Euthanasia

Liu Zhiwei finally remembered that he hadn't finished the script of the next film before his vacation was over.

He picked a warm winter afternoon to sit on the sofa in the living room and flip through the script printed out by Jon's printer.

Jon went to the hospital in the morning to finish his rehabilitation and examination, sweated a little, and took a shower with more strength when he came back, and now he is slumping on the sofa like a salted fish eating the dessert Liu Zhiwei made for him.

Liu Zhiwei was sitting on a lazy sofa, wearing Jon's bright yellow jumper, and a pair of plush slippers with panda heads on his feet.He flipped through the script back and forth with a pen in his mouth, and the only sound in the warm living room was the sound of him flipping the paper and Jon sipping dessert.

Jon said, "What are you looking at?"

"script."

"What script?"

"The script for the next movie." Liu Zhiwei said.

"What are you talking about?" Jon asked again.

"The story of a transgender person." Liu Zhiwei glanced at Jon, only to see Jon turn around, looked at him with his hands on his head with great interest, and said, "Tell me about it."

Liu Zhiwei then put the pen between his fingers and twirled a flower and said: "The protagonist I played is called 'Fan Jin'..."

"How did you do that!" Jon yelled suddenly.

Liu Zhiwei froze for a moment: "What?"

Jon pointed to Liu Zhiwei's hand: "How did you do it!"

Liu Zhiwei looked at his fingers, and said in a daze, "... you said, turn the pen?" Liu Zhiwei turned it again while talking.

Jon almost jumped up, his eyes widened and he waved to Liu Zhiwei: "Come to me, come quickly, do it again."

"...Johnny, it's just a twist." Liu Zhiwei came to sit next to Jon, and changed the pattern on his fingers.

"Cool!" Jon was stunned.So Liu Zhiwei could only teach him how to turn the pen at his request, and after handing over the essentials to the other party, Liu Zhiwei returned to his seat and continued to read the script.

The sound of Jon's pen falling to the ground kept ringing. "You haven't finished yet."

"What did you finish?" Liu Zhiwei looked helplessly at Jon who didn't know how many times he dropped his pen.

"Your script." Jon still bit his tongue and stared at the pen between his fingers, but he didn't forget to ask Liu Zhiwei about the script.

"Oh, um... I'm playing 'Fan Jin', he's a transgender person, I mean, she." Liu Zhiwei flipped back a few pages of the script, "She used to be a boy, because of gender confusion, she was punished at school. Serious bullying..."

The pen in Jon's hand dropped, and he looked at Liu Zhiwei.

"Later, with the help of friends and mother, I came out and decided to accept my inner gender change," Liu Zhiwei continued without noticing Jon's sudden look up, "but after she changed her gender, she suffered more social discrimination. The change made her realize that she cannot be a normal person freely. She sometimes misses the tolerance of society before her transgender, but she also recognizes her transgender self more...it is a very complicated role.”

Liu Zhiwei likes to analyze the character's psychology and personality more than the plot.He looked up to find Jon staring at him seriously.

"what happened?"

Jon's eyes softened, and he picked up the pen again and said, "Have I told you? I have also been bullied on campus."

Liu Zhiwei was stunned and didn't know how to speak. "Oh... I only heard how you bullied other classmates..."

Jon looked at the ceiling: "Oh, that's for later..."

Liu Zhiwei looked at Jon for a while, put down the script and said, "Do you want to tell me?"

"Now?" Jon said, "I don't want to spoil the weather."

"What does this have to do with the weather?"

"I'll be cold," Jon said.

Liu Zhiwei: "..." He stood up, came to Jon's side, and put the overcoat on Jon's body: "How about this?"

"Cold," Jon said, "unless you hold me."

Liu Zhiwei choked, looked at Jon for two seconds, and put his arm around his shoulder.

Jon said, "It's much warmer."

Liu Zhiwei: "...Okay, do you want to talk?"

"I used to be a nerd, you know, the easily bullied type," Jon shrugged, "obsessed with games, started obsessed with codes and mechanics in middle school, and made things that no one thought would be normal ..."

"Like what?" Liu Zhiwei asked.

"Like... like the electronic compass - it needs a magnet bigger than your wrist, the mouse alarm clock that barks when it's time and never catches it, the sprinkler that sprays pets when they walk by... some type of."

"It sounds amazing." Liu Zhiwei said seriously.

"Not at all," Jon said. "Because of these, I was laughed at. And in order to obtain materials, I stole a lot of things from my father-including money...I admit that it was my fault."

Liu Zhiwei smiled.

"People call me a freak and throw things at me, but I don't give a damn."

Liu Zhiwei stared into Jon's eyes.

"...Well, I care a lot." Jon looked away, "You know, the kind of feelings a child has for his parents and his peers..."

"In short, I was deeply hurt," Jon spread his hands, "and kept blaming myself. When I had nowhere to vent, I would go to Andy, sometimes talk to him, sometimes Time to take it out on it."

Liu Zhiwei touched Jon's upper arm.

Jon paused and said, "I was once locked in a storage room for two days by a prank."

Liu Zhiwei froze for a moment, opened his mouth wide and said, "What?!"

"My parents were divorcing at the time, and they didn't have time to care about me," Jon shrugged. "I had a few enemies at school, and they made fun of me every day. It was a storage that no one would normally check. The room was used to put mops, brooms and so on. It was a weekend, and they locked me in on Friday night, and the cleaners didn’t find me until Monday.”

Liu Zhiwei almost shouted "whatthefuck".

"I was 13 at the time, and there were only more pranks before that, just because I was different from them." Jon tilted his head.

Liu Zhiwei hugged Jon tightly with both hands.

"It's warmer." Jon said, putting his arms around Liu Zhiwei's waist. "Don't worry, it's all over now. And after that, when I realized that I should resist, I started to bully others."

Liu Zhiwei: "..."

"My EQ is growing." Jon gestured with his hand, "After changing schools, I started to join the basketball team and started to bully people who didn't like me, that's when I met Shanna. The first time we met was I stuck a nerd in the bathroom with a basketball because he said I was big and no brains."

"Wait, toilet?" Liu Zhiwei's focus was a bit skewed.

"Yeah, the men's room," Jon said. "Sanna was putting on lipstick in the mirror when we went in. I almost thought we were going the wrong way."

Liu Zhiwei laughed "poof": "Why is she in the men's room?"

"She later told me that the women's bathroom was full of people, and she only needed a mirror to touch up her makeup." Jon couldn't help laughing, "Do you know what she said to me?"

Liu Zhiwei said, "Say what?"

"She asked me if I wanted to borrow her lipstick for makeup. Only people who don't have dicks use other things to try to pretend to be stronger."

Liu Zhiwei thought about this sentence for a while.

"You know, I was touched," Jon spread his hands and said, "That nerd chased Shanna for a semester, but no relationship developed between them, but Shanna and I became friends."

Liu Zhiwei couldn't help laughing.

"However, some injuries that occurred when I was young will remain until I grow up," Jon said with his arms around Liu Zhiwei's waist, "I can still clearly remember the fear of being locked in the storage room. For a while I was terrified of the dark, but my parents ignored me. I only had Andy, so I couldn't sleep without Andy at all."

Liu Zhiwei tightened Jon's shoulders.After a while, Jon said, "Why can't I learn to turn the pen?"

Liu Zhiwei: "...This is a must-have skill for Chinese students, and you probably won't be able to learn it."

Jon: "..."

A few days later, Liu Zhiwei successfully entered the crew of "Cross Dress".

One hour after Liu Zhiwei left home, Lu Yi arrived at Liu Zhiwei's house.Jon was ready to go, just waiting for Lu Yi to push him out.

They entered a nearby high-end tea room, Shanna was already waiting for them in a small private room, and sitting opposite her was a woman who looked about the same age as Liu Zhiwei.

The other party's eyes lit up when they saw Jon, and immediately stood up and said, "Hi, my name is Jane, and I'm Joe's sister."

Jon reached out his hand to shake the other party's hand, with his usual expression and posture as when he was meeting a reporter, only a little more gentle than that posture.He said in Chinese: "Hi, Jon Williams, sit down."

"Your Chinese is really good." The other party said.

"Thank you." With Lu Yi's help, Jon sat down beside Shanna.

"I'm sorry to contact you in my busy schedule," said Lu Yi, who was sitting next to the woman, "but your news is very important to us."

Jane immediately said: "I should be glad you guys are interested in this matter. I thought it was a scam when my brother told me..."

"I know it's a bit unbelievable," Jon cocked his lips without a smile, "When my employee told me that the friend he played games with had a younger sister who was a classmate with my lover I can't believe it either."

"...Love?" Jane repeated hesitantly.

Jon didn't answer her directly. "You are a law student. Before we start talking, I think it is necessary for us to sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement with the locality. What do you think?"

Jane was ready, she nodded and said, "No problem."

Lu Yi took out the agreement from his briefcase, and after Jane read it sentence by sentence, she signed her Chinese name——Zhang Zhengzhen.

Jon watched her sign and said, "Zeo, Liu Zhiwei, is my husband in the legal sense. We got married last year."

Zhang Zhengzhen's eyes widened, and his mouth opened uncontrollably.She has been working as a legal affairs officer in the entertainment industry for a long time, and this news still shocked her.

"So I think you understand why I am so concerned and interested in his affairs." Jon said, grabbing a piece of pastry on the table and stuffing it into his mouth, "Joe said that you and him are classmates at the same school, sorry I'm sorry You did some research. I want to know why you switched to practice and why you keep collecting sexual assault cases on campus?"

Zhang Zhengzhen immediately understood something when he heard these questions.She considered for a while, then said, "Mr. Williams..."

"You can call me Jon." Jon twisted another piece of pastry.

"Okay...Jon," Zhang Zhengzhen said, "Do you know who Liu Zhiwei's mentor was during school?"

"Sun Peihua." Jon said the name accurately.

Hearing this name, Zhang Zhengzhen confirmed his guess even more.She said: "I changed careers, actually, there is a big reason that comes from him."

Jon looked at the other person and waited for her to continue.

"Because of the nature of our university, there are many handsome men and beautiful women, and there are not a few who are exceptionally admitted at a young age," Zhang Zhengzhen said, "Sun Peihua is a mentor in the director department, and he is quite famous in the industry. Many people want to go to him. I also want to be an actor in the movie he directed. Do you know Li Jiang?"

Jon's eyelids twitched slightly.

"Director Li Jiang also served as his assistant director and assistant."

Jon put down the pastry in his hand and said, "And then?"

"Sun Peihua——" Zhang Zhengzhen paused for a moment, as if hesitating whether he should talk to Jon or not.

Jon adjusted his sitting posture, looked straight into the other's eyes and said, "I love my husband very much. The biggest reason why I didn't go to death came from him. I also know what kind of person he is, you don't have to have any scruples."

Zhang Zhengzhen calmed down and said: "Sun Peihua has sexually assaulted many students, and Liu Zhiwei is also one of his students. I have no direct evidence to prove that Liu Zhiwei was assaulted, but his reaction and treatment are almost the same as those of other raped students. The students are exactly the same."

Jon didn't even move his brows, he asked, "Other students?"

Zhang Zhengzhen said: "Yes, I changed careers because my best friend was also one of the victims."

Jon said: "Would you like to provide me with the other party's contact information?"

Zhang Zhengzhen said: "I think it may be difficult for you to get more information from him than I do. Many years have passed, and I have been collecting new evidence over the years. Sun Peihua is very smart and cunning. The limit of sentencing. He is looking for young, introverted and innocent students who admire him. Few people will tell the story of being sexually assaulted, and the school will selectively cover up some damage to reputation. Fact... I was one year older than Liu Zhiwei. At that time, my friend had already been sexually assaulted, and the blow to his spirit was almost devastating...so I was very sensitive to these things. When I saw Liu Zhiwei, I felt He may be the type of target that Sun Peihua is aiming at, but when he was assigned a mentor, he was indeed under Sun Peihua's subordinates."

"Have you stopped him?" Lu Yi asked from the side.

"No," Zhang Zhengzhen said, "The tutors are all assigned by the school, and students cannot easily change without special reasons. And Sun Peihua has a good reputation in the industry. Even if I told Liu Zhiwei that he should not choose this tutor, he might think that I'm talking nonsense... It's not that this has never happened. Yang Shuo, who was assigned to him with Liu Zhiwei, I once persuaded him, and he thought that I was just trying to let other competitors get this spot."

The name "Yang Shuo" circled in Jon's mind."You said you've been gathering new evidence, can you share it with me?" he asked.

Seeing the other party's hesitant expression, Jon said: "The crimes that happened in the past are difficult to trace, but as long as he continues to violate others, we have a chance, don't we?"

"...But the follow-up may have nothing to do with Liu Zhiwei..."

Jon adjusted his sitting position again, leaned forward slightly, and said, "Listen, this man raped my lover. The most I want to do is smash his head with a hammer, but I can't. So no matter what he did , I will try my best to make him suffer the punishment he deserves. I am sniping him-understand?"