After chatting and laughing for a while, Liu Meiling suddenly brought up something: "The original principal resigned, and a new one took over today. Are you aware of this?"
Yi Tianran raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Of course, it's said that he made many mistakes in principle and was expelled by the higher-ups. This matter has already been announced throughout the school."
It's just a change of principal, nobody cares.
"That's not what I wanted to ask..." Liu Meiling said with an awkward smile, "You asked about the principal a while ago, did you find out the truth later?"
"You think I did this?" Yi Tianran chuckled, resting her chin on her hand and teasingly said, "Sister Meiling, you overestimate me. I don't have that much power to shake the authority of a principal."
"Don't try to change the subject." Liu Meiling wasn't so easily fooled. "If we hadn't caught him red-handed, the school wouldn't have expelled him. He'd been in office for three years, at the height of his power. How could he suddenly fall from grace?"
Yi Tianran leaned back in her chair and said casually, "You've done too many bad things, and now you're getting your comeuppance!"
Liu Meiling's expression hardened, and she lowered her voice, saying, "Could it be that he is really related to Su Mo's suicide?"
Yi Tianran shook her head and, without hiding anything from her, briefly recounted the news she had seen that day.
Liu Meiling was stunned, her brows furrowed: "I never thought he was such a scumbag! He tricked his wife into marriage, had children with her, and ruined her life. This kind of degenerate deserves to be torn to pieces! Yaoyao, why did you stop the director? Wouldn't it have been better to kill him?"
Yi Tianran was taken aback upon hearing this.
"What, do you think I'm wrong? Or is this idea too malicious?" Liu Meiling retorted.
Yi Tianran shook her head: "I just think it's not worth breaking the law for that kind of scum."
Chinese law is quite strict; there's no need to ruin your life just to deal with scumbags.
This is why she didn't directly take action against the Yi family.
Sometimes, taking away their power little by little, letting them fall from their peak to the bottom, and making them suffer immense pain is a better way to get revenge.
"Alright, you're still a student, it's not wrong to hold onto the kindness in your heart." Liu Meiling didn't argue with her any further.
Just then, the shrill ringtone of a cell phone rang.
Liu Meiling picked it up and glanced at it. Her expression darkened slightly, and she subconsciously hung up.
Less than three seconds later, the phone rang again. She wasn't prepared and accidentally answered it.
A sharp, piercing voice came from the receiver, "What are you up to, you brat? Your aunt called you, and you dared to hang up? Have you grown up and become too powerful? You don't respect me at all anymore! Your parents died and that was the end of it all. If it weren't for your uncle and me taking you in out of kindness, you would have been begging on the streets by now. Now you dare to act high and mighty with me. You're such an ingrate!"
Even without speakerphone on, the woman on the other end of the line was still loud enough to hurt one's ears.
Liu Meiling looked embarrassed for a moment, glanced apologetically at Yi Tianran, and said helplessly, "Auntie, I was busy just now, I didn't mean to hang up."
"What are you so busy with? You're just a school doctor. Do you really think you've transformed from a chicken into a phoenix just because you're in a prestigious academy? Humph, I thought you'd snag a rich husband, but look what happened—you're already a twenty-seven or twenty-eight-year-old spinster, and you still don't have a boyfriend. Aren't you ashamed to tell people? I'm afraid people will say I'm irresponsible, that I don't care about you because you're not my own daughter, and that I didn't try to find you a partner!" Aunt Liu's words were sharp and sarcastic, taking her sharp tongue to the extreme.
Generally speaking, in this situation, Yi Tianran, being an outsider, shouldn't have stayed to listen any further.
But Liu Meiling was her childhood friend, and she couldn't possibly pretend to be indifferent when she knew she was troubled.
So she deliberately raised her voice, "Sister Meiling, I heard a crow cawing for ages! It's so awful and unlucky. Come over here quickly and bandage my wound. I have class to go to later!"
Liu Meiling immediately understood that she was being indirectly insulted and being given a way out, so she quickly said, "I'm sorry, Auntie, some students are urging me. Let's talk about it another day!"
She hung up the phone quickly after speaking, giving the other party no chance to refute her.
Aunt Liu listened to the dial tone for a long while before reacting. "You shameless hussy! You've gotten so bold, actually teaching others to call me a crow! You damned thing—"
She was so angry that she dialed the number again, but this time no one answered.
She was so angry she almost smashed her phone.
After enduring it for a while, he opened WeChat and angrily sent Liu Meiling a voice message: "You brat, listen to me! I've arranged a blind date for you this weekend. The guy comes from a wealthy family and is a good man that I went to great lengths to find for you. Don't be ungrateful. If you dare not go, I'll storm into your school and let everyone know that you're a heartless and unfilial wretch."
Liu Meiling, who had finally managed to stand up for herself and even had a smile on her face, looked gloomy after hearing the voice message.
"Does your aunt often use moral blackmail like this?" Yi Tianran asked with a frown and concern.
Liu Meiling smiled bitterly, "Who told me to be so unlucky? My parents were irresponsible. They abandoned me and said they were going to die, leaving me to live with relatives since I was a child. I had to do all the laundry, cooking, and mopping. In order to survive, I endured all the bullying. I finally paid off all the debts, and now... I'm being forced to go on blind dates."
Yi Tianran held her hand with heartache, "Sister Meiling, you don't owe them anything."
Liu Meiling said wearily, "But I can't refuse her." Otherwise, as her aunt said, she could cause trouble at any time and make her life miserable.
Yi Tianran said gently, "If you are willing to trust me, you can hand me your phone and I will answer for you."
Liu Meiling handed over her phone without much hesitation.
When it comes to combat prowess, Yi Tianran has never lost to anyone.
Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she replied sarcastically: "Auntie, since this blind date is so wonderful, why don't you just get a divorce and remarry? I'll talk to Uncle about it. What do you think?"
Aunt Liu was waiting for Liu Meiling to compromise, but when she saw the message, her blood pressure spiked and she almost fainted on the spot.
"You scoundrel! How dare you even mock your aunt! You're utterly lawless!" she roared.
Yi Tianran said in a teasy tone, "Auntie, please don't be angry! I'm really thinking of you. Now that you're starting a second spring in your life, who knows, you might even be able to have another child!"
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