The secret that Sun Ying never told

"If I'm not mistaken... you're cursing me, aren't you?" Liu Xing asked, tossing aside his cigarette butt.

Liu Xin was taken aback. "You're... how are you so accurate?"

"What the hell is your name? Do you dare tell me?"

Liu Xin chuckled. "My name? I am who I am, none other than your grandpa, Ji Yuzheng!"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Chen Xiao coughed violently beside him.

Liu Xing pointed at Liu Xin and cursed, "Ji Yuzheng, right? You just wait for me!"

With that, he didn't wait for Tan Cheng, turned around, and went downstairs, pulling out his phone to call someone.

Chen Xiao was speechless. Xiao Ji probably could only bear one person's blame at most. Too much... would crush him.

"Damn, you're such a jerk."

Liu Xin said indifferently, "It's fine. He still owes me several hundred yuan anyway. I don't want it back."

"......" Chen Xiao.

Is it about you not wanting it back? Xiao Ji never intended to pay it back anyway, alright?

"Alright, let's go eat."

Chen Xiao called out. He knew Liu Xing had some connections at school, perhaps enough to influence some people's grades.

But he didn't think Liu Xing's connections could rival money.

As for Ji Yuzheng...

He played games in the dorm every day anyway, so failing was his fate either way.

As the saying goes, many lice don't itch, and many debts don't weigh you down.

Ji Yuzheng had already planned it out; he was just counting on passing all his exams in the final clearance test before graduation.

He only paid tuition once in his first year and spent the rest himself. Even if he passed all the exams, he still wouldn't graduate...

Before long, Shen Jiancheng and Wu Ling also finished their exams, and Tan Cheng also came out at this time.

She gave Chen Xiao a complicated look, said nothing, and quietly walked away with her best friend.

Wu Ling looked and said, "Xiao Zi, I feel like Tan Cheng has a thing for you."

Chen Xiao chuckled, "How could that be? Let's not talk about her. Let's go eat."

"Don't be shy. Or should I talk to her for you later?"

"Thanks, Ling Jie, but no, let's just let nature take its course."

Seeing that he didn't seem to be putting on a brave face, Wu Ling said, "Alright then. Whenever you change your mind, just let me know. When pursuing a girl, you have to be quick, or someone else will beat you to it."

Chen Xiao felt a little touched. In his previous life, his friends had worried a lot about this matter, but it still ended in regret.

"Okay, I understand."

The few of them ordered stir-fries at the First Canteen across the street and ate together.

Then Shen Jiancheng and Wu Ling didn't go back to Xuelin Yayuan; they went to the dorm to rest at noon.

There were exams this afternoon and tomorrow.

Chen Xiao wasn't too worried about his grades.

He believed that spending over a hundred thousand yuan would solve these minor issues without a problem.

After participating in the afternoon exam as planned, Chen Xiao received a report from Su Tang.

Today, the two teams worked very hard to acquire 40 million yuan worth of shares in Lingnan Metallurgy.

Chen Xiao calculated that this wave would only earn a little over a million yuan at most, not even enough for pocket money, but it was better than nothing.

Although he didn't think much of it, in terms of value, it was equivalent to a three-bedroom apartment in a popular area of Jinning City at that time.

However, the final outcome still depended on tomorrow's liquidation. For such a small market, it was hard to say if it could achieve a 3-point return.

Under the pressure of exams, the usually boisterous male dormitory was much quieter than usual.

Chen Xiao handed out two boxes of cigarettes, but he couldn't even organize a PVP.

Helpless, he could only return to the dorm, chatting with Xia Yudie, Yu Mengqi, and Li Wenli via text messages while watching a currently popular movie he hadn't seen in his previous life.

The books under Xiao Ji's keyboard were also gone.

Chen Xiao couldn't help but ask, "The exam isn't over yet, why aren't you studying?"

Xiao Ji, while shooting, said, "What's the point of studying? I found it useless. I'm just going to fail."

For him, exams were more about participation.

Just experience it, the result was already determined anyway.

"......" Chen Xiao.

Just then, a grenade was thrown from the opposite side, and Xiao Ji, along with his game character, suddenly dodged to the left...

The ashtray on the desk almost got knocked over by him...

Chen Xiao was speechless. Playing a game, was his immersion that strong?

Dinner was bought by Xiao Ji, naturally because Chen Xiao used his money power.

After dinner, after playing for a while, Chen Xiao went to take a shower, came back, and opened his computer to browse current events.

Looking at the news at this time with a forward-looking perspective, he always had a strange feeling.

Which events were true, which were false, when new predictive technologies would become widespread, what a major project would look like after completion, and its impact on the world, etc., Chen Xiao knew it all perfectly.

Just as he was engrossed in reading, his phone rang.

Hmm? Sun Ying's call...

"Hello?"

"Hello? Junior, come down and drink with me..."

Chen Xiao was startled; Sun Ying's tone clearly carried a hint of drunkenness.

"Where are you?"

"Third Canteen."

"Don't move, wait for me."

Chen Xiao finished speaking, put on his shoes, and ran downstairs.

Sun Ying's mood was very off today.

Arriving at the canteen, he saw Sun Ying holding only one can of beer in her hand, yet she was seven or eight parts drunk.

"Did you drink somewhere else?"

Sun Ying opened her hazy, charming big eyes, leaned her head weakly against Chen Xiao's chest and nodded, her slightly curly long hair covering two-thirds of her face.

Chen Xiao cupped her pretty face, helped Sun Ying up, then sat down and pulled her into his arms.

He calmly asked, "What happened? Tell me."

Sun Ying still shook her head. Chen Xiao smelled her rich hair fragrance and softly said, "Tell me, there's nothing that can't be solved."

Sun Ying stretched out her fair arms, wrapping them around Chen Xiao's neck. Usually like an older sister, today she was like a pitiful kitten, curled up in his arms, seeking spiritual solace.

Sun Ying didn't speak, and Chen Xiao wasn't in a hurry.

She was just a little lost, with no particularly intense emotions, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

After holding her for twenty minutes like this, Sun Ying finally got up from Chen Xiao's arms.

"How about it? Can you talk about it now?" Chen Xiao asked.

"Things happen, and you can't escape by avoiding them. You always have to gather the courage to face them."

Sun Ying slowly nodded.

"Actually, it's nothing; I just suddenly feel very meaningless."

Chen Xiao smiled, "Why? Such a great time, such a vast world, how can it be meaningless?"

"Sigh!" Sun Ying sighed. "Do you know about the girl who fell from Building 15?"

Chen Xiao was startled. That was something that happened during his first year, and it caused quite a stir in the school at the time.

"What about it? Is it related to this? Hasn't it been a long time already?"

Sun Ying took a sip of beer and said, "She was my best friend... almost like a sister."

Chen Xiao was stunned. He had never heard Sun Ying mention this before.

"I owe her."

Sun Ying recounted slowly.

"In our first year, we were lured into a pyramid scheme by a classmate."

"We almost suffered collective humiliation. She snatched a fruit knife and risked her life to get me out."

Sun Ying wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"She was a good person, but God was unfair."

"While she was being treated for her injuries, the hospital diagnosed her with leukemia."

"And her family couldn't afford such expensive medical fees. Her father sold everything he could and borrowed everything he could, but only managed to raise one-tenth of the treatment cost."

"Originally, this money was hope."

"But, a Financial advisor, made her anxious father lose his judgment and invest all the money into the recommended stock..."

"As a result, the life-saving money was lost, with only a few thousand yuan remaining."

"That Financial advisor also disappeared."

"She... didn't want to burden her family. On the night of Double Eleven, at 7:47 PM, she jumped from the 16th-floor corridor of Building 15..."

By this point, Sun Ying was already in tears, but she still choked out:

"Her father was heartbroken and full of regret; he followed her not long after."

"Later, I heard that the stock-recommending swindler wasn't alone but was part of an organized, premeditated scheme."

"I wanted to do something for her, but I had no means, no connections, so I could only climb higher."

"Perhaps the higher I climb, the clearer I can see, and the more likely I am to find these swindlers..."

Chen Xiao fell silent. Strictly speaking, the girl's father also bore half the responsibility in this matter.

However, he hadn't experienced it, so he couldn't empathize with the bond between Sun Ying and her best friend.

But for an ordinary girl to unravel this mystery, it was undoubtedly fraught with thousands of obstacles and immense difficulty.

The Jinning Financial circle was not large, and when this matter was mentioned, a name involuntarily popped into Chen Xiao's mind.

That was Shi Zhongfu!

Could it be that Sun Ying's best friend and his former self, who both became free-falling bodies, were all his doing?

If the deduction was correct, then Xing Yanqing was merely a minion.

He,

was the true mastermind!