bestfiction Chapter 48 A Sense of Shattering
Chapter 48 A Sense of Shattering
Public opinion surrounding Su Peixue shifted overnight.
Marketing accounts that had previously criticized Su Peixue are now playing dead.
On the seafood livestream forum, apology posts piled up, with "I'm sorry" being flooded in layer after layer, reaching over two thousand posts in just one hour.
But Su Peixue never started a live stream.
The streamer is offline, the live stream screen is black, and only the default seafood live stream logo is slowly rotating on the screen.
But the number of online users jumped from 10,000 to 30,000, and then from 30,000 to 50,000. The comments scrolled wildly across the black screen, so fast that it was impossible to read the individual messages.
"Xuexue, I'm sorry."
"Please start broadcasting!"
We misunderstood you.
"Please come out and say something."
"I'll send you a gift"
"Xuexue, come back quickly!"
"Xuexue, why haven't you opened any gifts yet? I wanted to send you a big rocket!"
"I insulted you the day before yesterday, I apologize, I was an idiot."
"I'll never follow trends again."
"Kind girls shouldn't be treated like this."
The chat was flooded with comments until 2 a.m., and there were still several thousand people online.
This data left the seafood livestream operators dumbfounded.
Unfortunately, Su Peixue didn't open the gift!
Otherwise, the platform would make a huge profit!
Su Peixue didn't even notice the online discussions.
She was the one at the center of the storm, but something else was on her phone screen.
The lights were off in the small room of the supermarket. Su Peixue was curled up on the bed, clutching an old cell phone in her hand.
The light from the screen shone on her face.
As I flipped through the photos, they all showed her sleeping.
There's a picture of her lying by the hospital bed, her face buried in her arms, her hair spread out on the pillow.
There was a picture of her leaning back in the armchair, her head tilted to the side, her lips slightly parted.
And there was her curled up on the folding bed in the hospital room, her whole body huddled into a tiny ball...
Every single one of these photos was taken by my mother.
After she fell ill, she took care of her and stayed with her at the hospital during those days.
My mother must have been awake when she looked at her sleeping face, took out her phone, and secretly pressed the shutter. At that time, my mother could still move, could still pick up her phone, and could still look at her.
Su Peixue's shoulders began to tremble.
Tears welled up in her eyes and dripped onto the phone screen, blurring a small part of her face in the photo.
The girl suddenly felt as if a string in her mind had snapped.
He bent over, covered his mouth with one hand, and gagged by the bedside, but nothing came out.
After retching several times, the girl's body trembled and convulsed uncontrollably, and she began tearing at her long, flowing hair in a fit of rage.
"Heh, heh..."
In the darkness, Su Peixue gasped for breath, pulled a utility knife from under her pillow, and slashed her wrist hard.
Invisible beads of blood formed a line, flowing down the forearm.
Thunder started outside the window, and lightning flashed, illuminating the entire room for a moment.
Su Peixue's blank face was reflected in the white light, her eyes empty.
The bed sheet beneath her wrists was stained crimson.
The sky was like an overturned bowl, and raindrops pounded against the windowpane.
The small supermarket's roller shutter door was suddenly pulled open from the outside.
Lin Ran stood at the door, soaked to the bone, carrying two plastic bags filled with packaged barbecue.
"Su Peixue, come out and eat chicken drumsticks."
Lin Ran brushed the water off his shoulders, sensing that something was wrong.
Normally, the little girl would have already run over by now.
What's going on today?
Lin Ran placed the barbecue bag on the counter and pushed open the door to the small room.
The lights inside were off, and the light from the streetlights and lightning flashed in alternately.
The girl on the bed was curled up in a ball, her hair all disheveled.
Su Peixue's off-white pajamas had a patch of bright red on the cuffs.
In that instant, all the thoughts in Lin Ran's mind were cleared away.
He took two steps over, squatted down by the bed, and put his arm around her shoulder.
Looking at Su Peixue's unfocused pupils, Lin Ran cupped her face and vigorously rubbed her cool, soft cheeks with both hands.
Su Peixue's eyelashes trembled, and her pupils slowly closed.
Her lips moved.
The sound was very soft, almost drowned out by the sound of the rain.
"You're all wet... Go change your clothes... You'll catch a cold."
Lin Ran's hands were still cupping her face. Hearing this, he paused for a moment, then looked down at her wrist.
"You've injured yourself all over, what do you care if I catch a cold?"
Lin Ran sighed softly.
He saw the old cell phone on the bed and understood why Su Peixue had lost control of her emotions.
I just didn't expect her to have self-harm tendencies.
He gently rubbed her innocent-looking face.
"You broke your promise, Su Peixue. You promised you wouldn't hurt yourself."
"Xuexue was wrong..."
Su Peixue obediently lowered her head and admitted her mistake.
Seeing her looking so broken and injured, Lin Ran couldn't bear to say anything more and quickly brought out iodine swabs and gauze from home.
I went to the bathroom and got a basin of hot water. I took a new towel, soaked it in the hot water, and wrung it out until it was half dry.
Fortunately, the girl's wrist wound was not deep, and the bleeding had stopped on its own.
Lin Ran squatted down in front of her and first wiped her face with a hot towel.
When the hot towel was applied, Su Peixue closed her eyes for a moment. The tears on her eyelashes softened from the heat and clumped together.
Lin Ran tossed the towel back into the basin, picked up a cotton swab, dipped it in iodine, and carefully applied it to Su Peixue's wrist.
The rain was still falling outside the window, but the thunder had faded into the distance.
"Don't hurt yourself anymore. Your aunt in heaven will think I bullied you."
Lin Ran gently patted the girl's head and said softly.
Su Peixue's delicate nose caught the aroma of barbecue.
"How could the owner bully the pet?" Her almond-shaped eyes were sparkling, and her voice was pleasantly husky.
Lin Ran walked to the counter, opened the foil box in the bag, and the aroma of roasted chicken legs mixed with the smell of cumin and chili powder wafted out.
He held the roasted chicken leg to Su Peixue's mouth, glanced at her, and said indifferently:
"The owner will feed you because your pet's paw is injured."
"Hehe, hoo~"
Su Peixue took several bites in a row.
"Eat slowly."
With food in her mouth, Su Peixue couldn't speak, so she nodded. Her cheeks puffed out, and her disheveled hair swayed as she nodded.
Lin Ran took a moment to add Xiao Zhe as a friend, but the friend request only contained a smiling emoji.
He is always vengeful.
Do you enjoy mocking someone's face?
Don't rush, let's beat A-Yi to death first, then we'll put a criminal record on you!
It's like a stray dog!
They've gone too far as to bully Su Peixue.
Three days after the video providing solid evidence was released, A-Yi's live stream was permanently banned.
The official announcement from the seafood livestreaming platform was released at 2 PM. The wording was very official: "An investigation revealed instances of proxy gameplay," "Violation of the platform's streamer management regulations," and "Termination of the cooperation agreement and pursuit of breach of contract liability."
The top comments section was full of "good riddance".
"It should have been shut down long ago."
"Where is Su Peixue? Apologize to Su Peixue!"
Shengxing's public relations team reacted even faster. Their announcement was released forty minutes earlier than the platform's, stating that Ayi's agency contract had been terminated, and that the company "deeply regretted" the matter and would "strengthen internal management."