Chapter 40: The discovery

Suddenly, I realized Xu Weishan was missing. She came with me, was it ok she didn’t return with me? Being a ghost was sure easy. She could get to places in a whoosh.

Shortly after, Suyang entered the car. On our way home, we didn’t say a single word to each other. I honestly couldn’t take the silence, so I pressed down on a radio station to listen to the broadcast.

“This is…..”

The host’s voice just came on, but Suyang turned it off.

“You!”

“I don’t like listening to broadcasts.” Suyang responded. He had reverted back to his cold state again. He was no longer the warm and smiley Suyang who patted my head. How could a person change so quickly?

“Don’t look at me like that.” Perhaps Suyang was uncomfortable by my resentful gaze.

“Boss, don’t you think it’s a pity?”

“What’s a pity?”

I was thoroughly defeated by him, “Um…becoming a professor and enrolling me into the University. It must have required a lot of work for you to get us this far. Are you actually ok if I quit?”

“So are you implying you want to continue going to school?”

“No no no! Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!! That’s not what I meant…I’m just curious, and wanted to ask.” I violently shook my head back and forth. I didn’t expect my casual sentence would push me so close to the overhanging cliff.

“The school had invited me a while back to be the literature visiting professor. It isn’t as complicated as you may think.”

I was stunned, and decided to ask all the questions necessary to get things clear. “Boss, based on your age, you shouldn’t have completed a Ph.D degree yet. How could you be a visiting professor? Also, boss, what type of author are you? I went on the web to search your name but I couldn’t find anything…”

“You went on the web to search my name?” Suyang raised his brow and looked at me.

“Don’t misunderstand! I was only curious! That’s why…!” I blurted. I tried my best to make myself seem less pathetic.

“Also, who says I don’t have a Ph.D degree?”

“But you’re only….”

Suyang snorted, “Humph, you still can’t accept the fact that I’m a genius? I received my doctoral degree at the age of 24. Ha, commoner….” Then, he shot me a glance.

There were two reasons why the fake Xu Weishan had still not been discovered. Firstly, she looked exactly the same as her twin sister. Secondly, the real Xu Weishan’s body hadn’t been found.

The moment I realized Xu Weishan’s body may be under my feet, I began to feel very shaken and uneasy. I found a random wooden stick around me and began to dig at the same spot that I had discovered the silver bracelet. After digging for another twenty centimeters or so, the wooden stick struck a metal box. There was a “ka” sound.