Chapter 100: The New Male Lead

Jiang You, who had been listless and dispirited, suddenly perked up.

If the strange attraction has a time limit, then the situation isn't so hopeless.

If she's careful in the future, her life will return to normal.

The next afternoon.

"Youyou seems very happy. Would I leave you?"

After class, Jiang You escorted Song Yun back to her dormitory. Along the way, she subtly and indirectly tried to gauge whether, as Wang Lili had said, Song Yun was indeed becoming much colder towards her.

Unexpectedly, the boy remained silent for a long time before suddenly speaking.

The hood on Song Yun's head was blown off by the wind, revealing his snow-white skin. His brown pupils, beneath his long, thick black eyelashes, gazed at her silently.

In the past, the boy's emotions were very outward. He would cry when he was sad or wronged, and his anger and unhappiness were written all over his face. He would say what he wanted without hiding anything.

It seems Wang Lili was right. Jiang You scratched his face: "Not really..."

Not knowing how to tell Song Yun about the strange things that happened to her, she thought for a second and then changed the subject: "By the way, Wang Lili said that you have a faint smell of blood on you, what's going on?"

"The smell of paint," Song Yun said softly, turning his head away.

His head was bowed low, his long neck bent, and under the sunlight, it appeared even whiter, dazzling to the eye.

"Oh, I see," Jiang You said, knowing nothing about paints, and didn't say much more.

The juvenile dormitory is located in an extremely remote corner of the school, and very few people come here.

It is not dilapidated; the surrounding trees are lush and green, their branches and leaves intertwined to form a natural green barrier, making it appear exceptionally tranquil.

It's a great place for someone like Song Yun to live.

She used to walk Song Yun back to her dorm, but after that, Song Yun would walk her back to her dorm too. After one or two times, she stopped doing that.

This time, I sent Song Yun away purely to see his attitude towards her.

After arriving at the dormitory, the boy neither escorted her back nor invited her in, which suggested that things had truly changed.

Song Yun lived on the second floor. He went upstairs, opened the dormitory door, turned around, and looked through the balcony at Jiang You under the big tree on the first floor.

His gaze was as calm and mysterious as a deep lake. He looked at her for a long time, seemingly reluctant to leave, yet also feeling self-loathing.

Jiang You didn't know why she didn't leave. She felt uneasy, especially when she saw that gaze.

She took a step forward, wanting to go up, but Song Yun went inside and closed the door.

"......"

Never mind, maybe Song Yun was thinking, why would I like such an unremarkable girl?

The strange attraction fades, the big shot is still the big shot, and the ugly duckling is still the ugly duckling.

Fortunately, the money was real. Jiang You twitched the corner of his mouth and walked back.

Inside the closed dormitory, a strong, nauseating stench of blood permeated every corner.

There were many more portraits of the girl, and bloodstained bandages and a small knife were casually placed on the table.

The girl's "No, not really" filled the boy's mind, further confirming Xia Bei's words.

Song Yun took off his coat, and even his short-sleeved T-shirt couldn't cover the bandages that were wrapped around his body like a winding snake.

Several places were soaked with blood, the crimson bloodstains showing through the white fabric.

He sat helplessly on the cold floor, his back against the edge of the bed, his eyes empty and vacant, staring at the portraits of girls filling the room as if he had lost his soul, his right hand pressing the voice input button.

With a soft "beep," a woman's voice echoed through the silent room.

"I love you, Song Yun."

"I love you, Song Yun."

"I......"

Outside the dormitory, hiding behind a car was Song Yun's agent, Brother Li, who was also a retired soldier. He had been spying on the girl escorting his young master back to his dormitory.

"Wang Dongliang, look! Isn't Song Yun about to win her over?"

Brother Li saw one on the second floor and the other on the first floor, gazing deeply into each other's eyes, and instantly felt as if pink bubbles were rising all around them.

"I doubt it. The girl clearly doesn't have any feelings for Song Yun," said Wang Dongliang, the private doctor, while eating Zhengxin Chicken Cutlet and secretly watching.

Young Master Song has a history of suicide attempts. Although he hasn't attempted it in a long time, he still has several private doctors by his side for safety reasons.

They had been instructed by Song Wenxi not to disturb Song Yun and Jiang You's time together as long as Song Yun's life was not in danger.

When Li Ge and Wang Dongliang went out to eat, they saw Song Yun and Jiang You when they returned and quickly hid.

Brother Li treats Song Yun like his own child. Last time he saw Song Yun sitting alone on a hospital bench all night, he was heartbroken.

Now that we finally see progress in their relationship, we hear Wang Dongliang spouting nonsense.

He kicked him directly and said, "Go away, go get your eyes checked if you're blind."

Brother Li believed that things were developing in a positive direction, and he was very grateful to Jiang You. With her help, Song Yun's situation improved significantly; in other words, the lifeless person regained the will to live.

He believed that Song Yun would be able to completely shake off the shadows of the past and embrace a new and sunny life.

But I didn't expect that I would be proven wrong so quickly.

In the dead of night, a piercing alarm blared through the sky, jolting Brother Li awake from his deep sleep.

The watch monitoring Song Yun's heartbeat showed that it was slowing down at an alarming rate.

In a panic, Brother Li rushed towards Song Yun's dormitory next door.

At this moment, several private doctors were unable to open the door and were pacing anxiously like ants on a hot pan.

"The key won't go in; Song Yun secretly changed the lock."

When will the locksmith arrive?

Brother Li's eyes widened as he stepped forward and gruffly said, "Get out of the way."

He pushed the doctor aside, and with all his might, kicked the door shut—once, twice, three times…

With a whoosh, Wang Dongliang exclaimed, "Oh no, his heart has stopped beating!"

Brother Li felt a tightness in his chest, as if he were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.

Fortunately, the door was finally kicked open.

Inside, Song Yun lay in a pool of blood, the blood soaking his thick, curly hair. His androgynous face was ashen, his dilated pupils staring at the cell phone beside him.

The song playing on a loop inside was: "I love you, Song Yun".

The quiet dormitory felt eerily strange.

......

"The bleeding has stopped."

"After adjusting the instrument settings, my blood pressure has dropped again..."

"My heart is beating again."

A cacophony of voices, both loud and calm, swirled around him, and Song Yun's pupils refocused. Seeing his familiar dormitory, he knew he wouldn't die.

"Brother Li..."

"I'm here... Song Yun..."

"No...don't...tell...Youyou. I'm not, I'm not trouble..."

He set the computer to automatically send a suicide note to Song Wenxi after his heart stopped beating, in which he wrote down his last wishes so that Jiang You would not know of his death.

Unfortunately, he didn't die.

While chaos reigned on one side, at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center overseas, Xia Yan was wheeled into the emergency room.

Back home, Xia Bei received a phone call informing him that Xia Yan had accidentally fallen from a building while trying to escape.

There were uncollected steel pipes below. His chest had been pierced, but fortunately, no vital organs were damaged, and he was out of danger.

"It's good that he's not dead," Xia Bei said casually before hanging up the phone.

The next morning, Jiang You received a phone call. It was from Song Wenxi. She said that Song Yun was going to a hospital in S City for a follow-up examination and might not be back for a few days, but her salary would still be paid.

She didn't think too much about it, because she was too busy taking care of herself right now.

"Hey, you've gone too far! I'm talking to you, and you're making a phone call. Don't you hear me? Quickly remove the curse from my body, and I won't hold it against you this time!"

Jiang You put away his phone and looked at the irritable handsome man.