Chapter 76 I laughed out loud

The words on the note were written in round shapes.

The content is also very interesting -

"Hello, Teacher Xie. I've seen Xia Linxing sneaking around the utility room at the end of the first-floor corridor these past few days. Especially tonight, I heard him seem to be trying to invite Shen Sibai to go to the utility room together. Xia Linxing's behavior seems a bit suspicious. I hope Teacher Xie can pay attention to it..."

The location of the utility room was also thoughtfully included below, and the simple map was drawn in a round shape just like the words on the note.

Xie Tinglan shook the note in his hand.

Although he didn't know who wrote the note, the handwriting... looked familiar.

Xie Tinglan stared at the round, plump characters, feeling that he must have seen them recently. However, where exactly he had seen them... Xie Tinglan couldn't remember for the moment.

He walked into his lounge holding the note. Just as he was about to put the note down and sit down, his eyes suddenly stopped at the documents on the table beside him.

That’s the table for the trainees’ second public performance grouping.

Speaking of which… the person who wrote this note definitely couldn't be a staff member. After all, staff members don't need to rehearse like trainees do. Although they have their own duties, at least they don't have to rush around like trainees do, leaving them with less time to focus on other things.

Even if the staff member who wrote the note is really busy, he can ask other staff members for help instead of asking him for help.

Only trainees——

Only the trainees don’t have much time to pay attention to others because they need to rehearse their own performances; only when the trainees encounter uncertainties, they want to find him as a mentor for help as soon as possible.

So... Xie Tinglan looked at the note in his hand and raised his eyebrows slightly.

He seemed to know... how to find the person...

…

Xie Tinglan returned to the office.

Most of the staff had already left work, and the office was empty. Xie Tinglan found what he was looking for very smoothly -

Trainee signature form.

It has the signature of each trainee.

That is... handwriting.

Xie Tinglan just glanced at it casually, without even putting the notes aside to compare them one by one, and he found the person he was looking for -

After all, such a round and chubby font is really recognizable.

You're right, Xia Linxing...

Xie Tinglan tapped Xia Linxing's signature on the form with his finger, a little confused as to what his childhood sweetheart was up to again.

I wrote such a long note and slipped it into his lounge when he was not around, just to "report myself"?

The note even used words like "sneaky" and "their behavior looked suspicious"... What kind of thing is this? Are they just trying to smear themselves?

Xie Tinglan now really felt that he couldn't understand Xia Linxing.

However, although he didn't understand what Xia Linxing was trying to do by doing this mysterious thing, Xie Tinglan still thought of himself as a good mentor who was always willing to help, so he decided to go and take a look.

He took out his phone and called the director.

"Director, is it convenient for me to go to the trainee dormitory now?" He planned to go and see what Xia Linxing was doing first.

The director on the phone was very surprised: "Of course, Mr. Xie! I need to arrange the filming for you..."

"Oh no no no, thank you for your kindness..." Xie Tinglan thanked the director for his kindness and walked towards the trainee dormitory.

Most of the trainees had already returned to the dormitory to rest, so Xie Tinglan's arrival did not attract anyone's attention.

"Is Xia Linxing here?" Xie Tinglan stood at Xia Linxing's door and knocked gently.

"Xia Linxing is not here - I'll go, Teacher Xie!" Lu Zimo, who came to open the door, slipped on slippers and walked over lazily to open the door. However, when he saw the person at the door, his eyes almost popped out.

"Teacher Xie, Teacher Xie, why are you here?"

After seeing Xie Tinglan signal him to keep his voice down, Lu Zimo covered his mouth and asked cautiously, "What do you want to talk to Xia Linxing about?"

Xie Tinglan glanced at the dormitory behind him. Both Xia Linxing's bed and Shen Sibai's bed were empty.

Xia Linxing is not here, and neither is Shen Sibai.

Speaking of which... Xie Tinglan suddenly recalled the time when he met Shen Sibai before, when the other party was searching for something everywhere.

He became thoughtful.

"Thank you, thank you teacher?" Lu Zimo felt a little uneasy when he saw Xie Tinglan suddenly stopped talking.

He, he shouldn't have said anything he shouldn't have said or asked, right?

"Hmm? Ah..." Xie Tinglan came back to his senses and smiled gently at Lu Zimo, "It's like this..."

He made up an excuse: "Because the second public performance is about to officially begin, I came to see how Xia Linxing's feet are..."

"Oh..." Lu Zimo didn't doubt it. After all, it was Xie Tinglan who took Xia Linxing to the hospital when she injured her foot, so it was reasonable for such a responsible teacher like Xie to care about Xia Linxing's recovery.

It’s a pity, “Xia Linxing doesn’t seem to have come back today, and Shen Sibai went out to look for him before…”

"Is that so... I understand." Xie Tinglan's guess was confirmed by Lu Zimo's words. He nodded gently at Lu Zimo, "Then you can take a rest... I'll go look somewhere else..."

But where can I find it?

Shen Sibai should have already looked for Xia Linxing in some common places that trainees often go to, but judging from the fact that the other party has not returned yet, he probably hasn't found her yet.

Where should he look for... Wait!

Xie Tinglan suddenly thought of something. He lowered his head and took out the small anonymous (real name) note from Xia Linxing from his pocket.

Come to think of it, Xia Linxing even drew a map on it...

Xie Tinglan glanced at the round map and walked towards the storage room according to the direction drawn on the note.

A moment later, Xie Tinglan appeared at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

"Is this the utility room?"

He took a step back and looked at the crack in the door. It was pitch black inside.

Xia Linxing...will she be in there?

He knocked gently on the door, "Xia Linxing?"

"Xia Linxing, are you in there?"

The utility room was very quiet.

There was no sound, no response.

Did he make a mistake? Xie Tinglan frowned slightly. Xia Linxing wasn't actually here? Was the note just a prank by Xia Linxing?

No... Xie Tinglan quickly denied his opinion.

If it was the Xia Linxing from before, Xie Tinglan might have thought that this was just a way for Xia Linxing to ask him out; if in the past, when Xie Tinglan received a note from Xia Linxing asking him to go somewhere, he would have simply thought that Xia Linxing was looking for another opportunity to express her feelings to him.

After all, "Xia Linxing" has done this kind of thing before.

But now... when Xie Tinglan found himself at the address on the note, the room was pitch black and Xia Linxing was nowhere to be seen. Instead of feeling relieved, he felt... a little uncomfortable.

Sometimes Xie Tinglan would feel that the Xia Linxing in front of him was not the one he had known since childhood.

When he thought he knew Xia Linxing very well, he found that he could not understand her at all.

But since he was already here... Xie Tinglan sighed and decided to go in and take a look.

At least he wanted to figure out what Xia Linxing was up to.

However, there was a dull click from the lock cylinder, and the door handle got stuck halfway through.

——The door is locked.

"Oh……"

This time, Xie Tinglan was really angry and laughed.