Chapter 39
[? Jiang Lechuan, aren’t you embarrassed?]
[This wavering height hahaha]
[As a fan of Jiang Lechuan, I have always known how obsessed he is with protecting his height. This is the first time he had admitted it hahaha]
[Jiang Lechuan: I can be less than 1.8 meters tall. I will never go to this terrifying mission without Elder Sister! ]
Shen Jinyi turned to Jiang Lechuan, then at Wen Renjing, and a trace of sadness flashed across his face.
He said nothing, but it seemed as if he had said everything.
Everyone could see that he was depressed that he was far over 1.8 meters tall and could not get away with it like Jiang Lechuan.
[Hahaha Shen Jinyi, don't look at me. If you aren’t 1.8 meters tall, no one here is! ]
[Shen Jinyi: It seems like you two are killing each other. I’m not sure what 1.9m me did wrong]
[It feels like Wen Renjing was playing a trick on Jiang Lechuan, making him face the most terrifying thing without Elder Sister’s company. Shen Jinyi is the unlucky guy who is implicated]
[If I was Wen Renjing, I would directly say that all the boys should go. Jiang Lechuan couldn't say that he isn't a boy! ]
[Sister above, you still don’t know Jiang Lechuan well enough... For him, admitting that he isn't 1.8 meters tall is much more painful than being a girl. Wen Renjing’s move is like stabbing a knife into his heart hahaha]
[Yeah! This is Jiang Lechuan's bottom line! ]
Wen Renjing didn't believe Jiang Lechuan when he said he is less than 1.8 meters tall.
After all, such a height difference couldn’t be seen with the naked eye and Jiang Lechuan always claimed that he was 1.8 meters tall.
During the silent confrontation between the two, the director team ‘thoughtfully’ asked the NPC to bring a measuring tape.
One would know if he was 1.8 meters tall by measuring.
Jiang Lechuan stood while Wen Renjing measured his height.
Gu Qi stood silently beside Wen Renjing and read the number on the measuring tape: "It's only 1.78 meters now. Jiang Lechuan, straighten your back."
Jiang Lechuan: "...Oh."
When he straightened his back, Wen Renjing read the number on the measuring tape: "1.8 meters."
Jiang Lechuan: "?"
Everyone: "?"
[Jiang Lechuan, have you grown taller? ]
[Really? ]
[Grown~taller~Grown~taller~]
Jiang Lechuan blurted out: "Impossible! Straighten the ruler!"
How could he not be clear whether he was 1.8 meters tall? Did he need others to remind him? !
Wen Renjing turned to Gu Qi helplessly, "Elde Sister, come."
Gu Qi took the measuring tape from Wen Renjing, measured Jiang Lechuan's height again, and patted his head with her hand to push his hair down a little, and finally announced a more accurate answer: "1.808 meters."
In the end, Jiang Lechuan heard the news that would normally excite him into jumping. However, his legs went weak. So it meant -
He seemed to, may have, grown taller.
He was 1.8 meters tall.
No, it's 1.808 meters!
Elder Sister wouldn’t lie to him.
Jiang Lechuan's mind went blank.
Why did it become like this?
Was it because he insisted on drinking 30 glasses of milk every month, or because he would pull his teammates to play basketball every break? His unremitting pursuit of height for so many years finally gave him a ‘reward’ today.
Since 18 years olds, his height had almost been fixed. No matter how hard he tried, he could not break through to 1.8 meters.
So he had long been in despair and numb and hadn't measured his height for half a year. Naturally, he didn't know when the 1.5 centimeters he had dreamed of quietly grew on him.
Wait, why was it 1.5 centimeters.
Such a familiar number, but he couldn't grasp what was wrong.
He was in his early twenties, could he grow taller?
Jiang Lechuan felt that his life had fallen into darkness.
He would never be happy again. At least not before the haunted house was over.
Gu Qi patted his shoulder, "...Congratulations? If you change your perspective, you are at least 1.8 meters tall."
Jiang Lechuan's expression: "QAQ."
Gu Qi: "..."
Forget it, pretend she didn't say it.
Finally.
Jiang Lechuan resisted in extreme pain, but was still pulled out by Wen Renjing.
Because Mu Yuan was only 1.78 meters tall, he successfully escaped the disaster.
Following Wen Renjing and Jiang Lechuan, there was Shen Jinyi, who wasn't very happy and had a face full of "heroic death".
Soon.
As expected, Jiang Lechuan and Shen Jinyi screamed one after another at the door.
"Ahhh help me!"
"Don't stick your eyes on me!"
"Let me go! Let me go! Catch him!"
...
The words of Jiang Lechuan and Shen Jinyi begging for mercy were accompanied by Wen Renjing's mocking laughter as the background sound.
Gu Qi silently covered her ears.
It was so scary.
Why was there a scream higher than Jiang Lechuan's under Shen Jinyi's cold supermodel face?
This was simply a horror movie for her. It was bad for her eardrums.
Shen Anran kept peeking out the door anxiously.
Finally, she turned to Gu Qi, "Let's go and have a look together."
Gu Qi answered seriously, "But we aren’t 1.8 meters tall."
[Gu Qi: How can the two of us go? Isn't it said that only people who are over 1.8 meters tall can go? ]
[Hahahaha Gu Qi, the first person who strictly abides by the rules! ]
Shen Anran didn't expect Gu Qi to answer like this, so she could only say more directly: "I'm worried about Elder Brother."
Gu Qi: "..."
So what?
Shen Anran thought that if Elder Brother was too scared and screamed too embarrassedly, Mother would blame her for not taking good care of Elder Brother after returning home. Also, it would damage the company's image if Elder Brother was disgraced.
Gu Qi was the most courageous one among them. In Shen Anran's opinion, Gu Qi ‘couldn't bear’ to listen to Jiang Lechuan's wailing. She cared so much about her younger brother, so they could naturally go and see the situation.
So Shen Anran made a more direct and proactive invitation: "I know you are worried about Jiang Lechuan and Wen Renjing, and you can't bear to hear... So I think we ca go together."
As she said, she showed a gentle smile and took the initiative to extend a hand to Gu Qi.
[Wow, Shen Anran is such a kind girl. Despite being afraid, she is worried about her elder brother]
[What a good and lovely daughter! Mommy's heart is melting]
[Perfect angel Shen Anran!!!]
Gu Qi was in a complicated mood. She didn't expect that her behavior made Shen Anran misunderstand her. She explained sincerely, "I didn't. I find them too noisy."
Gu Qi wasn't worried about Jiang Lechuan.
Though this brat wasn't very courageous, he insisted on watching horror movies. Every time he screamed, it was as heartwretching as today.
He always liked to ‘seek excitement’ like this, so why not let him learn a lesson so that he won't always watch horror movies and send her a bunch of 60-second voice messages in the middle of the night.
And to some extent, Gu Qi still had something that could be called ‘trust’ for Wen Renjing. At least she could be sure that Wen Renjing had no real ill will toward Jiang Lechuan.
Even when he teased Jiang Lechuan like this, it was just that he thought it was fun. Like when people tease pets caused they think it was cute. He would avoid these if he really hate it.
En... this description didn't seem to be so appropriate.
But Gu Qi couldn't think of a better word, so she put it aside for the time being.
Shen Anran couldn't hold back her expression, never expecting Gu Qi to give such an answer.
[Hahaha, welcome to watch Jiang Lechuan's heart breaking diary: Elder Sister love me again]
[Gu Qi: I covered my ears because I hate their noise. I don't mean anything else!
[Jiang Lechuan will cry even louder when he sees this, hahaha! ]
Shen Anran's face turned from white to red in an instant, embarrassed.
Soon.
With Jiang Lechuan’s ‘Don't pull me, I'll go!’, everything outside finally returned to silence.
It seemed that they all followed the weirdo outside to do the task together.
Only Gu Qi, Shen Anran, and Mu Yuan were left at the scene.
The director team reminded that the ‘mysterious man’ had left and they could continue their normal exploration.
At this moment, the class bell rang suddenly.
Under this situation, the bell sounded particularly scary and weird.
All the NPCs at the scene stood up, lined up mechanically and numbly, and walked outside.
Obviously, there was some hidden plot.
Gu Qi followed without any hesitation.
Mu Yuan was the same.
Shen Anran hesitated a little. She felt that this was the safest place now, but elder brother wasn't there either. It was better for the three of them to act together than for her to act alone.
Soon they followed the group of NPCs to a classroom and they all sat in their seats.
At this moment, Gu Qi saw Ning Xiwei, who was hiding at the back door and trembling at all this. She was followed by her elder sister Zhizi.
At the sight of Gu Qi, Ning Xiwei's eyes finally lit up and she waved at her fiercely.
Of course, when she saw Mu Yuan was here, she still snorted coldly enough to be ignored.
Seeing Gu Qi sitting in the classroom with this group of NPCs, she hesitated for two seconds before she had determined to walk in and sit behind Gu Qi with her elder sister.
[Ning Xiwei finally met Gu Qi. God knows how many times she mentioned Gu Qi along the way]
[One second she said that she would never go to class with a group of ‘ghosts’ even if she died. The next second she saw Gu Qi and walked in honestly. Ning Xiwei, don't be this adorable]
[Gu Qi - a very effective Ning Xiwei trap]
Gu Qi looked back and noticed that Ning Xiwei's pants were covered with dust. She must have fallen to the ground when she ran away.
Gu Qi asked quietly, "Are you not hurt?"
Ning Xiwei's eyes were bright, as if she was happy because Gu Qi cared about her: "Don't worry, just a minor fall. It's okay."
She took out a bunch of name tags she had worked so hard to find from her pocket to show Gu Qi.
Gu Qi was a little surprised. She didn't expect Ning Xiwei’s group to find so many. She remarkd, "Amazing."
After being praised by Gu Qi, Ning Xiwei felt even more proud, but she was still very modest and said: "It's luck."
At this moment, an NPC who played the role of a teacher suddenly walked in from the main entrance and said in an irritable tone: "Class is about to start! Stop talking!"
The classroom quickly became quiet.
Then it was the fast-forward version of the class time and the bell rang again five minutes later.
When the teacher left the front door of the classroom, the other NPCs who played the role of students stood up one after another.
They pushed one of the students into the corner and a group of people attacked her.
The girl with long hair was surrounded in the corner. She could only curl up in the corner helplessly, without any resistance.
Ning Xiwei immediately stood up and shouted directly: "Hey! What are you doing? Stop!"
Ning Xiwei naturally couldn't bear to see anyone doing this kind of school bullying in front of her.
She stood up and wanted to stop it, but was stopped by Gu Qi.
Unable to comprehend it, Ning Xiwei turned to Gu Qi.
Gu Qi stared at the NPCs who were committing violence, holding Ning Xiwei's wrist with one hand and reminding them: "Calm down, they can't see us. They should be recreating the plot."
After saying that, Gu Qi pointed to the banner at the back of the classroom.
The countdown to the college entrance examination, the calendar next to it was clearly the year in the script.
This was a plot that ‘had already happened’, and they couldn't change it.
Sure enough.
Next, they saw the bullied girl being bullied again and again from the perspective of a bystander. Finally, she cut her wrist with a knife. From somewhere, she took out a bottle of sleeping pills and poured it into her mouth. Pointing at those people, she helplessly and desperately shouted: "I will never, never let you go!"
Other NPCs fled in panic, shouting "She's crazy, she's crazy". The female lead fell in the corner and died.
The story seemed to end here.
Nothing special, just repeating the earlier background introduced.
But after everyone ran away, the girl stood up again, covered her bleeding arm, and meaningfully stared at the door.
Her eyes were filled with strong hatred. Suddenly she grinned, which made people shudder at the sight of her.
Shen Anran covered her mouth with this sudden turn, trying hard not to scream.
A black cloth fell, blocking the girl, and this role ended.
Gu Qi immediately stood up, walked to the girl's seat, and began to search.
Shen Anran approached Gu Qi and asked curiously: "Is there any problem?"
Gu Qi answered very simply: "She survived in the end."
Shen Anran showed a confused look on her face.
In her opinion, the girl's final ‘resurrection’ only meant that she became a fierce ghost.
Gu Qi found an envelope.
Her expression became more complicated after opening it.
Gu Qi said: "She didn't die, at least not at that time."
Because this letter was written to this girl from an unknown perspective. The general idea was that this person saw the girl being bullied and felt that she was very pitiful, so this person wanted to help her.
The writer of the letter proposed it.
Most of these students who bullied girls were lawless because their families spoiled them too much. In fact, there were no rich second-generations with great power.
They were children in their teens. They bullied girls together because they were in large numbers. This was group bullying.
But it was precisely because they were young that they only needed to be ‘scared’ and they would never dare to continue.
The writer of the letter proposed a plan to the girl, telling her to self-mutilate and pretend to commit suicide and die by swallowing the vitamins in the sleeping pill bottle in front of everyone when she was bullied. This way, these people would think that they had a life stained in their hands.
When the girl was rescued and returned to school in the future, they wouldn't dare to bully her again because of the fear of thinking that she was dead last time and fearing that if it actually succed next time. None of them could afford the price.
Obviously, the girl accepted this proposal.
That's why they teamed up and staged such a ‘fake suicide’ play.
But no one knew what happened later. The planned fake suicide turned into a real death, which led to the school becoming a real ‘ghost school’.
It was obvious that there were other objects in the classroom that provided information, so everyone dispersed to look for them.
At this moment.
The door of the classroom was suddenly opened from the outside.
Shen Jinyi ran in. His big body softened and he fell to the ground as he grasped the nearest table leg tightly. The scene was as funny as it could be.
He turned to the people in the classroom, pointed behind him, opened his mouth but couldn't say a word.
Ning Xiwei separated from Shen Jinyi as soon as they entered the escape room. It was the first time she saw him in such a miserable state. Needless to say, there was disgust on her face.
Ning Xiwei even turned to Shen Anran, mocking and attacking: "Your elder brother, the rumored domineering president, is this?"
A trace of embarrassment flashed across Shen Anran's face. She hurried forward to help her elder brother.
[Hahaha Ning Xiwei: What is this? Whose domineering president is so embarrassing?]
[Ning Xiwei almost wrote ‘eye sore’ on her face]
[The sweet girl persona collapsed, and the tough girl persona is established! ]
And the next second.
Jiang Lechuan ran in second. He slid in as if he was stepping on a skateboard.
When he saw Gu Qi in this classroom, his eyes instantly turned red, and he kept shouting: "Elder Sis! Elder Sis!"
Gu Qi: "..."
It couldn’t be helped. She could only support Jiang Lechuan.
Another minute passed. Wen Renjing walked in slowly, holding a USB in his hand. His calm and composed appearance formed a sharp contrast with Jiang Lechuan and Shen Jinyi who were already frightened to the point of limp legs.
[This is the first time I think Wen Renjing is so handsome]
[+1 above, Jiang Lechuan and Wen Renjing have been fighting for so many years, this is the first time I think Wen Renjing KO it in seconds]
[One is a calm handsome guy. Every time an NPC approaches him and get in his face, he can still calmly comment that the wig is exposed. While the other screams the whole time. This contrast was too obvious]
[@Jiang Lechuan, don't listen. It's a fake review]
[...Actually it's okay, Jiang Lechuan didn't scream as loudly as Shen Jinyi (honest)]
[These two are the eldest brother can’t talk about the second brother. Both very lame. there is nothing to compare! ]
...
Wen Renjing walked up to Gu Qi with a USB flash drive and said in a tone of seeking credit: "Elder Sister, I got a very crucial clue."
For once, Gu Qi didn’t respond to him.
Finding it strange, Wen Renjing followed Gu Qi's gaze. The others turned to the same place-
Jiang Lechuan's heel.
Gu Qi asked in confusion: "What's wrong with your heel? Does it hurt?"
A big chunk stuck out. It looked very strange and even a little deformed.
Following Gu Qi’s words, Jiang Lechuan turned to it.
Confusion was written all over his face..
He reached out and took off his socks.
"Pah--"
A piece of height-increasing insole fell to the ground.
Jiang Lechuan: "......?"
Everyone: "!!!"
The scene fell into a dead silence.
At this moment, Jiang Lechuan finally understood why his height had grown by 1.5 centimeters.
When he heard that Shen Anran's elder brother was very tall, he put a 1.5 cm insole in his socks before going out.
Because it was specially customized, it was very comfortable.
Later.
He completely forgot about it.
[Hahaha Jiang Lechuan's expression, he obviously didn't remember this]
[Nonsense! If he remembered, he would have taken out the insole when Wen Renjing took a tape measure and dragged him away, hahaha]
[What's sadder than Jiang Lechuan not growing taller was that he found out that he wasn't 1.8 meters tall after completing the task]
[Jiang Lechuan: I need this answer, but it arrive too late :) ]
[Hahaha, the dream of being 1.8 meters tall is a dream after all! ]
[Baby, you are still only 1.79.3 meters tall]
…
Jiang Lechuan had no expression on his face.
He turned his back to everyone and stuffed the height-increasing insoles back into his socks, pretending that nothing had happened.
Then he stood up. His voice trembling and not so firm: "…My height is 1.808 meters."
Everyone: "…"
En en en yes yes yes ok ok ok got it.
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