Over these past few years, they had been strangers, and they had been close friends. They had shared many secrets and discussed many things, but both had skirted around this topic.
There was that one time when their conversation had wandered to their high school exam. Song Qingchun said that she had woken up early that morning and stayed in front of her computer waiting for the result announcement. However, Su Zhinian had fallen silent after that. Then Song Qingchun remembered that the day of the results announcement fell in the period when her argument with him reached its height.
Like that, the incident that night had become a taboo topic between them. Even though both of them would be reminded of that incident whenever a topic circled around it, they would both ignore it. However, that night, Su Zhinian brought it up directly.
That night six years ago was a nightmare that had haunted Song Qingchun for more than two thousand days.
Millman: I normally would not comment on parts of the novel that I don't like, but this chapter is genuinely appalling. Standing someone up and rape are not comparable, and the fact that this conversation between the two main characters happened really shows YFY's lack of compassion for sexual assault victims, and that she is merely using such ordeals as a plot device and nothing more. She really has not done justice to such victims in the novel so far.