Chapter 88: Xue Yaodong's Disappearance (Subscribe)

  After finishing speaking, he suddenly turned around and walked away.

  Looking at her back, Bai Xueya's expression gradually cooled. She had been subtly pinning the blame on Sun Yuyang all along. But twice now, she still refused to admit it. Was it because she didn't want to take responsibility and was escaping? Or was this matter really not done by her hand?

  Bai Xueya bit her lip and didn't have time to think more, following the trend of the expanding team to find her own position.

  "One two three four, five six seven eight..."

  Under Zhang Li's loud slogan, everyone did some simple warm-up exercises together.

  The warm-up is complete, and the team returns to a state of readiness.

  In front of the crowd.

  Zhang Li picked up the notebook from the ground beside her, glanced at the schedule on it, raised her head and announced to everyone with a poker face: "Classmates, today's task is rafting."

  "Drifting???"

  The crowd erupted in murmurs of surprise and astonishment. In any case, no one could have anticipated that there would be a drifting schedule.

  Because in the Baili Forest, although there are streams, they are slow-moving rivers that cannot be navigated by boat, let alone meet the rapid current requirements of rafting.

  Then, a classmate immediately raised his hand and curiously asked loudly: "Teacher Zhang? There is no way to drift in the Bai Li Forest? Are we going somewhere else?"

  "That's right," nodded Zhang Li with a faint smile, pointing eastward. "Not far from there is a river with rapid currents, not very deep, but enough to support an air cushion ship. So we chose the location there."

  "What the...?!"

  The crowd erupted in waves of cheers. For the past two days, they had been coming to summer camp and doing nothing but dull and boring fitness exercises. Now, they were actually going to play exciting and thrilling rafting games, what great news?

  Watching everyone discussing the drifting activity with great enthusiasm, Zhang Li smiled slightly in satisfaction. After a while, she clapped her hands to get everyone's attention.

  "Classmates? Later, we need to walk to the riverbank, about a 40-minute journey. Because we'll be staying until afternoon, please bring your own drinking water. There will be someone left behind at the campsite to keep watch. Before we go, let's confirm the grouping. Two people per group, one boy and one girl, so you can take care of each other during rafting. Alright, now let's start discussing!"

  As soon as Zhang Li announced the grouping arrangement, the crowd that had just calmed down immediately fell into discussion again. The boys and girls were in one group, and the couples were undoubtedly happy to be together, naturally forming a small group. As for the single boys and girls, they started to worry about who to team up with.

  Seeing the couples around her leaning intimately together, Bai Xueya began to realize her own sense of crisis - wouldn't it be that in the end all the boys would be taken and only she would be left alone?

  But such worries were apparently unnecessary, for just as Bai Xueya began to worry that she would be left behind, a figure had already jumped out in front of her.

  Tall and slender figure, black T-shirt simple yet handsome, tender and clean face with a smile as gentle as spring breeze, Xue Yaodong walked slowly in front of Bai Xiaya, eyes clearer than river water, shiny and transparent, dark pupils staring at her without blinking.

  Bai Xueya blinked her eyes and stared at him. Under her astonished gaze, his face turned from normal to flushed, and finally became a deep red.

  "Xiao Ya," he gazed at her tensely, his voice seemingly trembling with excitement, "how about we form a pair?"

  Just as Jin was about to agree. Bai Xiuyue thought for a moment, and just as she was about to smile and nod in agreement, a familiar voice appeared at this extremely inappropriate time -

  "Xiao Ya is in the same group as me."

  The two followed the sound and saw Jin walking over with a raised corner of his mouth, his steps leisurely. He stretched out his hand from afar, and when he approached Bai Xueya, he suddenly wrapped her in his arms, holding her tightly to his chest like a treasure.

  "What's going on?" Bai Xiaoya struggled to stick her head out, glaring at him with anger in her eyes. "What are you up to now? Don't go too far!"

  Jin Yanchen seemed to have not heard her warning, with a confident smile hanging at the corner of his mouth, his gaze firmly fixed on Xue Yaodong. Under his gaze, Xue Yaodong subconsciously bit his lip tightly. Bai Xiaya saw that his hands were clenched into fists by his side, the veins on his wrist faintly visible.

  She took a sharp breath in, and found that the atmosphere between those two was so tense it was almost about to snap.

  And she stood in the most awkward position between the two of them, at a loss for what to do.

  After a long time, looking at Jin's faint smile, Xue Yaodong let out a sigh of relief.

  "Why must you fight with me over Xiaya? I want to protect her, can't I even do that?"

  "Xiao Ya is mine."

  Jin suddenly blurted out a sentence that was so shocking it would either stun people or kill them.

  Bai Xueya was stunned, turning her head to look at Jin Zaiyan's face, but he still smiled and stared at Xue Yaodong without moving, as if the words just now were a sincere declaration, not pretending.

  The people around him cast suspicious glances at Kim Jae-in's words, and some even began to whisper among themselves.

  Bai Xueya's face turned slightly red with embarrassment. Although it was embarrassing to encounter such a situation, as the person involved, there seemed to be nothing else to do but listen and accept it. So she just stood there like a wooden puppet, watching the gazes between the two people change from confrontation to hostility, almost sparking intense flames.

  "Yours?" Upon hearing this, Xue Yao Dong seemed to sneer with a smile, "Heh, who said Xiaoya was yours? What are you, that you can so boldly and shamelessly say Xiaoya is yours? Stop joking around!"

  "I am Xiaoya's boyfriend."

  As soon as he finished speaking, several gasps of cold air sounded from the crowd.

  Is Baek Ah-yun really Kim Jae-won's girlfriend??

  Several girls who had a secret crush on Jin heard this and turned pale with anger, almost fainting. Meanwhile, Bai Xiaya, after being shocked and stunned, felt a fierce gaze piercing through her from behind, almost creating N transparent holes in her body. Without thinking, she knew it was Sun Yuyang's vicious glare.

  She let out a long breath, stepped forward and pinched Jin Zaiyan's arm, while applying force to create pain on it, and lowered her voice to warn: "Neurosis? Stop giving me trouble?"

  After finishing speaking, she stared hard with her eyes.

  Jin smiled with a raised corner of his mouth, seemingly unbothered by Bai Xueya's threat. He turned his head and said to Xue Yaodong with a smile: "Xueya says she dislikes you and wants you to leave quickly. Why don't you leave? Do you want to stay here for a long time?"

  Upon hearing this, Xue Yaodong's body shook violently and his face turned pale in an instant. He stared intently at Jin Zaiyan's faintly smiling face for a long time before finally shifting his gaze to Bai Xiaya's body, which was beautiful.

  "Xiao Ya..." His voice was slightly hoarse, "Is what he said true?"

  Bai Xiaoyu's eyes widened in panic, shaking her head and explaining: "No, no, no! Is Kim Jae-yeon this big idiot talking nonsense? It's not true at all! I've never disliked you. Aren't we friends?"

  "Right, you're friends." Jin Yanyan lowered her head and looked at her gently, then raised her head to look at Xue Yaodong, her eyes suddenly filled with ridicule. "So, Xiaoya has always only regarded you as a friend and doesn't like you at all. Why are you still shamelessly following her? Do you want to continue to torment Xiaoya?"

  His feet involuntarily retreated two steps, Xue Yaodong struggled to maintain his balance, not wanting to fall. He stared blankly at Jin Zaiyan, seemingly struggling and suffering for a long time, before the stiffness on his face slowly eased, replaced by a forced smile.

  "I see," he sighed, a shadow of disappointment on his face. "I was overestimating myself."

  Looking at his gloomy appearance, Bai Xueya tried to defend herself: "It's not like that? What Jin Yan said is all... uh..."

  She hadn't finished speaking when her mouth was tightly covered, and then everything went black as her entire body was tightly wrapped in a wide embrace.

  "Shut up." A low voice came from Jin Zaiyan's ear.

  Bai Xue Ya was stunned, unsure of what to do, and stood there frozen, allowing that broad embrace to tightly envelop herself.

  After a long time, the surroundings became much quieter, and people gradually dispersed in boredom. Bai Xueya lifted her head from the loosened arms, only to find that the person in front of her had disappeared, and looking around, she couldn't see Xue Yao's figure either.

  She stood there for a long time, feeling as if she had done something wrong, yet seemingly unrelated to her, just standing there blankly, letting the mixed gazes of people wrap around her.

  Then, amidst the numerous gazes, she caught a glimpse of an unusual gaze —

  From Lu-Haochen.

  He still stood under a tree, the dense foliage enveloping his tall figure and casting dappled shadows. The somber tone was as if he were a sketch in black and white, detached from this bright and colorful world, gazing at her from a distant shore.

  His face was expressionless, seemingly frozen stiff like ice, but his eyes carried a turbulent color, like surging waves, hiding many secrets unknown to others.

  She paused for a moment, feeling a weight on her shoulder, and turned around.

  Jin Zaiyan stood behind her, his arm lightly resting on her shoulder, his golden hair fluttering and shining in the sunlight, his tender lips curved into a gentle smile, revealing a set of clean and neat white teeth.

  "It's a neurological disease." Bai Xiaya said weakly, her mood so depressed that she didn't even have the energy to scold anyone.

  Jin Yan still responded with a smile, as if what had just happened had nothing to do with him.

  "It's all for your own good."

  "What the hell?" Bai Xueya cursed and turned away with a flick of her sleeve.

  In the following days, she never saw Xue Yao Dong again, as if he had evaporated into thin air and completely disappeared from this world. Naturally, he also thoroughly disappeared from this summer camp.

  Some say he left early because he was too embarrassed. And Bai Xueya could never see him again.

  Indescribable feelings.

  It was originally a very casual thing, but because of my own ignorance and indulgence in Jin Yan, it caused another person's mood and even spiritual collapse. Bai Xiaoya didn't know how to describe this matter, she just felt an unprecedented heaviness in her heart.