Chapter 15 Retribution

Without asking, even Fatty could guess who Chen Yao had invited to be her dance partner.

It was her teacher, and Li Yanwei's fiancé—Su Yu.

Li Yanwei's voice began to tremble uncontrollably; recounting this was torment for her.

"From then on, Chen Yao used the excuse of practicing dancing to get close to Su Yu. During the day, she found all sorts of reasons to delay things, just so that Su Yu would have to stay and practice with her late into the night, creating opportunities for them to be alone."

"The school leaders valued the success of this performance, and Su Yu hadn't been employed for long at the time, so he was very ambitious and eager to prove himself. Besides..." Li Yanwei paused, gritting her teeth, "Who would have thought that a girl who seemed so innocent could be so scheming?"

"I was so blind back then!"

Jiang Cheng and Fatty listened silently, not offering any opinions or comfort.

Compared to the woman's experiences, a few trite words of comfort were clearly too pale and powerless.

Li Yanwei calmed down for a few seconds, gradually adjusting her emotions, and continued, "As Chen Yao's actions became more intimate, and even some physical contact crossed the line, Su Yu gradually sensed that something was wrong. Chen Yao's feelings for him had exceeded the boundaries of a normal student-teacher relationship."

"Realizing this, Su Yu began to distance himself from Chen Yao. He was even a little scared, and he would delay the arranged rehearsal tasks as much as possible, and try not to go to the dance studio at night to guide Chen Yao's dancing."

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng suddenly interrupted, "Where is the dance studio?"

"Block C," Li Yanwei looked at Jiang Cheng, her tone suggestive, "You've all been there, it's the music classroom where you rehearsed."

"After that incident, the school was forced to disband the entire dance department, all male employees were fired, and the dance studio was sealed off."

"It wasn't until last year, when the new leaders took office and ordered a renovation, that it was turned into the current music classroom."

Fatty swallowed, hesitatingly asking, "Chen Yao... did she commit suicide in the dance studio?"

"Yes," after a long while, Li Yanwei nodded, and veins popped out on her forehead, making her look terrifying. "Chen Yao was crazy, she was a complete lunatic!"

"When she couldn't seduce him, she actually thought of threatening him."

"She threatened Su Yu, saying that if he didn't break up with me and get together with her, she would... she would report to the whole school that Su Yu was unworthy of being a teacher and was trying to take advantage of her!"

Hearing this, Fatty's expression became strange, and he couldn't help but think that there were such good things in the world.

Li Yanwei stopped here, and after a long time, she continued, "But Su Yu refused. Although he appreciated Chen Yao, it was only limited to the friendship between teachers and students, so he decisively rejected her."

"One rainy night, Chen Yao, who was waiting alone in the dance studio, didn't see Su Yu... so she hanged herself. Her body was found by the security guard on patrol the next day."

"Later, we speculated that Chen Yao might have had some kind of mental illness, which led to her distorted psychology and extremely paranoid personality, ultimately leading her to get lost in a relationship that was already deformed, resulting in such consequences."

Li Yanwei shook her head slightly; her emotions were very complicated at the moment.

Fatty wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.

"By the way," Li Yanwei looked at the two people in front of her, sighed, and then changed the subject, "Where are the other people who were with you?"

"They..."

"Three of them have been confirmed dead," Jiang Cheng interrupted Fatty, speaking very naturally. "Chen Yao did it."

Hearing this, a look of horror flashed across Fatty's face. He stared at Jiang Cheng in surprise. Could he really say such a thing to an NPC?

He was even more worried that Li Yanwei in front of him might be disguised as Chen Yao. Talking about murder in front of a ghost might cause the ghost to become even more violent.

Unexpectedly, Li Yanwei didn't show any surprise. She nodded and asked calmly, "Did the dead people have their chins torn off?"

"That's right."

Li Yanwei was silent for a long time before finally saying, "She still can't swallow this anger."

"What do you mean?"

"In order to force Su Yu to submit, she once reported to the school that Su Yu had violated teacher ethics and tried to take advantage of her during dance practice."

"But what she didn't expect was that her seduction of Su Yu in the dance studio was witnessed by a security guard on night patrol. It was also thanks to the testimony of several security guards that Su Yu was finally cleared of his injustice."

"This can be regarded as retribution for her evil deeds," Li Yanwei's words carried a hint of relief.

"Her carefully cultivated innocent image in the school was completely ruined. Everyone pointed fingers at her behind her back, and the school also canceled her solo dance program. There were even rumors that some high-level officials were preparing to expel her."

Virtue is the first thing to learn in art. Such a result was within their expectations.

"It seems that her artistic career was completely ruined by this incident," Fatty said with emotion.

"It's more than just her artistic career," Jiang Cheng touched his chin, his tone playful. "For a girl, her whole life is probably already dead."

The already dim corridor was suddenly enveloped in a strange, sad atmosphere.

Fatty hated the act of prying into someone else's fiancé, even resorting to fabricating lies to threaten him, but when he thought of Chen Yao's tragic end, he couldn't help but feel a little pity.

If humans are a strange contradiction, then Fatty's degree of contradiction must be proportional to his size.

"So all of this is Chen Yao's revenge," Li Yanwei said. "Soon after Chen Yao died, those security guards who had testified against her indecent behavior had accidents."

As if recalling the tragic situation at the time, Li Yanwei couldn't help but shrink her neck, and her whole body became tense.

Jiang Cheng and Fatty had heard Yu Wen retell the experiences of the security guards, which Feng Lan had told them in the teacher's dormitory.

At this moment, the two clues finally converged.

"Besides the security guards on duty, were there any other victims?"

Li Yanwei nodded. "There were also several teachers and two students from the instrumental music class."

Fatty frowned and asked, "Did they also participate in the accusations against Chen Yao?"

"I guess so," Li Yanwei replied. "Those teachers said they had seen Chen Yao acting coquettishly with the teacher and deliberately leaning against Su Yu while doing some dance moves."

"The two students were responsible for playing the accompaniment music. They had participated in Chen Yao's ballet rehearsal. Their statements... were roughly the same."

Jiang Cheng thought for a while. "Is there a confirmed number of victims?"

"In total, there were 9 people," Li Yanwei said with certainty.