CLG Chapter 20

The woman before him was named Chen Mo and had once studied at Jianghe University.
“No? You didn’t?” Shi Hua stared at her, asking.
She sighed deeply. “I’m sorry, I actually lied just now.”
Regarding Shi Hua’s question, Chen Mo had hesitated just now. She said: No.
Chen Xuelin had had a forbidden love with her. Actually, that wasn’t quite right. She thought that man simply hadn’t had any feelings at all. He had forcibly violated her body, and afterwards, he had said that he would give her happiness, but his vows hadn’t been fulfilled. After getting bored of her, he had kicked her away without a second thought. It wasn’t until she was abandoned by Chen Xuelin that she realized how vicious this person was.
Seeing her nod her head in agreement, Shi Hua didn’t ask any further, but simply nodded.
To her surprise, she thought Shi Hua would be shocked and question her why, but instead, Shi Hua just looked at her and quietly said.
“It’s not just me, others have said that too.” Shi Hua also sighed.
It sounds absurd that victims don’t admit they’ve been violated, but it’s not. On the contrary, it’s precisely because they’ve received some unspeakable things that, even if they’re completely the victims of the incident, they may become the victims of the discussion, instead of being comforted.
“Why didn’t you say it back then?”
“The price wasn’t right.”
“She definitely has some responsibility too.”
These words are constantly stabbing at the victims’ hearts. Why is this happening? They can’t understand, but they know it’s true because they may not be able to produce evidence.
Some silence is just to prevent secondary harm, and some silence is because they feel there is no justice to be found.
“Then we…” Chen Mo looked at Shi Hua in surprise. In fact, she had some impression of this name. She was now beginning to remember where she had seen it, in the newspaper.
“I want to know what Chen Xuelin did to you.” Shi Hua’s gaze was sincere and earnest. He didn’t force her, nor did he use any forceful attitude, but simply looked at her with his eyes.
Shi Hua was silent. The past years seemed to reappear before him. He had never heard Mo Wenli’s views on those things. He only remembered that they had fallen in love in that winter, but they had separated the following year because of that man’s intervention…
Chen Mo looked at her in surprise. Her eyes didn’t have a trace of emotion. Although her tone wasn’t agitated, her eyes were telling her that it was just a thing of the past.
Chen Mo sighed and released her hand. “That was something that happened in 2006…” Chen Mo opened her mouth, and lowered her head as she recounted how she had been drugged and lost her virginity by Chen Xuelin, and then how she had been deceived and abandoned by him.
That man always pretended to have a natural tone, but in fact, it was just part of his acting. Mo Wenli understood it better than anyone.
Her emotions went from nervousness to calm, then to anger, and finally just a sigh. After she finished talking about what happened back then, the room returned to silence again. Mo Wenli and Shi Hua looked at each other.
Chen Mo met Shi Hua’s eyes. She seemed to know what he was going to say. But after recounting that past that she still couldn’t let go of, she was now much calmer. “Speak.”
“I want your testimony,” Shi Hua said seriously.
“Look at this.”
“He’s dead, but his sins haven’t dissipated. Haven’t you been in pain in later nights, thinking of the experiences of the past? Can you let it go? At least, give everyone a truth, a truth that everyone knows. What do you say?” Shi Hua said, looking at Chen Mo.
Of course, he knew what Chen Mo was hesitating about. The living certainly don’t have to bear legal responsibility, but it doesn’t mean that the mistakes they made can be buried. Even after death, the pain of those who were harmed by him will continue to exist…
“The purpose of our coming here is to hope you can provide a…”
Before Shi Hua could finish speaking, the sound of a woman’s footsteps appeared in the doorway. The door was opened. “Oh, you’re back.” The woman said with a smile.
She still wanted to protect this family.
After comforting the child, she asked her husband to watch over him here, and she walked out again, softly walking to Shi Hua’s face. She hesitated, and for a moment she couldn’t say anything. In the end, she looked at Shi Hua and Mo Wenli. “Let’s go. Let’s pretend this never happened.”
“Why!” Mo Wenli stood up, looking at her with a questioning gaze.
“Because…” She turned her head, looking in the direction of the room. “Since he’s alive, then that’s what he deserves. But if I stand up, I might not be able to keep my family.”
“It can be anonymous, I’ll handle it,” Shi Hua immediately explained.
“It’s already like this, I don’t want to lose my last home. Let’s go back,” Chen Mo sighed.
They were afraid of what-ifs, he was looking forward to what-ifs.
Shi Hua looked at the news he had written, and he felt how weak and pale the words below were. Could it all be in vain in the end? Shi Hua folded the newspaper and carefully put it back in his bag.
In the next second after the two stepped out of the threshold, Chen Mo trotted out, looking a little apologetic. “Hey, this, maybe it’s useful to you.”
Shi Hua didn’t speak, but Mo Wenli saw the contents above. She suddenly went to Chen Mo’s ear and said a whisper, and then backed out and closed the door. Through the crack in the door, Shi Hua saw Chen Mo’s surprised expression.
“What did I say to her?” Shi Hua put away the note and took Mo Wenli downstairs.
“I said, Chen Xuelin was killed by me.” Mo Wenli chuckled.
“What do I want to do this scene for? I didn’t kill him, did I?” Shi Hua said with some disbelief.
Regarding Chen Xuelin’s death, in fact, until now she didn’t know what exactly happened, including why she inexplicably became a murderer. Recalling the situation at the time, although she drank a lot that night, she still remembered whether she killed someone or not. The one who killed the person was clearly Meng Yue, she was only responsible for disposing of the body, and in the end, she became the murderer, and therefore suffered imprisonment. In the years outside the iron window, she couldn’t forget it no matter what.
So, she hated Chen Xuelin, and also hated Meng Yue. It was these two people who ruined her life.
Shi Hua needed more witnesses. For this reason, after a period of searching, he finally found Chen Mo, one of the victims back then, but the result was just this kind of ending.
“By the way, what am I going to do with the note she gave me just now?” Mo Wenli asked.
“Which floor?”
“Fifth floor.”
When Shi Hua and the others went upstairs just now, Yang Xiaomin quietly followed up to observe.
“Are you sure which house it is?”
“I could vaguely hear voices, so it should be right.”
Outside the neighborhood, Shi Hua looked back at the two people walking up the stairs. Mo Wenli pointed at them and said, “They went in.”
“Let’s go,” Shi Hua said quietly, turned around and left with Mo Wenli.