Chapter 10
Derrick found me with a dictionary, it was on the evening after the Hundred Days Pledge Ceremony
ended.
The densely packed annotations spread throughout the entire dictionary, reaching the last page.
I remained silent for a moment and said, “The second word on the first page.”
Derrick was momentarily stunned, then bewilderedly exclaimed, “abandon?”
He frowned and finished explaining the definition of this word, then asked, “Is this your answer?”
“Sylvia, were you playing with me?”
I knocked on the dictionary and looked up at him, saying, “I promised you, Derrick.”
Derrick blinked and stood still for a long time. “No, you weren’t joking?”
I got up and pacChapter 9
Winter vacation passed quickly, and after returning to school, a wave of rumors spread throughout
the school.
“Sylvia’s family was so poor that they couldn’t even make ends meet. She seduced Derrick solely for his family’s wealth.”
I heard that in order to hook a wealthy husband, she had already brought Derrick home and had an
affair with him.
I would always hear faint sighs in various unexpected corners, saying, “Oh! So that’s the kind of person she was.”
Harley even wagged his tail up in the air. “Hmph, serves him right for getting involved with Derrick even after knowing the truth! He got what he deserved!”
The rumor spread like wildfire, from the grade level to the entire school, and then reached the ears
of the school leaders.
I was interviewed.
The headmaster earnestly advised, “You are already on the right track, why do you have to be so disheartened and burden others with your fate?”
I pursed my lips and said, “Half of the rumors were indeed true.”
But for me, the restlessness of adolescence will never overshadow my future.
Derrick was very worried about this matter, and he said, “In the past, don’t be afraid, no matter what happens, I will definitely help you.”
I was a bit tired and shook my head, “No…”
“You believed in me, I could…”
“No, Derrick,” I interrupted him, “your logic was wrong.”
Looking back, everything that has happened to me recently is a consequence of his approach.
Whoever the main culprit spreading rumors was, everything started because of him.
“Your statement was incorrect,” I looked up at him.
This was not help that you could give or take away, but rather a trouble that you had to resolve, the trouble you brought to me.
“If you can’t do it, then just roll away from me.”
I looked at this person and realized clearly that, apart from his background, he was not perfect.
He was ingrained with a sense of superiority, habitually maintaining the posture of a giver.
He was very intelligent, but had no self–reflection talent.
I envied him, I wanted to ruthlessly expose him, to let the pain and regret break through the crystal shield and entangle, even if only for a short time day and night.
The rumor quickly died down, but Derrick’s impact on me did not end.
One day when I returned to the dormitory, the door was locked from the inside.
Harley and I shared a dormitory.
The people around seemed to have noticed early on, poking their heads out of their respective dormitories, intending to enjoy my embarrassment.
I was indeed a little annoyed.
The quality of the dormitory door was average. I loosened my backpack and took a few steps back.
Get ready, start running, and kick it open with one foot!
The Harley family had good living conditions and ate well in the dormitory. It was easy to
understand the reason behind this.
Several girls in the dormitory screamed, and I glanced at them before picking up my backpack and
entering the room.
“I was too busy to play house with you, remember to report the broken door.”
“If you are willing to sleep with the windows open, I have no objection.‘
Harley stood up and said, “Sylvia, what are you pretending to be high and mighty for! You kicked the door yourself, so go and report it yourself!”
I put down my school bag and slowly approached her.
“Then I will call the headmaster tomorrow to come and fix it, and see who will be punished.”
She took two steps back nervously and said, “You think you’re so great just because the teacher favors you and you have good grades!”
“Was your dad very impressive?”
“What?”
“If not, go home and fight with each other.”
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I turned around and packed my things.
“This is high school, hold onto your report card tightly before talking to me.”
A crowd gathered at the entrance, and upon hearing these words, they burst into laughter.
Harley was extremely frustrated and choked up, unable to speak.
But the provocation did not end.
One weekend when I returned to school, I was blocked in the alley by Vivian and her friends.
“Did you tell Derrick that the rumor was spread by me?”
She felt that I had stirred up her relationship with Derrick.
Vivian calmly took out her phone and aimed the camera at me, saying, “Go, take off her clothes for
me!”
Usually arrogant, Harley hesitated and said, “This doesn’t seem right.”
“With me here, what is there to be afraid of? Just go!”
Harley was still dawdling, while the others began to close in step by step.
I retreated to the corner of the wall and took out the utility knife from the side of my backpack, pointing it at them.
“Those who want to die, come and give it a try!”
No one dared to approach.
Vivian sneered, “Sylvia, with the conditions of your house, you dare to have surgery?”
“You hurt someone, your future was ruined in an instant, you went to jail, and your mother
couldn’t survive.”
I froze.
My mom…
Yeah, if I had something to do, my mom would be in big trouble.
“What are you standing there for? She didn’t dare to move, keep her under control!”
They swarmed up, and in a few moments, snatched away my knife and began fr. cally tearing off my clothes.
I tightly held onto my school uniform and bit their hands, but it didn’t have much effect.
Vivian pointed the camera at me and laughed wildly.
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“One by one! Start by taking off the school uniform!”
Struggling, my consciousness gradually emptied.
It’s okay, it’s okay.
This was nothing.
I was not intimidated by her, even if she spread it out, I would not lose a piece of meat.
I can guarantee that this will not affect my college entrance examination scores, nor will it affect me receiving any bonuses.
At most, it was a bad reputation. As long as I covered my ears tightly, yes, covered my ears tightly,
there would be no trouble at all.
My hands quickly covered my ears.
The surrounding sounds gradually faded away, but my tinnitus grew stronger.
The resentment tore through the heart and raced, spreading throughout the entire body.
This shouldn’t have happened, this shouldn’t have happened…
Wrong, wrong!
For me, there was no worst situation, surrendering was simply not my style!
There is nothing that couldn’t be solved, except for life and death.
As long as people had greed and desires, weaknesses and fears, there would always be room for negotiation, and they could always throw out their chips to exchange!
I wanted everything to be different!
“Aren’t you afraid… Aren’t you afraid Derrick will find out?!”
Vivian froze for a moment and laughed, “Who do you think you are? He wouldn’t break ties with me
for you!”
I certainly don’t count, but Derrick does.
Vivian cared about him, cared about his hostility and opinions towards herself!
I stared at Vivian intently, not letting go of any expression on her face.
“Didn’t he warn you the last time he found you – not to interfere with his game?”
Vivian’s face turned pale, her expression began to change unpredictably, and finally, a hint of hesitation appeared.
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It became… It became!
Vivian was afraid of becoming the key reason for Derrick’s loss, which would make him hold a grudge against her. She was also afraid that Derrick would play for real in our pretend game!
“I had two solutions!”
Vivian’s eyes lit up and she raised her hand, saying, “Wait!”
The clamp on the body loosened in an instant.
I quickly gathered up the undershirt that had almost been pulled from my shoulders to my chest.
Vivian put down her phone and said, “You go ahead and tell me.”
I stared at her phone as she put on each piece of clothing.
Although not considered serious, my embarrassment was still left in that phone.
“Derrick was extremely competitive, in this game, all he wanted was to win.”
I slowly shifted my gaze to Vivian’s face and said, emphasizing each word, “Then let him win first.”
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The school uniform zipper was torn, so I held my clothes together and paused briefly as I passed by a nervous–looking Harley.
I remember, she also sat behind me when we were just divided into different classes.
At that time, I lost my pencil case, and she tapped my back and gave me a pen.
So later on, even though she became a bit sarcastic, I still always felt that she was a good person.
I slightly turned my head, glanced at her indifferently, and captured her remorse in my eyes.
Harley froze, his words trembling, “In the past, I…”
I didn’t listen to her continue speaking and left straight away.
I walked to the corner of the alley, and I turned back to see the group of people still gathered together, laughing and talking.
ticky. In late February, the cold of spring had not yet dissipated. The sky was gloomy, and the alley was filled with a damp and fishy smell, like a poisonous snake licking, damp, cold, a.
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ked my things, saying, “If you wish it was a joke, it can be.”
A huge joy slowly appeared on Derrick’s face.
He suddenly picked me up and spun around in place.
The moment of depression during this period was instantly swept away, and he laughed with extra
-joy.
Suddenly, a firework exploded in the air.
As the ribbons fluttered, Derrick turned around and met Vivian’s smiling face.
“Derrick! Congratulations on winning the bet!”
Derrick’s face instantly changed when he heard this sentence.
I lightly tapped Derrick, asking him to put me down.
“What bet?”
Without waiting for Derrick to stop her, Vivian blurted out the contents of the bet.
“From beginning to end, it was just a game!”
I turned back and looked at Derrick with shock.
He panicked and tried to grab my hand, but I quickly shook him off.
I blinked my eyes, suddenly feeling a bit of a stuffy nose, picked up my backpack, and turned around
to leave.
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Derrick suddenly grabbed onto the hem of my school uniform.
His face turned pale, he opened his mouth but couldn’t speak, and his hands were trembling faintly.
I pried open his fingers one by one until the corner of the clothes was completely released from his
palm.
“Derrick, you won, but we are also finished.”
Broadway, I would walk it myself, and no one had the right to manipulate my destiny.
At the other end of the corridor, Marcus stood silently.
Half of his body was soaked in the darkness of the night, while the other half was reflected in the light, with an uncertain expression.
As they passed by each other, he spoke, “In the past, was this
your
answer?”
I stopped in my tracks and didn’t say anything.
Marcus smiled and said, “You really are more heartless than I imagined.”
He could have exposed it from the beginning, but he chose to strike a blow when he was feeling
happy.
“Marcus,” I said, “Even being soft–hearted comes with a cost.”
All the talk on the surface was about maintaining peace, but who would really willingly cut off their own way out for no reason?
Those who are born to die, are people who can never escape it.
One mistake, lost the whole game, I don’t have the qualification to be softhearted.
Afterwards, I found Vivian and asked her to delete the videos from her phone.
She played with her phone and chuckled softly.
“Sylvia, I didn’t bother you with your troubles, but the video is in my hands, it’s a warning to you.”
She told me never to think of reaching for the top, otherwise she would make the whole world see
this video.
Negotiations failed, and we parted ways unhappily.
After Vivian left, I opened the phone that I had specially taken from my grandmother and looked at the recorded conversations inside.
I wondered who gave Vivian the right to boss people around?
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The countdown on the wall decreased day by day.
When there were sixty days left, Derrick blocked my way back to the dormitory.
I became cautious and distanced myself. “Getting entangled is not Derrick’s style.”
Half of the lights from the teaching building to the dormitory went out, and we were engulfed by the darkness of the night.
Derrick was tall, looming in the darkness, accompanied by a chilling sense of oppression.
I was about to step back, but he quickly grabbed my hand.
“Did you really like me in the past?”
My heart trembled, and then I said in a deep voice, “Is this the question you should be asking me?”
“If you have ever loved, why have you never turned back to look at me?”
He was somewhat numb. “You clearly knew that these days, I have been following behind you.”
In the darkness, he chuckled softly, “Why?”
“All along, it seemed like I was the only one who liked you.‘
He lowered his head, resting his forehead on my shoulder, tightly gripping my hand, his breath
trembling.
A hot tear dropped on my neck, running down along the collar, causing my internal organs to
tighten.
Derrick seemed to be powerless, slowly sliding down.
I hastily took a step back, only to see him suddenly drop to his knees, clutching onto the hem of my pants, and pressing his forehead against my shoes.
“Please, I beg you…”
He suddenly sobbed in a low voice, “I was wrong, please, I beg you.”
“Forgive me this time, I was being foolish, that’s why I made this bet.”
He lifted his upper body and forcefully took my hand, pressing it against his chest.
“You touch… You touch, I am not fake.”
The skin of the palm, pulsating strongly and powerfully, while the people under the hand were trembling.
Tears kept falling one after another onto my wrist, scorching me astonishingly.
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“Forgive me, just this once…”
“Please, just this once, okay…”
My heart tightened, and I held my breath silently as I reached out to wipe away his tears.
“I don’t have the energy to think about these things right now. Promise me that you and we can talk about it after our college entrance examination, okay?”
He reached out and covered my hand on his cheek, gently kissed the palm.
I lowered my gaze and raised my hand to touch his head.
What a… good child.
