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Chapter 199 True? False?

After their battle with Teacher Fu, Sun Xi and the others intensified their training.

During this time, we also heard all sorts of news, such as Diffus and his group directly upgrading the arena to the highest level.

The highest-level arena would raise a very high barrier between the two sides, effectively isolating them.

This tells us that Diffus was also present that day and witnessed Sun Xi throwing the drumstick directly at Teacher Fu's face.

Upon hearing this news, David shook his head with great regret.

Sun Xi's physical condition these past few days has inevitably worried the others, but Sun Xi seems to be accepting it well and has gotten used to the tingling sensation.

As the school doctor said, Sun Xi was in very good physical condition. After four days, the tingling sensation on Sun Xi's body was almost gone.

This can be seen from Sun Xi's training over the past few days—Sun Xi's fluency in playing the music is significantly better than in the previous days.

It's the last afternoon before the challenge. After lunch, Sun Xi and his team will go on stage to fight against Devans and his team.

In the practice room, Sun Xi struck the last note, then raised his arm and shouted, "Final rehearsal! Done!"

The group immediately relaxed and each found a comfortable way to rest.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door of the practice room.

Andra, who was closest to the door, went to open it and found a girl named Wang Xin standing behind it, carrying two large bags of things, the contents of which were unknown.

"Ah, it's you." Andra said, making way for Wang Xin.

Upon seeing the person standing in front of the door, Zhao Wuyin and David recognized her as the girl who had helped Sun Xi fall off the stage.

After dropping Sun Xi off, the girl never came to see her again. Sun Xi's two other friends came to visit her twice, but she never came to see her again.

This is what Zhao Wuyin finds strange—this girl clearly knows Sun Xi and seems to care about him a lot, so why hasn't she come to talk to Sun Xi these past few days?

Perhaps everyone treats friends differently, Zhao Wuyin thought to himself.

"Oh... Wang Xin, you're here." After regaining control of her body, Sun Xi inherited the memories of when Lu Renkui controlled her body. She knew exactly what Wang Xin had gone through, but she and Wang Xin...

To be honest, they weren't exactly close. They had met a few times and chatted a few times when Lu Renkui was in charge of her body. After Sun Xi regained control of her body, Wang Xin also came to talk to her. Their relationship could only hover on the edge of being just friends.

Wang Xin held up the two bags she was carrying and said, "V, are you hungry? Want to eat?"

"Ah, you bought food for us?" Zhao Wuyin was a little surprised.

Both Andra and Sun Xi looked surprised.

David frowned and looked the girl up and down, whom he had hardly ever met before.

"Don't worry, I didn't put anything in the food, it just might not taste very good." Wang Xin said as she took out boxed lunches from the bag and distributed them to the group. "After all, I bought these from the cheapest window on the first floor of the school cafeteria."

"Wow, okay, thank you, we'll transfer the money to you!" Zhao Wuyin said, taking out his phone to transfer money to Wang Xin.

Wang Xin didn't refuse. After adding Zhao Wuyin as a friend on her phone, she received the money transferred from Zhao Wuyin.

Seeing this, the remaining people also took out their phones and transferred money to Wang Xin.

However, apart from Sun Xi, neither David nor Andra had Wang Xin's contact information, so they transferred the money to Zhao Wuyin, who then gave it to Wang Xin on their behalf.

After paying, the group picked up their lunchboxes, opened the lids, and began to eat.

Halfway through the meal, Sun Xi started complaining: "This lunchbox is really awful. Is the cafeteria contractor crazy? They pay us so much money a year and this is the kind of thing they make for us to eat."

After complaining, Sun Xi ate a couple more bites of rice—it was unpalatable, but filling her stomach was the most important thing, as long as she didn't get diarrhea, it was fine.

Andra agreed with Sun Xi's statement in her heart—this tasted a bit like the pig feed she had accidentally eaten when she was a child at her grandparents' house.

It was Zhao Wuyin's first time eating food from the cafeteria on the first floor, and she ate the food in the lunchbox with curiosity.

As David ate, he wondered why the school cafeteria food was so bad yet so expensive. He had even looked at the cheapest dishes on the first floor, which were more expensive than his 5-yuan noodle takeout, and the noodles were tastier than the food.

Although Sun Xi complained the most, she ate very cleanly.

After finishing her meal, Sun Xi took out a tissue to wipe her mouth, threw the tissue into the empty lunchbox, closed the lid of the plastic lunchbox, and prepared to go outside to find a trash can to throw the leftover lunchbox in.

After Sun Xi left the practice room, Wang Xin followed behind her. They left the practice room together.

On their way to find the trash can, Wang Xin and Sun Xi walked one after the other without disturbing each other until Sun Xi threw the plastic lunchbox into the trash can and turned to face Wang Xin. Only then did Wang Xin quicken her pace, walk up to Sun Xi, and open her mouth to speak to her: "Sun Xi, you're going to fight against Di Fansi and the others this afternoon. Are you nervous?"

"Huh?" Wang Xin's question caught Sun Xi off guard.

Sun Xi thought for a moment and said, "Being nervous won't help. We're almost there. Wouldn't it be a laughing stock if we backed out at the last minute?"

Upon hearing this answer, Wang Xin smiled and said, "You are more courageous than I imagined."

"Huh?" Sun Xi didn't understand what Wang Xin meant by that.

"Well, after all, no one would be so audacious as to provoke a teacher," Wang Xin said with a smile. "I've heard the whole story from the students. Although there's some exaggeration involved, it's true that Teacher Fu was provoked into a fight by your two sentences, right?"

"And they even won in the end. Do you know how many people were surrounding the arena that day?" At this point, Wang Xin pointed to his ears, "I almost went deaf from shouting."

Sun Xi glanced away from Wang Xin, no longer looking at her: "Who knew he would actually agree? I was prepared to be punished. He said he wanted to fight me, and if I lost, he would punish me. Wouldn't I have to fight tooth and nail?"

"Haha, it seems you're not worried about the challenge this afternoon at all." Wang Xin turned to look in the direction Sun Xi was looking.

Wang Xin recalled that in her previous lives, when she died or was bullied, there were always people like Di Fansi involved to some extent.

Wang Xin hoped Sun Xi would win—at least that way he could at least give an explanation for his tragic deaths in his previous lives.

"Some people at school have already started a bet, saying they're betting on who will win between you and Devans," Wang Xin casually told Sun Xi.

"Huh?" This was something Sun Xi hadn't expected—she couldn't believe that people could be so free.

“That betting game has been going on for a few days now, right? At first, almost everyone was supporting Devans and his group. But after you beat Teacher Fu a few days ago, more people started supporting you. Although they can’t compare to Devans and his group, they all genuinely hope and insist that you can win.” Wang Xin said, glancing at Sun Xi.

In fact, Wang Xin had realized two weeks earlier that the otherworldly visitor inside Sun Xi's body might no longer be in control of her.

Perhaps that visitor from another world wasn't actually named Sun Xi. She—or he—might have only told me he was named Sun Xi because he wanted to return Sun Xi's body to her. Wang Xin thought.

Wang Xin was still talking to Sun Xi about things at school, including Sun Xi's band and Devans.

At that moment, Sun Xi heard Lu Renkui calling her name in her mind.

Lu Renkui made a request to Sun Xi, which Sun Xi roughly summarized—Lu Renkui needed her to relay a message to Wang Xin.

So Sun Xi put her plan into action. She raised her hand and made a stop gesture, saying, "Oh dear, let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about something else."

Seeing that Sun Xi had interrupted her and awkwardly tried to change the subject, Wang Xin wasn't annoyed at all. Instead, she smiled and asked, "Okay, what do you want to say?"

"Um, that..." Sun Xi listened to what Lu Renkui had said in his mind and then began to repeat it, "It's just... have you heard the story of Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly?"

"Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly?" Wang Xiang remembered that when she spoke with that visitor from another world, the visitor seemed to have told her this story.

“Once upon a time, there was a man named Zhuang Zhou. One day, he dreamed that he turned into a butterfly. After waking up, he began to ponder: Was it that he dreamed he became a butterfly, or… did the butterfly dream it became him?” Sun Xi tried his best to repeat Lu Renkui’s words.

Upon hearing this, Wang Xin immediately thought of her repeated rebirths and suddenly realized that the visitor from another world who had previously stayed in Sun Xi's body might not have left yet.

That visitor from another world had only discussed it with Sun Xi.

However, Wang Xin didn't rush to interrupt Sun Xi. She just walked and listened quietly. She wanted to hear what purpose the visitor from another world had in telling her these things through Sun Xi's mouth.

“This story is quite interesting, isn’t it?” Sun Xi stiffly relayed Lu Renkui’s words, “Sometimes you dream about doing certain things, but perhaps it’s something that you did in another world, and then you just happened to dream about it.”

"Dream..." Wang Xin pondered in her heart, paying little attention to what Sun Xi said next.

What was that visitor from another world trying to do by saying those things? Wang Xin pondered. Was he trying to tell me that my so-called rebirth was just an extremely painful yet vivid dream?

But why did those dreams come to me? Why? Why did I have to make them come true?

If my constant rebirths are just a recurring dream, then am I living in the dream of another version of myself in some other world? Thinking this, Wang Xin began to feel lost. She tried to convince herself that the version of herself in this world was real.

If I am real, is this world just a novel? Wang Xin suddenly thought of this.

Thinking of this, Wang Xin felt a tremor in her heart. She suddenly realized that the idea she had always held seemed to be wrong.

Her previous belief that the world was a novel was wrong.

If this world truly exists, then what about my past lives?

If my past lives were all a dream, then why am I experiencing this vivid, painful, and long dream?

why?

why?

why?

Why tell me that this world is real only after I already know that I am powerless?

This left Wang Xin's mind blank, and she didn't even notice that she was almost at the stairs.

Seeing that Wang Xin was in a daze and didn't seem to be listening, Sun Xi became a little worried, so he shut his mouth and watched Wang Xin's movements.

Sure enough, Wang Xin missed a step and fell down the stairs.

"Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay—!" Sun Xi quickly reached out one hand to grab Wang Xin and the other hand to grab the handrail on the stairs, thus preventing Wang Xin from falling.

Wang Xin snapped out of her daze, turned to look at Sun Xi, who was holding her with a worried expression, steadied herself, and whispered, "Thank you."

"Ah! Well, you're welcome. Are you alright?" Sun Xi asked, sensing that Wang Xin's condition seemed off.

"It's nothing, it's nothing," Wang Xin shook her head and said, "I'll go back now."

"Ah, okay then." Sun Xi said, letting go of Wang Xin's hand. Watching Wang Xin walk downstairs step by step, seemingly lost in thought, Sun Xi called out to Wang Xin, "Wait a minute!"

Wang Xin turned to look at Sun Xi and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Um...you have to come see our performance tonight," Sun Xi said. "You absolutely must come!"

Then Sun Xi clenched his fists and placed his hands on his chest, saying, "You must come! We won't let you down!"

After hearing Sun Xi's words, Wang Xin nodded and said, "Okay."

"And, there's more..." Sun Xi added, "Our competition was semi-open, which means that the students watching could pick up their own attack instruments to help in the battle at any time."

Sun Xi looked into Wang Xin's dark brown eyes and said, "So if you want to come up on stage, that's fine too!"

“Okay,” Wang Xin nodded again, then turned and walked away, saying as she went, “Goodbye.”

"Oh, goodbye." Sun Xi didn't know what to say at this moment. She felt that Wang Xin was not in a good state.

Sun Xi stood on the stairs watching Wang Xin suddenly stop halfway down the stairs.

"Sun Xi, do you think this world is real or fake?" Wang Xin asked.

"Huh?" Sun Xi didn't react.

"Forget it, it's pointless to ask you." Wang Xin sighed and continued walking.

"Hmm, is the world... real or fake?" Upon hearing Sun Xi's words, Wang Xin suddenly stopped in her tracks.

“The world is real, of course,” Sun Xi replied. “I can still feel the pain from my battle with Teacher Fu in some parts of my body.”

"If the world were fake, then these pains wouldn't have lasted so long or been so intense."

"Don't you think there are some unreasonable aspects to this world?" Wang Xin asked again.

“There are always things in the world that people can’t explain,” Sun Xi scratched his face. “Actually, they have a basis, but we just can’t explain them according to our current understanding. If a person’s understanding of the world reaches 100%, then life would have no meaning.”

"If you were in pain in another world, what would you do?" Wang Xin asked again.

Sun Xi felt that Wang Xin's question jumped a bit too quickly. She thought for a moment and said, "Then I will do everything I need to do, and then take them through it together."

"Is this your answer?" Wang Xin asked.

“Yeah, that’s right.” Sun Xi scratched his head and said, “They should be very happy.”

"Alright then, I've finished asking my questions." Wang Xin said as she continued walking downhill, "Goodbye."

"Oh, goodbye." Sun Xi said, leaning on the railing and watching Wang Xin go downstairs.

Wang Xin walked out of the teaching building, and Sun Xi leaned on the railing of the teaching building to watch Wang Xin walk away.