Chapter 61 I don't know you well, let alone be your friend.
A stylish young woman appeared at the door of the teachers' office, instantly attracting the attention of seven or eight teachers inside.
Director Liu, who was at the front, was the first to stand up and step forward. "You're the new dance teacher, Ms. Zhou?"
Zhou Siyan smiled gently and said, "Hello, I am."
"Hello, I'm the director here, my surname is Liu."
Director Liu greeted him with a smile, "Vice Principal Li already told me this morning, welcome, Teacher Zhou."
Zhou Siyan smiled and extended her hand to shake hands with Director Liu. "Thank you, Director Liu."
Director Liu then turned to everyone and introduced, "Everyone, this is Ms. Zhou Siyan, who is in charge of the dance courses for classes one through six of the first year of high school. She will also be working with you in this office. Please welcome her."
He led the applause.
The other teachers applauded in welcome, while Qin Shuzhi, sitting on the right, felt extremely unlucky.
She couldn't understand how Zhou Siyan had inexplicably become her colleague, and even how they would end up working in the same office.
Thinking about it made Qin Shuzhi feel annoyed.
At this moment, Lin Yuke, whose desk was closest to hers, leaned close to her ear and said, "On her first day of reporting for duty, she was already being taken care of by Vice Principal Li. It seems she's definitely someone with connections."
Of course, they have powerful backing.
Qin Shuzhi whispered a reminder, "So you'd better not offend them in the future."
Lin Yuke glanced at Zhou Siyan, who had been led by Director Liu to the last desk on the left, and scoffed under her breath, "So what if you have connections? This is a place for teaching and nurturing people."
She glanced disdainfully at the obsequious Director Liu, "This is not a place for forming cliques and engaging in private dealings."
The two were whispering to each other when Director Liu said to Zhou Siyan, "This will be your desk from now on. You're new here and not familiar with the environment yet. I'll have someone take you for a walk around so you can get acquainted with it."
He looked around as he spoke, and finally fixed his gaze on Qin Shuzhi, who was always easy to talk to.
"Teacher Qin, could you please show Teacher Zhou around the school and explain some of the rules and regulations for teachers?"
Qin Shuzhi glanced at him, not even sparing Zhou Siyan, "I'm sorry, Director, I'm about to go check the shifts right now, I don't have time."
After she finished speaking, she picked up the student information for her class and walked out.
Seeing this, Director Liu had no choice but to turn his gaze to Lin Yuke, who was sitting next to her, and said with a smile, "Then, Teacher Lin..."
"Excuse me, I also need to go check on the shifts."
After Lin Yuke finished speaking, she waved the student files in her hand and followed Qin Shuzhi away.
Lin Yuke is the homeroom teacher of Class 2 and also teaches Chinese to Classes 1 through 3.
Watching the two leave the office one after the other, Director Liu turned back to Zhou Siyan and smiled, "Teacher Zhou, shall I take you for a walk?"
"Okay, thank you for your help, Director."
Zhou Siyan smiled and nodded to Director Liu, but her eyes secretly glanced in the direction where Qin Shuzhi had disappeared.
Qin Shuzhi has two classes in the morning.
After the second class ended, she returned to her office and found that only Zhou Siyan was tidying up her desk.
Their eyes met for a fleeting moment, then Qin Shuzhi looked away and sat down at her desk as usual.
"Book knowledge".
An annoyed voice sounded from beside her, but Qin Shuzhi didn't even lift her eyelids. While tidying up the teaching materials at hand, she said, "Teacher Zhou, please call me Teacher Qin from now on, thank you."
Seeing her dismissive attitude, Zhou Siyan was somewhat annoyed, but she still put on a friendly and cheerful expression:
"Okay, I understand. I'm just so happy. I never thought I'd be working in the same office as you. Having a friend here makes me less nervous."
Qin Shuzhi looked up at her, her gaze cold, and said slowly and deliberately, "I'm not familiar with you, let alone friends with you."
"Shuzhi, are you...?"
"Thank you, Teacher Qin," Qin Shuzhi corrected.
Zhou Siyan hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Are you angry because Yichen helped me get into school through connections?"
Qin Shuzhi sometimes felt that Zhou Siyan and Shen Yichen were a match made in heaven, they were both like deaf people.
How many times has she said that she and Shen Yichen have broken up?
She kept bringing him up every day.
When will this ever end?
"I'm sorry, please don't blame him. I... I injured my foot and couldn't return to the stage. Yichen wanted to help me find a stable job, so he used his connections to get me a job teaching dance at the school."
Zhou Siyan said, "The time you saw me and Yichen together at the coffee shop, we were actually meeting with school leaders."
Qin Shuzhi thought for a moment before remembering that she was referring to that blind date on the 13th, when she ran into those two unlucky guys at the coffee shop.
"Zhou Siyan, I'll say it again: Shen Yichen and I are over."
Qin Shuzhi stood up and looked at her, "What you and he have to do with me is none of my business."
"Also, at school, apart from work-related matters, we don't need to have any other contact."
After Qin Shuzhi finished speaking, a middle-aged female teacher wearing a skirt suit walked in carrying textbooks.
Upon entering the office, I saw Qin Shuzhi speaking to Zhou Siyan with a cold expression, while Zhou Siyan's eyes were red.
Qin Shuzhi glanced at the other person, then ignored Zhou Siyan beside her, picked up her phone, and left the office.
"What's wrong? What's going on?"
The middle-aged female teacher approached Zhou Siyan and asked.
Zhou Siyan looked wronged but dared not say much. "I'm fine, Teacher Chen. It's probably because I didn't know how to speak that I made Teacher Qin angry."
This teacher, Ms. Chen, was also a senior in high school last semester and taught history. Once, during a monthly exam, she wrongly accused a female student in Qin Shuzhi's class of cheating, causing the timid and wronged girl to faint on the spot. After Qin Shuzhi found out, he investigated the matter that same day, cleared the girl's name, and demanded an apology from Ms. Chen.
Fearing that the matter would reach the higher-ups and he would be punished, Teacher Chen reluctantly apologized to the students, but this made him hate Qin Shuzhi.
She felt that this kind of thing could have been easily resolved by simply pretending nothing had happened, but Qin Shuzhi made her, a teacher, apologize to her students, which was practically a slap in the face.
Now that she saw the new teacher, Ms. Zhou, having a conflict with Qin Shuzhi, she seized the opportunity to exaggerate the situation.
"Teacher Zhou, don't pay any attention to her. You're new here and don't know. This Teacher Qin is like that. She thinks she's superior to everyone else just because she's good-looking and has a rich boyfriend."
Zhou Siyan sensed Teacher Chen's hostility towards Qin Shuzhi, and upon hearing her mention the phrase "rich boyfriend," her expression immediately flickered, and she feigned surprise to probe:
"Teacher Chen, do you know who Teacher Qin's boyfriend is?"
"Who knows? I heard he's very rich, but who knows if it's true or not?" Teacher Chen said sarcastically.
"When she came back this semester, she had a wedding ring on her hand. They said she got married, but I don't know if it's true. Haha, if she really married into a wealthy family, why would she come back to be a teacher?"
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