Ji Mingxia entered the classroom when the bell rang. In order to avoid attracting attention, he slipped in through the back door.
As a result, as soon as he walked into the classroom, the people in the back row noticed him first, and immediately stopped talking and stared at him with wide eyes. The people in the back row noticed the silence in the back row and couldn't help but turn their heads back. Eventually, the whole class turned their heads and watched Ji Mingxia walk into the classroom.
The whole class was silent, with only the "thump thump" sound of Ji Mingxia's footsteps.
This scene was so horrifying that from a certain perspective, Ji Mingxia would rather see ghosts of the entire class than have all the living people in the class stare at him as if they had seen some kind of magical animal.
Under the gaze of everyone, Ji Mingxia returned to his seat with cold sweat on his forehead.
After he sat down, everyone probably felt that staring at people like that was not a good idea, so some people reluctantly retracted their gazes, but some others still couldn't help but stare at Ji Mingxia.
In order to avoid these gazes, Ji Mingxia pretended to be indifferent and turned on his mobile phone. As soon as the screen lit up, countless messages popped up.
Ji Mingxia hasn't made any friends since he went to college. Even with Lin Cheng and Luo Xuan, his two good brothers from his previous life, he has barely spoken to them in this life.
At this moment, all the people sending him messages on WeChat were his former classmates.
Ji Mingxia had blocked the classmates group a long time ago, and the ones that popped up were all private chats.
Zhao Zhuoyue: Oh my god, Mingxia, you are in the same school with Yu Ning now? What's going on between you and Ye Tian? Are you okay? Protect yourself! !
Chen Zhen: Don’t pay attention to the comments on the Internet. It’s enough for us to know who we are.
Zhu Ming: Mingxia, just take a look at the nonsense on the Internet, don’t take it seriously, and disconnect from the Internet if you feel like it. Real life is more important.
Classmate A: Mingxia, if you want to explain, we will help you forward it.
Classmate B: Brother Mingxia, you and Ye Tian know each other, I’m so jealous!!
Ji Mingxia was completely stunned after reading all this diverse information.
During the summer vacation, he hardly went online because he missed Yu Ning. Ji Mingxia also did not participate in Zhao Zhuoyue's cycling trip to Tibet and other activities.
At the beginning, everyone in the class group and dormitory group was very active. After all, we had been suppressed for three years in high school and we could finally let ourselves go during the summer vacation.
But gradually, fewer and fewer people spoke in the group.
Ji Mingxia didn't show up in the group for two months during the summer vacation. The group also found it strange, and no one took the initiative to ask about his daily life.
Ji Mingxia was immersed in his own world and didn't notice anything unusual. He thought everyone was busy with their own things.
It was not until yesterday when he read the news online that he learned that after Yu Ning became popular, his fans launched a crackdown on Yu Ning's former classmates.
They found out the Weibo and WeChat accounts of Yu Yuning’s classmates, surrounded them and hurled wild insults at the person involved.
After the school noticed this phenomenon, a teacher immediately came to provide psychological counseling to the person involved.
At the same time, we notified all teachers and students in the school that if possible, they should suspend the use of public social accounts and wait until the storm is over before speaking out.
Most people have no objection to this.
Yu Ning has been isolated since childhood. Many students are often the initiators, but they are the persistent perpetrators.
Most people are not radical separatists, they just follow the crowd and use cold violence against Yu Ning.
When this matter became known to the outside world and fermented, many students also realized their mistakes.
On the one hand, they felt that their cold violence against Yu Ning was wrong, but on the other hand, they were very afraid of the human harassment from Yu Ning's fans.
We are all adults now and need to be responsible for the wrong things we have done. Few people have come out to refute the online condemnations, and everyone has tried to avoid human flesh harassment.
In such a situation, quitting the Internet directly is the most direct and effective way.
So during the two months of summer vacation, Ji Mingxia did not appear online and attracted no attention at all. His close friends all thought that Ji Mingxia did not show up in order to avoid harassment.
Until today, Ji Mingxia was pushed to the forefront of public opinion, and those who paid attention to this matter could not help but privately tagged him.
After reading the private message, Ji Mingxia went to the forum and Weibo to search, and only then did he know what had happened.
With the beginning of a new school term, the attention of many young people was diverted, and the stories about Yu Ning and Ye Tian were no longer so frequently reported on the Internet.
It was not until noon that the relationship between Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning was exposed. Immediately afterwards, Ye Tian came to find Ji Mingxia in person. Ye Tian and Yu Ning, two highly exposed people, were involved together because of Ji Mingxia.
Ji Mingxia's confusing identity instantly attracted attention. In just one afternoon, the campus forum was flooded with comments and Weibo trended. Although it did not rush to the front row and was hovering around the 40th or 50th positions, for those who paid attention to this matter, this level of popularity was already very scary.
Zhao Zhuoyue and others were afraid that Ji Mingxia would be cyberbullied or could not withstand the attack of rumors, so they quickly chatted with Ji Mingxia privately, asking him to be more open-minded and focus on the three-dimensional world.
After Ji Mingxia understood the cause and effect, he responded to the private messages one by one, telling them not to worry.
He never imagined that things would develop to this point in just one afternoon.
In this regard, Ji Mingxia had no better solution except to wait and see.
Zhao Zhuoyue and the others had endured two months of online violence, and Ji Mingxia luckily escaped the disaster because he realized it later. However, now that he and Yu Ning were roommates again, he naturally had to be prepared to face everything.
Although he had to face the risk of being exposed and cyber-bullied, when he thought about becoming roommates with Yu Ning again, Ji Mingxia even felt that he had gotten a small advantage.
If there is one thing that makes Ji Mingxia feel regretful, it is that compared with Yu Ning's results, H is a little bit ordinary.
It's a bit of a waste of talent to let Yu Ning be his classmate.
After figuring all this out, Ji Mingxia felt calm inside. He tried his best to ignore the whispers around him and prepared for class as usual.
The afternoon passed quickly, and the last class was taught by the head teacher, who finalized matters such as the temporary monitor and temporary class cadres.
Seeing that the whole class's attention was constantly on Ji Mingxia, the head teacher was a little worried that Ji Mingxia was under too much pressure. Just as he was about to persuade everyone, at this moment, someone said "Fuck!", and then the whole class started to whisper to each other.
"Are you sure?"
"Are you seeing things? His department is so far away from us."
“Everyone has taken pictures!!”
"What's going on?"
"Yu Ning is here!"
Just at this moment, another figure appeared at the door of Ji Mingxia's class.
This time, there was no need to wait for the head teacher to leave, because the person sitting by the window had already stuck his head out and looked at the person outside the door.
Compared to Ye Tian's petite stature, Yu Ning is taller than ordinary people, and he can be seen at a glance when standing in the aisle.
After confirming that it was Yu Ning who came, everyone turned their heads and looked at Ji Mingxia in shock.
Ji Mingxia was also very shocked. He simply couldn't understand why Yu Ning came to him at such a critical moment? !
The head teacher had already walked out. After talking to Yu Ning for a few words, he returned to the classroom and called out as he did in the morning, "Student Ji Mingxia, please come out for a moment."
Under the gaze of the whole class, Ji Mingxia walked out of the classroom again.
When Ji Mingxia was handed over by Ye Tian for the first time in the morning, he was still a little confused and didn't know what to do.
But now, Ji Mingxia is more sober than ever.
He restrained his expression and walked out of the classroom, where he saw Yu Ning standing outside the door waiting for him.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia didn't say anything, Yu Ning called out his name: "Mingxia."
The head teacher saw that it was not just students from his class, but people from the next class all poked their heads out, and everyone was recording videos with their phones, so he quickly said, "This is not a place to talk, you two can go to my office and chat."
Having said that, the head teacher once again opened the door of his office and brought Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia in.
As soon as he entered the office, Yu Ning's expression changed subtly.
However, the head teacher was still there, so Yu Ning quickly calmed down and thanked the head teacher first: "I'm sorry for the trouble. Thank you."
"You're welcome. I've seen your pictures online and thought they were all photoshopped. I didn't expect you to look exactly like the pictures. You're so beautiful." The head teacher waved her hand and said with a smile, "Go back and tell my parents, my wife, and my daughter that I met Yu Ning. They must be very, very jealous of me."
Ji Mingxia was originally staring at Yu Ning, but when he heard these familiar words, he couldn't help but glance at the head teacher.
The head teacher patted Ji Mingxia on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Thank you for your hard work. You can chat slowly."
After saying that, the head teacher was very tactful again and helped Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning close the door tightly. Then he returned to the classroom and sent back all the students who were peeking out.
Ji Mingxia was not wrong this time. When the head teacher closed the door, the look in his eyes was strange.
However, Yu Ning was right in front of him, and Ji Mingxia didn't have time to care about what the head teacher thought. Seeing that Yu Ning was still looking around, Ji Mingxia said seriously: "Yu Ning, you should have come."
Yu Ning turned around and looked at Ji Mingxia.
Ji Mingxia asked, "Are you here because Ye Tian came to see me at noon and everyone is discussing this matter now?"
Yu Ning raised his eyebrows slightly: "Ye Tian was also in this office this afternoon?"
"That's right." Ji Mingxia thought of the public opinions on the Internet, and his voice unconsciously became a little low. "Ye Tian came to see me. Everyone was curious about who I was. They dug up my information and found out that we were classmates..."
Yu Ning has so many fans, partly because of his good looks, partly because of his achievements, and a larger part because he has suffered countless hardships in the past, and now he has finally broken free from adversity and ushered in a new life.
Some people pity him, some people envy him, and more people are fans of his career, hoping that his life will prosper and that he will slap the faces of all those who once looked down on him.
Yu Ning's fans would go back and verbally abuse his schoolmates for him, and would also be sarcastic to Yu Ning because he was not ambitious enough.
The fact that Yu Ning gave up Peking University and Tsinghua University and came to H University has caused controversy.
Now that Ji Mingxia's affairs have been dug up, if fans knew that after suffering from cold violence, Yu Ning not only did not slap Ji Mingxia in the face, but even maintained a good relationship with Ji Mingxia, public opinion would be very unfavorable to Yu Ning.
Ji Mingxia could predict that the gun pointed at him at this moment would soon be pointed at Yu Ning.
The original body had used cold violence against Yu Ning. Ji Mingxia traveled through time and space to inherit the original body's identity. Bearing the current online abuse was still within Ji Mingxia's acceptable range.
But if Yu Ning was scolded for this, Ji Mingxia would absolutely not be able to accept it.
Yu Ning had endured eighteen years of hardship and finally said goodbye to the past. Now so many people like him and he is in such a good situation. He cannot lose everything because of Ji Mingxia.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia hardened his heart and said to Yu Ning: "I don't know if you have seen the news on the school forum and Weibo. I think we should not have any contact recently, so as not to affect you..."
Yu Ning ran over from afar to pick him up, but Ji Mingxia greeted him with these words.
Ji Mingxia was prepared for Yu Ning to be angry. He lowered his head and waited anxiously for Yu Ning's reaction.
But the strange thing is that Yu Ning remained quiet and didn't say anything.
Ji Mingxia waited for a moment, and when he heard the reply, he couldn't help but raise his head, only to find that Yu Ning was looking at him with a sad expression on his face.
"Are you worried that I will influence you?" Yu Ning said, "If you are with an oddball like me, no one will want to be friends with you."
Ji Mingxia nodded at first, but as he listened, he felt more and more that it was not right, so he quickly said, "Isn't it? I am worried about you..."
"Are you worried about an outlier like me?" Yu Ning said.
Ji Mingxia couldn't bear to hear the word "weird". He didn't bother to explain to Yu Ning and said quickly: "You are a weird. No one said you are a weird!"
"Then why are you worried about being affected?" Yu Ning asked curiously.
Ji Mingxia said hurriedly: "Because now everyone likes you, not me. If you stay with me, you will be scolded, and there will be no benefit."
"How can there be no benefit?" Yu Ning whispered. Seeing Ji Mingxia still looking at him anxiously, Yu Ning said, "Mingxia, except for you, no one is willing to be friends with me. If even you want to distance yourself from me, then I will only have one person left."
"How is that possible?" Ji Mingxia said in surprise, "You haven't been online, so you haven't noticed how popular you are now. You have so many fans online. In school, people recognize you wherever you go. You are now a celebrity in the school, with countless fans. As long as you want, everyone in the school wants to be your friend."
"Is that so?" Yu Ning said with concern. He tapped his eye sockets lightly with his fingers, and the color of his eyes changed rapidly, from black to grayish white, with only the small pupil floating in the center.
It was just a change in eye color, and no one knew what was going on. When his eyes turned gray, Yu Ning's temperament suddenly changed. Not only his eyeballs became weird, but his whole person became gloomy.
The setting sun shone into the office, and the surroundings were quiet. However, after Yu Ning's aura changed, the temperature in the office seemed to drop by several degrees.
Even though Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were so familiar with each other, he was still shocked when he saw the changed Yu Ning.
If someone who is not familiar with Yu Ning suddenly saw this scene, they would probably mistake Yu Ning for a long-dead evil ghost zombie.
Yu Ning looked at Ji Mingxia with his gray eyes and said slowly: "If they knew that I am really like this, would they still want to get to know me?"
Ji Mingxia looked at Yu Ning's gloomy face and said with some difficulty: "Your fans... all know what you looked like with heterochromia before, and they can totally accept it..."
"What if they knew that I was born with the ability to see ghosts?" Yu Ning said.
"If they knew that whoever comes in contact with me will be in trouble... If they knew that being friends with me would lead to being haunted by evil spirits at any time and even costing one's life... would anyone still be willing to get close to me?" Yu Ning said.
Ji Mingxia answered immediately.
Those teachers and those classmates have already answered Yu Ning with their choices.
Many of them did not have any deep hatred with Yu Ning.
I have no interest in school bullying.
They don't want to bully a child, they are just seeking profit and avoiding harm.
The same was true for the original self. He had no choice but to live in the same dormitory with Yu Ning, but he really wanted to be friends with Yu Ning, so he pretended that Yu Ning did not exist.
No one bullied him or approached him actively. The original body felt that he had done nothing wrong, but when everyone behaved like this, Yu Ning was eventually hurt.
Because this is a supernatural world, and because Yu Ning's physique is indeed very special, this ultimately becomes an unsolvable problem.
Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia lowered his head in shame: "I'm sorry, Yu Ning, actually I also..."
When he first came to this world, he also chose to treat Yu Ning in the same way.
"You are the same." Yu Ning said softly, "But if you are worried about being influenced by public opinion and choose to avoid me, I can accept it. Anyway, I have always been alone. After all these years, I have already gotten used to it.
"I'll leave first. When there are fewer people around, you can go back to the dormitory. As long as no one sees us together, they will stop thinking too much about it."
Just at this moment, the bell for the end of get out of class rang.
"Sorry Mingxia, I'm causing you trouble." Yu Ning's eyes returned to their normal dark color. He said dejectedly, turned around, opened the office door, and prepared to leave alone.
Ji Mingxia looked at his back and became completely panicked.
His original intention was to persuade Yu Ning to stay away from him so as not to be implicated by him and disappoint his fans.
But I don’t know what’s going on. As they talked, it seemed that Ji Mingxia was going to abandon Yu Ning.
He didn't want Yu Ning to be hurt, but he didn't want to hurt Yu Ning himself!
Seeing Yu Ning walking out dejectedly, like an abandoned little animal, Ji Mingxia quickly ran to his side: "Yu Ning!"
"I don't like to cause trouble, but I've never cared about public opinion." Ji Mingxia said, "I just don't want you to be sad. Since you don't care... then let's go back together."
As he spoke, he took a deep breath, opened the office door, and walked out with Yu Ning.
Ji Mingxia, who was preparing to face the gazes of the students passing by, did not notice that there was no look of loss or sadness on Yu Ning's face at this moment.
His eyes were on Ji Mingxia from beginning to end.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia was obviously extremely nervous, but pretended to be concerned and pulled him to walk together, Yu Ning raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a faint smile.
He walked alone in the darkness, until one day, a beam of light fell into his hand.
From then on, his life was moving towards the light.
In order to get out of the darkness, he went to the research institute for testing and transformation, enduring countless pains day and night. After two months of hard work, he finally suppressed his nature, just to fit in with the university life of ordinary people.
He lied to Ji Mingxia. He didn't want to go back to the past, and it was even more impossible for him to get used to being alone.
Ji Mingxia is the light he pursues.
He will chase it forever and ever.