Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Three years ago. Inside the Wang Family Garden Villa.

"Look at what kind of good daughter you have raised! Not only is her academic performance at the bottom, but she also caused such a big trouble for me!" Wang Jun angrily smashed the glass ashtray in his hand to the ground, scaring the servant standing in the corridor.

Su Lanfang sat on the sofa and cried, "Mr. Wang, you're not home all day long, how dare you criticize me! Have you ever educated your daughter?"

"Siyu is still young, what does she know? She was just joking with her classmates. It was the girl herself who had psychological problems. How could it be said that Siyu was the one who harmed her?"

Su Lanfang wiped her tears and glared at Wang Jun, saying, "I don't care. I only have this one daughter. Wang, I'm telling you, no matter what, you have to protect our daughter! Otherwise, I'll never let you go!"

Wang Jun was so angry that his temples were throbbing. He sat down on the sofa, lit a cigarette and held it in his hand. After a long while, he said, "Go back to your room first. I'll call Minister Liu."

Su Lanfang wiped away her tears and looked back every few steps.

Wang Jun suddenly stopped Su Lanfang and said, "Tell your brother to delete the school surveillance immediately and leave no evidence."

......

In the room, Wang Siyu bit her thumb nail, shook her legs, and looked at the clock on the wall from time to time, looking anxious.

Seeing Su Lanfang open the door and come in, she quickly stood up and walked to her mother, anxiously asking: "Mom, what should I do? Will I go to jail?"

Su Lanfang looked at the young girl in front of her, angry but helpless: "Your father will help you settle it."

She pulled her daughter to sit on the bed and said earnestly, "Look at you, it's okay for you to just play around, but how come you ended up killing someone?"

Wang Siyu defended herself: "I didn't. She committed suicide because she was depressed. It has nothing to do with me."

Su Lanfang was very disappointed: "Your father taught you not to give others any handles when doing things since you were a child. But you took so many videos and photos, aren't you giving them away for free?"

Wang Siyu bit her lower lip and looked at Su Lanfang uneasily.

"I've already asked them to delete the videos and destroy their phones," Wang Siyu mumbled. "Mom, I'm not really going to jail, am I?"

Su Lanfang smiled. "You're only 15, why are you in jail? I told you your dad shouldn't have made you repeat the first grade. Then you wouldn't have met that woman, and you wouldn't be in this situation now. When this is over, ask your dad to change your school."

Minors do not bear legal responsibility. Wang Siyu felt relieved instantly and ate the pile of fruit beside her.

"Your dad is such a fool. It's not a big deal. Show your mom if it hurts on your face." As soon as the incident came out, Wang Jun couldn't control his emotions and slapped Wang Siyu. Su Lanfang was watching from the side and felt so distressed.

She turned Wang Siyu's face around and saw that the mark was still there, feeling heartbroken.

-

After receiving the notification, Lin's parents rushed to the police station.

"Officer, have you found out?" Lin's mother rushed over, her breath still not calm, and when she saw the person handling the case, she asked, "Have you found out if that girl is..." But she was interrupted by the police before she could finish her words.

"Ms. Liu, please don't worry. We have visited the students and teachers at the school, and everyone knows that the situation you described has not happened—"

"How could it be that there aren't any? Then, those videos——"

"Ms. Liu, please calm down and listen to us first," the police officer said. "We checked the school's surveillance footage and didn't find any evidence of bullying as you suspected. As for the video you just mentioned, it was a prank by some classmates, and the person in it is not your daughter."

Lin's mother stood there in a daze.

"And according to our investigation, your daughter is indeed quite introverted and doesn't interact much with classmates and teachers in class. Her grades are also not very ideal."

"So we ruled out the possibility of being bullied at school—"

"But—but she, there's a knife mark on her hand—"

The police officer interrupted Lin's mother again, calmed her down with both hands and said, "Ms. Liu, please calm down and listen to us first, okay?"

"You've seen the results of the forensic examination. She didn't suffer any major trauma before her death. The cause of death was indeed jumping from a building. As for the knife marks you mentioned—you're aware that teenagers often engage in self-harm as they grow up. Based on the information everyone has provided, your daughter's mental state was indeed not very good before her death. You're also aware that she was expelled from school for serious cheating on an exam. It's very likely that this caused her to become depressed for a while."

Lin's parents stood in the consultation room in a daze. In fact, they couldn't understand why their originally honest and well-behaved daughter would cheat, but the evidence was conclusive and they could only accept the fact.

Originally, they planned to let their daughter recuperate for a while and then send her back to her hometown to continue her studies, but they did not expect that on a quiet morning, Lin Leyi would choose to end her life.

The police officer looked at the couple whose hair had suddenly turned completely white, sighed, sorted out the documents on the table, and handed them to Lin's mother: "The case can almost be closed. Here is the case file. If you have no objection, please sign it."

Mother Lin took the information in her hand absentmindedly, looking at the heart-wrenching words on the white paper. She closed her eyes, then thought of something and asked anxiously, "But——"

This time, he was interrupted again.

"Ms. Liu!"

"I am sorry for your loss."

-

The case of the young girl jumping off the building was resolved quickly, but it still triggered a lot of follow-up discussions.

The Lin couple often heard people talking behind their backs when they walked among the neighbors, and they could even feel someone pointing fingers at them from behind when they were buying vegetables.

"Are these the parents of the person who jumped off the building? Tian Bodhisattva's family only has one child, right?"

"Children nowadays are under a lot of pressure to study."

"They have such poor stress tolerance, they can't even handle junior high school, so what are we going to do with all the kids taking the college entrance exams?"

"That's right. Let me tell you, kids these days are very dangerous. You can't hit or scold them, or they'll jump off the building to show you!"

"There's still this. Who hasn't been beaten and scolded since childhood? How dare you talk back when you're scolded? You just have to go to work honestly."

"That's right, kids are too spoiled nowadays."

...

Lin's parents hear discussions like this every day.

Lin's father quit his business and wanted to return to his hometown, but Lin's mother refused and spent her days guarding her daughter's room and the relics.

Over time, no matter how much I hear about it, I become numb to it.

As time passed, the neighbors had new topics to talk about and gradually forgot about the miserable girl.

But no one expected that three years later, the dusty past would be brought up again.

-

When Hou Yue came out of the police station, Lin's mother also followed her out. She grabbed Hou Yue and asked her if she knew Lin Leyi before.

"Auntie, I didn't go to No. 3 Middle School, so I don't know her." Hou Yue said, "But I saw that news before. I didn't expect that she was also Wang Siyu's classmate."

Lin's mother nodded, realizing she was wrong.

A few days ago, Lin's father received an anonymous express delivery, which contained a USB flash drive containing a lot of evidence of Lin Leyi being bullied at school.

Lin's parents were extremely shocked. Before they had time to think carefully, they took the case to the police station and reported it.

Soon after, we received news that someone else had also called the police for the same reason as Lin’s parents: they were bullied at school.

As the incident escalated, the public security department urgently set up a special task force to investigate the incident.

This investigation uncovered a large amount of evidence, including the evidence provided by Lin's parents and Hou Yue's evidence, as well as a large number of confessions from classmates at school.

All of these students at school had been bullied by Wang Siyu, some lightly and some severely, with verbal warnings and others physical confrontations.

According to the teachers, some classmates did tell them that Wang Siyu had bullied them, but after the teachers talked to Wang Siyu, there was no follow-up when they asked these classmates. The teachers thought that Wang Siyu had reflected on himself and corrected his mistakes, so they did not investigate further.

Some of the victims mentioned in their confessions that they were bullied because of a boy.

The task force can preliminarily determine that Wang Siyu is probably a suitor of this male classmate, and in order to prevent other suitors from appearing, she used verbal and physical warnings to these girls.

With the evidence strong, the police detained Wang Siyu on suspicion of intentional injury. Lin's parents also planned to hire a lawyer to sue Wang Siyu for intentional homicide.

In the detention room, the police questioned Wang Siyu several times to understand the situation, but were rejected every time on the pretext that they needed a lawyer to be present.

As time went by, she didn't go out and Wang Jun didn't come. Wang Siyu became more and more anxious. She kept pacing back and forth in the small space, and the manicure on her thumb was torn by her.

A few days later, Wang Siyu waited for Wang Jun.

Wang Jun no longer had the anger he had when he first came. He had droopy eyelids and looked old.

Wang Siyu saw him as if she had seen a savior. She shouted, "Dad! Are you here to pick me up? You must be here to pick me up!"

Wang Jun didn't say anything. In the silence, Wang Siyu seemed to hear the sound of her own heartbeat, louder and louder.

After a few breaths, Wang Jun spoke: "The evidence is conclusive, Siyu, Dad can't do anything."

"What...what do you mean? Dad? What do you mean?" Wang Siyu murmured at first, and then slammed the table excitedly, "Am I going to jail? Do you mean I'm going to jail - Dad! Uncle Liu - Uncle Liu is not -"

"Someone's investigating! Your Uncle Liu has been dismissed from his post for investigation, and I've also been suspended for observation." Wang Jun sighed, looked at Wang Siyu, sighed again, and said calmly:

"Wang Siyu, Wang Siyu, didn't I tell you to keep a low profile? What happened? You restrained yourself for a while and then started doing this again! Did I send you to school just to get you into trouble?!"

Wang Jun grew increasingly furious as he spoke, his last words practically a roar through gritted teeth: "Do you know how many connections I've managed to get you? Those who accepted my cigarettes and alcohol agreed to it, but then suddenly changed their minds, saying someone higher up was already investigating."

"No one dares to take on this hot potato of yours! Touching it means death! Touching it means demotion!"

"It's hopeless! You're hopeless—"

Looking at Wang Siyu, Wang Jun seemed to let out all the anger he had accumulated over the past few years. "Just stay in there for a few years and behave yourself. I'll try to get my sentence reduced later."

The last bit of hope was shattered, and Wang Siyu felt like the sky was falling.

Is she...going to jail...

He stood there in a daze, not saying a word until Wang Jun left.