There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

Li Nian did not interrupt from beginning to end. He watched Wu Geng leave angrily and did not rush to catch up with him. Instead, he had a thoughtful expression, frowned, and touched his chin.

Yukinoshita apologized to him: "I'm sorry, I don't think I thought about what I said. I said too much and upset your friend. What happened afterwards..."

"Well, I'll take care of it, don't worry."

Li Nian stood up at this time, nodded to Yukinoshita and Hikigaya, and said with a smile: "You two have carefully read our work and provided valuable reference opinions. I am very grateful for this. I believe that Gogeng can also recognize this."

Hikigaya scoffed.

I thought, “That’s hard to say.”

Li Nian reached out to Xuexia.

"Can you return these two manuscripts to me?"

"of course."

Yukinoshita handed over two manuscripts wrapped in folders. Li Nian took them, opened them, glanced at them roughly, nodded slightly, said goodbye politely to the service club and others, and left the club.

Chapter 116: People injured by the light

After leaving the service department and coming to the corridor, Li Nian looked left and right on both sides of the corridor, but did not see Wu Geng.

He didn't chase her out right away. At this point, he didn't know where Wu Geng would go. It was not impossible that she had already left him and ran back home. After all, it looked like she was greatly shocked and might want to just lie down in bed and cry...

Li Nian simply closed his eyes, expanded his perception range in one breath, and scanned the entire teaching building.

"……found it."

He discovered Wu Geng's presence. Fortunately, the child did not go far, but stopped at the stairwell between the third and fourth floors...

Li Nian noticed that the location was a bit tricky, it was upstairs instead of downstairs.

If we follow the common thinking and blindly assume that she has left and go downstairs, we will definitely not be able to find her.

Five is to deliberately do the opposite.

"You are hiding from me..."

Li Nian felt that she was deliberately avoiding him, which made him hesitate. He wondered whether he should just go with the flow and give her some time to recover.

No, let's try it first.

Li Nian walked towards the stairwell while shouting Wu Geng's name loudly.

"Gogen-san! Gogen-san! Are you still there?"

He walked and shouted, but he lowered his head and opened the manuscript of Wu Geng in his hand and began to read. He scanned ten lines at a glance and turned the pages very quickly. It seemed that he was not reading it seriously at all, but in fact he was doing a quick reading relying on his outstanding memory and comprehension ability. He still read every word and sentence carefully, using this short time to understand Wu Geng's revised manuscript.

There was no response, as if the child had made up his mind not to pay attention to him.

Li Nian did not give up. She deliberately stopped when she reached the stairwell below where Wu Geng was, and shouted louder.

The distance was already very close, and Li Nian could confirm that the child was right above his head. With his keen perception, he could even clearly sense that Wu Geng was holding his breath and was secretly sticking his head out to check the situation below through the gap in the stairs.

"Gogen-san! Where did you go? Could it be that you've already left?"

Li Nian continued to pretend that he didn't notice her, and slowly walked down the stairs while speaking in a puzzled tone.

He walked down three or five steps quickly without waiting for a sound to stop.

It seems that this child really doesn't want to pay attention to me now... So forget it.

Li Nian closed the book in his hand and sighed.

In that case, give her some personal time and space to reflect on herself.

Thinking of this, Li Nian didn't go back upstairs to try to create an "encounter" situation. He just went downstairs and decided to leave.

At this moment, Wu Geng spoke coldly.

"I am here."

"…Are you on top?"

Li Nian stopped, a look of helplessness flashed across his face, he turned around and quickened his pace and walked forward again. After discovering it was five o'clock, he deliberately showed a surprised expression.

"Hey? Why are you upstairs?"

Wu Geng sat on the stairs, looking at Li Nian coldly without saying a word, but there was clear resistance in his eyes, making Li Nian feel like the person sitting in front of him was a black cat with its fur standing on end.

He pretended not to notice and said with a grin.

"I can see that you seem quite angry, but there's no need to be. I have to say that what Yukinoshita said was quite harsh, but she seems to have always been like this. It's probably not directed at you, so there's no need to take it to heart."

"Stop pretending."

For a moment, Li Nian thought she was saying that he had already discovered her affair a long time ago, but then she heard Wu Geng say the second sentence.

"You are very proud of yourself."

"..."

"You are very proud of receiving everyone's praise, right? You are very proud of listening to me being criticized, right? You are very proud of seeing me being criticized for being useless and failing miserably, right?"

Wu Geng asked coldly, word by word.

The smile gradually faded, Li Nian narrowed his eyes and asked.

"...Why do you think so?"

"Isn't it? You deliberately wrote about the same subject as me, and achieved a quality many times better than mine, but you are different from me and can get good reviews from everyone. Don't you feel proud of this? Are you thinking now, "Hey, I am much better than you, a lost dog!"

Li Nian frowned.

"…Do you think I would think so?"

Wu Geng laughed miserably.

"You must be thinking so, don't be polite, just say it directly. I won't refute it. What can I refute? I lost, I just can't compare with you, I just can't write well, I just can only be scolded, that's the extent... I'm used to it."

At the end of her words, her voice was trembling, and she began to sound a little tearful and self-deprecating.

Li Nian finally understood after hearing this. He suddenly realized it and looked at Wu Geng with complicated eyes, and said softly.

"I see...are these the thoughts you have about yourself?"

Wu Geng widened her eyes and opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but facing his direct gaze, she finally looked away and said nothing.

This is a kind of tacit understanding, which means that Li Nian guessed correctly.

"..."

Li Nian shook his head. He finally understood what Wu Geng said.

Gogen was indeed hit hard, not only because this time Yukinoshita criticized what she wrote as worthless, but also because she had heard many of Aki and others praising Li Nian's works, and she had accumulated a lot of pressure, which erupted here.

It can be seen that they really regard him as a competitor.

In Wu Geng's eyes, that was undoubtedly not a beautiful relationship of love and affection. She has always been a very competitive person. The word "competitor" to her probably means the same as "enemy". From the time she proposed to Li Nian to decide the winner, she had already regarded him as her enemy and really wanted to decide the winner.

But she failed.

Compared with Li Nian, who has always received overwhelming praise, Wu Geng, who has not received any recognition, has suffered a complete failure.

But she was not unaware of her own worth.

Wu Geng, who had been beside Li Nian the whole time and listened to others praising him, knew that it was something she could not get. In fact, at that point in time, she had already anticipated the outcome of failure.

She has always insisted on getting evaluations from everyone in the service department, perhaps just hoping that at least one person would recognize her work.

But there was none.

Yukinoshita even found solid evidence to criticize Li Nian in front of her, and criticized her for nothing in the comparison, saying that this man wrote a text that was countless times better than hers on the same subject matter...

The so-called dwarfing is nothing more than this.

This made Wu Geng feel even more ashamed.

She complained to Li Nian, but she knew that the boy didn't think that way.

That complaint was actually her complaint to herself.

Wu Geng herself understood that she was like a lost dog.

She hugged her knees and buried her head in them.

"What's the point of all my efforts..."

Chapter 117 The only way to get rid of troubles

Looking at the girl with her head buried in her arms, her whole body emitting a gray-black aura, Li Nian knew that he should be more cautious in what he said next.

Wu Geng's mental state at this time is a little fragile. People will lose their rationality at this time, which leads to not being able to listen to others easily.

Just be safe and say nice things here, even if they are just bland comforting words. Praise and compliments may sound a bit cliché, but it must be said that they are very practical in this situation. A wounded and fragile heart will be soothed by these things. If a kitten is angry, just touch its fur gently to calm it down.

But Li Nian felt that he was not good at saying nice things, and he also understood that doing so would not really solve Wu Geng's inner confusion at the moment.

Yes, it's confusing.

Li Nian knew clearly what was in Wu Geng's mind at that moment, and knew what made her say that what she was doing was meaningless.

Because that kind of confusion is something I have experienced personally and it is engraved in my heart.

Gogen's emotional outburst was probably not just because of Yukinoshita's disapproval of her work this time, but because her efforts for a long time had never been recognized. From her first draft, it can be seen what the level of her work is. Probably, she has never received the desired praise before.

Li Nian knew that this was a huge blow to an author.

But in fact, this confusion is nothing special or a big deal.

It is very common to work hard but not get any reward. Recently, it happened to Li Nian, such as Shiina's manga being rejected. Even a world-class painter with a solid foundation had to face failure, let alone an ordinary high school girl?

It's not just them, this is a helplessness that everyone will deeply experience sooner or later. It can be regarded as the inevitable pain of growing up. At a sentimental age, it is normal to feel angry and desperate about this.

This confusion may be soothed, but there is only one way to get rid of it...

Li Nian decided to change the conversation direction, which was a bit dangerous, which was to tell the truth.

So here, he sneered instead and answered Wu Geng coldly with this sentence.

"I think your idea is boring."

It seemed that she didn't expect that he would say such words to add insult to injury. Wu Geng raised his head from his arms and looked at him in disbelief, with a dazed expression.

"You said...boring...?"

"Yes." Li Nian nodded straightforwardly, and said coldly with a hint of sarcasm: "I think you are feeling extremely sad right now, wondering why the world is so unfair to you. You are not unaware that the problem lies with yourself, so you think that you are stupid for thinking this way, which further deepens your self-loathing... To sum up your entanglement, you are asking for trouble. If asking for trouble is not boring, what else can it be?"

Wu Geng was angry.

"What do you know..."

——She wanted to say that Li Nian didn’t understand how much pain she was in at the moment, but the memory that suddenly emerged made her swallow the words back.

Because she suddenly remembered the real situation of the boy in front of her.

This person has lost his parents and his family.

Wu Geng has no right to say such things to Li Nian.

Li Nian didn't know what Wu Geng was thinking at this moment, but he could still guess what Wu Geng wanted to say to him, so he continued.

"If I must say, I understand what you mean by pain. I have been in your situation before. That is why I say that your idea is boring or meaningless."

Wu Geng stopped himself from thinking too much about Li Nian, regrouped, and asked back in a cold voice.

"No meaning? Then what do you say is meaningful?"

"Nonsense." Li Nian said without hesitation: "Of course we should cheer up and keep moving forward. Any other actions and thoughts are meaningless."

Wu Geng sneered.

"Is this what you want to say? Everyone can say nice things."

Li Nian smiled.

"Then can you say that this sentence is wrong?"

"..."