Before the program ended, the female lead was suddenly found in a restroom unconscious and showing signs of overdosing on drugs. Her breathing pattern was erratic, the temperature was very high and her body kept spasming from time to time.At first glance, she looked like someone having an epileptic attack so the people who saw her collapsed on the floor were very alarmed.
"Help! Call an ambulance please!" cried one of the sobered women who recovered earliest from her shocked state when the other ladies were still screaming.
"Someone"s dying here!"
"It"s that senior high student."
"Help! Someone who knows first aid or anything useful, come forward!"
The moment the news reached him, Fan Zheng who was supposed to hand over the microphone to the alumnus guest in charge of delivering the closing remarks suddenly ran down the stage. He left without a word. The microphone, fortunately, fell on the hand of the recipient, but his sudden departure caused confusion and commotion below.
"The h.e.l.l. Why did he leave?" was written all over the guest speaker"s face when he turned to the tables of professors.
A shout came from below. "Wait. Brother, where are you going?"
It was Fan Lan, from the Interior Design department but was invited as a popular senior"s female partner. She repeatedly yelled to her brother amidst the disturbance and even tried to go after him. Their other friends stood up and hesitated for a moment before exchanging looks and deciding to follow.
After that was chaos and confusion. Several voices floated around.
In one corner of her eyes, Gu Mochou watched as the shadow of the other person anxious for Zhao Ai disappeared into the hallway. He was the reason why at the last minute, she ordered her ghost servant who had illegally and secretly administered the substance to withdraw.
"I almost forgot, it"s better to make someone live a destroyed life. Unless the person is somebody I"d rather wish to disappear forever from this world," she told herself.
This was the first time Gu Mochou directly struck the female lead and thankfully, she had successfully reined in her desire to kill off Zhao Ai, the bug who escaped her net.
In her mind, there was no consideration whether it was reasonable to extend one"s anger on somebody who had not yet done her wrong. Zhao For Gu Mochou, all Zhao villagers were sinners that deserved no pity. They were merely people to toy around and kill. Zhao Ai luckily escaped death this time, only because she knew the fun ends once the female lead dies.
Zhang Jian, son of the syndicate"s boss and a guy Zhao Ai was unconsciously having an ambiguous relations.h.i.+p with, was around.
Fan Zheng, her official lover, rushed over a few seconds slower than Zhang Jian.
And Zhao Ai… once she arrived at the hospital, she would be diagnosed with methamphetamine overdose.
"It will be really fun." Her heart was already racing from happiness and antic.i.p.ation.
Gu Mochou was not interested in personally seeing the upcoming drama. Glancing at the alumnus guest who obviously had no idea whether to continue his speech or not, she stood up from her seat and left the venue. Outside, her car which was parked nearest to the entrance could easily be spotted.
Because her back was turned to the direction of the stage, she did not notice that from an obscure spot, a pair of eyes was following her, or more specifically, the ghostly ball of light floating behind her. The other reason she did not notice was that her brain was too busy picturing out the wonderful thing that would take place twelve or so hours later.
…
"As expected, she"s weird."
Zhan Rong was also at the place sitting at her good friend Guo Hanying"s table. She was there not because she was invited, but because despite being a neglected lady of the giant Zhan family, she still belonged to the elitist group who could come and go wherever and whenever they want.
From the time Gu Mochou walked in, Zhan Rong instantly recognized her as the girl who once tried to stalk her in a mall. Her memory was not for show after all, aside from the fact that her first encounter with Gu Mochou was tied to her first experience with a talking ghost.
She also heard the girl was just exceptionally beautiful, charismatic, and from a powerful family of another city, which added to the list of reasons why it was just hard not to know about Gu Mochou. A pity Zhan Rong was a year older than her and was from a different department, so there were so few occasions for them to meet.
Actually, in the foreseeable future, there might be no possibility of them getting acquainted.
Zhan Rong was purposely avoiding Gu Mochou.
As for why she was doing so… Well, perhaps it was a woman"s sixth sense at work which was not only effective in knowing if her partner was being unfaithful, but also in sensing danger.
She did not know why it felt like Gu Mochou was dangerous. All she knew was that her gut feeling was very rarely wrong. She thought there would be no harm in heeding it, especially when even her pet ghost warned her about the woman. And thus, whenever Gu Mochou was around or approaching Fan Zheng, she stayed away. It was not hard anyway since they were not acquaintances.
However, avoiding was avoiding, it had no conflicts with her observing from afar. Today, she surprisingly came across something remarkably interesting.
"Zhan Rong, what do you think is happening there?" The pretty and sophisticated lady seated next to her noticed her narrowing her eyes slightly at the table. "Aren"t you going to the restroom to check what"s going on?"
Zhan Rong glanced at Guo Hanying. Until now, the two had no idea Fan Zheng left the stage for Zhao Ai. The man left without a word after all. And even if they knew, they would not join the curious crowd as they were not close to the female lead.
Zhan Rong shrugged and made a disinterested face. She chose to change the topic so that the matter about going to a crowded and noisy hallway would not be brought up. "Hanying, your eyes are still open. Am I right?"