“Have you heard? The former president of the painting club, Wen Ziyu, was found dead in our school’s abandoned swimming pool.”
“Huh? Where did you hear that? Didn’t you say the cheerleader died this morning? Why has it become the former president of the painting club?”
“No, it’s not like that! Both of them are dead!”
Listening to the whispers of the people behind him, Su Jingyan felt his heart, which had been happy since he and Lu Yichen got together, stutter, and his whole body trembled slightly.
With eyes wide in horror, he turned to them and asked, “You mean Wen Ziyu?”
The person he had asked saw that it was the class pet talking to him and immediately nodded. “That’s him.”
Su Jingyan’s head throbbed. He asked in disbelief, “When did he die?”
“I’m not sure. The body was only just found in the swimming pool.”
Su Jingyan blinked, trying to recover from the shock.
His whole body shivered, and cold sweat ran down his back.
He had met and greeted Wen Ziyu at noon, and now, only that afternoon, Wen Ziyu was dead in the swimming pool.
Su Jingyan swallowed and fell silent.
His classmate continued, “There are lots of posts about it on the school forum. If you want to know more, you can take a look.”
Su Jingyan nodded and turned back to his desk, goosebumps spreading over his body. Taking advantage of the break between classes, he secretly took out his phone and went to read the school forum.
He had never broken the rules or secretly played with his phone in the classroom before.
But Su Jingyan couldn’t care less right now.
Fortunately, he was sitting against the wall, so he could hide his phone under the desk and look at it carefully.
Sure enough, as soon as the school forum loaded, the whole page was filled with posts about today’s deaths.
The most popular post was titled “Everyone share your views on the two murders.”
Su Jingyan’s fingers trembled, but he finally clicked on it.
[15L Zhao huaxishi: I think there’s a pervert murderer hiding in our school. I don’t even dare to go to the bathroom alone now.]
[34L Xiao Xiaohei: Wen Ziyu and I were in the same class. He never came back after going to lunch. The accident probably happened this afternoon.]
[76L Lemon Curd under the Coconut Tree: I heard that Lu Qingye died of a sudden heart attack? It’s also rumored that Wen Ziyu accidentally fell into the water and drowned. If that’s true, it’s way too much of a coincidence. It’s so coincidental that I don’t dare believe it.]
[104L Wanting to wear a crown: Honestly, this was huge, and the school definitely won’t be able to suppress it. I wonder if classes will be suspended.]
[145L Have a sweet dream: I also remember someone saying that Lu Qingye had a heart attack. Her death might really have been an accident.]
Su Jingyan looked for a long time, but there wasn’t much useful information. However, he was almost certain that Wen Ziyu must have died in the afternoon, after he had seen him.
Thank goodness it was afterward. Otherwise, I’d have thought I had seen a ghost.
The cause of Wen Ziyu’s death was still unknown, but the most widely spread version was that he had accidentally fallen into the water. A more outrageous version was that Wen Ziyu had liked Lu Qingye and, unable to bear the pain of losing her, had killed himself.
Su Jingyan looked up from his phone but was still in a daze.
How can a person just disappear in a moment? Life is so fragile.
Before he could turn off his phone, he received a message.
Sender: Song Keyin
[Senior Jingyan, I know you may not believe what I’m about to say, but please read it through.
The boy you like was actually very dangerous. He’s the one who killed both Lu Qingye and Wen Ziyu!
I know you may find it unbelievable, even nonsensical, when I say that, but please believe me! The next one to die will be Senior Lin Yiming!
Everything I said is true!
In the end, that person will kill you.]
Su Jingyan was shocked. His mind went blank, and before he could take in the contents of the message, the class bell rang.
He hurriedly hid the phone in his schoolbag.
His heart was still pounding.
He was dumbfounded.
Lin Yiming was the captain of the basketball team and a third-year in the class next door.
He and Lin Yiming weren’t close, but every time they met, Lin Yiming was very warm toward him. He often gave him water and desserts as gifts. A few times, Su Jingyan had seen him following him after school, but he had assumed they were just going in the same direction.
Su Jingyan didn’t believe that Lu Yichen had killed Lu Qingye and Wen Ziyu. But after reading the last line, which said that Lu Yichen would kill him, he was even more puzzled.
Lu Yichen was his boyfriend now!
How could he believe it?
So when he saw this kind of message, besides being puzzled, he was angry. It was the anger of hearing someone slander his lover.
He even began to wonder whether Song Keyin was paranoid.
There usually doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with her.
The next class was self-study again. Su Jingyan was furious, so he secretly took out his phone once more. He decisively deleted the message Song Keyin had sent, and after thinking about it, he even blocked her.
What Su Jingyan didn’t know was that a pair of invisible eyes had been watching him from beginning to end, observing his every move and peeping at his every expression. From time to time, there was also a low groan.
It could see the information on the phone clearly, and it could see the series of actions its beloved senior took in anger, and it thought they were cute.
Song Keyin?
Tsk.
Song Keyin noticed that the senior hadn’t replied to her for a long time, and she felt she had been too reckless. If she put herself in his shoes, she wouldn’t believe such words either if she received that message.
Realizing this, Song Keyin wanted to slap herself and trembled slightly with anxiety.
What do I do? What should I do?
She really didn’t know what she could do to make the senior believe her.
By the time school ended, the classroom was lifeless. They had been studying and doing textbook exercises for almost the whole day and were exhausted.
Su Jingyan took a deep breath. All the boredom and irritation of the afternoon were left behind once he had sunk into the sea of study.
He picked up his school bag, thinking of Lu Yichen, his boyfriend now, and a blush crept up his face at the thought of seeing him.
But as soon as he stepped out of the classroom door, he walked into a chest.
Su Jingyan looked up at the person’s face and felt slightly choked.
It was Lin Yiming.
Lin Yiming played basketball. He was tall, with strong, firm muscles and wheat-colored skin, and he looked like a boy who was very popular with girls.
As soon as he saw him, Su Jingyan couldn’t help thinking of the message Song Keyin had sent him, and he felt a chill.
“You… what is it?” Su Jingyan asked.
Lin Yiming narrowed his eyes and scanned him from head to toe. There was a glint in his eyes, and he asked in a hoarse voice, “Who was that boy with you yesterday?”
Su Jingyan gave him a strange look.
Why did both of them ask me this question?
It was understandable for Song Keyin to ask, since she was his direct junior and relatively close to him, but he and Lin Yiming didn’t know each other well enough to talk about private things.
So Su Jingyan chose to answer with a silent smile.
The two were at a stalemate.
Seeing that the other boy kept quiet, Su Jingyan narrowed his pretty eyes and said bluntly, “Can you get out of the way? I’m going home.”
Who would have thought that Lin Yiming’s smile would slowly crack, and an icy chill would appear in his eyes, as if he wanted to stare a hole through Su Jingyan.
But he still stepped aside for Su Jingyan. Su Jingyan nodded to him out of politeness and then walked straight to the stairs.
Lin Yiming stood there, his hand clenched into a fist.
Is it only when I kill you…
that you’ll finally look at me?
Damn it!
As soon as Su Jingyan walked out, he saw Lu Yichen standing beside the bicycle, quietly waiting for him in the distance.
Perhaps because of Lu Yichen’s unusual temperament, he always gave the impression of being out of place.
Su Jingyan ran over excitedly, shouting and waving as he ran, “Yichen! I’m here!”
Many students passing by watched the scene with complicated feelings.
Ever since the rumor had spread that the school pet had come to school on the back of someone else’s bicycle, a lot of people had been crouching in the parking lot, preparing to catch that person.
It was rare to see the usually reserved school pet so excited, so how could they not feel conflicted?
And when they saw the mysterious person from the photos on the school forum, they understood even less.
His looks…
Aren’t anything special.
Lu Yichen was still wearing the school uniform that Su Jingyan had given him. Even though Su Jingyan had been looking at it for two days, he still felt it was very odd on Lu Yichen.
Especially from a distance, it looked even weirder.
Su Jingyan looked at the school uniform his boyfriend was wearing, paused, and walked closer. Leaning into Lu Yichen’s ear, he whispered, “Do you want to change your uniform tomorrow?”
Lu Yichen looked at him quietly with an unreadable gaze.
Su Jingyan blushed under Lu Yichen’s stare, blinked, and added, “We can go shopping for clothes now.”
Lu Yichen still didn’t speak. He stared at Su Jingyan with eyes that didn’t look very energetic, looking at him very seriously.
Su Jingyan couldn’t stand being stared at, so he blushed, covered his eyes, and shouted, “What I mean is, let’s go buy couple outfits now!”