Chapter 176 Chapter 176: Your Little Cheng'S Death Was Truly For Nothing
Chapter 176: Your Little Cheng'S Death Was Truly For Nothing
The advisor was also injured, but I don't know which hospital she's in.
Su Tao lowered her head, pursed her lips, and still nodded, "I'll go back to the dorm first, and grab some things for the advisor while I'm there."
"That works too." Cheng Cheng had no objections and returned to the dorm with Su Tao.
With the holidays approaching, the dorm was bustling with people coming and going. Most who knew Su Tao greeted her. A small figure sat at the dorm's front desk, busily preparing signing forms for departure agreements, completely absorbed in her work.
Upon hearing Su Tao greet someone, the figure immediately jumped up and shouted, "Sister Su Tao!"
The moment Fang Ning's voice rang out, Su Tao froze.
The little loli happily emerged from the crowd. "Sister Su Tao, long time no see! Do you have a moment later? There's something I want to talk to you about."
"Oh... is that so?" Su Tao gave an awkward laugh, avoiding eye contact. "Sorry, I'm going to see my advisor in a bit, so I don't really have time."
Fang Ning blinked in confusion. "Is it Advisor Qin?"
"Yes."
"But Advisor Qin isn't already..."
Before Fang Ning could finish, she heard someone shout loudly from behind her, "Ning Ning! What should I fill in here? Where are you?" "Ahhh, I'm here!"
Fang Ning clasped her hands together apologetically to Su Tao, then hurried back into the crowd.
Su Tao tilted her head, feeling a slight puzzlement, but didn't dwell on it.
Back in the dorm, Chen Qian's bed was made, and her luggage packed, though her suitcase was still there, indicating she was also ready to head home.
Xiao Wei was still sound asleep in bed. Su Tao lightened her steps, took her things, and then quietly left.
Cheng Cheng followed beside Su Tao and asked, "What now?"
"I'll go ask which hospital the advisor is in."
Su Tao returned to the first floor and quickly found a classmate from her major. "Excuse me, could you tell me which hospital Advisor Qin is in? She was stabbed earlier, wasn't she?"
"Advisor Qin?" The classmate recognized Su Tao and slowly said, "Advisor Qin has already been disciplined and expelled, hasn't she? Taozi, you were involved, don't you know?"
"Discipline? Expelled? I was involved?" Su Tao looked completely bewildered.
Nearly half a month had passed since Chi Xiaocheng's death. At first, Su Tao had been completely depressed at home, avoiding Ye Liang and weeping with regret. After she had taken revenge on Ye Liang, she lost her purpose, spent her days staring blankly at home, and didn't even attend her final exams. Most of her classes that semester were already failing, and she had no idea what was happening at school.
The classmate pointed outside. "Turn right after you exit the dorm area. Everything's written on the notice board there. Go see for yourself."
For some reason, Su Tao had a bad feeling. Her steps quickened as she left the dorm.
Cheng Cheng's lips curved into a smile, and she turned back, meeting the gaze of a small head peering out from behind the counter. Ever since Su Tao had come down to the first floor, Fang Ning had been watching this direction. Cheng Cheng raised an eyebrow at the little loli, then gestured in Su Tao's direction. Only then did she start walking, slowly following the latter.
As for Fang Ning, after blinking a few times in confusion, she seemed to glimpse someone's shadow in Cheng Cheng's retreating figure. After much hesitation, she called out to the break room, "Auntie Ruan Ruan, I need to go out for a bit. Could you cover for me?"
A kindly voice immediately responded from the break room, "Alright, little Ning Ning, you go ahead. If you're busy this afternoon, you don't need to come back. I'll take care of things here."
"Thank you, Auntie~" Fang Ning sweetly called out, then ran to the break room, threw on a worn-out coat she'd bought secondhand online, and hurried out to follow Su Tao and Cheng Cheng.
The school's main notice board was outside the dorm area. It was about a five-minute walk.
Su Tao sought out her advisor not only out of concern and to apologize, but also to prove that Xiaocheng's yandere tendencies were excessive, and that she wasn't simply unable to control Xiaocheng. She hoped this would alleviate the guilt in her heart. —"It's truly not that I didn't love Xiaocheng, but rather that Xiaocheng's yandere nature was beyond my control." —She used this to evade a responsibility that was both hers and not hers.
However, the closer she got to the notice board, the heavier Su Tao's heart felt for some unknown reason. Her sixth sense told her it would be best not to look at the notice board.
Ultimately, she stood before the notice board, quickly searching for any announcements regarding Advisor Qin. When she saw the large characters, Su Tao's pupils suddenly constricted.
"Academic fraud, plagiarism, expulsion, banned by the academic world..." The light in her eyes slowly diminished, her lips still murmuring the revealed contents.
"Advisor Qin plagiarized student Su's thesis, publishing it under her own name in academic journals to significant acclaim..."
This was followed by examples of several thesis titles. How could Su Tao not know? Those were the theses she had painstakingly written over the past few months!
Cheng Cheng slowly approached from the side. "So your advisor wasn't cultivating you at all, but using you, appropriating your theses for herself. First it was your Sister Long, then your advisor. So much time has passed, and Xiaocheng is already dead, yet you're still thinking about avoiding things. I truly feel Xiaocheng died for nothing."
Su Tao listened to the faint voice by her ear. Cheng Cheng's voice, originally as cheerful as a lark, gradually became somewhat suppressed. It was uncannily like... Chi Xiaocheng on the verge of becoming yandere!
Suddenly turning to look, Su Tao saw Cheng Cheng's black eyes seemingly beginning to turn red. With a 'thud,' the things she was carrying from the dorm suddenly dropped to the ground. A feeling of fear she hadn't experienced in a long time suddenly surged in her heart. Su Tao shivered, then realized Cheng Cheng was merely calmly looking at the notice board from the side, not turning yandere like Chi Xiaocheng at all.
Just now... was it an illusion? Right, she's Cheng Cheng, not Xiaocheng. A newly met online friend, at best someone she got along with and had a good relationship with, how could she possibly turn yandere? She wasn't Xiaocheng.
But Cheng Cheng's words still pierced Su Tao's heart.
"Now, Taozi, do you still think Chi Xiaocheng interfered with your life because she was yandere? Do you remember what I just said? Regardless of the outcome, Chi Xiaocheng liked you, loved you, which is why she chose to do such extreme and radical things. Look, your Sister Long, your advisor, they were both secretly acting against you. Sun Wukong, in order to protect Tang Sanzang, fought the White Bone Demon three times, yet failed to earn Tang Sanzang's trust and was ultimately banished by him. And your yandere knight? Not only was she not understood by you, not trusted by you, she even died to protect you, yet you still refuse to face her, who is already gone."
Cheng Cheng glanced at a tree trunk behind Su Tao, and a smile played on her lips. "Your Xiaocheng, she truly died for nothing."
And behind that tree trunk, Fang Ning, holding a book, had already lost the light in her eyes.
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