Chapter 2

Ye Yan Arrives! [叶言参上! Yè Yán Cān Shàng!] is the second chapter of Tong Yao's Guardians of Night.

Summary
As Huang Xiaoyan falls off the building, she swears that she will remember Ye Yan. Upon hitting the airbag deployed by the police, she is knocked unconscious. Seeing this, Ye Yan flees the scene.

A few days later, at Bozhou Xiahou High School, the physics teacher in Class 1-A is teaching the students about Thomas Edison's establishment of the Edison Electric Light Company and his commercialization of the incandescent light bulb. The bell rings, signaling the end of class. Li Lingbiao, the school's notorious delinquent walks down the hallway with several of his lackeys. He notes that if the bell didn't ring, he would have left on his own. One of his lackeys lights him a cigarette while agreeing with his statement, adding that the teacher would have died from a heart attack if he did. The underling then lights his own cigarette but accidentally drops a speck of ash on Li Lingbiao's shoe after flicking it. He apologizes profusely and blows it off with his breath, while the other students remark that if he wasn't Li's right-hand man, there would have been a murder at the school. Li Lingbiao forgives his underling and proceeds to the bathroom.

While in the bathroom, after his lackeys compliment him for his urinating capacity, Ye Yan, dressed up in his "The Suicidal Girl" costume appears behind Li Lingbiao and asks for a light. This terrifies Li, who thought Ye Yan was a ghost, and causes him to accidentally wet his pants. Enraged, Li Lingbiao attacks Ye Yan while his minions flee the bathroom. As the sound of fighting dies down, they enter the bathroom, only to see a beaten-up Li Lingbiao laying on the ground with Ye Yan squatting next to him. Ye Yan advises Li to not always resort to violence as he takes the lighter out of his breast pocket and uses it to light his own cigarette. Li Lingbiao asks who Ye Yan is, and Ye Yan introduces himself as the new transfer student while removing his performance art.

Chapter Notes

 * Li Lingbiao is introduced.
 * Ye Yan's performance art "The Suicidal Girl" debuts.

Trivia

 * Following censorship that prohibits the depiction of minors smoking, Chapter 2 was redrawn. The cigarettes shown in the chapter were changed into potato fries, and the lighter was changed into a ketchup packet.