Ruan Chen and Bo Nian exchanged a glance. Bo Nian's palms were covered in cold, sticky sweat. Ruan Chen looked away and continued to concentrate on her book.
“Ruan Chen…”
"I heard you."
"Perhaps I should jump myself." Bo Nian looked out the window at the magnificent sunset, his eyes filled with confusion.
Ruan Chen chuckled softly, "You think he'll let your Bo family off the hook if you jump? Don't be naive. Have you considered that if you die, your parents will definitely investigate the cause of your death and easily suspect these people?"
Bo Nian was taken aback.
Yes, even if the whole society believes that he couldn't accept the cancellation of his grades and committed suicide by jumping off a building, based on his parents' understanding of him, they would never believe that this is the truth.
They will investigate further, and they will suspect those who forced themselves to give up their grades.
Those people, in order to eliminate any potential threats, will not spare their own parents.
As Ruan Chen wrote out the solution steps, she glanced at Bo Nian's expression and pressed on while the iron was hot, "So stop thinking nonsense and live well. Only if you live can your Bo family have hope."
Footsteps and nursery rhymes stopped at the back door of the classroom, and a hoarse voice rang out, "Oh, my little darlings are here! Uncle has been looking for them for ages."
The newcomer wore an iron-colored mask that covered his entire face, making him look just like the villainous Iron Mask warrior from a fairy tale.
He held a worn-out baseball bat that looked like it had been picked up from a garbage dump, and his mask was carved with a hideous human face, with blue fangs and deep black holes for the eyes.
The person's movements looked mechanical. After walking into the classroom, he stiffly adjusted the angle of his head and finally locked onto Bo Nian's position.
He carried the baseball bat and walked towards Bo Nian.
Bo Nian subconsciously got up and pulled Ruan Chen to hide in a corner of the classroom, away from the window, but Ruan Chen remained seated, staring at the strange person's every move.
"What are you chickening out for?" Ruan Chen snatched her collar back from Bo Nian's hand and straightened the wrinkles on it. "You can't beat him one-on-one?"
Bo Nian was awakened by Ruan Chen's words. There was only one person opposite him. As long as he didn't want to die, it would be difficult for him to force him to jump off the building by himself.
Even if she had the ability to control him, this person could be used as part of the chain of evidence to accuse those people of forcing her to give up her grades and threatening her with suicide using the Bo family.
The boy took a deep breath, walked into the corridor, and assumed a proper stance.
The masked man laughed again, "It seems your little girlfriend's words are quite effective. She doesn't want you to die, does she? You've thought this through carefully. If you don't die, the Bo family will be finished."
"Uncle is giving you two choices today. Do you want to be a ghost couple with your girlfriend, or do you want your Bo family of three to reunite underground?"
After Bo Nian adopted a fighting stance, the masked man wisely stopped. He must have realized the boy's height and strength, as well as his professional starting stance, which suggested he had practiced seriously. He probably wasn't a match for him.
These two options lingered in Bo Nian's mind for a moment.
She is not my girlfriend.
Ruan Chen covered her face.
Why are you explaining this to him?
Strangely, after the masked man presented these two options, Bo Nian, who had been outwardly strong but inwardly weak, suddenly made a 180-degree turn in attitude as if he had found his backbone, and became tough, saying, "I don't want my friend to die, and I don't want my parents to die. I will not choose either of your options."
The masked man immediately realized he had made a fatal mistake.
Bo Nian hesitated at first because he was faced with the choice of sacrificing himself to save the Bo family. Now, Bo Nian's choice has become either he and his friend die together, or the Bo family is destroyed.
Both of these options are unacceptable to Bo Nian.
"Hey, let me interject." Ruan Chen finally finished her homework for tonight, sighed with relief, put down her pen, and looked at the masked man. "I'm saying, you shouldn't have any connection with the Nan family, right?"
The air fell silent for a moment.
Ruan Chen calmly stated, "You claim to be from the Nan family, so I have a general understanding of the Nan family's history. It is a family that produces geniuses with spiritual power in every generation and has deep roots in various institutions in China."
"Let's put the Nan family aside for now. Even among the powerful and wealthy families in the secular world, when they want to achieve a certain goal, they would not be ashamed to use the underhanded methods you are using now, given the many options available."
"So, who exactly are you?"
Ruan Chen's words seemed to dispel the fog that had been hanging over Bo Nian's mind.
Yes, it seems I've been wrong all along. I assumed from the start that these people must be from the Nan family, and that I didn't dare to provoke them or have any thoughts of resistance.
Ruan Chen looked at Bo Nian, who was deep in thought, and asked, "Has anyone ever told you definitively that the people who are forcing you to give up your grades and threatening you are from the Nan family?"
"No."
"Then why are you so sure they're from the Nan family?"
“Because of the conditions they initially proposed, that I write down Nan Liushui’s name in the exam, they would invest 300 million yuan in several experimental projects that the Bo family was undertaking in the name of the research institute,” Bo Nian immediately followed Ruan Chen’s line of thought, “So from that moment on, I was prejudiced that they were members of the Nan Liushui family.”
Ruan Chen smiled knowingly, "In fact, you've never met Nan Liushui in person from beginning to end."
The masked man understood why things had spiraled out of his control.
Because of the girl who suddenly appeared next to Bo Nian.
"Young lady, have your parents ever told you that meddling in other people's business will get you into trouble?"
The masked man decided to deal with the extremely beautiful and charming girl first. Without her, he could once again control Bo Nian.
He carried the worn-out baseball bat and walked towards Ruan Chen.
Bo Nian instinctively tried to stop him, but the masked man suddenly leaped high into the air, landing directly on the table. He moved between the tables and chairs as if walking on flat ground, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of Ruan Chen, who was sitting in the middle of the classroom!
The baseball bat swept towards Ruan Chen's ear. In the instant Ruan Chen turned his head to dodge, the masked man released his grip, and the baseball bat fell to the ground. His other hand, wearing a mechanical glove, went straight for Ruan Chen's slender neck!
Ruan Chen was surrounded by tables and chairs, which greatly restricted her range of movement.
The masked man, perched on the table, had a commanding view of Ruan Chen and possessed advantages in both gender and physical strength, making it seem as easy as crushing an ant to kill him.
His mechanical glove completely encircled her fair and delicate neck. Through the advanced sensors, he could feel the girl's distinct bones, and the warm blood seemed to be surging in his palm. With just a little force, this delicate flower would collapse to the ground.
Then he would deal with Bo Nian. The consequence of one more person dying would only be that tomorrow's headline would change from "Genius Boy Commits Suicide After Frustration" to "Academic Couple Dies Together".
But his hand only contracted half an inch before freezing.
He felt all the strength in his body drain away from his lower abdomen.
At that moment, Bo Nian's anxious shouts still echoed in the air, and the physical education teachers arranged by Feng Yuankai were swarming in through the front door, trying to subdue the masked man.
At that moment, Ruan Chen flashed a bright and beautiful smile, holding an ordinary paper cutter in her hand.
She smiled and asked, "What did you just say would happen if you meddle in other people's business?"
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