Chapter 48: Rumors and Gossip

Chapter 48: Rumors and Gossip

“Wasn’t it said that X University’s ghosts number at least nine hundred, if not a thousand? Why haven’t we seen a single one?”

The hamster said, “There’s no smog today, and the sun is pretty strong. What ghost would dare show itself?”

Pei Ye glanced at Zhu Chun’an.

You understand what I mean, right?

Zhu Chun’an could not see her look, but he understood it perfectly.

Understood, understood!

He raised a hand, grabbed the hamster, and covered its mouth.

Xiao Pangzi: “...”

He hadn’t said anything wrong!!!

While Pei Ye and Zhu Chun’an were wandering around X University, news of a student jumping from a building at the neighboring school had also reached Wudaokou Vocational Nursing College.

Bai Xiaoxiao and the others were fairly well informed. Not only did they know that a student had jumped from a building, they also knew the student’s name.

Min Yizhou...

Dormitory 4021 was silent as Zhou Huirong, Bai Xiaoxiao, and the others looked at one another.

After quite a while, dormitory leader Zhou Huirong finally broke the frozen silence in a small voice.

“No way... How could it be Min Yizhou...”

Min Yizhou was Lei Yating’s ex-boyfriend. When he had pursued Lei Yating, he had even treated the students of Dormitory 4021 to an all-you-can-eat barbecue and solemnly asked them to take care of Lei Yating. He said that if she occasionally had a bad temper, he hoped everyone would overlook it for the sake of being roommates for the next three years. If Lei Yating was in the wrong, he would apologize on her behalf.

Aside from being busy with his studies and exhausted from part-time work, making it impossible for him to accompany Lei Yating every weekend, Min Yizhou had been a very qualified boyfriend.

He remembered Lei Yating’s birthday and every holiday or special occasion that held significance.

Had that not been the case, Bai Xiaoxiao would not have angrily declared she would pursue Min Yizhou on the day Lei Yating and Min Yizhou broke up, just to provoke Lei Yating.

And yet only a few days had passed.

A perfectly healthy living person was simply gone?

“It seems Min Yizhou jumped from the building and committed suicide...”

“Why do I think he was forced to jump by a vengeful ghost seeking a substitute victim?”

Everyone once again fell into a strange silence.

If someone had made the claim of a vengeful ghost seeking a substitute victim in the past, it would certainly have been mocked. How could ghosts exist in this world?

But the girls who had truly escaped from ghosts did not think so.

Ghosts were real.

And they were vicious.

It was entirely possible that a vengeful ghost existed that sought substitute victims.

“If it really was a vengeful ghost seeking a substitute victim, then Min Yizhou’s luck was terrible. If it wasn’t that and he really committed suicide by jumping, then why did he kill himself?”

“Could it be that the breakup hit him too hard and Min Yizhou couldn’t get over it, so he jumped?”

“...That’s possible. When they were dating, Min Yizhou really liked Lei Yating. He was practically the model boyfriend...”

The phrase “creating something out of nothing” probably described them.

After hearing a few uncertain rumors, adding their own guesses and subjective judgments, they fabricated a so-called truth.

“...Wasn’t it said that Lei Yating dumped Min Yizhou because she was being kept by a wealthy rich second-generation heir? Insulting a man for being poor is second only to saying he lacks sexual ability, right? Having his girlfriend stolen by a rich heir because he was poor, it would be normal for Min Yizhou to lose hope for a moment. Earlier I heard Mei Lixiang accidentally let something slip. She said Lei Yating bought an apartment in XX Scenic Garden in downtown T City and goes there as soon as classes end every weekend. She’s a student. Where would she get that kind of money? If it wasn’t bought by the wealthy sponsor keeping her, could she afford to live there? Look at her. She threw away all her old clothes. Any random outfit costs two or three thousand. How could Min Yizhou possibly provide that? Maybe Min Yizhou died because of this...”

Before she could finish speaking, the dormitory door was shoved open with a loud Bang!

Outside stood Lei Yating with a livid expression and Mei Lixiang, who looked panicked and was trying to explain.

“Yating, don’t listen to their nonsense. I never said you bought a house in XX Scenic Garden downtown. They’re making things up themselves...”

Mei Lixiang did not want to lose her meal ticket.

Lei Yating glared at Bai Xiaoxiao and the others, whose faces showed guilt.

“Go on! Why aren’t you talking now! First you say I’m being kept by a rich heir. Next are you going to say that I’m like Xiao Hong and went out for compensated dating and selling my body?”

These gossiping hags needed a lesson.

They needed to learn what it meant to keep their mouths clean!

She formed a hand seal, and several strands of black qi invisible to the naked eye split apart and shot into the centers of their brows.

Only after doing that did she feel somewhat better.

Those gossiping hags deserved to die anyway!

“What does my breakup with Min Yizhou have to do with any of you!”

Bai Xiaoxiao crossed her arms and sneered.

“Min Yizhou is dead!”

Lei Yating froze in place, unable to process the meaning of those words.

“Who’s dead?”

Bai Xiaoxiao looked at Lei Yating’s increasingly perfect face as though watching a monkey show.

Suppressing the jealousy in her heart, she repeated irritably,

“Min Yizhou is dead! He jumped off a building and died after breaking up with you!”

As the dormitory leader, Zhou Huirong had no choice but to step forward and mediate, urging everyone to take a step back and stop being so angry.

Everyone knew what kind of person she was and ignored her.

Pretending to be concerned, Zhou Huirong asked Lei Yating,

“You’re Min Yizhou’s ex-girlfriend. Now that he’s dead, do you think the police will question you?”

Mei Lixiang immediately jumped to Lei Yating’s defense and cursed back.

“What kind of nonsense are you talking about? Yating didn’t force him to die, so why would they question her?”

One should not casually raise a flag.

The words had barely left her mouth before reality slapped her in the face.

A ringtone sounded from Lei Yating’s pocket, and she answered with a dark expression.

The call was from the counselor, telling Lei Yating to come to the office because someone wanted to see her.

Lei Yating agreed with a pale face.

“I’ll come right away.”

In the counselor’s office, Officer Tang was speaking with the counselor.

When the glamorous and radiant Lei Yating appeared, it seemed as though the entire office brightened.

“Are you... Lei Yating?”

Officer Tang lowered his head to look at the one-inch identification photo in Lei Yating’s file, then looked up to examine the fashionable, youthful beauty before him.

Aside from a similar outline around the eyebrows and eyes, the two shared very little resemblance.

Even the counselor was stunned and almost failed to recognize that this stylish modern girl was his own student.

“Yes. May I ask why you wanted to see me, Teacher?”

She felt a trace of regret.

The divine pill was wonderful, but its effects were too fast and too strong.

Even plastic surgery was not this impressive.

She was not afraid of anything else. She only feared standing out too much and giving others an excuse to slander her, accuse her of having cosmetic surgery, and cause unnecessary trouble.

Of course, while angry, she also felt rather pleased.

People slandered her because they were jealous.

They were jealous because they were less attractive than she was.

Officer Tang closed the file and pointed to a chair not far away.

“Student Lei, have a seat. Don’t be nervous. I’m only here to ask you a few questions.”

Lei Yating nodded obediently.

“Do you know that Min Yizhou has died?”

Lei Yating’s palm-sized face turned deathly pale, and even her rosy cherry-colored lips lost their color, making her look pitiful and fragile.

“I just heard my roommates mention it. How did Yizhou... die?”

Although Lei Yating hated the pain Min Yizhou had caused her in her previous life, she could not deny the happiness he had brought her during the height of their romance.

Now that he was dead, those sweet memories resurfaced instead, carrying bitterness beneath the sweetness.

Officer Tang said, “No conclusion has been reached yet. Student Lei, please cooperate with the police investigation.”

Secretly clenching her fists, Lei Yating bit her lip and said,

“No problem.”

“There are some questions I need Student Lei to answer truthfully. Is that alright?”

“Yes. Please ask, Officer. If I know the answer, I will definitely tell you.”

She had done nothing wrong and stood upright with a clear conscience.

Min Yizhou had not been killed by her, and she knew nothing about the details.

No matter what they asked, she was not afraid.