Announced divorce, madly criticized Ling Shaochang for kneeling down

The new clothes fell at her feet, in pieces and tatters.

She stood there in a daze, looking at Qiao He, feeling aggrieved. "I didn't."

"Ruyi, how can you lie at such a young age?"

Li Ling rushed in from the doorway, her face full of pity. "When I was cleaning your closet today, I found that you had cut up all the new clothes your father bought for you. What are you thinking? I know you don't like me or your sister, but these were bought for you by your father, and he brought them back from out of town. How could you ruin his kindness?"

Qiao Ruyi looked at Li Ling, her eyes filled with tears of resentment.

"I didn't." She said these three words with great force.

She didn't cut up the clothes, it was Li Ling who wronged her.

"You mean your Aunt Li is wronging you?" Qiao He questioned her angrily, "What reason does she have to wrong you? Qiao Ruyi, has Dad ever told you that you can do wrong things, but you can't lie!"

Such a huge grievance hit Qiao Ruyi's young heart. With red eyes, she raised her head and shouted stubbornly at Qiao He, "I didn't do it! I just didn't do it!"

Qiao He said angrily, "You are becoming more and more outrageous!"

Seeing this, Li Ling quickly tried to smooth things over. "Okay, husband, Ruyi definitely didn't do it on purpose. Maybe she just doesn't like the clothes you bought. Little girls have their own aesthetic tastes. Maybe the clothes you bought aren't the styles and colors she likes. You don't have to buy them for her in the future. I'll take her to buy whatever clothes she wants and let her choose them herself."

Later, Qiao Ruyi no longer had any new clothes.

From then on, whenever Qiao He came back from a business trip, he would only bring new clothes for Qiao Ruyuan, and never for her.

......

In the winter when I was fourteen, there was a heavy snowfall in Beijing.

The heavy snow lasted for a whole week.

For the safety of students, the Education Bureau issued a temporary suspension of classes, urging students to stay home as much as possible. Most boarding students were gradually taken home, and those remaining in the dormitories were almost all students from out of town.

Qiao Ruyi did not live on campus during junior high school, but this winter, she was suddenly notified to live on campus.

"I heard from your Aunt Li that you are not happy living at home and want to live on campus."

At the dining table, Qiao He was eating and glanced at Qiao Ruyi who was sitting across from him. "The roads are blocked by heavy snow, and winter vacation is coming soon. Why did you think of living on campus?"

Qiao Ruyi looked up blankly. She had never said that she wanted to live on campus.

Li Ling, who was standing by, quickly chimed in, "Hubby, Ruyi has grown up and will soon be in the third year of junior high, followed by high school. It's a good thing she wants to live on campus now; it allows her to develop her independence skills ahead of time."

As she spoke, she glanced at Qiao Ruyi again, a smug smile in her eyes, "Besides, Ruyi isn't happy at home either. It's not good to be bored all day. Why don't you go to school and spend more time with your classmates? Maybe you'll be in a better mood next time you come back."

Qiao He thought this made sense and nodded, "If you want to go, then go ahead. I've asked Qiu Gui to arrange the school dormitory."

"I didn't want to go."

Qiao Ruyi, who had been eating quietly, slowly raised her head and looked at Qiao He expressionlessly, "That's not what I said."

Hearing this, Qiao He also looked at her.

"Oh, Ruyi, how could you treat such a thing as a joke? I clearly heard you talking to your classmates on the phone the other day saying you wanted to stay in the dormitory, so I just mentioned this to your father."

Li Ling acted like a good person and said quickly, "Now your father has already used his connections to inform the school, and you suddenly deny it. Isn't this embarrassing for your aunt and your father?"

Qiao Ruyi listened to her arguments one after another, opened her mouth but said nothing.

The experiences of the past few years have taught her that if she talks back to Li Ling, she will not get her father's favor.

Because Dad doesn't believe her, he only believes Li Ling.

However, she had never called her classmates, nor had she ever mentioned living on campus.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Qiao He thought she was going to regret it, so he put down his chopsticks and said calmly, "Since I said it, I must do it. The school has already been contacted. Let's move there next week. It's good to exercise myself early."

Qiao Ruyi lowered her eyes and stared at the rice in the bowl, which she had only taken a few bites of.

She thought, maybe staying here wasn't such a bad thing.

......

"Why aren't my clothes washed?"

Little Ruyi stood at the door and asked the servant.

She was going to live in the school dormitory in two days, but when she was packing her clothes, she found that she had not washed the clothes she had taken off in the past two days.

The servant said truthfully, "Miss, this is what Madam Li ordered."

"That's what I said." Li Ling walked out of the room and looked at Qiao Ruyi with a smile, "Ruyi, you'll be living on campus soon. You'll have to wash your clothes yourself from now on. You can't let the servants do it for you. There won't be servants to serve you at school."

She stood in front of Qiao Ruyi, looking down at her exquisite face at the age of fourteen. "Don't blame me for not feeling sorry for you. I'm trying to train you to be independent. It's for your own good."

Qiao Ruyi was holding the basket of dirty clothes and was about to go downstairs to throw them into the washing machine, but was stopped by Li Ling again.

"Ruyi, you must have misunderstood what Auntie meant. These clothes should be hand washed."

She twisted her body and smiled, "If you don't wash them or throw them away, you won't have clothes to wear. Don't blame your aunt for not buying you new clothes. Your father earns money easily, and your aunt will put an end to such wasteful behavior."

Finally, Qiao Ruyi carried the pile of clothes downstairs and washed them herself.

Li Ling sat there, eating fruit and drinking tea, watching herself wash herself for the whole afternoon.

Qiao Ruyi only remembered that it snowed heavily that day, the temperature was very low, and the water was very cold.

The icy water was so cold that it numbed her hands.

She asked why there was no hot water, and Li Ling told her that there was a problem with the pipe and she needed to call someone to fix it.

It was not until she finished washing the pile of clothes and her hands were so red and swollen that she had lost feeling that hot water came into the tap.

......

All the scenes flashed through my mind one by one like frames of a movie.

She also dreamed of the summer night when she was seventeen years old. Li Ling deliberately locked her outside the Qiao Mansion and did not let her in. That night, she walked alone in the starless night for a long, long time.

But no matter where she went or how long she walked, there was only darkness before her eyes and no light at all.

That night, she hoped very much that the day would come and she would see the rising sun.

But since the day Yin Rufang passed away, her sky has fallen into endless darkness, as if it will never light up again.

......

A tear rolled down from the corner of his eye and flowed into the pillow.

"Qiao Ruyi?"

A gentle cry came from my ear, which made my heart tremble suddenly.

On the third day of coma, the person on the bed finally woke up from the nightmare and showed signs of waking up.