(a)

At this moment, Tang Guo was looking in the mirror in the house. Unlike Chang Xia, Tang Guo shows his appearance like a work of art, where youth shines like stars on a Christmas tree.

The dark blue skirt with such a unique style was found in a humble shop. In order to match this skirt, he almost broke his leg, and finally found this blouse with broken flowers on the sleeve and butterfly streamers on the collar from another street.

It takes a morning, or even half an afternoon, just to find a piece of clothing, and it is impossible to break it off in the summer.

Everyone has their own aspirations, and everyone has their own love. When the girl Tang Guo put on these, it was like a sculptor who had completed the last stroke of his sculpture, holding her breath and watching the blurred image in her heart take shape smoothly, she looked at the beauty of the carving in the mirror, and also sincerely felt a kind of creative happiness, just like an obsessive artist, who forgot about the serious issues of survival, and the harshness of survival will undoubtedly destroy the beauty of the face.

Therefore, when the temptation came, she almost followed her nature to find a man who was more than a dozen years older than her in better economic conditions, and treated the man as a huge flower garden to carry her beautiful flowers.

A beautifully dressed girl made a grand appearance. When they arrived at the lobby of the small shop they agreed, there seemed to be a white circle of light shining through, Chang Xia was stunned for a moment, and almost unconsciously took a step back, Bai Xian noticed her faint retreat, and he patted her arm comfortingly. The two of them went up together.

"Miss Tang, like a flower fairy." Bai Xian smiled.

Tang Guo wore a white sleeveless shirt on her upper body, the belt at the neckline was tied into a small butterfly, and the pleated floral skirt that was carefully matched underneath, she knew that this set of modifications brought brilliance to her appearance. At this moment, I am enjoying the self-satisfied brilliance of my beauty, and the admiring gaze of others will attract eyes to hover over for a while, just like a flower bud.

When she was just on the road, she may still be breathing: when the two beautiful girls first met, they were like invisible swordsmen pulling out their long swords, and the blades made a move, and in the trembling of the blades, they decided whether to advance or retreat, whether to surrender or look at the defeated proudly.

There's always one that's prettier than the other. But as soon as she saw Chang Xia at this moment, she felt that she didn't need to pull the sword, and just smiled lightly.

That smile contained a kind of regret and pity for the opponent's fiasco.

Standing next to the flower fairy, Chang Xia's whole body was black, like a mud lotus with black mud just out of the mud pond, and the bad thing was that this black mud lotus was wrapped in a sky blue hanging bag dress, such a color could have lined the fair skin like jade, but this color met the black of the exposed arms, which was a kind of ruin and damage.

Tang Guo remembered that Chang Xia used to wear this dress, her long black hair floated behind the sky blue dress, her skin was white and tender, and she seemed to be weak, and her delicate appearance was very cute.

But I haven't seen him for nearly a year, and Tang Guo didn't expect that Chang Xia would become like this.

Tang Guo thought to himself after seeing Chang Xia who became ugly, that Mr. Tang, if he saw Chang Xia like this now, I wonder if he would drive her back again? Why bother? Make yourself like this. If you fall in love with that Mr. Tang, will you have to suffer this hardship?

(b)

When I was at home, Chang Xia, I didn't realize how much I had failed. On weekdays, he was busy with work like a demon, and Chang Xia had already forgotten his appearance.

But at this moment, after being exposed to the sun and strong contrasts, everything is not right. Now, the flower fairy walks in front, and the ashamed "mud lotus" and Bai Xian walk behind, as if they are escorting the flower fairy in front.

Is she too sensitive, Chang Xia thought, can she still be sensitive? It should have been numb a long time ago. With those girls who do business like her, their faces are dark and rough, and they only compete for sales every day. It's not "desperate Sanlang", but "desperate Sanniang".

The three of them entered the hot pot restaurant. "Mud Lotus" treats her for promotion. Raising a glass, "Mud Lotus" seemed to hear the sound of her heart bursting, she seemed to see the disdain in the eyes of the "Flower Fairy", a girl tanned herself and became so ugly, what is the point of promotion?

How many girls run the market are fair-skinned? Come in the wind, go in the rain, run pharmacies every day, run commercial companies, do promotions outside, and expose yourself to the sun, how can your skin get better!

There is a violent sun in the summer and a cold wind in the winter, and those are not the number one killers of skin. Can you still take care of the summer umbrella? Day by day and summer sun, even with an umbrella will not help. You see that the sanitation workers are wearing hats, but the faces under the hats are not the same, they are rough and black.

Besides, can she still take care of her skin? She had forgotten that she still had a girl's skin. Or rather, she deliberately chose to forget.

That meal, Chang Xia ate a lot of life.

Come home in the evening. "What's wrong with you?" Bai Xian saw that Chang Xia had been standing in front of the mirror, and his expression was wrong.

"Bai Xian, my heart hurts, this pain can't be broken, it's like a membrane wrapped around me, I can't shake it off. Bai Xian, is that person in the mirror me? Her skin was so dark, as black as an old witch who had just crawled out of a chimney. When did I start to get so ugly? Am I no longer the elegant and handsome southern woman? ”

"Don't be cranky, in my heart, you will always be the same as when you first got off the train, wearing a lilac floral wrap dress, moving with broken steps, Tingting and graceful."

"No, don't lie to me. It's been a long time since I've been afraid to look in the mirror. Occasionally, a glance at the black tadpole-like face in the mirror made me look away. Deceive yourself and say, 'It's just an illusion, and it will soon pass.'" But I know now, in fact, it's not an illusion at all, I'm just that ugly......" Chang Xia covered his face and squatted on the ground, crying out of his fingers.

(c)

Bai Xian also squatted down and hugged her convulsive and crying head into his arms: "It's all my fault, being with me, making you suffer." ......" He couldn't go any longer, tilted his head, bit his lip, and swallowed the choked sound hard.

Chang Xia threw her head into Bai Xian's arms, and her crying made her breathless. Slowly, she calmed down, and it was a nest for the birds to return to their nests.

"The dinner with Tang Guo tonight reminds me of the blossoms of flowers, you know? I once stumbled upon a photo of her from a book of flowers. At the time I remember how surprised I was. I was so shaken that I couldn't speak. I can't imagine how beautiful and innocent the flowers with their puffy faces and mildew-like spots all over their faces were at the age of nineteen. Survival had ruined her entire appearance. But now, what about me, am I not like that......" she couldn't go on, a violent sob, a dense cry that took her breath. The rain fell like a prison bar, and sorrow swept across her heart so imperiously.

This job that showed her value to live, a job that showed that she could survive in the city, and the first job since she left the town that the world could accept her, but it took away her appearance.

What does appearance mean to a young girl? It's a second life. Appearance is as important as a young girl's wealth, just as money is a middle-aged man's wealth.

But in order to prove that she can survive in this world, she exchanged her appearance for it. Just like a mermaid in order to have human feet, she exchanged her black hair and voice, and Chang Xia exchanged her delicate skin and beautiful appearance.