Black Gold 1983

Ma Guoliang sternly warned Renye: "Alright, Renye, if you show a good attitude, we'll try to get lenient treatment!"

Before she could finish speaking, Li Yue'e knelt down again with a thud, grabbing Ma Guoliang's trouser leg tightly: "Section Chief Ma, I'm kneeling before you! He's still young and doesn't understand, please don't send him down that road!"

When Renye saw his mother kneel down again, his eyes reddened: "Mom! Get up! Don't kneel!"

The room fell silent the moment they saw this.

Who was Li Yue'e in the family compound? She was a shrew!

How can one not be moved by someone going to such lengths for their son?

Moreover, everyone knows how powerful Rogue Z is.

A couple of years ago, there was a guy from the mine next door who was accused of indecent assault for staying a little longer in the female workers' dormitory. He was sentenced to five years and still hasn't been released.

Renye is only nineteen years old this year. Once he has a criminal record, his life will be over.

"That's enough!"

A sound exploded from the direction of the bed.

Everyone was stunned.

Because the one who spoke was none other than Tian Sui'er, who had been keeping her head down and not saying a word since earlier.

She stood up abruptly, her eyes red-rimmed, her thin body trembling slightly, but her voice was surprisingly firm: "Section Chief Ma, you can't take him away!"

Tian Mancang frowned: "Shut up! Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? This has nothing to do with you now, don't get involved!"

"How can it have nothing to do with me?" Tian Sui'er's voice was trembling with tears. "The person was found in my bed, and this whole thing started because of me. How can it have nothing to do with me?"

Seeing the situation turning sour, Wang Xiuqin quickly interjected, "Sui'er, are you confused? Section Chief Ma is trying to help you!"

"Shut up!" Tian Sui'er turned and glared at her, her eyes blazing with anger. "Aunt Xiuqin, from the moment you walked in this door, have you uttered a single word that shows you care about me? You're just hoping Renye gets arrested, hoping this matter will escalate. You're the most gossipy person in the entire compound!"

Wang Xiuqin choked, her face turning red and white in turns, her lips trembling for a long time, but she couldn't manage to fart.

The aunties and older women in the room looked at each other in disbelief. No one expected that Tian Sui'er, who was usually quiet and spoke softly, would say such a thing today.

Tian Sui'er turned to Ma Guoliang, and tears finally fell, but she didn't wipe them away, just staring straight at him.

"Section Chief Ma, I'm telling you the truth."

She choked up, as if she had mustered up immense courage.

"It was my fault! I seduced Jinno!"

Sui'er's mother's face changed drastically: "What!!"

"Tian Sui'er, are you crazy? Do you even know what you're saying?!"

Hearing this, Sui'er's mother almost fainted from anger. With this sentence, Tian Sui'er had risked her family's reputation and her daughter's honor.

"Mom, let me finish." Tian Sui'er didn't look at her mother, her eyes fixed on Ma Guoliang. "For the past three years, I've had someone in my heart, not Xu Dongsheng. Ask anyone in this courtyard, who doesn't know who it is?"

"I grew up with him since I was little, went to school together, and ran around the mine together. He knew I was afraid of the dark, so every time I finished evening self-study, he would take a detour to take me home. He knew I loved the millet cakes from the supply and marketing cooperative, so he would save his breakfast money every week to buy me one."

As she spoke, her tears flowed even more fiercely, but her voice grew louder and louder.

"I don't like Xu Dongsheng. I've never liked him. You're making me marry him just because his family are officials, because it looks good on the surface. But did you ask me? Did you ask me if Tian Sui'er was willing?"

Sui'er's mother's tears streamed down her face, but she couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Tian Sui'er turned her head and glanced at Ren Ye, who was being pressed to the ground.

That look contained heartache, grievance, and a stubbornness.

"Renye is a disappointment, he's unemployed, and everyone in the hospital looks down on him. But he's good to me, he's always been good to me since we were kids, and that has never changed. You look down on him because he's poor, you look down on him because he's useless, but he doesn't steal or rob. His father became lame while saving someone, and his mother works hard in the cafeteria, earning clean money. What gives you the right to look down on him?"

After she finished speaking, it seemed as if all her strength was being drained away, but the last few words struck everyone's hearts clearly.

"Section Chief Ma, if you want to arrest him, arrest me first. The incident happened in my bed, so if it's considered indecent assault, I'm an accomplice."

The room was completely silent.

Only Wang Xiuqin stood by, hurling insults and curses: "You've gone completely mad! Utterly mad! For this good-for-nothing scoundrel, you've even abandoned your own reputation, you've utterly disgraced Hongxing Mine! I bet you two were in cahoots all along, deliberately sabotaging the Xu family at the engagement banquet, you've lost all your conscience!"

She got more and more excited as she spoke, taking two steps forward and pointing at Tian Sui'er's nose, yelling in a shrill voice, "You think you can save him by saying that? Dream on! Being a hooligan is being a hooligan, and neither of you will escape! Not only will he go to jail, but you shameless girl will also be fired from the mine and never be able to hold your head up again. Let's see who will want you then!"

Renye stared blankly at Tian Suier.

Just like in her previous life, she stood there, in front of everyone in the room, and poured all the dirty water on herself.

She was immoral, seduced men, and shameless. A nineteen-year-old girl tore her own reputation to shreds and threw it on the ground, just to save his life.

But what happened? He refused.

He took all the blame upon himself because he couldn't bear to watch Sui'er be ruined by his own hands!

So he did something crazy.

In a moment of impulsiveness, that version of myself grabbed a pair of scissors from the three-drawer table and stabbed Wang Xiuqin in the stomach!

One slap! Two slaps! Blood splattered all over the room.

Immediately afterwards, chaos erupted inside the room.

The security personnel immediately subdued him and took Renye to the local police station that same day.

The police quickly verified the situation and went to the hospital for a forensic examination, confirming that Wang Xiuqin was seriously injured and unconscious. The case was then transferred to the procuratorate.

Even though Ren Shouyi and Li Yue'e went to the hospital to apologize to Wang Xiuqin's family, they were never forgiven.

At that time, the policy was being tightened, and the prosecutor's office filed a public prosecution against Renye for the crimes of causing serious injury through gross negligence and hooliganism.

During the trial, Renye pleaded guilty in court. Taking into account the facts of the case, Wang Xiuqin's injuries, and the policies at the time, the court ultimately sentenced him to seven years in prison for multiple crimes.

After the verdict was handed down, Renye was sent to prison to serve his sentence that same day. In the seven years that followed, he never saw Tian Suier again.

It wasn't until seven years later, when Renye was released from prison, that he learned from several friends that Tian Suier's reputation was completely ruined because of this incident, and people would point fingers at her wherever she went.

Even so, Xu Dongsheng still married her as he had originally intended when they got engaged.

After that, Renye was too ashamed to stay in Jincheng. He dared not face his parents' disappointed eyes, nor did he dare face Tian Suier. So he slunk away from the small town that filled him with guilt and shame.

Countless times at night, Renye wondered if he could have restrained himself and suppressed his madness back then, would those accidents have been avoided? Would his and Tian Sui'er's fates have been completely different?

Those recurring regrets tormented him day and night.

Fortunately, the year he was released from prison was a time of great opportunity.

The wave of state-owned enterprise reform swept in, the market economy quietly emerged, and business opportunities sprang up everywhere. With his ruthlessness and exceptional vision, Renye took over his first coal mine.

In 2001, when my country joined the World Trade Organization, coal prices soared. He seized the opportunity to expand his business rapidly, establishing operations in Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, and quickly extending his business throughout the country.

Those ten years were his most glorious. He was always surrounded by people when he went out, and even signing a document could bring in tens of millions of dollars. When people in Jincheng mentioned "Boss Ren", they all gave him a thumbs up.

Meanwhile, the Hongxing Mine had already changed hands in the wave of state-owned enterprise reform and was taken over by him, officially renamed Tianye Mining.

What Renye never expected was that when he saw Tian Sui'er again, the woman who had trapped him for his entire life had committed suicide in that old apartment building.