Chapter 7: The Shameful Past Revealed 2
After saying that, he turned and left.
I raised my eyebrows slightly and didn't take Qiao Xinyu's words to heart.
In a relationship, whether it is love or friendship, many people are actually very sensitive. Everyone knows whether the relationship is degenerating or sublimating, and what reasons force the situation to become like this.
Knowing it doesn’t mean you can handle it.
I can see that Suna likes Qiao Xinyu very much, but I won’t deliberately explore when she fell in love with him. I won’t use the past to bind the present and the future.
I know Qiao Xinyu is not someone worth relying on, but I can't stop Su Nai. In love, everyone is a fool. If she is willing to throw herself into the fire, she has to distinguish the sweetness and bitterness by herself. How can outsiders interfere?
I shook my head and took a taxi back.
Junior year will soon be over and summer vacation is slowly approaching.
A professor came to give us career guidance classes, because as soon as the junior year ended, we would have to face internships and job hunting.
I sat with Sunai and Xiao Anning. Neither of them paid attention to the class. One was playing with her phone, and the other was sleeping. I also found the class boring, but some of the workplace rules the professor talked about were still very useful for my future.
Halfway through the class, the classroom door was suddenly kicked open.
A middle-aged woman ran into the classroom and looked around. Suddenly, her eyes fell on me, and I was surprised.
The woman came over, grabbed my arm and dragged me into the aisle.
Before I could react, I saw her walk up to Xiao An Ning, grab Xiao An Ning's hair while she was sleeping, and pull her out with force.
Xiao Anning was awakened and fell to the ground uncontrollably.
The woman grabbed her hair and dragged her out, cursing: "Fox spirit, you vixen! Come out here, I'm going to beat you to death!"
I was so frightened by this scene that I lost my mind. So was Sunai. Xiao Anning was dragged by the woman, crying and shouting for help.
I stopped the woman, holding Xiao Anning with one hand and grabbing her hand with the other, and said, "What are you doing? This is a school!"
Xiao An Ning hugged me in fear. When the woman saw that she couldn't drag us away, she simply let go and started hitting us with her fists and feet.
Xiao Anning screamed in fear in my arms: "I didn't, I didn't!"
I protected Xiao An Ning and felt her trembling with anxiety.
Sunai and other teachers and students all ran up to pull the woman away. As she was pulled away, she was still shouting, "Is this how your school trains students? They come out specifically to steal other people's husbands! Don't drag me away, I want to ask her counselor! How could your school raise such a little bitch!"
"I'm not, I'm not!" Xiao Anning broke away from me and shouted almost frantically, "I didn't!"
"You have it! You little bitch, vixen!" The woman shouted back at the top of her lungs, "Shame on you! How could your mother give birth to someone like you!"
"Don't mention my mother!" Xiao An Ning screamed, and rushed forward to fight with the woman like a loser.
I pulled Xiao Anning hard and yelled, "Stop messing around! Come out with me!"
I dragged Xiao An Ning outside, and Sunai followed me out at a loss. The woman behind me was taken away by the security guards who came over. She walked outside, cursing Xiao An Ning the whole time.
Xiao An Ning listened and squatted in the corner, crying and trembling.
Suna and I stood in front of her, completely unaware of the situation. Even though we were unaware, we had already learned most of the truth from the woman.
Xiao Anning squatted on the ground and cried, which made me upset.
"Stop crying," I said.
She is still crying.
"Stop crying!" I raised my voice, pulled her up, pushed her against the wall, and said, "Why are you crying? Tell us what's going on so we can help you!"
"Muxi..." Sunai pulled my arm and said, "An Ning is very scared."
I let go of her hand, pointed at Xiao Anning and said, "We don't care if you are hiding something from us, but you have to explain today's incident to us. There are so many eyes and ears in the school, what will they say about you?"
Xiao Anning shook her head and said, "I really didn't steal someone else's husband. I really didn't. Believe me."
I stared at her, with a seriousness and anger in my eyes that I had never seen before.
Sunai comforted Xiao Anning and kept wiping her tears.
Xiao Anning calmed down and said, "She is Zhu Feng's wife."
"Who is Zhu Feng?" I asked.
Xiao Anning was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said: "I...my guest..."
"Xiao Anning, what did you say?" I asked her blankly.
Xiao Anning avoided my gaze and didn't dare to look at me.
I opened my eyes wide and tears flowed uncontrollably.
Xiao Anning quickly explained: "Mu Xi, don't misunderstand, I didn't sell myself out!"
"Go on." I said calmly.
Xiao Anning lowered his head and said, "Zhu Feng is the boss of several companies. He is powerful and will help me a lot. He is really good to me. Moreover, he and his wife are separated . He has no feelings for his wife and has always wanted a divorce, but his wife refuses to sign the divorce agreement."
"So... they haven't divorced yet?" Suna asked.
"Yeah!" Xiao Anning said hurriedly, "But Zhu Feng really has no feelings for his wife anymore. It's always his wife who's pestering him."
"How do you know it's his wife who's pestering him?" I asked calmly, "Xiao Anning, how do you know he's being nice to you because he really likes you? He's a family man. Even if he and his wife are separated, legally they haven't divorced, so they're still husband and wife. Do you understand?"
Xiao Anning looked at me in confusion and asked, "Shen Muxi, are you so unhappy to see me meet someone I like? Do you have to make him look like nothing? I'm the one who feels his goodness, not you."
"I am stating the facts!" I said emphatically.
"How can you state the facts? You know nothing!" Xiao An Ning said indignantly.
"Then what do you know? You know that he is powerful and that he has a wife who is about to divorce him. What about other things? Has he taken you to his home? Have you met his parents? Has he introduced to his friends? Is he willing to come and take care of you and protect you when you are helpless?" I shouted out of control, not wanting Xiao Anning to be deceived by such an experienced man.
Xiao Anning was speechless. She said unwillingly, "He will, he will!"
I have almost seen through what kind of person Zhu Feng is. No matter how Xiao Anning sees me, I will stop her from continuing to associate with Zhu Feng.
I said, "Xiao Anning, please leave Zhu Feng."
Xiao Anning asked me with red eyes: "Then why don't you leave He Yue?"
I was choked with anger and felt a little sad.
Su Nai gently pushed Xiao An Ning and said, "An Ning, Mu Xi is right. You don't know enough about Zhu Feng. Look, his wife came to school to make trouble today. Did he call you to ask about it?"
"He may not know yet!" Xiao An Ning said stubbornly, "Anyway, I won't leave him unless he asks me to leave!"
"An Ning!" Sunai grabbed her hand and frowned, "You are too stubborn. You are so good, there are better people who like you. Someone like Zhu Feng, who has status, career, and family, is only interested in you because you are young and beautiful."
Xiao An Ning pulled his hand out of Sunai's and said irrationally: "Can you two stop lecturing me in unison? Sunai, I didn't expect you to be so cooperative with Shen Muxi. I beg you to clean up your own asses before you call me stupid!"
If Xiao Anning was someone else, I would definitely slap her right now.
Sunai stood aside and endured it, tears in his eyes.
Xiao Anning walked past us and said, "If I don't leave Zhu Feng, do you think you will lose me as a friend? What if I insist on being with Zhu Feng, what will you do?" She said this through gritted teeth, as if we were her enemies.
Suna bit her lower lip and couldn't hold back her tears. She covered her mouth and sobbed.
Xiao Anning looked at Sunai and said, "Sunai, don't cry. I'm not crying anymore. I am determined not to leave Zhu Feng. Since you want to force me, let's just show our cards."
"Are you going to give up our friendship of more than ten years for a man like this?" I looked at Xiao Anning in disbelief. She was wearing exquisite high heels and her makeup was smudged by tears, but she still looked down on us arrogantly.
When did she become like this?
In my mind, she is still the girl-next-door image with white sneakers and plain skirt. When did she become like this?
"Each of you is more fake than me, so don't stand on the moral high ground to teach me a lesson!" Xiao An Ning laughed, "Shen Muxi, are you going to tell me now that you don't like He Yue? If you don't like him, I will chase him. Do you think you are the only one who is real? Using some dream as an excuse, do you think you can stay with He Yue for the rest of your life? I tell you, we are the same people, but your target is He Yue, and mine is Zhu Feng!"
"Xiao Anning!" I shouted angrily.
"Shut up!" Xiao An Ning rebuked me, "I haven't wanted to sing for a long time. I only agreed to it because you kept asking me for it! Please don't put your dream on both my head and Sunai's head, okay?"
My heart was shocked, my lips opened slightly, and I couldn't speak.
I turned to look at Suna, there was fear in her eyes, I didn't understand what it meant.
Xiao Anning looked at Su Nai with a smile and said to me sarcastically, "I had forgotten, Shen Muxi, that self-righteous good sister behind you, tsk tsk tsk, she was the one who stole your boyfriend."
"Stop talking!"
Suna suddenly screamed out of control, she took a few steps back, stumbled and fell into the corner of the wall.
"What can I not say now?" Xiao An Ning stepped forward and grabbed my shoulders, saying, "Shen Muxi, you don't know? Su Nai has liked Qiao Xinyu since high school. She witnessed Qiao Xinyu confessing his love to you. She knew that you were with Qiao Xinyu and she still confessed to Qiao Xinyu..."
Sunai got up from the ground in panic, grabbed Xiao Anning, and almost knelt in front of her and begged: "I beg you, Xiao Anning, please don't say it, don't say it, I beg you!"
Xiao Anning ignored Su Nai and continued, "Shen Muxi, Qiao Xinyu's relationship with someone else was just a trick by him and Su Nai. They wanted to create the illusion that you were betrayed so that you would leave Qiao Xinyu. Later, this woman felt sorry for you and persuaded Qiao Xinyu to go back and apologize to you. You see, your good sister is so fake. She stabbed you in the back and sent you flowers."
Sunai's hands, which were grabbing Xiao An Ning's clothes, slowly slid down. She sat on the ground weakly, sobbing constantly.
I walked over slowly, feeling like the whole world was shaking. I asked calmly, "Sunai, is what she said true?"
Sunai lowered her head and cried, not knowing how to explain to me.
Xiao Anning looked like she was watching a joke that had nothing to do with her and said, "What can she say?"
Sunai suddenly got up from the ground, covered his face and ran outside.
I felt helpless and painful. So many things caught me off guard and I felt extremely powerless.
Xiao An Ning looked at me, snorted coldly, and asked, "Where is the momentum you used to teach me a lesson just now?"
I didn't reply to her. My thoughts were occupied by Qiao Xinyu and Su Nai, and I couldn't find a word to answer her.
The sunshine outside faded, dark clouds covered the sky, and I felt cold all over.
Xiao An Ning left with a sneer, her high heels making a "tapping" sound on the empty ground. Every sound seemed to hit my heart, and each sound brought pain.
I walked to the other side in a daze, tears falling one by one. I didn't wipe them away, because I felt that I would never be able to wipe them away.
It was raining outside, the raindrops fell on the ground, and the cold air blew in my face.
Those who didn't bring umbrellas hid under the eaves and kept making phone calls, while those who brought umbrellas ran into the rain in groups until the rain curtain submerged their figures.
Without thinking, I walked out from under the eaves and into the rain. The road ahead was very long and I couldn't see the end.
I don't know where to go, but it seems like I have a goal. I can't see the eyes of the people passing by, because they are too hurried, too hurried to see me, a person who has no sense of existence at all.
It’s raining so hard, I’m so cold.
I don't know where Sunai went, nor do I know where Xiao Anning went. I walked towards the beach, and the rain was getting heavier. It was good, because I couldn't tell whether the water on my face was tears or rain.
It's your own life, why do you have to torture yourself so much?
There were a lot of people standing in front of the store window. Sunai squeezed in and cried like a tearful person. She kept calling Qiao Xinyu, but Qiao Xinyu's call was never connected.
Xiao Anning went to Zhu Feng's villa to look for him. The villa's nanny came out and handed Xiao Anning a bank card, saying, "Our husband asked you to leave him."
Xiao Anning threw the bank card hard in the rain. After a while, she picked it up tremblingly.
Everything in the world is complicated and cumbersome. With so many people, what do the three of us count for?
I came to the beach alone. There was no one on the beach. Because of the weather, the wind was blowing the waves, as if they could swallow people at any time.
On this beach, we have laughed, cried, written about our dreams, our lives, and our inseparability. It turns out that as much as we wrote, the tide took it away. But how could it take away happiness and joy along with it?
You shouldn't do that.
My nostrils kept twitching and sadness filled my entire body.
I was so tired, I stumbled forward, the waves crashed over my ankles and calves. I couldn't understand why people had to face so many things and have so many troubles when they grow up.
How wonderful it is to be a child, innocence is enough.
The sky was pitch black and my vision was becoming increasingly blurred.
I don't know when I fell on the beach, and I couldn't see anything. I just felt the cold tide coming over me, ruthlessly robbing me of my body temperature.
I couldn't shout out loud, but I was shouting in my heart: I want to go home, He Yue, can you take me home?
My consciousness was gradually swallowed up, and I felt like I was falling into a bottomless abyss. Familiar whistle sounds came from all directions.
I don’t know how long I slept. When I regained consciousness, my body could no longer feel the coldness of the sea water.
I opened my eyes and saw nothing but white. When my vision became clear, I realized that I was lying in the hospital.
I was sore all over and felt very uncomfortable. I wanted to get up and move around, but the quilt was pressing me down.
I turned my head and saw He Yue sleeping next to me, his hair was messy.
I recalled that I heard a whistle before I fainted, and I guess it was He Yue driving to find me.
Why does he always find me no matter when and where?
My nose felt sore and tears rolled down my cheeks.
I gently ruffled He Yue's hair with a smile on my face.
He Yue was awakened by me. When he saw that I was awake, he quickly grabbed my hand and covered my forehead with his other hand, asking anxiously: "Are you awake? Are you okay? Are you cold? I'll warm you up."
As he spoke, he wrapped his hand around mine and breathed on it.
I wanted to cry, but I held myself back.
I shook my head and said, "I'm not cold, I'm warm."
He Yue blew breath on my hand, and gradually he stopped, still holding my hand with both hands.
He looked away, his eyes red.
My heart skipped a beat. Was he crying?
I moved my fingertips slightly and pressed against He Yue's palm. He turned his head and said to me with a smile, "It's good as long as it's warm."
"I'm sorry to have made you worry," I said.
He Yue came closer to me, stroked my hair, rested his head next to me, and said, "I won't allow anyone to hurt you like this again. Shen Muxi, do you know? When I fished your cold body out of the sea, I felt like my world was falling apart. I wondered what I would do if something happened to you."
I lay there, tears from the corners of my eyes falling into my ears.
I sniffed and moved closer to He Yue.
He Yue put his arm around my waist, and I held his arm and felt relieved.
There was a moment when I felt that he was the only one in my life.
