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But he caught me in the act\n
Xie Qingcheng wasn’t really reading that carefully, but when he heard He Yu say that, he looked again. He noticed a frame drawn in a corner of the A4 size paper, titled “male beauty discussion group”, and his name appeared with high frequency inside this area.\n
“……” Xie Qingcheng had a bad feeling about this.\n
Sure enough, when the two read the words written here, they noticed it was by a bunch of little bottoms. Fucking hell.\n
Those little bottoms excitedly chattered about which of the surrounding universities had ideal tops—to put it bluntly, they were hunting for tops to hookup with.\n
The first one to mention Xie Qingcheng wrote in ballpoint pen. The color was quite faded, seemingly written here for a few years. The person who wrote it said the neighboring medical school had a new professor named Xie Qingcheng. He’s extremely handsome, his aura very manly, and very cold. He really wants to get fucked by him.\n
The people below started to laugh at him for being so depraved.\n
But soon after there were new messages added, and the topic started to go down the wrong track: “Holy shit! The upperclassmen above shouldn’t be laughing. If you have the chance to read this guest book again, you should personally go to the medical school to have a look. He’s so fucking hot he’d make bottoms drool. His legs are so long, shoulders broad and waist slim, and as tall as a javelin. When he’s sporting a suit and tie I just about lost it. I had wet dreams for three days straight after meeting him……”\n
The rest was even more exaggerated beyond belief.\n
“I want gege to take care of me so badly.”\n
“I heard professor Xie got divorced, he could possibly be one of us.”\n
“My god, really? If he is one of us, I’m willing to be single for my entire life if I can just sleep with him once.”\n
He Yu was silent for a long time after reading this, he really couldn’t hold back any longer—\n
He would be an idiot if he didn’t take this chance to tease him because of their argument. This joke was presented right in front of him!\n
Therefore He Yu smirked. “Dr. Xie, I didn’t expect this. You’re an ideal top; they all want to get fucked by you. How about you sacrifice yourself a little, and pick one.”\n
Xie Qingcheng had a terrible look on his face, he immediately reached out to turn the page.\n
He Yu held the book down. “I’m not done looking yet.”\n
“Flip it.”\n
“Wait a bit more.”\n
“Flip.”\n
He Yu said with a hint of ridicule, “Just a little more.”\n
Xie Qingcheng felt humiliated and forcefully turned the page. He Yu laughed like an asshole, he continued looking, wanting to see if there was more featuring Xie Qingcheng.\n
But after flipping a few more pages, he couldn’t laugh anymore.\n
Because He Yu saw his own name.\n
It was still within the “male beauty discussion group”. It was clear Xie Qingcheng noticed too, the two continued reading—\n
“Why are all bottoms conversing here, this is a discussion group for tops. Please recommend some beautiful young men in our school.”\n
After a bunch of random names, He Yu’s name appeared.\n
“Ah He Yu, on the surface he’s polite to everyone, but he’s actually dainty as hell, always maintaining a strong sense of distance. And he looks especially elegant and refined. Even though he’s very tall, his skin is as fair as a girl’s. I’ve seen him play ball before, he has really good strength, it must feel great sleeping with him.”\n
“Above poster, are you crazy? That’s the He family’s young master.”\n
“It’s exactly this kind of status that makes him great for fucking!! He’s so appealing.”\n
“…… Didn’t you guys know that not only is He Yu good at ball, but he’s also good at beating people? He may be delicate and pretty, but have you seen his athletic body when he took off his clothes at the school pool…… he can probably kill you with one punch.”\n
“But I still want him……”\n
Xie Qingcheng finished reading, and said to the blue-faced He Yu, “Amazing. When you go out at night in the future you should bring a safety flashlight. If you’re really scared you can also give me a call. Since we know each other I don’t mind walking you a bit.”\n
He Yu, “Flip the page.”\n
Xie Qingcheng raised his hand and languidly held down the book. He said flatly, “I’m not done looking yet.”\n
“……”\n
He Yu fumed for quite a while, finally he seemed like he didn’t want to waste any more energy on contending with Xie Qingcheng. He directly ripped off those few pages and burnt them with a lighter.\n
After he burnt them, he picked up a napkin and wiped the fingers he used to touch the pages expressionlessly. \n
Since He Yu was over there being all dainty and cold-faced, Xie Qingcheng no longer bothered to speak with him. He casually flipped through the book by himself.\n
There were no voices within the cave for a long time. The rain continued pittering outside.\n
The summer rain came quickly and left just as fast. By the time it showed 8:00 pm on the phone, the roaring thunderstorm had quieted down to a light rain. Xie Qingcheng lifted his slender and pale hand, about to close the guest book. But in the moment when the book was closing, he felt something wasn’t quite right. His gaze immediately moved back to the corner he unintentionally glimpsed over.\n
“……”\n
Xie Qingcheng’s hand paused. He brightened the lantern, expression focused and serious, and locked his gaze towards that corner……\n
A few seconds later, He Yu heard Xie Qingcheng’s voice, cold to the point of being strange, from behind him.\n
“He Yu, come over and take a look at this.”\n
.\n
It was a line of words written in a very inconspicuous corner.\n
“WZL will soon be murdered.”\n
These words were written with a fountain pen, very sloppy, as if it’s written using the left hand. But what captured their attention the most, was that at the end of these words, that person left her name.\n
It was a name no one would expect to see—\n
Jiang.\n
Lan.\n
Pei.\n
The thunder roared loudly outside, but the sound of a needle dropping can be heard within the cave.\n
“……”\n
“Wasn’t Jiang Lanpei locked up in the mental hospital for twenty years?” It was He Yu who finally broke the silence. He spoke lightly.\n
Xie Qingcheng frowned in contemplation. “…… Even though she eventually had the key, and had many chances to come and go as she pleased……”\n
“But that would have been within the confines of Cheng Kang mental hospital.” He Yu continued along his line of thinking, “You think she can leave completely and come back without anyone noticing? And that she would specifically come to the university’s dream island cave, and leave a message like this in this insignificant guest book?”\n
The answer to that was of course impossible.\n
“And the handwriting looks rather new, like it’s been left here within the last few days.” Xie Qingcheng used the light and carefully scrutinized the red writing on the page. “And who is this WZL……”\n
The two pondered about this decrepit notebook for a long time.\n
He Yu suddenly said, “I just remembered, I heard a rumor these days within the school.”\n
“What?”\n
“Some students feel that, even though Jiang Lanpei was very scary, she was also very pitiful, and has the characteristics of a legend. When she died, she was wearing the kind of red dress that malicious ghosts love. So those students fabricated a story; if you have a grudge against someone, you can devise their method of death and write it down on paper, then use a red pen to put down Jiang Lanpei’s name. Jiang Lanpei’s spirit will then exact revenge on that person.”\n
He Yu paused for a moment, then continued, “But that person must be a man, it would not work on a woman.”\n
“Why not?”\n
“Because after the newspaper reported Jiang Lanpei’s history, the student that fabricated this rumor believed that Jiang Lanpei’s grudge was only towards men.”\n
He Yu took another look at the words in the notebook.\n
“Say, do you think that someone recently came onto this island, and while they were flipping through this notebook, saw the message left behind by the previous person, and recalled the rumor about Jiang Lanpei’s spirit exacting revenge. And it just so happens that they also hate this man named WZL, so a thought materialized, and they turned this innocent venting into a formal curse?”\n
Xie Qingcheng shook his head. He then took out his phone and casually took a few pictures, just for the sake of keeping record, then said, “When we get back I’ll take this notebook to the police station. I’ve always felt that this Jiang Lanpei person is definitely involved with your university.”\n
The light in He Yu’s eyes flickered slightly, he gently said, “I feel the same.”\n
“Oh?”\n
He Yu said, “The school uniform.”\n
Xie Qingcheng sighed, expression deep in thought. “Looks like you had the same thought as me. I guess the police must have also gotten the same idea. I noticed a few undercovers in the school these days, some of them colleagues of my parents. They seem to be investigating something.”\n
On the day Jiang Lanpei murdered Liang Jicheng, a certain detail seemed insignificant, but is actually quite strange.\n
—Why did Jiang Lanpei go through the effort of taking off Xie Xue’s school staff uniform, putting it on the corpse of Liang Jicheng, and then chopped and mutilated his body?\n
“Each and every action of mentally-ill patients is not typically done without reason, especially a strongly targeted action such as this case,” Xie Qingcheng said. “In my opinion, Jiang Lanpei’s case will sooner or later fall on certain people in your school.”\n
He Yu raised his hand and laughed. “Those people definitely won’t be me.”\n
“……”\n
“I probably wasn’t even born during the year she got locked up.”\n
Xie Qingcheng appeared to have a bit of a headache, he said, “This isn’t something you and I should worry about. When we get out, we’ll give the notebook to the police, and let them investigate.”\n
He Yu nodded. Since they brought up Cheng Kang mental hospital, He Yu suddenly asked Xie Qingcheng, “By the way.”\n
“What?”\n
“I’ve been thinking for the past few days. If on that day when we got there, Xie Xue had actually been killed, what would we be like now?”\n
Xie Qingcheng rolled his eyes at him. “You can’t think about something better?”\n
“I wish her to be well more than anyone.”\n
Xie Qingcheng was a bit agitated and did not catch the underlying meaning in He Yu’s words. He irritatedly gave an offhanded reply, “I do too.\n
“But if something had really happened to her—\n
Then as long as I’m still alive, I will still live like I do now.”\n
—It’s not like he hadn’t experienced something similar.\n
That time, there was no turning point, no chance of coming back.\n
He stared at the cold corpses of his parents lying in the pouring rain, behind him were the yellow and white caution tape, with the blaring sound of sirens arriving too late. The head of a transport truck burned fiercely. In the sky-reaching flames, he saw only half of his mother’s body that was left, her eyes wide open facing his direction. An arm that was severed by the wheel was right in front of his shoes.\n
At that time he felt there was no way he could continue living.\n
But, nineteen years have already passed.\n
He Yu didn’t know what he was thinking about. When he heard this reply, he didn’t say anything more for a long time. He looked at Xie Qingcheng’s face with an unpredictable expression, then he gently and coldly smiled, “Xie Qingcheng, you really are Xie Qingcheng. Always so calm and collected at every moment in time. When it comes to you, losing your composure is only an instantaneous event.”\n
Xie Qingcheng said, “Humans can’t live in sorrow forever. When a tragedy happens, even if you can’t accept it in the moment, you will slowly digest it over time. Instead of wallowing in sorrow, unable to get up, it’s better to not waste this time and straighten yourself. Go do the things you should do, and prevent more tragedies from happening.”\n
“…… Ah.” He Yu gently said, “What an enlightened one of the human realm.”\n
He did not want to be in the same space as Xie Qingcheng anymore. At this time the rain was letting up outside, so he walked out by himself.\n
He Yu took a break outside, until the clock reached twelve. He noticed some movements from the shore across.\n
It was the diligent senior finishing his task. He rowed the duck boat over right on time.\n
When he saw He Yu, he was very excited and waved his hand madly on the rocking boat, “See, aren’t I very timely? Did He-laoban’s confession succeed?”\n
As he said that he impatiently peeked behind He Yu.\n
“Eh? Where’s the lady boss?”\n
What confession?\n
The only person on the island was the enlightened one of the human realm, who was there to confess to?\n
He Yu smiled back at the imbecile on the boat, “I don’t think this is something you should ask about.”\n
“Look at you, so shy. Hahaha, I get it, I get it.” The senior winked knowingly at He Yu, then took out his phone with the Alipay QR code.\n
“Payment please.”\n
He Yu gave an undetectable eye roll, then took out the phone that still had zero signal, and coldly gestured, “…… Could you disable the signal blocker first.”\n
The senior disabled the blocker, then said excitedly, “Did you see the message I sent? It’s on the other phone.”\n
“What message?”\n
He Yu took a look at the other phone.\n
‘He-laoban, there’s an emergency kit in the cave on the island. In the second tier there are a few boxes of condoms. If you need, just go look in the box. Don’t forget to send me a red packet if you use it……’\n
The senior had a gossipy expression, he whispered,\n
“And it’s a special kind that make you last longer, guaranteed to make the lady boss’s legs weak.” \n
“……” He Yu smiled lightly. “Don’t put those kinds of things in the emergency kit from now on. It’s quite obnoxious, don’t you agree?”\n
The senior could tell the capitalist was not happy.\n
The senior froze for a moment, then suddenly had a revelation. He didn’t get his meal!\n
He couldn’t help but silently respect that 180cm beauty that hadn’t shown their face.\n
He originally thought that beauty didn’t follow He Yu out because she was too weak to get up, after experiencing this type of love for the first time.\n
It looks like this beauty is the cold type that will not simply give in to the rich!\n
Poor young master He, how did he end up with such a difficult partner. Pui pui pui, money down the drain…… money down the drain……\n
The senior said no more. He knew his place, after he took the payment, he called his friend to bring a rubber boat from the warehouse. The two left, leaving the duck boat by the shore for He Yu.\n
He Yu took care of the crime scene. He was just about to go back to the cave to call for Xie Qingcheng, when he turned his head, and froze.\n
That man was already standing under the moonlit woods, one hand in his pants pocket, back leaning against a cedar tree, watching him expressionlessly. He had no idea how long he’d been standing there listening.\n
He Yu, “……”\n
Xie Qingcheng lit a cigarette, expression indifferent, as if he’s interrogating a criminal, “I’ll give you one chance to explain.”\n
He slowly blew out a light-colored smoke ring, “Speak.”\n
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Tomorrow when the chapters go VIP there will be an 10000+ words update, split into two chapters, one update at 9:30 am and one at 9:30 pm. Just like before, I won’t set any anti-theft measures, because anti-theft only blocks good people not actual thieves, and I believe friends that like my work won’t read it from bootleg sites. If they really want to use the bootleg sites, me setting anti-theft measures won’t stop them, and will only make it more troublesome for everyone else. Anyway I won’t have any anti-theft chapters, no purchase ratios needed, so it’s easier for everyone to read. And I hope everyone can support the official release, thank you all~\n
Mini Theatre:\n
Special abilities:\n
He Yu: Top-class hacker, blood hypnosis\n
Xie Qingcheng: Handsome\n
Xie Xue: Eating\n
Chen Man: Fast\n
Chen Man, “…… Why does my special ability sound kind of weird……”\n
He Yu, “Men cannot say they’re fast.”\n
Chen Man, “An ideal bottom like you have the face to say that to me?”
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