“All right, who was it that refused my request to join the group yesterday…?” The homeroom teacher stormed into the classroom first thing in the morning, furious.
“……” The classroom fell silent. The oppressive stillness was so thick you could hear a pin drop, and it was hard to breathe.
“…Teacher, Yueye did it…” The voice from the front of the classroom made everyone’s ears burn… A faint blush colored Yueye’s pale earlobes.
“That’s right, Teacher. I can testify—it was Yueye.” From another corner of the classroom, a slightly chubby male student stood up and pointed toward the frail-looking boy at the back.
“Yueye, stand up.” The teacher’s gaze turned as sharp as a blade, leaving nowhere to hide…
“Tell me, what was wrong with me joining the group to keep you on track with your studies during senior year?” The teacher stared at Yueye as if he were scum…
“You insulted a teacher? Is that how your parents taught you to behave at school?” The teacher’s questions came like a rapid-fire barrage, refusing to let Yueye go and giving him no chance to answer.
“Teacher, I didn’t insult you, and I wasn’t the one who refused your request to join the group. Please get your facts straight…” Yueye’s words were icy, just like the state of his heart… All he felt was despair toward this class.
“Guo Cong already sent me a screenshot of you insulting me. What’s there to explain? You act like such a girl all the time, but you’re a guy—do you have the guts to own what you did?” The teacher must have been hit somewhere sensitive; he snapped at Yueye.
“I wasn’t insulting you…” Yueye added. The night before, after several class officers rejected the teacher’s QQ request to join the group, they’d dumped the blame on the class’s “good Samaritan”—Yueye.
Though Yueye looked completely confused, the teacher had still pinned the accusation of insulting a teacher on him. And the so-called screenshot was just a line he’d angrily posted in the class group after learning what had happened…
“As stupid as an idiot.”
He’d said that about the class officer who’d dumped the blame on him. He never expected the line to be screenshotted and sent straight to the teacher… Now it felt as if those words were describing Yueye himself, etching him into the scene as he stood there.
“……” Yueye stood there in silence. The strange looks from his classmates made him deeply uncomfortable… He couldn’t understand why he had to take the blame when he hadn’t done any of those things… His eyes began to sting, and he quietly lowered his head…
“Let’s get back to class. Stand there and think about what you’ve done.” The teacher didn’t pursue the matter any further, as if realizing he’d gone too far. He ignored Yueye, standing there with his head bowed, and began the lesson.
Yueye had no idea how he made it through that class… The summer heat seemed to block out the teacher’s words completely…
A chill spread through his heart. He couldn’t understand why he was the one taking the blame… He thought back to middle school, where he’d been kind to others and considerate of them—and they’d repaid him with smiles and kindness.
But in high school, it was as if everything had flipped. He seemed to have become an easy target, someone who was too accommodating, someone anyone could take a jab at…
“Ring, ring, ring!” The bell cut into Yueye’s thoughts, but that didn’t mean his bad luck was over. His classmates, unaware of the truth, gave him strange looks and made sarcastic remarks… “That name sounds so girly, and what he did was inhuman…” Their barbs kept striking Yueye’s heart, which had already fallen into an abyss.
“That girly name… It’s the last thing my parents left me. What right do you have to talk about it?” Yueye gritted his teeth and swallowed the words.
For a moment, Yueye couldn’t help thinking of everyone from middle school. In that class, he could trust them all… He’d even felt at home there… even if it was only an illusion.
“Don’t be sad… I know… This isn’t your fault. I saw how they discussed it in the group yesterday…” His deskmate was a girl named Su Yue, and the name really suited her. She was a top student too, and since they’d been put in a new class at the start of their second year of high school, she’d become the person who understood him best…
“Some people are deliberately picking on you… You need to keep your head straight… Don’t fall for their tricks. They like bullying someone as nice as you. That just shows how lousy they are.” Su Yue smiled and comforted Yueye.
“Thank you…” Yueye felt a lot better. He thanked Su Yue, sounding a little grateful.
“It’s okay. I can’t stand those people either…”
“Boom…” Before Su Yue could finish speaking, the classroom suddenly went dark… Not a glimmer of light remained…
“Bzz…” After a brief moment of darkness, a white ring of light suddenly appeared. As time passed, it grew brighter and brighter…
Yueye faintly heard a voice… “I’ve finally found you…” Then he lost consciousness……
“Wee-oo, wee-oo.” Police sirens blared across the empty lot where the school building had once stood…
The incident had already made headlines around the world. The headline read: “Schools and Students Across the City Suddenly Vanish—Was It the Work of Aliens?”
Just a few hours earlier, several white lights had appeared over schools across the city. Once the lights faded, all the schools and their students had vanished… No one knew why.
