piano.
But she also knows that a junior high school diploma is not considered very good, and some piano stores or piano teachers require a bachelor's degree to get promoted.
She still has to study.
In those years, she worked like crazy to earn money, ready to go to school first. But later, some of her thoughts changed, and Ji Junlin also passed the exam to come to South City. As the two of them met in South City, some of her ideas were gradually put aside.
Because Tang Miao didn't have much time. She also wanted to make money.
She and Ji Junlin both came to South City, and they were gradually reaching the age to start a family. They should consider the things that people of their age should consider.
When you were seventeen or eighteen years old, you still wanted to go to school.
When you are fourteen or fifteen, all you want is to get married and start a family.
Getting married and starting a family is not that simple. It requires more money. If nothing else, they at least need a house where they can settle down.
She was making money, and Ji Junlin was also making money. His continuing his studies was also the result of their joint discussion. A higher education would lead to better development and more income in the future, which would make their future life more stable.
In this way, Ji Junlin studied until he graduated from graduate school, and as they wished, he got a job with a good salary.
Ji Junlin finished his studies and started working to earn money, and the two of them had a common goal in life. They were both 16 years old and could consider starting a family. When they were about to discuss marriage, Ke Yi appeared.
Tang Miao is a very sensitive and thoughtful person.
She even noticed everything the moment Ke Yi became interested in Ji Junlin.
She had no sense of security and did not have a deep trust in people, but Ji Junlin grew up with her and had been involved in her life for more than a decade. He was almost more important than her parents. At first, she trusted him.
But just because you trust a person doesn't mean he won't change.
Ji Junlin went through three stages over time, from not caring at first, to a shift in his mentality, and then to struggle and entanglement.
Tang Miao knew that she and Ji Junlin would not be together until the end when Ji Junlin appeared in the first stage. She felt great pain and sadness after learning about this result.
Ji Junlin is not an ordinary man.
He was the first salvation in her life.
After her parents died, all the warmth and love she felt in the world came from him, and because of this, his betrayal was even more devastating to her.
During that time, Tang Miao still maintained her disguise, her mood was immersed in reason and pain. The drowning of pain did not make her lose her reason, she knew she would not let Ji Junlin go.
No matter how much kindness and love he had given her, she would not bear all the pain that his betrayal had brought her alone.
She didn't show that she noticed Ji Junlin's changes. She still lived with him peacefully. A peaceful life easily relaxed Ji Junlin's vigilance. During that time, she could still look at Ji Junlin's phone at will.
She learned some things through Ji Junlin and Ke Yi's messages or phone calls. After summarizing the information she learned, she gradually came up with a solution to the problem.
After coming up with a solution, she revealed the information and asked Ke Yi to contact her. She even took into account that Ke Yi urgently needed Ji Junlin to help her get rid of the pressure her parents put on her career, and that Ke Yi had a deep affection for Ji Junlin. She thought that if she asked for 10 million, Ke Yi would agree.
Ke Yi did agree.
After agreeing, they completed the transaction. Tang Miao resigned from the music store, packed up all the things in her and Ji Junlin's home, and left without leaving any information.
She deliberately did not leave a message, nor did she change her SIM card. She wanted to give Ji Junlin, who was still in a dilemma, a feeling that she had won him back. This also paved the way for Ji Junlin to find her and be seen by her grandmother, which made him say that he did not love Ke Yi.
Then she went to Huaicheng, found Ke Yi's brother, and lived next door to him. She got to know him, got to know him well, fell in love with him through trickery, and then married him through trickery.
Everything that happened to Tang Miao and He Xiao happened according to her plan.
Her first impression of Ke Yi's brother was when he asked Ke Yi to give her money to send her away. She thought he was just a rich first-generation rich man with a dandy air.
But when I first met He Xiao, he didn't have that feeling at all. Instead, he was a different kind of person, wild, alert, cold, and aloof.
Tang Miao didn't think that this was the kind of person who would let his sister give money to the girlfriend of the man she liked to leave and let her become the mistress.
When she first met He Xiao, she became suspicious.
I doubted whether I had made a mistake and whether I had thought of the wrong person.
But such suspicion was superficial. After all, it was impossible for her to completely know what kind of person the other person was the first time she saw him.
So the doubt disappears and the plan goes on.
After the plan continued, Tang Miao went to work at the music store and met Yu Yaya. Yu Yaya took her on the way home, and she met He Xiao again.
After that meeting, Tang Miao began to have his first doubts.
That time she watched He Xiao's performance.
The He Xiao performing on the stage was different from the He Xiao she had seen for the first time. He played the keyboard and sang on the dimly lit stage. There were many fans who liked him in the audience. He sang the song he wanted to sing like an excellent lead singer.
But in fact, if it was just a change in one's impression of a person, it would not be enough to make her suspicious. She became suspicious because He Xiao also saw her on her way home, and after only meeting her once and rejecting her thanks, he came to help her after seeing that something was put in her wine.
He was not a warm person, and even a little cold, but if he saw someone he was not familiar with, he would help her if she was about to be persecuted.
Not very enthusiastic, but enthusiastic enough, and a good person with good intentions.
Such a person should not be the "brother" in Ke Yi's mouth
It was also that time that Tang Miao came back from the bar. When he got off the elevator to go home, he stood at the elevator door and looked at the closed door of He Xiao's house and thought for a long time.
She wondered if she was wrong, and if He Xiao was not Ke Yi's brother.
But soon, she rejected the first question. She did see the address in the chat records between Ji Junlin and Ke Yi. The address was correct, and the name was correct. He Xiao was Ke Yi's younger brother.
But people are complicated. He is a good person who is kind to strangers, but it does not rule out that he would choose his sister over a stranger.
Just like when her uncle-in-law was committing domestic violence, her aunt chose to protect her son and let her suffer the beatings and kicks from her uncle-in-law.
People can be kind, but kindness is selective.
This is not a contradiction.
It was also on this day that Tang Miao confirmed that this plan would continue.
She only had doubts about He Xiao's identity. No matter how suspicious she was, he was indeed Ke Yi's brother, and the plan had already begun, and he had been included in her plan. If she wanted to continue to retaliate against Ke Yi and Ji Junlin, then this plan had to continue.
He Xiao is not necessarily innocent.
If he is innocent, she will apologize but will not stop the plan, because her philosophy of life is to take revenge on anyone who hurts her, not to not hurt innocent people.
And if it's not innocent, that's just fine.
So, as she got to know He Xiao more deeply, no matter how many sides of him she got to know, no matter how good he was, her plan never wavered.
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