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Chapter 102 Infected by the Truth
The tears that Mao Tianxin had been holding back in her eyes suddenly fell.
She hugged Ji Shanqing, sobbing uncontrollably, and said, "Really, really?"
Ji Shanqing answered without hesitation: "Of course it's true."
"But they said that I'm only a burden to my parents... that I made such a big fuss just to attract attention..."
Upon hearing this, Ji Shanqing frowned. She looked at the classmate in front of her seriously. In fact, she didn't have much of a relationship with Mao Tianxin. She even learned her name from the classmates who were watching.
But she said especially loudly, "Because they're all idiots! If you believe them, you're an idiot too!"
The girl, who was crying her eyes out, was stunned by Ji Shanqing's words.
Tears still clung to her eyelashes, trembling as Mao Tianxin blinked, before suddenly falling, sliding down her cheeks, and finally hitting the ground.
"Me, am I an idiot too?" Mao Tianxin repeated Ji Shanqing's words blankly.
Then she burst into even louder sobs.
Ji Shanqing:......
Ji Shanqing: Oh no, this is not what she imagined!
If someone calls her an idiot, Ji Shanqing will definitely fight with them to prove that the person who called her an idiot is the one who insulted her.
But this was the first time Ji Shanqing had ever seen someone like Mao Tianxin, who burst into tears over a single insult.
She turned around helplessly, looking blankly at her friend who was running up behind her.
Although it was a very serious situation, Song Juexiao couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw this scene.
"He's still just a child," Song Juexiao thought.
He Jingtong stood beside Song Juexiao, leaning against the wall. Hearing the laughter, he glanced at Song Juexiao and said, "Don't forget, Ji Shanqing also ended up jumping off a building in the end."
The smile on Song Juexiao's face faded, and she silently continued to look at the scene before her.
Mao Tianxin didn't notice Ji Shanqing's pleading expression; she just sobbed and cried, then looked up at Ji Shanqing.
"But I failed the exam this time..."
"But I haven't finished my homework this week either..."
Ji Shanqing suddenly breathed a sigh of relief; anything that could be resolved was easy to handle.
Without hesitation, she said, "What grade are you in? I'll tutor you!"
"I can teach you how to do your homework too."
Ji Shanqing looked at her, then smiled: "But if you jump from here, then there really won't be any chance of saving you!"
Mao Tianxin cried even harder.
She held Ji Shanqing, sobbing, and whispered something: "If only I could be like you."
—I wish I could be like you.
After he said those words, the whole world collapsed in an instant.
Song Juexiao stared at the two girls hugging each other and nudged He Jingtong with his elbow.
He Jingtong: ?
He looked at Song Juexiao with a puzzled expression.
Just as Song Juexiao took out his phone to type, He Jingtong and the entire school scene vanished.
Then she opened her eyes again and saw Xiao Jiming's face.
*
Jiang Xingni sat on the stone bench and recounted the entire incident—from Xiao Jiming's account to what Song Juexiao had witnessed.
What Song Juexiao witnessed happened when Ji Shanqing was still in junior high school.
The Ji Shanqing that Xiao Jiming saw, just like the Zhao Henshan that Jiang Xingni saw, were echoes from the past world. They were monsters, non-human beings whose consciousness was unknown.
In a sense, Ji Shanqing's story is indeed quite ironic.
The girl who stopped her classmate from jumping off the building when she was much younger ended up jumping off the roof of the school building herself.
However, no one stopped Ji Shanqing herself in the way she had stopped Mao Tianxin.
Mao Tianxin said that if she could become someone like Ji Shanqing, she would achieve it in a distorted way.
It wasn't that Mao Tianxin became Ji Shanqing, but rather that Ji Shanqing became Mao Tianxin.
What she said to Xiao Jiming back then was indeed true.
She doesn't like to play the victim or show her pain to others in order to gain their pity.
Therefore, the scene that Ji Shanqing presented in Song Juexiao and He Jingtong's illusion was the scene where she saved the girl who was about to jump off a building when she was in junior high school.
If nothing unexpected had happened, this was something Ji Shanqing could have boasted about for the rest of her life.
But her life came to an abrupt end, leaving only echoes and hatred for Zhao Henshan, and hatred for the dead.
*
"She hates Zhao Henshan." Xiao Jiming squatted down next to Jiang Xingni and told her his analysis.
"It's possible that, in her view, Zhao Henshan was responsible for her death," Jiang Xingni replied.
"Did you agree to her request? If you killed Zhao Henshan?"
Xiao Jiming nodded and replied casually, "I agree."
"Otherwise, she wouldn't have revealed to me the truth she knew about Fourth Middle School."
"Everyone who died because of Zhao Henshan has left no trace in this world."
Jiang Xing narrowed her eyes and calmly pointed out the flaw: "But we all remember Ji Shanqing."
It's not just the main characters.
Jiang Xingni still remembers that when Xu Niannian recounted the story, most people in Tuhe City already knew about Ji Shanqing's death.
The difference is that outsiders thought Ji Shanqing committed suicide by drinking pesticide, but Xu Niannian knew clearly that Ji Shanqing jumped to her death.
"Ji Shanqing died by jumping off a building..." Jiang Xingni said in a low voice. "Then, who died from pesticide poisoning?"
"Has Ji Shanqing told you everything that happened in the past six years?"
Jiang Xing glanced at him suspiciously.
Xiao Jiming shrugged. He had originally thought that Ji Shanqing would also hide some information and let them investigate the truth on their own.
—After all, this is an old trick. Not to mention Jiang Xingni's comic theory, Xiao Jiming's experience in just half a year has proven that the information provided by the ghost is always half true and half false.
If everything is forgotten because of death, then it makes perfect sense that there are still so many people at Fourth Middle School.
"She didn't want to die, but Zhao Henshan killed her—that's what she said," Xiao Jiming said, his tone devoid of emotion, simply stating the facts. "Of course, we don't know how much of what the already supernatural Ji Shanqing said can be believed."
"We would have been deceived too—but once we learned the truth, Zhao Henshan had already set his sights on us."
Jiang Xing narrowed his eyes and repeated the sentence.
"We were moved by the truth."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming realized what was happening.
The two of them turned around at the same time.
Outside the walls of the Fourth Middle School, a simply dressed elderly woman with hazy eyes asked, "Have you seen my granddaughter?"