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Capítulo 47

It's usually crowded, but today, because of the rain, there seem to be fewer people. However... if I were to visit a place like this, it would probably be secluded and dark.

"There looks like someone is standing behind that tree in front," Mingyang pointed with his finger.

I saw it too; he was leaning against a paulownia tree, holding a huge beer bottle in his hand, drinking and shaking it as he did so.

Was she a child drinking to relieve her boredom? We were about to leave when we suddenly stopped. Her height, the half-shadow peeking out from behind the tree, and her shape were remarkably similar to an apple!

I excitedly patted Mingyang: "It's her! That's Apple!"

"That's true."

We crept over silently, and when we were three meters away, Apple suddenly moved, walking forward with unstoppable momentum.

"What is she going to do?" I asked nervously.

"This doesn't seem good," Mingyang said.

Deep in the woods, a couple was kissing passionately, but it was too dark to tell who was who. Apple walked over, grabbed the bottle in her hand, and was about to smash it over their heads, which looked like glue.

Suddenly, another person jumped out from the side, blocking her path and snatching the bottle from Apple's hand, throwing it far away. Because of the rain, the grass was soft, and the bottle didn't break upon impact, only making a "plop!" sound.

"Damn it! Get the hell out of here! I'll beat you up even if you block my way!" Apple roared furiously, her anger like a flood bursting its banks.

"Stop messing around! You can't touch her!"

I froze as soon as the person opened their mouth, my feet feeling like they were stuck in a swamp.

This person is Mo Yan!

"Get out of my way!"

"I can't leave. My duty is to protect him." Mo Yan's face was in the darkness, so his expression couldn't be seen, but his cold words sent chills down one's spine.

incredible.

Section 123: Love and Friendship (2)

"What did you say?" Apple was also incredulous.

“Heh,” Agate shrugged, smugly. “Do you think everyone around you cherishes you like a treasure? Let me tell you, anything I buy with money, you clumsy ugly duckling will never get your hands on. That’s true for Jeep, and it’s true for Mo Yan.”

“Mo Yan! You…” Apple’s shoulders were shaking violently. Not only her, but I was shaking too.

[JP3] Mingyang and I remained hidden behind a cypress tree three meters away from them; the darkness provided us with a protective layer. [JP]

"Hahaha..." Agate laughed exaggeratedly, "You think your innocent girlish dreams can hold onto a man? I can give you a Jeep that you couldn't afford even if you worked hard for twenty years. Wake up! You shorty!"

"Come on! I'll take you back to your dorm." Mo Yan pulled Apple.

Apple's legs moved weakly, as if the ground beneath her feet had turned into mud in a pond, making each step difficult. But what was difficult for her was her heart; I could feel the pain within her. Although she had known the outcome for a long time, when the answer was brutally revealed and churned, her heart was torn to pieces.

Agate was still bossy: "Who do you think you are, daring to compete with me? Hmph—" she sneered, "Do you know who stabbed you in the stomach? It was Mo Yan right in front of you."

A bolt from the blue. Everyone froze.

I covered my mouth, completely stunned. How could it be him?

Recalling the night Apple had her accident, I called Mo Yan's dorm room, but he wasn't there at the time. He didn't show up until almost an hour later. Also, after Apple's surgery, Mo Yan once told me: "If I do anything to wrong you in the future, please forgive me."

Did he really do it?

My calves cramped up uncontrollably, and I couldn't stand up. Mingyang caught me, preventing me from collapsing to my knees.

"You?" Apple collapsed to the ground, sitting at Mo Yan's feet. The shock was unbearable. She clutched her stomach, unable to stand for a long time. The wound hadn't fully healed. Her anger was boundless; her most immediate reaction was to grab a piece of turf, mud and all, and throw it away violently.

The agate let out a shriek.

Because of the sudden turn of events, neither of the two men beside her could stop the unexpected change. Her beautiful face instantly became ugly, and mud dripped from her chin onto her fashionable punk suit.

"Damn it!" The seemingly ladylike Agate rushed forward to fight Apple, but was stopped by the Jeep. He shouted anxiously to Mo Yan, "What are you standing there for? Take her away! Let's go!"

Mo Yan tried to pull her away, but Apple pushed him away, saying, "Get your filthy hands off me! I don't need your help!"

I stumbled over and hugged her tightly, my heart aching. Her forehead was wet with sweat. It must hurt a lot, right? Apple stubbornly gritted her teeth, her pale face smiling at me: "We were so stupid! Like beads rolling on a compass, so easily trusting our friends, and then betrayed for nothing." Then she fainted…

Let's abandon Agate's endless shouting and yelling, Mingyang picks up Apple, and together we leave this filthy chaos.

"Her wound has reopened, Mingyang!" I was in a state of utter confusion.

At the hospital, we lingered anxiously outside the operating room.

Mo Yan had been following behind us, and he was now waiting outside the operating room. Mingyang turned around and saw him, his eyes also filled with anger. I stopped their irreconcilable conflict, telling him to wait for Apple; I had something to ask Mo Yan.

Outside in the corridor, a light drizzle began to fall again, damp as a person's mood. I looked at Mo Yan, feeling a strange pang of heartache. The corner of his eye was like a fluttering insect, dull and dim.

"Why would you do that?" I questioned him.

“My father was bitten by a five-step snake while working in the fields and urgently needed money to save his life. I went to Da Jipu to borrow money, and Agate was there at the time. She immediately took out five thousand yuan for me. I… I can’t pay it back.”

"Does your inability to repay your debts give you the right to hurt an innocent girl?"

"Later, Agate said that Apple had insulted her at the cafeteria entrance, making her look bad, and asked me to get revenge for her. I refused, but... my family still had a large debt, and the debt was suffocating us. Agate then mailed another 30,000 yuan to my family. I didn't even know; when my father called to tell me, I was completely stunned. I went to Agate and told her I couldn't repay her money, but she said I didn't need to, as long as I helped her with that thing..."

"You agreed?" I was utterly disappointed.

“I… Agate said if I don’t do it, I have to pay her back immediately. How can I possibly pay her back? And she also said… if I don’t go, she’ll find someone else to do it, and then it won’t be just a simple cut. She’ll be tortured like peeling an apple… I’m scared. I think if I do it, I definitely won’t hurt her too much. As long as Agate vents her anger, she’ll let Apple go, and you’ll all be safe…”

Section 124: Love and Friendship (3)

I secretly rejoiced, thankfully nothing serious happened this time, I was so scared! I foresaw that terrible injury would appear on Apple's face... So now, does that mean I've dodged a bullet?

Mo Yan insisted on waiting until Apple came out of the operating room before leaving. He felt guilty.

As the anesthesia wore off, Apple opened her eyes to find it was already dawn—it had been quite a night. I told her the whole story about Mo Yan, and she was furious: "Pah! Birds of a feather!"

The large jeep never dared to show up.

Alas! The initial desires are incomplete, leaving only sorrow; true fulfillment doesn't guarantee affection. Many things in this world are beyond our control!

The only thing that cheered Apple up was the arrival of the Great Forest. He came after receiving a call from Mingyang and patted my head like an elder: "It's good that you're safe!"

Oversized sunglasses, a stand-up collar trench coat—he looked incredibly cool. Apple, unaware that Big Forest had lost sight in his left eye, covered her mouth and screamed, "So handsome! So cool!"

"Okay! Don't get excited, or your wound will reopen." After the surgery, she could only drink millet porridge, and I was feeding her.

Mingyang was called out by the Great Forest, seemingly to discuss their family business. Apple was distracted while drinking her porridge, her thoughts wandering elsewhere. I had to call her several times before she snapped out of it.

"I'm begging you!" I said, "Let go of the past! Okay?"

She gave a bitter smile: "Only I know whether it hurts or not."

I heard the sound of her heart being torn apart. People always try their best to mend the broken hole in their hearts, only to find that the opening grows wider and wider. The heart must be desolate before it can mend its loss. "The rope to tie the sun is never long enough; the water flows away and the clouds return, leaving only endless regret." She still couldn't let go!

"Apple, what happened to the prayer beads we strung together last time?"

“Here it is.” She reached under the pillow and pulled it out.

“Put it on.” I slipped it onto her wrist. “It will protect you.”

She chuckled softly, "I'm not a devout believer, what good would last-minute cramming do?"

“But you are a kind-hearted person, and Buddha will comfort your heart.”

"There are so many heartbroken people in the world, even Buddha can't take care of them all." She slowly, slowly stepped back, lay down, and closed her eyes tightly.

"If you can't sleep, don't force yourself. Talk to me instead?"

〖JP3〗“I don’t know what’s wrong with me. My body is so weak I feel like I’m about to collapse, but my mind is incredibly active.” 〖JP

"Let's talk while we're lying down!"

"Why don't you lie down too?"

"I'm afraid I'll squeeze you and hurt your wound!"

"It's okay, here!" She patted the side of her right shoulder.

I lay down and snuggled up next to her, just like we usually did in the dorm when we had a heart-to-heart talk.

"I remember that time you played one-on-one with some tall boys. Your three-point shot was clean and crisp, and your movements were absolutely beautiful. You were smiling in the sunlight, your young face so radiant..."

"Yes. That's when Big Jeep started pursuing me."

Let's not talk about him anymore!

"No, I want to talk about it. It's harder to deliberately forget than to painstakingly memorize. I rarely talked to you about him before because I was worried about ruining a fairy tale."

"fairy tale?"

"Yes. When I was little, an older sister told me that even the sweetest love can only be shared between two people. If a third or fourth person gets involved, the sweetness will be like watered-down wine, not only will it change color, but it will also lose all its flavor."

I know the meaning of this fairy tale; everyone who cares about it is afraid of losing it. Although Apple is a straightforward tomboy in many things, in this matter, she's as innocent as a child. Like a beautiful feather fluttering in a girl's heart, she only wants to share it with her lover, afraid that if she tells a third person, the dream will burst like a soap bubble. She was also afraid the fairy tale would shatter, but in the end, it did. It wasn't that she didn't try to protect it; it's just that there are too many temptations in this world.

"Big Jeep has a knack for wooing girls! He can even tame a spirited girl like you like a little lamb."

"Hmm. He doesn't have any other advantages, and he's not good-looking. But he has a silver tongue; his sweet words flow like the Yarlung Tsangpo River. If sweet talk can be intoxicating, I've been intoxicated thousands of times."

"Apple, do you really love him?"

She paused for a moment, then said slowly, "Actually, girls fall in love with the fairy tales they create themselves. Where are there princes on white horses in reality?" She rolled her eyes at me. "The big forest and the bright sun don't count. You're luckier than me. Really. Even if I can't find a white horse, finding a frog prince wouldn't be bad either. As long as he's truly good to me, cherishes and protects me, I'd be willing to get lost in such a fairy tale. Unfortunately... even frog princes can be fickle."

Section 125: Love and Friendship (4)

"Apple!" I was heartbroken. "Promise me you won't give up."

"No way!" she smiled sweetly at me. "I'll soon be riding high again, continuing to dominate and turn A University upside down. Hehe..."

But the more she laughed like that, the more my heart shattered.

The big forest left the next day without having a chance to say goodbye.

Mingyang said he went to Pretoria, South Africa, to take care of official business.

Geography is my weak point, and I didn't know anything about Pretoria, so I asked a really stupid question: "Your family earns money from Black people? Isn't it very poor there?"

[JP3] Mingyang teased me: "Pretoria is the most economically developed country in Africa, you silly goose." [JP]

Oh! I shook my head and thought about it. That makes sense, South African diamonds are world-famous!

"You know so much!" I couldn't help but admire you.

"Hmm. You're finally starting to admire me, hopefully it's from the bottom of your heart."

I stuck my tongue out at him: "You get all worked up over a little bit of sunshine."

He said in a friendly tone, "But you're right, it is indeed a place to make money from the black brothers. There are 76% black people there, but there are also many white people and Asians. They have eleven official languages, with English and Afrikaans being the most commonly spoken. Dad sent Dilo to handle the business there because the races and churches there are quite complicated. Dilo is reliable and steady, so sending him to such a complicated place will surely allow him to handle things perfectly."

"Wow!" The great forest is truly amazing!