After a hard day, they took Gu Lingling back to the dormitory. The two of them picked up the bathtub and hurried to the bathhouse.

The bathhouse in the academy is only open between six and seven o'clock every day. There are many people queuing up. If you go late, you can't take a shower. If your hair is oily and your body is dirty, you will be able to see it and you will inevitably have a ruler.

When the two arrived at the bathhouse, the queue was already in a long queue. Tan Ran asked Gu Lingling to be ahead of her. When it was Gu Lingling's turn, it was already 7:30.

Tan Ran patted Gu Lingling gently and asked her to take a shower.

Gu Lingling walked into the bathroom, closed the door, and Tan Ran waited quietly. There were two or three classmates behind her. She thought to herself and thought to herself: It is time to wash her hair later, it must be faster, so that she can't delay others.

After more than ten minutes, Tan Ran vaguely heard complaints coming from behind.

"Why did it take so long?"

"It's already forty-five minutes. If this continues, the water should stop."

“It’s too slow.”

Tan Ran felt nervous. Gu Lingling would not take so long to take a shower on weekdays. She stood on tiptoe and looked around anxiously, with only the sound of water in the bathroom.

She pursed her lips and wanted to call Gu Lingling, but realized that Lingling could not hear it.

"What's the situation? What time is it? Why are there so many people queuing up?"

Several people turned their heads in panic, and the dormitory manager Sun, walked over with dissatisfaction in their eyes.

She is the management of the school and is also famously ruthless. She checks the students' appearance and dormitory environment the most severely, and she often takes people to punish the ruler. The girl behind Tan Ran hurriedly explained:

"Teacher Sun... It's really not our problem. The woman who took a bath inside has been in for almost twenty minutes, and there is no movement at all..."

Tan Ran widened her eyes and wanted to explain.

"Can this happen?" Teacher Sun's tone rose eight degrees. She rolled up the sleeve tube and hurriedly walked into the bathroom. Tan Ran was stunned for a moment, hurriedly ran forward, subconsciously holding her arm:

"Wait a minute...Teacher Sun..."

Teacher Sun shook her away and glared at Tan Ran:

"Do you want to take a ruler again by hindering official business? Tan Ran?"

Tan Ran was stunned again, and saw Teacher Sun finishing his words, walking in without looking back, and began to slap the bathroom door wildly.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly! Who is inside? What are you doing? I haven't come out for so long, I'll rebel you..."

"Pretending to be deaf and dumb, right..."

Teacher Sun looked unwilling and was angry. He pulled the door handle and tugged it violently. The bathroom door panel shook violently.

Tan Ran felt anxious as if she was burning. After a moment of hesitation, she felt a numb and itchy pain in her right hand that was scratched by the ruler.

She ran away.

She rushed up.

She pounced on Teacher Sun, and her inertia almost made the two fall.

"Teacher! Listen to my explanation... The child inside... is named Gu Lingling. She is deaf, she is deaf, she can't hear us talking... Don't worry..."

"I'm so annoying!" Teacher Sun pushed Tan Ran away and she sat down on the ground.

"Go to get ten rulers later!"

Teacher Sun kicked the door open and Tan Ran's pupils contracted.

On a cold winter night, the fog in the bathroom was steaming. The girl's body was soaked in water, and her naked skin was covered with shocking scars.

"Gu Lingling...the family is not in good condition."

"I'm not talking about family problems... mainly because she has been abused by her father... because of her natural deafness..."

"His father is a drug dealer and went to prison. She was adopted by a distant relative who spent a lot of money to send her here, as if he had no intention of taking her back..."

Looking at Gu Lingling who was unconscious, Tan Ran instantly recalled what Teacher Yu Zhen told her privately this morning.

Although she was curious in her heart, she still treated Gu Lingling as usual after she went back, taking good care of her, and did not mention any questions about her family.

She was curious. But she felt that it might touch Gu Lingling's pain. She didn't want to do this.

She had imagined in her heart what kind of abuse Gu Lingling had experienced, but when she saw the shocking old scars on Gu Lingling's body, she was still so shocked that she couldn't speak.

It was obviously old scars, scratches, bruises, burns, all kinds of scars healed and fell off. The new and tender skin connected with the old skin, making her look like a doll that was torn to pieces over and over again and then sewed.

But she is not a rag doll.

She is just a thirteen-year-old girl.

Tan Ran didn't care about anything else, rushed up and hugged him.

"Lingling!"

...

The injury on Tan Ran’s right hand is healing, as if an ant is crawling through.

New bruises were everywhere on the back of the left hand.

She was so painful that she couldn't sleep. She couldn't turn around and could only lie flat on the bed.

She didn't want to sleep either, and she was empty to the bed. She stared blankly at the clock on the wall in the moonlight.

Gu Lingling was still breathing, but she was in a coma.

She was taken to the infirmary.

But I was beaten ten rulers because of contradicting the teacher.

Until nine o'clock in the evening, Kaud ended and all the students returned to the dormitory to sleep. Gu Lingling still did not come back, and her life and death were unknown.

The minute hand tickled twice, and the time came to eleven o'clock. In the quiet dormitory, there was a careful sound of opening the door.

The little girl wearing a sleeping suit and bandaged on her head gently walked into the dormitory. Her forehead was injured because she was unconscious and knocked against the wall.

Instead of returning to her bed, she tiptoed through the aisle and walked to the opposite bed.

She pursed her lips, stretched her head to look at her, and was stunned.

Tan Ran didn't fall asleep.

She opened her eyes and looked at Gu Lingling.

Under the unclear moonlight, Tan Ran's eyes gradually became wet.

Gu Lingling blinked her eyes and shrank her neck in shame.

Tan Ran suddenly sat up, ignored the pain of the wounds in her arms, and used all her strength to rub Gu Lingling into her arms.

Gu Lingling didn't dare to move, she blinked her eyes blankly. For some reason, the corners of her eyes became wet.

After a while, the two finally separated. Tan Ran still had tears on her face, sniffed and laughed.

Gu Lingling thought about it and started sign language carefully.

You, I'm sorry for me.

sorry.

Tan Ran nodded and shook her head again. She was so happy that she wanted to cry out loud, but at this place, at this time, she couldn't cry out loud.

She just leaned over again, slowly stretched out her hand, and took Gu Lingling into her arms.

Gu Lingling's head rested on Tan Ran's shoulder, and her mouth was squeezed and pouted. She blinked slowly, hesitated, and carefully stretched out her hand behind Tan Ran.
Chapter completed!