Chapter 8 Duan Yu 7

  "Alas..." Wang Yuyan sighed, a very long sigh, faint and barely audible, gradually fading away.

  Then she picked up a piece of cardboard from under the table with one hand holding her loose hair and bent down, placing it on the windowsill.

  "Do not visit during rest time, Wang Yuyan has gone to study."

  The reflection on the optical glass of a certain window of the boy's building opposite disappeared. The observer put down the telescope, patted his belly and said to his brother behind him: "Well, forget it, they don't want us to look..."

  Across from us is the senior boys' dorm, seniors are relatively idle, a group of brothers bought binoculars, at night they wash their feet while looking over here at the girls' dorm, meanwhile eating noodles and drinking soup while listening to the broadcast of the upper bunk brother, having fun in every way, life's joys are not greater than this.

  The girls in the female dormitory on the third floor were a bit annoyed when they found that there was always a glare from the optical glass across the street. They originally wanted to tell the dormitory director to let the campus police handle it, but Wang Yuyan's roommate, A Bi, was a bit mischievous and one day she wrote a big sign with newspaper: "What time is it now?"

  The brother opposite looked at first, and there was a kind of conspiracy being exposed with embarrassment, but soon he thickened his face and posted a big note on the window: "Eleven thirty, let's have lunch, Xiaoyi has a big row."

  The thick-skinned and humorous guy seemed to have won over the girls from Bin Da, so Abi went with the boy holding a telescope to buy some snacks. The room full of girls laughed loudly, except for Wang Yu Yan who felt insecure, so she used two clothespins to clip the curtains together. The girls found it funny because firstly, the guy's creativity was indeed worthy of someone who had been in Bin Da for over three years, and secondly, they were still popular among the boys in Bin Da, at least their schoolmates still had some mysterious feelings towards them.

  Compared to the fashionable girls on the streets of Bianjing, the girls at Bian University are still a bit too simple. Even with stylish long hair like clear broth noodles, their faces without makeup may have youth, but they always lack a bit of charm. So when they see their schoolmates, those silly boys, taking out binoculars to gaze at them from afar, the " beauties" think that as long as it's not really springtime, being looked at isn't a big deal, and at least it proves they have charm.

  After the lights went out at night, two thousand ducks chattered and laughed incessantly, string after string of laughter passed by, all guessing that the silly boy in the men's dormitory opposite was always staring at their dormitory. According to the balance formula of one woman equaling five hundred ducks, a six-person women's dormitory should have had three thousand ducks originally. The missing one thousand ducks were Wang Yuyan and A Bi, Wang Yuyan had been sulking all along, just wearing headphones to practice her hearing, and it was strange that A Bi's quick mouth was also quiet.

  "Abi, have you fallen asleep?" asked her elder sister from the lower bunk.

  "Alas!" Ah Bi lazily hummed, "Sleeping and sleeping, we've said so much, everyone else is here to see Wang Yu Yan!"

  All were stunned into silence.

  Wang Yuyan was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say, and turned over to sleep. The surrounding area was filled with the sound of people turning over, and the entire dormitory was quiet again, with no one speaking.

  Later, Second Sister wrote a big paper board. Whenever she saw someone reflecting from the opposite side, she would put it on the windowsill: "Rest time, please do not visit, Wang Yuyan has gone to study."

  The brother opposite also nodded cooperatively and said, "Wow, girls also know we're looking at Wang Yu Yan?"

  The girls have tolerated Wang Yu Yan for a long time, it seems like all the boys are looking at her.

  King Yu Yan's old man is theoretically a romantic and elegant guy, otherwise he wouldn't have given birth to such a daughter as King Yu Yan. Unfortunately, King Yu Yan has never seen her father, so she can't confirm it. When she was born, her father had already run away.

  Wang Yuyan grew up knowing only her mother and not her father, like a child raised in a matriarchal society. When she was young and went to kindergarten, she saw that everyone else had a father but she didn't, so she felt very sad. But whenever she asked her mother about it, her mother would glare at her with wide eyes and scold her. Because of this, Wang Yuyan has been timid since childhood.

  Mrs. Wang was the vice president of a large company, and her home was filled with wealth. Due to her busy work schedule, she had no time to accompany her daughter, so Mrs. Wang bought countless DVDs and books that piled up at home. Whenever she had nothing to do, Wang Yuyan would watch those things to pass the time. Therefore, when Wang Yuyan was five years old, she already knew that blue whales could be 33 meters long, while a child in kindergarten still thought that the elephant in the zoo was the largest animal in the world. Everyone always treated Wang Yuyan like an encyclopedia and said, "Your mom taught you so many things!" In fact, no one had told Wang Yuyan anything; all her knowledge came from watching Discovery Channel.

  Apart from reading popular science books, Wang Yuyan also likes to watch some foreign blockbusters and is fond of the famous male movie star Duan Zhengchun from Korea. Because Duan Zhengchun is very handsome and always plays roles like a father with a strong sense of responsibility in movies. So when she was seven years old, Wang Yuyan thought: "If only my dad were like Duan Zhengchun."

  Later, when she was nine years old, Duan Zhengchun went to the Great Song Dynasty to participate in the Bianjing Film Festival and visited Wang Yuyan's elementary school. The principal looked at Wang Yuyan and thought she looked like a small flower, so he asked her to present flowers to Duan Zhengchun. When Wang Yuyan, wearing a white dress, ran up to Duan Zhengchun and handed him a bouquet of roses, Duan Zhengchun, an old scoundrel skilled in stage performance art, immediately showed his affection for the child, took the flowers from her hand, picked her up, put the microphone to Wang Yuyan's mouth and said: "Do you like watching Uncle's movies?"

  The principal's wife was a bit worried, Wang Yu Yan's woodenness was notorious, if she said something wrong wouldn't it tarnish the reputation of Bianjing Elementary School for Young Ladies?

  In the midst of everyone holding their breath and remaining silent, only Wang Yuyan's clear voice could be heard: "I don't have a dad, I watch Uncle's movies, and often wish that Uncle was my dad."

  The whole scene was silent, Duan Zhengchun wiped away a line of old tears, but couldn't stop another line of pearls from falling. Even the usually strict principal, Old Lady, let out a faint sigh. However, when this scene fell into the hands of a reporter from the Da Song News Network, it became distorted. The next day's front-page headline read: "Daughter recognizes father in Bianjing? Popular Dali star Duan Zhengchun visits Dasangguo Elementary School".

  Duan Zhengchun was so scared that he ran away and never dared to contact Wang Yuyan again, fearing that it would really lead to a scandal. On the other hand, Wang Yuyan became famous overnight, every time there was a Teachers' Day party or a school-wide parents' meeting, Wang Yuyan would be the student representative to give a speech. This continued from elementary school all the way to university, and even in the Computer Science department where talented students were as common as clouds, Wang Yuyan's beauty had reached an unprecedented level. The head of the Computer Science department, Professor Chong Xu, personally asked her to represent the department in the commemorative choir for the school's 100th anniversary celebration, which was why she spent two months every morning during summer vacation walking past Duan Zhengchun and his friends' building with a songbook in hand.

  Not only was the president of the computer science department, Deng Baichuan, extremely dissatisfied with this, but even Mu Rongfu, a basketball superstar in the computer science department, felt that the old man had some suspiciously flirtatious intentions. However, for Wang Yuyan, this was just something she had to do, and every day she would get up early, wearing a long skirt and behaving very obediently during rehearsals, without even thinking that she could refuse.

  Compared with the scenery in school, Wang Yuyan at home is no longer brilliant.

  Her mother, Wang, was a well-known "tough woman" in the company, but at home she was very depressed. With her considerable income, she didn't have much opportunity to hire a part-time worker to order around. Because she had actually raised a daughter who was even more diligent than a part-time worker.

  Apart from reading and playing the piano, Wang Yuyan was almost always holding a duster to wipe away dust in any corner of the house, or quietly pushing a vacuum cleaner back and forth. When there really was nothing else to do, Wang Yuyan would pick up a collection of poems by Russian poet Pushkin and sit on the sofa reading.

  Many people who come to collect electricity fees will have a slight surprise when they enter Wang Yuyan's home. They all see a beautiful girl quietly sitting under the lamp reading in the spotless living room. Wang Yuyan, who has no experience dealing with guests, doesn't even know how to greet them to show that she is a real person. This environment, which is so out of touch with reality, immediately makes the electricity collector's brother suspect that they are being haunted.

  Even Wang's wife herself didn't like Wang Yuyan's woodenness. Her self-proclaimed ladylike education might have been successful, but every time she came home and saw Wang Yuyan quietly getting up, standing very obediently by the sofa and saying "Mom, you're back", Wang's wife would once again feel the sorrow of not having a family. Being with Wang Yuyan really made it hard for people to feel warmth.

  To sum it up, if Huang Rong is a glass of dry red wine, Ah Zhu is a glass of old Shaoxing wine, and Kang Min is a pot of Erguotou, then Wang Yuyan is a glass of mineral water. Perhaps a very good-looking glass of mineral water, but still tasteless.

  Madam Wang did not like her daughter this way.

  As she watched her daughter grow more and more beautiful, Mrs. Wang felt a growing sense of fear, thinking that her daughter was becoming more and more like herself when she was young. During menopause, Mrs. Wang always suspected that some young whippersnapper was lurking around, eyeing her daughter with the intention of repeating what that scoundrel had done to her back then.

  So Mrs. Wang often scolded and cursed Wang Yu Yan, saying that men were all bad things. Wang Yu Yan would nod her head and then eat the boxed meals that Mrs. Wang bought from restaurants - although Mrs. Wang was still beautiful in middle age, she couldn't cook at all.

  Wang Yu Yan forever just faintly nodded to listen to her mother say. She had this reaction is not strange, because she was young only read books to pass the time. Mrs. Wang's performance has never exceeded those single-parent mothers, reading too many books Wang Yu Yan really can't show any freshness.

  Mrs. Wang hoped her daughter would have some noble and aloof qualities, but at the same time, she felt that her daughter didn't take her words seriously, so she secretly harbored resentment in her heart. When she was in a good mood, it was just let go like this, but Mrs. Wang's later emotional experiences were as miserable as those with Mr. Wang Yuanyan, and when this melancholic and noble female manager was heartbroken, apart from sobbing and crying, she would vent her anger on her daughter.

  Fortunately, Mrs. Wang was a well-educated person and a member of the high-income club with Huang Yaoshi and Ouyang Feng, so she didn't go as far as to slap Wang Yuyan's butt with a slipper. She kept crying and pinching Wang Yuyan's arm, leaving fingernail marks on her daughter's delicate skin.

  When night fell, Wang Yuyan was in her own small house, under the lamp, pulling up her sleeves to look at the red marks on her arm that had not faded. Listening to the sounds outside the window - the building opposite was not a high-end garden residence like Wang Yuyan's home, it seemed to be parents calling their children before dinner.

  When Wang Yu Yan looked at her own arm, she was always very quiet. Her emotions were indeed relatively light, and she didn't hate her mother. She felt that Mrs. Wang still liked herself after all, as evidenced by the fact that when buying clothes for her in the market, Mrs. Wang wouldn't hesitate to spend money, with an admiring gaze at her daughter that was no different from other mothers.

  But then, one time when she heard the parents in the building across from hers yelling at their daughter to come and eat, Wang Yuyan cried. She cried with tears streaming down her face, wailing on her own arm... so sorrowful.

  This is our Wang Yu Yan.