Chapter 44 Bullying

After recognizing Zhou Mu, Director Sun took the initiative to speak to the principal and helped her enroll in school.

Zhou Mu finally got what he wanted.

"She actually sent Zhou Mu to school? I thought she was determined to ruin Zhou Mu and make her illiterate for life. I didn't expect she still has a conscience." Yan Songyu was surprised.

Yan Songyu and Feng Yu had a short meeting during lunchtime in her office, where Feng Yu had some homemade food delivered.

Feng Yu: "It may not be that he has not lost his conscience, but rather that he feels sorry for his own kind."

Yan Songyu didn't continue the topic, and slowly put down her chopsticks. "Are you busy with the development project in Beidian Village lately?"

"Hmm." Feng Yu nodded, hesitated for a moment, as if he had something difficult to say.

"Are you planning to leave Ruixin after completing this project?"

Feng Yu was very surprised, "Uncle Yan told you?"

Yan Songyu shook her head. "No, I was just guessing."

"I...this is what I talked about with Uncle Yan that day. It's my promise to Uncle Yan. I have no complaints about Ruixin. Actually, I really want to stay at Ruixin so I can be closer to you."

Feng Yu quickly offered an explanation, fearing that Yan Songyu might misunderstand him as ungrateful and disloyal.

"Pfft~" Yan Songyu couldn't help but laugh, "Why are you in such a hurry? I didn't say anything."

"Uncle Yan said he doesn't object to us dating, but if I want to marry you in the future, I have to prove my ability, so I plan to start my own business."

He worked at Ruixin for 11 years, earning a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan to 2 million yuan, which gave him enough initial capital to start his own business.

Jiang Chengli, who was still frantically practicing drawing with his left hand in the maid's room: ...

Yan Songyu said firmly, "You will definitely succeed!"

Feng Yu couldn't suppress the smile on his face. "You have so much confidence in me?"

"certainly."

She had witnessed Huasheng's power firsthand; in this life, being four years earlier, he would only succeed sooner.

Before leaving get off work, Yan Songyu received a call from Yan Binghua, who had taken Feifei to visit a friend. So Yan Songyu tidied up and went downstairs to have some alone time with Feng Yu.

They strolled hand in hand along the Yinghe River. Like countless other young couples around them, Yan Songyu was envious and ate her way through the small shops along the street, while Feng Yu was responsible for cleaning up the mess.

They also witnessed a romantic love story where lovers finally got married. Someone proposed with a grand fireworks display on the Yinghe River, and at the end, the words "XSY, Marry me" exploded in the sky, illuminating the entire banks of the Yinghe River.

All the girls around him were envious.

How romantic!

"The allure of money!"

"We were just bystanders who witnessed the romantic love story of the male and female protagonists."

...

Feng Yu fed Yan Songyu a spoonful of his grass jelly ice cream and asked, "What do you think of this kind of proposal ceremony?"

"It's quite romantic, but a bit too high-profile."

"Oh." Feng Yu silently made a note of it, as he disliked being high-profile.

After walking a while longer, they saw a circle formed around the fountain ahead, and that's when they realized the couple who had proposed were there.

"The young master of the second branch of the Qin family in Wencheng."

Yan Songyu stood on tiptoe to take a look. "You know him? Should we say hello?"

"A brief encounter is not important."

Feng Yu pulled Yan Songyu away; it wasn't worth wasting their time together.

*

Zhou Mu was overjoyed to be able to go to school and was full of enthusiasm for learning. She was already smart and quickly caught up with the learning progress. When she was picking up trash, she found a few textbooks. Although she couldn't understand them, she had read them many times before and was very familiar with them.

The homeroom teacher initially had a lot of opinions about Zhou Mu, the transfer student, but quickly grew to like this smart and studious child.

Zhou Mu thought going to school was great; she believed that going to school could really change her destiny. Until she was locked in the bathroom and a bucket of cold water was poured over her head. The cold water in late autumn made Zhou Mu shiver all over. So cold!

"Who is it? Let me out!"

"Help! Someone help me! Help me!"

"Help!"

Zhou Mu pounded on the door, but no one answered.

School has been over for a long time. Zhou Mu was on duty today and was assigned to take out the trash, so he was the last to leave. I don't know if anyone is still in this building.

"Help!"

As darkness fell and the bathroom became dark, Zhou Mu huddled by the door, feeling cold and terrified. "Help! Is anyone there?"

She began to hope that her mother would come to the school to look for her if she found out she hadn't come home.

Could the security guard have already reached this point during his patrol?

Or is the teacher still grading homework?

...

"Help!"

Zhou Mu shouted until his voice was hoarse, and finally managed to get the security guards to come.

Is anyone there? Who's inside?

Zhou Mu excitedly pounded on the door. She saw a light on the floor. "Yes! There! There's someone here!"

The security guard removed the mop from the door and rescued Zhou Mu, who was soaking wet. This was not the first time that school bullying had happened; locking someone in the toilet and pouring water on them was a common tactic.

"Did you see who bullied you?" the security guard asked.

Zhou Mu shook his head. "No."

"Did you remember the voice? Do you know who's been targeting you?"

Zhou Mu shook his head again, "They didn't say anything. I've been studying very hard and haven't bothered anyone."

"Remember to tell your homeroom teacher tomorrow, don't be afraid, go home quickly."

"thank you!"

Zhou Mu bowed to the security guard before returning to the classroom to get his schoolbag, only to find that it was stained with ink, his notebooks were torn up, his pens were broken, and his books were covered in red ink with insulting words such as "little beggar," "dirty," "country bumpkin," and "ugly monster."

She couldn't help but hug her schoolbag and cry; it was the first gift her mother had ever given her!

"Waaaaah~"

She didn't offend anyone at all, and she didn't even say a few words to anyone. Why is this happening?

Zhou Mu packed everything into her schoolbag while crying, and carried the ruined schoolbag home with red eyes all the way.

Feifei was picked up by Yan Songyu and Feng Yu after school and taken to dinner. They also bought her some autumn and winter clothes. She was looking at the beautiful neon lights on the street through the car window when she suddenly saw Zhou Mu sitting by the flower bed crying.

"Uncle Feng, stop for a moment, I think I see Mumu."

Zhou Mu hugged her legs and huddled by the flower bed, crying. The feeling of being abandoned by the whole world surged into her heart again. It was getting dark, and she ran away in fear, wanting to get home as soon as possible, but she accidentally tripped and fell. Her arms and legs were scraped and bleeding, and the wounds were burning painful. She also bumped her chin.

"Mumu, what are you doing here?"

Feifei's sweet voice rang in her ears, making Zhou Mu think she was hallucinating.

Zhou Mu looked at Fei Fei in surprise, even forgetting to cry.

"How did you get so messy? And you're injured!" Feifei frowned as she squatted down beside her, touching her soaked clothes. "Did someone bully you?"

"Feifei?"

"It's me."

"Wow~ Feifei! Waaah~ Feifei..." Like a child who has found someone to lean on, Zhou Mu couldn't help but hug Feifei and cry.

Feifei, mimicking her mother's comforting words, gently patted Zhou Mu's back, "Don't cry, don't cry, I'm here, Feifei is here, Mu Mu, be good, don't be afraid."