The True Heiress is the Reserved Fiancé's Exclusive Memory
Chapter 176: Icy Yama (9)

Chapter 176: Chapter 176: Icy Yama (9)

The screen displayed: Little Patten.

"Hello." Mia Ginger was a bit surprised, holding her belt with one hand while taking the phone out to the balcony.

"Sister Mia." Little Patten’s voice had a tinge of sobbing, "Where are you?"

"At school, we’ve already started the semester."

Little Patten choked heavily in the phone, with a rough voice, "You should come to Eastern Peak Village, Zoey Leaf is dead."

"..."

There was a "boom" in her ears, and Mia Ginger’s mind went blank.

It seemed like he finally had an outlet for his emotions, Little Patten burst into tears on the other end.

"What did you say?" Mia Ginger hesitated after a while.

"Zoey Leaf is dead, her body came back last night, Uncle Leaf and Auntie are devastated, you should come quickly."

"What... What about Louis Cox?"

"Fourth Brother went out of town for something, he’s not here these days."

"..."

Mia Ginger fell into a long silence.

The last words from Little Patten lingering in her ears, Mia Ginger walked into the dormitory with a wooden expression.

The others had already packed up, and upon seeing her come in, Tong Tong smiled and said, "We were just waiting for you, let’s go quickly."

"You guys go ahead, I’m not going."

"What?!" Wren King exclaimed exaggeratedly, "King Yama will cut you down."

"You go first."

Mia Ginger ignored her, saying to the other three.

"Then... we’ll leave first." Seeing her expression was so calm that there was no trace of emotion, Blair Chester whispered.

Mia Ginger nodded, holding her phone, she sat in the chair.

Still unable to believe it.

She sat upright in the chair, her whole body tense and unmoving.

The only friend.

That was her only friend.

Just a few days ago, they were joking and laughing together.

The images from those memories were intolerable, Mia Ginger clasped the table with one hand, taking a heavy breath.

She stood up and began undressing with a blank expression.

One by one, the camouflage clothes fell to the ground, she opened the wardrobe and changed into a short-sleeve shirt and light-colored jeans.

A bit unsure where to go?

How to walk?

What to do.

She stood dazed at the dormitory door for a while, called the counselor, and went to the office first.

"Why are you asking for leave on the second day?" The male counselor, Alexander Miller, in his early thirties, still had an impression of her, looked her up and down, frowning.

"My good friend died." Mia Ginger was expressionless.

Alexander Miller was taken aback harshly.

Pulling a piece of paper from beside him, he tapped his fingers on the table twice, "Write a leave slip."

"Thank you, teacher." Mia Ginger bowed her head writing the leave slip, several times unable to hold the pen, only finishing after a while.

"Five days?"

Looking at the leave slip, Alexander Miller slightly frowned, pondering, "Five days is too much, you are just beginning military training, performing well, and there’s hope you could be selected as an outstanding trainee. One day, you can have one day’s leave first, and another on the day of the funeral."

Mia Ginger looked at him, stunned for a while, and agreed in a low voice.

She rewrote a leave slip.

Alexander Miller signed it, and she stepped towards the military training field.

——

The girls assembled.

Dallas Taylor stood at the outermost edge of the line, his face grim like a scorched pan.

From a distance, Tong Tong ran over from the direction of the dormitory, standing in front of him, "Report, Instructor, Mia Ginger is not in the dormitory."

"Join the ranks!"

"Yes."

Tong Tong worriedly stepped into the line.

Dallas Taylor’s face grew increasingly stern, with his thick black eyebrows tightly knitted, suddenly, a crisp voice came, "Report."

It was Mia Ginger’s voice.

He turned his head to look, instantly furious.

This girl was in short sleeves and pants, expressionless,

This is outrageous!

Dallas Taylor gritted his teeth, about to yell, when Mia Ginger suddenly stretched out her hand, handing the leave slip to him.

"One day’s leave?"

"Yes."

"What’s going on?" Dallas Taylor looked at the careless handwriting on the leave slip, unable to contain his anger.

"Something came up." Mia Ginger still showed no expression.

Dallas Taylor looked down at her steadily for a moment, clenched his fists, and crumpled the leave slip into a ball, coldly saying, "Fine, it’s approved."

"Thank you, Instructor."

Mia Ginger seemed not to hear the anger in his tone, turned and walked away.

Her back was straight, like a bamboo shoot.

Dallas Taylor stuffed the crumpled leave slip into his pocket, turned around, glanced at the whispering group of girls, and sternly said, "Everyone, turn right— march, eight hundred meters, start running— go!"

——

Mia Ginger exited the school gate, casually flagged down a taxi.

The car was on the move for less than ten minutes when her phone rang again in her pocket.

"Hello."

"Sister Mia," Little Patten’s voice was urgent, "Where are you?"

"Still an hour away."

"Perfect, don’t go to Eastern Peak Village, go directly to the Fourth Hospital, I’ll wait for you at the entrance, Zoey Leaf’s mom had a sudden heart attack and was just taken away by ambulance." There was a lot of noise on the phone.

Mia Ginger frowned, "What’s going on over there?"

"It’s reporters, lots of reporters," Little Patten sounded exasperated, "... Just check today’s hot topics online, I can’t explain it here, I’ll hang up, wait for you at the hospital entrance."

Mia Ginger didn’t have time to say anything before there was a busy tone.

Holding her phone, she was stunned for a moment, and then said to the driver, "Sir, go directly to the Fourth Hospital."

"Alright."

The taxi driver responded, she lowered her head and swiped open her phone,

Scanning line by line, in the trending news, there was one titled "’College Girl Wearing Light Clothing at Night Dies Outside School’."

For some reason—

Seeing the title made her heart skip a beat.

She clicked it open right away.

The news item was very short.

The general idea was:

During the start of the new semester for various universities, a freshman female student from a certain university, surnamed Ye, dressed in a strappy dress, left school at night and was dragged by several idle social elements to a secluded place, resulting in her death. The identity of the student has been confirmed as a first-year student in the aviation and tourism major. The police have currently detained the suspects. Follow-up on the situation will be covered by reporters.

The entire news piece was not accompanied by any pictorial explanation.

Mia Ginger’s gaze moved downwards, seeing the numerous comments below, she was taken aback severely.

"Deserved!"

"Who asked her to go out wearing a strappy dress at night, she deserved it!"

"One could tell she’s not a good person right away!"

"The girl most likely had issues!"