"Oh my god, what did I just see? Is the female ghost's body dislocated? This is too scary. I haven't been so scared even when I saw the red-clothed ghost with a hole in its head. My heart was shocked." The appearance of the red-skirted teacher made the comments in the live broadcast room reach a new high. The envy and fear in their hearts were about to overflow from the screen.

"Me too, but that female ghost is afraid of Ju Jingbai, right? Right?"

"Oh my god, the female ghost was almost going to attack Song Qimeng just now. When she saw Ju Jingbai, she was like a mouse seeing a cat. The contrast is too tragic."

"This female ghost feels similar to the little girl ghost from Ju Jingbai's last scene!"

"To be honest, I also want Ju Jingbai's physique, ahhhhhh!"

Ju Jingbai lowered her head to pick up the flashlight, and watched the female ghost run away in confusion. She had encountered several ghosts who approached her and confessed their love to her, but she had never encountered one that first shivered in fear and then ran away from her the next second.

"What happened?" Song Qimeng asked in a low voice, "That was a female ghost, right? She just came up behind me, and I didn't even react. She must be a very powerful ghost, but why did she run away so quickly?"

"I don't know." Ju Jingbai shook his head, turned off the flashlight, closed the dormitory door, and asked, "Why are you here? What's going on in your dormitory?"

"My dorm is exactly the same as it was in high school," Song Qimeng shook her head and didn't directly answer the question. "Back then, there was a bit of a commotion in my high school dorm. I was so disgusted when I first entered that dorm that I came here."

Ju Jingbai figured it out after a moment's thought. She changed the subject and said, "I don't know if you've heard the rumor that I'm afraid of ghosts."

"I've heard of it." Song Qimeng nodded, then suddenly paused. She said, "Were you scared when you saw the female ghost just now? It was as if the fear you felt back then had returned to you all over again? As expected, Wang Yu was right. He told me about that feeling in the cafeteria."

"That's right. When I saw that female ghost just now, my legs were shaking. I was so scared."

Ju Jingbai finished speaking, trying to save his face: "But my fear of ghosts was cured before the metaphysics competition. When I see a ghost outside, I can beat eight of them alone."

"It must be the characteristic of this virtual realm." Song Qimeng whispered, "It intensifies fear or something like that."

Ju Jingbai nodded: "Have you washed up? I'll be on the bed over here, you can sleep with me."

"Okay, thank you. I've already washed up." Song Qimeng bit her lower lip and thanked him.

"It's okay." Ju Jingbai shook his head and let Song Qimeng sleep inside. Just as he was about to close his eyes, he saw the girl on the opposite bed again.

The girl on the opposite bed was still awake, looking at them with her eyes open.

Ju Jingbai frowned and walked to the girl's bedside, asking, "Why aren't you sleeping yet? It's very late now."

"I...I didn't mean to look at you. I was just a little scared and couldn't sleep. Seeing that you were also awake made me feel especially safe." The girl said timidly, "I'm especially afraid of the dark. I always sleep with the lights on at home, and the corridors of my original boarding school were also lit. Now I can't stand the complete darkness. I can't sleep all night long, and I'm really out of energy during the day."

"Didn't you tell the teacher?" Ju Jingbai lowered his voice. Normally, the school would recommend day students in this situation.

"Of course I did, but the teachers don't care. This middle school has the most students admitted to the top universities in the entire city. My parents worked hard to get me here. During the parent-teacher conference, the teacher and my dad suggested that I live on campus. They took the teacher's words as if they were divine instructions. They simply don't listen to anything I say. Even now that my grades have dropped so much, they just blame me for not studying hard enough." The girl said slowly, "If only my grades were a little better."

"This is not about academic performance, right?" Ju Jingbai asked in confusion. This was obviously a communication problem.

"Of course it does. As long as my grades can improve to the top few, I can apply to change dorms myself. Then I can ask for my own night light and won't have trouble sleeping anymore. Then my grades will be even better." The girl said, "The teachers hope that good students will increase the school's admission rate, so they will never refuse a good student's request."

"Will there be any punishment for poor grades?" Ju Jingbai took the opportunity to ask more questions.

"This isn't some internet addiction treatment school, so why would there be punishment?" the girl smiled. "But our school has a pyramid structure. The person with the best academic performance is at the top, and everyone else has to serve that person. As you go down, even if the students at the bottom are bullied by the middle, no one will intervene. The teachers will just blame the students at the bottom for not giving in to the middle."

"Then you must be under a lot of pressure studying here?" Ju Jingbai asked.

"Of course it's big. The ones with good grades are afraid of being raped by the ones with poor grades. The ones with poor grades live in fear all day long, especially those whose grades were once good but then plummeted. Like Bai Ling, he's in a terrible situation, but luckily he has a good brother with good grades who is willing to protect him." The girl shrank her shoulders in fear. "If I were in his situation, I'd probably commit suicide. The gap is too big."

"Xu Ge is the top student in the senior year this year, right?" Ju Jingbai asked again.

"Not only that, Xu Ge has been at the top of every exam for three consecutive years," the girl said. "He's practically the idol of every student in our school."

"Oh, he's really great, but isn't there anyone who doesn't like him? Not everyone likes him, right?"

"Everyone really likes him. At least, every classmate I've met always praises him, and he's also very handsome." The girl clapped her hands on her cheeks and said with a look of longing, "I even gave him a gift today. It's a small fan. I wonder if he will like it. I specially went to his deskmate's place to buy some information about Xu Ge's preferences. After carefully studying it, I found that his favorite color is black, so this time I gave him a uniquely shaped black handheld fan."

Ju Jingbai remembered Xu Ge's preference for golden color, twitched his lips and said, "You'll like it."

"Well, thank you for talking to me. I'm feeling much better now. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone in their dormitory about your friend coming in." The girl thanked him and muttered, "But Teacher Li's patrol tonight was really short, otherwise I wouldn't have dared to talk to you so much."

"It's okay. Is Teacher Li very strict? Are you so afraid of her?"

"I don't know. I've never been called out by Teacher Li. But there's a rumor that students who are called out for a talk by Teacher Li will drop a significant percentage on the next exam," the girl said. "So, we're all really afraid of her."

"Thank you for telling me so much. This is a gift for you. It will bring you comfort." Ju Jingbai handed over the flashlight in his hand and said.

"Flashlight, thank you." The girl said in surprise. Ju Jingbai watched her turn on the flashlight and stand it upright next to the pillow.

When Ju Jingbai returned to bed, Song Qimeng had already fallen asleep, and was sleeping very restlessly.

Ju Jingbai couldn't help but reach out and gently pat Song Qimeng on the back, soothing her while trying to sort out the situation at school. It seemed like the reason for Xu Ge's popularity had been resolved, but was it really that simple? Academic performance was so important in this school, so why did the invigilator, Mr. Song, tell them not to study, and then everyone actually went out to play? No one had brought their textbooks back to review; it was simply unbelievable in this environment.

Ju Jingbai gradually fell asleep. She could feel that she did not sleep very well in the dormitory.

I slept almost half asleep and half awake.

The next morning, Ju Jingbai was awakened by the girls' shouting.

She picked up her cell phone and it was only five o'clock.

"Sisters, hurry up and check the bulletin board downstairs in the dormitory building to check the rankings. The subject scores for yesterday's quizzes have been released." Someone shouted. Within seconds, six or seven girls woke up and climbed out of their beds. She even saw a tall girl running out with her eyes closed.

Ju Jingbai was speechless. Could academic performance also be so good?!

Facts have proved that it really works. When Ju Jingbai called Song Qimeng and they went downstairs together, he was deducted 0.5 of his regular points because he was not active in looking at the list.

The already miserable score was made even worse.

Ju Jingbai was stunned when he saw that he and Song Qimeng were ranked seventh and eighth from the bottom.

Ju Jingbai couldn't help but frown when he saw the contempt expressed by the people around him after they knew his results.

"Xiaobai, let's go get some water and wash up first." Song Qimeng patted Ju Jingbai's clenched fist soothingly and suggested.

"Okay." Ju Jingbai nodded.

Unexpectedly, the exclusion from good students began immediately.

"Ju Jingbai, let me fetch water first. With your grades, saving a few minutes of fetching water won't improve much anyway, so let me go first."

"Yeah, if you look at it that way, it stands to reason that I'm ranked second."

"Sister Qiqi, you are right." Some even agreed.

Ju Jingbai was moved further back in line, and he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he saw the water-collecting positions arranged according to academic performance.

However, she didn't want to rebel against the school rules right now. She quietly pulled Song Qimeng back.

Song Qimeng didn't say anything, but just quietly followed Ju Jingbai's steps and stepped back to make room.

Ju Jingbai looked up at Song Qimeng's expression and always felt that she was extremely patient, even to the point of being scary.

After several attempts by so-called good students to cut in line, it was finally their turn to fetch water.

"Song Qimeng, you slept with this guy last night? Trash should be with trash."

"Move aside, is this where you're supposed to be? Give up your seat, okay?"

Ju Jingbai turned his head and looked over. There was a girl with a ponytail and ordinary features, and a girl with short hair and a big face. These two people were talking.

There were actually several girls surrounding the two of them.

"Song Qimeng, listen to what I heard, didn't you hear it?" Someone stood up and stepped forward to accuse without any reason.

Song Qimeng didn't say anything, but just pulled Ju Jingbai and walked back.

Ju Jingbai looked at the girl's long nails poking Song Qimeng's face and felt that she could no longer bear it. She slapped away the poking fingers.

What kind of broken rules are these?

“Pah.”

The sound of clapping hands made the surroundings quiet for a moment.