Several people chatted for a long time, and Chen Shi also summarized a lot of information based on everyone's conversation, after all, tomorrow's game will be held at the first venue, that is to say, only No. 1-12 will participate with him, and some of these people also have some relationship with each other.

Most of the people who come to the game are for the money, and each has some advantages. No. 1 Dou Jiang and No. 2 Yang Hao are buddies, and the two came together; No. 3 Zheng Rong is a middle school teacher, who is terminally ill but cannot receive treatment because the school does not pay medical insurance, so she wants to participate in the game to get a large amount of money for her children; No. 4 Mo Xuan, a non-mainstream girl, came here after a falling out with her family.

No. 5 Gu Yi and No. 8 He Anqi also came to participate in the game together, wanting to get a bonus and go back to get married; No. 6 Ye Wei, when he was young, he mistakenly entered a pyramid scheme organization because of raising a family, and was later arrested and imprisoned for more than ten years. No. 7 Bai Chu, a female radio anchor, got along with a wealthy businessman, but later found out that the rich businessman had a family, but he wanted to break up but was put on the table and owed a huge amount of money.

It's really everyone who has their own story, Chen Shi was a little bored fiddling with the grapefruit peel in his hand, and saw Luo Xuan, who was sitting opposite him, playing a fourth-order Rubik's cube, and only made two sides, a little helpless.

It's already pretty good. Chen Shi thought that when he used to go to school, there was a time when the school was particularly popular to play Rubik's Cube, and everyone's level was maintained at one or two sides of the third-order Rubik's Cube, and because he had a strong sense of space, and according to the online tutorial, he could already spell out a complete fourth-order Rubik's Cube, for which he also gained a lot of little fans. But I haven't practiced it for so many years, so I don't know if the skills will be rusty.

"Can you let me try it?" Chen Shi looked at Luo Xuan, he was just bored, if she didn't give it, forget it.

Luo Xuan pouted and smiled and handed over the Rubik's Cube.

Chen Shi fiddled with it twice, calculating at high speed in his heart, but in just two minutes, the Rubik's Cube was completely restored. I couldn't help but feel a little proud in my heart, it was not much worse than back then.

Chen Shi handed the Rubik's Cube back with a smile, but Luo Xuan shook his head: "You better keep it for yourself." ”

Luo Xuan's expression when he spoke made Chen Shi feel very strange, the feeling of wanting to praise but mocking his tone, wanting to sneer but suppressing it, was really uncomfortable. This Luo Xuan, how did he provoke her?

Chen Shi fiddled with the Rubik's Cube in his hand speechlessly, but found that something was wrong. This cube has six colors, one of which is golden yellow, but the piece in the lower right corner is platinum gold. At first glance, it looks like the paint is peeling off, but the color of that piece is very uniform, just a little lighter, so familiar.

"Luo Xuan, do you know Kang Xia?" Chen Shi's eyes widened.

"She's my best friend." Luo Xuan's expression returned to indifference, and his eyes stared directly at Chen Shi.

"She, is she okay?" For some reason, Chen Shi was a little weak when he asked this.

"She's dead." Luo Xuan's face still didn't have any expression: "Twelve years ago, on her fifteenth birthday, she committed suicide. ”

Chen Shi's expression became serious, and his thoughts followed back to that late autumn afternoon twelve years ago.

It was September 25, 2006, Kang Xia's birthday, and a week earlier, Kang Xia had confessed to herself. She called all her good sisters and handed over a bouquet of flowers and a fourth-order Rubik's cube in front of the class.

At that time, Kang Xia, although she had a good appearance, was in a period of transformation. Wearing thick corrective eyes and braces, he is also in average shape. Although she made such a move, Chen Shi didn't hate her, but she was still a little short of agreeing.

"That...... I ......"

"You don't have to rush to answer, I'll give you time to think about it." Chen Shi was still hesitating, and Kang Xia hurriedly interjected: "It's my birthday in a week, I hope you can give me a surprise." ”

Kang Xia was Chen Shi's tablemate in the first two years of junior high school, that is, they got along for a long time, so that the two formed a comrade-in-arms relationship, and both of them were in a state where friendship had passed and lovers were not full. This Kang Xia suddenly rushed up to confess, which really startled Chen Shi.

In just a few days, Chen Shi has been thinking that there is nothing wrong with dating Kang Xia, and he can't help but give her this face, otherwise his friends for two years will be in vain, if he finds that he really can't get along after dating, there is nothing wrong with getting together and dispersing no matter how good he is. But just one day before the appointed day, the arrival of a person changed Chen Shi's idea, and that person was Kang Xia's mother.

That afternoon, to be precise, on September 24th, the day before Kang Xia's birthday, Chen Shi left school and walked home, but was stopped by a woman.

The woman, who claimed to be Kang Xia's mother, took Chen Shi to a café near the school.

"I heard that my daughter confessed to you." The woman's expression was high, as if she didn't take Chen Shi in her eyes at all.

"I'm sorry, Auntie......" Chen Shi didn't know what to say.

"I don't need your excuses, there's only one thing I want you to do."

At this time, the waiter came over and put the ordered coffee in front of the two of them: "Just refuse her, the more direct the better." ”

"I say this for the sake of her studies, I am a university professor, and my husband also works in the Education Bureau, I don't want others to say that we can't even educate our own children, so I'd rather her get hurt." The woman took a sip of coffee: "If you don't promise......"

"Your sister is six years old this year, and she should be in the grade of school, if you don't take care of this matter, I will let you and your sister go to school in EAST City."

Since he was a child, Chen Shi's weakness was his sister, and what he was most afraid of was that others would threaten him with his sister.

"Have you thought about it?"

"I know what to do."

On Kang Xia's birthday, Chen Shi came to the class, Kang Xia has been waiting here for a long time, and many classmates have also arrived here early to prepare to have a lively time.

"It's my birthday, didn't you bring a present?" Although the two of them were just at the same table and ordinary friends before, when it came to birthdays, both of them would prepare gifts for each other.

"I wasn't prepared." In fact, Chen Shi prepared a gift, but after seeing Kang Xia's mother, he was no longer ready to give it.

"So, did you think of the answer to the question I asked you that day?" Although Kang Xia was a little disappointed, she was still waiting for Chen Shi to say the answer she was expecting.

"I can't promise you." Chen Shi could only think silently in his heart, hoping that this matter would end like this, otherwise he didn't know what hurtful words he would have to say.

"Why can't you say yes?" Kang Xia suddenly became angry: "Two days ago, I heard your buddy say that you were ready to promise me and prepared a birthday gift for me, why is not only the gift gone, but you are still like this suddenly?!" ”

Kang Xia didn't give up, probably because she was too embarrassed, and she didn't want to look too cheap, so she took a few steps forward and grabbed Chen Shi's collar: "It doesn't matter if you don't agree, but you have to make it clear to me today, what do you think of me?" ”

Thinking of what Kang Xia's mother said, she must be made to die, right? Chen Shi pushed Kang Xia away with a disgusted expression: "Don't you know what I think of you?" Look at what you look like, with four eyes and steel teeth, fat like a pig, and such a dirty name, if you don't study well and can help copy homework and cheat or something, who wants to play with you? If it weren't for the teacher insisting that we sit at the same table, do you think I wouldn't want to find a beautiful girl to be at the same table? ”

When he said these words, Chen Shi himself was stunned. For an adolescent girl, how hurtful it should be. But after these words, the whole world was quiet, and the coaxing classmates all sat back in their places, and Kang Xia didn't say a word all day, as if nothing had happened before. It wasn't until noon after school that Kang Xia asked herself to go back to the fourth-order Rubik's Cube.

Since then, Kang Xia has disappeared, and the teacher said that she had transferred to another school, but no one knew where she had transferred. This incident also became a secret for everyone in the class, it was not long after the start of the third year of junior high school, so for the whole third year of junior high school, Chen Shi sat alone, and the seat was moved from the third row to the last row. I thought that Kang Xia's mother would handle this matter, but if Luo Xuan didn't say it, she wouldn't have thought that she was dead.

"Do you understand?" Luo Xuan looked at Chen Shi: "I came here for another purpose, that is, I want you to lose." ”

"What happened back then was a misunderstanding." Chen Shi wanted to explain, but he didn't know where to start.

"It doesn't matter if it's a misunderstanding or not."