Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The Cracks on the Face

After get off work that day, I was cooking in the kitchen while Shen Xiang was watching TV.After the food was put on the table, Shen Xiang came over and asked, "What did you cook today?" "That's all, you can see for yourself." Because of the continuous quarrel, I didn't have the heart to coax her. The tone of this sentence was so cold, Shen Xiang obviously felt it.Usually, even if there is no problem with my words, she can pick out the fault, let alone this time there is a problem.She frowned, as if she was going to start a war as usual, at this moment, we all heard a soft "click", as if an egg had been cracked somewhere.

A bloodstain appeared on Shen Xiang's left face. "What's going on with your face?" I hurriedly looked closer. "Don't touch me!" Shen Xiang touched the left side of his cheek, still angry. "If you don't touch it, don't touch it." I retracted my hand. click. There was another soft sound, and another bloodstain appeared next to her ear. Now I feel strange: "Shen Xiang, stop making trouble, really, look at your face." "What happened to my face? Where did I make trouble?" Shen Xiang said angrily.At the same time, there was another click, and another bloodstain appeared on her face.

I started to panic, and regardless of her objections, I dragged her to the mirror, and when she saw herself in the mirror, she also panicked: "What's going on here?" "I don't know, is it a fungal infection?" I said in a panic. "Then let's go to the hospital." Shen Xiang was about to go out in a hurry, I grabbed her: "The hospital's specialist clinic is closed now, you can only go to the emergency department." "Is it just staying like this?" she asked. "I don't know, wait and see?" I asked tentatively. Click, another one.Shen Xiang covered his face angrily and looked at me: "Wait a minute? Don't you care about me?"

The meaningless quarrel started again, and every time I said a word, I could hear a click, and a bloodstain appeared on Shen Xiang's face.Later, I finally found out about this, and quickly shut my mouth, letting her scold and keep silent, and the bloodstains finally stopped appearing. This discovery strikes me as very odd, as it is clearly not normal.After Shen Xiang fell asleep, I tentatively whispered to her, but I didn't see any bloodstains. Maybe, what happened today was just a coincidence? I fell asleep in doubt, and Shen Xiang was sleeping next to me, with dozens of bloodstains on his face.These bloodstains covered half of her cheeks, making her terrified, almost hysterical. I gave her two sleeping pills before she calmed down.

The next day, Shen Xiang didn't go to work.With so many scars on her face, she couldn't go out.I asked for leave from the unit, and I went to the hospital with her, but the doctor couldn't explain why, so he prescribed some anti-inflammatory drugs, and we came back.I tried not to speak along the way, and occasionally said a word or two, and looked at Shen Xiang's face with trepidation.What puzzles me is that sometimes there is no blood on her face after I finish talking.What's going on here? This situation lasted for two or three days, and the scars on Shen Xiang's face continued to increase. She was almost desperate, and often sat alone, staring at the wall.We thought such tiny wounds would heal quickly on their own, but they never seemed to heal, and the old ones were forever as bright red as the new ones.Later, I bravely suggested to Shen Xiang to use a magnifying glass to look at these scars. Shen Xiang stared at me for a long time before slowly nodding.

Under a magnifying glass, these scars were magnified dozens of times, so that they didn't look like scars, but cracks, exposing the bright red flesh inside.When I told Shen Xiang about this discovery, her gaze became even darker. Scars—or should I say cracks—cracks kept appearing on Shen Xiang's face, and her face seemed to shatter at any moment.The situation left us all in a state of fear and despair, none of us knowing what was going to happen next. And during this time, we still haven't stopped quarreling.No matter what I say, it will always make Shen Xiang suspect something else.Because of her illness, I kept silent most of the time, but sometimes I couldn't help but fight back, and every time I fought back, I would see those cracks appearing on Shen Xiang's face one after another, click and click The sound is endless.

I finally understood that it was those harsh words that made Shen Xiang feel the cracks on her face.This discovery made me shudder, I hesitated for a long time before telling Shen Xiang about this discovery, she suddenly widened her eyes: "It turns out that you are harming me!" I felt angry-how could she say that?But I didn't dare to refute - if I refuted, she would be angry, and whenever my words made her angry, cracks would appear on her face. So I had no choice but to carefully flatter Shen Xiang.Under my careful pleasing, the increase of cracks on Shen Xiang's face slowed down significantly.But the original cracks were still not eliminated, she could no longer go to work, and was soon fired by the unit.She sat at home alone and didn't know what she was thinking. In short, she changed day by day, and finally became a woman like a wraith.She spoke softly to me all the time, and when my words hurt her, she showed me her wounds with a look of great sorrow.

When I was thinking about all this, a cloud of cold breath came from behind, and Shen Xiang asked faintly: "What are you thinking about?" Then I realized that the open faucet has been flowing, and the water has already flowed from the pool for washing vegetables. It overflowed and flowed to the ground.I quickly turned off the tap and took the mop to mop the floor. "I didn't think about anything." I said to Shen Xiang. click. This voice made me tremble with fear, I trembled all over, only to hear Shen Xiang complainingly said: "You are obviously thinking about something, why don't you admit it?"

How should I answer? I really don't know how to answer, any answer is wrong, no matter how I answer, cracks will appear. Well, that's the life I live.I carefully considered every sentence, Shen Xiang could do whatever she wanted, I never refuted her, and never dared to speak loudly to her.I'm used to talking softly like a woman, and I'm used to long periods of silence.Yes yes, I can get used to all of this as long as there are no more cracks in this woman's body. Click click click click. But the sound of "click, click, click" became faster and faster.I don't know why, I've been so careful and the cracks are appearing more and more often.The sound made my heart tremble, and I felt that I had become a frightened bird.Going out every day is the happiest time for me, but going home is always so difficult.

Why don't I get a divorce? I want a divorce, really, really, really, really, but I dare not say it——I dare not imagine what will happen when I say the word "divorce". Maybe, she will really fall apart. two halves? Time just flows slowly, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day.Every day is suffering, I don't understand the meaning of living like this.I'm afraid of Shen Xiang, she's like that kind of resentful female ghost in Japanese ghost movies, stalking me to death, I will be stalked to death by her one day! However, even with such disgust and fear, I still couldn't refuse her request for sex.When she hugged me and whispered, I could only force myself to respond—the cracks had now spread to every part of her body, and she was covered with tiny cracks, and the bright red intertwined into a net, which caught her Her snow white.I had no desire for a body like this, and my nonchalant response opened up more cracks.

Click click click click. Click click click click. I think I really might as well be dead. Actually I'm a very kind person, really, I swear I'm a kind person.But kindness is such a fragile thing, it cannot withstand such a long time of twisting and squeezing - in fact, Shen Xiang is also a very kind person, isn't he?At the end of the day, we are all victims.But I couldn't stand it anymore. This perverted life, this tightrope-walking conversation made my nerves highly tense, and my desire for death became more and more intense. If I stayed like this without going out like Shen Xiang, then I might have died long ago.But I still have a good job, and I have many friends in the unit. Every day, I can see the prosperous face of life unfolding to me.As soon as I left the house, I began to miss everything in my life, and as soon as I entered the house, I felt that I had entered the grave, and I was in the same room with ghosts. To live or to die?I think about this question all the time, home and the outside world, calling me from two different directions.I'm so young, I'm so strong, and in the end, I still want to live. Not only to live, but to live well, not to be buried and suffocated by soft dust like this, not to be buried with a female ghost with the rest of my good life. Then, Shen Xiang must die! The first time I had this thought, I slapped myself a few times.I felt so vicious that I was hardly human.But at this moment, Shen Xiang walked in like a ghost, and asked me sadly why I slapped myself.I couldn't explain the reason, but she pressed forward with every step, and there were constant clicking sounds on her body. This made me decide. I swear again that I am a kind person, and I will continue to be a kind person in the future, but I, but I must kill Shen Xiang! Killing Shen Xiang is the easiest thing, apart from courage, I don't need to make any more preparations. I spent a week trying to be nice to Shen Xiang, but I didn't see any reaction from her—in fact, I couldn't have treated her any better. In the past days, I tried my best to be gentle and tolerant , and she always felt that I was hurting her, and there is no change now, she still feels that I am hurting her, the gaps in her body are densely packed, and the red is dazzling. For a week now my heart has been beating wildly, hoping for a sudden miracle, but it didn't happen.A week later, my heartbeat suddenly returned to calm, and the moment I walked in the door, I felt as calm as a professional killer. As usual, the lights were not turned on in the room, and Shen Xiang's bright red face was blurred in the darkness.I turned on the light, and she was standing in the living room in her green pajamas, looking at me. "You're back?" She didn't know what was going to happen, and she still asked resentfully as usual. "Do you know you look like a ghost?" I said, licking my lips. Crack-crack! The sound was extremely violent, and I saw Shen Xiang showing a shocked expression—I have never spoken to her like this before, she has been used to my gentleness for so long, and I saw the huge impact of this sentence——Her An unprecedented large crack appeared on the face, about as thick and long as a ballpoint pen, and it appeared with a click, as if someone had slashed his face. I had some heart palpitations, and for a moment, I even wanted to terminate my plan.But, seeing the crack on her face, I made up my mind again - I can't sleep with such a crack, that would be worse than death! "Look in the mirror, do you know how ugly you are?" I continued to say viciously. click. She opened her pajamas, and a huge slit appeared on her body from her shoulders to her stomach.She howled miserably in agony. "I've hated you for a long time." I said quickly and kept talking down, "You're looking for trouble, and you caused all this. It's your own paranoia. I treat you so well, you don't have the slightest bit I am grateful, but I am making things difficult. Do I owe you? What is so great about you? You..." My mind was excited and blank, and all kinds of poisonous words flew out of my mouth quickly. Cracks, one crack after another appeared on her body.Criss-criss-crossing, her arms were crumbling, and finally fell off, her ears fell off, and then her thighs... The shrill howling covered up the sound of clicking, and the falling body was still producing new cracks, her face finally opened It fell apart under the combined effect of five cracks. I saw her last expression was still mourning—there was no hatred, only sorrow—she broke into countless pieces. I was sweating profusely, my heart was beating like a drum, and I was still cursing —the fragments broke into smaller fragments, and continued to break, and continued, until they disappeared completely, and there was no more movement. It's quiet now. Complete silence, no more clicks, no more resentment and sorrow, a pile of dust-like things on the ground is my former wife.I took a broom and swept them into a pile and threw them into the garbage bag. I went out with the garbage bag - the sky was black, the neon lights were shining everywhere, people were talking loudly - life was good, I threw the garbage forward and said something out loud. It's beautiful, like taking off a tights. My excitement continued into the morning, into work, into the company, and I was always refreshed. Company colleague Xiao Li said: "Stone, why are you so happy today?" My mood suddenly sank to the bottom. Why is he asking that? Are my emotions so obvious? Does he know something? I stared at Xiao Li, his face changed, and he retreated nervously: "Stone, don't look at me like that." He turned and ran out. Tell me not to look at him like that?Why?Does he hate me? click. This familiar voice made my whole body tremble, I ran to the bathroom, my pale face was reflected in the mirror, on the chin, a small bright red crack appeared there like a bloodstain. (full text)