"They deserved to die."

"Why would they choose to jump off a building? Was it Jiang Zhan's revenge against them?"

"Jiang Zhan is too terrifying. He has endured humiliation and hardship until today, just to take their lives."

...

The identities of the three students quickly spread throughout the school.

Police arrived and cordoned off the scene to verify the identity of the body. The principal and subject teachers all came to the scene to cooperate with the police investigation.

Jiang Zhan stood there, stunned, staring at the spot where the three men had died, trembling all over, his face deathly pale.

Lu Zhiwei led Ruan Jizhou to his side.

She wasn't tall enough to cover his ears, so Lu Zhiwei turned to Ruan Jizhou for help: "Cover his ears so he can't hear those rumors."

Ruan Jizhou did as he was told, reaching out to cover Jiang Zhan's ears.

Jiang Zhan pulled Ruan Jizhou's hand away, his eyes bloodshot: "Sister, do you believe me? I didn't."

Lu Zhiwei nodded and patted him on the shoulder: "I believe you."

His eyes revealed a firm determination.

Jiang Zhan was deeply healed by that determined look in his eyes, and tears welled up in his eyes.

The police quickly located Jiang Zhan. The team leader was the captain of the branch of the police station near the school. They came to investigate the suspect, asking Jiang Zhan about his recent whereabouts and his entanglements and grudges with the three victims.

After confirming that Jiang Zhan had not been in contact with the three deceased in the past two months, the police temporarily ruled out Jiang Zhan as a suspect.

The case was ruled a suicide. The family came to the school to claim the body, but they didn't cause any trouble. They asked the school for some compensation, and the case was closed quickly.

But Jiang Zhan locked himself in his room.

He was holding the graduation photo he had gotten from the photographer.

What should have been a perfect graduation photo became terrifying and abhorrent because of the three dark figures jumping off the building.

He will live in these three shadows for the rest of his life.

He took out his phone.

Open your text message inbox.

There were two text messages inside that he hadn't opened at the time.