Gu Xiaoai silently rode down the administrative elevator. Her expressionless face was reflected in the elevator, her eyes were dim, neither happy nor angry, and her pale face had lost all color.
Gu Xiaoai squeezed her way out little by little in the shouting crowd. Occasionally, someone would push her back, and occasionally someone would bump into her hard...
But she felt no pain at all.
Gu Xiaoai got into a taxi and left. Looking ahead, Gu Xiaoai understood that this was a nightmare, a nightmare that she would never wake up from...
hometown--
When her father was investigated by the prosecutor's office, she and her uncle buried her mother on Lishan Mountain.
Lishan is my mother’s favorite and my father brings her here.
Lishan is a barren mountain, but as soon as you stand up, you can see the vast flower fields at the bottom of the mountain, red, yellow, green and purple... one after another, it is so beautiful that my mother especially likes it.
Back then, when my uncle wanted to bury my mother as usual, she totally disagreed.
She always felt that... her mother would definitely prefer to stay in Lishan.
Now, she was sure of nothing.
Gu Xiaoai sat in front of her mother's grave and stayed there from night to dawn, from the dark night until the east turned to fish belly white...
The photo of my mother on the tombstone is young, beautiful, elegant, with a nice smile...
As the sky brightened, Gu Xiaoai sat in front of her mother's grave and gradually saw the flower fields at the foot of the mountain. The colors were still beautiful...
It was obviously a very quiet place, but Gu Xiaoai felt very noisy, as if the buzzing noise of a shopping mall was all over her ears, bombarding her ears.
It was eroding her bit by bit.
…
"Do you know why I was convicted? It was because your mother stole my confidential documents and gave them to Chu Tianming. Chu Tianming reported it to the prosecutor's office."
"Your mother didn't jump to her death because she couldn't bear the pressure. She was deceived by Chu Tianming. Chu Tianming would never divorce her and marry her, so she chose to commit suicide out of despair."
"All of this is Chu Tianming's fault. Although Chu Shixiu and Gu Xiaoai have different surnames, they are half-siblings—"
…
The happy family she thought was an empty shell;
The love she thought she had from her father and mother was an illusion;
Her dream of marrying Chu Shixiu since she was a child... is just a joke that will never come true.
Slowly taking off the heart-to-heart ring on her ring finger, Gu Xiaoai placed the ring in front of her mother's grave. This ring... she would never be able to wear it.