Chapter 60 - Ghost School (14 (1/2)

“As everyone already knows, Su Ling died from falling from a building.”

Zhao Xiao Pang slowly let out a sigh and said: “He fell from the roof of the teaching building. At that time, we were also there, and we witnessed it with our own eyes”

“You guys were also there?” Shen Qi Qi felt very bad for Su Ling. Her eyes were red as she angrily glared at him. She then asked with much difficulty, “Don’t tell me you guys were the ones who pushed him off?”

“No, how can that be?! We don’t have the courage to kill!”

Zhao Xiao Pang quickly shook his head and denied it. He anxiously tried to explain: “It was indeed an accident. He fell down himself. At that time, we wanted to grab him, but everything happened too fast.”

“The fence around the roof had been there for too long. After exposure to the wind and rain, much of it had eroded.”

Ou Yang looked bitter and added: “None of us expected it. He…..was overly stimulated. He didn’t stand steadily, and he fell into the fence only for it to suddenly break and fall off.”

“So, you regret it because it was the so-called ‘last time’ that you bullied Su Ling?” Gu Zhen raised his eyebrow and asked.

“Yes……..we really didn’t have the intention to kill him.”

Zhao Xiao Pang’s voice was filled with mournfulness.

“When I saw him fall, we- we were all scared. After that, none of us dared to say that we were also on the roof that day. Brother Bai’s father used his connections and helped us conceal the incident.”

“We decided to bury this as a secret forever. Until we died, no one was to speak a word about it.”

The female teacher nodded slightly and continued to ask the next question.

“Why did you guys bring Su Ling to the rooftop?”

“……….”

Zhao Xiao Pang fell silent for a few seconds. He then answered.

“In order for him to see the confession.”

“To let him see with his own eyes how Brother Bai gets together with Junior Cheng.”

“After Brother Bai’s injury, we don’t know what happened between them but the relationship between the two of them got better and better. Even bystanders like us could tell that Junior Cheng liked Brother Bai more and more.”

“Brother Bai was the same. He finally admitted that he liked Junior Cheng and we were very happy. We gave him suggestions and did our best trying to think of how he could confess.”

“We decided that the confession should take place on the roof. Before the roof was closed off, many students would choose to confess there……….It really wasn’t because we wanted to kill Su Ling!”

“It was at that time that Lu Jie said to us that we should let Su Ling watch his most beloved person get together with his most hated person———”

………….

Cheng Zhi Chu once again found himself returning into the illusion of the past.

At this moment, he stood inside a big mansion. The spacious living room was simply decorated but it was also very luxurious. The snow-white carpet was covered in white paper and discarded sketches making the room appear a little messy.

Ou Yang and the other three either sat or stood around Bai Yi who sat at the table and concentrated on his drawing.

“I didn’t know that Brother Bai actually had a talent like this………..”

Ou Yang picked up a drawing and looked at it for a while. He praised it a few times before carefully putting it back down.

“We never knew that Brother Bai could draw and is able to draw so well. Hey Brother Bai, why have you never told us about this?”

“Because there is no need.”

Bai Yi lifted up the half completed drawing and looked at it for a while. Seemingly unsatisfied with it, he frowned and didn’t hesitate to crumple it into a ball and throw it onto the floor. He then grabbed a clean sheet of paper and continued to draw.

Ou Yang and the others saw this and felt a little distressed. In their opinion, Bai Yi’s drawings were already good enough. They didn’t know what he was dissatisfied about.

Perhaps it’s because Brother Bai wanted to give Junior Cheng the most perfect confession experience?

They couldn’t help but think this inside.

This was an idea put forward by Lu Jie. Bai Yi was to draw all the things that he had experienced after meeting the teenager and use drawings to express his inner feelings. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Ou Yang and the others thought that it was a good idea, but it was also unrealistic because at that time they didn’t know that Bai Yi could actually draw. The other four also couldn’t draw so it was a difficult feat to achieve.

Just when they were pondering over whether or not they should hire someone to draw it, they didn’t expect to see Bai Yi already beginning to seriously plan it out. He quickly picked up a pencil and, until now, he had completed seven or eight drawings.

“Lu Jie, you’re really smart. How did you think of using drawings to confess?”

Seeing Bai Yi still furrowing his brows in concentration, the other four moved away, sat down onto the sofa and quietly talked.

The girl smiled and explained with a sweet voice: “In fact, although this method isn’t commonly used, many people have used it to confess. If you search online, you will find many examples.”

“But I also had another purpose behind it, so I suggested that Brother Bai used drawings to confess.”

“What purpose?” The other three asked curiously.

“You also know that Junior Cheng has hearing impairment. He once said to Brother Bai that, when he was young, he didn’t have hearing aids and couldn’t hear what the other children were saying to him and didn’t respond.”

“Over time, they thought that he was very rude child and they all alienated him. Because of this, he went through a hard time.”

“It was also because of this that when he saw Su Ling alone and not getting close with others, he couldn’t help but take care of him. Perhaps it was because of this, Su Ling fell for him.”

“Junior Cheng is a really good person. That reasoning makes sense.” The others nodded.

Lu Jie smiled and shook her head: “I went a little off topic. In short, even if Junior Cheng doesn’t show it, he must still have a sore spot in him towards his hearing impairment.”

“By confessing using drawings, he is actually telling him that there is someone that is willing to accept all of him, including all his imperfections.”

“That small flaw of his is also loved, because the first time Brother Bai and Junior Cheng met was because Brother Bai helped him search for his hearing aid.”

“It is also to tell him that love isn’t something that can only be expressed with words, nor is it something that can only be heard with ears.”

“Even if he has a hearing impairment, it doesn’t matter. Even if he can’t see things in the future and can’t make a sound, or if he becomes physically disabled and loses all his sense of touch, he would still be loved.”

“It doesn’t matter what he is like, he would feel that someone is loving him and would love him forever.”

“………..”

The living room fell into silence.

The Ou Yang trio were all stunned. After a long time, they were able to say single sentence.

“Are all girls this amazing……..?”

“I don’t know about other girls, but this is something that I have always thought. If I fall in love with someone one day, I would want to accept all over him and shower him with all my love.”

The girl raised her lips and seemed to be mocking herself: “But I probably will never have the opportunity to do that.”

“………..You don’t need to be so absolute. We’re still young. We will have more opportunities to date in the future.” Ou Yang scratched his head and said, “You’re also very pretty. In just our school, most of the boys are pursing you.”

Lu Jie shook her head. She didn’t continue with this topic and just said: “But this wasn’t all my idea.”

Having said that, she raised her voice slightly and said to Bai Yi: “Brother Bai, on the day that you’re confessing, let’s also bring along Su Ling.”

“Ah, Su Ling? Why are we bringing him along for?”

The other three were stunned. The pencil in Bai Yi’s hand also stopped. His eyes swept over towards Lu Jie.

“You don’t think we should let him watch?”

Lu Jie said: “Brother Bai initially pursed Junior Cheng in order to take revenge on Su Ling. Now that the revenge is almost over, if we don’t let Su Ling witness it, how are we going to let him feel intense agony?”

Bai Yi frowned: “He will bother Zhi Chu and I.”

“Don’t worry. We will definitely stop Su Ling and not let him approach you. Junior Cheng won’t even know that he is there.”

The girl said with a smile: “As long as we hide Su Ling in a place that Junior Cheng cannot see and then take off his hearing aids so that he won’t hear anything, he won’t find out.”

Seeing the smile on her face, the Ou Yang trio suddenly felt a chill run through their back and they felt a little scared.

In fact, sometimes they really couldn’t understand Lu Jie and they would even find her scary.

Clearly Li Jie had never personally beaten Su Ling and she only watched on silently, but at some points in time, her ideas were very vicious. It was as if she resented Su Ling and wanted to push him into an abyss and destroy him.

Seeing that the others were still silent, Lu Jie brushed loose strands of her behind her ear and gently spoke up.

“Brother Bai, don’t you want Su Ling to give up?”

“He likes Junior Cheng a lot and he is in the same class as him. Before, he didn’t dare confess because he was afraid that we would do something to him.”

“But now it is impossible. Because Brother Bai also likes Junior Cheng, we naturally wouldn’t hurt our junior brother. This is something that Su Ling will realise sooner or later.”

“At that time, he would try to steal Junior Cheng from you……….Brother Bai, are you certain that you will definitely win?”

“So, it is better to get rid of that wishful thought from Su Ling from the very beginning and let him understand that Junior Cheng belongs to you.”

“………”

Bai Yi pursed his thin lips and remained silent.

He remembered that Su Ling had not gone to school for the past few days and the teenagers worried look as he talked about him.

They are classmates, have interacted with each other for a long time and have known each other for a longer period of time. The teenager couldn’t help but be concerned about Su Ling.

Once Su Ling has nothing holding him back, he would start to obsessively pursue this young boy. When he removes that mask of indifference and solitude and reveal his inner pure heart, how many people would be able to completely reject him?

He was confident that his love for the teenager is not inferior to Su Ling’s, but……..

He tightened his fingers around the pencil.

Definitely not.

He won’t let Zhi Chu fall for someone else.

“………Okay.”

“You can bring along Su Ling.”

“But you must not let Zhi Chu see him.”