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"I didn't even run into you last time, so what you have has nothing to do with me."
Ning Yi'en skillfully dodged Luo Yao's hand that was trying to grab his hair, and then punched Luo Yao in the stomach.
"Actually, I don't know any of your girlfriends at all. You actually believed that she broke up with you because she fell for me? You idiot. Is it my fault that I'm handsome? This is just an innocent disaster."
— It took Ning Yi'en a lot of effort to think of these two points. Perhaps it was because she was a bit face-blind, or perhaps it was because of her personality. There were quite a few people who spoke ill of him behind his back and disliked him.
He couldn't recall at all how he had intentionally or unintentionally offended this person.
In fact, why Luo Yao disliked him and kept trying to annoy him had little to do with Ning Yi'en herself.
But adhering to the spirit of seeking the truth in everything, after asking several friends, he finally came to a conclusion—sometime last year, this person's girlfriend broke up with him. Luo Yao asked why, but his girlfriend couldn't give a reason either. After all, he was a bad person, so she made up a reason on the spot, saying that there was a super handsome senior named Ning Yi'en in the previous year, and he had already fallen for someone else.
Then, Luo Yao, still furious, gathered a group of his buddies and stood on the stairs, intending to cause trouble for Ning Yi'en. However, when Ning Yi'en passed by downstairs, one of his friends, who had never done anything like this before, became so agitated that he pushed Luo Yao down the stairs, causing him to break his hand.
This is an outrageous piece of gossip that Ning Yi'en's friend inquired about for a long time, and its authenticity remains to be verified.
As for Xu Qi, Ning Yi'en couldn't remember him at all, so she gave up.
"Ning Yi'en, you son of a bitch..." The words were cut short by a grimace of pain.
"What the hell? Keep talking. You stupid and wicked piece of trash, you shouldn't come out and embarrass yourself."
After a few seconds of mental adjustment, Lu Yunian strode towards Ning Yi'en, turning slightly to the side to block his face.
"Stop hitting him, stop hitting him. Luo Yao, you..." Lu Yunian shouted loudly while stepping on Luo Yao's foot and pressing his weight down hard.
"Didn't you say there wouldn't be a real fight..." Xu Qi muttered helplessly as he stood to the side.
He wanted to go up and help but was too afraid, and he wanted to run away but was afraid that Luo Yao would cause him trouble. However, he finally decided to go up and help Luo Yao, but he chose the wrong time. Just as he rushed up, the director was walking in this direction.
Although Ning Yi'en always adhered to the principle of staying out of trouble unless provoked, she was actually quite capable of holding her own when it came to fighting, and she showed no mercy.
Just as he was about to push Luo Yao to the ground, the head of the grade rushed over, grabbed Luo Yao by the collar and lifted him up, saying, "All four of you, come to my office!"
"Are you scared?" The director pulled Luo Yao and Xu Qi ahead, with Ning Yi'en and Lu Yunian walking behind him. While he was scolding the other two, Ning Yi'en tilted her head and whispered to Lu Yunian.
“What’s there to be afraid of going to the office?” Lu Yunian looked at him and smiled. “At most, they’ll call your parents. I’m not afraid.”
"That's good. I'm so sorry to have dragged you down." Ning Yi'en reached out and patted Lu Yunian's shoulder.
"No apology allowed. Aren't we good friends? Besides, they're the ones in the wrong, so they deserve to be beaten. I support you."
“Yes, good friend.” Ning Yi’en reached out and bumped fists with him again.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"Ning Yi'en!" Four people stood in a row at the door of the grade director's office. The director looked at them with his hands behind his back and a serious expression. "What are you doing here again?"
"Never mind, I'll talk to you later."
He took his phone out of his pocket and handed it to Xu Qi, who was on the far left, saying, "Just call your parents directly. This kind of fighting is considered a serious incident."
“Ah,” Xu Qi stood there looking dejected, unsure whether he should take the phone. “But I didn’t do anything, Director.”
"Really? Then tell me how those guys started fighting, and I'll let you go after you finish."
Upon hearing that he could walk, Xu Qi immediately perked up. "It's...it's..." he stammered, trying to shift all the blame onto others.
“I was just standing there when suddenly Ning Yi’en punched Luo Yao in the face. Before I could react, they were all fighting. I’m really innocent, teacher. I didn’t do anything.”
"Is it true?" Zhang Zixu already had a conclusion in his mind, but he still turned his head to ask Luo Yao.
I don't know if he used all his intelligence to hold grudges, but he actually continued talking after Xu Qi.
However, she added fuel to the fire, trying to portray herself as an innocent victim: "Sanwu... no, Ning Yien walked in and I walked in from the back. I don't know what I did to offend him. He made an insulting gesture at me and then hit me without warning."
As she spoke, she wiped away some blood that wasn't actually on the corner of her mouth. "Let's check the security footage, teacher."
"He's not crazy, why would he hit you for no reason?"
"Who knows?"
"Ning Yi'en, what about you?"
"Go ahead and check the surveillance footage, I have no objection."
In fact, Ning Yi'en knew that the reason Luo Yao was so arrogant in pretending to be a victim was because if the teachers in the first and second year high school buildings did not install additional surveillance cameras, the surveillance cameras that the school installed in the classrooms would only have video and no sound.
Perhaps they assumed that the senior high school building was the same—and because the classrooms had just been moved, the homeroom teacher probably hadn't had time to install the new equipment yet.
Unfortunately, in order to more strictly monitor the senior high school students, the surveillance cameras in this building were installed separately from the other two buildings. They have extremely high resolution and excellent sound reception.
Moreover, when Luo Yao started cursing, Ning Yi'en deliberately walked under the surveillance camera. She waited until she had accumulated a lot of foul language before symbolically trying to provoke the other person. She didn't expect him to be so impatient.
Furthermore, Ning Yi'en's first reach was precisely in a blind spot shared by the corridor and classroom surveillance cameras, but Luo Yao's was not; his every word and action was completely exposed to the surveillance cameras.
"Okay, I'll check the surveillance footage then."
"Director! We didn't..." Lu Yunian wanted to argue further, wondering why these people were so twisted and disgusting.
"It's okay, you can manage." Ning Yi'en gently touched the hand of the person next to her with the back of her hand, trying to comfort them in a low voice.
"Trust me, we won't let them get away."
"Hey, Teacher Zhang, that's great." Perhaps because he doesn't usually need to check surveillance footage, Zhang Zixu wasn't very familiar with the app. He stood at the office door, slowly studying his phone, when other teachers in the office came back from lunch and struck up a conversation with him.
"Huh? What?" He squinted and looked up, his expression conveying a sense of "Look how good I am now."
"You haven't seen your joint entrance exam results yet?"
"Sigh!" Zhang Zixu sighed in relief. "Neither of them is easy to deal with."
"The top scorer in the joint entrance exam is from our school," the teacher said, excitedly patting Director Zhang on the shoulder. "He scored almost ten points higher than the top scorer from the affiliated high school next door! How about that? We can hold our heads high next time we go to the provincial meeting."
"I'll check it out later, I'll check it out later." Although she said that, she couldn't hide the smile on her face. "You help me study this surveillance footage first, hurry up."
“There really is a first place, my god,” Lu Yunian said to Ning Yi’en as the teacher joked. “All the teachers said that our class is not as smart as the previous class, nor as hardworking as the next class. The top scorer who pulled so far down the list still came from our class.”
"Can someone who ranks first in the joint entrance exam really be called a top scholar?"
“Hey,” Lu Yunian waved his hand, “Who cares, don’t be so serious, they’re all the same.”
"Ning Yi'en, stop whispering and be serious!"
The head of the grade finally pulled up the surveillance footage and looked up to see Ning Yi'en talking to the person next to her.
Actually, I was going to warn the person next to me, but since he only knew Ning Yi'en and had always had a good relationship with her, I simply called him by his name.
The phone screen initially showed hushed conversations; the break before lunch was incredibly chaotic, with someone playing with multimedia on the podium, but the director selectively ignored it for now.
At this time, Ning Yi'en had not yet entered the classroom, and Luo Yao was "wildly" putting his feet up on the table.
"No matter what, you should sit properly in the classroom from now on, don't sit like an old man."
Zhang Zixu gave Luo Yao a hard knock on the head—the two men's faces turned ugly as soon as the video and sound came on. When Zhang Zixu spoke, Luo Yao's face was stiff, and he couldn't even make an expression to answer, but the director didn't care about him and just continued to look at his phone.
When the head of the grade heard the words "deaf" and "mute," his face darkened considerably.
As the insults and profanities increased, he almost lost his temper and wanted to smash his phone in Luo Yao's face, but of course, as a teacher, he would never do that; he just frowned even more.
Unlike this year's graduating class, Zhang Zixu taught the previous grade from freshman to graduate. Although he didn't know every student, those with excellent grades like Ning Yi'en were generally well-liked by the teachers.
Moreover, Ning Yi'en returned to the classroom to prepare for the exam once again, and the reason for this was somewhat... pitiful, although he himself might not need it.
"Okay, I understand the general situation."
Zhang Zixu turned off his phone screen. "Luo Yao, right? What's your name?" He looked at Xu Qi, who was cowering like a quail to the side.
"Xu Qi".
"Okay, you two," he pointed to the side, "go call a public phone and find your parents. When they arrive, come into my office together. Don't try anything funny, your homeroom teacher will be here soon."
"Ning Yi'en, come into my office first."
"Director, my friend... my deskmate." After entering the room, Ning Yi'en pointed to the window and said, "Can we let him go now? He didn't do anything."
"Call them in."
“I’ve seen the surveillance footage, and they were definitely the ones who went too far.”
Zhang Zixu sat back down at his workstation and gestured for Ning Yi'en to sit on the sofa next to him. Lu Yunian, who had been called in, was probably still confused. Ning Yi'en pulled him down to sit as well.
“If I weren’t a teacher, I would fully support you in fighting back, and even applaud and cheer for you.”
Zhang Zixu smiled at him and said, "But there's nothing I can do. I have to handle this from the teacher's perspective. You hit someone, and you hit them hard."
"I know, I understand."
Ning Yi'en took the phone he handed her and prepared to dial a number. "But Lu Yunian just went back to the classroom with me. He didn't do anything. In the end, he just came to mediate the fight."
Okay, I understand.
"I..." Lu Yunian wanted to say something, but Ning Yi'en tugged at his sleeve several times, signaling him not to say anything.
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