Lin Youwei stood frozen for a long while.
Her red lips were slightly parted, her fair cheeks covered in astonishment.
To her, the conversation between Jiang Chen and this Headless Ghost had taken far too many turns.
It had started with gentle questions, moved on to enthusiastic help, then a misunderstanding, and finally hysteria followed by a lethal attack!
Every turn had been unexpected, yet on closer thought, each made sense.
None of that mattered.
The point was, those mood swings made him seem more like a ghost!
"What's wrong?" Jiang Chen turned toward her. When that gentle voice reached Lin Youwei's ears, it seemed to carry a different meaning.
She hurriedly shook her head. "I'm fine!"
Then she realized something. "No, wait. Jiang Chen, are you all right? I thought some powerful ghost hiding in the shadows had bewitched you."
Only then did Lin Youwei remember.
She was a C-Minus Rank expert and was supposed to protect Jiang Chen. Why had she started suspecting him instead?
"Of course I'm fine. This Little Boy Ghost had a special ability. For a moment there, it made me mistake that stone bollard for my head, so I got a little worked up," Jiang Chen explained.
Lin Youwei wanted to speak but stopped herself.
She had clearly seen Jiang Chen directing everything from beginning to end. He had brought over the stone bollard, and he had been the one to say it was a head. How had it all become the headless boy's fault in the end?
"That's Jiang Chen for you. Even when killing ghosts, he has to crush their spirits. Just like when he bullied those thugs outside the school back then..."
She murmured to herself, making sense of everything.
"Let's go. The Community Tutoring Class should be in that building