"Dad?" Mona, carrying her schoolbag, looked at Zhen Po, who was running around following Julian because Lu Xiaoyao had hit Qi Haikui, and stood there with some confusion, calling out to him.
"Ah, Bo... Mona, what's wrong?"
"It's so late, aren't we going home yet?"
"Let's go back, it's all the same way. Let's wait for Zhu... wait for Thomson and the others. This is really unlucky. How can such a nice young girl be framed?"
Even though Zhen Hu arrived late, he didn't believe that Lu Xiaoyao had made the first move, and subconsciously he sided with Julian and the others.
Unfortunately, he can't go to the office to encourage Julian and the others right now.
"We're just missing witnesses..."
Zhen Hu recalled Lu Xiaoyao and the others' current disadvantage and couldn't help but sigh. Then, as if remembering something, he looked at Mona and asked:
"Weren't you with her the whole time? What exactly happened this afternoon?"
"I...I don't know either. I went back to my dorm to pack my things, and when I came out, I didn't see Daisy."
Mona's words did not arouse Zhen Hu's suspicion, but Zhen Hu became even more convinced that it was Seven Sea Anemone who was tricking Lu Xiaoyao.
"Why does Dad trust Daisy so much? Danny is indeed very popular...maybe..."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhen Hu interrupted her, saying, "Of course I believe you." But when she was about to explain, Zhen Hu quickly found a reason.
"A classmate who plays with you is definitely someone you can trust!"
Is that so?
Mona was taken aback. She looked up at Zhen Hu's bright and spirited eyes, but the sincerity in them made her instinctively avoid his gaze.
Even though it was the same face, Mona felt a little disoriented.
"Haha, of course!" Zhen Hu laughed and patted the other person's head like a child, saying, "Because she's your friend, I trust her completely! I trust your judgment!"
Given Lu Xiaoyao's personality, Zhen Hu can indeed easily make friends with people.
As he gently rubbed the other person's head, Zhen Hu completely missed the dark, deep eyes hidden beneath the other person's lowered head.
At this moment, Zhen Hu thought to himself with a smug smile: If only Lu Xiaoyao could win over the BOSS.
...
Lu Xiaoyao, on whom so much hope was placed, was currently in the office with Julian.
There are two homeroom teachers, the "victim" Qi Haikui, and Qi Haikui's parents, namely the head of teaching affairs, his uncle Li Yuan.
Julian had cleared his head long after he said "Dad won't allow it."
And they have given the current situation serious thought.
Li Yuan and Qi Haikui are probably in cahoots, and they're the kind of people who're going to break up with all of them!
Just now, Lu Xiaoyao had been whispering to him that Qi Haikui had come to her and wanted to ambush her. Then Mingmei broke down the door, and just as she was hitting the other party, a large group of people suddenly appeared and saw it.
It's that kind of feeling of being both worried and disappointed!
But no one believed him except Julian.
Qi Haikui's homeroom teacher naturally sided with Qi Haikui, while Lu Xiaoyao's homeroom teacher kept glancing up at Li Yuan standing behind Qi Haikui while asking questions. What else could he do?
Although he wasn't as obsequious as Doug had been, he didn't consider himself a particularly upright person either.
He didn't need to confront the head of the teaching department over what Lu Xiaoyao said, since there was no witness or physical evidence to prove her innocence.
Moreover, Lu Xiaoyao revealed why Qi Haikui had sought her out, and told the truth about the "fighting incident" that had caused such a stir at school recently.
He didn't even know about this!
Isn't that absurd?
The homeroom teacher looked shocked, as if to say, "Don't come any closer! I don't want to hear this!"
He turned incredulously to look at the homeroom teacher of the girl next door, Nanami, only to find that the teacher was very calm and even had time to adjust her glasses.
Lu Xiaoyao's straightforward and direct behavior wasn't impulsive; she just wanted to see what kind of people were in this school.
And what was the result?
Nanami's homeroom teacher clearly knew this and was covering it up.
Lu Xiaoyao's homeroom teacher, although he had just found out, remained silent and did not express his opinion.
Then, Li Yuan, who is usually a man of few words in real life, was able to say a lot in one breath, the most direct of which was asking Lu Xiaoyao for evidence.
It seems that everything was attributed to Lu Xiaoyao's one-sided lie.
...
"How...how could this happen?"
Bai Xiao stood in the crowd and witnessed everything from beginning to end.
She never imagined that Li Yuan and Qi Haikui would do such a thing.
Even though Mingmei and he were eventually asked to leave and didn't see the final outcome, Bai Xiao could already imagine that Lu Xiaoyao wouldn't get away with this.
“These people always cover up wrongdoing.”
Yuan Fang poured Bai Xiao a cup of hot water with his only remaining hand and said these words.
Mingmei looked up as soon as she heard this, but her thoughts were interrupted by the hot water that Mu Chen handed her.
By this time, Mu Chen had also returned and learned about what had happened at school that afternoon.
Mingmei took the water Mu Chen poured for her, squeezed the cup, but didn't drink it. She only apologized to Bai Xiao at the end.
“This time you took me in, but Nanagi immediately contacted security and found out it was you... which also caused you to lose your job.”
Mingmei thought for a moment and said, "I can hire another person for this shop. Don't worry about money."
Mingmei clearly saw the look of terror on Bai Xiao's face when she lost her job because of Mingmei that afternoon; it was as if the sky had fallen.
Considering her persona in this situation, Mingmei felt it was necessary to stabilize her emotions.
"No, it's alright. It's not good to gather information if everyone is crammed into one store. I'll go out and look again later. Maybe I'll find another way?"
Mingmei hadn't expected Bai Xiao to refuse.
“They’ve already started kicking out people from the school who aren’t part of their group…” Mu Chen added, “Who knows, I might be next.”
How could things have turned out this way?
Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang frowned in unison. If that were the case, their situation would be dire.
Now, they can't even understand why Nanami and Li Yuan would betray them.
"Could it be that they're planning a roundabout way to curry favor with the BOSS and extract clues?"
Mingmei and Muchen did not tell anyone that the characters would likely be influenced by the Boss's will and become no longer themselves, but closer to the character design Mona had envisioned.
"Who knows, maybe this BOSS has some ability to manipulate the characters' minds?"
Mingmei said this half-jokingly, but Bai Xiao shouted, "Oh no!"
"What's wrong?"
Mingmei looked at Bai Xiao, but Bai Xiao said, "Isn't Zhen Hu in a very dangerous situation right now? After all, he's the BOSS's father! He won't betray us too, will he?"
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