Because of Yu Ning, Ji Mingxia had quit social media. He only used a fixed app to go on the Internet. He had no interest in entertainment gossip, and didn’t even bother peeking there.

Although he had gotten close with the people in the class, it was not to the extent of friends, and since they knew he was acquainted with Ye Tian, they deliberately avoided him when gossiping about her.

If others didn’t say it to his face, Ji Mingxia also wouldn’t intentionally come forward, but he’d hear a few words from time to time, and that’s how he realized that Ye Tian was in trouble.

She was a star, and it was normal to be riddled with scandals. So it made sense that there would be people secretly discussing her, and Ji Mingxia did not take it to heart.

It wasn’t until the last two classes in the afternoon when his class was having a common class with another department, that he knew things were serious.

Although Ji Mingxia had been famous for a while, he was not a celebrity after all, and after a while, many passersby had forgotten what he looked like.

The students in his class would be a bit careful in front of him, but the students from other departments won’t think so much about it and just gathered around in discussion.

The shared classroom was very large, and the teacher in the front row had to speak through the microphone. In order to gossip and not be discovered, the students in the back took advantage of the talking teacher to chat.

This way, the teacher’s loud voice would drown out their voices. Not only would they not be discovered, but the whole group could also hear each other properly.

Ji Mingxia was forced to listen to the various speculations of those people. He didn’t take it seriously at first, but as he listened, his expression gradually became solemn.

Ye Tian’s matter whether big or small wouldn’t have been a big issue, but it was the series of reactions after the incident that attracted the public’s attention.

The incident started from the afternoon art class.

The art teacher taught the class as usual, giving the students guidance, and then giving them an assignment. The assignment this time was a self portrait.

This was a very common art assignment and people don’t take it seriously. Usually, people would just draw to deal with the situation, and then use the rest of the time to relax.

Everyone chatted and drew, and every now and then, they played with their phones or peeked at Ye Tian.

Although Ye Tian was a freshman, her identity was special and she had been the subject of discussion long before enrollment. She didn’t have to be present in every class as the school had reached a compromise with her. As long as she passes her final exam, she has permission to come late or skip a class.

A month into the school year, Ye Tian’s total number of times in class was less than a week and it was only now that she was free. She still had Ji Mingxia, on her mind, and was not familiar with the students in class.

While the class was in session, many people were curious about Ye Tian and they wanted to see the star’s artistic level, and what she looks like in her eyes. 

As a result, they gradually found that something was wrong.

When Ye Tian shot to fame, she often shared her cartoons on Weibo. The style was delicate and romantic, and the fans once jokes that she was a cartoonist delayed by stardom.

Everyone peeked at Ye Tian not only to see the star, but to also see how she paints.

As a result, it seemed as Ye Tian was pranking everyone. She picked up a paint brush and scribbles all over the place. Like a child, she clenched the brush in a fist, and randomly scribbled.

On the white paper, black paint occupied most of the page, and in the most central position was something with a crooked face. At first glance, it looked like a monster, but on closer inspection, it looked like a child.

The child had a total of four eyes, two were tightly closed, one eye was looking at its own body, and the other eye was looking straight ahead.

Everyone who saw this painting was shocked. It was unbelievable that such a dark and frightening painting was painted by Ye Tian.

Could it be that this is how Ye Tian saw herself?

Although it looked very terrifying and gloomy, and that the painting style was very different from her previous works, it was still very powerful.

Especially the eye that stared at the person outside the painting. It felt real, and everyone didn’t dare take a second glance. 

The students speculated in this way because they were surprised by Ye Tian’s work, but no one dared to talk to Ye Tian.

When the bell rang, everyone got up and was ready to take a break, when Ye Tian, who had been immersed in the painting, woke up as if from a dream. She was startled by her “self-portrait”, and she pointed to the eye while screaming!

“What did you say? You mean Ye Tian pointed at her self-portrait and screamed after she drew a horrible self-portrait?” A students in Ji Mingxia’s class asked after listening to the gossip. “What do you mean, she was also scared by her own work?”

“Who knows? My friend is in the same class as Ye Tian, he has always liked her and watched the whole thing, there is absolutely no possibility of lying.” The student who sat in the middle of the crowd and was responsible for passing on the gossip said.

Seeing that everyone’s appetite was whetted and they looked a little scared, he immediately improvised. He deliberately lowered his voice and slowly said: “He said that Ye Tian was so frightened by the painting. If he had not see Ye Tian finish the self-portrait herself, her reaction would simply make people think that she was not the painter…. In layman’s terms, it was like a ghost possession and after painting, the person comes to their senses and gets scared.”

“Fuck, don’t scare people.”

“Why are you bringing up horror stories in broad daylight, are you looking for death?”

“The Ye family deleted all the posts on the forum, what do you think?”

Sure enough, the surrounding students became a little scared.

Gossip time was precious, at any time the teacher, the teacher would find them chatting so someone hurriedly asked if that was all.

The gossipmonger sitting in the center hurriedly said: “Of course not, the self-portrait was just an appetizer. Let me tell you, from that moment on, Ye Tian became a little crazy. This is first-hand news. There was a lot of discussion, but no one mentioned the self-portrait because what happened after was too exciting, everyone just looked back and…”

“Why so much nonsense, quickly say it, why did the Ye family delete posts and ban accounts at the expense of public anger?” A student urged.

Ji Mingxia also pricked up his ears to listen carefully.“Okay, okay, I also find it hard to believe.” That student in the center passed on the gossip: “After finding her own self-portrait so frightening, Ye Tian became crazy. At first, everyone tried to kindly comfort her, even the teacher thought she was under too much pressure from work and was tired. He suggested that she go back to rest ....but as soon as Ye Tian heard that, she became even more frightened! She grabbed the teacher and said someone was stalking and spying on her wherever she went.”

“Stalking, spying?”

“Shit, the treatment of stars is good! Even when I have a headache, I have never seen the teacher take the initiative to comfort me or let me go back to rest ah.”

“The problem was that Ye Tian was not willing to go back, was there really a peeping Tom?”

“Yes, there really is.” That student in the center said, “ Everyone did not speak, but Ye Tian thought people didn’t believe her, so she stared to babble on. She said she had found clues, and then in front of the class, opened a website…the website was densely packed with photos, and all of them were her private photos.”

“What?!” The crowd was shocked and a little confused.

The student in the center said: “Yes, you heard it right, Ye Tian found a website that was densely packed with her private photos. She put this website and photos in front of the class, and told everyone that someone was spying on her, stalking her, taking her private photos.… “

The crowd looked at each other, unable to keep up with their train of thought: “And then what?”

“Then it’s what you see.” The student said, “their class was an elective class so there were dozens of people. Ye Tian showed these things in front of everyone, and they all had slow reactions like you guys. They were dumbfounded and couldn’t react.  The fast ones brought out their phones, recorded Ye Tian’s crazy look, and private photos, and then posted them on the Internet!”

Everyone listened but the expressions on their faces were a bit indescribable.

“What’s this mess, why does it feel divine?”

“Is Ye Tian really stressed, or crazy ah?”

“I don’t think she’s crazy, the entertainment industry is very chaotic, maybe she’s on drugs.”

“No way, she is not yet twenty years old, and her family is rich. She must be involved in the dark part of the entertainment industry.”

“Silly you, the richer people are, the dirtier and more chaotic, don’t look at Ye Tian’s purity on the surface……”

The student in the center saw that people’s words were getting out of hand and quickly said: “Hey hey hey, the Ye family is keeping a close eye on things. Ye Tian went crazy in the afternoon and this incident was on the forum for less than an hour. The people of the Ye family managed to delete the posts and also to pick up Ye Tian. My friend is now signing a confidentiality agreement…… everyone can gossip but don’t create rumors, ah! Just gossip and brag about it but don’t say anything online, or leave textual evidence in case it is forwarded.”

“There was also signing of a confidentiality agreement?” Some students exclaimed in surprise and dissatisfaction.

Although the Ye family was rich, why treat ordinary people like this ah.

However, the classmate who brought the gossip had a different expression from everyone, and said with envy: “It is said that Ye Tian’s brother, Ye Chen, came forward to take care of things. He hopes that everyone will try not to spread today’s events. He said everyone has freedom of speech but please respect the objective facts. In addition, Ye Tian’s private photos are not allowed to spread, otherwise it is illegal...The Ye family is so rich ah, they gave a lot of benefits, I want to cry with envy…”

Once they heard about the benefits, everyone’s righteous indignation disappeared, and the attention quickly shifted to how much Ye Tian’s classmates actually got.

When they heard that the hush money was five figures, many students could not help but bite their handkerchiefs, hating that they we’re Ye Tian’s classmates.

The topic gradually shifted from Ye Tian to how rich the Ye family is. For many students, the Ye family was so rich that Ye Tian’s actions were not a problem at all. There is no disease that money can’t cure.

Ji Mingxia originally thought the same thing.

From the time he met Ye Tian, Ye Tian seemed to be deeply harassed by prying eyes and stalking.

In Ji Mingxia’s opinion, there were no ghosts around Ye Tian, and no mysterious objects. Although she had bumped into ghosts, it was only a coincidental event.

Her nerves seem to be weakened, and she is always troubled by being followed and spied on. The last time he saw her, it seemed that she hadn’t slept peacefully for a long time.

If it was not a supernatural event, the rest could only be left to science.

He thought that since it was a psychological case, the wealth of the Ye family, as well as the love from her family will help her. It was not his turn to worry about it as an outsider.

However, according to the current situation, it seems that Ye Tian didn't get better, but her situation even intensified. She couldn’t even control herself in front of the whole class.

Ji Mingxia unconsciously picked up his phone.

He had not added Ye Tian, but was a friend with Ye Chen.

Since they added each other as friends, it has always been Ye Chen taking the initiative to text Ji Mingxia, while Ji Mingxia was forced to cope each time and had never contacted him first.

But with this kind of thing …… Ye Chen may not even have the mood to reply him now.

Ji Mingxia thought so, and decided to close WeChat.

Just when he was about to do so, a new message came in. Ji Mingxia hurriedly opened WeChat, and found that it was a message from Yu Ning.

Ji Mingxia’s class was held in another building and Yu Ning asked for the specific location of the classroom, he wanted to pick Ji Mingxia to go to the dormitory.

Although Yu Ning did not explicitly say it, and had gradually accepted Ye Chen’s lunchboxes, and Ye Tian’s various gifts, Ji Mingxia felt that Yu Ning didn’t like the two siblings.

Seeing that Yu Ning was coming, Ji Mingxia hurriedly collected his mind, at least not to get distracted in front of Yu Ning and think about Ye Chen and Ye Tian.

However, although his plan was good, it was impractical. When the two walked towards the dormitory, the sound of students’ discussions could be heard everywhere so Ji Mingxia couldn’t pretend not to know.

The gossip about the Ye family and Ye Tian had long swept through the entire school, and it was the hottest topic at the moment.

Ji Mingxia glanced at Yu Ning secretly, and found that Yu Ning was looking at him calmly, seemingly having seen through everything.

Ji Mingxia smiled dryly and finally said, “Yu Ning, something happened to Ye Tian, do you know?”

“I heard a little.” Yu Ning nodded his head and said.

Ji Mingxia recalled the gossip he heard in the afternoon and frowned in thought, “I think the while matter is a bit odd.”