Chapter 70: The Chilling Campus, Sunshine Doll (8)

Zi Yushu was clearly angered by Tang Mu’s bluntness.

“Talking or cheating during exams is strictly prohibited; that’s always been the rule.”

“Oh,” Tang Mu replied coolly, “that’s the usual rule. But maybe the situation is different now. Anyway, I don’t care whether I get this question right or not. Tang Mu is my sister—even if I write the wrong answer, she won’t mark me wrong, right? As for you—ha, someone who accidentally caused her death is bound to meet a miserable end~”

There was a hint of schadenfreude in Tang Mu’s tone.

Zi Yushu said nothing. Inside, he was afraid, but he didn’t show it.

He thought he was hiding it well. But in front of someone as shrewd as Tang Mu, his feigned composure was as fragile as a paper tiger—one poke, and it would tear.

For the question “1+1=?”, Tang Mu simply wrote 2.

As expected, just as she had anticipated, her Sunny Doll showed no abnormalities.

“Riiiiing~”

The bell signaling the end of class rang.

The teacher collected all the test papers and addressed the students, “If your doll’s head is broken, come to my office. I’ve told you all so many times—work hard, strive to improve every day. But you still don’t take your studies seriously... Tonight, all of you had better pull yourselves together, or no one will be able to save you!”

With these inexplicable words, Teacher Li slowly left the classroom, carrying a stack of papers.

As soon as the teacher left, the students immediately began whispering among themselves.

“Why? What answers did you guys write? Why is writing ‘2’ wrong, but not writing it is also wrong?”

“It has nothing to do with the answer. Didn’t you notice? All the dolls with broken heads belong to those who are close to Zi Yushu, Zheng Lu, Liu Qiongying, and Li Meiqi.”

“Huh, really…”

“In any case, just be careful. Don’t get too close to those four. Otherwise, you might not live to see tomorrow’s sunrise!”

“…Tsk, I never would have thought. Weren’t those four the most popular in class before? They could order anyone around, bully and ostracize others at will. Now look, the ones being isolated and bullied are about to be them.”

“Shh, keep your voice down,” another student cautioned. “Who knows what punishment awaits for having a broken Sunny Doll? Fortune always changes hands. It was Tang Mu back then, now it’s Zi Yushu and the others. If we treat them coldly now, tomorrow it could be us being isolated.”

“Ah, I’m not worried. I never participated when the class bullied Tang Mu. Whatever happens now shouldn’t concern me.”

…

Every whispered word was clearly heard by Tang Mu.

To be honest, so much time had passed. Tang Mu had little impression of her elementary school classmates.

There were things she herself had forgotten, and yet the scenario could simulate them so realistically. It was almost absurd.

“Tang… Tang Mu.” After the exam, Liu Qiongying and Li Meiqi approached Tang Mu’s desk hesitantly.

Strangely enough, neither of their Sunny Dolls were damaged, yet they were desperate to find out what Tang Mu knew.

“So, what is your sister really thinking?”

What a question.

Tang Mu was speechless.

“How would I know what my sister is thinking? I’m not her,” she replied crisply, as if what happened all those years ago had never happened at all.

After speaking, Tang Mu even rolled her eyes at the two.

“I transferred to this school more than a month after everything happened. Didn’t you two know? I also thought it was odd—there were only supposed to be two open spots at Rose Primary, but three new students transferred in. What, did something else happen at school in the month after my sister died?”

…

A heavy silence stretched between Liu Qiongying and Li Meiqi.

Then Tang Mu understood.

“All right, I don’t really want to know. Anyway, with the way you’re going, Rose Primary is doomed sooner or later.”

“Isn’t it already doomed?” Li Meiqi suddenly shrieked, her voice sharp. “The window in Dorm 044 opens and closes every day. At midnight, there’s always a figure in red wandering the fourth-floor washroom! Every day we live in fear that the dead Tang Mu will come for revenge… Liu Qiongying and I are on the verge of a breakdown! We haven’t had a good night’s sleep in ages!”

“And it’s all because of your sister!”

As she shouted, Li Meiqi broke down in tears.

“All I did was pour a few bottles of water into her bag, tear a few pages of her homework, and put some stinkbugs in her desk. Why wouldn’t she let me go? I never really did anything to hurt her…”

“If she wants revenge, she should go after Zi Yushu! He was the one who threw away the stars, paper cranes, and message bottles she gave. And that diary… If Zi Yushu hadn’t stepped on her diary, maybe your sister wouldn’t have…”

“Tang Mu, you’re her sister. Please, talk to her for us. We really didn’t mean it when we did those things!”

Heh.

Tang Mu couldn’t be bothered to reply.

“Sorry. I’m not close to my sister.”

She meant it—she really wasn’t. After all, the role of “Tang Mu” was now beyond her control. Whatever “Tang Mu” wanted to do had nothing to do with her.

“If you truly want to apologize, why not go to the fourth-floor washroom tonight? I think if you’re sincere, my sister will ‘forgive’ you sincerely as well.”

Liu Qiongying and Li Meiqi were speechless.

Ignoring them, Tang Mu packed her bag and headed to her dorm.

“Oh, by the way, tell the teacher I’m not feeling well and won’t be attending any more classes today. Please ask for leave on my behalf.”

Elementary school classes were nothing worth attending—just multiplication tables and basic theorems, dull and boring.

She’d much rather hide in her dorm, read romance novels, and nap.

Returning to her dormitory, Tang Mu casually opened the door to Dorm 044.

Inside, it was completely empty.

No one in the whole school dared stay in Dorm 044 anymore. The four-person room had become her exclusive space.

The windows were tightly shut.

Just as Tang Mu was about to take off her shoes and lie down with a novel, the door creaked open.

She frowned and looked back.

To her surprise—?