In the plot, Fu Cheng was only a character in other people's memories. The protagonist was Fu Cheng's step brother, the son of Fu Cheng's father and his new wife, called Fu Yuan.
Fu Yuan had a good childhood. His father was a gentle university professor, and his mother was a beautiful associate professor. His family was harmonious and happy.
But when he was in first grade of elementary school, his step-brother, Fu Cheng, who had just became the provincial champion of the college entrance exam, committed suicide in a tragic way.
Fu Cheng left a suicide note, asking his parents why they committed adultery, why they didn't even look at him when he worked so hard, why even though he had two families, he was homeless.
He was a youth who used his death to seek an answer from his parents.
Pitiful, humble, sincere, and desperate.
This suicide note was posted on Weibo, and with the popularity of being the top student in his province, it caused an uproar across society.
All of the students from Ning City's No.1 High School and from several nearby schools knew Fu Cheng. They said he used to be the number one student in the best class and he was a model student from a teacher's perspective. But he suddenly changed during his first year of high school and started coming late and leaving early, skipping classes, and fighting others. It was like he'd suffered from a major blow, and he lost the motivation to work so he became a degenerate.
Later, Fu Cheng became first in the grade again, but he was no longer the gentle, model student. He was lonely, indifferent, gloomy, and violent. He fought outside, but mostly to protect his good classmates who were being bullied by people from other schools.
Fu Cheng was elegant and handsome. He was originally the school grass, but then he got the label of a delinquent. All the good students thought he was strong, cool, and handsome.
As for the bad students, they also respected him. Fu Cheng was both good at fighting and studying, so even the rich second generation kids in Class 3 listened to him.
After Fu Cheng committed suicide, and left his suicide note, everyone believed that Fu Cheng's parents forced him to this end.
Even though Fu Cheng was the provincial champion and was smart and excellent, even though his future was bright, he chose to end his own life. This showed he had suffered unimaginably over the years, and it was his family that killed him.
The other students finally understood why Fu Cheng had changed so much, and the reason made their blood boil. They wanted justice for Fu Cheng. They posted everything on the Internet, and intensified the turmoil.
The law could not punish the parents, but the truth of this matter was heatedly discussed all over the Internet.
A respectable university professor and a doctor that saved lives cheated in their marriage. After their divorce, they didn't take care of their child and didn't do their duty as parents. Finally, such an excellent child chose to commit suicide.
People on the web stood on the higher moral ground to point fingers and criticize the two murderers who couldn't be punished by the law. Even the hot-blooded ancestors in Class 3 asked their parents to seek justice for their unfortunate classmate.
Fu Cheng's father and stepmother were forced to resign from their positions and move to another city, and it was the same for Fu Cheng's mother's side.
Without the same economic luxury, the original happy family began to get beaten down by daily chores and started quarreling and breaking apart. Fu Cheng's parents began to regret their divorce and wished they had never divorced in the first place.
This was Fu Cheng's revenge. He turned everyone into partners of justice to punish his parents. He wanted their parents to lose their happy families.
His idea was paranoid yet simple. Since my home was broken, then neither families deserve to be happy.
Lin Yuan didn't expect a teenager to be so scheming. When he started planning, he was only in his second year of middle school and was 14 years old. At a young age, he was ready to die and didn't have any feelings towards life or death.
Living was meaningless, so death was insignificant.
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Fu Cheng sat in the last row of the classroom and slept on his table as soon as he sat down.
Lin Yuan couldn't help peeking at him. Fu Cheng was dark to the bone, and maybe no amount of white-washing would work. But who knows, maybe he can save the other party. After all, 99.99% of blackening wasn't that… wuuu, it was really too much.
The students of Class 3 didn't listen to class. Only Lin Yuan sat upright and put his hands on his knees like an elementary schooler and listened carefully to the teacher.
After one class, Lin Yuan picked up his book and summoned up the courage to sit in the empty seat next to Fu Cheng.
The temper of boys at this age was very short. As soon as Lin Yuan sat down, he could feel a burning gaze.
Several guys around Fu Cheng were puzzled when they saw Lin Yuan, who usually never talked to Fu Cheng, come over: "Lin Yuan, why did you sit next to Brother Fu? Do you need something from him?"
A boy noticed that Lin Yuan was holding a book and couldn't believe his eyes: "What the fuck? No way, Lin Yuan, are you studying?"
In Class 3, Lin Yuan's family was the most distinguished. The kind where he could lie down for a lifetime. Before, Lin Yuan never even touched books, but now he suddenly held a book and sat next to Brother Fu, who was number one in the whole grade. This was a sign of studying!
Lin Yuan nodded and smiled: "Yup! I want to study."
He ignored their strange expressions and looked at Fu Cheng.
The teenager's black layered hair was like an inky brush, and underneath was his pale and thin neck, where the bones of his spine were slightly protruding.
Actually, Lin Yuan didn't want to disturb his sleep.
But now it was already the end of May, and 20 days later was summer break. Over the summer, he didn't know if he could get close to Fu Cheng. Then less than a year after the summer, Fu Cheng would be gone. He had to seize the day.
En! In order to complete the task, he put aside his politeness and decided to pick it back up later.
Lin Yuan clenched his fist and silently encouraged himself. He raised his finger and hovered it in the air for a bit before carefully poking the teenager's arm.
"Fu, Brother Fu..." Lin Yuan copied his classmates and called the teenager.
Fu Cheng continued to lie down on the desk and didn't respond. In reality, Fu Cheng had already woken up when the bell rang. He heard their conversation and knew that Lin Yuan suddenly wanted to study out of the blue.
Fu Cheng had no sense of belonging in this class. No, more accurately, he had no sense of belonging to this world.
But at least in this class he didn't have to pretend to be a model student like in Class 1, and he was more comfortable. So he pretended to sleep.
Lin Yuan thought that he had fought too much yesterday and didn't get enough sleep, so now he was sleeping so soundly he couldn't wake up.
Lin Yuan thought, let's ask after the next class.
During the next class, Fu Cheng sat up in the middle and took out a test paper and began to do it. He had to work hard to make his parents pay their due price after cheating and ruining their family.
After the bell rang again, Lin Yuan looked behind him and saw that Fu Chen had woken up. His eyes lit up and he sat next to Fu Cheng with a book: "Brother Fu~"
Fu Cheng wrote his papers and ignored people.
Lin Yuan tilted his head and looked at his handsome and young side profile. Because he wasn't an adult, Fu Cheng still had some baby fat. Although his eyes were cold and gloomy, there was still some softness because of his youth.
Fu Cheng was the school grass in No.1 High School. His face was exquisite and really beautiful. Lin Yuan looked at the unfamiliar face and inexplicably had a familiar feeling, but he couldn't tell what was familiar.
Lin Yuan nervously poked Fu Cheng again. It was his first time he lied about asking for help studying and he was a little guilty.
"Brother Fu, I… I have a problem I don't know how to do. Can you… teach me?"
Fu Cheng didn't expect that Lin Yuan would still be persistent. A trace of impatience appeared in his eyes but he couldn't let his cover fall and naturally couldn't get angry because someone asked him a question.
He stopped writing and looked at Lin Yuan. He was not familiar with everyone in Class 3 and only had a faint impression of most people.
This classmate called Lin Yuan was very pale, as pale as milk. His hair was dark brown and slightly curled. He had round apricot eyes that were bright and clean, and his eyelashes were very long. He was a handsome teenager, and on his left cheek there was a small dimple.
It was a look that didn't make people feel annoyed.
Fu Cheng looked at Lin Yuan and quietly sneered in his heart. An innocent rich second generation that studied depending on the mood, really fortunate.
"Which question can't you do?" Fu Cheng's voice was cold.
Lin Yuan thought in his heart that one question was not enough. Even if he pretended to not understand, it would take half a day at most to explain. He needed to get closer to Fu Cheng and stay with him in order to find ways to save the other party.
After thinking about it, Lin Yuan silently clenched the test paper and couldn't bear to look at Fu Cheng. His guilt and nervousness made his ears turn red and his voice was small: "...I…can't do all of them…"
A whole paper of questions should be enough for a week right?
Since he was a child, Fu Cheng had been asked countless questions by his classmates, but this was the first time someone directly asked him to explain a whole test paper.
Was this Lin Yuan looking for trouble?
Fu Cheng thought so and was ready to get angry and ask him to go away when he suddenly noticed the other's red ears. He was stunned for a moment and then looked at Lin Yuan more closely. Lin Yuan lowered his head, very well-behaved, and his expression was full of embarrassment.
Oh, really can't do any questions.
Fu Cheng was speechless for the first time. In the past, when the good students asked him questions he only had to explain once or twice. For this one, he suspected that even explaining a hundred times was useless.
"You don't know anything, teaching you all of these questions will take too long, I don't have time." Fu Cheng said in refusal.
Lin Yuan thought that this was simple to solve and smiled: "Then I'll ask you a question a day. You should have time now right?"
One paper had so many questions, he could definitely ask questions for a month, hehe.
Fu Cheng: "..."
His hands were itchy and he wanted to hit people.