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You Insisted on Being a Saint—Why Cry Now?

share time: 2026-01-18 06:03:48

Lin Xiaoman turned "kindness" into "self-sentiment": spent all savings on her best friend's gambling debt, took the blame for a colleague and got a salary cut, even gave 3k to a stranger claiming medical fees. Until her friend ran away, the colleague framed her, and the stranger was a scammer. She squatted outside a convenience store, sobbing, when her childhood friend Jiang Lie found her. His pent-up anger exploded: "You insisted on being a saint—why cry now?" This woke her up. She sued her friend with the IOU, cleared her name with evidence, and posted the scammer's video online. Then she realized Jiang Lie had been supporting her silently: keeping hidden documents, tracking the scammer, paying her mom's medical bills. His "rudeness" was fear of her getting hurt; her "saint act" was fear of being unwanted. When she learned to say "no," she understood kindness needs edges—and caught Jiang Lie's 10-year-hidden love.

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