Newbie Scenario: Class Reunion (16

Lawyer Jin tried hard but still could not suppress his gloating smile. His tone remained fairly relaxed and calm. "Let's continue our focused discussion."

Second-generation Zhao became Lawyer Jin's complete opposite. The happier he had once been, the more solemn he was now.

Professor Lu's act of "defecting for love" also drew the next round of concentrated fire toward him.

Zhen Liu could not understand Professor Lu's choice. Since Professor Lu had already been determined to vote against him, he should not have agreed to Second-generation Zhao earlier. It was not as though Second-generation Zhao had gone before Zhen Liu, so Professor Lu had not known about Zhen Liu's request. What could Professor Lu possibly gain from being hated like this?

Soon, Zhen Liu saw the answer on Professor Lu's spirited face—he could gain happiness.

Professor Lu was genuinely delighted, so visibly delighted that it could be seen with the naked eye. No matter how little Zhen Liu understood it, he had to accept this reality. There really was a kind of person in this world who took pleasure in fighting everyone else. If there were no difficulties, he would create them just so he could charge ahead.

The five of them sat down at the dining table again.

This time, Lawyer Jin did not sit on Second-generation Zhao and Basketball Qiao's side. The rift between them was simply that deep, too difficult to repair. Lawyer Jin wanted to sit beside Zhen Liu and Professor Lu, but Professor Lu rejected him without any courtesy.

"It's full," Professor Lu said.

Lawyer Jin looked at the several empty seats along the long table, aside from Doctor Zhen and Professor Lu, and fell into endless silence.

Zhen Liu could not stand such awkwardness and was about to invite Lawyer Jin to sit on his side.

But Lawyer Jin had only just caught the slightest hint when Professor Lu's death glare came hunting for him. He would not stop Zhen Liu, but he would threaten Lawyer Jin. The meaning was practically, Try sitting next to the person I like.

Ever since Professor Lu's "secret crush" on Doctor Zhen had been exposed, he had become like an untethered wild horse, completely shameless.

What could Lawyer Jin do? He currently held an Orphan Card, with no teammates and only enemies. He had no choice but to lower his head. His gaze moved from Doctor Zhen's side back to Professor Lu's. Since he could not sit beside Zhen Liu, surely sitting beside Professor Lu would not be a problem?

How could it not be a problem?

To Professor Lu, that was an even bigger problem. He said bluntly, "I will not accept sitting next to anyone other than the person I love. Otherwise, I'll be tainted. Male virtue, understand?"

Lawyer Jin: "???"

Professor Lu's words stunned the entire table. Even beneath everyone's looks that said he might be sick in the head, he remained shamelessly confident.

It had to be said that this man's psychological resilience was top-notch.

In the end, Lawyer Jin could only sit miserably at the far end of the long table. Secretly, he began stabbing a little voodoo doll. Screw acting humble. Before people who did not even deserve to be called human, he would rather be an orphan for the rest of his life than have teammates! He would curse a certain elementary-school brat to never achieve a happy ending in this lifetime!

Zhen Liu, the person Professor Lu had supposedly been preserving his male virtue for, reacted in the complete opposite extreme. He... did not care at all. Zhen Liu truly could not immerse himself in all the romance and love affairs in these scripts.

Professor Lu liked Doctor Zhen. What did that have to do with him, Zhen Liu?

"Let's continue sharing clues."

After Professor Lu, the third person to share clues was Basketball Qiao.

This seemingly nonaggressive young man, who had either been half-assing the search for evidence or simply lying flat,

slacker

young man was like a player with divine sight. Right from the start, he dropped a bombshell about Professor Lu. "What Professor Lu was being threatened over was not as simple as his homosexuality."

Everyone could actually tell that Professor Lu was lovesick. So would a lovesick person mind someone exposing his love? Would he mind enough to kill the person in the know? No matter how one thought about it, it did not make sense, right?

"In fact, Professor Lu has killed more than just this one person. He's a serial killer."

Everyone: "!!!"

A chill ran down Lawyer Jin's spine. He suddenly felt very fortunate that he had not sat beside Professor Lu just now. Although he knew this was only a game, Professor Lu's sudden display of antisocial personality still frightened him.

Professor Lu remained calm, merely folding his arms and raising a brow. "Oh?"

"You have been taking targeted revenge on the people who bullied Doctor Zhen back then, one after another." On Basketball Qiao's phone search page were murder cases that had occurred consecutively over the past few years. Coincidentally, all of the victims had been among those who bullied Doctor Zhen the most back then. Judging from the number of reports, almost all of them were already dead, with very few survivors left. Those included the recently deceased Ying De and the difficult-to-approach Brother Hao.

"So you're not lovesick. You're a

yandere

." Lawyer Jin was shocked on one hand, but on closer thought, he felt that this behavior did suit Professor Lu's character setting rather well.

Professor Lu neither admitted nor denied it. He merely corrected Lawyer Jin. "Yandere doesn't only mean that. Don't use it blindly if you don't understand it."

"So I suspect Professor Lu merely pretended to be controlled by the victim in order to get close to him, then find an opportunity to kill him."

Professor Lu sneered. "Do you have any evidence?"

"No, but I think my deduction is right." Basketball Qiao was inexplicably confident in himself.

"Okay, then let's follow your logic." Professor Lu remained utterly composed, his fingers tapping the tabletop rhythmically. "I love Doctor Zhen so much I'm practically dying, right? I kill for him and avenge him. Then please tell me, under that logic, why would I kill someone in front of the person I love when he might see it? Scare him, give him psychological trauma, frighten him so much that he never wants to date me for the rest of his life—what benefit would that bring me?"

Basketball Qiao froze. Right, what benefit would it bring him?

Lawyer Jin, as an experienced player, still had his wits about him. He said to Professor Lu, "Maybe this time, you had not planned to kill anyone. You discovered that Doctor Zhen was preparing to make a move and had no choice but to improvise, killing Ying De before Doctor Zhen could."