Wearing a spotless white shirt, with sharply chiseled features, Xiao Tianyu strode into the classroom with effortless confidence, his backpack on his shoulders. Here at State High, the stacks of books were piled higher than people’s heads. Everyone raced to study every second, measuring time by the seconds ticking by and how long they remained seated.
No matter how hard everyone tried, none could match Xiao Tianyu and Shen Lin. One was a genius, the other a goddess, and the two always held the top two spots in their class. They lived very close to each other and usually went to school together. In their European-style residential complex, a glance upward was enough to see Xiao Tianyu’s mother washing up on the balcony. His father’s mysterious disappearance when he was young had made him independent and withdrawn. Yet every banknote in his wallet was neatly arranged, all facing the same direction.
His father’s strange disappearance was quite the mystery in the prefecture. The first time Xiao Ze was kidnapped, the kidnappers told Su Lifeng to transfer 50,000 yuan into a designated account. He returned in less than a week. But they weren’t so lucky the second time. After 100,000 yuan was transferred to the specified account, he never came back.
