Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 359 Is this normal?
"Teacher Nan, how are you now?"

Because Nan Zhuren's hand is not very mobile, and Teacher Zhao's phone number is probably not a private matter.

Nan Zhuren simply had Chonghui put the phone on speakerphone.

Hearing the female teacher's caring voice coming from inside, Lu Jia pursed her lips and frowned, while Weng Pingting raised her eyebrows and curled her lips into a smile.

"It's alright, just a dislocation. I've already had it checked, and I don't need to be hospitalized," Nan Zhuren replied nonchalantly.

Dr. Chen looked up and glanced at Nan Zhuren.

Out of professional ethics, I corrected him by saying, "Actually, it's best to be hospitalized for observation."

Teacher Zhao on the other end of the phone seemed about to cheer after hearing Nan Zhuren's words, but Dr. Chen's words left her momentarily speechless.

Nan Zhuren smiled at Dr. Chen and continued into the phone, "Xu Pengcheng is fine, but his malnutrition is quite severe. He might need to be given some IV fluids for observation..."

"That's good." Teacher Zhao waited for three seconds, and when she didn't hear Dr. Chen on the other end of the phone say anything more, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, Teacher Zhao's voice suddenly became hesitant and incoherent.

"Um... Teacher Nan, besides asking about your injury, there's another situation I'm not sure what to do, so I wanted to tell you..."

"Hmm?" Nan Zhuren raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

"Is such that……"

The young teacher's voice came through the phone, and as she spoke, the expressions on the faces of those present gradually changed.

"Okay, I understand. I'll hang up now," Nan Zhuren said.

He then closed his eyes and let out a long breath.

He tried to move his arms slowly.

My palms, forearms, upper arms, shoulders... they ache terribly.

It hurts, but I can still move around with difficulty.

"I want to be discharged from the hospital and go back to school," Nan Zhuren said to Weng Pingting and the others.

……

Earlier today—

Jiangyi Middle School, classroom.

The accident happened at noon, when many students were taking a nap in their dormitories and had no idea what was going on.

In fact, not to mention the students in the dormitory, many of the students who were studying in the teaching building at noon at the time did not know the specific details of what happened.

This doesn't stop them from discussing.

Or rather, that's why we need to start discussing this.

The dull high school life was given a rare spice, although it was thrilling and bloody, the dangers inside were irrelevant to them.

It seems that all that's left is excitement.

"Hey, did you hear? Someone jumped off a building today!"

"The one from noon? I heard about it too. I heard it was about falling down..."

"How careless do you have to be to fall? You jumped on your own!" the person who said this asserted with absolute certainty.

In the classroom, the rustling sounds were like the swarms of mosquitoes on a summer night, relentlessly burrowing into your ears no matter how you tried to shoo them away.

"I heard he was caught and didn't die. It was that very handsome male teacher who recently came to the school who caught him."

"I heard it was that very strong male teacher who caught it?"

"Maybe they were together... But to catch someone jumping off a building? Captain America! Is he that amazing?"

"I heard they're in the hospital, maybe they weren't caught..."

Nan Zhuren and his group also appeared in this story, which was not surprising.

Do you know... who jumped off the building?

"Who?"

"Xu Pengcheng from Class (8)!"

"Who?"

"That guy... Big Smart! The one who gets chased and beaten up on the playground every day!"

At this point, the student's voice became very soft, and he glanced discreetly towards the corner of the classroom, as if he was wary of something.

"Oh, him." The name might not be immediately recognizable, but the description made it clear. "Why do you think he jumped? He clearly..."

Their voices quickly faded away.

And not far from where these students were having their discussion.

Li Mingchen and Lin Junkai sat at the same table.

They were very close, yet there seemed to be a thick barrier between them, and they had no interaction whatsoever.

Li Mingchen's left hand, wrapped in thick gauze, was clenched tightly, as if he couldn't feel the pain.

At that moment, his eyes seemed to be writing these four words—

At a loss.

"Mingchen".

Lin Junkai, who was standing to the side, seemed to have finally figured something out and suddenly spoke up.

The barriers between them were also broken down.

"what happened?"

Li Mingchen turned to look at his deskmate. If Nan Zhuren were sitting there, he would have seen clear fear on Li Mingchen's face.

There was a hint of pleading in her fear, as if she was desperately praying that the people around her would not bring up a certain topic.

“I have a question,” Lin Junkai said.

Compared to Li Mingchen, Lin Junkai seemed much calmer.

"……what is the problem?"

"I read a lot of news on my phone today." Lin Junkai didn't ask directly, but instead changed the subject to lay the groundwork.

This foreshadowing made Li Mingchen take notice. You, a model student, are secretly hiding a phone?

Oh no, only good students have cell phones.

What did you see?

“There are news reports of people jumping off buildings because of excessive academic pressure,” Lin Junkai replied.

Li Mingchen quickly lowered his voice: "What...what do you mean? You know about Da...Pengcheng's situation, he's not..."

Lin Junkai shook his head: "What I mean is, those students in the news would rather jump off buildings than rest."

These words stunned Li Mingchen.

Lin Junkai continued, "I've told you before, I have an older brother. He took the college entrance exam three years ago. At that time, my parents' relationship was already very bad, but for my brother's sake, they still lived together. When my brother came home once every two weeks, they pretended to get along very well."

"They dragged it out until after the college entrance exam before getting a divorce. I spent a lot of time at home then, and the atmosphere there..."

The person who said this seems to need some comfort at this time.

But Li Mingchen looked at Lin Junkai and felt that the other person's focus was not on this.

“My parents are separated now, and I live with my mother. Now my mother can’t hold her head up high with her relatives on her mother’s side of the family. She’s counting on me to get into police academy so she can finally hold her head high.”

Lin Junkai suddenly turned to look at Li Mingchen: "What's the situation at your family now? I heard you say before that you're living with your mother?"

Li Mingchen paused for a moment.

Then she slowly said, "My parents' relationship is okay, I think it's okay... but my dad lives in another city and is paying for this school district house I have now. When I first started my senior year of high school, my mom even quit her job to come and stay with me..."

Lin Junkai nodded slowly: "Then we should be able to understand each other to some extent. Anyway, I've never said these things to anyone before—I've thought about jumping off a building."

The last five words were very serious, but Lin Junkai said them lightly.

“I thought about jumping off a building, but then I thought about how my mom would be all alone if I died, so I didn’t. But that’s not the problem. The problem is—I actually thought about ‘jumping off a building’ for the sake of the college entrance exam and studying, which might leave my mom all alone forever. Do you understand what I mean?”

Li Mingchen pursed his lips and patted Lin Junkai's shoulder with his right hand, which was not wrapped in gauze.

"To be honest, I've thought about it too," Li Mingchen said.

Lin Junkai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but then quickly became nervous again.

"Yes, we all thought about jumping off a building because of the college entrance exam."

Li Mingchen comforted him, "It seems so. This is... normal, everyone has moments of breakdown."

"But... what if someone jumps off a building because of our college entrance exam?"

Lin Junkai suddenly turned around and stared straight into Li Mingchen's eyes: "Is this normal?"

　This case will be concluded within a week.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)