Chapter 159 Strong Enough
Not every of Melinda's draft could be read, but there were a few copies, and the company gave a reward for this, asking others to learn from her.
At the moment, Melinda became the hottest one in the company.
"It's so difficult to see you now," Indeed, she was very busy at the moment. Seeing her good image, the company almost wanted to wrap her up as a super star writer. "Thank you for your patronage, Mr. Cheng."
The content of her article had reached an unprecedentedly high level. The article she posted on the Internet had been cut off for a long time.
"I know you have been tired lately. I will put aside the novel. You are good at writing and have a unique insight into many aspects, Which is very rare." After a while, Victor continued. "What do you want to say? Just say it."
She poured a glass of warm water for him. Noticing that he said he was tired, he drank it all at once.
"Well, the matter is that I'm going to ask you to write a report on the homosexuality. You know that this topic is still very controversial and the theme seems to be very attractive." Hearing that, Melinda's face suddenly froze. She even doubted if she had heard it wrong.
"You are gay? You have been living a playful life these years just to cover up your sexual orientation."
Her two consecutive questions made Victor green in the face.
"What are you talking about? I just said this topic is great." Hearing this, Victor flew into a rage. He could tell from her eyes that she was kind. Melinda didn't think she meant to hurt him.
"Do you agree with me or disagree with me?" Melinda asked in a serious tone. She was only shocked at the moment when she heard about that, and now she was a little embarrassed.
"I agree." As soon as he finished his words, he felt that the look in Melinda's eyes became deeper. Victor quickly said, "Don't misunderstand me. I just think that homosexuality is not wrong, and they need to be accepted by the society. They..."
When Victor noticing that he could not go on, Melinda could not help but tease him, "Mr. Cheng, you seem to understand a lot."
She really had no idea about the topic. She also knew what he had asked.
"Just so so."
Victor thought it was hard for him to explain that why he came here, so he just let it be.
"Let me have a try."
Melinda didn't have much confidence. If she had the chance, she could ask Kent for help. But now, she had something related to the homosexuality. She felt very sorry about that.
After work, Melinda went to a nearby bookstore to buy several articles about homosexuality. When she returned home, she had also surfed the Internet and found a lot of information about homosexuality. After reading the report for a whole night, she thought that there is more opposition than support. Many offensive words made her more confused, and she could do nothing about such a report.
"I don't have any idea about this topic. You can ask others for help." With dark circles around her eyes, Melinda looked at Victor helplessly. In the whole night, she didn't write a word.
"I'll take you to a place after work tonight." Victor said mysteriously.
"Where?"
"You'll know when the time comes. But you can't go there in this way."
He looked at her up and down, shook his head and then he seemed that he had a good idea.
During the working hours, she kept thinking, 'is there something that I can't do like this? Is it a banquet? But was it necessary to be so mysterious?
It was time to get off work. Victor arrived at Melinda's office on time.
"Where do me want to take me?" He just held a bag in his hand and handed it to her.
"Go and change into this suit."
This set of men's clothes was in a leisure style, which was obviously modified by someone else. Besides, there was also a baseball cap on it. Hearing that, Melinda realized that Victor just asked her to wear men's clothes.
She already had an answer in her mind that where they needed men's clothes to enter.
Victor took her to a bar, a gay bar. He had specifically asked her to wear men's clothes in order to pretend to the male couple.
"It's absolutely their biggest target to let you in women's clothing."
He had been to a homosexual bar for several times, which was really hot and attractive.
"I Don't think wearing men's clothes has made the situation any better." Melinda could not help but make a complaint to herself. She knows something about that because she had read a lot the whole night. "So we pretend to be a couple." Said Victor righteously, struggling in his mind. He wasn't willing to take risks if there was any other way.
"Why don't you dress like a woman?" She thought that he was still so potential. After they got familiar with each other, they often make fun with each other.
It is same as others, the bar was very crowded.
There were really homosexual, and some of them came here with other purposes.
"Feel the atmosphere here. It's good for you."
Victor got close to her ear and said, but she avoided him. She looked at him with her big black and white eyes, as if she was repeating what she had said in the office that day. "I'm very calm."
Melinda said. The pub was very secluded and could not be found by ordinary people. The so-called calm was also because she had read a lot of news that was strongly against and stirred up trouble. "This way." Victor led her to the reserved seat. Even though he was beside Melinda, many people looked at her with eager eyes.
Sitting down, Melinda turned her head and looked around. She saw that a man's bony body was close to another man, and they were kissing passionately.
He didn't show much tenderness. Instead, he showed his masculinity.
Melinda felt awkward. She found that many people around were kissing in the same way, but she was not used to it.
"What about now?" Victor did not miss her expression and said. It was just the beginning. When it reached the climax, there would be more interesting things. Some of them were from true love, but some of them just came to the bar to have sex.
"Well... Shakespeare said that kissing is a seal of love. Now I see nothing but madness."
Said Melinda. Kisses contained many implications, but what she heard was just crazy.
"Wow, you've suddenly become so artistic. You should pay more attention to the surrounding people."
All the reports had to start from the reality. No matter how many documents had been read by Melinda, he couldn't find more feelings in them.
Despite her unwillingness, she still observed the people around her as Victor had said.
"They may all put great pressure on themselves."
She slowly said. The madness of these people was nothing more than releasing pressure. She saw a kind of desperation in many people that took every day as the last day. Underneath the colorful exterior, there was endless depression.
"If you do the investigation, you will not be able to see the public opinion about homosexuality. Under such circumstances, it is normal for them to have pressure."
Said Victor. He thought everything would come to an end in two ways. Nothing was absolutely wrong even if he was a gay.
Life is short for dozens of years, why do you make yourself so tired.
Of course, he also knew that this kind of situation was not something everyone could cultivate, so was he.
"Well, there's been a lot of opposition, but the last two years have been much better."
There were more people accepting this kind of thing, but they were all young.
Young people always had a little impact on the society.
"There are a lot of gay novels on the Internet, but even if those people accept it Just because they were over-glorified. People will treat them specially. What they want is just to walk in the sunshine as the normal people."
"Everyone has his right to love, no matter who or the gender of his or her lover."
Though saying that, she lowered her voice. She could not convince herself that everyone had power to love, but it did not mean that everyone would be happy.
Even if they were in love, there would be so many problems. They would only face more.
"But when you walked in just now, you were still embarrassed and shocked. You didn't think of hurting them, but your subconscious reaction was a kind of injury."
Victor's criticism made Melinda look more sullen.
"They are all overly sensitive people, because they carefully protected that vulnerable secret." Said Melinda. In fact, those people did not discriminate against each other, but the gay had a sensitive nature. This subject in content not only expressed the gay love, but also other people's opinions about the theme, including their parents.
More importantly, they had misinterpreted the opinions of the people around them and considered them sensitively.
After listening to Charles's analysis, she found that she had seen a lot of problems, each of which was worth discussing.
"Yes, they are vulnerable. But in essence, they are good at hiding their temperament, while in the society, many people hide their inferiority complex."
"Only when you are strong enough can you ignore what others think." She understood this more than anyone else. She had always been too self abased because of the gap in status between her and Aaron, and she had chosen to pretend to ignore the oppositions
But only she knew how fragile she was.
"That's right. For example, your boss is a gay. Do you dare to say anything about it?" Said Victor, and the corners of Melinda's mouth twitched. Helplessly, she asked, "are you talking about yourself?"