On Saturday, Gu Zhifeng stayed at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Two of the three girls in the dormitory are home for the weekend, and the other is busy dating and is not in the dormitory.

Although Gu Zhifeng is a native of Yucheng, and her home is actually only about 20 kilometers away from the school, she has never been back since she went to college, even during the winter and summer vacations, she will find a temporary job or something during the holidays or simply go out to travel alone.

After lunch in the cafeteria at noon, she went back to the dormitory and lay upright on the bed, putting her hands on her lower abdomen with her fingers interlocked, her eyes slightly closed, her eyeballs moving clockwise in her eyelids, and the surrounding environment seemed to rotate accordingly.

Just as she was about to fall asleep, the ringtone of her mobile phone sounded like an angry and explosive sound from the invigilator after he found a classmate who was making a cheat sheet, which really startled her.

She got up and picked up her phone.

It was a call from her mother, Chen Limei.

"Xiaofeng, where are you?"

"What!"

"Mom is at the gate of your school, come and see you! You don't go home, I'll bring you some clothes when it's cold!"

When Gu Zhifeng was about to arrive at the gate, she saw her mother frowning and looking forward, and saw Gu Zhifeng immediately smile from a distance.

"Xiao Feng!" she waved her hand to Gu Zhifeng enthusiastically.

Gu Zhifeng sped up and trotted over, and found that there was also his stepfather Wang Dayue standing next to her, and immediately turned around and ran away without looking back.

Her mother twisted a big bag behind her and called Xiao Feng Xiao Feng while chasing her, Gu Zhifeng didn't respond or look back, her mother caught up and grabbed her hand,

"When are you going to go, you kid?"

"If you want to come and see me, I have no opinion, what are you bringing him for?"

"He drove me here, so far away did you let me take the bus?"

"Don't come to see me if it's too troublesome!"

Gu Zhifeng shook off her mother's hand, quickened her pace and walked forward by herself.

"Hey, why are you always targeting him!"

"What did he do, you really don't know or pretend you don't know!"

Gu Zhifeng stopped and turned around, shouting with tears in her eyes.

Her mother stood in place, looking at her daughter blankly, Gu Zhifeng shook her head in despair and ran away.

"Your clothes!" heard a dry and hoarse voice behind him.

When Gu Zhifeng first entered college, many boys rushed to show her affection.

She looks well-behaved and smart, her round face is immature and delicate, and her small mouth is like a pink begonia flower in full bloom, but her big eyes reveal the calm gaze of a young man, which is incompatible with her delicate and clever pure girl appearance.

Then Gu Zhifeng never looked at all the boys who showed favor to him, and even the school-level characters at that time were rejected by her indifferently, she was used to being alone, quiet and independent, and a widow posture who did not eat the fireworks of the world, and over time, everyone knew her personality and no longer bothered her.

It's the same for boys, it's the same for girls, she doesn't have any particularly good girl friends, her type of girl, is destined to be ostracized by her peers, behind the scenes, those long-tongued women in the class call her green tea, in fact, she doesn't care what others think of her.

Even if sometimes when she returned to the dormitory, the originally noisy atmosphere suddenly quieted down, and several roommates would squeeze their eyebrows and make eyes when they secretly watched her doing her own thing silently alone, she was comfortable and never felt embarrassed or anything.

Go ahead and treat me like air.

She would occasionally say.

Although she has an odd temper, she doesn't get in the way of anyone.

So everyone didn't pay much attention to him, and gradually, she really became a transparent person at the Yucheng Academy of Fine Arts, standing alone.

"Xiao Feng is getting more and more beautiful, and our Xiao Feng has become a big girl!"

She felt the man's hand touch his body, intentionally or unintentionally, and continued to probe on the edge of concern and provocation.

She was so frightened that she shrunk into a ball, how many foggy and frosty nights, she was entangled by those old things, she woke up again and again in shock on the verge of suffocation, and again and again in fear and helplessness alone in the bed weeping.

Other children have gone through carefree and sunny adolescence, and her youth has been shrouded in darkness and fear from which she is unable to break free.

When she was in the first grade of junior high school, her mother found her a stepfather, Wang Dayue.

Her mother said,

If you don't find a man to rely on, you don't know if you can live or not, so you can marry again while you are still young and can do it.

At the age of thirteen or fourteen, she had no ability to express her opinions, and she could only silently watch her mother being squeezed into a desperate resentful woman by the burden of life.

Eventually, her mother brought a man back, and in less than half a year this man became his stepfather.

And this stepfather Wang Dayue's meticulous concern for her study and life made her mother feel relieved, this man took on all the responsibilities of the family, and gradually became a solid support for the mother and daughter, especially her mother.

However, it was this man who, like a devil, stretched out his claws to Gu Zhifeng by taking advantage of his concern, and gained an inch in the temptation again and again, and every time Gu Zhifeng cast a look at her mother for help, she was swayed by her mother's words and looked at the others, she didn't know if she was making a fuss or her mother pretending that nothing had happened.

This dark time lasted until late one night in her sophomore year of high school, when she finally burst out with a hoarse voice, and her mother begged her with tears not to call the police, and even knelt down and begged her.

She never returned home after that, living in the school dormitory.

This long dark time is a bottomless abyss for Gu Zhifeng, she has no way to cry, she has no desire for family, love, men, and even for this world.

She often felt that she was an extra burden to the world.

So she'd rather be transparent and live quietly in a world where no one knows.

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On Saturday night, I came back from Fuyang.

Lin Xiuze took his wife Gongyu Changyin to his parents' house.

Moon Lake Qingshu - the residence of Lin Xiuze's parents.

The rich villa area in Shanghe District, Chongqing.

As the name suggests, a man-made lake in the community is surrounded by a crescent moon of three-storey Bauhaus-style single-family buildings, hidden between lush ginkgo trees and maples on both sides of the road.

The villa is surrounded by manicured French holly like a thick green fence guarding the courtyard, and the most famous is the rows of cherry blossom trees that stand next to the Moon Lake, which bloom in March and April every spring, and decorate the Moon Lake into a sea of pink.

entered the courtyard of Lin Xiuze's parents' house.

Judging from the greenery planted in the courtyard, it reveals the professional identity of the owner.

Other people's courtyards are planted with roses, hydrangeas or rhododendrons, and then the courtyards of Lin Xiuze's parents' homes are all light leaf ferns, calyx wing vines, and some exotic flowers and plants that can't be named.

Otherwise, it is all kinds of old dead trees like rockeries, grafted with new branches, and covered with a thick protective film, no wonder, as a botanist, Father Lin helped the botanical garden to his yard.

Although Lin Hailiu, who is now retired, is busier than before his retirement, not only occasionally making cameos in university classes, but also being specially hired by a major garden construction project that will go down in history - the Centennial Ecological Migration Thousand Wood Paradise, specializing in ancient wood renovation and connection technology.