The Youthful You Who Was So Beautiful (translated)

chapter 15

"I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you...... to make each day count."

In the darkness of the movie theatre, the young Leonardo DiCaprio was reciting his lines fluently on the silver screen. The 3D glasses successfully hid Chen Nian's eyes from view.

—

A few hours ago.

Bei Ye swiftly shut the shutter doors and hastily drew the curtains before turning back to Chen Nian, "What happened?"

"Yesterday, they hit me, they scolded me, and they stripped me of my clothing. Several times, they took photos, and recorded videos of me. She told me, to retrieve it from her today. I went to the hill behind the school building, but she wouldn't give it to me. She said she'd show the video to me. She even said that she would upload it on the Internet, and that since so many people recorded it, it's useless even if I report it to the police — She told me that she'd never let me off the hook. — That what happened yesterday, would happen a second time, and a third time... She threatened me and started to beat me. I tried to resist her, so I shoved her back...... I knew that I had to meet her today, so I brought a knife, thinking that maybe, just maybe, I could scare her, into leaving me alone. But she wasn't scared in the slightest, I warned her not to come over, but she wouldn't listen...... We began tussling...... we rolled around on the field. I didn't know what happened next, I wasn't thinking, I really wasn't thinking, she just......

I'm wrong, I shouldn't have gone to meet her by myself."

But because of the series of incidents that occurred after she exposed the truth of Hu Xiao Die's suicide, she no longer trusted Zheng Yi nor the law. Raising her head to gaze at Bei Ye, tears began to form in her eyes,

"I'm sorry, please save me. Please send me to the police station, I'm scared, I don't dare to give myself up to the police. I'm afraid my mum would find out about it."

"We're not going." Bei Ye said firmly.

"......."

"Why do we have to?" Bei Ye's eyes reddened, "Why?!"

"Why do we have to hand you over to the police? Do you want the police to continually analyse the video recordings they took of you, repeatedly asking you about your feelings over and over again, interrogating your motives – whether you truly injured Wei Cai as a form of self-defence, or whether you're simply using self-defence as an excuse to commit murder? Do you want to come face to face to those who have hurt you, and be forced to confront them about what happened to you? Do you want to get into endless squabbles and tussles with the parents of your perpetrators? Do you even hope to sit for your graduation exams?!"

"......"

Mum is going to hear about this, she'll definitely learn about the inhumane torture and hurt they inflicted on her. Her mum will definitely cry.

After his temporary outburst, Bei Ye collected himself swiftly, "Are you sure she's dead?"

"......" Stunned, Chen Nian stared at Bei Ye blankly before shaking her head slowly, "I ran away immediately after I hurt her."

"I'll go and take a look. But no matter what happens, this can wait till after your exams are over. Now, hand the knife to me."

The blood on the knife had dried. Bei Ye strode over to Chen Nian, and wrenched the knife from her tight grip.

"Take off your clothes." Bei Ye instructed.

Chen Nian remained unmoving.

Bei Ye stripped Chen Nian of her clothing, and dragged her to beneath the shower head. Turning on the shower, the water began to pour down on Chen Nian's body, slowly cleansing the dried blood stains on Chen Nian's body.