5

In the next few days, Kevin no longer appeared in Wanda 's circle of friends. When I was packing up, I accidentally found his other phone, and the content inside made my already calm heart cold again. While the two of them were in love, I had already applied for a visa and started to pack up my things at home.

We have been together for ten years and have too many common memories. He saved up his pocket money for half a year to buy the best camera and always begged and coaxed me to take pictures of me, saying that every day of our lives was precious and worth recording. But since Wanda came back, even when I wanted to take a family photo with him during the Chinese New Year, he said I was childish and slapped my hand away with disgust. Turning around, Wanda 's circle of friends showed another photo of the two of them face to face.

I was so deaf and blind that I didn't even notice such an obvious provocation. After collecting thousands of group photos, I burned them all to ashes, and the firelight shone on my face, just like the day my parents left.

Kevin came back when there were only eight days left before the wedding . He frowned at me the moment he pushed open the door with tiredness: "Why does the house feel so empty?" I didn't say anything and he didn't bother to take such a small matter to heart. Instead, he smiled and asked me: "Have you chosen your wedding dress?" Seeing me nod, he flashed a smug look in his eyes: "That's good." Then he turned and went into the bathroom to wash up.

I noticed his running shoes at the entrance, opened them and saw that they were exactly the same as the ones Wanda posted on WeChat Moments tonight, except that hers were women's. Her WeChat Moments caption was: "We will soon be running towards our happiness."

The next morning, Kevin went to work as usual. I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched the home I had decorated myself become empty. I made myself so clean and tidy, so it wouldn't affect their pursuit of happiness, right?

On the eve of the wedding, Kevin 's friend called me and told me that he was drunk and asked me to pick him up. When his friends saw me coming in, they joked with him, "Mr. Gu, your little deaf son is here to take you home." Wanda smiled proudly and hugged Kevin away from her body , pretending to speak for me in a low voice, "Hey, you guys, don't bully the disabled!" She leaned close to Kevin 's ear and said, "Gu Er's mind is coming."

Kevin walked to me drunkenly, put his arm around my shoulder and yelled, " Lena ! Why didn't you let me go even when we were trapped in the fire together!" Then he said, "Are you so mean? I've already agreed to marry you, but you still follow me around like a pug all day long!"

I had already planned to leave, thinking that no matter what I saw or heard, my heart would not be disturbed. But now I was so angry and sad that my heart was shaking. " Kevin ." I tried to suppress my emotions and called his name softly. Then I took a deep breath and looked at him solemnly, "I won't be a dog anymore." Kevin's intoxicated eyes in front of me suddenly cleared up. He looked at me in doubt: "You..." Before he could figure out the situation, Wanda deliberately came up to me and looked at me provocatively: "Mr. Gu, are you going with me or with Lena ?"

This little episode interrupted Kevin's train of thought. He didn't care about anything else and pushed me away. Then he hugged Wanda's waist like a drunkard: "Of course it's you. How can she, a deaf person, compete with you?"

I was pushed hard against the coffee table and felt a sharp pain in my knee. His friends in the box laughed and looked at me who was trying to get up from the ground. Words like "deaf", "clown", and "cripple" pierced my ears. Kevin, however, looked normal without even a trace of anger on his face.

I think if I were a disabled stranger being bullied by a group of beasts, I would not turn a blind eye. What's more, I am his lover who has been with him for ten years. At this moment, my disappointment in him reached its peak. I picked up the bottle and smashed it on the head of the one who laughed the loudest: "Is it glorious to laugh at a disabled person?"

"What?" The man looked at me blankly. Before they could react, the broken pieces of the wine bottle flew everywhere. I turned my gaze to Kevin and sneered, "It's just a dirty cucumber. Do you think I care about it?" Then I limped out of the box.

There were angry roars from the box. Someone was calling my name. Who was it? It didn't matter. Brutes should stay with brutes.