Chapter 42: The Mystery of Tang Yu's Suicide

  After school, Yu Shuang, Qiao An, Yu Liang and Gu Siqian walked together. The usually quiet Yu Shuang actually took the initiative to talk about some gossip she knew.

  "Do you know? The person Tang Yuxin likes in the legend finally surfaced. It's her childhood sweetheart."

  "It's another childhood sweetheart!" Qiao Anyu and Gu Sichen looked at each other and said in unison. There was no way around it, this school had elementary and middle school combined, and the years they spent together were enough to make them childhood sweethearts.

  "I just started and you two interrupted me." Yu Shuang pouted her mouth, indicating that she was unwilling to continue speaking.

  "Alright, alright, we'll keep quiet and listen carefully then."

  "Tang Yuxin liked her childhood sweetheart, and always thought that the boy also liked her. But one day, the boy told her that he actually liked another girl, and to her, it was just a sibling relationship. Tang Yuxin wrote a letter, maliciously hurting the other girl, but before she could send it out, the boy discovered it and stopped her. The boy was very angry at Tang Yuxin's behavior, and they had a big fight, being cold with each other for a long time. Later, Tang Yuxin took the initiative to make amends, but the boy said he couldn't be good to her again, or else they would continue to misunderstand each other. He and she could only be ordinary friends from then on. Tang Yuxin was heartbroken to the extreme, maybe that's why she felt hopeless about life and chose to commit suicide." Yu Xue slowly told this story.

  "Frost, when did you become so concerned with gossip? And how do you know all the details so clearly? Could it be...?" Gu Siqian's face was full of suspicion, and suddenly she thought of something, giggling and dragging out the tone, intentionally not saying it outright.

  Qiao An Yu Liang hadn't understood the implied meaning behind the two words "difficult to" when Yu Shuang raised her hand and made a gesture as if she was going to twist Gu Si Qian's arm: "You're starting to exercise your imagination again. If I were the one involved, could I still be so calm and composed telling you guys this story?"

  Qiao An held one hand across her chest and supported her cheek with the other, deep in thought: "A boy or a girl? Who will it be?"

  Yu Shuang smiled and said, "Your brain is full of mathematical formulas, so don't waste your time thinking about this. I'm sure you can't think of a reason. The boy's name is Qin Hui."

  Qiao Anyu suddenly remembered the scene on the rooftop where Qin Hui looked depressed, probably because of Tang Yuxin's affairs. So Shu Zimo was nervous about Tang Yuxin due to Qin Hui's relationship, not because he was pursuing Tang Yuxin as rumored? But Qin Hui liked someone else, not Tang Yuxin. Qiao Anyu was confused by these complicated triangular relationships and simply ignored them. The exam didn't test such abstract trigonometric functions, no need to spend so much energy and time solving it. Gossip is just a moon in the water, flowers in the fog. Only the people involved understand what's going on.

  But every time Qiao An Yulian went to Shu Zimo's corner to collect homework, she would take a few more glances at him, but never saw any signs that Shu Zimo liked Tang Yuxin. As soon as Qiao An Yulian's eyes landed on Shu Zimo, he immediately felt like he had seen through her intentions and glared back at her fiercely, making her look away in embarrassment. However, she then met Su Youzhe's inquiring gaze and smiled awkwardly. She didn't have time to put on her best smile and could only force a laugh, her face turning red as she quickly finished collecting the homework and left. In fact, opportunities to collect homework from Shu Zimo's corner were rare, because Shu Zimo would always diligently hand in his and Su Youzhe's homework on time, unless there were special circumstances, such as when Shu Zimo was being punished to copy texts and was too busy to do so.