Chapter 1027: Chapter 1027: The Truth from Back Then 2
Yan Yuexian fell silent again, staring blankly ahead.
When someone is in a bad mood, they need some personal space.
So Xia Weibao didn’t say anything, letting Yan Yuexian sort through her emotions slowly.
After a while, a restrained sobbing sound came from beside her.
Turning her head, she saw Yan Yuexian secretly wiping away tears.
Xia Weibao sighed, another stubborn child who wants to cry but doesn’t want to be seen.
"Eat this." Xia Weibao handed over a pack of spicy strips.
Yan Yuexian was taken aback for a moment, then took it, "Thank you."
She tore open the package, took a bite, and immediately burst into tears.
She sniffled, "These spicy strips are too spicy, they’re making me cry."
"Yeah, they’re a bit spicy." Xia Weibao responded with a slight smile.
Yan Yuexian kept eating pack after pack of spicy strips and still hadn’t finished crying. Her eating pace frustrated Xia Weibao so much that she almost argued with her!
Finally, after eating ten packs of spicy strips, Yan Yuexian had pretty much cried it out.
She then sniffled, "I didn’t drive that boy to death, he had a mental illness."
Xia Weibao knew that at this moment, what Yan Yuexian needed was someone to listen, so she stayed quiet and just listened.
Yan Yuexian gathered her emotions, her thoughts seemingly drifting back five years.
"Back then, I was just in first grade of middle school. I had a very gentle personality, was very popular in class, and was also pretty. Everyone in the class liked to play with me.
There was a particularly impoverished student named Wang Qiangsheng. His family was very poor; he got into the school through a poverty alleviation policy. He was very introverted, and classmates stayed away from him. The boys in the class even enjoyed bullying him.
I was quite naive at the time. Seeing him being bullied was pitiful, so I helped him out a few times.
He especially relied on me and would find me whenever he was bullied.
At the time, the President of Huaxia was my aunt. She was the person I admired most. She treated the people like her own children, and I learned from her to care about those at the bottom of society. Plus, Wang Qiangsheng was truly pitiful, so I took extra care of him.
Then one day, Wang Qiangsheng confessed to me, said he liked me, and then said I liked him too and wanted me to be with him.
I was scared at that time and quickly said I didn’t like him.
Then he questioned me, asking why I helped him if I didn’t like him.
I was dumbfounded at the time, helping him purely because he was weak and pitiful, with no other meaning. Moreover, I was only fourteen at the time, how could I possibly know what liking someone meant?
But he insisted on believing that I liked him and wouldn’t give up even after I rejected him. He took every opportunity to confess to me, constantly murmuring that I liked him, making me embarrassed several times.
Later, someone told me he was unwell, had a mental illness, and advised me to stay away from him.
At that time, I also realized that Wang Qiangsheng didn’t just have a small courage issue, he truly had a mild mental illness, so I stayed away from him.
During the New Year party in first grade, our class had to put on a skit. I acted as an elderly couple with another male classmate in the class.
Once during rehearsal, Wang Qiangsheng suddenly burst in, pushed that male classmate aside, and pointed at him saying I was his girlfriend, warning the male classmate to stay away from me.
At that time, several classes were rehearsing. Wang Qiangsheng kept insisting that I was his girlfriend, that I liked him, and that no one else was allowed to compete, leaving me unable to come off stage.
Then I scolded him on the spot, saying I would never like him and to give up on that idea."