Su Ning slept comfortably until morning.
Of course, Shen Ji was still clinging to her side.
When Su Ning opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the young man’s bright, sunny face.
Shen Ji smiled.
“Ning Ning, good morning kiss!”
Su Ning reached out and pushed his face away.
“Go brush your teeth and wash your face.”
Shen Ji got out of bed with a wounded expression and obediently walked into the bathroom to wash up.
Ever since he had started entering his clingy phase and refusing to leave whenever he had nothing else to do, Su Ning had prepared a set of toiletries for him in the dorm.
Su Ning followed him into the bathroom a moment later.
Once they had both brushed their teeth and washed their faces, Shen Ji leaned down in front of her, lowering his head as he looked at her with excitement and anticipation.
It reminded Su Ning of a big dog wagging its tail furiously.
She held his face in her hands, leaned over, and kissed him once.
“Good morning.”
Shen Ji copied her and kissed her back.
“Good morning!”
He had never been particularly fussy about things.
As long as something was good enough to get by, that was fine with him.
Su Ning was different.
Her life was exceptionally refined, and she strived to do everything perfectly.
Su Ning sat in front of the vanity and applied her skincare products.
Even though Shen Ji had seen her do this many times, he still could not remember the names or purposes of all those bottles and jars.
Su Ning was already very beautiful, yet she still had to put so many things on her face.
Girls really were difficult to understand.
Su Ning tidied her hair.
Finally, she clipped on the little skull hair clip.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she nodded in satisfaction.
“Hmm.
I’m beautiful today too.”
Shen Ji sat beside her with his chin resting in both hands.
At some point, he had already become drowsy.
Then he suddenly felt something cool against his face.
He opened his eyes and found Su Ning right in front of him.
Before he could figure out what was happening, he instinctively narrowed his eyes with a smile.
It was simply the reaction he had whenever he saw someone he liked.
Su Ning applied some moisturizer to his face.
“It’s been sunny lately, and the weather is so hot.
You’re not allowed to run around outside every day.
You’ll get sunburned.”
Shen Ji obediently nodded.
“I won’t run around outside.”
Not long afterward, she said, “All done.”
Shen Ji was confused.
“Ning Ning, I saw you put on five or six different things.
Why am I done after only two?”
Su Ning answered as though it were the most obvious thing in the world, “You’re a boy.
Just put on a little and it’ll be fine.”
Shen Ji blinked.
He felt like his girlfriend was being a little perfunctory with him.
At this time of day, the dorm supervisor would definitely be standing guard at the entrance of the dormitory building.
Shen Ji could not leave through the front door, but he was as agile and nimble as a monkey.
He opened the window, waved at Su Ning, and jumped out through it.
Su Ning hurried over to the window and looked down.
He was already on the grass below the fourth floor, happily mouthing to her,
“Ning Ning, I’ll wait for you!”
Su Ning closed the window.
When she left the dormitory building, she saw the young man waiting for her on the path.
Shen Ji naturally walked over and took her hand, and the two of them went to the cafeteria together for breakfast.
As Su Ning lined up at the serving window with Shen Ji, she glanced around the cafeteria in confusion.
“Why does it feel like there are so many fewer people here this morning?”
Shen Ji innocently looked around with her.
“Yeah.
Why is that?”
He was not very smart to begin with, and now he looked even less so.
After Su Ning and Shen Ji finished eating, they went to the classroom building.
The two of them parted ways at the classroom entrance.
The moment Su Ning walked into her classroom, she noticed that it was much emptier than usual.
The teacher who came to class explained that some students had fallen ill and taken leave to go home, while others had family matters and had been picked up.
In short, their class had suddenly lost seven or eight students overnight.
Of course, they were all boys.
Lu Xiaoran quietly said to Su Ning, “It’s not just our class.
A lot of students from the other classes have disappeared too.”
Lu Xiaoran rubbed her arms and said fearfully, “I heard that in some dorm rooms, everyone was there before going to sleep, but when they woke up, their roommates were gone.
Ning Ning…
It’s so creepy!”
Wasn’t it?
Their school had always kept very strict control over students leaving campus.
Even if a student fell ill or something else happened, their families would usually refuse to take them home, claiming that it was a way to train them to be independent.
But now, so many students had suddenly taken leave and gone home.
This was absolutely unprecedented!
Lu Xiaoran said, “And that popular supernatural post on the forum has already been deleted.
Ning Ning, do you think those people’s disappearances have something to do with that post?”
Su Ning patted Lu Xiaoran on the head. This story is hosted at g.com.
“If posting something could kill people, then wouldn’t the curse-reversal thing I said before have already killed a whole bunch of people?
Come on, don’t scare yourself.
Last time, you also said something had happened to Zhao Yuan, but I saw him myself only a few days later.
Unless you have definite proof, don’t keep assuming something happened to people.”
After Su Ning said that, Lu Xiaoran felt much more at ease.
That’s right.
Could a post really kill people?
But there were quite a few strange incidents at their school, so Lu Xiaoran was still a little frightened deep down.
She decided that from now on, it would be better to watch what she said and did.
In another corner of the classroom, two boys were whispering to each other.
One boy quietly asked, “Are you still planning to look for that art room?
So many students in our class are missing today.
Aren’t you scared?”
“Of course I’m scared.”
The boy speaking was named Song Ming.
He was the same boy who had been unable to stop staring at Su Ning in the art room yesterday.
When he woke up early that morning, he discovered that his roommate was gone.
At first, he thought his roommate had simply gone out early.
Later, he found out that his roommate had left the school.
He remembered his roommate telling him about the popular post on the forum, but he had been playing games at the time and had not gotten around to reading it.
Still, he had a feeling that the disappearances of so many students had something to do with the supernatural incidents described in that post.
His family was also in business.
The first lesson his parents had taught him was that the greater the risk, the greater the reward.
He had originally been skeptical of those legends, but now he was starting to believe them more and more.
His deskmate said to Song Ming, “Aren’t you afraid that you’ll disappear too?”
Song Ming smiled.
“If someone like Shen Ji can have his wish come true, why wouldn’t I be able to do the same?
I’m better than him, aren’t I?”
He was not as narrow-minded as Shen Ji.
Shen Ji had only wanted to avoid being bullied and have a girlfriend like Su Ning, and apparently that was enough for him.
Once a person had absolute power, women were nothing more than decorations.
So he was determined to find that art room and make a wish for his family to become the only family standing at the very top.
Naturally, Su Ning would have no choice but to come and curry favor with him.
Su Ning suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
She touched her neck and thought to herself,
“Which idiot is coveting my beauty this time?”
At the very back of the classroom, Lu Zhizhi looked at the message she had received on her phone.
Wei Suo: [That legend must be true—the art room that can grant wishes.]
Lu Zhizhi stared at the words “grant wishes” and could not look away for a long time.