The younger brother was a bit confused: "Huh, how could that be? I think there's still a pretty good chance of finding it..."

Su Ying slapped him across the face. "That's enough."

She followed Xie Li's gaze to the artificial lake, a vague suspicion forming in her mind: what if the book had been thrown into the lake...?

It's definitely gone and can't be found. It's very difficult to salvage, and even if it were, so much time has passed that it would probably be ruined by the time it was salvaged.

It was almost time for class, and the teacher had already come over with the books. Xie Li said, "Let's start class now."

The first two periods in the morning are physics classes, so I had to share a book with Su Ying.

But Xie Li quickly understood why that person had specifically targeted those two books.

The physics teacher was Wen Ling, a man in a white shirt. He glanced at Xie Li indifferently and asked, "Where's your book?"

Su Ying quickly explained, "Teacher, her book was taken away..."

Wenling had an air of sophistication; his white shirt gave him a refined and gentle demeanor. He nodded slightly and walked to the podium.

"Xie Li, go stand outside." That was the first thing she said.

Su Ying: "???"

She slammed her hand on the table and stood up abruptly, "No, teacher..."

"Disrupting classroom order, do you want to go outside and stand there too?" Wen Ling pushed up his glasses, his gaze indifferent.

Xie Li held Su Ying down and walked out on his own, stopping in the corridor.

Jiang Baili's lips curled slightly. Of course, she had heard what happened on Xie Li's side, but she didn't know if the person who did the attack was the one she thought it was.

Ming Xiaoxiao glanced at Xie Li with some concern, and after class, she took the initiative to plead with Wen Ling to explain.

“Teacher Wen didn’t mean to target you. He doesn’t like people who don’t study seriously and don’t cherish their books…” Obviously, Ming Xiaoxiao’s pleading and explanation were of no use. After returning, she apologized to Xie Li.

Ming Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, "Did you offend someone...?"

Xie Li shook his head. "No."

"Then, is it someone close to you..." Ming Xiaoxiao hesitated before turning away and quickly shut her mouth when she saw Su Ying approaching.

"What's wrong with the people around you?" Su Ying curled her bright red lips and sneered.

Ming Xiaoxiao quickly said, "Sorry, I wasn't talking about you."

Su Ying slammed the milk tea in her hand on the table. "You better not be."

Ming Xiaoxiao bit her lip, her eyes welling up with tears. Su Ying's tone was too harsh. She wasn't targeting her on purpose. She had already apologized, so what more did she want?

When her deskmate Jiang Yifan saw her return, he immediately became angry: "Su Ying is going too far!"

Ming Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "It's nothing, just a misunderstanding. We've explained it all away."

Then, with some worry, she added, "I'm just worried about Xie Li. I don't know who's targeting her like this. Class monitor, should we tell the homeroom teacher?"

The girl looked at him with her wet eyes, her gaze filled with wholehearted trust and reliance.

A strong sense of responsibility and protectiveness welled up in Jiang Yifan. "Okay, I'll go tell the teacher."

——

Xie Li stood for two classes, feeling dizzy from the sunlight in the corridor. During the break between classes, she was jostled a few times but didn't notice who it was.

The last two periods in the morning were math, and she thought she could finally sit down and relax, but the math teacher just glanced at her and said, "Xie Li, go stand outside."

Xie Li: "..."

Su Ying, holding her breath and feeling extremely irritable, kicked the stool away and stood up abruptly.

She was determined to be the troublemaker: "Teacher, Xie Li's book was taken by someone secretly, it wasn't her fault!"