mynovelweb Chapter 583 Angry
Chapter 583 Angry
Wu Huimin's words sent a chill down the spines of the three living players in the room.
Sun Qin swallowed hard, and couldn't help but rub her fingertips together as she watched He Lingling's retreating figure.
...No, nothing should happen... It's broad daylight, even if something were to happen, it shouldn't be anything...
Sun Qin was completely unaware of how outrageous her thoughts were. After comforting herself, she felt much better.
"know?"
He Lingling suppressed her trembling hands and pretended not to understand, saying:
"How could you know him? Does your brother work as a recruiter?"
Wu Huimin covered her mouth and chuckled, shaking her head and then nodding: "Yes and no, I guess."
"But almost everyone who works on the ship has seen my brother."
Wu Huimin said, "After all, he is in charge of all matters concerning the workers on the first floor of the ship. Although his salary is not much higher, he is still a person in charge, and he needs to know a little about the personnel changes."
She said a lot, but she didn't explicitly say who "brother" was, which made He Lingling clench her fists.
She slowly pursed her lips, and when Wu Huimin looked over "curiously" again, she looked up and said with a smile:
"Oh my God."
He Lingling looked on with a mixture of sudden realization and disbelief, and exclaimed in surprise:
"Could it be Angkor Wat, the one who brought us aboard?!"
"..."
I can only take a gamble.
He Lingling heard a thunderous heartbeat in her ears. She suppressed her trembling and fear, and her feigned surprise and disbelief were so convincing that they were almost indistinguishable from reality.
"..."
Shi Yuan and Sun Qin silently took a step back, trying to avoid giving themselves away and disrupting He Lingling's "performance."
.
That's why Yu Shijiu was able to become teammates with He Lingling and the others... In some ways, Yu Shijiu is also a drama queen who quite likes to "act".
"...Hahahaha~"
Wu Huimin was clearly stunned for a few seconds, then laughed even more happily.
"..."
Despite feeling like she was being mocked, He Lingling remained expressionless and continued to maintain her composure.
"Huimin, what are you laughing at? Did I guess wrong? No, that should be right, you both have the surname Wu—"
"I guessed right."
Wu Huimin laughed so hard she could barely stand up straight. She took a few steps back, sat down on the bed, tilted her head, and said with a smile:
"My brother is on the first floor of Angkor Wat, but you have to keep it a secret for me. I can't let my brother know that I'm working part-time here yet."
After Wu Huimin finished speaking, Shi Yuan and Sun Qin both vaguely realized something and frowned as they looked at Wu Huimin.
If working on the ship was simply a matter of routine... Angkor wouldn't have stopped Wu Huimin from working there. Similarly, if the work on the ship were really as simple as it seemed, Wu Huimin wouldn't have kept quiet about her part-time job on the ship from her brother...
This sounds a bit convoluted, but it's true.
"……Why?"
He Lingling ultimately decided to continue questioning in a manner appropriate to the situation:
“If you want to earn money on your own part-time job, Angkor shouldn’t stop you.”
Upon hearing this, Wu Huimin sighed, "You all don't understand my brother's personality."
She said, "My brother hopes I can do some easy work, like playing the piano and chatting, or doing something related to literature that sounds very cultured... He doesn't want me to do a job as a waiter on a ship."
"My brother is a very, very good person."
So if he knew he was doing this kind of hard "part-time job," he would definitely be very angry.
“…Then you,” Shi Yuan couldn’t help but frown and interject, “you know he loves you very much, so you shouldn’t have done that—”
He Lingling gently pulled Shi Yuan's arm, silencing him.
"I know."
Wu Huimin did not refute Shi Yuan's words. She patted non-existent dust off her body and said:
“My brother loves me, but I love my brother too.”
Do you know what it feels like to watch your loved ones toil away alone?
Wu Huimin's eyes unconsciously reddened, and she smiled as she said:
"I know."
"I know the fear, panic, and timidity that I felt when my brother left me alone at home day and night... and even the inescapable darkness."
“My brother and I are both very poor.” Wu Huimin’s self-deprecating voice echoed in everyone’s ears.
“We were so poor, so poor that we had to be careful with even the smallest amount of electricity. Most of the time, I followed my brother, who was still a minor at the time, scavenging for garbage. We ate everything, got sick and vomited... but in the end, my brother and I survived. I even... I even learned to play the piano, something most families couldn't afford..."
"This feels like a dream."
Wu Huimin said, "Don't you think this is like a beautiful dream?"
"..."
The expressions of He Lingling and the other two were somewhat stiff and frozen, and in the end, none of them spoke.
“Look,” Wu Huimin laughed again when no one spoke, “you don’t even feel sorry for this—”
"No, no!"
Surprisingly, it was Sun Qin who spoke up first this time.
Sun Qin still had that timid and fearful look, but her eyes were bright at this moment, and there was a hint of sadness that was hard to see through... and a barely perceptible envy.
“It’s not pitiful, Huimin.”
For the first time, Sun Qin took the initiative to step forward. She tremblingly grasped Wu Huimin's cold wrist and shivered.
"You are a good person, your brother is a good person, you are both very, very good people."
“The reason we don’t feel sorry for you is because you have an older brother, right? You have a very good older brother who treats you very well.”
He Lingling and Shi Yuan looked at Sun Qin's trembling hands and—her back, which was clearly soaked with sweat.
Sun Qin herself probably didn't even know this.
Anyone can say nice things.
Wu Huimin didn't pull her hand away, but she also didn't quite believe Sun Qin's words. She said:
“You can say vicious things about me behind my back, like I'm dirty, pathetic, and a lowly person... and you can also say nice things to my face, like I'm not pathetic and that you envy me.”
"Really not!" Sun Qin cried out anxiously, her grip on Wu Huimin's hand suddenly tightening. She was frantic and blurted out instinctively:
"...Would you like to hear my story?"
"..."
He Lingling and Shi Yuan exchanged a glance.
The former looked somewhat worried, while the latter gazed thoughtfully at Sun Qin, as if she had deduced something from the other's anxious and flustered expression.
"Your story?"
Wu Huimin smirked, "Your story can't possibly be more dramatic than mine—"
“I used to be an unwanted child.”
Sun Qin interrupted Wu Huimin's sarcasm by raising her voice slightly.
Wu Huimin's voice stopped abruptly.
Sun Qin continued, "The phrase 'nobody wants me' perfectly describes who I used to be."
"Have you ever been to the countryside? I mean, the kind that's really, really remote, so remote that there aren't even any roads connecting them to the countryside... Haha, doesn't that sound a bit too poor?"
Sun Qin smiled slightly to lighten the mood.
But to others, the corners of her mouth never seemed to turn up.
But no one spoke.
Wu Huimin didn't have it either.
"...In such rural areas, the preference for sons over daughters was fully exploited. Girls were not allowed to go to school, and they were not allowed to speak to any man other than their family members. If they were found talking to outsiders, they would be taken back and beaten."
"Don't disbelieve me, I've been beaten up many times."
As Sun Qin spoke, she bent down, rolled up her trouser leg, and revealed a shocking scar on her calf.
"These are actually not too bad. I wasn't beaten that many times. Most of the time, I was bitten by insects or snakes while working barefoot in the fields, like planting rice. Some of the scars were left from being beaten for disobeying... Unfortunately, I'm not very lucky. I have a tendency to form keloids, so I only have this one scar on my leg, haha."
"Isn't it a bit ugly?"
Sun Qin licked her lips shyly, "Actually, it's much better now. Since I left my hometown, I've bought a lot of scar removal creams. Although the effect isn't ideal, they have indeed faded quite a bit."
He Lingling frowned as she looked at the scars on Sun Qin's legs, reluctant to delve into the hardships the other woman might have endured.
She was the same way.
No one with self-respect would want to expose their tragic past to others for them to comment on and comfort... Although Sun Qin seems to be mild-mannered and timid, she probably doesn't like being pitied by others.
That's human nature; people don't like to receive pity or sympathy from others easily, and these awkward feelings will always exist.
"...does it hurt?"
Wu Huimin suddenly spoke up. She slowly squatted down, gently stroking the dense scars on Sun Qin's calves, and whispered:
"Are you still in pain now?"
Sun Qin: "...Does it hurt?"
She briefly fell into a kind of recollection of the past, of the mountain village she could never escape, a place always filled with pain and tears, which seemed to still have a significant impact on her—no, not a significant one.
She had been away from that place for a very long time... so long that after she died from overwork and working overtime, her "hometown," thousands of miles away, probably wouldn't have been able to receive news of her death quickly enough.
"It doesn't hurt anymore."
Sun Qin snapped out of her reverie and looked down at Wu Huimin, who was rubbing her calves with her hands. Her gaze lingered on the other woman's thin back for a long while.
“I didn’t have an older brother back then, and I couldn’t go to school much because my family was poor. I also had an older brother who needed to get married, which made my living environment even more cramped.”
"So, Huimin."
Sun Qin bent down slightly and patted her head, her voice soft and gentle.
"...Your brother truly loves you very much, and he genuinely hopes you can have a better life, that your future is bright, and that you can get anything you want..."
In that instant, Sun Qin seemed to transform into a completely different person.
Gentle, firm, timid and panicked... all sorts of adjectives could be used to describe Sun Qin at this moment.
It's a bizarre and incomprehensible "charm".
He Lingling looked at Sun Qin, who was bending down to comfort Wu Huimin, and her expression was slightly dazed for a moment.
When she first met Ange in the dungeon, she had a similar feeling.
Sun Qin and An Jie are completely different in personality, appearance, and way of doing things, yet they possess a certain "almost identical" trait.
It's really puzzling.
Shi Yuan stared at Sun Qin without moving, his gaze gradually shifting from indifference to an indescribable irritability and bewilderment.
He Lingling was quite perceptive of people's emotions. She glanced at Shi Yuan discreetly and sighed inwardly when she saw him subconsciously reaching for his neck.
Was Shi Yuan thinking of someone who is no longer alive?
"..."
The time passed quickly in this "heart-to-heart talk" session, and Wu Huimin still had tears in her eyes when Sun Qin helped her up.
This seemingly frail girl had a gentle and kind heart. She held Sun Qin's hand ever since she got up, as if she was worried that the other girl was upset because she had revealed her feelings.
In fact, apart from being a little down at first, Sun Qin didn't feel there were any other serious problems.
Sun Qin was even a little embarrassed. She felt that her past was not pitiful at all... She was just a little further away from a better life and had a little more hardships.
That's it.
Before she died, she had already achieved the life she had longed for since she was young—of course, the fact that she died from overworking and exhausting herself doesn't count.
Thinking about the fear and pain she felt before her sudden death, even Sun Qin, with her good personality, felt like cursing.
Which company keeps employees working until 3 or 4 AM?!
"You are much more pitiful than me."
Wu Huimin was still wiping away tears, "Your brother is so mean, how could he not speak up for you? Aren't you his sister?"
Sun Qin thought for a moment and said, "It's probably because he has more than one younger sister."
"?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Huimin was shocked: "What do you mean by more than one younger sister?"
"To be precise, she has many younger sisters."
Sun Qin sighed: "But in the end, only I and my older sister survived."
He Lingling and Shi Yuan remained silent, only watching Wu Huimin's expression.
Wu Huimin seemed genuinely surprised, but given her upbringing and experiences, she should have been aware of the severity of the "preference for sons over daughters" in certain remote areas.
But considering that Wu Huimin has relied on Angkor since childhood... it's barely plausible.
"..." Wu Huimin opened her mouth, then frowned and said, "What do you mean only you and your sister survived? You have a sister? If your brother won't help you, why won't your sister help you either?"
"...because of cognition."
Sun Qin remained silent for a long time before smiling and saying, "My sister is actually a very good person, but her thinking has been assimilated by everyone else."
"Assimilation" is the most terrifying thing.
When a person with an independent personality is completely assimilated by the surrounding environment, her independent characteristics disappear, and she is no longer herself, but merely a puppet assimilated by the environment.
"assimilation……"
Wu Huimin's gaze suddenly turned strange. She lowered her head and repeated the word "assimilation" several times, until He Lingling, Shi Yuan, and Sun Qin all sensed something was amiss—
Boom boom boom boom!!!