secret galaxy

Under the dim desk lamp, Duan Xinghe's shadow was faint, spreading all the way to the snow-white wall. His face was against the light, his expression could not be seen clearly, and his breathing rate was a little unsteady.

Liang Qian wrapped his curled right hand with his palm, and rubbed it gently twice.

"Did you call the police?" He tried to keep his voice as soft as possible.

"My mother felt that this incident was disgraceful and wanted to cover it up. Besides, she was in a bad mood and was crying all the time. Xiaoyou locked herself in the bedroom and didn't open the door all day and all night." Duan Xinghe's tone was mixed with remorse, " Then I called the police."

"It's right to call the police," Liang Qian became nervous, "What did the police say?"

Duan Xinghe shook his head: "There is not enough evidence. There is no surveillance in the building, and the height and shape cannot be seen clearly. The man was very cautious, wearing gloves, did not leave any fingerprints, and even took away the condom. Although the Public Security Bureau filed a case, but It couldn’t be broken. After a few days, I found a little sperm spot on the sofa cushion, so I contacted them again and went to the hospital for a DNA test.”

Just listening to his description, Liang Qian's heart was already in a ball, and he asked eagerly, "How is it? Can it be tested?"

"Yes, yes," Duan Xinghe was silent again.When he talked about the section on calling the police, he hesitated and paused more frequently than before, as if he was suffering from something unspeakable, and he said after a while: "I did a DNA test, but there was no match in the database of the Ministry of Public Security. to match the data."

Liang Qian understood what he meant.This means that the man who raped Duan Xiaoyou was either a first-time offender, or a repeat offender who was skilled and escaped the law many times.

"I shouldn't have called the police in the first place." Duan Xinghe suddenly turned his head, pointed the back of his head at Liang Qian, as if his nose was stuffy, and said in a muffled voice, "It's all my fault."

"Don't talk nonsense."

Duan Xinghe repeated stubbornly: "It's my fault."

"Duan Xinghe, don't do this," Liang Qian squeezed Duan Xinghe's shoulder, exerting a little force, "Turn around."

Duan Xinghe seemed a little drunk, he struggled a few times, but was soon turned back by Liang Qian, slightly parted his lips, and looked at him with blurred eyes.

"You are not wrong, your mother and Xiaoyou are also right, it is the rapist who is wrong, do you understand?"

Seeing that he didn't answer, Liang Qian bent his index finger and tapped him on the forehead.Duan Xinghe was like a doll, shaking with Liang Qian's movements, probably because he thought Liang Qian's serious expression was funny, he suddenly pulled out a bitter smile: "I know."

How could he not know, he understood the truth, but he couldn't control his regret, just like he couldn't control the cannibalistic public opinion and the sharp deterioration of the situation.

The DNA test, which had high hopes, failed to catch the rapist, but Duan Xiaoyou had a nervous breakdown during the long investigation and evidence collection.For several days, facing pairs of sympathetic eyes, she kept recalling and telling the details of being raped, and had to answer those sharp questions—although they were well-meaning in themselves.

Did you call for help?Why can't you shout out?What did he use to block your mouth, what to bind your hands, and what posture did he use to penetrate?At first she cried all the time, but then she gradually became numb, and her bright eyes became dull and lifeless.

Duan Xinghe accompanied Duan Xiaoyou every time he took notes, sometimes he put his arms around his sister's thin back and begged the policeman opposite, don't ask these questions, okay?

But no, they want to investigate the case, and these details must be known.

In less than two weeks, Duan Xiaoyou was so skinny that she often locked herself in the bedroom and refused to answer anyone's call.Every time Duan Xinghe used the key to open the door, he was very nervous, for fear that he would see an empty room and a snow-white curtain fluttering in the wind. When entering the door, he would always nervously rub the floor with the tip of his shoe to see if he stepped on something sticky. Pasty liquid.

While Duan Xiaoyou fell into depression, Sun Juan's state also plummeted. Her plump body was shriveled, her face became sallow and haggard, she couldn't sleep all night, and she sat on the edge of the balcony blankly.Her daughter suffered atrocities, and she should have obtained the greatest comfort from her, but Sun Juan was in a trance as much as Duan Xiaoyou, and was even a little afraid of approaching Xiaoyou. I have forgotten all the usual greetings.

After the sofa cushions were sent to be tested for semen spots, Sun Juan's anxiety became more apparent, and she had to ask Duan Xinghe more than ten times a day if there was any result.Later, when she heard that the DNA test could not catch the criminal, Sun Juan was furious. She sat in the police station and went on a hunger strike. She insisted that the rapist was a hooligan who lived nearby, and asked the police to arrest him.

After many days of commotion, the police were overwhelmed and asked Duan Xinghe to persuade Sun Juan to go back.They investigated. When Duan Xiaoyou had an accident, the group of hooligans were playing cards on the street. The nearby residents saw it, and there was evidence of their alibi.

But Sun Juan didn't believe it. It was useless to say anything. At that time, her spirit had already started to have problems, and she was paranoid to the point of insanity. There was a murder.

Partly out of caution, partly out of helplessness, the police took all the people who were frequently active in the Hongfeng Road area to the police station for questioning, and asked them to undergo DNA testing. As a result, none of them matched the genetic information of the criminal. .

Those hooligans usually like to mess around, and they will be wronged and "innocent".They returned to Hongfeng Road, stood downstairs in Duan Xinghe's house, pointing and cursing at Huaihuai, a series of unsavory swear words attracted countless passers-by to watch.Originally, Duan Xiaoyou's sexual assault was just a secret in his family, but after being made such a fuss by them, no one in the surrounding area knew about it.

Sun Juan was emotional, her complexion was purple, she went to the window and wanted to argue with them, but she fainted just as she was about to speak.Duan Xinghe took a bucket of cold water and splashed it down from the balcony, then carried Sun Juan to the sofa and pinched her.

The hooligans gathered downstairs and danced and scolded for more than an hour before they gradually dispersed. After Sun Juan woke up, she kept crying silently, then suddenly coughed earth-shatteringly and spit out bloody phlegm.

And a few meters away, the door of Duan Xiaoyou's bedroom was closed, as quiet as a tomb.

During that time, Duan Xinghe never really fell asleep.He is always vigilant, and even in his dreams, he has a sliver of consciousness. Any noise made by Sun Juan and Duan Xiaoyou makes him frightened. If there is no noise, it is another kind of fear.

Occasionally there were times when she couldn't make it through. One day, Duan Xinghe asked Sun Juan, "Mom, can you be stronger?"You are obviously such a strong person.

Sun Juan was drinking rice soup when the spoon in her hand fell to the ground and broke.Deliriously, she threw herself on Duan Xinghe, yelled "Go to hell", and strangled his neck fiercely.

Her strength was unusually great, Duan Xinghe blushed, and fought with her exhaustedly, because of disordered breathing, layers of fine sweat oozed from his forehead.

Duan Xiaoyou, who had not seen the sun for many days, was wearing bag-like pajamas and floated over like a female ghost to help Duan Xinghe pull away his mad mother.

When Sun Juan saw Duan Xiaoyou, she froze. After a few seconds, she suddenly hugged her and cried loudly, saying that mother was sorry for you.

Duan Xinghe spent a lot of time cross-examining, because Sun Juan's mental state could not concentrate, and her memory also had problems, he spent a lot of effort to figure out what happened.It turned out that when Sun Juan came home that night, she passed a man on the stairs.It was very dark in the old building, and there was a light bulb of more than ten watts shaking with the wind on the first floor, and on the fourth and fifth floors, there was only moonlight coming in through the broken window.

Sun Juan walked to the fourth and a half floors. On the platform at the corner of the stairs, she bumped into a blurry figure walking in a hurry. The man was wearing a mask, lowered his head, put his hands in his coat pockets, and heard Sun Juan say "I'm sorry," he replied.

Sun Juan suffers from rheumatoid and is not very mobile on weekdays. She rubbed her back and slowly climbed upstairs. When she reached her door, she suddenly heard intermittent and dull whimpering.She felt strange, took out the key and opened the door, glanced at the living room under the dim moonlight, and screamed uncontrollably after a few seconds.I saw Duan Xiaoyou curled up on the sofa, naked, with underwear stuffed in his mouth, shaking violently.Her hands were tied behind her back, and her snow-white breasts were covered with dark red pinch marks.Covering her mouth, Sun Juan staggered downstairs to chase after her, but it took a few minutes to find the rapist nowhere to be found due to the heavy traffic and bright lights outside.

Sun Juan loved Duan Xiaoyou very much, this love was too heavy, and eventually turned into a huge vortex called guilt, dragging her into a dark abyss.

Duan Xinghe took care of two depressed patients at the same time. He was highly stressed, with hair loss, thinness, and dark circles firmly stuck to his face.Many times he was on the verge of collapse, relying on willpower to support him, and repeatedly told himself not to give up, otherwise the family would really collapse.

Fortunately, with the help of a psychologist, Duan Xiaoyou slowly recovered.She started to take the initiative to eat, and also helped Duan Xinghe clean up, but her personality changed completely, becoming timid, nervous and silent.While she was getting better, Sun Juan's condition worsened further, and her violent tendencies became more and more serious. Duan Xinghe discussed with Duan Xiaoyou to move to Cangshi, and sent her mother to Qingmu Sanatorium for treatment.Duan Xiaoyou nodded numbly, accepting all arrangements obediently.

She also had to leave, rumors spread the fastest, not to mention the neighbors, even at school, the news that she was raped has been known to everyone, when Duan Xinghe went to transfer procedures, there were some students Pointing around him.

So, three months after the atrocity, they moved to Cangshi, a prosperous, unfamiliar place with no relatives.On the night of arrival, Duan Xinghe looked at the balance on his bank card, gritted his teeth and made the decision to drop out of school.He has no other choice, the family's savings are limited, and Sun Juan's treatment costs are high, and most importantly, Duan Xiaoyou cannot do without him.

So he lived like this, one year, two years, three years, four years, five years later, Duan Xinghe returned to Yuzhou, and met his old classmate Liang Qian on a sunny evening.

"That's it." Duan Xinghe drank another glass of red wine, his eyes were a little wandering, and he showed a very faint smile to Liang Qian.

"Are you drunk?" Liang Qian touched his forehead tentatively, feeling a little hot.

Duan Xinghe shook his head, acted seriously like a child, and whispered: "I'm just a little thirsty."

There were two wine bottles on the bedside table. Liang Qian picked them up and shook them. One of them was empty, and the other seemed to have a small glass left. He poured the wine into his own paper cup. Just as he was about to serve it, Duan Xinghe snatched it away. I drank it in the past, and there was still a gurgling sound in my throat.

Now Liang Qian can be sure that he is really drunk.

The moon slipped away from the window, and everything in the room was blurred.The two sat quietly without speaking.After a while, Duan Xinghe's shoulders tilted, and he leaned against the bed board, his body slumped limply, pulling away the quilt on Liang Qian's body.

"Sleepy?" Liang Qian bent down and asked him.

Duan Xinghe's eyelids were clenched, he struggled to sit up straight, and said with his tongue out, "I'll go back there."

"Just sleep here," Liang Qian pressed his shoulder, "It's not that there is no bed."

"No, Xiaoyou can't see me when she wakes up..."

"She's asleep."

"She will have nightmares," Duan Xinghe choked up anxiously, buried his face in the quilt and kept coughing, Liang Qian patted his back to help him breathe, and said gently: "It's okay, I won't sleep, I'll stay by my side. "

After a while, Duan Xinghe's breathing became lighter and lighter. Liang Qian carefully brushed away his sideburn hair, and saw that he was asleep with his eyes closed and his cheeks flushed with excitement.

Liang Qian took off Duan Xinghe's slippers, straightened his long legs that were curled up like shrimps, then tucked up the quilt for him, and turned off the desk lamp.

After finishing all this, he stood up and walked around the room with bare feet. The oxygen around him seemed to be insufficient, which made him feel tight in his chest.Liang Qian stopped in front of the window and pushed the gap wider. A gust of cold wind rushed in, but it couldn't relieve the unspeakable anxiety.

Why?Liang Qian looked up at the moon, which was still so high and so far away, no different from when he was walking on the streets of Beijing a few years ago.He wanted to ask this moon, why so many misfortunes befell Duan Xinghe and his family at the same time, why didn't he even be given a shoulder to lean on, why?

"Fuck him," Liang Qian became more and more sad as he thought about it, and he couldn't help punching the wall. He regretted it as soon as he took the shot. Sure enough, just such a muffled sound woke up Duan Xinghe.

"Xiaoyou?"

"It's okay, it was me, I accidentally bumped into it." Liang Qian walked to the bed, held Duan Xinghe's hand, and helped him lie down again.

Duan Xinghe's eyes were drunk and his voice was hoarse: "Liang Qian?"

"Yeah." Taking advantage of Duan Xinghe's drunkenness, Liang Qian caressed Duan Xinghe's cheek wantonly.

Duan Xinghe was in a daze, and didn't have the energy to worry about it so much. He closed his eyes sleepily, and unconsciously rubbed Liang Qian's palm.

Liang Qian stared at him in the dark, suddenly felt very sad, and impulsively asked: "Duan Xinghe, have you thought of me these years?"

"Huh?" Duan Xinghe twisted his neck and turned his face to Liang Qian.

How could there be such an annoying person, Jing asked some inexplicable questions, Liang Qian imitated Duan Xinghe's tone, and complained to himself with a wry smile.

In fact, he didn't expect Duan Xinghe to answer at all, but Duan Xinghe moaned a few words incoherently, and unexpectedly uttered a clear sentence: "You bully me."

Liang Qian was taken aback for a moment, forgetting that he was a drunk in front of him, and subconsciously asked, "When?"

Duan Xinghe held a grudge, and said to himself full of grievances: "Pour me wine."

Liang Qian laughed: "Why don't I remember, where is it?"

Duan Xinghe was impatient, and let out a muffled snort from his nasal cavity. Liang Qian insisted on knowing the answer, so he stretched out his hand to pinch the tip of his nose, like teasing a kitten or puppy, "You have to make it clear."

Duan Xinghe couldn't breathe well, struggled a few times, opened his eyes unhappily, struggled to distinguish the person in front of him in the dim environment, and muttered as if he had suddenly realized: "It's not you, it's not Liang Qian."

"what?"

Duan Xinghe stopped answering, and his breathing became even and long. Liang Qian looked at him for a long time, until he confirmed that Duan Xinghe was completely asleep, and then asked quietly: "Duan Xinghe, can I kiss you?"