Chapter 169: Fate

“I’ll write it! He was the one who hit and insulted people first, was I wrong?” Gong Jian looked very defiant.

“Wu Yunfei, you write a self-criticism report for me too,” Chen Jinhu also spoke up. Since Yang Lin and Wu Yunfei were students in his class, and Gong Xue had already said something, he felt he should make a gesture too.

“What about Lin Yin kicking me in the balls?” Wu Yunfei felt the pain intensely and protested angrily.

“Wu Yunfei, how could you…”

“Yes… picking on Yinyin… you actually did it…”

“Aren’t you ashamed as a grown man?”

“I saw you lay hands on Yinyin first…”

“The girls on the tour bus started chattering noisily. Clearly, Lin Yin’s popularity was very effective at this moment. Wu Yunfei was almost buried alive by the verbal attacks from over twenty girls. After arguing back with a red face and thick neck a few times, he had to give up and accept his bad luck.

These two small classes together had thirty-one students, but only eleven were boys. The other twenty were girls. So many girls chattering and scolding one boy at the same time was truly terrifying.

When Lü Yang sat down, Yi Ya was staring at her in astonishment. Obviously, ‘Lin Yin’s’ behavior today surprised her a lot.

“What did that jerk say to you?” Lü Yang asked Yi Ya quietly.

“Yang Lin?”

“Who else?”

“Nothing much… he asked me out to eat.” Yi Ya continued to look at Lin Yin with a strange expression. Before, Lin Yin never used to call Yang Lin a ‘jerk’.

“Did you agree?”

“Yinyin, did Lü Yang say something to you?” Yi Ya handed the mobile phone back to Lin Yin. She had accidentally seen the call record between Lü Yang and Lin Yin, and it was Lü Yang who called.

Yi Ya guessed that Lü Yang probably couldn’t reach her mobile phone, so he called Lin Yin’s instead. But it was strange that Lin Yin hadn’t mentioned Lü Yang’s call yet, and after calling Lin Yin, Lü Yang had strangely turned off his mobile phone.

After that, Lin Yin started acting very odd… it was like her personality had changed drastically, as if she was possessed…

“He…” Lü Yang had no choice but to nod. “He… told me… to take good care of you…”

“Take care? I feel like you’ve been possessed by him!” Yi Ya looked into Lin Yin’s eyes as if she could see another soul inside them.

Lin Yin grew up with her since childhood; she was someone Yi Ya knew best. And Lü Yang was someone she had paid more attention to over the past year, getting closer to him recently. Now, Lin Yin’s face actually showed Lü Yang’s expressions. It would be strange if Yi Ya didn’t find it weird.

“Possessed? How could such a strange thing happen?” Lü Yang was startled by Yi Ya’s words and quickly tried to cover up his guilt.

Of course, Yi Ya didn’t believe such a bizarre thing could happen, so she just said it casually. What concerned her more now was why, after Lü Yang got through to Lin Yin’s phone, he didn’t ask Lin Yin to pass the phone to her, and why Lin Yin didn’t voluntarily tell her that Lü Yang was looking for her. Then Lü Yang turned off his phone. This made her suspect what Lü Yang and Lin Yin were doing behind her back.

“Just kidding. The way you spoke and your tone just now were so much like him.” Yi Ya waved her hand at Lin Yin, then turned to look out the window.

“Maybe I unconsciously imitated him?” Lü Yang laughed and lowered his voice, making it soft and gentle like how he usually heard Lin Yin speak. He also deliberately mimicked Lin Yin’s way of talking.

Imitating a girl’s way of speaking was really awkward.

The tour bus started moving. Yi Ya kept looking out the window and didn’t speak anymore. Lü Yang, however, kept looking at his mobile phone from time to time, waiting for Lin Yin to call. Occasionally, he secretly tried calling her, but her phone was still off.

Lin Yin, Lin Yin, what are you doing right now? It’s been so long, you should have thought of a way to contact me, right? Do I really have to ask Sister Mei to call you?

Having no other choice, Lü Yang sent a few text messages. He told Lin Yin not to be afraid, that he would definitely find a way to solve this strange situation. He also told her where he kept his wallet, keys, his bank card password, and other important things, so she wouldn’t be at a loss about how to survive, starve to death, or do something she shouldn’t.

After the tour bus traveled some distance into the mountainous area, Lin Yin’s mobile phone signal started getting weaker, often having no signal at all. By the time Lü Yang remembered to tell Lin Yin that Lin’s Father had called looking for her, he couldn’t even send text messages anymore!

The students had heard about this before they came. According to geological studies, Millstone Mountain had high magnetic mineral content, which often caused mobile phones to have no signal. A few years ago, the mobile company specially built a high-power base station on the mountain’s high ground. Probably due to the technical workers’ oversight, they didn’t properly install lightning protection measures, and the base station got struck by lightning. Other communication companies never built base stations on the mountain, so having no signal was normal.

However, everyone thought the mobile company would surely send someone to repair the base station soon. Plus, once they got to the hotel on the mountain, there would be landline phones to use, so no one was too worried about it.

After the tour bus traveled for a while, it gradually quieted down inside. Apart from a few people talking in low voices, most students started using their mobile phones to read novels, play games, or leaned against their seats to sleep.

Lü Yang completely lost contact with Lin Yin. He had to put away his mobile phone, which had no signal, and then found a topic to chat quietly with Yi Ya…

Of course, it was about himself.

“Xiao Ya, are you really starting something with Lü Yang? Didn’t you say you wanted to marry a billionaire? He’s just a migrant worker with no future…”

“Did I ever say that to you?”

Yi Ya looked strangely at ‘Lin Yin,’ then seemed to realize something. “Lü Yang told you, right?”

“Ah…” Lü Yang couldn’t help but feel foolish. He originally thought Lin Yin must have known about this.

“I only said that to him because I hoped he would strive to improve, read more books, and not be too satisfied with his current situation. No matter who he ends up with in the future, it wouldn’t hurt him.” Yi Ya explained softly to Lin Yin.

“He has read many books, like ‘Class Flower’ and ‘Medical Science,’ millions of words…” Lü Yang defended himself.

“That counts as reading?” Yi Ya looked at Lin Yin as if she were an alien.

“Uh… I mean he is still very hardworking… He didn’t go to school much, but he knows a lot. He taught himself many things. When he talks, he doesn’t sound like a migrant worker at all…” Lü Yang praised himself a little.

“You seem to know him very well?” Yi Ya’s look at Lin Yin became even stranger. What was wrong with Lin Yin today? What exactly did Lü Yang say to her?

“I don’t know him as well as you do… I just… noticed you two have been very close recently, so… I wanted to ask… have you officially started?” Lü Yang changed the subject and asked Yi Ya.

Yi Ya didn’t say anything, just stared at ‘Lin Yin,’ probably thinking she was being overly concerned about Lü Yang today.

“Sitting here is boring, just asking…” Lü Yang quickly added to cover up.

“He and I have no fate.” Yi Ya shook her head.

Hearing Yi Ya’s words, Lü Yang was stunned. Although he wasn’t entirely sure how Yi Ya viewed their relationship before, he never expected that Yi Ya, who had been so affectionate toward him these past few days, would say this about their relationship.

“What do you mean by no fate?” Lü Yang asked.

“A few days ago was the one-year anniversary of him saving me from the thugs…” Yi Ya started speaking on her own. “That day, I bought a pair of Kissing Dolls to give him. But the dolls fell and broke, and the base broke too, separating the two dolls exactly…”

“And that means no fate?” Lü Yang looked at Yi Ya curiously.

“It’s fate.” Yi Ya looked out the window, her expression somewhat downcast.

“Nonsense! That’s superstition!” Lü Yang curled his lip. He never believed in things like ‘fate.’

Yi Ya turned her head and stared wide-eyed at ‘Lin Yin,’ probably doubting if she heard correctly…

“Uh… uh… I mean, nothing is truly fated. As long as you work hard, there’s no difficulty you can’t overcome. If two people are sincere, they can be together.” Lü Yang quickly imitated Lin Yin’s soft, gentle voice to explain to Yi Ya. Otherwise, the word ‘nonsense’ coming from Lin Yin’s mouth would be truly nonsensical.

Yi Ya looked at ‘Lin Yin’ for a long while without responding, then turned her eyes back to the window, seeming somewhat sad.

Recalling how happy Yi Ya had been with him a few days ago, compared to her inexplicable sadness now behind his back, Lü Yang couldn’t help but feel very frustrated. Did Yi Ya have something on her mind that she was hiding from him?

“After you dropped the Kissing Dolls that night, what else happened? You didn’t come back all night, and you didn’t answer your mobile phone.” Lü Yang tried to ask Yi Ya in Lin Yin’s tone.

Because the Death Killer was Erased, many things related to the Death Killer had changed. Lü Yang wasn’t sure what exactly happened between him and Yi Ya that night. This was a chance to confirm with her.

Yi Ya didn’t find Lin Yin’s question strange. It seemed that after the Death Killer was gone, she still went alone to the outside of Torrential Rain’s Residential Area, and she didn’t answer Lin Yin’s call.

“I was with him.” Yi Ya hesitated for a long time before answering Lü Yang.

“Really? You stayed together the whole night? What did you do?” Lü Yang asked a bit excitedly.

“What do you think?” Yi Ya looked at ‘Lin Yin’ with a strange expression, probably thinking ‘Lin Yin’ was acting stranger and stranger today.

“Did you give yourself to him?” Lü Yang tried to tease Yi Ya jokingly from Lin Yin’s perspective.

Yi Ya didn’t reply to Lü Yang. She just looked at ‘her’ for a while longer, then turned to gaze out the window.