[Breaking News! A top student from our hospital is embroiled in plagiarism scandal! He may be disqualified from the competition!]
[The eldest daughter of the Ruan family assaulted someone in the street! The victim passed away three days ago!]
[Famous designer's shop vandalized, multi-million dollar gown destroyed by fire! Insiders claim it's related to Ruan Yunhan!]
[The First Affiliated Hospital's entry in the US competition was found to be plagiarized! The plagiarized party has provided video evidence!]
[The eldest daughter of the Ruan family openly harassed other contestants at a hotel! She may have even disfigured one of them! Was it jealousy or something else?!]
Ruan Chen sat on the deck, enjoying the sea breeze. She glanced at the trending topics a few times, then turned off her phone and tossed it into her pocket.
Ruan Yunhan is doomed to lose.
There's no doubt she'll drop out of school. Ruan Chen just hopes she can behave herself from now on and stop causing trouble.
To her, Ruan Yunhan was like an unkillable cockroach; although she couldn't cause any real harm, she was just disgusting.
If Ruan Yunhan keeps dancing... she really won't be able to suppress her murderous intent.
Ruan Chen stroked the moon-white pendant, gazing at the distant sea horizon and the boundless darkness.
I really want her to... die.
I want her to...disappear completely.
Once that thought popped into my head, it seemed impossible to suppress it.
The salty sea breeze suddenly became fierce, and clouds silently gathered on the sea, obscuring the bright moon. Tiny flashes of lightning flickered restlessly among the clouds, unwillingly lying dormant, as if brewing a thunderstorm.
Those on deck noticed the change in weather and began to leave.
Lin Fengzi was chatting and laughing with Ruan Yu'er, who was sitting on a high stool, when she saw the wind picking up and the air carrying a faint mist, as if a heavy downpour was about to begin. She got up and carried Ruan Yu'er off the high stool, saying, "Let's go back to the room. It looks like a downpour is coming."
Ruan Chen seemed oblivious to everything, holding a wine glass filled with dark red grape juice.
She didn't like grape juice, so she didn't drink a drop.
She leaned against the ship's railing with a dark look in her eyes. The wind whipped up her thin coat, making her appear even thinner. From a distance, she looked just like a single, sharp sword.
Why not let Ruan Yunhan die? Why not let Ruan Zhengde die too? Why not let everyone she hates... die?
Destruction is such a simple and delightful thing.
She can die with us.
She often had the illusion that she had never climbed out of that stinking, rotten slum.
It seems she was buried there.
At this moment in country M, there is a building that has no coordinates on the map.
The boy removed the electrode patches attached to his body, separating himself from the machine.
The training wasn't over yet, but he suddenly felt palpitations and unease.
Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling window, he saw thick, dark clouds, unsure whether they were brewing a thunderstorm or the eye of a storm.
But he instinctively sensed the danger and killing intent within, the power that erupted seemed capable of destroying the world.
But for some reason, Fu Jianzhi felt very sad.
This did not form naturally; it was the mental power of someone whose spiritual strength far surpassed his own—that person's suppressed hatred to the extreme, a desire to destroy everything, including himself.
It is misanthropy and self-abandonment.
Many people thought it was just a rainstorm that hadn't fully formed yet, but many people below the clouds looked up with puzzled and frightened expressions.
These people are not mediocre; the lowest level of mental strength among them is level six.
Only they could sense the strangeness of these clouds.
Within minutes of the cloud formation, the research institute at the National University of M was in an uproar.
"They are not one of our people. We have already verified the registered personnel, and there are no abnormalities!"
"Could it be that we haven't discovered any masters of mental strength yet? Should we conduct another round of screening at universities across the country?"
“I don’t think it’s necessary—this level of mental power is probably only achievable by a fully purified being. If our country really had a fully purified being, it’s impossible that we haven’t discovered them by now. Such talents are often put on the monitoring list at a young age.”
"Unless they're not one of us."
"You mean, among university students from all over the world?"
"Adjust the satellite cloud image, locate the center point, and see if there are any students who have come to participate in the competition there."
"Professor, we've located the location! It's Haitang Port! There's a yacht there, and a group of students from China will be there tonight!"
"Should we keep them here?"
On the cruise ship, Lin Fengzi led Ruan Yu'er toward the cabin. Ruan Yu'er suddenly stopped, looked up at him, and asked, "Where is my sister?"
Lin Fengzi didn't take it seriously. "She went inside, didn't she? Your sister is a grown woman. She would definitely go inside if she saw it was going to rain."
“Impossible,” Ruan Yu’er shook her head. “If my sister saw that it was going to rain and went back to her room, she would definitely call me. She wouldn’t go in alone. She must still be on the deck!”
Ruan Yu'er pointed and said, "Brother Lin, look!"
Lin Fengzi looked in the direction she was pointing and indeed saw a lonely figure.
Ruan Chen changed into a black hoodie tonight, seemingly blending into the night.
"I'll go call her. It's too chilly. You go inside first." Lin Fengzi patted Ruan Yu'er's shoulder, gesturing for her to go find Ruan Luo.
The deck was now empty. Lin Fengzi walked toward Ruan Chen and suddenly realized that the closer he got to her, the more nervous he became.
The tension wasn't fear or dread, but a suffocating feeling, an oppressive force that made him instinctively stand still.
"Ruan Chen?" he called out.
Ruan Chen had her back to him, so she probably didn't hear him, or she was too lost in thought.
Lin Fengzi thought her inexplicable tension stemmed from the boundless darkness around the deck—the deck had been bustling with people, the moon was high in the sky, and the ship had laser lights on, illuminating half the sky.
Now, with dark clouds obscuring the sky and the cruise ship turning off its lights in fear of thunderstorms, the heavy, suffocating darkness is revealed.
He approached, about to shout again, when he heard a cell phone ringing in Ruan Chen's direction.
She finally moved.
Ruan Chen answered the phone. In the dim light of the screen, Lin Fengzi could clearly see her extremely gentle smile as she told the person on the other end of the line that she was fine and should get some rest.
They also said I'd be returning to China in a few days and asked me to make a list of what I wanted and send it to them.
He saw a clear moonlight fall, and the dark clouds vanished in an instant, even the wind became gentle.
Ruan Chen's voice was clear and slightly cool, "I know, why are you so long-winded? I'm really fine, I'm just enjoying the scenery on the cruise ship with my friends."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Fengzi went over.
“It looked like it was going to rain heavily just now, and your sister asked me to come and call you. Strangely enough, the clouds cleared up all at once.”
Ruan Chen smiled and casually tossed the half-eaten wine glass into the sea. She wiped the bloodstains on her palms on her coat. "It should stop raining now. The weather forecast says it will be sunny."
“By the way,” Lin Fengzi said, “a classmate of mine from the First Affiliated Hospital said that Ruan Yunhan’s withdrawal notice has been stamped by the hospital and has been posted on the hospital’s intranet. Now we are just waiting for her to go back and go through the procedures.”
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