Chapter 22: Another Storm
I thought it was just a small episode in the last days of their high school career, but not long after that, something happened that they didn't expect.
A few days later, Lin Wan returned to school.
From the moment she walked into the classroom, she felt complex eyes cast from all directions, some sympathetic, some disgusted, and some even disgusted.
She sat quietly in her seat, took out her homework book to do the questions, and the pointing around her contrasted sharply with her serene and serene face, as if the topic of discussion had nothing to do with her.
She was completely immersed in her own world, deaf to the whispers around her.
Until a familiar name comes to my ears......
"Cheng Yu has a fight with the people of Class 8!"
"I heard you right, Cheng Yu? The person who collapsed in front of Taishan and remained unchanged actually fought with others!"
"Really, for the first time I saw such a terrible look, it was like a violent hyena, which caught the enemy and bit it until the enemy breathed, and could not hold it at all. I just saw someone go to the teacher. ”
"I'm preparing for the college entrance examination, how can I be so impulsive, it's not like his style. ”
......
A hint of strangeness flashed in Lin Wan's calm eyes, as if a crack had opened on the calm ice, and the coldness that had been disguised gradually disintegrated until it was completely shattered.
**
In the office of the Political and Educational Office on the third floor, three boys stood side by side.
"Cheng Yu, what's going on?" the director of the Political and Educational Office looked at the boy in disbelief.
The deep black eyes, like a pool of ink, bottomless, dirty school uniforms are worn on the body, different from the cold and arrogant in the past, the person looks a little ruffian, the face is slightly swollen, the finger joints are broken, and there are faint blood stains on it.
In his impression, this child has always been calm and introverted, and it is hard to believe that his cold temperament will fight with others.
Seeing that Cheng Yu was calm and didn't speak, he turned to the person who was beaten.
At this moment, the man's face was so bruised that he couldn't distinguish his own appearance, which could be said to be miserable, and he couldn't help frowning, "Shen Feng, you say!"
Shen Feng, Wang Yue's good buddy, was also the one who kept shouting at the police station that day.
He was extremely indignant when he saw that his brother was injured by a woman and was still lying in the hospital, and he was also teased by his classmates because of his blue skin and swollen face, and several of them went to school like no one.
overheard others talking about Lin Wan, who was elegant and noble, and was the white moonlight in many people's hearts.
He thought, Cheng Yu can't be provoked, Lin Wan can always do it.
So he scoffed and said that he had seen Lin Wan disheveled and her hair disheveled.
Everyone followed his words and continued to ask, and some even boldly guessed that Lin Wan was used by someone.
Shen Feng didn't continue, but he didn't deny it in the face of everyone's questions, and indirectly acquiesced to everyone's speculation.
So the rumor that Lin Wan was not clean was spread.
When Cheng Yu heard these slanders and slanders about Lin Wan, he was furious, and all his composure and calmness were all out of control when facing things related to Lin Wan.
Through Li Zhongyi's contacts in school, he finally found the source of the rumors.
"How do I know that this person is a madman, and he dragged me and beat me as soon as he entered the door!" Shen Feng covered his face and said indignantly.
"What do you mean you don't know, it's obvious that you first spread rumors everywhere, spewing feces all over your mouth, saying that Lin Wan was ...... by people and was "
"Li Zhongyi!" Cheng Yu, who had been silent, interrupted Li Zhongyi, and his deep voice was full of strong anger.
He couldn't accept that someone would describe her like that, talk about her, that she was the holiest snow lotus in his heart, and no one would be allowed to blaspheme.
"I'll tell you the truth, she was really disheveled that day......"
"Bang", Li Zhongyi on the side just wanted to open his mouth to scold, but he saw Cheng Yu waving his fist and passing over, and then the two scuffled together again.
"Stop! Hey, you guys...... When I'm transparent? Alas, Li Zhongyi, what kind of ......mess are you making?"
Li Zhongyi saw that Cheng Yu was accidentally kicked, and immediately rolled up his sleeves to join the battle, and the sounds of stopping, fighting, and shouting were mixed together.
The scene is in chaos again.
If someone passes by the political and educational office on the third floor at this time, they will definitely see a girl with a ponytail leaning against the wall, with a calm expression on her face, no one knows what she is thinking.
It wasn't until a graceful lady appeared that she turned away, and when she turned around, tears had already wet her clothes from the corners of her eyes.
Rumors are like sharp swords that can destroy people's hearts the most, and a single blow is deadly.
Lin Wan stood at the staircase on the first floor, looking at this familiar and unfamiliar school, thinking about the classroom full of cold eyes and ridicule, and the person who might even face punishment because she was still training in the political and educational department, her heart hurt like being pricked by a needle.
"Smack!" A crisp sound was harsh in the quiet hallway.
Lin Wan was interrupted by this sudden voice, and instinctively hid in a hidden place on the side.
"Cheng Yu, you really disappointed me!"
Hearing the familiar name, Lin Wan couldn't help but look around.
The woman in front of her, who was about to turn away, was the one she met at the door of the Religious Office.
She was dressed in a gorgeous costume, her body was well-proportioned, her long hair was coiled up casually, and the years had not left too many marks on her face.
And standing opposite her was Cheng Yu, whose eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to her.
Looking at the distant back, a pair of black eyes were like sadness, and anger continued to burn in the pupils, but he was restrained by death, and finally returned to calm, like a wooden heart after death.
He looked up with self-deprecation and met a pair of surprised eyes.
Apology and pity are intertwined.
He was silent and turned to leave.
......
The seat next to the afternoon class was always empty.
Finally staying up until school time, Lin Wan came to the top floor, and sure enough, she saw Cheng Yu sitting on the steps smoking a cigarette.
She walked over and sat down beside him.
Cheng Yu, who was swallowing clouds and spitting mist, suddenly saw a pair of slender hands stretched out in front of him and snatched the cigarette he held between his fingertips, and casually slammed it on the ground, and then felt a chill on his left face.
When he raised his eyes, he saw a pair of sparkling eyes looking at him, a thin layer of sweat floating on his forehead, beaded lips lightly, and a little apology in distress, "Does it hurt?"
Tears from the corners of his eyes slid down with the sound, as if dripping into his heart, making his heart soften a lot.
He pulled her hand that held the ice pack against the left side of his face and rested his head on her shoulder.
Lin Wan was so pressed by the sudden force that she lost her center of gravity and fell to the side, and a pair of strong hands clasped her waist and stabilized her body that was about to fall.
"Lend your shoulder for a moment. A low, tired voice rang in her ears.
After a long time, his hoarse voice came from his ears again, "She is my mother." ”
"She's always busy, go back to China once or twice a month, deal with company affairs, just return home today, come to deal with my business, it's me, I'll be angry. Cheng Yu smiled a little self-deprecatingly.
"But, you know, my mother doesn't love me. She had never smiled at me since I could remember, and she was always indifferent and even disgusted at me. ”
Cheng Yu paused.
"I studied hard and won awards, just to get her affirmation, but never. But just now, she was angry, and she no longer had a cold expression on me, and I was a little happy......"
"This almost masochistic ambivalence was felt when I was a child when I knocked over my father's collection, so I would destroy the contents of the house from time to time, and even splash ink on her papers......"
"Hehe, I'm not bad......"
Cheng Yu laughed self-deprecatingly, his eyes were lonely.
Yes, his mother, who rarely smiled in his memory, was always indifferent to him, and even wanted to throw him away countless times.
When she was four years old, she almost covered him with a pillow, when she was five years old, she left him alone in the bathtub in the middle of winter until he was shivering and crawled out, and when she was eight years old, she took her out and left him to wait alone in the scorching sun for hours, perhaps she had long forgotten that she had a son waiting for her outside.
More than once he wondered if he was her own, maybe it was his father's child with another woman outside, so maybe he would be a little better.
But when he looked in the mirror, he saw the eyebrows and eyes so similar to her countless times, always cruelly reminding him of the fact that she was indeed his biological mother.
A biological mother who hates him immensely.
His childhood memories are all gray and colorless pictures, his heart is frozen and hard, and he pretends to be strong.
Until I met her, she had the same delicate face as her mother, but she had a quiet softness that her mother did not have.
He always couldn't help but want to get closer to her, to absorb the warmth that emanated from her.
**
Lin Wan didn't speak, and quietly stayed by his side.
She felt the arm around her waist tighten a little.
She wrapped her arms around his lean waist with her backhand, just to hold tighter, to hold tighter, to give the boy all the warmth and strength she could, to soothe the sadness between his brows.
It was a very windy and sunny day, and the two wounded hearts approached each other, and then began a lifelong entanglement.
**
The final result was that several of them were all punished.
Although Zhang Mingwei repeatedly pleaded for mercy, this decision is likely to affect his escort to Beijing University, and in the end, the university weighed the pros and cons and put the overall situation first, and Cheng Yu still could not escape the decision to demerit punishment.
When Lin Wan heard that Cheng Yu was disqualified from being escorted to Beijing University, she followed the crowd to the school bulletin board.
When looking at the word "Cheng Yu" written on the posted white list, Lin Wan's heart was so distressed that she couldn't help herself, as if she was about to suffocate.
She suddenly understood that the pain caused by all the rumors and slander did not come violently at the moment when she knew that he was disqualified from escort.
The most impressive picture left in the hearts of so many people that year is-
On the campus bulletin board, several names are posted on the white list, and Cheng Yu's name is prominently listed, but on the red list on the side is the good news of Cheng Yu's winning of the Olympiad Mathematics Competition.
When everyone was still immersed in the continuous hot news, a real-name apology post suddenly appeared in the school post bar to push this series of events to **.
The content of the post is a personal apology for the recent false rumors about Lin Wan.
shows that this is completely a personal conflict, and then personally attacked Lin Wan to vent his personal anger, and hereby apologizes to Lin Wan, hoping that everyone will stop slandering and imagining Lin Wan.
Finally, he signed Gao Sanli and Shen Feng.
At this point, the truth of the matter has been revealed, and while everyone spurned Shen Feng's villainous behavior, those who had slandered Lin Wan for putting a cold gun behind her back also left messages below and apologized.
It didn't take long for the person named Shen Feng to withdraw from school, and everyone was discussing what made him withdraw from school without even having time to take the college entrance examination.
It is rumored that he fell out with his good friend Wang Yue and was forced to drop out of school.
It is also rumored that because of Cheng Yu's revenge, he was forced to transfer to another school due to the power of the Cheng family.