Chapter 1: The Sudden Appearance of a Corpse

  What should I do at night?

  My name is Li Zichuan, I am a university student. After experiencing the devastating three years of high school, I came to university and lived in confusion like everyone else.

  Nothing else to do but go have some tea then.

  Our school dormitory is outside, a skybridge away from the school, so there's a street for students, nothing much else, but milk tea shops are everywhere.

  After experiencing a relationship, I left a circle and broke up soon after. It feels like many connections have been severed. This is what it means to lock up a city for one person.

  Subconsciously flipping through the phone's address book, I couldn't find anyone to call out together, and stopped at Zhang Ting, so I dialed it out.

  "What are you doing?"

  "No, what's up? It's been ages since you last called me." The voice was still as sweet as ever. Come to think of it, it had indeed been a long time since I'd last contacted Zhang Ting. Even when we ran into each other on the street, we would still exchange greetings.

  Let me talk about Zhang Ting, a girl I met in my freshman year. She is the type of person who makes you want to protect her, very beautiful, and even more so when she smiles, it can make people drunk.

  I was quite curious about everything when I first went to college, and my mouth was pretty sweet, so I had flirted with her before and then dodged... how to say it, at that time the two of us had a crush on each other, but I didn't want to hold her back. Because 20-year-olds are generally playful and don't want to be constrained by others.

  But later on, he got together with another girl... She knew about it, so I didn't have any further contact with her either.

  I just know she hasn't talked about anything yet...

  "Let's go out and have some tea." I felt a bit awkward, after all, it was something from the past, and now I suddenly went to find her.

  "Uh-huh, okay, I'll wait for you. Still Green Dream?"

  The green dream is a place we used to go often before, and this habit has not changed until now, so even the boss has become familiar with me.

  I arrived early and sat waiting for her.

  Before long, I saw her, she smiled and walked over, still so drunk...

  I want to drink...

  "Ahua Tian, is it hot?" Looking at her adorable appearance makes my heart skip a beat, I still remember what she loves to drink.

  "How's your recent study going?" I don't know why this sentence suddenly popped out and I asked Zhang Ting, I didn't know how to start.

  "Hmm, I'm fine. How about you?" Zhang Ting was also taken aback by my question for a moment, but then smiled and asked me back.

  I fell silent again, I really don't know how to start talking.

  "Where is your girlfriend?"

  "Ah, I see..."

  This was asked by Zhang Ting, I felt quite embarrassed when I heard it and didn't know how to respond to her.

  "Really?..."

  "Oh, I don't want to talk."

  Some people say that there are a few things you must try in college: skipping class, having a part-time job, and falling in love.

  But how many university romances can come to fruition?

  "It's getting late, I should head back to the dorm too." Seeing Zhang Ting stand up, I took a look at the time and it had passed really quickly. We hadn't said much to each other but it was almost 10 o'clock already.

  "I'll send you off."

  "Uh-huh."

  Our school is a bit special, there are two student dormitories, one is inside the campus and the other is outside the campus. Zhang Ting happens to be in the one on campus, while I am in the one off campus.

  She walked with him on the way back, keeping a certain distance apart.

  "How did you split up?" Zhang Ting asked me with great interest.

  "Don't want to mention it anymore. Anyway, it's all in the past."

  Up the stairs and just ahead is the entrance to the dormitory, are you leaving?

  "Zi River, actually..." I turned around and was about to leave when Zhang Ting called me back, but before she could say anything, a loud noise interrupted her.

  "Ah!" I saw Zhang Ting exclaimed, her eyes wide with fear. "Dead... dead person..."

  I turned my head in the direction Zhang Ting pointed, and a few steps behind me on the road lay a girl, the ground around her was stained with her fresh blood, her head facing us, her eyes wide open, and blood constantly flowing from the corner of her mouth.

  "Don't look." I subconsciously stretched out my hand to cover Zhang Ting's eyes, feeling that her body was trembling all over.

  "It seems... it seems like it's my roommate!" Zhang Ting said tremblingly.

  Her roommate?

  I looked up at the upstairs and all the girls in the building came out to watch.

  Winter... In the cold wind, there was still a hint of blood.

  I don't know why, but I stared at the corpse and got a false impression that it was also staring back at me. Subconsciously, I took two steps back, feeling as if her eyeballs were still rolling!

  Is it an illusion?

  Before long, the police arrived and sealed off the scene, taking away the body.

  But Zhang Ting and I were taken back by the police, saying we had to make a statement.

  In the police car, I looked at Zhang Ting who was still shaking and kept comforting her. My mind was also constantly thinking, why did the eyeballs of that corpse move? I shouldn't have seen it wrong.

  After finishing the deposition, I supported Zhang Ting out.

  "Don't go back tonight, let's stay out for a night." Looking at Zhang Ting now, seeing the sudden appearance of a dead person in front of her, anyone would be unacceptable.

  "Hmm." Much better than before.

  I took her to a place to live, and as I watched her fall asleep, she seemed afraid to close her eyes.

  "Zihe... As soon as I close my eyes, that scene appears in my mind, a corpse lying in front of me." Zhang Ting said to me with her head covered by the quilt.

  "Alright, don't think about it anymore, just get a good sleep, I guarantee you'll forget about it by tomorrow." I sat on the stool, not remembering how long I comforted her until she fell asleep.

  I sat on the stool with my eyes closed, it wasn't just Zhang Ting, I was also in that picture, and mine was even more eerie, because her eyeballs were staring at me all the time...

  Yeah, I don't know how I woke up.

  "This isn't where I just lived, is it?" I looked around at the surroundings, and the entire room's decor had changed. The lighting was now very seductive, and that long bed had turned into a large round bed, but Zhang Ting was nowhere to be seen.

  Ding ding ding ~ I saw the phone on the bedside ringing.

  "Hello sir, can I help you with anything?"

  Service? What service? I saw an advertisement next to the phone that read: Massage...

  At that time, I felt like I didn't know why I was getting more and more thoughtless, even forgetting what happened tonight.

  I was just about to say no when I heard someone knocking at the door, and the phone hung up. I went to open the door.

  Then a sexy woman with revealing clothes appeared in front of me! I didn't ask for it!

  I looked back and the woman had put on all the seductive clothes, without my consent, she directly entered the room, sat on the bed, stroking her legs to tempt me.

  "I didn't say I wanted service!" I forced myself to remain calm, but for the first time, I felt a burning flame. What flame? Lust!

  "Alright, brother, coming out here is supposed to be relaxing, don't you want that?" The woman walked over, rubbing her thigh against me and gazing at me seductively. I felt like I had to restrain myself, but for whom was I doing it?

  I couldn't take it anymore, her body was getting closer and closer to me, the perfume on her was also drifting into my nostrils, it was a bit pungent but had a familiar smell, I felt like I had smelled it before but couldn't quite recall.

  All the men with potency can't help themselves, and all I can think of is: Eat her up!

  I pushed her down onto the bed and pressed down on her.

  I hastily took off my clothes, and the woman below me laughed and said, "Come on, hurry up and take them off."

  As she spoke, her eyes kept rolling around, and I always felt why it felt so familiar. This taste, for her, who is she?

  I remembered! She was Zhang Ting! Where did Zhang Ting go, I regained my sanity and looked at the person under me. The enchanting woman just now suddenly disappeared, but a corpse was pressed under me by me, this corpse was facing away from me!

  That's the one who jumped off the building! The posture hasn't changed at all and is still in the same position as when he was dead, lying under me!

  "Zi Jiang, wake up!" I was woken up by Zhang Ting, and it turned out to be a dream. Looking at Zhang Ting's expression, I felt quite guilty, as if she was in front of me and I still had that kind of dream. But did this count as that kind of dream?

  "Did you sleep well last night?" I saw Zhang Ting became lively again, seems like she's much better now.

  "Hmm, slept a lot~~~~~ so comfortable! Hehe" Still with that signature smile.

  "Let's go, we're going back to school for class!"

  I went back to school with Zhang Ting, but since we weren't in the same major, I sent her off at the classroom door and headed back myself.

  "Zi Chuan, I heard that a girl jumped off the building in our school last night, do you know about it?" As soon as I came back, Zhang Ran was telling me about this.

  "Uh-huh, got it." I listlessly replied with a single sentence.

  "Huh, how did you know? You weren't at school last night, but anyway, what were you up to last night?" Yang Xiaofei said with a sly-looking smile on his face as he gazed at me.

  "No, something happened last night, how would I not know, because I was right there at that time." As soon as I said this, all my roommates were drawn over and asked me.

  "What is the process like."

  "What process is there, it just fell down all of a sudden......" I told them what happened last night, without mentioning that Zhang Ting and I spent the night outside, so they wouldn't think everything was meaningful when looking at me.

  "Zihe River, let's have lunch together at noon." It was Zhang Ting's phone call. After contacting her again last night, I felt that our relationship was slowly warming up.

  "Alright, let's go."

  "Zihe, last night that really was my roommate! None of us could think of why she would jump down." During dinner, Zhang Ting told me that the girl was her roommate. I thought to myself, if you're not even afraid of death, why be afraid of life.

  The reason why many girls take their own lives is just one - love.

  "What's her name?"

  "Liao Mengmeng. Yesterday we were still in class together, didn't feel anything different, but today it's like this." Zhang Ting stopped and said this sentence.

  Liao Mengmeng? .....