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I was locked up with him\n
After the case in Cheng Kang Psychiatric Hospital, Xie Xue became known as a legendary teacher at the university.\n
After she returned to the lecture theatre, not a single student arrived late or left early. Not to mention, every classroom was full—students from other classes that had nothing to do came to attend her classes, and even the senior class of the acting class came to look at her twice. The students all want to see this legendary koi that escaped from the hands of a psychotic killer.\n
There were even more outrageous legends, saying that if Xie Xue’s photo was printed and hung on the dormitory door, the entire dormitory’s students would not fail.\n
But Xie Xue didn’t know any of this. She confidently believed that the reason why her class was so popular was because she made the class too interesting. \n
“Aiya, my teaching must be very good.” Xie Xue said happily to He Yu, who brought her the students’ homework, “Hey, by the way, He Yu, are you feeling better? The school wants to give you an award. Although your reckless behavior shouldn’t be imitated, the headmaster said you are kind hearted and your courage was commendable ……”\n
He Yu smiled. “I’m feeling much better. And that award is mainly for my parents to see.”\n
He Jiwei and Lu Zhishu learned about the incident. After learning that their son was not seriously hurt, they did not come back. Especially Lu Zhishu, who often treats guests with smiles and jokes one after another, people who are not familiar with her will think she was very humorous and family-oriented.\n
However, people like Xie Xue and Xie Qingcheng who have known her for a long time know that her humor and kindness were fake, and that for her, the business with outsiders was naturally more important than her eldest son, who had just had a bit of a scare.\n
But at the same time, she called the school administration and asked the board to put pressure on the school, saying that they should console He Yu.\n
Actually, He Yu did not care about those frigid awards at all.\n
Xie Xue was a bit speechless and felt sorry for He Yu, so she did not want to talk about the He family anymore. She quickly changed to a lighter subject. “Oh, um, by the way, there’s a school festival on Friday. You suffered so much recently, so I want you to take this opportunity to take a break, and have fun with your classmates. Would you like to go?”\n
“No, I have something to do on Friday.”\n
“I see……” Xie Xue showed a regretful expression, “What a pity, I was thinking of asking you to accompany me.”\n
He Yu’s initially careless gaze fell on her face. “You’re going?”\n
“I have to go.” Xie Xue took out a large plush fox head from behind the desk, and then fished out a huge fur fox head. “Look.”\n
“What is this?”\n
“Nine-tailed fox suit head. It was arranged by the school, every program has to send a teacher to play the welcome mascot. My luck is so bad, not only was I forced into this role, I also drew one of the most boring activities from the lots.”\n
“…… When other people are too stupid, they usually have good luck. How is it that you have a low IQ AND your luck is bad.” He Yu sighed, still asked, “Where were you assigned to?”\n
“Dream Island converted from the Central Lake.” Xie Xue crumpled her face, and did not bother to react to He Yu’s ridicule.\n
“That godforsaken place is called Dream Island, but it’s an abandoned island where the students hung a few strings of lights and projected a starry sky—which is not much different from the usual. And it’s a good distance away …… Alas, this year it should have been cancelled, but the principal thought that it’s a traditional event, so it still remains……”\n
She threw the tail of the fox in despair and slumped in her seat.\n
He Yu picked up the snow-white plush tail she threw on the table and looked at it thoughtfully for a moment. Although he did not say anything else, he had an idea in mind.\n
In a blink of an eye, it was Friday.\n
The sweet creamy smell of baking pastries came from the baking room.\n
He Yu opened the oven, lined the finished cakes with white greaseproof paper and packed them into boxes. Then he carefully cleaned up the baking room he borrowed from the lady and walked out.\n
The festival was in full swing.\n
He Yu, who originally said he didn’t have time to play, carried Xie Xue’s favorite mango mousse with whipped cream, and walked around campus leisurely with one hand in his pocket.\n
He played a round in a labyrinth and won a small puppy plush toy. The white Samoyed plush looked like a smiling angel. As he held him in his arms, chocolate bean-like round eyes stared back at him.\n
“Look!”\n
Next to the little girls clenched their little fists to cover their mouths, and occasionally a few conversations drifted into his ears.\n
“It’s He Yu-xuezhang! The one who saved the teacher from the fire …… He is more handsome in real life than in photos ……”\n
“Xuezhang, my ass! You silly minx, he’s a xuedi! From Playwright Class 1001!”\n
“Ah? Wow, xuedi is so tall …… He looks 180 something—no, maybe near 190cm……”\n
“I have a friend who is in their class. The girl said that He Yu’s family is very rich, he is handsome, and his grades are too good to mention.”\n
“Is that not the same as Wei Dongheng-xuezhang?”\n
“Come on, Wei Dongheng? He is not a gentleman at all, he is more ambitious than the heavens and prettier than a flower! Xuezhang? You might as well call him xuejie! Always crowing about his family’s wealth like a pampered child. Last week, the prettiest girl from Acting Class 5 went to confess to him, and you know what he said in reply?”\n
“What?”\n
“—You? Why don’t you look at yourself in the mirror instead? Do you want me to send you a set of skin care products?”\n
“……”\n
“But He Yu is different, he has a particularly gentle temper, super polite, and doesn’t even talk loudly to people. Hey, this time he even risked his life to save teacher Xie-laoshi. Where can you find such a nice guy?”\n
He Yu heard them talking amongst themselves and smiled at them. The girls whispered, “He heard that,” and shyly scattered away.\n
He Yu gently and elegantly curbed his smile, his gaze contemplative—\n
I should really let Xie Qingcheng hear those words. \n
How could he not be liked?\n
But he’s not interested in all these xuejies and xuemeis. That person……\n
….is the only one he wants.\n
At present, the phone in his pocket vibrated twice, and He Yu took it out to have a look.\n
‘He-laoban, do you really want me to cut the rope bridge?’\n
The message was from a second year senior from the outdoor sports club.\n
Dream Island was in the middle of Huzhou University’s Garden Lake, and there is a campground for their outdoor sports club in the center of the island, which was usually managed by this senior.\n
He Yu replied, ‘The rope bridge is in disrepair, so it’s dangerous to keep it, so cutting it will be convenient for the principal to build it again.’\n
Senior: ‘But the Principal just got workers to maintain it at the beginning of the school year, and since Dream Island is allocated to our club’s management, it’s going to cost our club money if it breaks down in such a short period of time. It’s only a small bridge, but it’s going to cost more than 3,000 yuan to repair….”\n
After sending this message, the senior’s phone suddenly issued a clattering sound of silvers.\n
‘Alipay received— 5,000 yuan.’\n
Director He’s message followed: ‘I will have to trouble xuezhang to cut it thoroughly.’\n
The broke senior, “……”\n
The capitalistic way of communication was so simple and dry.\n
According to the map of the school festival, the ‘Nine-tailed fox’ would wait for the students at the ferry terminal and accompany the students who wanted to take the boat to Dream Island.\n
He Yu walked towards the shore of the lake where withered branches and leaves were piled up, and saw Xie Xue wearing the nine-tailed fox costume as she waited for the students to board the duck-shaped ferry. \n
The white fox was sitting quietly in the boat, one of its nine tails hanging down to the surface of the lake, rippling with the swaying of the light boat.\n
He approached the white fox, the broken leaves making a faint crackle under his feet. The nine-tailed fox doll was distracted and did not hear him until he stood on shore—\n
“Xie Xue.”\n
The nine-tailed fox froze for a moment before looking back from the duck-shaped ferry.\n
He Yu smiled. “Didn’t expect me to come?”\n
He looked around again. “You’re really dispatched to a godforsaken post that nobody wants to participate in. If I didn’t come, you’ll really be left here dry and high the whole day.”\n
The nine-tailed fox looked at him in silence and didn’t seem to agree with what he said.\n
“Who else do you think will come to console you? Your brother?”\n
“……”\n
He Yu said in a warm voice, “Your brother is approaching menopause, and has to be forced to go on blind dates. He is so angry with the little girls that he has to drink perimenopause tonic. He probably doesn’t even have the energy to bother with you.”\n
Nine tailed fox, “…….”\n
He Yu lightly got on the boat. “Let’s go, I’ll accompany you to Dream Island.”\n
Although it was the central lake, it was within the campus and can’t be that big. It took less than two minutes for the ferry to row to Dream Island.\n
Sure enough, the island was bleak and desolate, with only a few strings of lights hanging for the sake of it. Some tent equipment was scattered randomly at the camp with a thick layer of dust on top—there were too many mosquitoes this season, and the outdoor sports club had not organized a single activity in the first month of school.\n
He Yu said, “Where can I stamp to show that I’ve partaken in your event?”\n
“……” The nine-tailed fox moved its head and signaled the position. \n
He Yu looked at the fox moving and found it a bit funny. “It’s such a hot day, don’t you feel stuffy wearing this the whole day? Why don’t I take it off for you?”\n
Seeing him reach out, the nine-tailed fox coldly took a step back.\n
“……You don’t want to?”\n
A nod.\n
“…… Ah, fine. Keep wearing it then.When it gets too hot, don’t come to me crying.”\n
The nine-tailed fox dropped its paws indifferently and hugged its arms to itself.\n
He Yu looked at it. “Say, it’s actually quite cute. If you keep still, gege will give you full marks for your service.’’\n
“……”\n
“Go on, lead the way.”\n
The place where the stamp station is at the center of Dream Island, where a small simple desk and chair was set up. The nine-tailed fox leaned against the tree in silence, and turned its head to look into the distance.\n
He Yu turned back after stamping. He felt that the mascot head on Xie Xue was both funny and seemed quite heavy. With his personality that liked bullying others, the more Xie Xue didn’t want him to take off the fox head, the more he wanted to take it off.\n
So when he saw the fox turning to face another direction, and suddenly felt an impulse, before quietly walking over, getting close, abruptly raising his hand and yanking—\n
Laughing, he said, “Xie Xue—”\n
“!!!”\n
What’s going on?!\n
Where was Xie Xue under the removed head, with a crown of messy hair all over the face? The one standing there with gloomy eyes was obviously Xie Qingcheng instead!\n
He Yu, “……”\n
Xie Qingcheng, “……”\n
Professor Xie’s lips parted and closed, closed and parted, and he pursed his lips for a long time before finally raising his hand to roughly push the messy hair away from his forehead. He glared daggers at He Yu, the tips of his snow-white teeth faintly visible under his thin lips.\n
He ghastly said, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”\n
When Director He saw that it was Xie Qingcheng, his face sank. “No, why did you get inside this shitty costume and not tell me?”\n
Xie Qingcheng threw the mascot head into He Yu’s arms and came out of the shitty costume with a frown. He Yu never imagined that he would see the usually meticulous and spotless elite Professor Xie crawl out of a costume with his hair in a mess.\n
“Why should I tell you? Speaking so much nonsense along the way. Get out after you finish stamping.”\n
He Yu stared at him in frustration. “Where’s Xie Xue?”\n
“She found the job too hot, so she got me to take her place. ……Who did you say was too busy going on blind dates and needs to take a perimenopause tonic?”\n
“……”\n
He Yu met Xie Qingcheng’s scalpel-sharp gaze, remembering what he had just said, and smiled. “Don’t mind me. It was a thoughtless remark.”\n
This is the first time they met after the police station, and after the initial shock, the atmosphere became a bit awkward.\n
This is especially so for Xie Qingcheng. After he splashed water on He Yu, he felt like it was rather unnecessary of him. He is used to being a very calm person, but because he was too emotionally drained that day, and because He Yu stabbed him at where it hurts, he lost control and fought with He Yu. Otherwise, with his kind of character, he really didn’t see the need to hold a grudge against someone 13 years younger. \n
And once again, He Yu had apologised to him. So Xie Qingcheng stopped running his hand through his messy hair, eased his tone slightly to break the tense atmosphere before saying, “…… Forget it. Weren’t you supposed to be busy today?”\n
“…… En. How do you know?”\n
“Xie Xue told me that she asked you. She was previously going to ask you to fill in for her. But because you said you weren’t available today, she did not have the face to ask you to fill in for her.”\n
“……”\n
He Yu was silent for a while and did not answer Xie Qingcheng, only putting the mascot head and the Samoyed doll both to the side. He held his hand to his forehead as he stood digesting the information for a while, before turning and walking back while carrying the bag containing the mango mousse.\n
“…… I should have checked the Chinese calendar before leaving the house today.”\n
However, when He Yu returned to the Dream Island dock with hopeful feelings, all he saw was the duck-shaped ferry moored on the other side, swaying back and forth, it’s golden beak pulled into a mocking arc under the distorted light of the water.\n
Then he remembered that in order to trap Xie Xue on the island and express his love to her alone, he asked his senior to cut off all means of transportation back after they reached the island. \n
Was this what it meant to lift a stone to smash it on your own feet?\n
The tip of He Yu’s eyebrows twitched slightly.\n
“What’s wrong?”\n
Footsteps sounded behind him, and there was no need to look back. The only breathing primate with hair on the island was Xie Qingcheng. He had originally planned for a lone man and woman to be on the same island alone, the prime scenario for a confession. Now, he was on that same island with another man, and one that he hated the most.\n
The more he thought about it, the more hostile he became. He even longed to torture Xie Qingcheng with his hands handcuffed behind his back and tied to a tree in this wilderness, torturing him all night long until Xie Qingcheng looked pale and covered with grass shavings before fainting. Anyway, no one else would come here, and it would be fine if he could not confess— as long as he could kill this man personally. In short, he could not waste this uninhabited island that he had meticulously planned for. \n
It was Xie Qingcheng’s own fault for ruining his plans. \n
Xie Qingcheng took off his jacket, his whole body looking long and cold. His temperament seemed to change suddenly. When he walked up to He Yu, it was as if He Yu could smell that cold medicine and disinfectant scent again.\n
He Yu couldn’t stand this smell. He calmed his spirits and shelved that impractical criminal desire, before turning back once more:\n
“The ferry went to the other side for some reason.”\n
“…… It can be the remote moving in the control room.” Xie Qingcheng placed his hand in his trouser’s pocket, expressionlessly thinking for a moment. “Doesn’t matter. There’s a rope bridge still. Go over with me.”\n
Five minutes later.\n
Xie Qingcheng silently looked at the rope bridge that had most of its body sunken at the bottom of the lake , revealing an unspeakably complex look.\n
“The rope bridge is also broken.”\n
“Ah, how unfortunate. Guess someone screwed up.” He Yu pretended to be calm and cool on the surface, but inside he was gloomy—that’s right, is he surprised? Can he be surprised?? In a few moments, he’ll even find that his phone has no signal. \n
He originally planned to stay on the island with Xie Xue until midnight, and for this reason he also managed to get a set of the same signal blocking machine that they used for the entrance exam.\n
No, it should be said that it is even better than the same model of the college entrance examination, because the program of that machine was changed by himself.\n
He Yu is very knowledgeable in this area. In order to distract himself when he was bored, he focused on computer system intrusion and information interference.\n
Program intrusion needed to compete with the other side’s firewall against the clock, which was very effective for him when it comes to distracting himself from the pain of his illness. After practicing for so many years, the side effect is that he accidentally became a terribly feared top hacker.\n
Of course, he would not tell his senior that the program was designed and coded by himself. He only asked his senior to guard and turn on the equipment on the other side, ensuring that even the heavens and earth will not heed to Xie Xue’s calls. And if someone wanted to go to Dream Island, tell them that the activity was too boring and closed temporarily. \n
At first, he thought that this was a seamlessly flawless, perfect confession plan.\n
For this reason, he specially instructed his senior—\n
“Remember to wait on the shore and row the ferry over after midnight.”\n
“Got it, He-laoban.”\n
“No matter how we ask for help halfway through, just ignore us. I want to act realistically in front of her, otherwise she will easily get suspicious.”\n
“No problem, He-laoban.”\n
Now when He-laoban looked at Xie Qingcheng’s lean and tall back, he had a slight headache. How could there be no problem? This was too big of a problem ……\n
.\n
“Wait a minute, there is a person on the opposite bank.” Xie Qingcheng walked half a circle along the dirt-laden, bumpy Dream Island road, and spotted the senior who was guarding on the opposite shore. “I’ll shout for him.”\n
“It’s useless for you to call him.” He Yu sighed, holding on to the last ray of hope. “I’ll do it.”\n
Xie Qingcheng asked, “How come I’m useless?”\n
“Let me do it out of filial piety. I respect the old and love the young, alright?”\n
He Yu was so irritated that he was too lazy to talk nonsense with Xie Qingcheng and called for his ‘wingman’ on the other side.\n
Fifteen minutes later.\n
The dry-mouthed He-laoban leaned against the tree trunk.\n
Xie Qingcheng said lightly, “Do you still have strength after being filial?”\n
The young adult boys had high self-esteem and couldn’t bear to hear others say that they couldn’t do it, but He Yu really could not explain. So he simply leaned on the tree and turned to the other side. He did not want to see Xie Qingcheng. He pulled a knee-high green foxtail grass and slapped the mosquitoes around him impatiently.\n
He Yu stood for a while, and grew more annoyed the more he thought about it. So he threw the grass away, before turning and walking towards the woods. \n
Xie Qingcheng, “Where are you going?”\n
The boy’s voice was rough after being shouted hoarse. “…… I’m going to the camp to get some water.”\n
After walking some distance away, He Yu took out another phone that had been set up so as not to be completely blocked from the outside world, and sent a message to his senior with an iron face. ‘Something went wrong, please let us leave.’\n
The senior quickly returned the message, not forgetting to pat the capitalist on the back: ‘He-laoban is so good at acting! Even this message was pretend, right?’\n
A few more seconds passed.\n
‘He-laoban, I remember that you told me before—do not let you guys back no matter what you say. You don’t need to worry once you leave things to me. I’ll pick you guys up after midnight, and if there are other people who try to approach Dream Island, I’ll chase them away. Please don’t worry and enjoy your time for two.’\n
He Yu, “……”\n
What can he enjoy on this desolate island?\n
Enjoy…… Xie Qingcheng?\n
If killing was legal, he could indeed hancuff Xie Qingcheng and throw him against the grass to enjoy himself the whole night. But since isn’t, what could he possibly enjoy?\n
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Mini-Theater—“I Have A Question”:\n
He Yu: Buddha, I have a question. I want to know if any of my confession successfully makes it out of my mouth in one whole piece. \n
Buddha: There will definitely be.\n
He Yu: When?\n
Buddha: Probably when you’re confessing to her brother.\n
Xie Qingcheng: I have a question, if killing is not illegal, how do you plan on torturing me for the whole night?\n
He Yu: Slow slicing, throat slitting, @?%，&#?……I have a lot of torturing methods.\n
The Devil: Ah, you were serious about the torturing? I thought……\n
Xie Qingcheng: You thought what?\n
He Yu: You thought what?\n
The Devil:……Nothing. I saw that Buddha is also in the mini theater. I don’t want to be purified.\n
Xie Xue: Buddha, I have a question.\n
Buddha: Do ask.\n
Xie Xue: He Yu previously treated me to that restaurant that needed three-months prior reservation, when can he atone for it? Why was the last confession at a luxurious hotel, but this time prefunctioned at a deserted island? What about my meal? My meal?? My oh so luxurious meal???\n
Buddha:……
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