When she went out in the morning, the cold air hit her face, making Yu Ruanruan shiver from the cold.
"Click——"
The opposite door opened, and a thin boy wearing a gray down jacket came out of the room with lowered eyes.
The obvious scars on the bridge of his nose and the bruises on his cheeks showed what he had experienced last night.
"Fu Chuan?"
Yu Ruanruan was startled.
Because the boy came and went in a hurry last night, she didn't see his injuries clearly, but she vaguely remembered that he was covered in paint when he came.
Now when I look at it, I realize that he was seriously injured.
"What happened to your face?"
Yu Ruoruan hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
Fu Chuan quickly turned his back and walked forward without looking back. His face was buried low, and his back looked embarrassed and hasty.
Yu Ruanruan refused to let him go. She caught up to him, grabbed his sleeves and asked, "Did someone bully you?"
"No."
Fu Chuan was forced to stop, but the expression on his face was cold and distant, and he said, "Don't drag me, I'm in a hurry."
Just overnight, the boy seemed to suddenly transform into another person. His sensitive but soft heart shrank into a shell, leaving only a cold and hard exterior.
Yu Ruanruan loosened her fingers holding on to his sleeves.
Because she felt Fu Chuan's strong rejection of her.
After the two classes in the morning, it’s time for running exercises.
The sound of uniform footsteps and slogans on the playground echoed through the sky.
"Damn it! Those idiots in Class A!"
Gu Yan complained several times in succession, but Yu Ruanruan didn't respond.
Gu Yan couldn't help but hit her with his elbow, "Oh! You should say something!"
"What?" Yu Ruanruan recovered from her shock.
Gu Yan hugged her waist and trotted along with the troops, while lowering her voice and biting Yu Ruanruan's ears, and said angrily, "Someone in Class A actually spread rumors that you and Fu Chuan are in love! They even said that they had noses and eyes, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
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The more Gu Yan talked, the angrier she became.
Yu Ruanruan's ear goes in from the left ear and comes out from the right ear.
At this time, there was a commotion behind him, as if someone had fallen.
In the chaos, someone called Fu Chuan.
Yu Ruoruan hurriedly turned her head and looked behind her.
I saw a thin boy falling to the ground in the snow on the track, his knees covered with mud.
A teacher came over to help him, but he was in an awkward posture and limped to his feet.
Yu Ruoruan's heart tightened, thinking of the injuries on his body, and she hurriedly wanted to go over and check.
Gu Yan grabbed her and said, "What are you doing? Do you think the scandal between yourself and Fu Chuan didn't spread fast enough?"
At yesterday's birthday party, the video of Ruanruan inviting Fu Chuan to dance was cut off by some mentally ill person, taken out of context and posted on the campus network.
Although the post was quickly deleted by the administrator, the incident between Ruanruan and Fu Chuan still spread in the school.
Gu Yan didn't want to watch her best friend jump into the fire pit.
Who is Ruanruan?
Who is Fu Chuan?
A girl from a rich family and a poor student are completely incompatible, even as ordinary friends.
Yu Ruanruan frowned and saw Fu Chuan being supported by the teacher towards the school doctor's office, so she pretended to have sprained her foot and took Gu Yan to ask for leave from the class teacher.
Gu Yan was forcibly dragged to the school doctor's office, and she resisted.
"Ruanruan, are you familiar with Fu Chuan? How did you meet?"
"You may not believe it, but he and I have known each other since we were 8 years old."
"ha?"
"Before returning to Yu's house, we used to be neighbors. His father would beat him when he was drunk. I helped him a few times."
Gu Yan rarely heard Yu Ruanruan mention the past. When she heard this, she couldn't help but exclaimed, "You are still a child at the age of 8, how dare you challenge a drunk adult?"
Yu Ruoruan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and a trace of confusion flashed in her clear eyes.
It’s like I’m recalling my 8-year-old self and why I was so courageous.
Maybe it’s because someone once protected me without hesitation?
The memories before the age of 8 are too long and too vague.
All she could remember were the bad memories of being cold, hungry, and being bullied.
But among these bad memories, there are always sporadic bits and pieces, vague and warm.
Yu Ruanruan no longer remembers that person's appearance, but what he did is still imprinted in her mind, healing her heart that has gone through many disasters and is riddled with holes.
Before the age of 8, Yu Ruanruan had been in and out of several welfare institutions.
Because the previous welfare homes did not have enough funds to support the children, the directors sent the children to larger welfare institutions.
Once, she entered a new orphanage and was assigned to a small and narrow attic.
There lived a brother who was 5 years older than me in that attic.
There was only a small bed of half a meter, and she had to sleep together with her brother.
Her experience in previous orphanages told her that the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest meant that older children would definitely bully younger children.
Therefore, she is very afraid of that big brother.
In order to avoid being beaten, she had a very sweet mouth. Her brother was longer and her brother was shorter, like a dog-skin plaster.
Even if the other person is withdrawn and indifferent, he never buys it.
Although they were afraid, at night, they still had to squeeze into the same small bed.
She was worried that this fierce big brother would kick her out of bed every night, but he didn't, day after day.
The director of that welfare home is an old man in his sixties.
Several times, Yu Ruanruan saw her eldest brother being called into the dean's office. After a long time, amidst the dean's screams, he escaped with a pale face, his bloodshot eyes full of murderous intent, as if
Enraged little beast.
Every time the dean was scratched or bitten, he would be severely punished, including confinement, hunger strike, and even Yu Ruanruan.
She didn't know what it was.
Until one time, the dean called her into the office and took off her skirt.
The office door was knocked open, and the eldest brother broke in, hugged her, and ran out like crazy.
"Fool! Stay away from that old man from now on!"
He said harshly to her.
The dean quickly caught up with him, his eyes greedy and terrifying.
He protected her behind him, like a wild beast guarding its cubs, and showed his claws and claws towards the enemy with extreme ferocity, "Don't touch her! Come at me if you dare!"
But no matter how cruel he is, he is still just a teenager.
How can I defeat adults?
Soon, he was taken away by the dean.
Yu Ruanruan, who was so young and immature that she had not fully remembered, saw the helplessness in her brother's eyes. The place was as empty and desolate as a lonely tomb in a barren mountain, as desperate as a drowning person.
She only remembered that she was crying loudly at the top of her voice.
At night, she lay on the cold bed in the small attic, shrinking in fear and crying non-stop.
She thought her eldest brother would never come back.
But in the middle of the night, my brother came back, with a faint smell of blood on his body, and there was a chaos outside. He said that the dean had slipped and fell down the stairs and something had happened.
She cried and threw herself into his arms, praying that nothing would happen to him, and foolishly said that she would protect him and not let the dean bully him.
After being displaced for several years, Yu Ruanruan was very precocious.
Although she was still young and could not fully remember it, she knew that something bad must have happened to her brother.
Although her brother may be cruel to her, he is different from others.
He wouldn't hit her and would give her the food.
She wanted to be with him forever, and her heart ached when she thought of him being taken away by the dean.
Yu Ruoruan remembered that that night, the moonlight in the small attic was particularly bright, and her elder brother's embrace was particularly warm.
He carefully held her face and wiped away her tears.
She still remembers the hoarse voice that was in the stage of voice change, whispering in her ear, "Brother doesn't need your protection, as long as you are in his arms and warm."
later.
When Yu Ruanruan grew up, she dreamed of this scene countless times.
"It's good that you are warm in my brother's arms."
Because the attic was too cold, their young lives carried too much darkness and pain, so they only needed a little light and heat to be saved.
In the dream, she could hear every word her brother said clearly, but Yu Ruanruan could not remember his face.