Ghost: "Catch the Ghost" Chapter 11

'The first love and the broken heart are the same as they are impossible to hide, just like the ice cubes floating in a gla.s.s of c.o.ke.' - Mister Mao's definition. 

The fact that w.a.n.g Xu suddenly sat upright with s.h.i.+ning eyes had scared Professor Zhang. Even Shang LingXue who was attentively doing her paper had also noticed his weird behavior. However, after knitting her eyebrows with a puzzled face, she continued doing her paper.

Professor Zhang spoke to w.a.n.g Xu with a cold face, "Hey, little boy, are you awake?"

"Hm, I am awake." w.a.n.g Xu replied with disquietness. Thanks to his brilliant memory, his mind was now full of answers from Qi Bing's paper.

"Hmm, the exam room is not a place for you to take a nap. Go home if you want to sleep." Professor Zhang was about to take w.a.n.g Xu's paper and cancel his candidates.h.i.+p. However, as soon as Professor Zhang had stretched out his hand, he was threatened so much that he had to retract his hand.

As w.a.n.g Xu struck his hands on the table, his fountain pen bounced up in the air. He used one hand to grab the pen and then spun it for another two rounds. This magic-like gesture was not only delicate but also despicable somehow. Its attraction was not less than that of the movie 'Hail the Judge' of Stephen Chow of the years past.

The beginning tricks of dice tossing made Professor Zhang bewildered right in his place. Until he could have gotten himself together, he already saw w.a.n.g Xu rapidly writing down on his paper. In just a flash, his blank paper was filled with words. His fountain-pen gently glided on the paper. Correct answers continuously appeared wherever the pen had just slid over. Professor Zhang had to go back to the platform with his irritation, and then drank a sip of tea to cool himself down.

There wasn't time for the Professor Zhang to have swallowed the sip of tea, as soon as he saw Qi Bing's paper on the table, he choked on the tea and nearly went to see the King of the h.e.l.l. (Chinese slang)

When the exam was about to end in the next twenty minutes, Shang LingXue was the second one who had submitted their exam. Professor Zhang called Shang LingXue in and asked, "Student, when was the first paper submitted?"

Shang LingXue felt a little bit awkward, but still politely replied, "It was roughly one hour after the exam had started. Didn't you talk to him at that time?"

Professor Zhang scratched his head, hummed and continued to ask with a low voice, "Do you know the male student sitting next to you?"

Shang LingXue was startled by that question, "I … I don't know him."

She ran out of the exam room right after finis.h.i.+ng her sentence.

As he was watching her back disappeared, Professor Zhang was certain that w.a.n.g Xu was an absolute jerk.

As Shang LingXue had just reached the exam room's door, a noise came up from the back of the room. She looked back and saw that w.a.n.g Xu was standing up to submit his exam.

At the beginning of the examination, her stalker had been sleeping like a log. When he woke up, he did the test in only exact one hour before he submitted it.

Shang LingXue suddenly had a scary thought,"I am afraid that he is not a real candidate, instead, he came here to follow me. Because I have already submitted my paper, he has no reason to stay in the room anymore."

At the same time, w.a.n.g Xu felt extremely overjoyed. Actually, completing this test did not need the entire three hours. However, the prerequisite to shorten the time was to remove the 'thinking' process. Because w.a.n.g Xu had the answers, its arrangement and a.n.a.lysis from Qi Bing's paper, as well as additional ideas from several of the other candidates' viewpoints, it required him only a little bit of time to have finished the test. Nonetheless, if he stopped writing, he would have completely forgotten everything; and if he had to do it all over again, he would have definitely submitted a blank paper.

Therefore, w.a.n.g Xu did not care to review his paper, it was just a waste of time. Instead, he slapped his paper on professor Zhang's table, then left. His behavior made the professor's mustaches curl up in rage.

As he was walking out of the exam room, he saw that Shang LingXue was running away, he immediately loudly called out to her, "Hey, Shang LingXue! Wait! I have something to tell you!"

Shang LingXue's body froze for a moment. It seemed that either she had wanted to stop or that her heart was frightened. Anyway, she stopped afterwards.

"You … how do you know my name?"

Shang LingXue looked at w.a.n.g Xu, her eyes were agitated. Her gentle voice trembled a little bit. She stood at the beginning of the corridor, bowing her head and pulling the corner of her s.h.i.+rt. The glowing sunlight shone on her shoulders and reddened her cheeks. She breathed rapidly as her b.r.e.a.s.t.s were heaving. Her delicate figure of a 'descended sprite' on earth could have mesmerized the others.

This image was deeply engraved in w.a.n.g Xu's mind that it was impossible for it to have been removed from his mind, many years later.

The closer w.a.n.g Xu approached her, the more worried she was. Her fear was even doubled as she realized that he knew her name.

"I just wanted to talk to you about something, then I will leave."

w.a.n.g Xu stood face to face with Shang LingXue. Both were less than a meter away from each other. w.a.n.g Xu looked straight into her eyes. Meanwhile, his opponent was bowing her head lower and lower. If there were someone else seeing this scene, they would think that this male student was about to propose to her.

Finally, w.a.n.g Xu raised his voice, "Firstly, I am not a person who likes to stalk others. During the exam, I looked at you because I had wanted to copy your paper. It's not necessary to be squeamish about this. Secondly, even though you are worthy to be followed, it is not easy to do so as you have a bunch of guards. Not many people dare to do it. I hope you will not falsely accuse good guys the next time. Lastly, I will disclose something to you. Let’s consider it as an excuse to dissolve our misunderstandings. Ah, umm, you did the test very well, maybe ranked second in the room."

After finis.h.i.+ng his talking, he left right away, leaving her bewildered in place for half of a day.

As Shang LingXue walked out from the Soaring Wings Inst.i.tution, w.a.n.g Xu's words still hovered in her mind. Her guard, Uncle Chen, noticed the strange expressions on his young lady's face, thus quickly asked, "What happened, Miss? I've just seen the little boy who had used to follow you one week ago. Did he bully you? Hm, if he dares to touch one strand of your hair, Uncle Chen will break his bones."

Chen Yuan was a demobilized soldier. He had used to do his military service with Shang LingXue's father. Because Uncle Chen's daughter was studying overseas, he considered this young lady his own daughter. That was why he could not stand it when she was being bullied.

"That's not true. We have misunderstood him last time. He is not a stalker, just …"

Upon these words, Shang LingXue stopped for a while then continued, "Alright, Uncle Chen, let's go. I am hungry now, can we go somewhere to eat first?"

While Shang LingXue was sitting in an air-conditioned luxurious Lincoln, which was being driven by her guard, w.a.n.g Xu was riding an old bicycle under the sun.

Right now, he felt very awkward.

He had just intended to tell that girl he was not a stalker. However, when having stood in front of Shang LingXue, he accidently talked more than what he'd planned, not to mention he also felt comfortable with an unknown reason.

In fact, w.a.n.g Xu's behavior was easy to explain. He just wanted to tease the girl that he liked. As he had no experiences in any relations.h.i.+p, he had many complicated thoughts about it.

w.a.n.g Xu came back to the detective office to see Mister Mao relaxingly enjoying ice-cream on his chair in front of a fan. His ragged vest was thrown on the sofa a long time ago. Even though the collar and sleeves were unb.u.t.toned, he was still soaked in sweat.

"Didn't I tell you to buy an air conditioner? And, look how pathetic you are. The Golden Age of ice-cream was ten years ago!" w.a.n.g Xu plunked down on the sofa, quickly poured a gla.s.s of water for himself.

Mister Mao completely ignored w.a.n.g Xu's rubbish. Instead, he looked at w.a.n.g Xu with a sincere look and suddenly said, "Is it your first love? That's interesting."

"Ptui …" w.a.n.g Xu spat out more than half of the water he had just drunk. The rest ran into his lungs, causing him to cough till he cried.

"You … you … khorf …khorf… you are not human. How did you know that? Even I myself, don't know exactly what it is, yet you do."

"Ah, the first love and the broken heart are something which is hard to hide, like floating ice cubes in a gla.s.s of c.o.ke."

"Hey, those lines appear only in novels. Only you can say something like that. I don't even know what a kind of character like you was created for. Is it to offend me till death? Hey!"

Ignoring w.a.n.g Xu's bulls.h.i.+t, Mister Mao bit a bit of his ice cream and then said, "How goes the examination? Don't tell me it was not good because you just focused on watching the girl."

"You are a G.o.d. You can know it yourself, why do you need to ask me?"

Mister Mao continued explaining with a weak but scary voice as usual, "Hmm, teenagers during their growing periods are really annoying. Just because of his love, he sees his boss as a n.o.body, not to mention he dares to talk down to his debtor. It seems like you need to be taught a lesson …"

Ten minutes later, w.a.n.g Xu reported in detail the whole cheating process, and by the way, asked for instructions from his superior.

After listening to his report, Mister Mao frowned and squinted, "Regarding the body possession … theoretically, a living person cannot do it, except if you are a devil …"