The Missing Ninth Classroom

It began on the evening of June 6, when a strange black figure suddenly appeared near the teachers' dormitory.

Then the ninth classroom where Gu Ning taught suddenly became the eighth.

A student who usually liked wearing red jackets inexplicably began to hate the color red, while another student from a well-off family asked her about applying for financial aid...

She realized that everything around her was beginning to grow strange.

*

“I remember Teacher Xin saying your family was well-off. Did something happen?”

“Which Teacher Xin?”

“Xin Gengjidi from the music department. He lives near your family.”

“I don't know any Teacher Xin.”

*

Xin Gengjidi was her boyfriend. They had known each other for five years.

He was a perfect man: wealthy, handsome, and a world-famous violinist.

Yet he had suddenly come to their school and become its music teacher. Later, he had approached her and pursued her until they became a couple.

Now, however, he had inexplicably vanished.

It was as if he had never existed. There was no trace of him anywhere in the school or the city, and no one had ever heard of a person named Xin Gengjidi.

But Gu Ning clearly remembered every moment they had shared. She began to realize that something was wrong with this world.