That evening, Fan Jialuo took Xu Yiyang behind the mountain to catch bugs as usual, but when they returned home, they saw a woman standing quietly by the entrance to the building, who appeared to be waiting for someone. Her back was thin and slender, but her spine was straight. When the voice-activated lights were lit by the sound of footsteps, she immediately turned her head to look over, her pretty white face glowing amid the light.
It was Lu Dan. The lifelessness in her eyes and the numerous bruises on her body had disappeared. There were still some scratches on the back of her hands and wrists, but they were not serious, and she just lost a layer of skin. This was nothing to her, and she didn’t even need to apply ointment.
Her originally long, messy, and straight hair was now curled into large romantic waves, dyed black, and sprayed with a thin layer of glossy hair oil, and her entire body had a flower-like fragrance. She threw away her home clothes that were washed until they turned white, and she was now wearing a light green dress. The lace on the skirt was very delicate, revealing an indescribable elegance. She also put on some light makeup. The thin eyeliner made her eyes big and divine, her pale lips were painted with lipstick, and a layer of moist lip gloss was applied at her cupid’s bow and the center of her lips. When she smiled slightly, she appeared very sweet.
The previous old and tired woman had disappeared like smoke and dust, and her appearance changed completely after just half a month. To say that only her appearance changed was an understatement, and one might suspect she was completely reborn.
After seeing Fan Jialuo and Xu Yiyang, she quickly bent down and bowed. “Mr. Fan, you’re back.” Compared with when she originally came to their door in a timid and hesitant manner, she was now much more calm and elegant.
A woman must have two qualities to improve herself, not luck and talent, but courage and confidence. Blessed with talent, you may be able to live a very smooth life, but whose life was not without wind and rain? Whose life was not full of ups and downs? What should you do if you encounter waves after smooth sailing? Without courage and confidence, you might never recover.
Back when Lu Dan wasn’t married, Lu Dan was a lucky and talented woman praised by everyone. She was a talented student who graduated from a 985 university, and her future was limitless. But look at what happened next? It was simply unbearable to look back on.
Lu Dan didn’t have courage or confidence before. It was the handsome young man in front of her who opened her tightly clenched fists and placed these two precious gifts in the palms of her hands, opening the door to a whole new life. Her eyes couldn’t help but redden, and she straightened her back and bowed down deeply to thank him again. One million bows couldn’t express the surging emotions in her heart.
“You look very well.” Fan Jialuo gently supported her, and she didn’t dare to bow again.
“I came here to give it back to you.” Lu Dan spread out her palm, allowing the sesame seed sized object to be exposed under the light. She had already seen clearly that it was a small fish carved from white jade, and the workmanship was very delicate. Although she was amazed at its miraculous effect, she never thought of taking it for herself. Its consequences were enough to dispel her greed, not to mention that she was not a greedy person by nature.
“I’ve troubled you to make this trip.” Fan Jialuo took the miniature carving and nodded with a smile. No matter when and where he was, he was always gentle and courteous, without the aloof temperament of a spiritual practitioner. Standing next to him was like being bathed in a gentle breeze and refreshing rain.
Lu Dan’s nervous mood was greatly soothed, and she smiled gently. “No, no, no, it wasn’t troublesome at all. I have one more thing I want to show you.” She opened her bag, took out a divorce certificate, and waved it side to side in front of Mr. Fan’s eyes like she was offering a treasure.
“I got divorced,” she said with a smile brighter than the sunrise, “I got a million dollars in property. I didn’t want the car or the house. This place left me with too many memories, and I won’t come back. However, the most beautiful encounter of my life happened here, which was meeting you, Mr. Fan.”
She laughed and sighed with tears of gratitude. “It was wonderful to meet you!”
Fan Jialuo glanced helplessly at Xu Yiyang, who pulled out a pack of tissues from his trouser pocket and handed it to Lu Dan. “Big Sister, wipe.”
“En, thank you, this kid is so good.” Lu Dan rolled the tissue into a small point and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes little by little, so as not to mess up her makeup. Now that she didn’t have any worries or troubles, she paid extra attention to her appearance.
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After making sure that she didn’t look messy, Lu Dan smiled and looked at Fan Jialuo, asking the deepest doubt in her heart, “Mr. Fan, why didn’t you have me eat this jade carving? If I was the one with the strange hands, I would have been able to beat him up at the beginning and would not have to suffer so much.”
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Lu Dan subconsciously hugged herself and said gratefully, “I understand your intentions, Mr. Fan! Thank you for your arrangements. Although I have suffered a lot, I have also received many precious gifts. I have learned to be strong, to resist, to be independent, and to be kind to myself. I may have learned things that others are unable to learn in a lifetime. Going through a desperate situation isn’t a universal experience. It was torturous, but it also tempered my will.”
Fan Jialuo nodded and asked, “Have you seen your desire clearly?”
Lu Dan’s smile took on a strange charm as she said, “Yes. It turns out that my greatest desire was to chop off my husband’s violent hands, and I finally did it.”
Fan Jialuo said lightly, “One must know how to save themself.”
Lu Dan nodded vigorously and said, “You handed me the knife. If I still couldn’t learn to save myself, I would feel sorry for your painstaking arrangements.” She bowed again, choking up as she continued, “Mr. Fan, thank you! Without your help, I would not be in my current situation. I almost thought that there was no hope for me in life, but there was, and it was always inside me. Mr. Fan, I am here to say goodbye. I am going home, but if possible, can I come visit you in the future?”
Fan Jialuo waved his hand gently, “Don’t come to visit me. I won’t live here for long. Live well.”
Lu Dan looked disappointed, but she didn’t dare to pester him too much and could only nod reluctantly. She slowly walked into the elevator, and began to bow, but she heard the young man say, “Don’t indulge your desires. You almost lost yourself.”
The elevator door closed, but she didn’t straighten up for a long time. Instead, she propped her hands on her knees and began to cry. “I know. I will not indulge them, don’t worry,” she vowed.
Yes, there were too many painful memories here, but encountering Mr. Fan was enough to offset all the pain and despair. The encounter was like a star that lit up her life. If she was lost, she only had to look up at the star to know where to go.
She would not indulge her desires, and would never lose herself. Otherwise, wouldn’t she be wasting the new life given to her by Mr. Fan?
Lu Dan returned to the seventh floor with a slight smile on her lips. When her husband heard the sound of the door opening, he turned to look over. Then, he jumped up in shock, hiding in the kitchen and locking the door tightly. He shouted sternly, “Haven’t we divorced? What are you doing back here? I’m warning you, if you don’t leave quickly I’ll call the police!”
Lu Dan smiled indifferently and said, “Don’t worry, I just came to get my luggage. I won’t even bother to look at you.” She walked into the bedroom and took out a medium-sized suitcase from the closet. After several years of marriage, this little thing was all she could take away with her. She didn’t have any exquisite and expensive clothes or a dazzling array of cosmetics, just some daily necessities. She was like a live-in nanny who could pack up and leave. But this was good, since she didn’t have any attachment to this house.
Lu Dan rolled the suitcase away, really not looking at her ex-husband on the side. After arriving on the first floor, the elevator door opened, and she bumped into a disheveled woman. The other party stumbled and almost fell, and the plastic bag in her hand fell, causing the things inside to roll all over the floor.
Lu Dan quickly squatted down to pick them up, but the woman just stared at her blankly, murmuring, “Xiao Lu, I haven’t seen you for a few days but you have changed a lot. Has your husband stopped beating you?”
“Sister Qu, I’m divorced,” Lu Dan said with a smile. This woman was a tenant on the fourth floor, and because they shared similar circumstances, they often went to the same supermarket to buy groceries. The two were very familiar with each other in private.
“You’re divorced?” The woman laughed immediately, and was genuinely happy for Lu Dan. “Great, you’ve finally left the sea of suffering! Leave this stuff here, and I will pick them up by myself. You go home quickly.” She looked at Lu Dan’s suitcase with envy and joy in her eyes. How nice would it be to be able to leave here and never have to come back!
Lu Dan picked up a small bottle, and the smile on her face froze. She shoved the bottle into the bottom of the plastic bag with trembling hands and continuously shot glances at the woman. Her name was Qu Xianfen, she was 33 years old, and her life was also very unfortunate. Her husband wasn’t a violent person, and he didn’t know how to beat or scold her, but he very rarely went home for many years, and even if he went back, he only stayed in the guest room for one night to see his parents and would leave the next day. She heard that he had a large business outside and was a busy man.
Qu Xianfen managed the family inside and out, but her parents-in-law were still dissatisfied with her, and her son wasn’t close to her. Most of her suffering came from these three people. Needless to say, she had a lot of conflicts with her in-laws, but what made Lu Dan particularly puzzled was how Sister Qu’s son was not willing to stand on her side, and kept saying that the mistress his father was taking care of outside was more suitable to be his mother.
Who would want such a son? It was better to chop him up and feed him to the dogs! Thinking until now, Lu Dan closed her eyes and silently recited a few prayers. She promised Mr. Fan to be a good person.
Lu Dan didn’t know what the “kind and timid” Qu Xianfen was thinking. After taking back the plastic bag, she rummaged through it carefully. After seeing that the small bottle was still there, she let out a sigh of relief.
“Xiao Lu, it’s getting dark, so you should go home quickly.” She smiled and waved to Lu Dan.
Lu Dan replied and walked forward, but she stopped walking by the door and turned back to say solemnly, “Sister Qu, you must not do anything stupid. If you think you really can’t go on living, then go to the 18th floor to find Mr. Fan, and he can help you. It is thanks to him that I could divorce smoothly.”
“18th floor, Mr. Fan?” Qu Xianfen was full of doubts.
“Yes, Mr. Fan Jialuo on the 18th floor. Have you seen ‘The World of Strange People’?”
“No, I haven’t seen it. The TV is dominated by my mother-in-law every day, and the computer is owned by my son. How could I have the opportunity to watch TV?” Qu Xianfen smiled wryly and shook her head.
“You can watch it on your cell phone too. Search for ‘The World of Strange People’ and click on the video. Sister Qu, you will understand after watching this program. Mr. Fan can definitely help you, so you must not give up on yourself!” Lu Dan repeatedly emphasized.
Qu Xianfen seemed to have listened and nodded, looking hesitantly at the plastic bag.
Lu Dan sighed softly, and then wheeled her suitcase away. Half an hour later, a group of old ladies who had just finished square dancing crossed the street and were walking towards the gate of a neighborhood in the city. They bumped into Lu Dan, who had just gotten off the bus. An old lady with drooping eyebrows said rudely, “Hey, this is Xiao Dan, right? You couldn’t stand being beaten by your husband, so you came home to seek refuge? I say, what’s the point of a girl studying so much? In the end, don’t you still have to marry someone? If you marry well, you will live happily for the rest of your life, but if you don’t, you’ll be like Xiao Dan, living miserably for the rest of your life!”
Lu Dan, who previously only knew how to lower her head to avoid speaking, said with a light smile, “yes, Auntie Liu, your daughter married very well, and made her mother-in-law so angry that she was sent to the hospital and sent back 30,000 yuan. However, I still have a million yuan from the divorce.”
All the surrounding old ladies snickered, almost driving Old Lady Liu mad. She lived across the street from the Lu family and had a daughter, but her daughter was never better than Lu Dan since they were children, so she was particularly unconvinced. She pointed to the modest suitcase and laughed scornfully. “You’re divorced? How would you dare to? Aren’t you afraid that your man will beat you to death? Also, bragging about one million yuan! After divorcing, you only brought this little thing back with you?”
Lu Dan took out the divorce certificate and waved it in front of her eyes, and then rolled her suitcase away. No matter what others said or thought, from now on she would only live for herself.
Father and Mother Lu were stunned after seeing their daughter push open the door, and then panicked. “Why did you come home? Go and hide somewhere else, lest you find you again! Oh, why are you so incapable of planning! Don’t you know how to run further away? Do you have enough money? Dad has saved 30,000 yuan for you this year.”
Father Lu hurriedly retrieved his bankbook.
Lu dan placed the divorce certificate on the table, and tapped it with her fingertips so they would look at the words clearly. Father and Mother Lu froze for a moment before picking up the certificate, looking at it and rubbing it repeatedly, as if they were holding some great treasure. A few moments later, their tears finally poured down and they choked up. “A divorce is good! You’re finally divorced! Our Dan Dan has finally escaped the fire!”
However, Lu Dan didn’t have much time for sentimentality. She said calmly, “Dad, I want to return to my old job. Didn’t you say that there was an ancient mural in Dunhuang that needs to be restored? Do you think that I can go?”
“The mural is tens of meters above the ground, can you restore it? Aren’t you afraid of heights?” Father Lu put down the divorce certificate and asked hesitantly.
“Afraid of heights?” Thinking of the way her face used to turn white and her legs would grow weak because of a height of five or six meters, Lu Dan couldn’t help chuckling. “What is a few dozen meters? Dad, I am not afraid. I prepared all the job application materials, so please help to recommend me.” This time, she was definitely not kidding. The moment she got divorced, she had already planned her life for the next few decades. She wanted to do what she liked and go far away, not to escape but to chase the dream she once had.
Father Lu flipped through his daughter’s resume page by page and nodded in relief. “Good, good, I’ll help you with this tomorrow. The bureau is already short of people, and your resume is good. Dan Dan, you have changed a lot. You’re like a fighter now, and Dad is very happy.”
“Thank you Dad, I will always be brave.” Lu Dan hugged her father, hiding the last tears of her life in his collar.
Meanwhile, Fan Jialuo, who was reading with Xu Yiyang, received a text message from Yang Shengfei: [Mr. Fan, Team Leader Zhuang and I will soon take the train to Shenbei, and we will look for an important clue there. We called many witnesses from back then, and according to their descriptions, the girl wearing my sister’s red dress kept jumping and spinning around in the street. In that conservative era, this kind of behavior is a bit unusual, so Dr. Song speculated that this girl’s intellectual development may have problems. Later, Team Leader Zhuang and I checked the information of the steel factory employees and their families and found that there was indeed such a person, and she is now in Shenbei. Mr. Fan, thank you for your help. Without you, this case might never have been solved.]
[There is one more thing I have to tell you. Since recording the show, my mother’s vocal Dafa has been working again. Do you think my sister is back? Is she still guarding us?]
Fan Jialuo pondered for a moment, then asked: [What do you think?]
Yang Shengfei replied firmly: [I think it must be my sister!]
Fan Jialuo then smiled and replied: [If you think that, then it must be so.]
Yang Shengfei didn’t reply, and seemed to be busy boarding the train. What Fan Jialuo didn’t tell them was—when something was lost, saying its name under your breath helps to strengthen one’s subconscious, which would act upon your eyes and brain, allowing things to be found quickly. This was similar to Mother Yang’s vocal Dafa.
However, this wasn’t important anymore. What was important was love and faith.
Thank you for the chapter, eagerly waiting for the next one…….❤️
Finally, Lu Dan is free! Even though it was painful to read about her suffering, I am elated that she can finally live her life courageously 🤗 I hope Qu Xianfen is able to find her happiness too and live her life free of ungrateful vermins. ☘️
Ahhh I wish we can see more of Lu Dan in the future!! I’m so happy for her