While Shen Yi anxiously rushed to K City and the police pursued Zhou Yang, An Ruqiao and Zhou Yang stopped at the lakeside park resort in the suburbs.

The resort area is surrounded by a color steel plate separation wall, and a sign "under construction, please do not approach" is erected outside.

Zhou Yang stopped the van and took An Ruqiao to the construction site with a familiar car.

An hour on the road before, Zhou Yang told An Ruqiao a story about him and Fang Ling.

Originally, An Ruqiao thought that Zhou Yang was just Fang Ling's spare tire, but in fact, in Zhou Yang's opinion, this was not the case.

Zhou Yang is not a native of K City, but a child from the northern countryside.

On their side, marriage is basically only a wedding, and there is no marriage certificate.

His parents got married like that, only a humble wedding, and brought relatives and friends to get to know each other, and other than that, there was no guarantee.

The family lives in a poverty-stricken county that has just been lifted out of poverty, and Zhou Yang's father has no choice but to go out to work, leaving Zhou Yang's mother to take him and live with Zhou Yang's grandmother.

The hard days are really bitter, until now Zhou Yang still remembers that when he was a child, he ate bran vegetables, and he could only eat a mouthful of meat during the New Year's Festival, and there were only two sets of clothes to wear every season.

My father, who went out to work, only came back once a year, and he could only bring back a thousand yuan during the Chinese New Year. In addition to paying Zhou Yang's tuition, all the other handfuls of money are in the hands of Zhou Yang's mother, and they can't get a penny.

Later, one day, when Zhou Yang was in the first grade, Zhou Yang's mother disappeared with the money.

Gone without a trace, the police could not find this person, as if it had never existed.

So he left Zhou Yang's grandmother to live with him.

After that, Zhou Yang's father was depressed for a while, and then the person changed. From coming back once a year, to coming back once every two or three years, and then not coming back at all, only occasionally sending money to the family.

When Zhou Yang was in the fifth grade, his father called back and said that in the big city outside, he had found a woman with children and married again.

So far, Zhou Yang has become a "child without a parent" in the mouths of relatives, neighbors, and classmates, and has become the target of bullying.

When he was beaten, when he was thrown stones, when his grandmother with presbyopia had worked so hard to sew her schoolbag was thrown into the river, when she was robbed of her two yuan of food money and could only starve......

In countless difficult times, Zhou Yang would ask himself, "Why me?" ”

Why did my parents give birth to me? Why are you bullying me? Why am I always suffering?

Even the teacher would ask him, "Why don't you hit someone else?" ”

Slowly, Zhou Yang became silent. He doesn't like to talk to people, and he avoids eye contact, and he has become a person who looks cowardly and incompetent, turning all his grievances into resentment and burying it in his heart.

After Zhou Yang's father got married for the second time, he lived in a new family, and he ignored his eldest son as if he had forgotten it.

Zhou Yang's tuition fees are all earned by his grandmother's meager income from farming, poverty subsidies and child labor during winter and summer vacations.

The turning point occurred when Zhou Yang was in high school, when Zhou Yang's grandmother fell ill and went to the hospital. The elderly do not have health insurance, and treatment requires a large amount of money.

Zhou Yang, who only had a few hundred yuan in his body, could only call his titular "father". For two days in a row, I made more than 200 phone calls, but I didn't answer.

Grandma Zhou Yang died of illness.

Zhou Yang's father still called him back, a week later.

Zhou Yang listened to the background sound of "five tubes, touch, chicken, make a fortune" on the phone, and listened to his father complaining and setting off the cannon again, while explaining that the construction site was too busy two days ago, and after a while of silence, he hung up the phone.

After giving his grandmother's funeral, Zhou Yang's life doesn't seem to have changed in any other way.

When he was in high school, the teachers and classmates in the county town were much better than in the village before, at least they wouldn't bully him in the open. The teacher also applied for poverty grants and student loans so that he could finish his studies.

Then Zhou Yang was admitted to K City Pharmaceutical University, where he also met Fang Ling and Li/Peng.

Zhou Yang and Fang Ling are classmates.

From the beginning, when they met at the school gate, Zhou Yang had a good impression of Fang Ling.

Zhou Yang has been malnourished since he was a child, his physical development is not very good, his height has only grown to one meter and his early seventies, and he has no meat, and he is very thin. Short, cowardly, and introverted, has always been synonymous with him.

Until I met Fang Ling.

Fang Ling is a "little white flower", in modern terms, a "white lotus", always pitiful, always weak and boneless.

When she looked at Zhou Yang with wet and expectant eyes, and asked him if he could help him carry his luggage, "It's okay if it's inconvenient", Zhou Yang only felt that her whole heart was captured by her.

Zhou Yang became Fang Ling's fanatical suitor and pursued Fang Ling for a year. Fang Ling never rejected him, only said that she was not ready to fall in love and wanted to be friends with him. Therefore, Zhou Yang has become Fang Ling's on-call, hard-working male best friend.

A year passed quickly, his freshman year rose to his sophomore year, and Zhou Yang also became a senior from a junior.

Not long after the start of school, I heard that there was a school flower in the freshman year of the school, who was very beautiful.

Zhou Yang secretly went to see it once, the school flower is indeed gentle, beautiful and generous, but in Zhou Yang's heart, Fang Ling is still good.

The school girl and his Zhou Yang are not people of the same world.

Later, I heard that there was a rich and handsome man named Li/Peng in his freshman year who was pursuing the school flower Lin Ruirui, and he would give luxury goods if he had nothing to do, but he didn't think much about it, he just felt that the matter of the school flower had nothing to do with him.

Zhou Yang and Li/Peng came into contact on an innovative project. Zhou Yang's participation in the innovation project is part of the project of the senior Su Ye.

In the small team of this project branch, the young and handsome, rich and eloquent Li / Peng became the project leader, the school flowers Lin Ruirui, Zhou Yang and Fang Ling were all team members, and the instructor hung the name of Professor Pei Chengjing, the doctoral supervisor of Su Ye.

Li/Peng distributed the tasks very well, basically equally, but in fact, Zhou Yang was responsible for his own part and Fang Ling's part, Lin Ruirui was responsible for data integration, and Li/Peng only needed to contribute money and give a speech on stage.

Most of the things are done by Zhou Yang, but the rewards, fame, and applause are all harvested by Li / Peng.

Gradually, Zhou Yang began to be jealous of Li/Peng.

This kind of jealousy was originally only maintained in a normal range, until that day, Fang Ling took Li/Peng's hand and walked in front of Zhou Yang.

At that time, Zhou Yang was still carrying the milk tea he had bought for Fang Ling.

Fang Ling and Li Peng shook their fingers, and she said to Zhou Yang with a shy: "I am with Li / Peng, we are together, you are my best friend, I hope you can bless me, okay?" ”

From that moment on, the jealousy of Li/Peng turned into hatred.