Chapter 97 Coercion

Lin Yu asked in confusion, "Xu Zijun is usually only close to Li Xiang and a few others. Those girls are from the next class. When did they get to know Xu Zijun?"

If it were someone else, Lin Yu wouldn't be suspicious, since it's not unusual for people to know each other in the same school.

But this is Xu Zijun.

She rarely talks to anyone, and her closest friends are only Li Xiang and a few others. She is a very introverted person and doesn't know anyone in her class well, let alone people from the next class.

Lu Yanhe also frowned.

"It looks like she was being coerced by those girls," Chen Qin said.

As soon as Chen Qin finished speaking, they saw Xu Zijun being pushed from behind by one of the girls.

Xu Zijun stumbled.

"Damn it!" Li Pengfei immediately glared angrily. "How dare they bully the girls in our class!"

He raised his leg to rush over.

"Let's go take a look first." Lu Yanhe pulled Li Pengfei back. "Don't be impulsive."

Lu Yanhe was mainly thinking about his embarrassing past – not long ago he had suspected Chen Siqi of coercing and bullying Xu Zijun, but it turned out that it wasn't like that at all.

Who knows if this will be another blunder?

The four of them followed.

After passing the convenience store, the school wall is just ahead.

However, walking along the wall leads to a hidden corner. The laboratory building and the school wall form an angle, which is a blind spot for the school's surveillance. Occasionally, couples who are secretly dating can be seen here.

Xu Zijun looked nervously and anxiously at the several girls surrounding her.

They were all from the class next door.

She was called out of the classroom.

“Come with us,” said the girl in the lead.

Xu Zijun naturally wanted to refuse.

However, the girl in the lead had an unquestionable demeanor.

Moreover, the other party is quite famous in the grade; his father is a lawyer who once helped a teacher at the school win a case that everyone thought was unwinnable.

“We have something to ask you,” she said.

Xu Zijun wanted to ask, "Is there something I can't ask directly in the hallway?" But because of her family background, she was naturally timid and had low self-esteem. Facing the group of people, she didn't dare to ask and just followed them.

She wasn't a day student; she lived on campus. Xu Zijun was always afraid of being bullied, so she always kept a low profile and never associated with unfamiliar people. Today, suddenly encountering this situation, Xu Zijun didn't know why they had called her out.

Xu Zijun watched them nervously.

The girl leading the group is named Hong Zhixing.

She stood with her arms crossed in front of her chest, looking at Xu Zijun with a cold gaze.

"I heard you voluntarily gave up your recommendation spot for the independent enrollment program?" she asked.

Xu Zijun was taken aback.

She thought about it for a long time but never expected that they would come to her about this matter.

Xu Zijun paused for a few seconds without answering. At this moment, a short-haired girl next to Hong Zhixing immediately said sternly, "I'm asking you a question, don't you have ears?"

Xu Zijun flinched and nodded.

"Why?" Hong Zhixing frowned slightly and asked, "Why would you voluntarily give up this spot? This spot must be very precious to you, right? I heard that your family is from the countryside, or a small town? Anyway, your family isn't very well-off, right? You should want to get into a good university and make something of yourself even more than your classmates. Why would you give up such an opportunity?"

Hong Zhixing spoke in a condescending tone.

There was no balance in their auras.

Xu Zijun had almost no presence to speak of and was completely suppressed by Hong Zhixing.

Even though Hong Zhixing didn't actually do anything, she just frowned slightly and crossed her arms.

Xu Zijun's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing.

"Is it really necessary for you to pretend to be mute?" The short-haired girl next to Hong Zhixing spoke up again. "If you don't want to talk, I'll say it for you. Do you like Chu Saiying, so you're trying to get his attention this way? Thank you?"

Xu Zijun looked up at them in disbelief.

"Did I hit the nail on the head?" The short-haired girl sneered. "How ridiculous! You should take a look in the mirror. A fat pig like you, actually trying to get Chu Saiying's attention."

"I didn't!" Xu Zijun's eyes reddened, and she seemed unable to hide some kind of grief and indignation, her emotions becoming uncontrollably intense. "That's not how it is!"

"What are you pretending for?" The short-haired girl said with disgust when she saw Xu Zijun's eyes redden as if she was about to shed tears.

"Alright." Hong Zhixing turned her head and glanced at the short-haired girl, signaling her to shut up.

The short-haired girl then shut her mouth.

Hong Zhixing said to Xu Zijun, "I don't care whether you have it or not. I'm just reminding you not to have any improper thoughts. Someone like Chu Saiying is not someone you can aspire to. If you hadn't withdrawn from this matter, Chu Saiying wouldn't have gotten the recommendation for the independent enrollment. I don't believe you're that kind-hearted, nor do I believe your motives are that pure. I'm just telling you, Chu Saiying is someone I've set my sights on, and no one can take him away from me. Even if, given your appearance, the possibility of Chu Saiying liking you is less than one percent, I won't allow that possibility to happen, understand?"

Xu Zijun lowered her head, her jaw trembling slightly.

"Let's go," Hong Zhixing said to the other girls.

"Are we just going to let her go like this?" the short-haired girl asked unwillingly.

"What else do you want to do?" Hong Zhixing glanced at her impatiently. "Are you going to take action? Let me make this clear, I have no interest in satisfying some kind of perverted psychology by bullying others. If you're staying by my side to do this kind of thing, you'd better leave as soon as possible."

The short-haired girl's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

Hong Zhixing led the way and left.

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Lu Yanhe and his group stood at the corner.

Hong Zhixing and his group walked over and bumped into them.

Their expressions changed instantly.

"What are you doing here?" Hong Zhixing asked, frowning.

Her gaze was mainly fixed on Lu Yanhe.

Hong Zhixing, of course, also knew this celebrity classmate from school.

Li Pengfei looked at them, sneered, and said in a threatening tone, "You brought Xu Zijun from my class to this remote place, and you still ask us why we're here?"

Hong Zhixing realized what was happening and chuckled.

"Does she suspect we're bullying her?"

“It’s not suspicion, it’s eyewitness testimony,” Lu Yanhe said calmly. “We all saw what you guys did to our classmate Xu Zijun just now.”

Hong Zhixing's eyes flickered for a moment, but his expression remained unchanged. "So what? We're just going to have a chat with her."

“What you consider a conversation may not be the same in the other person’s eyes,” Lu Yanhe said. “You can only be thankful that you didn’t actually lay a hand on her. Otherwise, we would not just be bystanders. Of course, we are waiting here to remind you that if you try to coerce her into going with you again with your numbers, whether it’s physical bullying or verbal humiliation, we will be witnesses to prove that you bullied your classmate.”

Hong Zhixing and the girls around her finally changed their expressions.

(End of this chapter)