Chapter 12

Wen Yu woke up early at his residence on Saturday morning with a headache. He couldn’t help but groan and rubbed his temples with his eyes closed for a while before slowly sitting up.

He did drink alcohol last night, but with his drinking capacity, he shouldn’t have a hangover headache. His headache was due to having a night of dreams and shallow sleep.

The details of the dream became fuzzy within a few seconds of waking up. But Wen Yu vaguely remembered that Ji Anning was in his dream.

“If there’s a next life…” She looked at him, tears streaming down her face.

Why was she crying? Why was she so sad?

Wen Yu couldn’t remember, the only thing he could recall was Ji Anning’s beautiful eyes that kept shedding tears.

It was heartbreaking.

Wen Yu was stunned for a moment when his phone rang.

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After washing up and leaving the house, the autumn sun was dazzling, and there wasn’t a single cloud in the blue sky.

Those tearful eyes were like a dream.

Tsk, it was just a dream. Why bother thinking about it?

In a blink of an eye, it was Monday.

“Hey, I heard that the club is starting to recruit new members today?”

“What do you guys want to participate in?”

“My mom told me to definitely join the student council because of the benefits.”

“What kind of thinking is that? I want to join the cosplay club.”

Classmates were discussing it in a chatty manner.

After the military training at the beginning of the semester, the school gave students some time to familiarize themselves with campus life. The official club recruitment week was in the last week of September.

“Hey, Ji Anning, which club are you planning to join?” The girl sitting in front of Ji Anning turned around and asked, chatting with others about the topic.

The girl’s name was Meng Xinyu, and she was the class monitor of Ji Anning’s class. She had excellent academic performance, although she did not need the school’s financial aid like Ji Anning, her family still had a heavy burden.

In Ji Anning’s memory, she was one of the few people who had never gossiped about others, and even scolded those who gossip about her after her death.

Ji Anning was indifferent to most of her classmates, but she showed a gentle smile to Meng Xinyu and said, “I may not join, I don’t have much time, I have a part-time job in the evening.”

Meng Xinyu showed a sympathetic expression. She also needed a part-time job to ease the burden on her family. However, Meng Xinyu’s reason for doing a part-time job was different from her. Ji Anning had to shoulder the burden of the entire family by herself, which made Meng Xinyu sympathize with her even more.

“Hey, do you do tutoring? I have a website where I find tutoring jobs.” Meng Xinyu shared the information with her and told her the name of the website.

Ji Anning pondered for a moment and advised her, “I’ve used this website before, but the customers are a mixed bag, and the website can’t guarantee anything. I suggest you talk to the child’s mother and make sure she’s present when you come over for safety reasons.”

Meng Xinyu was a bit nervous and asked, “Will something bad happen? I’ve only been there twice.”

Meng Xinyu still had a bit of naivety in her expression, and it was clear that she hadn’t encountered anything disgusting yet. She was a lucky girl.

Ji Anning said, “It’s better to be cautious. After all, there are bad people everywhere. I think it’s never too careful for girls our age. By the way, you can prepare some self-defense tools, like pepper spray.”

Ji Anning took out her homemade pepper spray and showed it to Meng Xinyu. “I made it myself. I bought the bottle for two yuan at the store and cooked the pepper spray myself.”

Meng Xinyu was impressed by Ji Anning’s vigilance and homemade equipment. They talked about their tutoring work for a while, and before class, Meng Xinyu asked, “Do you want to have lunch together later?”

But Ji Anning smiled and refused, “No, thanks.”

She glanced at the teacher in front of them and lowered her voice. “I have to leave early for lunch. I also have a gig delivering food.”

If she didn’t have too many orders for lunch and wasn’t too busy, she sometimes didn’t eat at school and ran back home to eat with her grandmother, then take her to bask in the sun together after the meal.

If it weren’t for her grandmother waking up early and getting hungry, unable to wait for her to finish school, she would have liked to go home and make lunch for her grandmother, so that she could have a real hot and fresh meal instead of a reheated one.

At noon when school was over, Meng Xinyu turned around and saw that Ji Anning had quietly left early. When she packed up her backpack and went to eat with her classmates, she couldn’t help but mention it to her dorm mates.

Her roommate said, “Why do you care about her? Don’t you think she’s particularly arrogant?”

“No?” Meng Xinyu said, “I think she’s quite soft-spoken and I don’t feel like she’s arrogant.”

Her roommate hesitated and said, “But she doesn’t even talk to us.” She’s also so pretty.

“She doesn’t have time,” Meng Xinyu explained for Ji Anning, “She has a part-time job after school and is very busy. She does her homework during class breaks. How could she have time to chat? Besides, she doesn’t live in the dormitory like us and isn’t as familiar with us. But I feel like she’s really nice.”

“Really?” Her roommate felt a little embarrassed, “Maybe I misunderstood her. Hey, I haven’t really talked to her much either. I just heard from others that she’s particularly arrogant.”

As for who she heard it from, she couldn’t remember.

Rumors are like this, often without a source and already spreading like a gust of wind, affecting everyone.

The person who spread the rumor may not even remember saying it. The key to the power of “word of mouth” is in the “crowd” and in the “accumulation”.

Ji Anning was unaware that Meng Xinyu was speaking up for her. These past few days had been slightly cooler, so she wore a long-sleeved outer garment to the cafeteria and felt a bit hot from running around. She took the opportunity to take off the outer garment and tied it around her waist while waiting for her food. Her short-sleeved shirt clung to her body, highlighting her slender waist and beautiful chest, attracting the intentional and unintentional gazes of the male students.

“Who’s that?” Zhao Chen squinted his eyes. “I haven’t seen her before. Is she a freshman?”

The people next to him all followed his gaze. Some whistled, some looked for a while before realizing, “Oh, that girl!”

Zhao Chen turned his head. “Do you know her?”

“The school’s online forum has her photos,” his companion said. “There’s a popular post lately, haven’t you guys seen it? It’s called ‘Poor but Beautiful People.'”

“What’s that?”

“She’s the impoverished student who was reported on at the beginning of the semester for carrying her grandmother to school. Look at her, she’s lining up for food, right? You see, she’s taking so much food. I read in the post that she’s doing a business delivering meals for female dormitories.”

The male students all looked over. Ji Anning had a full pocket of food and was walking towards another window. The cafeteria was crowded, and she was running back and forth, her nose slightly sweaty, and a faint blush on her snow-white cheeks.

Zhao Chen’s eyes were fixed on Ji Anning, like hooks that had caught her.

“I can’t believe it…” he exclaimed. “Such a beauty, doing this kind of work?”

He licked his lips and said, “I’m going to introduce myself to her.” And with that, he stood up.

When Wen Yu walked into the cafeteria, he instinctively scanned the room with his eyes.

It was strange, with so many people in the cafeteria, it was dizzying to look at, but Wen Yu found Ji Anning in the crowd almost instantly.

She was so slender and agile, running around in the crowd, but shining brightly like a diamond, it was hard not to notice her. She seemed weak and frail, but in fact, she could endure hardship better than most boys.

Wen Yu slowed his pace.

He was at the entrance, and Ji Anning… judging by the fact that she had already filled two bags, she was probably coming this way. If she saw him, she would wave at him, but if she didn’t… well, never mind.

Wen Yu didn’t intend to take the initiative. Ji Anning’s tenacity and stubbornness made him feel the need to ignore her for a while.

So Wen Yu watched as a boy stood up and walked quickly towards Ji Anning. His movements were too obvious in the crowd, and there was no doubt that his target was Ji Anning, who was busy sorting her bags.

Wen Yu frowned.

He saw Ji Anning finish organizing two bags, picked them up, one in each hand, then turned around, and started walking in the direction of the exit. She seemed to have seen him, her expression slightly changed, and her pace quickened.

And that boy… Wen Yu could see clearly that he was heading diagonally toward her from her blind spot.

Never mind her.

This kind of foolish girl needed to be dealt with coldly, with a little gentle pursuit for a while. After a wave of financial force, if she still didn’t give in, she needed to be cooled down for a while. With a few rounds of hot and cold, she could be tamed.

Now, there was no need to bother with her.

Thinking this way, Wen Yu watched helplessly as Zhao Chen deliberately bumped into Ji Anning and reached out to grab her.

Ji Anning turned and walked towards the exit, and after a few steps, she saw Wen Yu. She was originally going to call out to him and say hello, but seeing his indifferent appearance, not knowing if he had seen her or not, she closed her open mouth and took two steps forward, wanting to quickly pass by and say hello to him, then go to the dormitory to deliver the food.

Suddenly, someone came rushing at her from the side, causing her to stumble.

Ji Anning’s body lost balance for a moment, and her first thought was about the food in her hands. If these two bags of food spilled, she would lose money for the entire lunch time! Her mind went blank for a moment, and she quickly focused on balancing the weight in her arms.

Fortunately, the person who bumped into her reacted quickly and immediately reached out to help her.

Ji Anning didn’t fall, and the food wasn’t spilled or damaged. As soon as she breathed a sigh of relief, she immediately sensed that something was wrong. The person who helped her had one arm around her back and the other arm almost wrapped around her waist from the front.

“Beautiful lady, are you okay?”

The voice was sleazy and familiar.

Ji Anning turned abruptly! The face of Zhao Chen, which she would never forget, appeared before her with a smug smile!

It was all a trap set by Zhao Chen.

She was deceived into working as a part-time worker for a certain company team building activity. It was indeed a legitimate company’s legitimate team building activity, but the company belonged to Zhao Chen’s family.

The girl who deceived her lured her into a room and tried to drug her.

But Ji Anning had been working part-time at NL, where there were all kinds of fish and dragons. The experienced sisters, kind supervisors, and even the tough-looking security guard who was actually very family-oriented and loved his wife… they all taught her many things, and her strong vigilance made her suspicious of the other person’s nervous look. After a little probing, she discovered the truth.

She certainly couldn’t sit and wait for death, so she found a loophole and ran away. That girl must have notified Zhao Chen. Zhao Chen, accompanied by his family’s bodyguards, blocked the elevator and staircase, forcing her up to the rooftop where she slipped and fell.

Then her soul wandered until Wen Yu took revenge for her.

Wen Yu…

Wen Yu!

When Wen Yu saw Ji Anning looked at Zhao Chen, he saw the blood drained from her face in an instant.

She was as frightened as if she had seen a fierce beast, struggling out of Zhao Chen’s ambiguous embrace and staggering back two steps before regaining her balance.

Her expression was terrified and after a moment of panic, she suddenly turned her head and looked at Wen Yu.

Through the crowds of people flowing like a river, Wen Yu received Ji Anning’s glance.

A plea for help.

A desperate plea for help!

The noisy cafeteria suddenly fell silent in Wen Yu’s ears.

Although Ji Anning just looked at him with a pale face and a panicked expression, he seemed to hear her calling for help.

He even felt her fear and despair, as if there was a huge darkness behind her about to swallow her up.

Wen Yu!

Save me!

Wen Yu’s heart suddenly contracted violently, causing him sharp pain like a needle prick.

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Sansukini: The guy who killed her appeared.

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