Do not lie to me

When the alarm clock rang for the second time in the morning, Shang Xuechen stretched out his hand impatiently from under the quilt, and turned off the alarm clock.Sticking his head out from under the quilt, he regretted agreeing to Ji Shuping to make an appointment so early.

Shang Xuechen raised the hair on his head and came out of the room with Wu Qing facing his eyes, just in time for Zhou Yuan to come out of the room. Seeing that she didn't look much better than him, "Why do you look like a black chicken?"

Zhou Yuan ignored Shang Xuechen when she heard that she was hurting her, and rushed into the bathroom before Shang Xuechen.Shang Xuechen went to the living room, lay down on the sofa, and shouted towards the toilet, "Hurry up, I have an appointment today, and I'm in a hurry." The people in the toilet did not respond.Someone outside the door responded, and the door was knocked.

Shang Xuechen was wondering, who came back so early, the one who checked the water meter and read the electricity meter didn't come so early.Opening the door, it was Qi Liang. Qi Liang leaned sideways and leaned against the door with his head bowed. Shang Xuechen sighed and said to him, "Come in." He turned around and entered the room first.

Before he reached the living room, someone grabbed him from behind. Shang Xuechen looked back and saw that it was Qi Liang who was pulling his pajamas.When the door was just opened, Qi Liang turned half his body sideways, and lowered his head, Shang Xuechen didn't look at him carefully, only to find Qi Liang's eyes were bruised when he came in now.

Shang Xuechen stepped forward to support Qi Liang's shoulder, "Who beat you?"

Qi Liang frowned, lowered his head, looked aggrieved, opened and closed his mouth a few times, and was just about to speak when there was the sound of water in the toilet, and then Zhou Yuan came out of the toilet.

Shang Xuechen was afraid that Qi Liang would be embarrassed and blocked Qi Liang with his body, but Zhou Yuan still saw it.Zhou Yuan also understands that when Qi Liang is present, it is better for her not to be a light bulb, and she takes the initiative to hand over the place, "I am working overtime today, and I will go back to my room to change clothes and leave. You two chat slowly."

Seeing Zhou Yuan's discernment, Shang Xuechen also politely said, "You work overtime on Saturday, your boss is very picky."

Zhou Yuan returned to the room with a smile, Shang Xuechen helped Qi Liang to sit down on the sofa in the living room, and asked him, "What's going on?"

Qi Liang swallowed and didn't speak. Shang Xuechen knew that he was concerned about Zhou Yuan's presence, so he got up and poured him a glass of water to calm him down. He was ready to wait for Zhou Yuan to go out, and he was asking carefully.

Not long after, Zhou Yuan packed up and came out to say hello to Shang Xuechen and Qi Liang, and then went out. Qi Liang still didn't speak, but nodded to Zhou Yuan. Shang Xuechen sent Zhou Yuan to the elevator before turning back. Sitting next to Qi Liang, "Now we can talk," he saw Qi Liang still digging his nails with his head down, "what's going on."

Qi Liang was silent all the time, Shang Xuechen checked the time, afraid that he would not be able to keep up with the agreement with Ji Shuping, so he was really impatient to wait for Qi Liang to speak, so he had to urge him, "Qi Liang, you came here to discuss with me, and you have been making trouble for a long time. If you don't speak, I don't have the time to wait for you."

After Shang Xuechen finished speaking, it seemed that Qi Liang still had no intention of opening his mouth. He got up and prepared to change his clothes before going out. As soon as he got up, Qi Liang grabbed the corner of his clothes again. Shang Xuechen looked down at him, but he buried his head, Shang Xuechen only saw his determination.

"I owe someone money."

"What?" Shang Xuechen sat down again, "Who do you owe money to? You don't know how to borrow money from usury, do you?"

Qi Liang shook his head, "It's Shen Ao."

Shang Xuechen's voice was full of anger, "Why do you owe him money?!"

Qi Liang raised his head, his half-bruised eyes half-squinted, "At that time, I thought I didn't have enough money to open a bar, and I couldn't find anyone to borrow money from, so I asked him to borrow money."

"Even if you are short of money, you can't ask him to borrow it! He's not like before..." At this point, Shang Xuechen couldn't continue.

Qi Liang felt indifferent, and said in a flat tone, "What was he before? He raped me before? Xuechen, you know that I planned what happened back then. I deliberately let you and Jiajia see it. It happened to break up you and Jiajia."

Qi Liang didn't care anymore when he said it, but Shang Xuechen felt uncomfortable, "Don't talk about that matter, isn't it Shen Ao who has been bullying you and beating you before that? How can you still ask him to borrow money? Willing to lend you?" Shang Xuechen recalled that night when he went to Qi Liang, and it was Shen Ao who opened the door, "Why did he lend you money? Did you sell yourself to him?"

Qi Liang didn't speak, it was acquiescence.Shang Xuechen asked him again, "Then why is he beating you now? When I saw it the other day, I thought you two got along pretty well."

Qi Liang reached for the water glass on the tea table in front of him, took two sips of water before answering Shang Xuechen, "After seeing you that day, I went back and thought about it and told him that I want to sell the store."

"He beat you because of this, and he disagreed with setting up the store, you can discuss it carefully, how can he beat you." Qi Liang turned to look at him when he heard Shang Xuechen say this.After being stared at by him, Shang Xuechen understood that he had discussed with Qi Liang to take him away that day, Shen Ao probably beat him because of this, and the two were silent for a while.

Qi Liang spoke first to break the silence, "Xuechen, I was not like this before."

before?Shang Xuechen didn't know when Qi Liang was talking about before, he was already like this when he met him.

Qi Liang squeezed the water glass tightly, and said slowly, "I had a friend before, before I met you. In fact, if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be isolated and bullied, but if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have met You. Then I became like her again, repaying kindness with grievances, and tied you by my side with torture."

"If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have those rumors, and you wouldn't..."

"I was raped, I designed it myself, and I released those rumors myself."

Shang Xuechen looked at Qi Liang in surprise, and Qi Liang's face was calm without any waves, "If only we hadn't met in such a scene, it would have been nice if we had met before then, I wouldn't have treated you so badly. You saved me when I was most embarrassed, and when I met you, I was already not a good person." Qi Liang's tone was still calm, but his eyes gradually dimmed.

Shang Xuechen sighed, he really wanted to say to Qi Liang that the past was fine, but he couldn't do it, he was still not open-minded enough, but he couldn't blame Qi Liang, he could only help him find an excuse, "It's because of your friend Turned you bad? What did she do to you?"

Qi Liang took another sip of water, as if to cheer himself up, "I discovered her secret, she was sexually abused by her stepfather. I discovered it by accident, and she was very scared. I said I would call the police for her, but she begged me not to , because she begged her mother, and she secretly reported to the police, but her mother testified on behalf of her stepfather that it was just an ordinary family conflict, and she would only wait for a more miserable end. She begged me hard, and I promised to help her hide it .”

Qi Liang took a deep breath before continuing, "Later she said that she wanted to be friends with me. I didn't think much of it at the time, only thinking that maybe she wanted someone to talk to. It turned out that I was wrong. She was actually afraid , I was afraid that I would tell her things. She said she was a friend, but she was trying to please me. I told her not to do this, and I would not tell others. Maybe she was betrayed by her own mother, so she felt insecure , I didn’t believe anyone. Later, I even said to me that I was willing to repay me with my body. I knew she was afraid, and I sympathized with her. In order to make her feel at ease, I told her my secret. I told her, I I like boys."

"and after."

"Later? Then it developed into the way you met me. She told my secret, and I was isolated and bullied, because she told my secret, so I will tell her about her later. When I went out, others only thought I was slandering her. Because of her, I spent years in school and suffered violence every day. Among the people who beat me was Shen Ao. I couldn't bear it, so I begged her, begged her to save me, let me go .Do you know what she told me?"

Shang Xuechen clenched his fists, "What did she say?"

Qi Liang smiled and sighed, and gradually revealed sadness in his plain tone, "She said that I forced her. Because I didn't ask her to make her feel scared, that's why she did it. She doesn't believe that there are people in this world. Kindness that doesn't ask for anything in return. Fear, she says, is more secure than love."

"The words she said to me broke all my principles of being a human being. I was bullied every day, and I gradually felt that the world was terrible. Until you appeared, that day I was beaten like a dead dog in the corner, But you reached out to me and gave me a hand. After being by your side, gradually no one will bully me. When you appeared, I was no longer what I was before. I would be afraid even if you were not by my side for a second. I was afraid that someone would drag me into the alley and beat me to death. I thought of her as a friend and wanted to be honest with her, but it turned out that my secret was known to everyone. Even if you saved me, I can’t be as honest as before Wait, the lesson she taught me is too deep. Because of fear, even if I face you, I will lie all the time. Only by lying can I protect myself. Who knows, you always easily see through my lies, but you never expose them. I feel like you are getting further and further away from me."

Shang Xuechen lowered his head and didn't speak. At that time, he had already mastered the ability to read people, and the lies that others said easily with a smile were very disgusting to him.

"From the moment you reached out to me, I fell in love with you. But I couldn't say this, and even if I said it, you wouldn't believe it, you would only think I was lying. Until Jiajia appeared later, You and Jiajia are together. I thought about not disturbing you, but those who bullied me will deliberately trip me up as long as you are not around. I was very scared, so I spread rumors. From the beginning, There are rumors about your flirtatiousness in school, and I spread the rumor that you both slept with both men and women. I know that as long as this is spread, I will follow you every day, and naturally someone will spread the rumor that we have slept together. "

Shang Xuechen patted Qi Liang's shoulder, Qi Liang gasped, and Shang Xuechen immediately withdrew his hand, "Are you injured too?"

Qi Liang held Shang Xuechen's hand, this time Shang Xuechen didn't hide, Qi Liang looked at him with a smile, "Let me finish my sentence."

Shang Xuechen got up and wanted to find the medicine box, Qi Liang held his hand tightly, and Shang Xuechen helped him smooth out the broken hair on his forehead, "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it."

Qi Liang smiled and shook his head, "If I don't tell you today, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell you again in the future, so let me finish."

Shang Xuechen sat down, let Qi Liang hold his hand, and listened to him talk about what happened next.

"The rumor spread as I thought, and naturally attracted some people with malicious intentions. Among them was Shen Ao. At the beginning, he bullied me the most. I thought he was disgusted by such things, but who knew he would show up to me All kinds of harassment."

Qi Liang didn't say how Shen Ao harassed him at that time, he just said some nasty words, but later it gradually changed, he found that Shen Ao was plotting against him.At that time, Qi Liang really couldn't understand people's hearts. He used to be kind and never speculated about others maliciously. As a result, God seemed to be against him everywhere, tearing up his kindness and ruining him. When he meets someone he likes , I will not like it with a kind heart for a long time.

"I see that you and Jiajia are getting better and better, but I live in fear all the time. Then you suddenly disappeared and didn't come to school for a long time. I was very flustered. I thought it was the reason for you to spread rumors, but it backfired and made you Get away from me."

Shang Xuechen held Qi Liang's hand tightly, "Something happened to my family at the time, so I didn't go to school, and I didn't even tell Jiajia."

"Just when I was scared, my friend she appeared again. I haven't seen her since you saved me from the bullying. I met her again on the way home that day, and she looked like The spirit is very bad. I didn’t want to talk to her at first, pretending I didn’t see her, but when I passed her, she stopped me and asked me if I had a lover. I didn’t answer her, but she smiled and said to me, if the lover If you don’t love you, do you know how to keep him? I obviously don’t want to talk to her, but she said that, and I want to know what to do. She seems to be talking to me, and she seems to be talking to herself, She said, if your lover doesn't love you, but pity you, then you should continue to use pity to keep him, use his self-blame to tie him down, you'd better make yourself more pitiful than he thinks Ten thousand times."

Qi Liang looked at Shang Xuechen fixedly, his eyes made Shang Xuechen feel uncomfortable and wanted to avoid it.With tears in his eyes, Qi Liang smiled and said to him, "When you reached out to me, it was because I was pitiful. I didn't want to listen to what she said, but I thought what she said was reasonable. What she said was right. To me, it's like a poisonous poison, scratching my heart and lungs, and making me obey. The more I think about it, the more I feel that what she said is right. It happened that day, when I came out of the alley, I saw Shen Ao. He still saw me. Tell me what you say when you talk dirty. That day, when Shen Ao asked me if it was tight, I didn't dodge like I did before. I walked up to him, made an appointment with him on the date and place, and asked him to call his brother. Get up and try."

Qi Liang didn't need to talk about what happened next, Shang Xuechen knew about it. That afternoon, he received Qi Liang's call for help, and rushed to the unfinished building. What he saw was Qi Liang who was pinned to the ground, his whole body broken. , and Jiajia arrived soon after.

Qi Liang's tears finally fell, "Xuechen, will you take me away?"