Chapter 33: Make Him Pay With His Life

The new semester's test exams are coming soon, and the study atmosphere in the Academy is excellent; one can see Special Students writing furiously everywhere, while the rich and powerful young masters and misses have long since spent money to handle their connections.

Ling Wu has not been in a good mental state lately; upon arriving at the Class A classroom, he just lays his head down to sleep, neither skipping class nor playing truant.

"Ding ding ding!"

As the class bell rang, Ling Wu lifted his head from the desk and saw Qi Yu busy working on advanced math problems, with a cup of steaming hot water placed on his desk.

Ling Wu: "Did you get this water for me?"

"Yes." Qi Yu did not lift his gaze, his slender fingers holding a pen and leaving behind beautiful handwriting: "I saw your complexion wasn't very good; drink some hot water to warm your stomach."

"Thank you."

Ling Wu drank the hot water, his gaze unintentionally falling on the hand he used to turn the pages; as he moved, his sleeve, which had been resting against his skin, slid down a notch, revealing blue and purple bruises and wounds.

Qi Yu noticed it too and hurriedly pulled his sleeve back down.

"Qi Yu." Ling Wu set the cup down, casually grasped his wrist, his gaze like a torch: "What is going on? Is someone in the Academy hitting you?"

He subconsciously thought of Shen Zhaojue; did that person really go to find trouble with Qi Yu?

Qi Yu: "No, I accidentally bumped into something."

【Male supporting character, don't believe him.】

【Who bumps into something and ends up like that?】

【He lost his job at WiltedMirage and is being suppressed by the Academy, which won't give him his scholarship. With exams coming up, he can't spare the time and can only go do things like underground boxing, which pays fast.】

【If you ask me, why would the Academy suddenly suppress his scholarship and not pay it? There must be some bastard operating behind the scenes.】

【If this shitty life were mine, I would have turned dark and destroyed everyone long ago.】

Seeing Qi Yu's body stiffen, Ling Wu did not expose him: "Use some iodophor to wipe it off."

"Okay."

Qi Yu let out a sigh of relief; he didn't know why, but he had an instinctive resistance to such matters and was unwilling to let Ling Wu know.

It was as if it would stain someone who looked like ice and snow.

After class, Ling Wu said he wanted to take Qi Yu to the school infirmary, but was refused; the injuries on his body might fool an outsider like Ling Wu, but they wouldn't be hidden once they were in front of a doctor.

Qi Yu pulled him to walk in another direction: "No need, let's go to the cafeteria to eat."

"Alright." Ling Wu said softly.

The Sike Academy cafeteria is very large and has three floors; the bottom floor is mostly where faculty, staff, and Special Students eat, while the second floor is provided only for ordinary nobles.

The third floor is a combination of a high-end restaurant and an entertainment venue, a place only the F4 are qualified to step into; if one steps foot there without permission, they will be punished by the Student Council.

Ling Wu took Qi Yu up to the second floor.

Just after ordering, they heard a heavy object rolling down the stairs; Ling Wu and Qi Yu followed the sound to look.

"I was wrong, I was wrong... please spare me."

A girl wearing a navy blue school uniform rolled down the stairs, her forehead broken and her face covered in blood, looking extremely terrifying; she still had a black school badge pinned to her chest.

A Special Student?

How could she have gone to the third floor?

A moment later, a beautiful boy with a Silver School Badge pinned to his chest walked down the spiral staircase, a hint of arrogance in his eyes, and said haughtily: "What kind of thing are you, daring to seduce my boyfriend?"

Qi Yu looked at that face and frowned: "Xie Qingge."

Ling Wu: "You know him?"

"Ming Tan mentioned him to me." Qi Yu glanced at the girl on the ground again: "Xie Qingge is from Class F; he often bullies others by abusing his power and is very harsh toward Special Students, almost always beating or scolding them."

That Special Student girl was still muttering: "Please spare me... please spare me."

"I didn't seduce your boyfriend, I was pushed, really... I really didn't do it on purpose."

Xie Qingge was provoked: "And it just so happened you fell onto my boyfriend?"

"Bitch."

He slapped the girl across the face.

Ling Wu was not a person with overflowing sympathy; on the contrary, he believed that people must pay the price for their own actions, but he hated men who hit women, as well as all kinds of insulting words directed at women.

"Save me... is there anyone who can save me?"

Ling Wu took off his coat and draped it over the girl, helped her up from the ground, and a smile bloomed on his cold face as he said softly: "You go first, it's alright."

"I'll cover for you."

Seeing the school badge on his chest, the girl understood immediately and cried as she said: "Thank you... thank you, young master."

If no one had saved her, she would have been beaten to death.

These demons.

Seeing the face that often appeared on the campus forum, Xie Qingge pinched his palm in jealousy and said with a look of contempt: "So it's you."

"I heard you've been walking with my boyfriend a lot lately?"

Ling Wu was confused: "Your boyfriend is?"

Xie Qingge crossed his arms, looking down at him from on high, and spat out a few words triumphantly: "Of course it's Yin Huaiyu."

"How about it, surprised?"

"Do you still think Huaiyu likes you? You're dreaming. Unfortunately, he is already dating me now."

Ling Wu was unhurried: "Oh, not really."

His tone was light and airy, looking completely indifferent.

"You've already taught her a lesson, if there's nothing else, I'll be going."

Xie Qingge felt as if he had punched cotton; the panicked, envious, and fawning appearance he had expected from Ling Wu never appeared, and he said viciously: "Stop!"

"Who allowed you to leave?"

A tall, slender figure appeared at the end of the spiral staircase, looking down at the three people below and the blood on the ground: "What's wrong?"

Xie Qingge looked back, overjoyed: "Huaiyu."

Yin Huaiyu gave a faint "Mn," and beckoned: "Bring those two up."

Several bodyguards in black escorted the two of them up.

Xie Qingge was held in Yin Huaiyu's one-armed embrace, pink hair neatly combed back, giving that androgynous face a sharper look; Yin Huaiyu crossed long legs with composure, the gaze cast over being cold and deep.

Ling Wu asked very calmly: "What do you want to do about this matter?"

Yin Huaiyu couldn't help but sneer.

Ling Wu always had this calm and composed expression, which really made one want to tear open that beautiful skin, see the weakness inside, and make him cry and beg for mercy.

It really is an eyesore.

Yin Huaiyu pointed at Qi Yu behind him: "Since you let one Special Student go and made my darling unhappy, then use the life of another Special Student to pay for it."

"You want his life?" Ling Wu said coldly.

"Is that not allowed?" Yin Huaiyu rubbed a thumb against Xie Qingge's smooth chin, saying lazily and cold-bloodedly: "In the entire Academy, or rather, looking at the entire Empire, what is there that I cannot get?"

"Let alone the life of a lowly commoner."

Ling Wu's throat tightened, and after a long while, said: "Yin Huaiyu, you really should go to the hospital to see a psychiatrist; cold, selfish, arrogant, and conceited, you treat human life as nothing."