Chapter 43
"Bai Di! Are you trying to drive me crazy?! Ah!"
As soon as Zeng Li entered the office, she pointed at Bai Nan's nose and berated her. She had been in a great mood after getting up, but she had just finished cooking when she received a call from the director of moral education.
I spent half an hour making soy milk but didn't even have time to drink a sip before rushing to the moral education department to bring the person back.
Bai Nan lowered her head, looking as if she would let anyone do as they pleased.
When Zeng Li received the call, he didn't quite catch the reason behind the director of moral education's angry shouts. Now, seeing Bai Nan with his head covered and unable to utter a single word for a long time, he was furious.
Just then, the class monitor and the academic representative came to the office to deliver homework, and she immediately grabbed them and asked them all the questions.
After figuring out the whole story, Zeng Li calmed down.
As long as it wasn't one of her own students who was at fault first, she wasn't one to blindly follow the rules. So what if Bai Nan was the one who started it? If Zhang Hao from Class Two hadn't stolen someone else's notebook first, would she have hit someone for no reason?
In her opinion, Zhang Haochun was just being impulsive.
However, most people did not think so, especially Wang Qing, Zhang Hao and Li Na's homeroom teacher, who was standing with her arms crossed in the principal's office at that moment.
“Teacher Wang, we can only make a proper disciplinary decision after we have thoroughly investigated this matter. It is unfair to label the student without a clear explanation.”
"What do you mean by fairness?! One of our students is still in the hospital! The doctor says he might be disabled for life! Is that fair to him?!"
"Teacher Wang, that's not how it's said—"
The principal was speechless. The student named Zhang Hao only had a fractured right index finger. The doctor said there was a high probability that the finger would recover. How could Wang Qing say that he was disabled?
"Principal, imagine what it would be like if the whole school had students like Bai Di?"
Seeing that the principal remained unmoved, Wang Qing changed her tone.
"Okay, even if he has a grievance, even if Zhang Hao was in the wrong first, does that give him the right to hit people at will?! The school's rules and regulations are designed to restrain students like this who are disobedient and arrogant! If the school doesn't expel him, it means there are loopholes in the current rules and regulations."
"I will report the facts to Director Zhang and propose the formulation of new 'Management Regulations for Students of No. 1 Middle School'!"
With that final word, Wang Qing stormed off in her high heels. The principal quickly wiped the sweat from her brow with her sleeve. The Director Zhang she mentioned was her brother-in-law—a blatant threat.
He was warned that if he didn't choose the right side, he would be replaced, just like the management regulations.
But we can't afford to offend the Xu family either...
These one or two are just making things difficult for him! The principal thought to himself that he must have been cursed lately, otherwise why would he be so unlucky!
He's incredibly unlucky! Nobody's more unlucky than him!
"Damn it! How could Xiao Di have run into such a mad dog!"
Bai Lu was indignant and quite upset: "How did he get involved with that bastard Zhang Hao? They shouldn't have any connection at all!"
Huang Wang, standing to the side, kept his head down and remained silent.
"Also, who exactly called Brother Xin here? They were already having a falling out, and now they're completely broken up! If I find out which bastard did this, I'll go up there and punch him three times!"
Bai Lu really couldn't understand how Xu Xin had arrived so timely last night? How did he suddenly appear just when Bai Di was about to strike?!
Someone must have contacted him secretly, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence!
Wang Zhuo, who was separated from Bai Lu by only an aisle, couldn't help but shudder after hearing what Bai Lu said.
Damn it, he was just trying to help, who would have thought these two gay men were breaking up?! This is such an unnecessary disaster!
Thinking of the scene after Xu Xin arrived at Class Two last night, he subconsciously shrank his neck.
Last night, in Class 2's classroom.
Zhang Hao, as if possessed, viciously grabbed Bai Nan. The rugged, twisted veins on his arm bulged like earthworms, along with his flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the malice behind every roar and curse.
At this moment, he was like a vengeful ghost, filled with evil thoughts, seeking Bai Nan's life. The classmates were all frightened by his appearance, and no one dared to step forward to stop him.
The moment Bai Nan was subdued, she instinctively raised her knee to attack Zhang Hao's groin. But when she saw the hatred in his eyes, she suddenly stopped.
Countless images flooded her brain, and the familiar yet unfamiliar face in front of her suddenly overlapped with another face. Memories, like a floodgate opened, overwhelmed her in an instant.
After the last breath of oxygen in my chest was exhausted, after my heartbeat changed from a pounding drum to a slow, weak ache, after the images in my mind shattered into pieces...
Her soul was enveloped in a suffocating stillness.
In this tranquility, someone slowly walked towards her until the distance between them was close enough for her to see the other person's amber eyes clearly.
They have the same eyes and the same face.
“I am you, Bai Nan.” The other person spoke first.
"I know you are me at twenty-seven years old, hello." She tried to be as polite as possible, even though the scene before her was almost absurd and bizarre.
Upon hearing her words, she seemed to smile, or perhaps not.
Do you know why I'm here?
"I... just saw it."
"Yes, I killed a man at Bai Di's funeral. Then I ran away, ran for three days, but unfortunately... I still died." Her tone was very calm, and Bai Nan couldn't help but feel a little emotional—ten years later, she could still be so calm when talking about murder, death, and funerals.
Is this what a mature adult is like? The complete version of yourself?
"How...did Bai Di die?"
She raised an eyebrow. "Don't you want to know who the man I killed was?"
"You must have your reasons." Bai Nan trusted herself. After experiencing the Li Laokou case, she knew clearly what kind of person she was.
If you kill someone, it must be a last-ditch act of defiance.
This time she really laughed, because she laughed loudly and for a long time, until she started coughing and lost her voice.
She then stopped laughing and continued talking, but her voice was so low that even Bai Nan on the other side couldn't hear her.
Perhaps she was speaking to herself, because she said, "How ridiculous, Bai Nan, to actually be comforted by your ten-year-younger self. Truly, her death wasn't in vain..."
"So, Bai Di, he..."
“He committed suicide.” She looked Bai Nan straight in the eye and added, “Just like me, he jumped off a building.”
"Because of...depression?"
"Maybe, who knows. We haven't been in contact for a long time."
"So...did you go to Yuanyuan's university? Did you get to study the major you wanted?"
“I went, I read it. If I hadn’t killed anyone, I would probably have lived an ordinary life in S City, all alone.”
"Where's Xu Xin? Did he stay in Taipei, or did he go abroad?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen him since the college entrance exam." She avoided Bai Nan's curious gaze. If she told her that she had frantically searched for Xu Xin before jumping off the building but couldn't find him anywhere, wouldn't that be too embarrassing? She preferred to keep it a secret.
"Then...where are Mom and Dad?"
"Them? Don't worry, evil deeds will live on for a thousand years."
"So I really did it?"
"Yes, you did it. You successfully severed ties with them after you turned 18, and your household registration was transferred to S City after you graduated from university. If Bai Di hadn't died, you would never have met again."
"Are you... leaving?" Bai Nan noticed that her figure was becoming fainter and fainter, almost transparent.
"I can't go back yet, maybe I never will, who knows? You're more important now. Don't you have any questions for Zhang Hao?"
"Is he... the one I killed?"
“Yes, three days before I died, Bai Di jumped off a building and committed suicide. The doctor said it was hallucinations caused by mental derangement, after all, he had been ill for a while.” Not just for a while, but for a full ten years.
"Huang Ying and Bai Hua came to my workplace crying and making a scene, tricking me into going back to my hometown. Oh right, the funeral was held at Bai Lu's old family home, really..."
Bai Nan knew what she was thinking; this courtyard was indeed very eerie.
"They introduced me to a man and wanted me to marry him, but I refused."
"Is the man Zhang Hao?"
"Yes, it was him. Bai Hua was unwilling to give up. Perhaps he lost his heart after suddenly losing his son, whom he could leech off for the rest of his life. He and Huang Ying drugged my water and sent me to Zhang Hao's bed."
Even if her tone was calm and her expression was indifferent, Bai Nan couldn't bear to listen anymore; she felt sorry for herself.
But she didn't even change her tone and continued, "Zhang Hao is a beast. He thought he could control me with a hymen, but unfortunately, he's stupid and doesn't realize it. Before dawn, I killed him while he was asleep. I used the glass ashtray by the bedside to smash his head and genitals to pieces."
"You know we always seek revenge." She smiled happily.
Bai Nan smiled too. She knew that the hatred she spoke of referred not only to the sexual assault, but also to the current situation.
In that smile, her figure vanished completely, and a deafening roar rang in my ears once more.
Bai Nan stared intently at the boy in front of her, a hint of a smile in her eyes.
Zhang Hao, who was originally cursing angrily, went completely mad after seeing that hint of a smile. His hands tightened suddenly like iron clamps, and Bai Nan could clearly feel the flesh on her neck being squeezed into his fingers, the blood vessels large and small constricted to their limit, and her brain suddenly went white.
"brute......."
"...You...will...be...killed...by...me...sooner...than...times...you..."
Even though Bai Nan was about to taste the bitterness of death, the mockery in her eyes remained undiminished, and the drool that kept overflowing did not stop the upward curve of her lips.
Zhang Hao abruptly released his grip: "You're crazy...you're a madman..."
The fear in his eyes was so real, as if she were the vengeful ghost claiming his life. This realization deflated him, and he got up to run away.
How could Bai Nan possibly let him go? She forced herself to stay upright, her limbs weak, and lunged at his legs, using her full weight to trip him.
"Thump—!"
Caught off guard, Zhang Hao tripped over her and fell to the ground. Just before his forehead hit the ground hard, he instinctively braced himself with his right hand.
"Aaaaaaahh ...
The next second, a long scream was mixed with the cracking sound of bones breaking.
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