Hou Tong let out a long sigh. It was as if a huge stone had fallen from her heart, as if she had known something for a long time. She lowered her head and wiped her eyes: "...I know."

In fact, she already knew in her heart that Bai Liu didn't like her. Bai Liu never wanted anything from her, not even an ice cream.

This is a rejection that is very distant and measured.

"Then all those horror games in my house are in vain." Hou Tong joked, "I was planning to play those horror games with you at least once before I graduate from high school."

"Haven't you been playing horror games with me?" Bai Liu said calmly.

Hou Tong was stunned for a moment: "When?"

Bai Liu said, "Don't you think our school is like a horror game? There's the college entrance examination lake, and a girl fell into the water. It feels like a serial murder case is going to happen next."

Hou Tong: “…”

Is Bai Liu telling some horrible, cold joke? !

But she was indeed frightened. Hou Tong rubbed her arms, shrank her neck, and carefully moved back: "...My mother is still waiting for me outside the school, so I should leave first?"

"Goodbye." Bai Liu said, "Be careful when you leave, and be careful not to be followed by dirty things."

Hou Tong: “!!!”

Hou Tong took out the posture of a volleyball team long-distance runner, and ran towards the school gate without looking back. Bai Liu stood on the second-floor balcony and watched Hou Tong get on the car, then he retracted his gaze. He turned his head with a faint expression and looked at the shadow of the corner of the men's toilet:

"Now that Hou Tong has left, Bao Kangle, how long are you going to hide in the bathroom and eavesdrop?"

A short figure slowly walked out from the shadow of the corner of the men's restroom. His eyes were bloodshot, his hands were clenched into fists beside his trouser legs, and in his hands he held a bunch of crushed roses. He looked at Bai Liu with a sly expression.

Bai Liu's eyes swept across the bouquet of roses, he raised his eyebrows, and understood.

Bao Kangle stared at Bai Liu intently. He had originally followed Hou Tong tonight, intending to confess his love to her before taking the risk of doing that big thing. Unexpectedly, when he followed her to school and hid in the men's restroom, before he could come out, Hou Tong confessed her love to Bai Liu.

Bao Kangle, who witnessed the whole process, was so angry that his eyes almost bled.

Bai Liu, an orphan, has nothing better than him except his face. How could he be surrounded by so many people who are beyond his reach?

Hou Tong is like this, Fang Dian is like this, and even the good-natured top student Lu Yizhang is like this. He usually won't even give these people a glance when he greets them, but they are willing to chase after Bai Liu, begging Bai Liu to be friends with them, to fall in love with them, and to spend money on them.

And what about him? He was the son of a teacher at Qiaomu Private High School, and was a thousand times or ten thousand times more capable than Bai Liu in every aspect.

But when Bao Kangle follows Xu Wei's instructions to pursue girls with high status in school, to make friends with those top students who will have a bright future, and to curry favor with those powerful and arrogant students, what does he get?

All he got were looks and expressions of indifference, as if he were a transparent person, and some overt and covert ridicule and hints of contempt.

Even those few privileged students who were willing to pay attention to Bao Kangle would feel bored when they teased and laughed at him to gain a sense of superiority. If Bai Liu appeared at this time, these students would rather gather around Bai Liu and spend a lot of time, energy, and even money to tease this welfare home student who would never bow his head and was always indifferent to them.

It can be said that Bao Kangle's status in the school is even lower than that of a dog, because even when a dog barks to please people, everyone will look at the dog twice, but no one will look at Bao Kangle twice.

Because he is so boring, even his vulgarity is so vulgar and snobbish that there is nothing good to say.

The top honor students are Bai Liu's best friends, the top white, rich and beautiful girls are Bai Liu's most loyal pursuers, and even the top playboys are the students they like to bully the most.

The attention that Bao Kangle tried so hard to get was not even one-tenth of what Bai Liu, who was bullied, received.

He couldn't figure out why he lost to Bai Liu.

No matter in academic performance, family background, or interpersonal relationships, how is he not better than Bai Liu?

Bao Kangle's breathing was as heavy as a bull about to attack. He lowered his body, his eyes rolled up, and stared at Bai Liu with a naked, hateful, yet relieved look.

But two days ago, he finally figured it out.

Bao Kangle vaguely heard some key words from the conversation between Xu Wei and the principal. He realized that there was a special thing around Bai Liu. This special thing was like some kind of prop, or a ghost, possessing some kind of magical power. Although Bao Kangle still didn't understand what this magic was, he was sure that this was the reason why Bai Liu attracted everyone's attention invisibly.

"Bai Liu." Bao Kangle looked at Bai Liu and suddenly laughed sinisterly, "Don't you like playing horror games? Didn't you just say that the College Entrance Examination Lake in our school is the biggest horror game?"

"Do you dare to go up with me now and play?"

"I heard that you like exciting horror games." Bao Kangle slowly picked up the key with his right hand and shook it next to his face. He chuckled and said, "For this, I stole the key to the mountain gate from my mother."

"I guarantee that this is the scariest game you have ever played in your 18 years of life."

Bao Kangle licked his dry lower lip and stared at Bai Liu with his eyes fixed on her: "Want to play?"

Bai Liu said without any hesitation: "No."

Bao Kangle: “…”

Damn! This is not what he thought! Why doesn't Bai Liu play? Isn't he the one who loves thrilling horror games?

Bai Liu seemed to understand Bao Kangle's inner thoughts from his incredible expression. He paused, and the look he gave Bao Kangle became subtle, almost showing "How stupid are you to fool me when your conspiracy is so obvious?" But the words he said were still more subtle: "The college entrance examination is coming soon, I have to hurry back to the dormitory to study."

"You are about to graduate, so you'd better not break the school rules, Mr. Bao Kangle."

Hearing such law-abiding words coming out of Bai Liu's mouth, Bao Kangle's face almost cracked - is this something you should say?

You are the student who has committed the most violations in the school and has been punished the most to clean the toilets.

Seeing that Bai Liu turned around without hesitation and prepared to go down the teaching building to return to the dormitory after he finished speaking, Bao Kangle became anxious. He took two steps forward and prepared to grab Bai Liu's wrist, but Bai Liu dodged it quickly.

Looking back, Bai Liu's expression was actually cold: "I told you, classmate Bao Kangle, I can usually play with you, but now I have to go back to the dormitory."

When Bao Kangle heard that look, his neck shuddered and he subconsciously withdrew his hand.

Seeing that Bai Liu was really leaving, Bao Kangle finally panicked. In a flash, he remembered a piece of information about Bai Liu that his mother had said on the phone -

——[Yes, Bai Liu likes money very much. He seems to like gambling very much. His classmates say that he is not very clean.]

"Let's make a bet!" Bao Kangle suddenly raised his voice, "Whoever can come out of the college entrance examination lake intact will win."

"The winner gets a sum of money!"

Bai Liu's footsteps paused only slightly.

Bao Kangle's voice became shrill, he almost shouted: "We bet 20,000, the winner gets 20,000!"

Bai Liu finally stopped walking, but he did not turn around. He just said thoughtfully, "Twenty thousand...not a bad price."

Bao Kangle's expression involuntarily changed from one of satisfaction to one of disgust: "Twenty thousand, is that enough for you to play with me?"

——He is indeed a money-grubbing person.

"No." Bai Liu's tone was still light, and he continued to walk towards the stairs, "I have already rejected a deal of 62 million tonight, and it doesn't matter if I reject another 20,000."

"I'm going back to the dorm now."

Bao Kangle stood there in shock. He looked at Bai Liu in disbelief as he continued to walk down the stairs without stopping.

"Wait!" Bao Kangle hurriedly followed. He looked at Bai Liu who had already walked to the corner of the stairs and followed him anxiously. "Twenty thousand is not enough. How much do you want?!"

Bai Liu ignored him.

Bao Kangle was already in a panic. He promised Xu Wei and the principal that he could trick Bai Liu to the mountain tonight. If they couldn't wait for Bai Liu on the mountain by then, he would be fully responsible!

Besides money - Bao Kangle took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down and think, besides money, what else does Bai Liu care about?

When his mother talked to the principal on the phone last night, she also mentioned what Bai Liu cared about?

Xu Wei's hand holding the microphone was shaking: […There is a strange thing around Bai Liu that follows him every day, like a ghost. This thing also appears in his sketches. It looks like a ball of thread. It can't be a ghost, right, Principal?!]

The principal replied impatiently to Xu Wei, whose voice was trembling: [That is not a ghost.]

[But that is something that is very useful to Bai Liu. It is similar to the thing at the bottom of Gaokao Lake. I don’t know how many times it will disappear after being used. You should be more careful.]

"There is something like a ball of thread around you," Bao Kangle suddenly shouted, "and that thing will soon disappear!"

Bai Liu stopped walking down the stairs for a moment. He stood on the second-floor staircase, holding onto the corner of the stairs, and slowly raised his eyes to look at Bao Kangle who was standing at the entrance of the second-floor stairs:

"What did you just say would disappear?"

Bao Kangle could hardly hold back the tingling sensation on his back from seeing that look. He tried his best to resist the urge to turn around and run, and continued with a trembling voice:

"It's like the ball of thread that follows you around every day. It's the same thing as the thing at the bottom of the Gaokao Lake. It will disappear after being used for a period of time or a certain number of times."

"If you don't want it to disappear."

Bao Kangle took a deep breath under Bai Liu's emotionless gaze and said, "Just follow me to Gaokao Lake."

"If you get the college entrance examination paper at the bottom of the lake, you will know what the ball of thread is, where it came from, and where to find it."