Chapter 135

Chapter 135

By the time Wen Miao realized something was wrong and wanted to go out to look for them, it was already past eleven. The lights in all the dorm buildings had been turned off.

So when she ran downstairs to leave, the dormitory supervisor had already locked the main entrance. If Wen Miao wanted to get out, she would have to go to the supervisor and explain why.

The dorms at A University of Science and Technology conducted random bed checks at night. Anyone who stayed out overnight would have credits deducted. If their roommates knew and failed to report it, they would be penalized as well.

The rule existed to prevent roommates from covering for one another and helping hide things, and also to make sure people in the same dorm supervised each other.

Of course, there were also people like Wen Tangtang. Because she got along well with the people around her, some were willing to turn a blind eye. But that was also because her roommates all knew she was loyal and would never cause some uncontrollable mess during restricted hours. She would not drag them down with her.

So if Wen Miao did not tell the truth, she would have no way to leave the dorm. But if she did tell the truth, Wen Tangtang’s roommates would probably suffer for it.

More importantly, she actually was not sure whether Wen Tangtang and Wen Xin were in trouble. It was possible she was just overthinking things.

That was why, at this moment, Wen Miao was still so conflicted, not knowing whether she should say anything.

After thinking it over, she secretly slipped over to Wen Tangtang’s dorm and confirmed that she had indeed not returned.

“Wen Xin asked us this afternoon where Wen Tangtang was going tonight… Why are you here again this late?”

A girl on one of the beds curiously leaned half her body out.

They all knew Wen Xin, Wen Miao, and Wen Tangtang were siblings. Besides, after Wen Miao discovered the new Element No. 178 and trended on Weibo, her reputation had swept through the entire campus. Everyone knew there was a genius girl like her.

Ordinary people always seemed to view a “genius” through some inexplicable filter, making it easy for them to feel a natural sort of admiration.

“I’ve been calling Tang Tang, but I can’t get through. I’m a little worried something might have happened to her…”

“Could the internet café just be too noisy, so she didn’t hear it?”

“Internet café?” Wen Miao was a little bewildered.

“Yeah.” The long-haired girl leaning out repeated to Wen Miao what she had told Wen Xin that afternoon.

In the afternoon, Wen Xin had only told Wen Miao that Wen Tangtang seemed a little off. He had not repeated this part to her at all.

But Wen Miao understood Wen Tangtang. She knew Wen Tangtang would never go to an internet café.

With that thought, she grew even more anxious, and her breathing became heavy and rapid.

Just then, from the bed furthest inside the dorm, a figure suddenly sat up. Her voice was somewhat cold. “Didn’t Wen Tangtang go to the hospital? When did she ever tell you guys she was going to an internet café?”

This time, several people let out sounds of surprise. “Wen Tangtang went to the hospital? Hasn’t Wen Tangtang been saying these past few days that she was going to the internet café to look up materials? She said she needed to catch up on her paper.”

The girl with the slightly cold voice gave an “oh,” then explained, “I got a message about half an hour ago. Wen Tangtang said she wasn’t feeling well, so she went to the hospital. She also said she had already asked the dorm supervisor for leave.”

Wen Miao: “…”

Wen Miao: “She… she asked the dorm supervisor for leave?!”

“Yeah.”

The girl speaking was the dorm leader of this room, which was why Wen Tangtang had messaged her.

Afraid Wen Miao would not believe her, the girl even opened her phone and motioned for Wen Miao to come over and look.

Wen Miao went over and glanced at it. It really was Wen Tangtang’s WeChat account. The message mentioned that she was going to the hospital, and also said she had already asked for leave and so on.

The dorm leader had asked whether she wanted someone to go with her, and Wen Tangtang had even replied, saying her brother would go with her…
It had been around 10:40 tonight.

Ten forty…

That seemed to be the time she had sent Wen Xin her first message.

A jumble of thoughts flashed through Wen Miao’s mind. But none of that mattered. What mattered was that Wen Tangtang was fine.

Wen Miao slowly let out a turbid breath, her shoulders relaxing along with it.

She smiled and handed the phone back to the girl. “Sorry about that. I disturbed your rest.”

“Oh, it’s fine, it’s fine.”

Wen Tangtang’s roommates were all very nice. They even comforted Wen Miao. “Don’t worry. She probably just caught a cold or something, so there’s no need to be anxious. Speaking of which, you sisters really are close…”

Wen Miao smiled and apologized again, then closed the door for them.

On the way back, Wen Miao was still glad she had gone to Wen Tangtang’s dorm to ask first.

But the moment she thought of Wen Tangtang and Wen Xin-fine, go to the hospital if you need to go to the hospital, but they hadn’t left her so much as a single word, making her spend the entire night on edge-anger rose in her chest.

She took out her phone, opened the small group chat for the three of them, and was about to give the two of them a scolding.

But as she was typing, she suddenly remembered the message she had just seen on that dorm leader’s phone.

“No need. My brother will go with me…”

Wen Miao’s fingers abruptly stopped over the keyboard.

Wait. With Wen Tangtang’s personality… When she was little, she had loved calling Wen Xin “Brother Xingxing,” but when she was in elementary school, people had laughed at her for still acting like a little kid at her age and so on. After that, Wen Tangtang had started calling Wen Xin by his full name, and from then on, she refused to call him “brother” no matter what.

So why would she send a message like that?

But the profile picture and name… They really were Wen Tangtang’s.

Wen Miao had her doubts, but she was also afraid she might be overthinking it. After all, it was possible that when Wen Tangtang was messaging someone else on WeChat, she simply didn’t want to explain who Wen Xin was…

But…

Didn’t her roommates all know both her and Wen Xin…?

The more Wen Miao thought about it, the more uneasy she became. She felt as though a suffocating pressure had settled over her.

Thinking of the message Wen Tangtang had sent, saying she had already asked the dorm supervisor for leave, Wen Miao gritted her teeth and simply ran down to the first floor to the dorm supervisor’s room to verify it.

“Wen Tangtang from Dormitory 504?”

The dorm supervisor had already gone to bed. Hearing the knock, she got up again, turned on the light, put on her reading glasses, and began scrolling through her phone. “Wait a moment. A few students did ask for leave today…”

She scrolled down several pages. “Oh, Wen Tangtang from the biology department, right?”

Wen Miao’s eyes lit up. “Yes, yes, Wen Tangtang from the biology department.”

The dorm supervisor turned the phone around to let her take a look. “Then that’s right. She did ask for leave. Said she needed to go to the hospital and wouldn’t be back before lights-out. Director Wu was the one who asked for leave on her behalf.”

“Hm?” Wen Miao’s eyes widened, somewhat surprised. “Director Wu asked for leave for her?”

The dorm supervisor nodded. “That’s right. Otherwise, for sick leave, I would definitely have asked her to send me her hospital registration slip. But Director Wu said he saw that she was injured and needed to go to the hospital, so I didn’t ask her for it.”

Wen Miao was shocked. “She was injured? What kind of injury?”

Hadn’t Wen Tangtang told her roommates she was only feeling unwell?

The dorm supervisor shook her head. “I wouldn’t know that. Director Wu didn’t say. I doubt it’s anything serious. Otherwise, Director Wu would definitely have asked me to go with her. Don’t worry about it. Look how late it is-hurry back and sleep. By the time you wake up tomorrow, she’ll probably be back.”