Back in class, she tried to act nonchalant, but it was so cold that her undershirt was soaked through and her hair was still dripping wet; she was sure it would freeze soon.
Gu Xinan smiled mockingly when he saw her looking like this.
She walked up to him, her face flushed, red and swollen, blue and purple, and he suddenly felt a pang of heartache.
"Ying Qian! What happened to you?" Without thinking, he unzipped her down jacket and saw that the wool inside was also wet. His expression darkened. "Did someone cause you trouble?"
Water dripped down Gu Xinan's hair and onto his hands, icy cold.
He's such a jerk!
Thinking this, he took off his clothes and wrapped them around her shivering body, and also put a hand warmer in her hand, as her hands were so cold that her joints were stiff.
He asked several more times, but Ying Qian still gritted her teeth and refused to answer, because she didn't want Gu Xinan to laugh at her.
As a result, Xu Tiantian, with snot and tears streaming down her face, grabbed Gu Xinan and said, "Gu Xinan! There were four girls bullying Ying Qian in the restroom just now! The one who was leading the group was the girl who was bothering you before... the one from Class 16! Ugh..."
Her loud crying drew the attention of the entire class.
Unlike the cold-blooded classmates in Class 3, the students from Class 1 of the Arts stream swarmed around them, shouting, "Damn it! How dare they bully people from our class! And even climb over the building! They've got some nerve!"
Many people also expressed concern for Ying Qian, saying, "Ying Qian, why don't you talk to your teacher? Call home and change your clothes first, otherwise you'll definitely get sick."
"Yeah, yeah, we can't just have classes all day like this!"
"I'm going to avenge you! That clique bullies people every day."
This is the first time in the past five years that I have felt so much concern.
Ying Qian was so moved she almost cried, but she was already numb with cold. The water droplets on her eyelashes seemed to have frozen into frost, and she weakly fluttered her eyelashes.
The highest temperature today is only zero degrees Celsius.
Soon after, a classmate managed to get an exit pass.
"Ying Qian, this is your exit pass. The math teacher signed it; our homeroom teacher is absent today." The math class representative said, exhaling a few puffs of white breath.
Gu Xinan took the exit pass with a cold face.
Ying Qian glared at him.
"Have you contacted her parents?" someone asked.
"The math teacher isn't in the class group chat... so..."
"Damn, what's going on here?! So our class is just unlucky?"
Without parents coming, this exit pass is useless.
The girls thought for a moment and then pulled Ying Qian to the restroom.
Gu Xinan: "Hey! You guys! What are you doing? Why are you taking her there? Are you making things worse? Rubbing salt into her wounds?"
"Get lost—of course we're changing her clothes! Gu Xinan, don't worry about it!"
There were more girls in the liberal arts class, and those who had more clothes on them gave Ying Qian a few pieces of clothing to change into.
They had never seen a toilet full of all sorts of clothes in the dead of winter before, and for a moment they even started playing with it, completely ignoring that morning reading had already begun.
Ying Qian was surrounded in the middle. She looked completely refreshed, except that her hair was still wet.
"How do I fix this hair?"
"I have a solution!" Xu Tiantian called everyone back to the classroom, then pulled Ying Qian to the office.
The office was heated, and there were only two teachers there.
When the math teacher saw Ying Qian, he was quite helpless and said in a tone of someone who had been through it all, "Keep your distance from them in the future. Those guys aren't easy to deal with. They have connections at home, so they won't get any real punishment."
"By the way, do you remember your parents' phone number?" the math teacher asked.
Ying Qian hesitated for a few seconds, then shook her head.
Xu Tiantian understood perfectly well. She patted her back and pushed her next to the air conditioner, letting the warm air blow on her. "Ying Qian, oh Ying Qian, you're so pitiful... What are we going to do? Those evil forces have their eyes on us... Waaah!"
Ying Qian is much better now, but she still feels unsatisfied. She should have smashed those annoying people a few more times!
Seeing that Xu Tiantian was about to cry again, he immediately hugged her from behind and comforted her, "It's okay, it's okay, don't be sad, don't be sad, I'm fine..."
The door creaked open again.
What followed was a "Report!"
The boy's voice was clear and crisp.
Ying Qian shrank closer to Xu Tiantian, seemingly unwilling to face her.
"Teacher Zhu, Teacher Wang asked me to give you the math test papers for Class 3 and Class 4."
Teacher Zhu nodded slightly, about to complain about Teacher Wang's laziness, but when she looked up at him, she found that his attention had been completely drawn to the two girls by the air conditioner.
I couldn't help but smile: "You know each other?"
He looked serious and really wanted to go up and ask for clarification, but when he heard the teacher's question, he still politely replied, "Yes, I was a classmate before we were divided into classes."
"Sigh~" Teacher Zhu sighed deeply, "On such a cold day, look, my student had water poured over his head by several people. It really damages the school's image, doesn't it?"
"Hmm." He silently clenched his fist, his eyes still glancing at Ying Qian, who was trying to hide.
"So, go and whisper in your homeroom teacher's ear as much as possible! You get it?" Teacher Zhu hinted frantically.
Chen Wenzhi nodded.
"Alright! Go on!"
Teacher Zhu looked tired, and it was unclear whether the child had understood.
The homeroom teacher of Class 1 in the science stream is the principal, the head principal. If the good students whisper in his ear, he should pay a little more attention to these dark forces on campus, and maybe even suppress them.
After he left, Ying Qian breathed a sigh of relief. He probably didn't recognize her.
However, since she and Gu Xinan became deskmates, Chen Wenzhi and Gu Xinan have become even closer.
According to Gu Xinan, Chen Wenzhi has become a chatterbox, asking all sorts of questions every day. He would tell Gu Xinan about all the bickering he had with Chen Wenzhi. Sometimes Gu Xinan would smile, but most of the time he would listen silently.
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