Chapter 22 The One I Could Never Face
After the major child trafficking case was solved, Officer Tu received first-class merit as the lead officer and was promoted to another province.
Before leaving, she came to visit our family and offered to help me contact a lawyer to sue those unethical media outlets. I refused repeatedly.
Her position was special. My identity was special. We could never have any further contact—it would ruin her bright future.
Like a rat afraid of light, for a very long time I didn’t dare look at any news related to her.
Yet I couldn’t stop thinking about her—about that year in junior high, the snowflakes on the collar of her uniform, the faint clean fragrance of her short hair.
If not for my own Reap What One Sows, how would I ever have had the chance to know Officer Tu in this lifetime?
If not for my own Reap What One Sows, how would I end up feeling ashamed just seeing her name?
In the end I swallowed that extravagant hope and quietly waited to serve my sentence.
I accepted the reality that I would never be connected to her again in this life.
But during my imprisonment, an unexpected person came to visit me.
Of course it wasn’t Auntie Tu.
It was Mu Weiyi.