Under the moonlight

"Holy crap! What happened to you? You didn't even go to the math final exam." Lin Shi and Chen Jiahao, seeing that he hadn't shown up, overheard from their homeroom teacher that he was in the hospital, injured. They couldn't have heard clearly in the office, so they only heard the name of the hospital and rushed over. Luckily, they ran into Zhao Meng's mother downstairs who was going to buy food.

"Zhao Meng, who is he? Is he Jing Hong?" Zhao Meng's mother put down the food and went out. Chen Jiahao leaned close to the bed and asked in a low voice.

Zhao Meng did not speak, neither confirming nor denying.

"That's him! Wow, he's ruthless!" Lin Shi said directly, looking at Zhao Meng's upper body wrapped in bandages, he couldn't believe that a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy would do such a thing.

“What is there for him to be afraid of? Don’t you know his whole family is involved in organized crime? Even the principal at our school greets him with a smile, but when he sees him outside of school, he doesn’t dare to utter a sound!” Lin Shi told him the inside scoop he had gathered.

"Really?! Then Zhao Meng is in big trouble!" Chen Jiahao still felt a little guilty, after all, it was because of his phone that the two of them had a conflict.

Zhao Meng listened to their back-and-forth conversation, but they didn't mention a single thing that concerned him. "Huang Meng, did you go to the exam that day?"

Lin Shi and Chen Jiahao were puzzled as to why he suddenly asked about her. After a moment of surprise, they said, "She probably went. She went to the exam hall to wait for the exam shortly after arriving at school that morning. I didn't see her in the classroom, but she probably went!"

“I saw her again when I went back to the classroom to clean up after the exam!” Chen Jiahao said to Lin Shi.

"Um, okay, I'm off after the exam, hehe~"

Zhao Meng rolled her eyes at Lin Shi and didn't say anything more. She went to school. Was that just my imagination?

Zhao Meng thought for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. He chatted with Lin Shi and Chen Jiahao for a few more minutes and then sent them both away.

After the two left, he ate his meal and lay in bed waiting for the nurse to change his dressing. Seeing his mother waiting beside him, he said, "You can go out now, it's just a dressing change."

"Look at you! I've told you before to behave yourself and not cause trouble, and you've ended up with such serious injuries, five knife wounds all over your body. Who did you offend? How could they be so ruthless!" Zhao Meng felt sorry for his mother as she cried, but what was done was done, and there was no use saying anything more. He knew that no matter what he said, she wouldn't leave, so he stopped talking and closed his eyes.

"Sigh, thank goodness those two security guards were there. You know, I don't know how badly you were hurt. Your dad went to thank them, and they were quite polite. But they were honest enough. They told your dad that they heard a girl calling for help that morning, so they came out to check. Otherwise, with all those people covering your mouth and a bunch of them blocking your way, no one would know what they were doing! They were so ruthless!"

"Mom, do you think you heard a girl crying for help?"

"Yes! She and the two security guards took you to the hospital, but it was a lot of a commotion, and she left on her own."

Zhao Meng sat up straight and looked at his mother seriously, asking, "Mom, I didn't take the math final exam and I have to retake it. Can you call my classmate and ask her to come over? She's taken the exam before, so she'll definitely know what was on the test. If she brushes up on her knowledge, it'll be easier to pass the retake."

His mother thought about it for a while and agreed, but she was still worried. "Is your wound alright?"

"It's alright, just apply the medicine on time." Zhao Meng looked at his mother impatiently and urged her to call Huang Meng's family quickly. He knew that his mother had Huang Meng's mother's phone number, and they knew each other before.

Although he didn't know why Huang Meng had to tutor him, he still softened and dialed the number when he saw Zhao Meng in pain while applying medicine.

Zhao Meng endured the pain and patiently waited for her mother to finish the call, but the result was that Huang Meng's mother politely declined, saying that Huang Meng didn't have time and might not be able to go.

She understands that as a mother, it's strange to suddenly ask a young girl to come to her place to tutor her son. If the same thing happened to her youngest daughter, Qiqi, she would also politely decline.

However, Zhao Meng was not completely disappointed at the time, because once he recovered from his injury and school started, he could ask her in person.

However, as he patiently endured the winter break day by day, he received the news that Huang Meng had transferred back to her hometown.

"Boss, could you please take a look at this document? If there are no problems, please sign it." Liang Yuanyuan said as she walked to Zhao Meng's side.

"Hmm? Oh, okay, let me take a look." Zhao Meng looked at the documents in front of him, but his mind was still stuck in the past. He still remembered that day. He had been waiting for Huang Meng to leave school in the afternoon since he arrived at school early in the morning, but he had not seen her. He thought she might be sick and had taken leave, but he heard the news from Chen Xin. The girls had always gotten along very well, and they were also having a hard time accepting her sudden transfer. They were still discussing it on their way home from school.

Zhao Meng silently followed behind them. When he heard the news, he stopped in his tracks. He wasn't greatly disappointed, but he suddenly felt a piece of his heart was missing. Had she become that important to him?