While Su Jinyu was with Gu Peilang waiting for the elevator, the man in the ward chased after them and stopped them.
"Assistant Liu, is there anything else?" Su Jinyu looked at the person in front of him.
Liu Qi looked at him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I heard that Mr. Su and Young Master Fang have been good friends for many years. I have something to ask Mr. Su."
Su Jinyu lowered his head and glanced at Gu Peilang in the wheelchair.
"you say."
Liu Qi: "Master Fang... he seems to be afraid of me..."
Su Jinyu listened to his words and couldn't help curling the corners of his lips.
"You hurt someone, isn't it normal for him to be afraid of you?"
Liu Qi: "..."
"No," the man shook his head and said deliberately, "It's not so much that he is afraid of me, it is better to say that he is afraid of my eyes."
When the young man talked to him, he deliberately avoided his gaze, and every time he looked at it, he wanted to hide under the quilt and never come out.
Su Jinyu listened to his words, the smile on his face disappeared little by little, and his eyes gradually became serious.
Gu Peilang was keenly aware of the change in his mood.
The man's eyes looked straight at Liu Qi, and Liu Qi was a little bit stiff as he saw it.
After a long while, Su Jinyu seemed to have thought of something, and his face became a little ugly.
"Assistant Liu doesn't want Mingzhi to be afraid of you anymore, he can take off the glasses on his face."
"what?"
The elevator door opened with a "ding", Su Jinyu didn't wait for Liu Qi to speak again, and pushed Gu Peilang into the elevator.
After getting in the car, Su Jinyu did not start the car.
In the enclosed space, the air pressure is a little low.
"When I was a sophomore in high school, I was expelled from the school for fighting, so Su Jianghai found a fully enclosed private middle school and put me in."
After a long time, the man in the driver's seat suddenly opened his mouth.
Gu Peilang, who was in the co-pilot, tilted his head to look at him. The man who was trapped in memories under the street light had a terrifying expression on his face.
Gu Peilang didn't say a word, just raised his hand and put his white-knuckle hand on the steering wheel, gently clasping it in the palm of his hand.
Su Jinyu's long eyelashes trembled.
When he was twelve years old, he was taken into the Su family by Mr. Su. A bum who had lived in the countryside since he was a child, suddenly he had to integrate into the so-called upper-class circles, and it was conceivable how much scorn and ridicule he had to suffer.
Since the first day he stepped into the Su family, Su Jinyu knew that no one in the Su family really welcomed him.
At a sensitive age, in order to live in peace, he began to learn how to please those in the Su family.
Originally thought that Mr. Su was an obedient, sensible, well-behaved and capable child, so he studied hard, but after returning home with the first prize certificate, he was sneered at by the unmarried aunt at the time, and finally he was in front of him. In the face of the whole family, the certificate of award was torn up.
Old Master Su didn't stop him. Even his second uncle, who was the best to him, just rebuked his sister a few words, and then gave up.
From beginning to end, no one was happy for him to get the first place in the exam.
From that time, he understood that the people of the Su family did not want him to become a talent.
After that, he skipped classes, fought, and formed gangs. He became a school bully in the mouths of his classmates, and a problem student in the mouths of teachers.
The Su family didn't respond to this, and even said that they were happy to see him like this.
In his second year of high school, he was expelled in public for accidentally breaking the bridge of the school director's son's nose.
There was a bit of power behind the school director. In order to quell the anger of the other party, the Su family beat him severely in front of the man, and then drove him to the Su family ancestral hall, where he was locked up for a day and a night.
After coming out, Su Jianghai sent him to a private high school that was completely closed.
A week after he changed schools, he met Fang Mingzhi who was blocked in the alley.
It was the first time the two met.
Su Jinyu will always remember that day, when the dazzling sunlight was stingy and refused to give half of the warmth to the moss-covered alley.
The boy in the school uniform hugged the schoolbag with a bruised nose and a swollen face and hid in the corner sobbing, holding the schoolbag full of mud tightly in his arms.
"Boy, you should hand over all the money you have, otherwise, we will invite you to drink the water in the toilet, hahahaha..."
Several half-year-old teenagers laughed and poked each other's shoulders maliciously.
Su Jinyu didn't want to make trouble for herself, she turned her feet to leave, but heard a whimper from behind.
So thin and so small, it resembled the little milk cat that had just been born in his grandmother's house.
He sighed, raised his eyebrows sullenly, and beat those people away.
When he came out of the alley, there was a small tail behind him.
The child blinked the wet puppy's eyes at him, one eye was swollen to the point of only a slit.
The other party limped behind him, stood outside the door when he returned to the bedroom, took out all the money in the schoolbag tremblingly, and handed it to him.
This man... is a fool? This was Su Jinyu's first impression of Fang Mingzhi.
That day, he drove away the other party with a cold face.
Originally thought that the fate of the two would end here, but Su Jinyu did not expect that since then, he would always see each other being bullied every three days.
Every time the young man always shrugged his shoulders and lowered his head pitifully, as if he would never learn to resist.
Su Jinyu looked at him, and in a trance, he seemed to see his former self.
So he acquiesced to the little tail behind him, silently brought the other party under his wing, and protected him for the next two years of high school... No, not without protection.
An incident in his senior year of high school almost made him lose that timid and lovely boy.
"One day before the college entrance examination, Mingzhi suddenly found me. He said that their head teacher looked at him in a wrong way, and said he was afraid. At that time, I was upset because of the Su family's troubles, and I thought he was just nervous because of the approaching college entrance examination. , I didn't take it to heart..." Su Jinyu's voice was a little hoarse, with remorse and self-blame on his brows.
"Until the last evening self-study before graduation, I didn't wait for anyone downstairs. I decided to go to his classroom to look for him, and I saw... I saw..." Su Jinyu's eyes widened and his breathing became scarlet.
Gu Peilang held his hand tightly and comforted him silently.
Su Jinyu gritted his teeth, warm tears dripped on his thighs, fainting a small dark trace.
"Mingzhi was... stripped naked and tied to a stool..."
Those people, like demons, surrounded the naked boy and laughed wantonly, the words in their mouths were unbearable. On weekdays, on the podium where the teacher taught, a black tripod stood with a camera at the top, recording the atrocities in front of him.
The boy was trembling with anger, and before he had time to rush up to save someone, the door of the office on the side was suddenly opened, and someone came out.
Su Jinyu recognized the other party as Fang Mingzhi's head teacher.
A man in an elegant suit and golden glasses passed by the door of the classroom and saw everything in his eyes.
Su Jinyu Tian really thought that the other party would stop and criticize and punish the perpetrators.
But no, the other party even ignored Fang Mingzhi's piercing cry for help, closed the door of the classroom thoughtfully, and even told the demons before leaving: "There will be security guards coming to patrol in a while, don't play too much."
A teacher who teaches and educates not only ignores the bullying his students are subjected to, but also shelters and condones the abuser.
For the first time, Su Jinyu knew that there were people who could be so indifferent.
When helping the boy untie the rope, his hands were shaking.
"He's such a small one, lying in my arms lightly, as if the wind will disperse..." Su Jinyu sniffed and turned to look at the man in front of him, her eyes flushed.
"I've always wondered, if I could care more about him and take his words to heart, would the following things not happen..."
"I don't blame you." Gu Peilang calmed down his excitement, his voice low and gentle.
"Blame me, blame me..." Su Jinyu shook his head with a sad expression.
After that time, the Fang family's parents were cruel, making all those people pay the price, and then took Fang Mingzhi out of the country.
Su Jinyu hadn't seen each other for half a year, and when they met again, the young man had become his college classmate and roommate.
During the days they spent together, he found that the youth seemed to have lost the memory of that period of time. Later, Fang's mother's remarks confirmed his guess.
After they went abroad with Fang Mingzhi, the teenager locked himself in the room all day and saw no one. Every day, he was awakened by nightmares, and then shouted endlessly. As a last resort, they found a psychiatrist to hypnotize people and seal up that dark memory.
"He has been heartless all these years. I thought the hypnosis was really successful. Now it seems that he was afraid that we were worried and pretended that nothing happened... This fool!" At the end , Su Jinyu gritted his teeth, both angry and distressed.
In this way, everything makes sense. Why did young people get unreasonably nervous when they saw a man in a suit and glasses, and today they would pitifully tell him in the ward if he could not see Liu Qi.
"I should have found out sooner." Su Jinyu looked at the man in front of him, his tone full of self-blame.
Gu Peilang reached out and hugged him into his arms, making him lean on his shoulders.
"It's not your fault, you've done a great job."
Su Jinyu shook his head and didn't speak. Gu Peilang looked down at his soft black hair and gently kissed him on the head.
"Liu Qi looks like the head teacher of Mingzhi High School?"
Su Jinyu: "It's not very similar, it's just a bit similar when wearing glasses."
Gu Peilang nodded: "Since that's the case, I'll call him out now."
"Need not… "
Su Jinyu raised his hand to stop the man from dialing. He was silent for a moment, as if he had made a decision.
"You have seen how Assistant Liu looked at Mingzhi in the ward just now. I wonder if he is the one who brought Mingzhi out of his heart."
Gu Peilang put the phone back in place: "You want to..."
Su Jinyu nodded and said solemnly, "Well, I want to bet once for Mingzhi."