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Chapter 217 I Have a Fear of Heights (Thanks for the tips! Asking for monthly votes!)

Chapter 217: 217 I Have a Fear of Heights (Thanks for the tips! Asking for monthly votes!)

"Speak kindly, and if things don’t work out, come right back. Don’t provoke him in any way."

At the rooftop entrance, the head of security urged.

Jiang Chen nodded and walked alone towards him,

"Stop right there. I said, do not let anyone come up!"

The male student seemed to hear the noise and spoke with his back to Jiang Chen.

They say people who play computers are relatively meek, but it’s not always the case. You need a certain amount of guts to just casually sit there.

"Even if you didn’t win the lottery, there’s no need to gamble with your life. Domestic lotteries are like that. Up to now, I’ve never even won twenty bucks."

Jiang Chen didn’t rush in but stopped five steps away.

Upon hearing the laughter, the student turned around to see it wasn’t a security guard behind him and couldn’t help but be taken aback.

"Jiang Chen?"

The other party still remembered his name, but he had forgotten the other’s, which made Jiang Chen feel a twinge of shame.

"Long time no see."

He nodded with a smile.

The student smiled back and then patted a spot next to him.

"Wanna sit together?"

Jiang Chen shook his head, "Sorry, I’m afraid of heights."

The student’s laughter changed from soft to loud.

"Jiang Chen, you’re still as interesting as you were back then. I heard you’re now with the beauty from the Art Institute? Impressive."

"What about you? How have you been recently?"

"What do you think?"

The student tilted his head, still sitting with his legs dangling, "I’m already sitting here, yet you’re asking this kind of question."

Jiang Chen gave a wry smile.

"Sheesh, sometimes I really don’t know what the meaning of living in this world is. I wish I could reset everything and start over."

The student sighed.

Actually, the more hysterical people seem, the more they fear death.

On the contrary, someone like him who can still joke around at such a crucial moment, is often more dangerous.

You never know, he might just decide to wave goodbye to the world after the next sentence.

"Do you know what the odds of winning the lottery are? One in eight million. But we still choose to buy lottery tickets. The odds of a plane crash are one in 3.7 million, yet every day there are still people taking flights. The odds of a car accident are one in four thousand, and it is currently the most common mode of transportation.

And the odds of us being born into this world are one in four hundred quadrillion, yet here you are sitting, questioning whether your life has any meaning."

Facing Jiang Chen’s serene gaze, the student’s smile gradually faded, plunging him into silence.

"When I came up just now, the head of security told me that this quality education building was constructed over thirty years ago and is 26.3 meters tall. I’m mentioning this to tell you that if you jump from here, unless you are incredibly unlucky, you most likely won’t die. You might become a vegetable, or more likely end up with a lifelong disability."

At the entrance to the rooftop, the head of security listened in shock but didn’t know whether to run over and intervene.

Jiang Chen continued, "Although I haven’t met your parents, I know that raising a child is probably the most difficult task. It’s likely harder than taking the graduate entrance exam. They nurtured you for over twenty years, provided for you, protected your growth, sent you to school, and maybe they never thought about you repaying them. But as their child, after being looked after by your parents for half your life, surely you can’t let them look after you for the second half too?"

The student’s eyes trembled,

Jiang Chen smiled.

"Buddy, not many people have a smooth sailing life. It’s normal to encounter bumps and falls. As a student from a prestigious university, you should understand some principles without me having to say them. So, why the sudden loss of perspective?"

The student pursed his lips and remained silent.

"I really want to sit with you, but I genuinely can’t. Embarrassing, right?"

Jiang Chen laughed.

"In fact, many people have contemplated suicide. It’s an easy exit, isn’t it? I’m no different. I’ve also thought about resetting everything and starting over, like you said. Maybe next time I’ll be luckier, get an upgraded account. But I’m scared. Jumping from a building, slitting my wrists, lying on tracks, hanging, taking sleeping pills... don’t look at me like that, many methods you probably never even considered, right? I’ve thought about them, but I’m scared of the pain."

Jiang Chen said without any shame, "On this point, you’re way braver than me. But if you’re not afraid of the pain of dying, then why are you afraid of living?"

The head of the security department stared at the young man’s back at the entrance to the rooftop, lost in a daze.

Jiang Chen seemed to muster the courage to walk a few steps forward, arriving at the edge of the rooftop.

The boy did not stop him.

Jiang Chen stopped by his side and ultimately still lacked the courage to sit down and enjoy the breeze; he glanced at the dense crowd of people below, then quickly retracted his gaze.

"You really are afraid of heights."

The boy laughed.

"Do I have a reason to lie to you?"

Jiang Chen showed a helpless expression.

"Beep boop～ beep boop～ beep boop..."

The sound of police sirens came faintly.

Jiang Chen looked in the direction of the school gate.

"When I was a child, I heard the elders in my area say that before souls are reincarnated, they have all seen the script, but they forget everything at the moment of birth. So it’s not strange to have premonitions, and it’s not strange for life to have foreshadowing; even if things aren’t going well now, we have to believe that since we chose this script, there must be something in it that we deemed worthwhile."

The boy’s gaze was distant.

Jiang Chen reached out his hand.

Looking at the palm in front of him and then back at Jiang Chen, the boy raised his arm and grabbed his hand.

Jiang Chen pulled hard and brought him down,

Cheers erupted from below.

The head of the security department let out a long sigh of relief and hurried over, giving the boy a scolding.

"Reckless! To treat your life as a child’s play at such a young age, how can you justify this to your family, to the school?!"

The boy remained silent.

"Chief, it’s good that no one is hurt."

The head of the security department looked at Jiang Chen, his anger subsiding, "Let’s go down and talk."

The three of them went downstairs.

"Jiang Chen, thank you for this time, I will definitely report this to the school and commend you."

The head of the security department sighed, "The aim of modern education is to train students like you, and I’m proud that our school has outstanding students like you."

Jiang Chen looked at the boy being questioned by the police, "I hope the school won’t impose too severe a punishment on him, give him a chance."

An attempted suicide at school is a serious blow to the school’s reputation, and even if nothing happened, the school certainly won’t remain indifferent.

"I’ll do my best."

The head of the security department nodded.

"Thank you."

Jiang Chen walked away.

The head of the security department watched his departing figure, his mind uncontrollably replaying the words spoken on the rooftop; waves of emotions surged through him, leaving him unable to calm down for a long time.

Is this really a young man who hasn’t even graduated from university yet?

"Jiang Chen is out!"

Without Wei Chuyin’s reminder, Ai Qian had already hurried forward, staring at Jiang Chen’s face with eyes full of concern.

"Are you okay?"

Jiang Chen shook his head and smiled.

"What could be wrong with me?"

"Jiang Chen!"

Before he finished speaking, another shout rang out.

Ai Qian turned her head subconsciously, and her expression immediately stiffened slightly.