Chapter 0840 – Old Principal’s Past

　　Chen Ge sympathized with Sakura Bai, but if Sakura Bai didn’t open her mouth, there was no way for him to help the other party.

　　”I’m a freshman who just transferred to this school, I don’t know much about this school yet, so I hope you won’t take it to heart if some of the things I say make you feel uncomfortable.”

　　The girl’s mental state was very unstable, forcing her to ask questions might cause her to break down directly, for the girl’s safety, Chen Ge memorized the girl’s hospital bed number and was ready to close the curtain and come back later.

　　The thick white cloth closed again, isolating the hospital bed and the outside world into two different worlds.

　　Chen Ge turned around and walked towards the next hospital bed, and before he took a few steps, he suddenly felt the hem of his clothes being tugged by someone.

　　Looking back, a pale hand reached out from under the white cloth and grabbed his clothes.

　　”Run away, don’t attend this school, you’ll go crazy.” Sakurabaek’s voice was low, requiring concentration to hear.

　　”I do feel that the atmosphere of learning in our school stops being good, and everyone likes to make friends with me.” Chen Ge wasn’t afraid of the girl harming herself, she was afraid that the girl wouldn’t open her mouth, as long as she could communicate, everything was fine.

　　”Go back to your old school, go back.” There was a hint of pleading in the girl’s voice, she didn’t say the exact reason, but Chen Ge could hear from her tone that this child was indeed thinking about him and didn’t want him to get hurt.

　　In the blood-red world behind the door, there was still such a kind girl, Chen Ge himself found it unbelievable.

　　”I can’t go back.” Chen Ge paused slightly, and his brain had already thought of a set of words in zero seconds, “I suffered from school bullying in my previous school, I didn’t know what I did wrong, and those people took pleasure in bullying me every day, my parents went to the school leaders and teachers for this reason, but the more they did it the more those people went overboard, and in the end, there wasn’t a single person in the class who would be willing to be friends with me. I just couldn’t stay any longer, so I transferred schools here.”

　　”You were bullied at your old school, so you transferred here?” The white cloth was lifted a crack, revealing Sakurabaek’s palm-sized face.

　　The fear in her eyes faded quite a bit, replaced by surprise and worry: “I don’t even know what to tell you, if you don’t want to be hurt again, I advise you to go to another school.”

　　Probably because they were both bullied, the relationship between Sakurabaek and Chen Ge drew a lot closer.

　　”Why? Today is my first day of transferring here, half an hour ago I was still on the podium making a self-introduction, it’s not appropriate to leave now, is it?” Chen Ge was coaxing the girl to tell the truth, he needed to know more information in order to truly help the other party and change this school.

　　”This school is like a black vortex, you have to leave before you get close, once you’re in it there’s no escaping, you’ll be dragged by them to the very bottom of the abyss, you’ll either be pulverized to pieces, or you’ll become a monster just like them.” The girl sat on the hospital bed, she refused to engage with the outside world, sticking her hand out of the white cloth seemed to be as far as she could go.

　　”Is it that scary?” The blood-red world behind the door contrasted sharply with the campus constructed by the painter in the mirror, and at this moment Chen Ge somewhat understood the painter and Chang Wenyu.

　　One embraced only beauty and hope, tearing apart humanity; the other chose to run away and hide where they wouldn’t be harmed.

　　Their approach to gaining the school’s willful approval was more pleasing to the eye, and could not be said to be wrong, it just did not address the root of the problem.

　　”You’ll be assimilated, and if you want to not be bullied, you’ll end up having to turn yourself into a monster.” Sakura Bai should have not spoken to anyone for a long time, looking at Chen Ge as a relatively kind face and a transfer student, so she chose to communicate with Chen Ge.

　　”Are these the only two cases? Then you …… “Chen Ge put down his backpack and sat next to the hospital bed.

　　The hospital bed isolated by the white cloth was like the girl’s closed heart, and Chen Ge walked into the middle of her world a little bit with kindness.

　　”Can you tell me your story?”

　　The girl didn’t reply, didn’t drive Chen Ge away, or acted annoyed, deep down she was longing for someone to stand with her, just that for various reasons she had lost the courage to talk to people.

　　Her world was wrapped in malice, and taking a step of her own accord could lead her to fall into a trap full of poisonous snakes and sharp knives.

　　Looking at the girl up close, Chen Ge realized that this child was very cute looking, carrying a somewhat morbid beauty that could easily awaken one’s latent desire for destruction.

　　Slender arms, white neck, bloodless skin and face, this child was hugging her knees, her black hair covered her eyes, and she seemed to be unconsciously dazed.

　　The bed was soft, Chen Ge noticed that the girl’s pillow sagged badly there, she seemed to be hiding something in the pillow.

　　The line of sight moved, Chen Ge found another picture frame next to the girl’s pillow, inside was a family photo.

　　The slightly chubby old man was pushing a wheelchair, and the frail young woman was sitting in the wheelchair holding a bouquet of flowers, with pinholes vaguely visible on the back of her hand.

　　On both sides of the wheelchair were two cute little girls, they were wearing pretty dresses, one on the left and one on the right snuggled up next to their mother.

　　The two girls were none other than Sakura Red and Sakura White, but what really caught Chen Ge’s attention in this photo was the old man pushing the wheelchair.

　　The old man had black and white hair, and his looks were similar to a certain person Chen Ge remembered.

　　”The shape of his face and the way he smiles is eight or nine percent similar to the old principal of Mureyang Middle School!”

　　Chen Ge had seen a picture of the old principal, a chubby, smiling old man sitting right in the middle of a group photo of all the students of Mureyang Middle School.

　　”The ages are a bit off! Why would the old principal be with these two little girls?”

　　Dryly coughing, Chen Ge inquired in a low voice, “Sakura Bai, is the old man in that photo your grandfather?”

　　”En.” Sakurabaek nodded, “He’s my only relative, and occasionally comes over to see me.”

　　”He would come to see you? Only relative?” Sakura White’s words were so informative that countless thoughts instantly sprang up in Chen Ge’s mind.

　　If this old man was really the old principal of Mureyang Middle School, then the other party had been at Mureyang Middle School before, yet Sakurabaek had said that the old man would occasionally come to see him, which meant that the old principal knew the way in and out of the Psychic Ghost School!

　　This is one of the points, the second point, the photo clearly has both Sakurabaek and Sakurahong on it, but Sakurabaek said that the old man is his only relative, which means that in Sakurabaek’s opinion, Sakurahong is not considered her relative at all, and that something very bad should have happened between them.

　　”Sakura White, can you tell me what kind of person your grandfather is?” Chen Ge moved his body towards the girl.

　　Sakurabaek, who was sitting frozen on the hospital bed, lifted her head and spoke after a long time, “My grandfather can’t have children, he doesn’t have any blood relatives, but he has many children.”