Within Shuda Affiliated Middle School, all kinds of gossip and rumors about the cause of Meng Yang's death quickly began to spread.
The reason for Senior Sister Meng Yang's death wasn't an accident or suicide, but "homicide."
She had already been something of a celebrity at Shuda Affiliated Middle School, so news of her death alone was bound to attract plenty of discussion and attention.
But if it hadn't been an accident or suicide, and was instead murder...
It naturally became the biggest headline in the school.
"...I heard it was done by her boyfriend from outside school?"
"What boyfriend? He probably never even managed to get with her, right?"
"Unrequited love? He killed her because he couldn't get with her? No, that's just too..."
"What are you talking about? What unrequited love? She cheated on him! I know someone from Senior Two, Class Four. He told me that Meng Yang was caught cheating by the guy from outside school. He came to confront her in a fit of rage, and when things fell apart, he lashed out."
"That happened?"
"So that excellent senior from Senior Two really was her boyfriend?"
"So she was dating two people at once, one in school and one outside it, and after she got caught, the guy from outside school stabbed her to death, right?"
"Which one did she date first? The guy from outside?"
"Still, someone actually died..."
"So what if she died? What does it have to do with us?"
Zuo Xi didn't want to hear any of it.
But the rumors filled every corner of the school.
The people who had always been eager to discuss even baseless romantic gossip about their classmates now had such tantalizing, dramatic "conversation material" right at their fingertips. How could they possibly let it go?