Eight years ago.

Miao Miao is fourteen years old.

Miao Miao has an older brother who is two and a half years older than her, named Jin Cheng.

——Bright future.

Just by listening to the name, you know that the elder brother Jincheng has placed their parents' infinite expectations.

一家四口的生活，原本富足、平静而快乐，苗苗的父亲事业有成，在一家制造业大公司任高级经理，母亲是一名独立艺术家，业界知名，受人尊重。

The family lives in the most expensive area in the city center, a three-and-a-half-storey terraced house, and the residents and neighbors of the community are also rich and expensive.

Such a family can almost be said to be the apex that is difficult for the vast majority of ordinary people to reach in their lifetime.

Miao Miao, on the other hand, was born at the finish line of most people, in a wealthy family, and her parents, mother, and brother who loved her deeply.

But when Miao Miao was 14 years old, everything changed.

Her brother was arrested and sentenced for intentional homicide, and is still serving his sentence in prison.

After the elder brother's case, their father lost his job and could not find a new job, and no company was willing to accept a murderer's father as a business manager, no matter how good he was able to work.

And their mother, after being strongly stimulated, fell into severe depression, and the artist is always more sensitive than ordinary people, before that, sensitivity was her talent, a gift from heaven, and after her son's accident, this sensitivity is torture, a curse from hell.

Finally, one day, my mother quietly left home, left City A, and disappeared.

Miao Miao and her father looked for a while in the early stage, but later gave up because they had no money and no energy.

A year later, my father sold his original house, which was very difficult to sell, and finally got rid of it at a price that was almost free of charge.

My father stayed in City A, rented a very small and dilapidated apartment, and worked odd jobs every day to make a living.

Miao Miao, on the other hand, decided to leave her hometown.

The decadent father who was in a state of collapse had no time to care about her, so she could only go.

A teenage girl, alone, uprooted from her homeland to earn a living.

Waitress in a restaurant, a female worker in a garment factory, a clerk in a trinket shop, handing out flyers and delivering takeaways...... She has done almost anything to survive.

A sixteen-year-old girl, who didn't finish high school, really doesn't have many job options in society that can give her.

Lying in the cramped and dark staff dormitory, with her fingers open, looking at the hands that were rough and not at all like a young girl because of overwork, twenty-year-old Miao Miao recalled her life four years ago, and often had strong doubts:

Did she really have that kind of happiness? The kind of happiness that has a father, a mother, an elder brother, is spoiled as a little princess, and can have whatever you want?

Doubts swirled in his heart, spitting out black-brown foam, which slowly turned into deep hatred.

That woman should be blamed for all this......

……

Miao Miao completed this lengthy self-description intermittently on the "big head" TV.

"Sister Manxi, once before, when our company was building a team, a colleague brought her mother and introduced her to us, and we all said that her mother was so beautiful and young. Do you remember? ”

Su Xi replied stubbornly: "Remember." ”

She remembered a ghost, she was dressed, although she was the author of this book, she didn't remember what she wrote about the company's team building.

But in order to carry on the dialogue and untie Miao Miao's knot, he can only come down first.

Miao Miao continued with a nostalgic expression:

"The colleague's mother is indeed very young and beautiful...... Just like my mom. At that time, Sister Manxi, you sat next to me and asked me, Miao Miao, why have I never heard you talk about your family. Do you remember how I answered you? ”

Su Xi: "......"

Can you stop asking questions that you can't answer?

Miao Miao didn't notice Su Xi's embarrassed expression, and asked herself:

"Come to think of it, you shouldn't remember such a small thing. I told you at the time that I was an orphan who grew up in a welfare home and had never met my biological parents. ”

After saying this, she choked up, sniffled, raised her hand to wipe away the tears rolling to the corners of her eyes, and said hatefully:

"Sister Manxi, you didn't expect it, I'm not an orphan. Not only my parents, but also my brother, I used to be very happy, very happy, but you ruined it all! ”

In the face of Miao Miao's angry accusations, Su Xi's head was blank for a while, and then combined with the video that he had watched several times before, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration:

The girl in the video just now is Miao Miao, so the "brother" she said should be her brother who is in prison?!

The voiceover kept asking her, "Have you seen my brother at home at two o'clock in the morning today", which should be confirming her brother's alibi?

These clues seem to be connected......

Miao Miao wiped her tears vigorously, but the tears were wiped more and more, and she couldn't stop it, and her big eyes became red and red:

"Sister Manxi, I think you must remember your famous work."

Su Xi was shocked in his heart:

Su Manxi's debut became famous...... How could she not "remember", this is a key subplot of the book "All the Wicked", and it takes a lot of pen and ink to describe the content of the series of skits and the huge repercussions that will have after the series aired.

In the book, Su Manxi did become popular because of that series of short videos.

The name of the series of short videos is "Don't Talk to Your Neighbors".

This series was a test of the waters at the time. Chi Xingyu's inspiration for choosing the topic came from a real event that was a sensation at the time.

After the topic was decided, Su Manxi was in charge of writing and directing and appearing in person, and she played the role of the murderer's sister in the short play.

Here's what the episode is about.

The affluent part of the city, the quiet late night.

The male owner of a family was brutally murdered at around 2 a.m., and some valuable items in the room, including jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, were also stolen.

The murder weapon was a 14-centimeter-long kitchen knife, which was left at the scene, and the fingerprints on the handle were artificially erased.

After investigation, among the four members of the family next door, the seventeen-year-old son, Zhou Cheng, is suspected of committing a major crime.

But at the beginning, he had a perfect alibi, and it was his sister Zhou Shan who testified for him:

"My brother did stay home last night.

Because I got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and saw my brother hiding in the kitchen playing mobile games.

I glanced at the time, and it was past 2:50 a.m. ”

The policewoman who came to investigate asked:

"Why is your brother playing games in the kitchen in the middle of the night? Doesn't that make sense? ”

My sister replied:

"Because our parents don't let us play games for too long, my brother often feels that the fun is not good enough, so he will secretly continue to play at night."

"Then why in the kitchen?" The policewoman was in hot pursuit.