From now on, he was Xiao Lou?
The child who might already be dead, the one that student named Zhang Chen had mentioned?
Shortly after Su Xuan finished speaking, completely unfamiliar memories began pouring into Su Bai's mind.
Calling them memories was not quite accurate. To Su Bai, it felt more like watching a film at tremendous speed inside his head-a film about a stranger's tragic life.
In this "film," Xiao Lou had once been the student whose desk and chair were kicked over. Zhang Chen, who sat beside him, had not helped the teacher like the boys holding their phones, nor had he treated Xiao Lou with malice. But when Xiao Lou fell, Zhang Chen had remained seated without moving, burying his head in a book just like the other students in the classroom, as though nothing had happened around him.
Back then, Zhang Chen probably never imagined that after Xiao Lou left the school in some painful way, he would be the next person to "enjoy" that treatment.
That mysterious Study Room also existed in Xiao Lou's memories.
Rainbow Locust Tenth Middle School seemed to have set up quite a few individual study rooms. Although their doors could also be opened from the inside, the locks on the outside had a scheduled reservation function. The school touted them as effective spaces that helped students concentrate and overcome their dependence on phones and their laziness.
The Study Room had a light, but most of the time it malfunctioned because of "wiring problems." Whenever the room was opened, all the students saw was a cramped space shrouded in darkness. Through Xiao Lou's memories, Su Bai could see just how small it was. When Xiao Lou stood inside, he only had to reach up slightly to touch the ceiling, and there