Chapter Twenty-Four A Moment of Hesitation

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  "What's wrong with you staring at me? Don't recognize me?"

  Guo Zhengyang stared at Fang Xiaoying across the street, looking a bit dazed. However, this expression made Fang Xiaoying happy, and she didn't even notice the passing cars on the road as she walked over from the other side of the street. Then, with a suave raise of her eyebrow, she looked over at him with a joyful smile.

  In Guo Zhengyang's impression, she was originally a very lively and outgoing girl. Other girls who had been rejected by Guo Zhengyang mostly avoided him after that, as if they were too embarrassed to face him after mustering up the courage to confess their feelings. However, Fang Xiaoying's openness made her proactively greet Guo Zhengyang whenever she saw him on or off campus, even when he ignored her, and rarely bothered this carefree girl.

  "No, it's a bit unexpected, class is about to start, you guys don't seem to be heading back to school." Guo Zhengyang finally came back to his senses and smiled calmly.

  "Huh, today is An Qi's birthday in your class. We're planning to go out and celebrate for her. How about you? Do you want to come along?" Fang Xiaoying smiled, but amidst the gentle smile, her eyes seemed to sparkle with excitement as she extended a warm invitation. Just then, Guo Zhengyang suddenly remembered something - someone had mentioned last Sunday evening that An Qi's birthday was this week, and it turned out to be today.

  But he really didn't know that Fang Xiaoying was also one of the birthday party members.

  Does this person seem to have a good relationship with those people over there?

  "No, I won't go then, I need to return to school." Guo Zhengyang calmly refused again.

  "Hey, why are you always so cool?" Fang Xiaoying smiled again, her smile radiant and carefree, making it hard to believe that such a lovely girl would jump off a building and end her own life just a month later.

  As the two of them chatted, another group of two men and three women walked over from across the street. An Qi and her deskmate were both smiling and nodding at Guo Zhengyang, their eyes filled with amusement as they sized up Fang Xiaoying. On the other hand, the other two men and one woman looked at Guo Zhengyang with some disdain. Like Fang Xiaoying, none of them were from Class 3-5, and Guo Zhengyang had no impression of them whatsoever.

  "Who is this, turns out it's the class clown from Class 3-5! Haha, a guy with a backpack, skipping school or running away?" One of the two boys, who had a buzz cut, spoke up with a smile, his tone somewhat playful.

  "Hey, Yang Mingjie, what's with the way you're talking?" Before Guo Zhengyang could react, Fang Xiaoying glared at him, turned around and looked at the boy before smiling and saying to Guo Zhengyang, "Let me introduce you, this is our classmate Yang Mingjie, this is Gu Shuai, and that's Liu Ru, these two don't need an introduction, haha, where are the two beauties from your class?"

  At first glance, Guo Zhengyang's line of sight suddenly became a bit strange. Yang Mingjie, Gu Shuai... those involved in the Fang Xiaoying murder case, were they just the two of them?

  Now it seems like Gu Shuai is following Yang Mingjie around like a lackey.

  "Guo Zhengyang, aren't you going? Come on, let's go and have some fun. It'll be more lively with more people." Fang Xiaoying said with a smile as she looked at Guo Zhengyang.

  "Hey, Xiaoying, don't think about it, now she's a good student, must be eager to go back and study, no time to skip class with us." Fang Xiaoying's words fell, the deskmate standing behind her, An Qi, suddenly spoke up, with a hint of teasing.

  "Ah~ won't be?!" Fang Xiaoying was stunned for a moment, and Yang Mingjie and others were also stunned. After being stunned for a moment, Yang Mingjie burst out laughing, looking at Guo Zhengyang with a smile, "I didn't hear it wrong, did I? I remember your grades weren't great, not much better than mine, now you're still studying hard?"

  "It's true, who in our class doesn't know that he almost spends 24 hours a day studying in the classroom. Our classroom door is never locked every day because of him. He often stays up all night, he wants to get into Tsinghua or Peking University, and we're not on the same path." Anqi's deskmate spoke again with a playful smile full of mockery.

  "Lingling, why are you talking like that." It was only after she said this sentence that Anqi frowned and glared at her, then looked apologetically at Guo Zhengyang, "Sorry, Lingling has something on her mind today and spoke a bit rashly."

  "It's nothing." Guo Zhengyang smiled, he couldn't care about this either. After all, he also knew that Tao Lingling had a weird tone, which should be related to his refusal of her invitation last time.

  After laughing, Guo Zhengyang looked at Fang Xiaoying again, "I won't go, you guys have fun."

  "Why don't you just go back and study properly? Is it still possible now?" Fang Xiaoying glared at him with a strange expression.

  "I don't know either." Guo Zhengyang shook his head and nodded at others before turning around and walking towards the school.

  "Hey, Guo Zhengyang, wait."

  Others didn't pay attention to Guo Zhengyang's farewell, but Fang Xiaoying suddenly spoke up and wanted to chase after him. Just as Guo Zhengyang was about to leave, Yang Mingjie's voice rang out again, "Xiaoying, why are you still calling him? Didn't you hear Lingling say that he's a good student and not one of us?"

  "Yeah, what's the point of studying hard? Even if he gets into a good university and graduates, it's not like it'll amount to anything. And who knows what his level is anyway, probably not even as good as us. What's the point of pretending?" Gu Shuai, who hadn't spoken much until now, also snickered in agreement with Yang Mingjie's words, clearly trying to curry favor with him.

  Not just these two, Tao Lingling and another girl also pulled Fang Xiaoying, and when Guo Zhengyang turned his head to look over, he saw that Fang Xiaoying was surrounded by people next to her and had almost no space to talk to him. He then smiled again and turned around to leave.

  It was just the beginning, and the words afterwards still fell clearly into Guo Zhengyang's ears.

  "Xiao Ying, it's not me saying this, but I heard you've chased after him several times? What's so good about this guy? Apart from acting cool, he doesn't know anything. Earlier when I confronted him, he didn't even dare to fart, such a coward. If it weren't for your sake, I would have beaten him to the ground and made him beg for mercy."

  "It's just that kind of guy can't compare with us, and now he's still pretending to be a good student, isn't he afraid of being laughed at?"

  "Hey, don't talk too much, what's it to you if I like him? Mind your own business!"

  "Alright, stop arguing, we're here to celebrate An Qi's birthday, don't fight over this."

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  Kuang Zhengyang walked steadily, step by step, getting farther and farther away. The voices from behind also gradually became much smaller, until they could no longer be heard. It was only then that his originally calm expression revealed a hint of hesitation.

  Fang Xiaoying, this girl is actually quite okay except for being a bit airheaded. If he didn't know, it wouldn't matter, but if he really knew what would happen afterwards, could he still watch her jump off the building in a month with no qualms?

  But what does someone else's life and death have to do with him?

  In the spiritual realm, he had long been accustomed to life and death, why would he care about other people's affairs? Life and death are not very normal and casual things, he shouldn't be distracted by such trivial matters.

  But he also found that his heart seemed to have an extra thread of hesitation that shouldn't be there.