While Shen Yi rushed to K City anxiously and the police pursued Zhou Yang, An Ruqiao and Zhou Yang stopped at the Lakeside Park Resort in the suburbs.

The resort area is surrounded by a color steel plate isolation wall, and a sign "Under construction, please stay away" was erected outside.

Zhou Yang stopped the van and took An Ruqiao to the construction site with ease.

During the previous hour on the road, Zhou Yang told An Ruqiao a story about him and Fang Ling.

Originally, An Ruqiao thought that Zhou Yang was just Fang Ling's backup. In fact, from Zhou Yang's point of view, this was not the case.

Zhou Yang is not a native of K City, but a child from the northern countryside.

Over there, marriages are basically just a wedding ceremony and no marriage certificate is required.

His parents got married just like that. There was only a simple wedding and getting to know relatives and friends. Other than that, there was no guarantee.

The family lived in a poverty-stricken county that had just emerged from poverty. They could not make enough food just by farming, so Zhou Yang's father had no choice but to go out to work, leaving Zhou Yang's mother to take him and live with Zhou Yang's grandmother.

The hard days are really hard. Zhou Yang still remembers that when he was a child, he ate chaffy vegetables and could only eat a bite of meat during the New Year and festivals. He only had two sets of clothes to wear in each season. There was no toilet in the tile-roofed house and the roof was covered when it rained.

Still leaking.

The father who went out to work only came back once a year, and could only bring back a thousand yuan during the Chinese New Year. Except for paying Zhou Yang's tuition, all the money was in the hands of Zhou Yang's mother.

You can't even get any flowers.

Later, one day, when Zhou Yang was in first grade, Zhou Yang's mother disappeared with the money.

He disappeared without a trace, and even if he called the police, he could not be found. It was as if he had never existed.

So Zhou Yang's grandmother was left to live with him.

After that, Zhou Yang's father was depressed for a while, and then his life changed. He went from coming back once a year, to once every two or three years, to not coming back at all, and only occasionally sending money home.

When Zhou Yang was in fifth grade, his father called back and said that he had found a woman with children in a big city outside and was getting married for the second time.

At this point, Zhou Yang has become a "child without parents" in the eyes of relatives, neighbors and classmates, and has become the target of bullying.

When being beaten, when stones are thrown at you, when the schoolbag that the presbyopic grandma worked so hard to sew is thrown into the river, when the two yuan of food money is taken away from you and you can only starve...

During countless difficult moments, Zhou Yang would ask himself, "Why me?"

Why did my parents give birth to me? Why did they bully me? Why am I always the one suffering?

Even the teacher would ask him, "Why don't you hit others, but you?"

Gradually, Zhou Yang became taciturn. He didn't like talking to others and avoided eye contact. He turned into a person who looked very cowardly and incompetent. He turned all his grievances into resentment and buried it deep in his heart.

After Zhou Yang's father got married for the second time, he lived in a new family. He seemed to have forgotten his eldest son and ignored him.

Zhou Yang's tuition was earned entirely from his grandmother's meager income from farming, poverty subsidies, and child labor during winter and summer vacations.

The turning point happened when Zhou Yang was in high school. Zhou Yang's grandmother got sick and went to the hospital. The old man had no medical insurance, and treatment required a lot of money.

Zhou Yang, who only had a few hundred yuan in his pocket, could only call his nominal "father". He made more than 200 calls for two consecutive days, but no one answered.

Grandma Zhou Yang died of illness.

Zhou Yang's father still called him back, a week later.

Zhou Yang listened to the background sound of "Five tubes, bang, yaoji, make a fortune" coming from the phone, and listened to his father complaining and firing off the firecrackers while explaining that the construction site was too busy in the past two days. He was silent for a while.

, and hung up the phone.

After the funeral for his grandma, Zhou Yang's life seemed to have no other changes.

In high school, the teachers and classmates in the county were much better than those in the village. At least they would not openly bully him. The teacher also applied for poverty subsidies and student loans for him so that he could finish his studies.

Then Zhou Yang went to K City Pharmaceutical University, where he also met Fang Ling and Li/Peng.

Zhou Yang and Fang Ling are classmates.

From the beginning, when they met at the school gate, Zhou Yang had a crush on Fang Ling.

Zhou Yang was malnourished since he was a child, and his physical development was not very good. He only grew to a height of just over 1.7 meters, and he had no flesh and was very thin. Short, cowardly, and introverted have always been synonymous with him.

Until I met Fang Ling.

Fang Ling is a "little white flower", or in modern terms, a "white lotus", always delicate and pitiful, always weak and boneless.

When she looked at Zhou Yang with wet, expectant eyes and asked him if he could help her carry her luggage, "It doesn't matter if it's inconvenient," Zhou Yang felt that his whole heart had been captured by her.

Zhou Yang became Fang Ling's fanatical pursuer and pursued Fang Ling for a year. Fang Ling never rejected him. She only said that she was not ready for a relationship and wanted to be friends with him. So, Zhou Yang became

Fang Ling is a male best friend who is always available and works hard without complaining.

A year passed quickly. Freshman was promoted to sophomore, and Zhou Yang also changed from junior to senior.

Not long after school started, I heard that there was a school belle in the freshman class of the school who was very beautiful.

Zhou Yang went to see her secretly once. The school beauty was indeed gentle, beautiful and generous, but in Zhou Yang's heart, Fang Ling was better.

The school beauty and Zhou Yang are not from the same world.

Later, he heard that there was a rich and handsome man named Li Peng who was pursuing the school beauty Lin Ruirui during his freshman year, and would give her luxuries when he had nothing to do. He didn't think much about it and just felt that the school beauty's affairs had nothing to do with him.

Zhou Yang came into contact with Li/Peng during an innovation project. Zhou Yang's participation in the innovation project was part of senior Su Ye's project.

In the small team of this project branch, the young, handsome, rich and eloquent Li/Peng became the project leader. Campus beauty Lin Ruirui, Zhou Yang and Fang Ling were all team members. The instructor was Professor Pei Chengjing, the doctoral supervisor of Senior Su Ye.

name.

Li/Peng distributed the tasks very well, basically evenly, but in fact, Zhou Yang was responsible for his own part and Fang Ling's part, Lin Ruirui was responsible for data integration, and Li/Peng only had to pay and go on stage.

speech.

Zhou Yang is doing most of the things, but Li/Peng is reaping the rewards, fame, and applause.

Gradually, Zhou Yang began to be jealous of Li/Peng.

This kind of jealousy was originally only within a normal range, until that day, Fang Ling took Li/Peng's hand and walked to Zhou Yang.

At that time, Zhou Yang was still carrying milk tea specially bought for Fang Ling.

Fang Ling and Li Peng clasped their fingers together. She said to Zhou Yang shyly: "Li Peng and I are together. You are my best friend. I hope you can bless me, okay?"

From that moment on, jealousy towards Li/Peng turned into hatred.


Chapter completed!