During the weekend, Elder Sister Qiao came to visit Father and Mother Qiao. After chatting with Mother Qiao for a while, she went to Qiao Lan's room to take a look. Qiao Lan's room was now a room filled with junk.

Elder Sister Qiao bit her lip and went to the kitchen to help Mother Qiao cook. When the whole family sat down to eat, she asked Mother Qiao, "Mom, has Lan Lan not contacted us at all?"

"Contact what?" Mother Qiao's tone instantly turned unpleasant. "I called her form teacher last time and asked her to call me back. In the end, there was no reply at all. If she doesn't want to come back, then don't ever come back. If one day she can't take it anymore and wants to come back, I won't let her."

Qiao Yuan gnawed on a piece of pork rib and mumbled, "She won't starve to death. My third sister got first place in the grade last semester and won a scholarship of 5000 yuan."

Old Lady Qiao took the opportunity to spit. "We raised an ingrate for so long. She doesn't even remember us when there's a little benefit."

"That's right." Qiao Yuan wiped his oily hands in agreement. He recalled the sports meet last time. He only wanted Qiao Lan to go with him to meet her classmates. In the end, Qiao Lan refused to go. He was laughed at by many people in class. In the end, he had to treat a bunch of people to a meal and spent another 200 yuan.

At this point, Qiao Yuan suddenly remembered something. He grabbed his chopsticks and asked Mother Qiao, "Mom, have you seen my third sister this semester?"

"No." It had been half a year since they last saw Qiao Lan. However, Mother Qiao didn't seem worried at all. It was as if Qiao Lan wasn't her biological daughter.

Qiao Yuan was a little excited. "You haven't seen her, but I have. She's changed a lot. She's completely different from before."

Different in what way?

"She's become prettier. She's so beautiful that I almost couldn't recognize her. Back then, there were a lot of people who chose her as the campus belle. A few days ago, a guy from a rich family even gave her flowers. The whole school knows about it."

Mother Qiao's interest was finally piqued.

After dinner, Qiao Lan took Mother Qiao's phone and found the Tieba of Affiliated High. She found the photos of Qiao Lan at the sports meet that used to be popular.

"Look, look, I almost couldn't recognize her."

The New Week. Qiao Lan and Tan Mo switched to the seat in front of Bai Yu.

Bai Yu shared a table with another boy. The two of them used to be in the same class in the first year of high school. It was rumored that they were very close friends. Both of them had a carefree personality and were like brothers with Bai Yu.

The two of them were like clowns as they welcomed the arrival of the 'Prodigy' in an overly exaggerated manner. Qiao Lan grabbed his arm to remind him.

"Smile."

The young man was slightly taken aback. His delicate and cold facial features were stunned for a moment before he smiled.

. The two people in the back row had never seen Tan Mo have any other expression, let alone such a beautiful smile. Bai Yu clutched her chest and grabbed Qiao Lan exaggeratedly. "Beauty attack!".

Tan Mo had probably never encountered such exaggerated intimacy. For a moment, he didn't know how to react. Qiao Lan whispered in his ear, "I told you a long time ago that you look very good when you smile. I didn't lie to you, did I?"

Tan Mo turned to look at her again. For a moment, there was even a smile in his eyes.

However, Tan Mo's smile was always different from other people's. He wouldn't smile from the bottom of his heart when he was happy. Instead, he would smile when he felt that he should after a short and quick analysis.

Therefore, even Qiao Lan sometimes couldn't understand what was hidden behind Tan Mo's smile.

She didn't know that Tan Mo was now struggling in the torment of those two sentences every time he looked at her or spoke to her.

How are you worthy? How dare you.

When he was alone, he held his phone and paused for a long time. Then, with great difficulty, he typed in the three words "disabled person".

I admit that I'm a disabled person. I'm physically and mentally disabled. But I fell in love with someone.

After typing in the three words "disabled person" with great difficulty, he carefully typed in the two words "like" and then clicked search. However, with just one glance, the bloody wound in Tan Mo's heart was stabbed again in an instant.

The big title below clearly said, "I fell in love with someone. But disabled people should never have love and sex.".

Tan Mo suddenly closed his eyes and threw his phone on the table. He leaned against the back of his wheelchair for a long time. Finally, he picked up his phone again.

He wanted to find some different opinions from these people's comments. However, he spent nearly an hour reading all the answers. After reading all of them, he couldn't find a reason to refute.

He had read so many, but there wasn't a single normal person and a disabled person who ended up together happily. Even those couples who insisted on being together despite their family's objections in the beginning, in the later years, they also ended up in tragedy.

Just like what a girl said, she once had a blind boyfriend. She loved him so much. She once cut off all ties with her family for him. She thought that such a love would definitely last forever.

However, later on, she only lasted for three years.

It was too hard, she said. Sometimes, when she couldn't hold on anymore, she would ask herself over and over again why she was so tired. Why couldn't she live a normal life like a normal person?

She used to be a normal person too.

Many people had doubts from the beginning. They didn't know whether disabled people should fall in love with normal people. As time passed, their bodies became more and more serious, and they were under a lot of pressure. They wondered whether disabled people could withstand it like normal people and give their loved ones a tomorrow. Finally, they got the answer after repeated disappointments.

Tan Mo urgently and anxiously wanted to find a happy case. He wanted to find a happy possibility that could make him not feel so hopeless. Finally, in the end, he saw someone say that they had found love. However, after reading it, Tan Mo only felt more hopeless.

Some people said that they had once met a very beautiful and good boy. He couldn't speak, but he was very outstanding. Many years later, he got married. His wife was a very beautiful girl who also couldn't speak.

Some people used the simplest but cruelest way to say that dragons should be paired with lobsters and shrimps. You're not perfect. For your own sake and for the sake of others, it's better to find someone who's not perfect. By local standards, there's no need to have extravagant hopes.

Yes, they called this word extravagant hopes.

For a moment, Tan Mo thought that if he really went to receive treatment, he could really stand up again. However, when he woke up, he suddenly realized that everything was just self-deception.

Some people were physically disabled, while others were mentally disabled. However, a mental disability was more frightening than a physical disability.

Even if he could stand up and look like a normal person, he knew better than anyone how frightening his mental and spiritual disability was.

Tan Mo suddenly understood the meaning of the last two lines of the poem that he didn't understand before.

I could have endured the darkness

If I had never seen the sun

However, the sun has made my desolation

Become the new desolation

When redemption appeared in his life, she brought him warmth and light. Because he had seen the beauty of the sun, he could never return to loneliness and darkness. However, the sun couldn't save him from the darkness. Instead, it made him unable to get what he wanted. Everything became extravagant hopes.

During the two language classes on Wednesday afternoon, the language teacher played a world classic movie for everyone. It was "Edward Scissorhands."

She was asked to watch the movie carefully and submit a review to her after watching it.

The inventor living in the castle created the robot Edward. One Christmas, when the inventor was preparing to install the Christmas present for Edward, a pair of human hands, he accidentally fell to the ground and died. Therefore, Edward didn't have hands like a normal person. Instead, he had sharp scissors.

After he was brought home by Pei Ge, he fell in love with the beautiful Kim. However, in the end, he was questioned in the small town and hid in the castle again.

Edward was a monster. His feelings for Kim were completely based on his personality. There was no utility. It was all about other people's disputes.

For Kim, he could do academy arts, use scissors to make food for others to eat, endure the temptation of neighbors, and even cover up his conscience for her, hide the truth, and steal.

Kim asked him why.

Edward said, "Because you asked me to."

This world-renowned classic movie had a regretful ending. "I can't hug you when I pick up the scissors. I can't protect you when I put down the scissors." Such touching lines made many girls in the class cry. Most of them felt sorry for Edward. He was misunderstood to protect his beloved, and that feeling of helplessness could only make him run away.

In the review that day, most of the thoughts expressed by everyone were very similar. They attacked human nature and the indifference of society.

The language teacher selected the most outstanding point projection in class for everyone to see. Someone wrote:

"Deep love doesn't mean that you have to be together for a good ending. Even though parting is very sad, even though we'll be strangers after that, I'm still very happy to think about it now. The me you remember will always be the most beautiful me when I was young."

Edward would always remember Kim's most beautiful appearance, but Tan Mo would never understand.

He didn't tell anyone else. At the end of the movie, Edward returned to the castle alone. Kim had her own life, got married, and had children. At that moment, Tan Mo felt that if he were Edward, he might choose to die.

In his world, there were always only two answers to love. It was either 100 points or 0 points.

The teachers wouldn't ask Tan Mo for homework, but this time, Tan Mo also wrote his review. He just didn't hand it to the teacher. He looked at the students criticizing society, but he remembered the pain he felt when he wrote his review. He felt the same pain as Edward.

Everyone said that this was the indifference of society, but Tan Mo wrote that it was because of the intolerability of the different species.

Just like Edward, just like him.

Edward had a pair of scissors hands that were different from human beings. He had two legs that couldn't stand and a brain that couldn't understand emotions.

Edward was once popular because of his scissors hands, but after he fell in love with the female lead, he was doubted and ostracized by everyone because of his hands. He was looked up to because of his higher IQ, but if they knew that he also fell in love with an outstanding girl, perhaps everyone would only feel strange and disgusted like Xiang Xiaohan.

Edward's scissors hands were just a symbol. They represented the different species, the incompatibility. He couldn't really treat them as scissors. The pair of scissors represented autism, poverty, disability, and other things that normal people couldn't accept.

One day, many years later, he and Qiao Lan would be like Edward in the movie. One person would be alone for the rest of his life, but one person would eventually have his own life.

Tan Mo closed his eyes and didn't say a word for a long time. He didn't know how much time had passed. Tan Mo tore the exercise book in half and threw it into the trash can. He clenched his trembling hands and suppressed all his emotions.