"Bang!"

Cen Yu's hammer struck the empty ground next to Fan Jie's head.

Jiang Tuan cursed under his breath. He Yongning seemed surprised that Fan Jie had made such a vicious wish... Cen Yu looked at Pei Hengyun and saw that Pei Hengyun looked blank. Then he looked at Fan Jie, who was lying on the ground begging for mercy.

"when?"

"Before the start of senior year..." Fan Jie began to justify himself, "I just really wanted to go back, but my family absolutely refused. You guys are used to hardship, so of course you don't think it's a big deal..."

He kept explaining, "I kept calling my dad, and he got impatient and said that unless everyone here died, he wouldn't let me go back..."

He stopped talking as soon as he finished speaking.

Jiang Tuan clenched his fist and grabbed him by the collar. "So what? So you're just going to send us all to die?"

Fan Jie covered his face and began to shout, "I didn't expect this!"

"I was just saying it in anger!!!"

Cen Yu released Fan Jie from his restraints, stood up with the hammer in his hand, gently stroked the wooden handle, and then looked at Fan Jie, "Tell me everything you did back then."

Jiang Tuan punched Fan Jie several more times before putting him down.

Fan Jie immediately covered his face and said, "I, I am..." He seemed to realize where he was, and his voice trembled even more.

“I overheard people saying that this place was haunted… I heard that as long as you have that thing, it can grant my wish.”

His idea was simple: he wanted that thing to grant his wish, so he specially bought some fruits and blood offerings to offer as tribute.

Worried that she couldn't complete it alone, she approached Duan Zhou to help her.

Duan Zhou was his number one lackey at the time, and since he had promised to give him some pocket money, the two of them secretly climbed over the school wall one night and went into the classroom...

Fan Jie specially took out the freshly slaughtered chicken and pork from his backpack, and also brought fruits and vegetables he bought at the market.

Then, with paper and pen in hand, Duan Zhou and I played the Ouija board game in the dark school building, using only candles.

Fan Jie didn't understand any of the game rules, but based on what he had heard, he started muttering that he hoped someone would grant his wish... In the classroom with only candles, Fan Jie could only hear his own voice.

Sitting opposite him was a nervous and uneasy Duan Zhou.

Fan Jie kept talking and talking, but he didn't feel any movement from his pen until Duan Zhou, who was still a little scared in front of him, suddenly smiled at him.

Ask him, "What are your wishes?"

“…I was so scared I could hardly move,” Fan Jie said cautiously. “My first instinct was to shake off his hand, but I found that he was holding me very tightly and kept asking me what my wishes were.”

As Cen Yu listened to Fan Jie's narration, she calculated the timeline: before the start of senior year, that was during the summer vacation of her junior year...

Pei Hengyun had already passed away by then.

“So I said it,” Fan Jie said. “I said, ‘Let me go home! I want to go home!’”

"I'll do anything! Even if everyone dies, I'll do it, just let me go home..." Fan Jie's voice trailed off, "...I was just saying that in anger..." He then became righteous again, "Besides, everyone was fine in the end, wasn't they?"

Jiang Tuan wanted to hit him again after hearing that!

Cen Yu stroked the hammer in his hand. "And then?"

"He didn't ask you what you wanted?"

Fan Jie recalled carefully, "...I remember the gatekeeper was Old Cen back then."

"Perhaps it was the candlelight that caught Lao Cen's attention. I was still talking to him when I noticed Lao Cen knock on the glass and ask me what I was doing!"

"I was terrified, so I shook off his hand and ran out of the back door of the classroom."

Upon hearing Fan Jie's words, Jiang Tuan seemed to recall something. "No wonder Old Cen told us not to go to the school at night." He looked at Fan Jie, "What about Duan Zhou?"

"I...I don't know," Fan Jie said. "I went to find Duan Zhou later, and he only complained that I didn't take him with me when I ran away, which caused him to be scolded by Lao Cen for a long time."

"He seems to have no recollection of this at all."

Fan Jie looked at the group of people and said, "I haven't gone back since then... and no one in our class died, so I didn't take it seriously."

Cen Yu wasn't as optimistic as Fan Jie...

The security guard did interrupt the person who was demanding the price, but that didn't mean the matter was over. "You came back this time, also to feel more at ease?"

“…Yes.” Fan Jie admitted.

"I... I came back this time to say... since this whole thing didn't work out anyway, why don't we just give up?"

Little did they know that the squad leader Yu Sheng in their memories was not human at all!

Cen Yu pondered Fan Jie's words.

Thinking about it this way, Fan Jie's first death in the original book might actually be related to his wish.

I just don't know why that wish wasn't fulfilled back then... Could it be that the gatekeeper's interruption prevented the thing from finishing its sentence and promising a reward upon completion, which is why Fan Jie's wish wasn't granted?

Cen Yu subconsciously looked at Pei Hengyun beside him, wanting to hear what his "kind" thought.

Noticing Cen Yu's gaze, Pei Hengyun asked in confusion, "What's wrong, Xiao Yu?"

"No." Cen Yu turned her gaze away.

He can't exactly say, "I want to hear your crazy ideas."

"So even if we didn't call you today, you would still come?" Cen Yu looked at Fan Jie.

Fan Jie hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

His return to attend the class reunion was not without this reason. He might have forgotten about it before, but the class monitor's phone call reminded him of it, so he wanted to come back and visit.

Cen Yu put the hammer back into his jacket pocket.

"You really said back then... that you wanted everyone to die? Everyone at Meiman Middle School?"

Fan Jie thought he was going to get beaten up again for this, and his face turned ugly again, but when he saw Jiang Tuan's ashen face next to him, he honestly said, "...Yes...I said I wish everyone would die."

"Fan Jie".

Looking at this pitiful rich kid, Cen Yu even found his behavior somewhat laughable.

Have you ever thought about something?

"?" Fan Jie looked up at Cen Yu.

"You're also from Meiman Middle School?" Cen Yu smiled at Fan Jie. "So your wish includes yourself."

Fan Jie shouted that he hoped everyone would die, and that "everyone" included himself.