Two weeks after the start of the semester, Leng Shan appeared at the classroom door for the first time.
Her hair had grown quite long, and she was wearing a mask that covered most of her face, but some mottled scars could still be seen through the edge of the mask.
It's not big, it's not deep, but it's impossible to ignore.
The moment Leng Shan appeared, the noisy classroom fell silent, and many people turned to look at her.
In the past, no matter how much the school emphasized it or what the occasion, Leng Shan often did things her own way, wearing her beautiful and expensive private clothes. But this time when she returned to school, she changed her usual style and wore the winter school uniform issued by the school, just like most people.
This school uniform consists of a shirt and sweater underneath, and a slightly oversized but not unattractive cotton-padded coat on top.
"Leng Shan, come in and sit down."
After the homeroom teacher finished speaking, he walked to the podium, but Leng Shan remained standing still.
She was like a new transfer student, carrying her schoolbag in one hand and nervously clutching the overly long sleeve of her school uniform with the other.
This appearance left many people puzzled.
What's wrong with her?
Before everyone could figure out what was going on, Leng Shan changed her previous unease, raised her delicate chin, and arrogantly surveyed the entire room as usual. Her gaze paused noticeably when it passed over a few people, and then she returned to her original position as if nothing had happened.
There are other people sitting there right now.
Her deskmate, her childhood friend, Ling Yu, who betrayed her, was relegated to the last row, directly opposite the teacher's desk.
She arrived right on time.
Yan Can didn't look at her.
Ling Yu is the same.
The school bell suddenly rang, like a bolt from the blue, making Leng Shan's scalp tingle.
"Leng Shan, your seat is in the first row. Hurry up and sit down, class is about to start."
The homeroom teacher's voice came again.
Leng Shan had already spotted the empty seat.
Every other seat was full, except for that one empty seat. She knew it was the seat her parents and teachers had chosen for her after discussing it.
But she didn't like it.
I don't like that position.
I don't like the people to my left, right, and behind me. Who are they to look at me with such disdain?
But in the end, she still sat down.
The homeroom teacher's voice was gentle yet powerful, and the lessons were excellent, but to Leng Shan, it was incredibly grating. Not just the homeroom teacher, but any teacher's voice made her feel like she was sitting on pins and needles, extremely uncomfortable.
So much so that before the morning classes were even over, with fifteen minutes left before the end of get out of class, Leng Shan pushed aside her desk and ran out of the classroom.
The English teacher, worried about Leng Shan, asked two girls to go with her to check on her. They heard her vomiting violently in the bathroom. The naive girls didn't think much of it, but the English teacher, who was already married and had children, frowned.
When Leng Shan came out, seeing the other woman's pale face, she felt a bad feeling rise in her heart again.
Before she could even ask anything, Leng Shan launched a preemptive strike, pointing at her with disgust and saying, "Don't come any closer! Just hearing your voice makes me want to vomit. If you get near me, I'll throw up again!"
The English teacher didn't say anything, but the two girls stood up for her.
"Leng Shan, what are you saying! The teacher is just concerned about you, how can you say such a thing!"
How can you be so ungrateful!
Leng Shan glanced at the two of them and sneered, "Who do you think you are, to presume to tell me what to do?"
The two girls were stunned, not understanding why she was so mean to everyone. When they remembered that they had spoken up for Leng Shan before, they suddenly felt incredibly stupid.
One girl angrily retorted, "Who cares about you! Who wants to care about you! Go ahead and act like this if you want!"
Another important nod.
They can say hurtful things, but the teacher can't. Not only can she not say a harsh word, but she also has to gently persuade Leng Shan to go back to the classroom.
"I can't stand that awful classroom for even a minute longer. And I certainly don't want to hear your awful, raven-like voice!"
Leng Shan cursed and then walked towards the stairwell.
The English teacher asked the girl to tell the homeroom teacher about what happened here, while she followed Leng Shan.
A classmate who had been gathering information came in, and someone asked him, "You went out to see what happened? What's wrong with the young lady again?"
"It sounds like he threw up; the sound was really loud."
"Oh—what did you say, you threw up?!"
The classroom fell silent instantly upon hearing the exclamation of surprise.
Immediately afterwards, Ling Yu rushed out the back door.
For a time, the classroom was filled with chatter, making it the noisiest classroom on the entire floor.
Yan Can was still working on her homework.
Xu Wei gently tugged at her sleeve and whispered, "Did you hear me?"
Yan Can was doing reading comprehension exercises when she said she heard it.
Xu Wei was truly impressed; why was she still so shocked after hearing that?
Some of them were adults, and some were not, but regardless of whether they were adults or not, they had all taken sex education classes, watched TV, and kept novels in their desks, so they had basic common sense.
Therefore, inevitably, some people tend to overthink things.
At this moment, someone has already uttered those two words.
Before any more noise could be heard, the homeroom teacher arrived in time and stopped it all.
With her there, the classroom returned to calm.
But while mouths were sealed, pens were still free, so notes became popular in the classroom again.
Seeing the students' blatant misbehavior, the homeroom teacher was utterly exhausted. One problem after another, this class was simply impossible to teach!
But she's the homeroom teacher, so she still has to manage things.
As soon as the bell rang and the students left one after another, she dialed Leng Shan's parents' number again.
The mother immediately launched into a tirade against the teacher, the school, and the students in the class, saying, "Our Shanshan has had such a terrible accident, her facial injuries haven't even healed yet, how have you taken care of her? And how have the students treated her?"
The homeroom teacher had no time to waste words with her and asked directly, "Mrs. Leng, I'm not calling to hear your accusations. I just want to check on Leng Shan's current condition."
Leng's mother: "What other state could she be in? She won't eat or talk. The good student you taught is actually isolating my daughter!"
Hearing that Leng Shan had returned home safely, the homeroom teacher was relieved and subtly inquired about when Leng Shan had last gone to the hospital for a check-up, how her facial injury was, and whether she had undergone any other examinations, as gastrointestinal problems are not trivial matters.
At first, Leng's mother didn't understand and even made sarcastic remarks, accusing the homeroom teacher of being unsolicited and trying to curry favor with her.
But then she suddenly remembered something, her face instantly changed, and she roared into the phone in uncontrollable rage, "What do you mean? You bitch, you're not trying to say that my daughter vomited at school because she's pregnant, are you? Let me tell you, if there are any rumors about my daughter at school, I'll be the first to get back at you!"
The call ended.
Seeing her daughter's tightly closed door, Leng's mother suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed to the floor.
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