On a rainy night, the school beauty knocked on my door and asked for shelter

When Chen Mo first came to school, he seemed perfectly normal, but upon seeing the atmosphere in the classroom, he immediately realized that something was amiss.

As he curiously walked towards his seat, a figure suddenly rushed into his arms and hugged him tightly.

Chen Mo looked down in surprise at Zhao Yueyue, who was already crying her eyes out and whose body was convulsing from sobbing.

A tremendous sense of unease immediately rose in his heart!

"Yueyue, what's wrong?" Just like an older brother comforting his younger sister, Chen Mo gently reached out and stroked Zhao Yueyue's head, looking at her with a curious expression.

"Brother Mo... Waaah... Waaah... Waaah..."

Zhao Yueyue was about to speak, but she was already sobbing so hard that she was almost unable to breathe because of her overwhelming grief.

I couldn't say anything for a while.

Seeing Zhao Yueyue so heartbroken over her death, Su Yuqing felt a pang of sadness in her heart as well.

She reached out to comfort Zhao Yueyue, but her hand touched nothing.

Chen Mo gently put his arm around Zhao Yueyue, who was crying so hard she could barely stand, and looked at Huang Mao, who also looked very unwell, with a curious expression, asking, "What's wrong with her?"

Huang Mao glanced at Chen Mo, opened his mouth as if to say something, but then couldn't bear to say it.

"You damn blondie, are you mute?" Chen Mo helped Zhao Yueyue back to her seat and then cursed at Huang Mao speechlessly.

Huang Mao turned to Su Yuqing's seat with a helpless expression and sighed, "Something happened to Su Yuqing..."

"What happened?" Chen Mo asked almost instantly.

Huang Mao sighed and said, "I heard she was murdered in the old neighborhood after an attempted rape..."

"What!?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yuqing noticed that Chen Mo's expression wasn't one of shock, but rather one of profound sorrow.

From the moment he entered the classroom and sensed the unusual atmosphere, Chen Mo had a bad feeling. After seeing Zhao Yueyue crying to this extent, he immediately thought of Su Yuqing.

So when he heard the news of Su Yuqing's accident, he was more saddened than shocked. He never imagined that his refusal to take Su Yuqing in would lead to this outcome.

He simply couldn't accept this news.

In an instant, his body swayed and he almost fell over, but fortunately Huang Mao was quick to reach out and help him up.

Su Yuqing was also helping out.

The moment she saw that Chen Mo was not in a good state, she immediately prepared to go forward to help him, but when she reached out her hand, she realized that she was just a bystander.

"Old Mo, are you alright?"

Huang Mao glanced at Chen Mo in surprise. Chen Mo's body was swaying violently, and Huang Mao had to use almost all his strength to press his heavy body back into his seat.

He slumped into the chair like a stone statue whose soul had been ripped away, his face drained of all color, leaving only a horrifying paleness.

Those eyes, which usually carried a hint of laziness, were now wide open and empty, staring intently at Su Yuqing's empty seat, as if trying to burn through the cold table and chair with their gaze.

At this moment, Su Yuqing's heart felt as if it had been squeezed and crushed by an invisible hand.

She had never seen Chen Mo like this before.

In her world, he was a mountain, an ocean, and a solid bulwark that could always pull her back from the abyss of despair.

He may get tired or sick, but his inherent resilience and vitality have never been extinguished.

But the Chen Mo before her had all his light extinguished, leaving only boundless, cold, deathly silence. He was like a branding iron suddenly thrown into an ice cellar, going from scorching hot to icy cold in an instant.

He couldn't even utter a complete sentence; only broken, hoarse gasps came from his throat.

"Old Mo! Old Mo, say something! Don't scare me!" Huang Mao shook his shoulders violently, his voice filled with unprecedented panic.

Zhao Yueyue's crying stopped briefly due to this sudden turn of events. She looked at Chen Mo with teary eyes, her gaze filled with fear and even deeper sorrow.

"Brother Mo... Waaah..."

She quickly got up, rushed to Chen Mo's seat, and threw herself on him, almost sitting on the floor. She hugged Chen Mo's waist and lay on his legs, sobbing uncontrollably.

At this moment, Zhao Yueyue felt both grief for Su Yuqing's passing and heartache for Chen Mo's hysterical state.

Her tears were mixed with too many emotions.

So, my death was such a blow to him?

Su Yuqing stood beside Chen Mo, tears streaming down her face, but she felt no moisture at all, only the pain of her soul being torn apart.

She reached out, futilely trying to touch his cold cheek, trying to smooth the deep lines of despair etched between his brows.

"Chen Mo... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." she choked out in a low voice, knowing he couldn't hear her, but unable to control the guilt in her heart.

She couldn't help but think back to the story: if she hadn't refused when Chen Mo offered to escort her home, perhaps this tragedy wouldn't have happened.

She never imagined that the passing of her life would create such a huge void in his heart.

This profound emotion far exceeded her expectations.

Even if it's just for him, I should live well...

In reality, Chen Mo was asleep with his head resting on Su Yuqing's lap and his arms wrapped around her soft waist, so his body touched [Su Mengjue] through Su Yuqing's clothes.

Unbeknownst to Su Yuqing, Chen Mo was watching her from the sidelines of this bewildering dream.

"Why, why did you have to let her see this cruel world?"

The moment Chen Mo realized something was wrong during that rainy night scene, he wanted to take Su Yuqing away from this dreamlike world.

He didn't want Su Yuqing to see such a cruel world.

But to his surprise, he couldn't touch Su Yuqing at all.

It's as if the original world is on one layer, Su Yuqing is on the second layer, and he is on the third layer.

They cannot touch or communicate with each other.

Even if Chen Mo wanted to take Su Yuqing away from this world, it wouldn't work.

He could only silently follow Su Yuqing and watch everything that happened in this despairing world all over again.

This time, however, his gaze remained fixed on Su Yuqing the entire time.

Imagine what her state of mind must have been when she learned of the existence of such a world.

When he saw her grieving because of her mother's madness, he wanted to give her a hug to comfort her, but he couldn't.

At that moment, hearing her repeatedly say "I'm sorry," Chen Mo felt his heart break even more.

Even when bathed in the world's malice, her heart remained pure. (End of Chapter)