320: Chapter 0321: Ling Fei 320: Chapter 0321: Ling Fei Ling Fei was the epito of a Jiangnan beauty, with a lon-seeded face, petite lips, bright eyes, and a gentle deanor.
Although she wasn’t very tall, she stood out and had many admirers throughout her three years of high school.
However, Ling Fei focused all her attention on her studies.
Unexpectedly, during the first day of the college entrance examination when she had to write a Chinese essay, she felt dissatisfied with her performance.
After the test, upon comparing her answers with the standard ones released online, she realized she did poorly on the reading comprehension and even went off-topic in her essay.
According to the online scoring standards, she feared she might have failed her Chinese exam, but in all her previous mock exams and joint exams, she had scored at least one hundred and ten points.
In the afternoon, when it was ti for math, she suffered an even greater blow.
Mathematics had always been her weak subject, and at best, she only scored in the nineties.
But this ti, she found the math problems extrely difficult; she couldn’t solve many of the smaller questions, let alone the larger ones.
Although everyone was saying that the math exam was much harder this ti, Ling Fei knew she had utterly flunked it.
Having perford this way in two subjects, Ling Fei didn’t know what to say.
The previous night, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
When she woke up this morning, she felt listless.
During the liberal arts comprehensive test, she thought it would be an achievent just to perform normally.
After the liberal arts exam, she didn’t dare compare her answers with those online again.
However, she had a sense that she didn’t perform well in this subject either.
Usually, she could score over two hundred and forty points, but this ti, she suspected she might have just about reached two hundred.
After the liberal arts exam, only English was left, which was her best subject.
In the mock tests and joint exams, she consistently scored over one hundred and forty points.
But this ti, during the English exam, she didn’t know what was happening to her.
During the listening section, she made one mistake after another.
After finishing the English listening segnt, she felt she had gotten more than ten questions wrong, which ant losing more than ten points.
As for the rest of the questions, she kept working on them.
However, the more she worked, the less confident she beca.
Starting from the Chinese exam, she felt she was not performing normally this ti; it might be due to her poor ntal resilience or perhaps related to her family background.
For so reason, Ling Fei felt an inexplicable sadness and felt as if everything was lost.
Ling Fei was also a student at Jiangbei No.
1 High School.
Her usual overall academic ranking put her in the top fifty, which generally ant a chance at admission to Jinling University.
For her first choice, Ling Fei had applied to Jinling University.
But given the current situation, she thought it unlikely that she would even be admitted to her second-choice schools.
Ling Fei handed in her exam early and left the exam hall, not knowing how she ended up on the roof of the teaching building.
Perhaps in the past, whenever she felt frustrated while studying or reviewing alone, she liked to go up to the rooftop to catch a breeze.
Now, the tal door to the roof was unlocked.
Ling Fei went up to the rooftop alone and climbed straight onto the railing.
She thought she might as well end her life once and for all!
…
Standing on the railing with the wind blowing fiercely, Ling Fei heard a voice inside her repeatedly shouting, “Jump now!”
“Jump now!”
Yet another voice was screaming inside her.
“Ling Fei, don’t do anything foolish, co down right now.”
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It was the security from the exam site who first noticed Ling Fei climbing onto the railing of the rooftop, and then others were notified; many parents waiting at the school gate also witnessed the scene.
The anxious parents couldn’t fathom why the girl would contemplate suicide by jumping off the railing.
Clearly, they guessed that she must have felt she had failed the college entrance examination and couldn’t cope with it temporarily, thus preparing to leap to her death.
These days, children are like flowers grown in a greenhouse; their ntal resilience is too fragile.
Even the slightest difficulty or setback makes them lose their way.
That’s what it looked like to those parents.
Of course, now even more parents were urging the security staff, teachers, and others inside to hurry up and rescue that girl.
Ye Qiu turned and went inside, estimating that he could run up to the tenth floor in one breath, and then rescue the girl from there.
If the girl could just stay there a bit longer, there might still be a chance.
But the teacher currently trying to persuade Ling Fei to co down simply didn’t know what to say.
“Student, co down quickly, and we can talk about whatever it is?”
“If you didn’t do well this ti, there’s always next year!”
…
The teacher kept saying comforting words, but to Ling Fei, they were utterly useless.
Other students could retake the exam next year if they didn’t perform well this year, but in Ling Fei’s view, she no longer had that ti.
Ling Fei kept looking down from above, muttering to herself.
“I don’t have any more ti!”
“I really don’t have any ti left!”
…
Just as Ye Qiu had started rushing upstairs, Ling Fei turned around and leaped from the rooftop railing, jumping down.
In the end, emotion had triumphed over reason.
As she closed her eyes and jumped, what remained in her mind were images of her mother, father, teachers, and classmates.
The sight of her mother and father arguing nonstop, their busy figures, her teachers lecturing at the podium, the mory of them talking to her, and the students laughing and chatting.
For so reason, at that mont, Ling Fei regretted it!
She shouldn’t have jumped!
If she were to die, what would beco of her parents, of all the people who cared about her?
By the ti Ling Fei opened her eyes, a powerful force, as if drawing her in, pulled her violently towards the ground.
Jumping from the railing of the tenth floor to the ground ant a drop of at least thirty or forty ters, and even if she didn’t land on concrete but fell into a flowerbed instead, the imnse force of the fall was too much for any human body to withstand.
Ling Fei fell rapidly.
The teacher who had seen her turn and jump and had tried to grab her couldn’t catch her in ti, and Ye Qiu, who was hurriedly running upstairs, had just reached the sixth floor when he saw the girl jump down, catching a glimpse of her falling figure.
As Ye Qiu turned and ran downstairs,
he hadn’t yet reached the bottom when he heard a ‘thud’, and the girl had already fallen into the flowerbed, her condition unknown.
The guards and teachers watching below, who couldn’t possibly have caught her with their bare hands under such circumstances, now saw Ling Fei fall into the flowerbed and thought she was smashed into pieces.
However, they were still unsure about whether Ling Fei was alive or dead, even though they saw a lot of blood flowing out.
By that ti, many parents of students had already been calling the police and hospitals, but the ambulance from the nearest hospital to Jiangbei High School had not yet arrived.
When Ye Qiu got to the bottom, he saw the teachers and security staff approaching the girl, and he knew that if she had fallen from so high and hit the ground so hard that she was instantly dead, then there was no way he could save her.
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