If the world had no daylight

On the second floor of the old hotel, takeaway boxes and empty mineral water bottles were thrown in a mess in the narrow and cramped single room. The worn clothes, shoes and socks fell quietly on the ground, exuding a faint stench.

The person curled up on the bed slowly sat up, climbed out of bed and walked to the window, opened the curtains and took a look at the already dark sky, then picked up the landline and ordered a takeaway.

Twenty minutes later, there was a knock on the door of the room, and the person outside the door said: "The fried noodles are here, come and get them."

He grabbed the t-shirt on his body and wiped his face, then kicked away the trash on the ground and walked over to open the door.

There was a familiar person standing outside the door, but he lowered his head, handed him fried noodles and ran away without saying a word.

Zhou Xiaoxing was taken aback for a moment, then realized instantly that he wanted to retreat into the room and close the door, but it was already too late.

Someone kicked him away, kicked him against the back wall, and walked in.

The person who came was dressed in black, a mask and a hat, followed by two tall young men.

Seeing them, Zhou Xiaoxing wanted to turn around and run to the window, regardless of the severe pain in his body.One of the young men with a cropped head had expected it, walked over a few steps, grabbed him, and pressed his back against the wall, while the other went to the window to lock the window and draw the curtains.

Only then did the man in the mask walk in and close the door.She glanced at the environment in the room, and resisted the urge to turn around and go out.

She simply didn't take off the mask, went straight to the person who was pressed against the wall, raised her leg again and kicked him hard in the vitals.

Zhou Xiaoxing snorted, raised his head and stared at her with those bloodshot eyes, and then was slapped by the short-haired young man in front of him who held him down.

This slap used a lot of strength, and immediately half of his face was swollen, Zhou Xiaoxing paused, and slowly spat out a mouthful of blood, hung his head and did not move.

The inch-headed youth sneered, "This slap is for Brother Zheng."

Zhou Xiaoxing's body trembled, but he still kept his mouth shut.

The young man in red standing by the window lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and said, "I won't talk nonsense with you. If brother Zheng can't come out today, I'll send you in to accompany him."

His tone was flat, but Zhou Xiaoxing froze, and then said cowardly: "Brother Ma, I can't help it, you all know who Brother Fifth is, if I didn't tell the truth at that time, I would be the one who died today..."

The young man with an inch cut yelled angrily: "You don't have to put on a show for me!"

Zhou Xiaoxing was so frightened that he shivered and shut up immediately.

"Back then, you were fooled by your fucking dick, which caused brother Zheng to suffer so badly. Do you still want to play this game?"

The young man in red stubbed out his cigarette, threw it on the ground and stomped it, then walked to the bedside, picked up a beer bottle and weighed it in his hand.

While weighing it, he walked over and stopped in front of Zhou Xiaoxing.

Zhou Xiaoxing's face turned pale immediately, he hadn't learned the other party's methods, and he immediately broke his mouth and begged for mercy: "Brother Ma, I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, please let me go, I was forced by Fifth Brother, I really I don't want to..."

The young man spit on his face according to his cropped hair, and cursed: "I saw you clearly, you bastard, you are playing with your mother's blood, what you say today is useless!"

The person who had been silent all this time suddenly said, "Aren, we are not here to fight today."

The inch-cut young man glanced at her and said nothing more.

Zhou Xiaoxing rekindled hope, he raised his head to look at the person wearing the mask, but in the next second he heard a sentence that made him feel like falling into an ice cellar.

"I'll give you two options, to testify in court yourself, or to send you to jail."

She stepped forward slowly, looked at him, and asked flatly, "Which one do you choose?"

The blood on Zhou Xiaoxing's face faded away, and the eyes he looked at Ye Wan changed from fear to hatred, and there was still deep hatred hidden in the bottom of his eyes.

Ye Wan saw his expression clearly, but calmly raised her hand, opened the phone cover, and pointed the phone screen at him.

Zhou Xiaoxing turned his head to take a look, and the hope in his heart was instantly extinguished.

What she said was true, and she could indeed send him to jail at any time.

But he still has the last hole card, as long as he holds this card, he has not yet reached a dead end.

After Zhou Xiaoxing thought it through, he raised his head with a resigned expression, and replied, "Okay, I'll answer..."

A sudden knock on the door interrupted his words, and then a crisp voice came in: "Brother Xing, it's me."

The four people in the room were stunned for a moment, Ye Wan was the first to react, asked them to hold Zhou Xiaoxing down, and walked quickly behind the door quietly.

She was about to open the door when Zhou Xiaoxing broke free and shouted, "Huiru, run!"

Ye Wan cursed secretly, immediately opened the door and chased in the direction of the footsteps.

Zhou Xiaoxing in the room was pressed to the ground, and received another round of punches and kicks.He lay on the ground, quietly hiding his red eyes.

It was snowing outside the hotel at some point, Ye Wan chased it out, and vaguely saw a figure running towards the street, she didn't care about the hoarfrost all over the ground, and ran after him.

The street has long been deserted, only the figures in twos and threes and the quiet street lamps.Ye Wan chased after her, and the cold wind penetrated into her neck from under her mask, freezing her all over.

The people in front gradually slowed down, maybe they couldn't run anymore, Ye Wan immediately speeded up and successfully stopped her before she ran to the intersection.

"Hui Ru! It's me!"

Ye Wan pulled her arm and shouted.

The person who was caught trembled all over, buried his head to cover his face with his long hair, and said in a low voice, "You're wrong, I'm not."

She wanted to break free as she spoke, but Ye Wan couldn't help but grab her shoulders and make her turn around. After seeing her face clearly, he asked puzzledly: "What's wrong with you? It's me, I'm Ye Wan , look at me."

The girl's face was somewhat hazy under the dim light, but she still couldn't hide her haggardness.She refused to raise her head no matter what, but kept saying, "You're wrong."

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, Ye Wan couldn't stand here to ask any more questions, but could only say: "It's too cold, I'll take you to eat something."

When the other party heard this, she panicked. She shook off Ye Wan's hand and wanted to take a step back, but she stepped on a puddle of water on the ground, and her feet slipped back.

Ye Wan quickly grabbed her and hugged her in his arms before she fell off.

The next second, Ye Wan felt something and froze in place.

She slowly lowered her head, and gently pushed her away, her eyes resting on the girl's bulging belly under the bloated winter coat.

Chen Huiru subconsciously covered her stomach and shouted, "Don't look at me!"

Ye Wan raised her head and looked at her face. After a moment of silence, she calmly said, "I'll accompany you to the hospital, now."

"Congratulations, you can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow."

The nurse's voice brought the person on the bed back to reality, she raised her head and smiled politely: "Thank you for this time."

"It should be." After checking, the nurse took everything back and walked out of the ward with the cart.

After the door of the ward was closed, Ye Wan took out her mobile phone and quickly dialed a landline number with her fingers.

The beep rang for a long time before it was picked up over there.

Ye Wan asked straight to the point: "Have you thought about it? If you delay it by one more day, it will be more dangerous. It's almost three months now, and it will be too late."

The person on the phone couldn't help sobbing, and asked in a low voice, "Is this the only way?"

Ye Wan sighed, and her tone softened a bit: "Hui Ru, your life hasn't started yet, so you can't just ruin it like this, listen to me, and have an abortion now."

She comforted again: "I will accompany you to the private hospital. I promise that no third person will know about it. Trust me, okay?"

After a long time, the person over there finally nodded.

"Okay, I believe you."

In the second week after the operation, Bai Laosan's condition has stabilized a lot.

Bai Tian was finally able to temporarily relax the nerves that had been tense for a long time. She returned to school and took the last monthly exam of this semester step by step.

At noon Liu Ran dragged her to the cafeteria and ordered her a portion of braised pork.

"How can you eat bread every day, you will be malnourished."

He held down Bai Tian, ​​told her to sit down obediently, and then went to buy her a vegetable dumpling soup.

"Come on, I'm treating guests today, don't even think about eating first." Liu Ran handed her a spoon.

Bai Tian didn't refuse again, took a sip of the soup with the spoon, his cold body was finally relieved a little.

Liu Ran breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she had started to eat, but soon became distressed again.

Bai Tian lowered his head and said casually, "Ask whatever you want."

After all, Liu Ran grew up with her, so he didn't want to be a secret anymore, and asked, "Boss, do you know the news from the police?"

She paused with her left hand holding the spoon, and asked, "What news?"

Liu Ran never asked about this matter, even though he knew in his heart that it was definitely not a coincidence that Bai Tian was injured on the same day.

"Wei Zheng's case may be sentenced. It is said that there is no surveillance at the scene, and there are no witnesses. The only person present... did not witness the most important thing."

He didn't say that name, but it was no different from just saying it.

But Bai Tian raised his head and repeated: "There are no witnesses?"

Liu Ran nodded: "That's right, there is no fourth person at the scene, the police have already checked. This news should not have been leaked, and it took me a long time to find out."

She put down the spoon, got up suddenly and walked out of the cafeteria.

Liu Ran was stunned, and after a long time he called out: "I haven't eaten yet, where are you going?"

Bai Tian turned a deaf ear to it and left the school directly with the long-term valid leave slip. She didn't even have time to wait for the bus, so she took a taxi to the private hospital.

When she arrived at the door of the ward, she only saw a cleaning lady cleaning.Bai Tian checked the house number again, and then asked, "Excuse me, is the person in this ward discharged?"

"Yeah, I just left this morning." Auntie didn't turn her head.

Bai Tian thought for a while, took out his mobile phone, dragged that number out of the blacklist, and called.

The phone has been turned off.

She called three times, but the phone was turned off.

Bai Tian pursed his lips, walked out of the hospital expressionlessly, and stopped a car to go to Ye's house.

The person who opened the door was a woman she had never seen before. She was wearing home clothes, and when she saw Bai Tian, ​​she smiled and asked, "Little girl, are you looking for A Yuan?"

Bai Tian shook his head blankly, and asked uncertainly: "Excuse me, is this Ye Wan's house?"

The woman suddenly realized, and quickly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it turned out to be Wan Wan's classmate. She hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet."

"I just came from the hospital and said she was discharged in the morning."

The other party was startled, and after thinking for a while, he replied, "It might be that you haven't come back yet. What's your name? Let me send her a message."

Bai Tian pondered for a moment, and then said: "Thank you, I don't have anything urgent, so don't bother."

The other party watched her walk away inexplicably, and then returned to the house.

But Bai Tian remembered a place.

She had to take a taxi again to an apartment she was familiar with, but unexpectedly, she met a person at the gate just as she got off the car.

When the man saw Bai Tian, ​​he asked in confusion, "Bai Tian, ​​why do you have time to come here today?"

She looked up and said hello quickly: "Ms. Zhao."

Zhao Yiming waved his hand: "I said it's fine to call Big Brother in private, are you coming to class today, but Shengsheng said that you are very busy recently, so I asked for leave for you."

Bai Tian shook his head in embarrassment: "I'm here to find a friend, and she also lives here."

"That's it, then I'll give it to you." Zhao Yiming was holding a bunch of snacks and drinks in his hand, probably the afternoon tea for the teachers in the dance studio.

Bai Tian immediately said: "It's okay, I can find the way, you are tired from carrying so many things, don't send me off."

Zhao Yiming stopped pressing and said, "Come back to class when you have time."

Then he walked in with his things.

Bai Tian breathed a sigh of relief, walked through the gate and walked towards another building.

When she came out of the elevator, she turned on her phone to check the time, then dialed again, but it was still turned off.

Bai Tian walked to the door, stretched out his hand and rang the doorbell.

It was quiet inside, without any movement.

She pressed it twice more, but still no one opened the door.

Bai Tian stood at the door and waited for 10 minutes. During this time, he rang the doorbell countless times, and finally confirmed that it was useless to wait here.

She squeezed her phone, turned around and walked towards the elevator.

The sound of the elevator arriving at the station just rang, and two people came out of the elevator, and the taller person supported the other person, and they came towards Bai Tian.

They didn't find Bai Tian until they got closer.

Bai Tian's gaze swept across Ye Wan's face, and then stayed on that pale face.

She paused, looked away, and said, "I have something to ask you."

Ye Wan glanced at the people around him, nodded and replied, "Wait for me."

She supported the pale girl and walked slowly, passing Bai Tian.

The person holding the mobile phone stood with his back to them, listening to the opening and closing of the door behind him, and then returned to silence.

She lowered her head, took a deep breath, and when she raised her head again, there was no emotion on her face.

A few minutes later, the door behind him was opened again, and soft footsteps slowly approached.

Bai Tian turned his head, looked at her and asked, "What do you mean no witnesses?"

Ye Wan turned her head to look behind her, and replied, "Let's go out and talk."

Bai Tian resisted those thoughts and walked into the elevator first.

The people behind looked at her back and followed after a few seconds.

There are large and small fitness facilities in this apartment, and it is now after the kindergarten. Noisy children occupy the public facilities of the apartment, and the parents stand aside and watch them laugh and play.

There was a bench in the corner. The tall girl walked over and sat down. The person behind her stood there for a while and then walked over.

Bai Tian was not in the mood to beat around the bush with her, and asked directly: "I have been waiting for a summons, and now that Wei Zheng has been handed over to the procuratorate, I am still wondering. If Liu Ran hadn't told me, did you plan to let me wait until the court hearing? Know?"

Ye Wan didn't refute. She looked at the shadow cast by the sun not far away, pondered for a long time, and then replied: "You can't testify in court."

"What's the reason?" Bai Tian has remained calm until now, but she can't hold it any longer.

"The reason is that you can't have anything to do with this matter."

Bai Tian raised his voice: "I haven't done anything wrong, why are you talking like I have a problem?"

The person sitting on the side rubbed his eyebrows and said slowly: "Bai Tian, ​​the police did not find any trace of the fourth person at the scene, do you know what it means?"

Bai Tian was taken aback.

Ye Wan straightened up and turned to look at her: "It means that Wei Zheng wiped out all traces of you, and you were not included in his confession."

Bai Tian's head hurts intermittently, she couldn't help asking: "Why?"

"It's not just you, he even lied about my part of the confession. If all this is discovered by the police, what do you think will happen?"

Ye Wan looked a little tired, she put her hands up to support her chin, and continued: "I knew he was lying, but I still cooperated with his confession and gave false testimony together."

Bai Tian looked at her incredulously: "Do you know what will happen if you do this, if you are found out..."

"So it can't be discovered." Ye Wan said calmly.

She looked at Bai Tian, ​​and said again: "You cannot testify in court, this is Wei Zheng's decision."

Bai Tian didn't know how she could detect Wei Zheng's intention and cooperate when she couldn't meet and communicate with Wei Zheng.She didn't know why she couldn't testify in court.

She only knew that without witnesses, it would be even more detrimental to Wei Zheng.

"Ye Wan, this is wrong. I told you what happened that day. We all know the truth. As long as we confess it and prove that it's not Wei Zheng's fault, he must have hope."

Ye Wan shook her head: "Wei Zheng has already excluded you and me from the scope of this matter, Bai Tian, ​​please respect his decision."

Bai Tian couldn't understand, just like she never understood what Ye Wan was doing.

"Give me a reason, or I'll go to the police today."

It's not a threat, but she always walks the talk.

Ye Wan stood up suddenly and turned her back to Bai Tian for a long time, as if suppressing her emotions.

After a while, she let out a breath and turned to look at Bai Tian.

"Because the key evidence to exonerate him is in my hands. It doesn't matter whether you testify or not."

The important thing is.

Ye Wan looked at Bai Tian, ​​with emotions in her eyes that girls with short hair could not understand.

- Darkness has nothing to do with you.