Chapter 13: The Irreplaceable You
Lin Qingxuan first met Min when she was ten years old. It was supposed to be her birthday, but her parents quarreled again, and they quarreled so fiercely that they completely forgot the most important birthday for a child.
Lin Qingxuan was so sad that he hid in the bathroom and turned on the faucet, hiding his tears like running water. Looking at herself in the mirror, she didn't know why she remembered what her neighbor's sister Tang Guangnian told her about the mirror demon:
The Mirror Demon can talk to you and do things for you. For example, if you don't want to do your homework, she can do it for you.
Really, then do I have a mirror demon?
Yes, everybody. It's just that they don't need it, so they don't know about the existence of the mirror demon.
I need the Mirror Demon, but why didn't she ignore me?
Belch...... The mirror demon is also alive, you have to name her and teach her to speak, after a long time, she will be moved by you, and she will ignore you.
……
Her mirror demon is named Min.
"Min," as soon as Lin Qingxuan opened her mouth, she found that her voice was hoarse, and she couldn't help but cry again.
Suddenly, Min winked at her: "Don't cry, Xiao Qingxuan, I wish you a happy birthday." She was speechless in astonishment, and then ecstatic: the Mirror Demon really exists! I've got a mirror demon!
That day, she talks a lot to Min, telling her that she is lonely and afraid that her parents will be separated. Min comforted her, and before she knew it, she was asleep.
I have never hoped for anything else, I just hope that my father and mother can be together forever, there will be no more quarrels, and I can have a warm and harmonious home like other children.
When she woke up again, she was surrounded by anxious mom and dad: she had a fever and was in the hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital, when Lin Qingxuan went to the mirror to look for Min again, the mirror demon ignored her. She changed one mirror after another, her mother's comb mirror, the rearview mirror on the car, the reflector in the elevator...... But she never found Min again. She didn't think it was a hallucination from her fever, Minn was real, and Minn was a mirror demon.
When he was fifteen years old, heavy homework and large and small exams made Lin Qingxuan tired of coping. She only had a little time to reminisce in the dark after the lights went out in her dorm room. What she had said to Min that day was almost backwards, and it was just punctuation.
Tang Guangnian's sister finished the college entrance examination, and she didn't go to college because her parents divorced, and she chose to work in other places. Her parents broke up peacefully after her college entrance examination, and her parents had been incompatible two years ago and went their separate ways.
The family property was divided in half, and Lin Qingxuan did not follow his father or mother, and left him alone in this lonely apartment. Because she is a boarding student, she only comes back for two days on weekends. Lin Qingxuan doesn't have any friends, only a girlfriend named Wang Wen. Wang Wen's home is in other places, she lived in my house when she was a child, and she borrowed it to live at her cousin's house when she was a big week.
The fifteen-year-old flower season was ruined by the so-called twist of fate - the high school entrance examination. The classmates are as indifferent as passers-by, limited to borrowing an eraser or a piece of paper, and the ridiculous thing is that the teacher and the principal also require friendship between them.
Lin Qingxuan and Wang Wen can be said to be familiar at first sight, and when they meet, they seem to have known each other for many years. Later, after becoming a best friend, Wang Wen said that she also felt this way. Lin Qingxuan and Wang Wen are also rare friends on campus, and when the teacher saw them fighting together, he severely criticized them - is it contradictory to the previous request?
When Wang Wen lived at Lin Qingxuan's house, he would complain that I didn't have a computer at home, and I took her to an Internet café on Sunday.
It is common knowledge that Internet cafes prohibit young people under the age of 18 from entering, but it is a very novel place for Lin Qingxuan: no, he has known and longed to enter since he was a child, but he always hovered at the door of the Internet café and did not dare to enter.
The situation inside the Internet café was far from what Lin Qingxuan imagined, and I felt quite disappointed. Wang Wen brought her to a black Internet café, the environment was dirty and messy, the air was extremely turbid, and there was a strong smell of sweat and smoke.
Wang Wen was very familiar with the boss, and took her to find a computer to sit down with a hello. After asking for a computer for two hours but only staring at the screen in a daze, Wang Wen watched her skillfully play online games from the side, and proposed: "How about we have some beer?" Lin Qingxuan's skills are also limited to playing a certain kind of online game, and her experience in life is far less abundant than Wang Wen's.
Lin Qingxuan's first drink was a spring outing in the second year of junior high school, Wang Wen brought a bottle of Bingrui, and half-forcibly poured her a glass: "It's okay, beer is not drunk." "Lin Qingxuan had only seen this kind of beer in TV series before, and it tasted weird when he really drank it, a little bitter and a little sweet, and it seemed to be a close relative to Sprite.
Lin Qingxuan did not object, and soon two cans of beer were placed on our table. She sipped in small gulps, and her chic and heroic feelings suddenly came to life.
With Wang Wen, she can always take herself to do something she wants to do but dare not do, and life has always been full of fun. Valuable friendship has been gained, but her family affection has entered an advanced stage.
This may be the most impulsive thing Lin Qingxuan has ever done in her life, she sold the apartment to a property speculator at a very low price, and it is not a sale, in short, she threw the real estate certificate to him, packed her simple luggage, rolled up and left.
Where can she go? Field? Lin Qingxuan realized that I have always been an introvert, and I really have no relatives except for my parents. She called Wang Wen, and after receiving the call, Wang Wen only said "see you in the old place" and hung up.
Wang Wen and her most frequent place is the language mall in the city center, she beckoned a taxi and went straight to the city center.
The scenery along the way was regressing rapidly, and Lin Qingxuan only felt that his brain was very messy, and he didn't even notice that the driver deliberately detoured.
When she arrived at the entrance of the mall, Lin Qingxuan eased up a little, took a few deep breaths of the air that was not fresh, and finally kept up with the oxygen supply to her brain, but after walking into the mall, she regretted coming here.
What Dad said was true......
Mom and a strange man were talking and laughing at a jewelry counter, looking very intimate......
The whole world turned black and white in an instant, like an old movie.
No sound.
Lin Qingxuan trembled, I don't know if he was angry or the air conditioner in the mall was too cold, he really wanted the world to be destroyed immediately, and even took his own best, so that he didn't have to think about it anymore.
Why did God create people to think, sometimes she would rather be a goldfish with only 7 seconds of memory, but reality never gave her her the right to choose.
The sorrow of being powerless against fate......
I thought a lot, from the English phrase "childrenwithoutparents" to the Chinese Tagore's "Golden Flower", and finally was: "Qingxuan, what's wrong with you?" ”
Wang Wen came, the angel who miraculously descended on her life. The world returned to normal, looking at her sincere eyes, Lin Qingxuan suddenly lost her speech function, until she cried.