Chapter 2 Rebirth 02
Indeed, because of Leng Yuting's obstruction, I missed the military training assembly time.
However, I didn't feel ashamed at all when I stood alone in front of a company of freshmen and was severely reprimanded by the instructor.
My head was dizzy and I could hardly understand what the instructor was scolding or what the freshmen were laughing at or saying.
Those memories that I had torn into pieces and thrown away were churning in my mind, and my injured brain nerves began to ache again.
"Don't think you can be lazy just because you stay in the toilet. I hate people like you who try to be clever the most! Have you rested enough? If you have, run two kilometers around the playground and come back. I'll see if any of you dare to be lazy again!"
"Two thousand meters, right? Is it enough to just run it? Instructor, please stop scolding me. It's so hot, so save your breath! I'll just run!"
"Ai Ye! Don't be impulsive! Ai Ye!"
"Instructor, she didn't mean it. Don't punish her. She's on her period and can't do strenuous exercise!"
"Yes! Instructor, please let her go! It's so hot, running 2,000 meters will cause heat stroke!"
"What are you arguing about! If you keep arguing, you'll run with her! Another thousand meters, three thousand! Still arguing? Let's see if you dare to argue again."
I heard Cai Miao and the others pleading for me from behind, but the instructor yelled and everyone fell silent immediately.
It was noon, and several people on the playground dispersed after practicing running for a while. I was the only one left, sweating all over, running around in circles on the plastic track.
The instructor seemed to be trying to keep up with me. He was not in a hurry to eat and just stood by to supervise me as I ran.
Cai Miao and the others stood by worriedly, probably planning to help me up when I couldn't run anymore. However, they were all frightened by the instructor's roar and dared not come forward.
The lunch break for freshmen military training was only 50 minutes, which also included the time to line up in the cafeteria for meals and go back to the dormitory. A whole morning of military training was already exhausting enough. Seeing Cai Miao and An Jia waiting by the side exhausted and looking at me worriedly, I couldn't bear it, so I waved to them, pretending to be relaxed, and signaled them to go first.
I'm not being hypocritical, but the 3,000 meters is not that hard for me to stick to. I was good at sports in high school, and I was always pushed to participate in the 1,500-meter race during sports meets, and I could finish it easily. The 3,000 meters is only twice as long as the 1,500 meters. The instructor only let me finish it, not within a few minutes. The time is unlimited, I can run slowly, and my "period" doesn't allow me to run too fast.
Cai Miao and the others eventually left, and the instructor stopped staring at me. He stood there for a while and then started chatting with his colleagues who were collecting flags nearby.
In the huge playground and the red running track, I was the only one running profusely, sweating profusely.
It has been a long time since I sweated so hard; it has been a long time since I ran forward so hard as I am now.
The scenes before my eyes interweave and memories come flooding back.
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It was a dark alley, with heavy rain falling. I was trapped in the muddy lane in my school uniform by a group of people. Countless fists fell on me, and I groaned in pain under the fists of a group of ruffian boys and girls.
Then, I saw her.
That cousin whom I had only seen in Lin Feng's family album, she came towards me so realistically, with a hideous face, squatted beside me, grabbed my hair with her cold hands, and shouted fiercely: "Ai Ye, how shameless are you? Xiao Feng doesn't want you anymore, why are you still entangled with him! Lin Feng asked me to tell you, if you dare to touch Mo Beibei again, he will make you regret knowing him! Don't think we don't know, your family is bankrupt, you want to drag the Lin family to live a good life, you are really dreaming! Aren't you very smart, why are you confused now? With your current state, what right do you have to compete with Beibei! Do you want me to wake you up?"
"don't want!"
The cruelty in Leng Yuting's eyes made me scream in fear. It turns out that I can be afraid too.
My head was slammed against the wall, again and again, violently. I think Lin Feng must love Mo Beibei very much, otherwise he wouldn't let Leng Yuting hit me so hard.
I have never hated Lin Feng as much as I did at that moment.
Even though he had an affair with Mo Beibei and hid it from me, even though he knew that my family had experienced a drastic change and listened to his family's advice and broke up with me, I never complained.
But I really don’t know why a boy who has always treated me gently would suddenly become so cold one day.
That day, Mo Beibei slapped me in the KTV and told me about her and Lin Feng. I was dizzy and was pulled away by Li Wei. She rushed out and chased us to the door to continue to harass us. She was the one who held my hand and asked me to promise to leave Lin Feng. She was the one who didn't stand firmly and was pushed out by Li Wei and fell to the ground.
No one wants to touch her. I, Ai Ye, am not that petty. I would not waste my time being jealous of others after being betrayed.
Li Wei pushed her away out of helplessness just to take me away. None of us wanted to make her fall. It was Li Wei and I who took her to the hospital. We left only after we heard the doctor say she was fine.
But what was the situation with the beating in the alley? Just because I caused Mo Beibei to fall, Lin Feng asked his cousin to bring a bunch of people to beat me? Punching, kicking, and verbally abusing me, was I, Ai Ye, really so unworthy of his cherishment in his heart?
I don't know how long I lay alone in the mud that day. Leng Yuting had already left with the gang, and I was lying on the ground alone, without even the strength to groan. My face was wet, and I couldn't tell whether it was rain, mud, or tears from the corners of my eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but someone passed by and saw me in the alley covered in filth. I reached out to him with difficulty, wanting to call for help, but my throat was so dry that I couldn't make a sound. Then, I saw that person leaving in a panic. He was a handsome boy, and his outline was very blurry in my hazy vision, but I could vaguely smell the fresh scent on him.
He ran away. Such a clean boy was not suitable to stay here.
I was so dirty and covered in blood that he was scared away.
My hands, which I had raised with great effort, finally collapsed powerlessly. My aching head went blank, my eyes went black, and I passed out.
I was awakened by Li Wei's crying and cursing. When I woke up, I was lying on a hospital bed, wrapped in gauze. My head felt heavy. When I touched it, it was also gauze with dried blood clots on it.
As soon as she saw me wake up, Li Wei rushed to my bedside, crying, grabbing my arm and crying at the top of her lungs: "Ai Ye! You are so stupid! You didn't call for help when you were beaten, why didn't you call me? I asked someone and found out that it was Lin Feng's cousin who led people to do it, is it true? How could that bastard Lin Feng do this to you! What right did he have to beat you like this? He was the one who betrayed you, what right did he have?"
"I'm not dead, why are you in such a hurry to cry? Wipe your tears quickly, it's disgusting if you fall on me!" I poked Li Wei's hand and rolled my eyes in annoyance.
Li Wei stared at me while I was laughing. She was frozen for a moment, her eyes became even redder, and she couldn't wipe away all the tears that kept falling down.
"Do you know how badly you've been injured? Your brain nerves are likely to have sequelae due to the severe impact. Why are you laughing? What's so funny! You idiot, you've really become an idiot now!"
I couldn't hold it in any longer, and finally laughed until tears came out amid Li Wei's constant cursing.
"It doesn't matter if her brain is damaged, or if she was beaten to amnesia! Li Wei, I've given up, I really have. I've liked him for three years, and this time I'm really sure that the person I like is a scumbag! You see, I'm not much smarter than my mother. The man she loved for eighteen years just wanted to leave her, but she made herself look like neither a human nor a ghost. I always thought she was stupid before, and she didn't even know that Ai Sheng had been cheating on her for such a long time. Now think about it, wasn't it because I saw through it after being treated like this? I was hesitant at first, but now I can really make up my mind."
"Ai Ye, don't laugh like that! It makes me feel sad. No matter what, we have to live our lives."
"That's right! I understand. Don't worry. I'm not my mother. I'm not as crazy as her. I lost everything for a man."
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How far did I run? One kilometer? Two kilometer? Almost three kilometer? I can’t remember clearly, I just kept running around the red track.
I was sweating profusely and I wanted to wipe it with my hands, but the more I wiped, the more sweat came. My fingertips slid across the corners of my eyes, which were also wet.
I gained a lot of fat on my stomach from lying in the hospital. After I was discharged, Lin Feng and I broke up completely.
After that incident, I solemnly classified the boy who had warmed my heart for three years and whose smile was as gentle as the spring breeze as a "scumbag".
Every time I think of the good things that person had done to me in the past, I would poke my nerve-damaged head and scold myself for being stupid. As time went by, I don’t know if it was because my brain had suffered a severe blow, but my memory slowly receded, and the past events gradually faded and became blurred.
I thought this was pretty good. I didn't care about the past at all. I wanted to start a new life. I wanted to reshuffle my love, family, and friendship.
But when I met Leng Yuting again and heard those words, I realized that I had never forgotten that past.
But so what?
Even if Lin Feng didn't send anyone to beat me up, and it was all Leng Yuting who took the initiative, even if he still had feelings for me, and even didn't want Mo Beibei, and wanted to wait for me, even if he was still the same and not the scumbag I imagined, what could be changed? What could be changed?
Life is a formal performance. There is only one chance. If you give up, it will be gone.
Just because he had me in his heart but flirted with other people, and was irresponsible after being with others, causing Mo Beibei, who followed him thousands of miles to study in this university, to leave him... Lin Feng is still a scumbag.
