"...I can't control myself. I obviously managed to lose weight from 147 catties to 98 catties, but I just want to be a normal person now, but I just drank an extra cup of milk tea or ate an extra bowl of rice. I even eat less than ordinary people, but my weight is increasing uncontrollably! Uncontrollable soaring day by day!...I really want to die, obviously I am so Self-discipline, why do they want to stimulate me, saying that I finally lost weight, why should I eat myself back!!...."

Listening to the heart-piercing crying on the other end of the phone, Shen Xibai's heart also throbbed.

He calmed down and comforted him carefully, "I know that no matter what I say at this moment, you will only think that I am talking sarcasticly, because I am not the person involved, so even if I feel strongly that you are in pain at the moment, I can't say it. I understand you……"

"This world is always strict with girls. I believe you must be very tired. In fact, many people have misconceptions, thinking that being fat means not self-discipline, but it is not true. It is because they are too self-disciplined that they will continue to cater to social deformities. Aesthetically extreme diet control, that's why I went from anorexia to bulimia step by step..."

Shen Xibai is an operator of a suicide hotline. Since he took office, he has received calls from different people from all over the country every day, ranging from elderly people in their 70s to [-] years old, down to children who are still in the ignorant stage of childhood.

The reason for everyone's collapse is different, but without exception, everyone is in their own world, where others cannot see the collapse due to different reasons, but due to various reasons, they live stubbornly in this world .

Shen Xibai's task is to chat with them and listen to what they say that they don't want to tell the people around them.

But this job is not as easy as imagined, because every month, Shen Xibai can receive more than three crisis calls, which also means that his intervention failed, and the caller still decided to commit suicide, so he had to call the police for rescue.

Hearing that the girl on the other end of the phone gradually calmed down, Shen Xibai's tone became more and more gentle, with a warmth like a spring breeze.

The call lasted a full two hours. Shen Xibai listened to the girl talk about the unfair treatment she received, including before and after her success, and the attitude of the people around her after she regained weight. Feedback is very sincere.

After hanging up the phone, Shen Xibai breathed a sigh of relief, then took a sip of water from the glass next to him, and wanted to get up to go to the toilet.

Basically, every phone call lasted a long time, and he just squeezed time to do other things, and he didn't even dare to drink more water.

There was a "beep", another new call, and Shen Xibai returned to work as soon as he sat down.

He quickly pressed the confirmation button and began to speak with him skillfully.

"Hello." Shen Xibai adjusted his breathing, trying to make his voice sound more comfortable. He glanced at the phone address, and it turned out to be the city he is currently in.

"Hello." There was a male voice with a slightly hoarse voice on the other end of the phone.

Shen Xibai was slightly taken aback, inexplicably feeling that this voice was somewhat familiar.

But according to professional ethics, Shen Xibai still spoke his lines skillfully, "May I help you?"

"I...can I ask you to tell me a story?" The other end of the phone paused, his voice was very low, as if humbled into the dust, he carefully made his request.

Shen Xibai was taken aback for a moment, this was the first time he heard such a strange request, after feeling vaguely that it was not a prank, Shen Xibai still followed the other party's wishes.

"Of course, what story do you want to hear?"

The other end of the phone paused again, as if thinking about the answer to this question. After a long time, the man replied, "Then tell a fairy tale."

Shen Xibai began to enter the state confidently, "far, far away, there is a little prince, he can hear the mouse whispering in the gutter, he can also hear the hymn of the daffodil, and he can sing with the cuckoo, he was born He is one with the earth, born with the earth, and the one who is dependent on him is a man in black wearing a mask..."

After Shen Xibai finished speaking, the veins on his forehead twitched slightly. He didn't even know when, even the rhythm of his breathing and the gradual acceleration of his storytelling seemed to stimulate a certain string in his nerves. It made him a little short of breath before he finished speaking.

It wasn't just him, the man on the other end of the phone also trembled slightly where Shen Xibai couldn't see, as if he had been greatly stimulated.

Seeing Shen Xibai's story finished, the man asked anxiously, "Then where did the man in black go?"

Shen Xibai's lips moved, feeling that this story was inexplicably hot.

Strange to say, he obviously told the first part of the story very well, but he started to hesitate and even speak incoherently when he talked about the man in black.

"Maybe... Maybe he found the person he was looking for, so he left the little prince."

"No." The man's voice was hoarse, "It's impossible for him to leave the little prince."

Shen Xibai paused, blinked, and breathed evenly and long.

He tilted his head, and made up the story according to the man's intentions, "Later, the little prince and the man in black lived happily together."

"En." The man on the other end of the phone hummed lightly, as if he was very satisfied with the ending.

Shen Xibai couldn't help but chuckle slightly.

The atmosphere eased a little, Shen Xibai began to get to the point, "Did you encounter any unpleasantness in your life? Would you like to tell me about it?"

After finishing speaking, the corners of Shen Xibai's mouth curved slightly.

But as soon as his words fell, he heard a "pop".

--The call was actually hung up by the other party.

Be caught off guard.

Shen Xibai sat on the stool in a daze for a long time, until the new call was transferred, he trembled a bit, and hurriedly threw himself into a new round of work.

Simply this is just a small episode.

"Ouch."

Shen Xibai got off work early today, and it was still dark. He was wearing a mask and hat, and was walking leisurely on the sidewalk, when he heard a groan suddenly, and his gaze followed to the source of the sound.

---Northwest, on the sidewalk, an old man with gray hair lay lying about 500 meters away from him.

The old man was lying on his side on the ground, wearing canvas shoes and a shirt with plum patterns, his eyes were closed tightly, and he groaned and groaned in pain from time to time. He looked very weak and weak, and he didn't know how long he had been lying there.

This is not a remote suburb, there are people coming and going, and the flow of people is very high. Looking in Shen Xibai's direction, he can see many people passing by the old man.

The vast majority of passers-by would subconsciously frown and avoid them. Of course, there were also well-meaning people who walked around the old man several times and refused to leave, as if they were weighing whether to help him or not.

After all, it has always been a controversial topic whether to help the elderly when they fall.

Although some people suggested that video recordings could be used as evidence before helping people, so as to do good deeds without being blackmailed, in fact, this kind of thinking is extremely naive.

From a legal point of view, this video can only prove that you have the act of helping the elderly.

Therefore, in a society where the cost of being a good person is so high, even a good person would not dare to help a fallen old man easily.

Shen Xibai was also a little hesitant, he clenched his fists and lowered them, and his footsteps also paused a little, because the position where the old man was lying was not the only way he had to go home, so he could easily go through this muddy water.

But when Shen Xibai thought of his career and original aspiration, he couldn't really ignore it.

Thinking of this, Shen Xibai hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to help.

He took a deep breath and walked towards the old man's position. He had just taken two steps when someone grabbed his wrist suddenly.

Shen Xibai was startled, turned around, and immediately met a pair of gloomy eyes.

The man is dressed in black, and his temperament is cold, which makes people feel very unfriendly.In addition, the man was half a head taller than him, so Shen Xibai just raised his head and looked at him, feeling very oppressive

Before Shen Xibai asked strangely, the man glanced at the direction where the old man was lying indifferently from the corner of his eye, and then said with a gloomy face, "Don't go."

Shen Xibai was taken aback for a moment, inexplicably feeling that the voice sounded familiar, and then he realized that he glanced in the direction of the old man, pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and said seriously, "I can't ignore my life choices."

The man paused, and half of the strength in holding Shen Xibai's hand was released.

Seeing this, Shen Xibai broke free from his hand, and walked straight to the place where the old man fell.

The man stood in place, looked at his back, looked like he saw God, his lips moved, and repeated what Shen Xibai had just said in an emotionless tone, "I can't ignore life..."

Complicated emotions flashed in his eyes, as if he had thought of something, and there was more hostility in his eyes.

Everything happened very suddenly. Seeing that Shen Xibai was only 50 meters away from the old man, a pair of faster hands supported the old man.

Shen Xibai also paused in his footsteps, then slowly slowed down, letting out a sigh of relief.

Just when Shen Xibai was relieved and was about to turn around and leave, the scene that made him shudder finally happened in the most unbearable form.

The old man who was lying half dead on the ground just now opened his eyes suddenly when he was touched by someone, a cunning flashed in his eyes, and then he began to murmur shamelessly, "Why did you push me? I saw it, it was you Push me, whoops, my waist, my legs, whoops..."

Everything happened so fast that the goosebumps all over Shen Xibai's body stood up in an instant, and there was a suffocating feeling that the blood was flowing backwards all over his body, and he even began to tremble uncontrollably. He froze in place and witnessed the whole process.

The one who was blackmailed was also a young guy, and when he saw this posture, he immediately turned pale.

The young man quickly wanted to shake off the old man's hand, but the old man had been on guard for a long time, and immediately grabbed his arm with all his strength, and then clung to him like a piece of brown sugar.

The man behind Shen Xibai walked to his side at some point, and looked at the old man's direction without any surprise, and it could even be said that he didn't care about it without sadness or joy.

I don't know if it's because it's not a big deal to join in the fun, but some passers-by started to take pictures in the direction of the old man and the young man, and some even started to scold the young man for not being responsible...

It's like a ridiculous farce.

"How could this be..." Shen Xibai's voice trembled a little, as if he was torturing himself.

The man glanced at him, opened his lips,

"People are always only willing to believe the "truth" they want."

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