Chapter 282 Who Is Feng Xin?

"Shirogane, don't die suddenly in the classroom! Why are you becoming more haggard?"

Baiyin Yuxing smiled awkwardly. "Last night I looked through the names of the second and third year students and graduates of Xiuzhiyuan again, and there were really not many who were linked to Feng Xin."

"And those few people don't seem to be the students who can write the number one in the Tokyo short essay selection... I can't tell that they have very high literary quality based on their Chinese language scores and club types."

Uchiha Ling blinked, "You are trying too hard, but I have another way to break through..."

Baiyin Yuxing looked over in surprise. "Appreciate further details."

Uchiha Ling showed a confident smile.

"You should take a rest first. Let's go to the club at noon. Oh, by the way, you are not in the club but in the student union classroom. Then I will go to the student union at noon."

After dispelling Baiyin Yuxing's curiosity, he finally fell asleep on the table before the first class in the morning. I have to say that Baiyin Yuxing is definitely very qualified as a friend.

As the president of the student union, he obviously didn't have to worry about the club's activities, but when he heard that the Classical Literature Club's goal was to find the author of "Bongshin Legend", he immediately used the president's authority to investigate.

But this matter can't be troubled by Shirogane forever. Their classical literature club is not just a student union.

However, Baiyin Yuxing's curiosity was dispelled here, and a curious kid at the back table who had been listening came over.

"Classmate Ling! What did you say there was a way to break through? Tell me quickly."

"Chitanda, please go back first. It's too close. Let's talk at noon..."

Chitanda Airu knelt down and placed her head directly on Uchiha Ling's legs, looking directly at herself with those purple eyes.

Reaching out and pinching Chitanda Eru's face, Uchiha Ling said that he would not reveal it in advance and that they would go to the student union classroom together at noon.

...

Finally, at noon, Chitanda Eru puffed up her cheeks and came to Uchiha Ling's side.

"Hmph, you actually aroused my interest and then ignored it. Now it's rest time and you have to satisfy me!"

"Okay, okay, let's go to the student union office." Uchiha Ling stood up and followed Shirogane Miyuki to the student union office.

When they came to the office and sat down, Vice Chairman Shinomiya, Secretary Fujiwara, General Secretary Yukinoshita and others also arrived.

"Okay, Ling-san! Can we talk about your progress now?" Chitanda Eru sat next to Yukino and picked up black tea, but her eyes were still on Uchiha Ling.

Yukinoshita Yukino looked over in surprise. "We are all investigating Feng Xin. Have you found it yet?"

Uchiha Ling waved his hand. "I haven't found it yet. It's still far from it. I just made a small breakthrough. But...the above is just my guess, and it's not guaranteed to be correct."

So, Uchiha Ling told what he had investigated online after returning home from the cat cafe last night.

"First of all, we fell into a wrong behavior from the beginning, that is, looking for people based only on the words Fengxin! Because it is impossible for most authors to infer their real names from their pen names."

"So, we should pay more attention to [Feng Xin] itself. That's why the author calls his pen name Feng Xin..."

Last night, Uchiha Ling collected a lot of relevant information, and finally discovered a story after translating Hyacinth... into hyacinth.

In ancient Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a playmate of Apollo, but he died due to the jealousy of a wind god. After his death, a purple flower grew in a pool of blood because of Apollo's tears. We call this flower [hyacinth].

The flower language of purple hyacinth is: jealousy, sadness, apology, regret.

Uchiha Ling rubbed his temples. "Then I finished reading the short story "The Legend of Bongshin". Just like Chitanda-san said, this book is very well written, but it lacks the final ending."

"Perhaps most people regard the ending as open-ended, but there is a lot of foreshadowing in the article. If you read it carefully, you can definitely feel it... The author should have vaguely thought of the ending of the story, but he has not yet written it."

Why? Maybe the author doesn't want to write it, or maybe he can't write it.

"Yukishita, help me check all the short stories published under the name Shuchiin last year!"

Yukinoshita Yukino, who was using a laptop, nodded. As the general manager of the student union, she often assisted the vice-president Shinomiya in his work, and Shinomiya Kaguya was a complete Internet novice. So the right to use the notebook was given to Yukino.

"There were hundreds of short novels published in Shuchiin last year..."

Uchiha Ling frowned. "This group of students is really capable. I'm going to investigate the works that participated in the Tokyo Short Essay Anthology last year and keep duplicate works from the two!"

Yukino started to operate... and soon spoke slowly in front of everyone's surprised eyes.

"At the same time, there are...seven books that are eligible for Shuchiin Publishing's Tokyo Short Story Anthology, including the first, second, eleventh, fourteenth and three peripheral selections."

Uchiha Ling touched his chin, "Then our next goal is not only to find the author of "The Legend of Fengxin", but also the authors of several other short novels! They may know something."

Baiyin Yuxing nodded and immediately began to take advantage of the chairman's convenience to investigate. He doesn't believe it! Can anyone else hide it as well as the author [Feng Xin]?

At the same time, Shinomiya Kaguya frowned when she heard Uchiha Ling's investigation method.

"Uchiha-san, if Feng Xin represents jealousy, then how could he be jealous as the number one in the literary selection?"

Uchiha Ling waved his hand, "That's why I said I'm not sure, it's just a bet. Besides, the protagonist of Hyacinthus is not jealous but being envied...so things like the second and eleventh are not very suspicious. Well."

Shinomiya Kaguya still doesn’t agree.

"Is the author's pen name just to mock others for being jealous of me? I don't think there are such people..."

At this time, Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly spoke. "What if... the pen name Feng Xin was not chosen by the author himself?"

The conference room fell into silence——

Chitanda Airu suddenly opened her eyes wide. "What Yukino said is completely possible. We can't find the author of a book published in Shuchiin. That means he doesn't want to be exposed at all. In that case, why should he use a pen name instead of an anonymous one?"

At the same time, Baiyin Yuxing laughed.

"As expected, only Feng Xin is the mysterious guy. Since the authors of other works are published in Shuchiin, they must have registration records!"

Last year's Tokyo short story anthology, the first place was "Feng Xin" written by the pen name "Feng Xin"

The second place is...The real name of the author of "Heart and Fox" is...Fengye!

Baiyin Yuxing said in surprise. "Senior Fengye, when I enrolled last year, I was in the literature club, but in the second half of the year, I quit the club and transferred to the rugby club."