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

Lu Jie smiled.

“Don’t worry. We won’t let him see him.”

…………

“Senior, where are you taking me?”

Led along by Bai Yi, the teenager revealed a confused and uneasy expression.

His eyes were covered with a blindfold that Bai Yi had put on earlier. Although he didn’t know of Bai Yi’s intentions, the teenager trusted Bai Yi and obediently walked along while being guided by Bai Yi’s hand.

“Here, lift your leg. We’re going upstairs now.”

Bai Yi led the teenager over to the stairs and gently reminded him: “If you don’t mind, I can also carry you up.”

“No need……”

The teenager was a little shy. He responded nervously before slowly going up the stairs while being prompted by Bai Yi. After going up several floors in succession, he finally came to a stop.

“Zhi Chu, after this you just need to slowly follow me. I also need to take off your hearing aid, is that okay?” Bai Yi rubbed the boy’s head and asked.

“You need to take off my hearing aid………?”

The boy was a little hesitant. His eyes were already covered and now he needed to take off his hearing aid. If he couldn’t hear anything, he would feel very anxious.

“I’ll take off the blindfold in a minute.” Bai Yi said with a smile, “There’s a little surprise.”

“………Okay.”

Hearing that it was a surprise, the teenagers heart began to race slightly. If he wasn’t wrong, based on the number of floors they went up, they probably just have about half a set of stairs left to go before reaching the rooftop. If senior is taking him to the rooftop, is it to…….

He then felt his ears feel a little lighter. The sounds from the distance could no longer be heard and the world became silent. He could only feel distinctly Bai Yi’s hand that is interlinked with his.

He followed Bai Yi and walked forward. Suddenly, he felt a warm breeze blowing on his face. The warm evening sunlight travelled through the blindfold and he could see an orange-red light.

The teenager felt a pair of hands reach over and take off the blindfold.

The sudden glare made the boy unable to instantly open his eyes. He closed his eyes for a while and then slowly opened his eyes after getting used to the brightness. He saw that they were now standing on the roof of the teaching building.

Bai Yi stood in front of him with gentle eyes. The teenager couldn’t help but feel his heart race. At this moment, Bai Yi raised a book up. The cover of the book had a beautiful line of words.

“There is a book that I want to show you. When you are done with each page, nod your head and I will turn over to the next one.”

The young boy’s eyes lit up and his face flushed slightly red. He shyly nodded. Bai Yi smiled at him and opened the book to the first page.

The scene depicted in the drawing was the moment when they first met each other. The drawing was accompanied by a few lines below that recorded Bai Yi’s feelings at that time.

The teenager’s attention was immediately draw to the drawing. He looked at Bai Yi’s drawing in silence and had no idea that there were several other people standing a certain distance away.

“Look carefully Su Ling. Look at what they are doing now.”

Zhao Xiao Pang and Liang Wen Bing each held onto one of Su Ling’s arm and prevented him from struggling. They dragged him out from the storage room on the roof and grabbed his hair to force him to look at the two people in front of him.

Seeing Su Ling’s red eyes and his violently trembling body, Lu Jie smiled smugly. Despite her pure and innocent appearance, at this moment she looked extremely cruel and cold.

She whispered softly.

“Your brother, the one that you hate the most, will soon confess to the person that you like.”

“You……..do you want to stop them?”

“Don’t………..”

Su Ling’s beautiful face was void of colour. Tears rolled out from his eyes and it covered his face in an instant. His voice trembled and he shouted out with all his strength.

“Don’t accept Bai Yi……Don’t accept him!”

“He doesn’t like you, he’s using you!”

“Zhi Chu———-Zhi Chu!”

He shouted and shouted, and his voice quickly became hoarse. At such a distance, if the teenager wasn’t paying his full attention to other things, he may be able faintly hear something but at this moment he was concentrating on Bai Yi’s drawings and he wasn’t paying anything to anything else.

No matter how Su Ling shouted, the teenager never looked back at him.

At this time, Li Jie smiled softly and said: “It’s useless. Junior Cheng’s hearing impairment is quite serious so without his hearing aids, he won’t hear anything. He won’t hear you even if you shout.”

Su Ling’s looked up at her in shock. The girl hooked up her lips and said: “That’s right. In order to let you see this, we deliberately set it up like this.”

“Well………I don’t know if this would hurt you if I say it but what you said earlier is wrong. In fact, your brother also likes Cheng Zhi Chu. He is confessing seriously, and Cheng Zhi Chu also likes your brother. After this, they should be together.”

“As for you, Su Ling, you can only watch from the side.”

“Just like the time Mr Bai watched your parents get together and could only choose to quietly step back. Now it’s your turn. All the debts that your parents owe, you will pay it back instead.”

“Are you suffering? Resentful?”

She laughed and said. With emphasis on each word, she said:

“But you can’t do anything. Look——–”

Not far away, Bai Yi had turned the book over to the last page and he was looking at the boy with eyes filled with love. At this moment, he inadvertently raised his head and glanced at Su Ling. His eyes turned dark and his lips curled up into a smile.

He then held the red-faced boy in his arms and he gently kissed the top of the boy’s head.

“No! Bai Yi………Don’t touch him. Don’t touch him!”

Su Ling struggled fiercely but he had only just recovered and couldn’t break free from Zhao Xiao Pang and Liang Wen Bin. The buttons on his shirt had broken off to reveal the bruises on his pale skin that had not yet completely faded away.

“You little, stay still!”

Ou Yang slammed his head down and smashed Su Ling’s head onto the ground. The world around him spun and tears continuously poured out from his eyes. No longer able to hold back, he sobbed uncontrollably.

But the teenager who had his back to him was ignorant of everything that was happening behind him. His hot cheeks were being held by Bai Yi and his eyes were fixated on his thin lips as he read Bai Yi’s lips with a racing heart.

“I, Love, You.”

“Zhi Chu, Iike you…..”

At the same time, Su Ling closed his eyes. Filled with despair and pain, he choked out:

“I also…..like you…….”

“Please look back at me. Look at me. Please……….”

He could no longer speak. He bowed his head and couldn’t stop crying. Tears fell onto the floor and left dark stains.

“…………”

Lu Jie watched Su Ling expressionlessly. The Ou Yang trio also looked at each other. For some reason, despite usually beating Su Ling up without any feeling of remorse, they suddenly felt a little guilty and regretful for their actions. The strength in their hands couldn’t help but relax a little.

Feeling their hands relaxing, Su Ling raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him with red eyes. He suddenly broke free from their grasp and rushed over.

“Don’t let him disturb them!”

Lu Jie anxiously rushed over to stop Su Ling but was pushed aside by Su Ling and she fell to the ground.

The Ou Yang trio remained in place stunned and weren’t able to react. Lu Jie climbed over and once again leapt over to grab onto Su Ling before again being thrown to the ground. Su Ling on the other hand lost his balance because of this and took a few steps back before crashing into the fence.

He subconsciously grabbed onto the fence to stabilise himself but didn’t notice that the fence was rusted. The fence started breaking, including the one that he was leaning on.

“Su Ling, hurry and get away!”

The expressions of Ou Yang and the others changed instantly. They wanted to rush over to grab onto Su Ling who was about to fall but they were too far away from him to be able to reach him in time.

A look of surprise appeared on Su Ling’s tear stained face, but his eyes continued to look at the two people embracing each other.

“Creak———–bang———”

In a short moment, the fence broke completely. His feet left the surface of the roof and he fell off.

At this moment, the teenager’s world was still quiet, sweet and happy. He closed his eyes and raised his head to accept Bai Yi’s kiss. He didn’t hear Lu Jie’s terrified scream nor did he see Bai Yi’s constricting pupils.

He didn’t even know that there was a person who loved him who had fallen to his death not far away and was currently lying in a pool of red flowers.

The kiss was fleeting.

Bai Yi held the boy tightly in his arms and pressed down his head so that he couldn’t look up and see his pale face.

“Bro-brother Bai………..”

Hearing the commotion and screams from downstairs, Ou Yang and the others trembled. With a face void of colour, they looked at Bai Yi: “Su Ling fell, he fell……..! We, we……….”

“Leave this place.”

Bai Yi held the boy and closed his eyes. He suppressed the emotions inside and said in a quiet voice.

“Don’t do anything, don’t say anything and don’t mention anything about going to the rooftop. I will handle everything.”

“But Junior Cheng. If Junior Cheng knows……..”

“He won’t know.” Bai Yi said, “He will only know that Su Ling jumped off the building today, but he won’t know that he did it at this time.”

“You must never mention anything about Su Ling’s fall to him.”

“Never let him know.”

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Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 60)

I must not let Zhi Chu know about my diary and sketchbook.

Otherwise I would kill myself.