The Master's Mask Unveiled Again-Chapter 340 - 339: Actually, She is Also Afraid of Being Misunderstood

Chapter 340 -339: Actually, She is Also Afraid of Being Misunderstood

Lu Mian’s aura was frightening.

Despite her usual carefree and dissipated laziness, when she got serious, her strong and oppressive presence was unbearable for anyone.

Gu Jingyi clutched at the clothing in front of her chest, too scared to speak.

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“I, I didn’t do it on purpose…”

She was so terrified her tongue was tied. As Lu Mian almost reached her, Gu Jingyi lowered her eyelids and, using the fastest speed she had ever mustered in her life, she dashed into the pavilion herself.

“Ah—” A shrill scream came from inside the pavilion, followed by her voice, filled with panic and helplessness.

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“Lu Mian, don’t come any closer!”

Her voice was trembling and sharp, causing Ding Cai, who had made his way to the back mountain, to shiver from afar. When he hastened to the pavilion, the first thing he saw was Lu Mian, standing there with a look of alarm, cold and stern.

In the pavilion was Gu Jingyi, clutching her chest, her face twisted in pain, desperately trying to breathe.

Without a moment to ask what happened, Ding Cai shouted, “No good, we have to rescue her quickly!”

His arrival caused Lu Mian to be slightly distracted, a flicker of disconcertment and urgency rapidly passing through her eyes. She opened her mouth.

“Lu Mian, step aside first!”

Ding Cai didn’t wait for her and hastily found a dry stick nearby. The school had deliberately placed these sticks here in case someone accidentally touched the high-voltage electric net or entered the pavilion, so they could be rescued as quickly as possible.

But even Ding Cai couldn’t go near that place himself.

The wind near the pavilion was strange, whistling and whirling.

Explained by physical phenomena, it would be considered that the magnetic field in the area was very peculiar and much different from the surroundings.

Normally, the Earth’s magnetic field comes from the Earth’s inner “main magnetic field” and the external “fluctuating magnetic field.” These two sources should interact harmoniously and be evenly distributed.

Yet, this pavilion seemed as if another new geomagnetic field had been activated on the ground, incompatible with the surrounding geomagnetic fields, yet interacting within this space.

Their physics teacher had discussed this issue before, but since no one could approach the area, there was no solid theory or evidence.

But now, with saving a life being the priority, Ding Cai had to take the risk. He approached as close as he could and stretched the stick towards Gu Jingyi, trying his best to help her.

Fortunately, the electric grid was not powered at the time, and luckily, Gu Jingyi wasn’t sucked into the center of the pavilion.

She struggled to breathe, and her heart was in agony, nothing like Lu Mian’s earlier calm demeanor. Her body was undergoing enormous torture, and it took a great effort to touch and grasp the stick extended by Ding Cai, who pulled her out with difficulty!

Gu Jingyi’s eyes were clouded, and with her last bit of strength, she looked deeply in Lu Mian’s direction before fainting. Upon closer observation, the exposed skin from her face, neck, to hands was all bruised purple.

Ding Cai performed chest compressions on her while giving instructions to the dazed Lu Mian standing beside him.

“Lu Mian, call emergency services! Quick!”

Lu Mian snapped back to attention and quietly reached for her phone, giving the address. However, her gaze grew more complicated and profound when it fell upon Gu Jingyi.

All this turmoil had lasted an entire class period.

After returning from the back mountain, Lu Mian sat in the last seat of the classroom, utterly exhausted.

The portly Shouhao and thin Hao knew better than to disturb her.

Leaning back in her chair, the pen in her hand spun faster and faster, and the more it spun, the tighter her brows knitted together.

Gu Jingyi was very strange.

It wasn’t just today, she had been weird ever since she joined Kunpeng. Her crazy infatuation with Director Qimo, her attention to Lu Mian, and even the heart-to-heart conversation in the KTV private room.

Today, she had even become despondent because she didn’t get a response from Director Qimo.

It all seemed so far-fetched.

Lu Mian gently hooked the little red string around her neck with her left hand, holding the ring Xiao Qimo had given her in the palm of her hand, which was surprisingly burning hot.

She remembered that, at that time, when she was in the middle of the pavilion, the ring had already started to heat up.

She smiled faintly, “Xiao Qimo, what exactly have you given me…”

While Lu Mian was brainstorming, Ding Cai arrived at the back door in a sorry state, knocked, and looked at Lu Mian.

“Lu Mian, come with me for a moment.”

His expression was somewhat stern; he wasn’t the usual easygoing and naive person.

Lu Mian put down her pen and got up to follow him to the corner of the corridor.

Ding Cai observed her intently. She narrowed her eyes slightly, responding with a gaze back at Ding Cai.

The look between them met midair, containing complications not typical of a teacher-student relationship and lacking the harmony from before.

“It wasn’t me.”

After a while, Lu Mian was the first to break the silence, squeezing out that statement.

She admitted that, when Ding Cai suddenly appeared, she was somewhat panicked.

She didn’t know how much Ding Cai had seen or whether he understood the truth; all she knew was that if a normal person witnessed that scene, they would definitely think she was the one who pushed Gu Jingyi into the pavilion.

Any rational person would think so, and if Mrs. Fu was there, she would surely think the same.

As a child, she had been misunderstood too many times by people she cared about, being pointed at and questioned, “If not you, then who? Is it your sister framing you?”

At that moment, her mind was truly in disarray.

Ding Cai had always been good to her and taken care of her; she didn’t want him to misunderstand her.

This time, Ding Cai was also terrified; whether it was a student from their school or not, his first reaction under such circumstances would certainly be to rush to help, not noticing Lu Mian’s emotions.

It wasn’t until the other person was sent for emergency treatment that he had the opportunity to speak a few words with Lu Mian. He hadn’t yet settled his emotions when Lu Mian provided her explanation.

A seemingly casual explanation carried a touch of huskiness and hope, causing a sudden pang in Ding Cai’s heart.

“What are you talking about?” Ding Cai’s heart felt sour.

Looking at the girl in front of him, cold and indifferent, cynical as if she scorned everything in the world. But in reality, she wasn’t a superhero. She wasn’t as invincible or indestructible as she appeared to be.

She, too, was afraid of being misunderstood.

How many misunderstandings had she endured to develop such a personality?

Ding Cai’s eyes curved softly, and he reached out to ruffle Lu Mian’s hair lightly, “When did I say it was you who did it?”

Lu Mian looked up abruptly, as if asking, “Do you believe me?”

Ding Cai nodded, “Mark said, ‘Seeing the essence through the appearance.’ How could I simply hand down a sentence against you based on one-sided statements?”

“But just now, Gu Jingyi said so.” If it were Mrs. Fu, she would probably be dragging her to apologize to Gu Jingyi by now.

Ding Cai didn’t do that, nor would he.

“I can’t see any reason for you to treat her that way.” Ding Cai paused for a moment, then smiled warmly, “I called you out just to see if you were injured. Why the long face?”

“…” Lu Mian’s nose tingled slightly, and she turned her head away, stubbornly retorting, “I wouldn’t get hurt.”