Chapter 111 Slander
Hong Zhixing stumbled out of the toilet, her eyes red-rimmed, covering her face, her school uniform mostly wet, looking aggrieved as if she had been bullied.
"Zhixing, what's wrong with you?" the short-haired girl asked immediately.
She stepped forward to help Hong Zhixing.
Hong Zhixing's tears kept falling, she shook her head, but didn't say anything.
But the more she acted this way, the more certain it became that she had been bullied in the restroom.
At that very moment, Li Pengfei shouted, "Where's Xu Zijun?"
Hong Zhixing raised her head, her face covered in tears, her lips pursed pitifully.
Seeing this, the surrounding students started discussing and speculating.
Then, at that moment, Lin Yu came out of the bathroom with her arm around Xu Zijun's shoulder.
Xu Zijun's eyes were swollen and red like walnuts. Because she was a bit chubby and not as pretty as Hong Zhixing, and her hair was half wet, she didn't look nearly as pitiful as Hong Zhixing.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yanhe took a deep breath. Although he didn't know the exact situation, he knew that this matter was definitely in trouble.
He turned and whispered in Chen Qin's ear, "Go find Teacher Liu quickly."
Chen Qin nodded, glanced at Lin Yu, and turned to leave.
“Xu Zijun, you—” Hong Zhixing suddenly pointed at Xu Zijun in disbelief, as if she had been greatly provoked and insulted, “Why did you do this?”
This surprised everyone.
"Zhixing, what happened? Did Xu Zijun bully you?" the girl next to Hong Zhixing immediately asked.
Hong Zhixing didn't answer, but gritted her teeth in frustration and anger, glaring angrily at Xu Zijun.
To onlookers, this scene speaks volumes without words.
Lin Yu said angrily, "Hong Zhixing, how dare you cry wolf here! I saw with my own eyes what you did to Xu Zijun in the toilet just now!"
Hong Zhixing shook his head, then shook his head again, denying Lin Yu's accusations.
Lin Yu's mind flashed back to the image of Hong Zhixing pressing Xu Zijun's head down into the toilet, and her heart burned like fire.
There are such vicious people in this world!
She was the one who bullied Xu Zijun, but because she suddenly barged in and witnessed this scene, she actually slapped herself, then lay down on the waterlogged floor, pretending to be pitiful, and cried wolf.
Hong Zhixing looked at Lin Yu with an innocent and aggrieved expression.
"Linyu, I know I'm your competitor. We're ranked similarly in our grades, and we're applying to universities for joint admissions. You want to smear me and make me lose my competitiveness, but how can you twist the truth like this?" Hong Zhixing accused, full of grievance. "My dad is a lawyer, how could I break the law! I went to Xu Zijun to find out what really happened between her and Chu Saiying, but she got angry and took it out on me. She cornered me in the bathroom and even hit me! I've never been treated like this before!"
"You're lying!" Lin Yu retorted angrily. "How could someone as timid as Xu Zijun possibly lay a hand on you! Don't think I was the only one who saw you and your classmates cornering her behind the convenience store and threatening her the other day!"
Lu Yanhe finally found his moment to speak.
“Yes, wasn’t it you who kept suspecting that Xu Zijun gave up her recommendation qualification because she had a crush on Chu Saiying and wanted to get Chu Saiying’s attention for her?” Lu Yanhe immediately chimed in. He certainly believed Lin Yu’s accusations and was even more convinced that Xu Zijun was not the kind of person who would bully Hong Zhixing. He unconditionally stood on the side of the two girls in his class. “Back then, it wasn’t just me and Lin Yu who witnessed this. There were other witnesses as well.”
Hong Zhixing was taken aback and her eyes widened.
Just when Lu Yanhe thought she had nothing to say, Hong Zhixing suddenly seemed to realize something, "Xu Zijun, so this is why you attacked me? Because I reminded you before not to have any improper thoughts about Chu Saiying, you held a grudge and sought revenge on me today?"
"I didn't," Xu Zijun shook her head and mumbled, "I didn't."
Things took an unexpected turn.
The students who had been watching were all confused.
Who is bullying whom?
Lu Yanhe looked at Li Pengfei and asked, "What's going on?"
Was Li Pengfei innocently dragged into this, or what caused him to be stopped at the toilet entrance by these girls?
Li Pengfei said angrily, "I had something to discuss with Xu Zijun, and I happened to see her coming out of the restroom when Hong Zhixing and a few others blocked her inside. They wouldn't let her out, so I went to stop them. But Hong Zhixing pushed Xu Zijun into the restroom, and the others blocked me at the door. I couldn't get in, so I was about to go back to my class to ask the girls for help when this girl suddenly bumped into me and accused me of touching her breasts! I was so angry that I pushed her, and she started yelling like a madwoman, saying that I hit her!"
Li Pengfei pointed at the short-haired girl, filled with righteous indignation.
His tone was so sincere and so angry that he gained the trust of everyone present almost immediately after he finished speaking.
Compared to this straightforward guy, the short-haired girl—Hong Zhixing's henchman—is at a disadvantage in terms of appearance; she looks like she has a mean-spirited face.
When Li Pengfei publicly accused her, her face contorted for a moment before she angrily retorted, "You're shameless! You were the one who touched my chest and then hit me!"
Lu Yanhe glanced at her and said, "What are you saying, Hong Zhixing? It's one thing if there are no surveillance cameras in the restroom, but there are cameras in the corridor for everything you're talking about. We'll find out the truth by watching the surveillance footage later. There's no need to make baseless accusations here."
He raised his hand and pointed to the security camera in the corridor.
The short-haired girl's face immediately turned pale, seemingly unaware that her lie could be exposed at any moment.
Li Pengfei snorted coldly, "These people are wicked. They bully their classmates and then turn around and blame them. They are shameless."
The tide finally turned at this moment.
Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Li Pengfei struck a blow to the short-haired girl at a crucial moment, giving them hope that their slanderous attitude would be exposed.
"Linlin, don't be afraid." Hong Zhixing's pitiful expression slowly disappeared, but instead of changing her expression, she became firm and fearless as if she had been stimulated by something. "Maybe you misunderstood when you were emotional, but you did it to protect me. I will definitely not let them slander you."
Lu Yanhe looked at Hong Zhixing with disbelief.
Lin Yu looked at her in disbelief. She, who never swore, couldn't help but question her: "How can you be so shameless? A misunderstanding? The surveillance cameras have captured it all, and you've already said all those slanderous things. Do you think you can wash away your previous defamation of Li Pengfei with just a misunderstanding?"
(End of this chapter)
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