Chapter 99 Familiar old routine
"Stop! What are you doing!!!"
Qin Tianze rushed in. Miao Tianyuan and Wang Zifan were faster than him. They rushed in front of Qin Tianze and pushed the three people away. The boy kneeling on the ground had no one to support him. He fell to the ground all of a sudden, his face covered with tears and snot, looking miserable.
The three boys who were hit suddenly looked surprised.
"Ouch? Who is this? Still trying to be a hero? Don't you see why we're giving this brat a lesson? Look at this fat, stinky kid. It's bad enough he stole hairpins from girls in our class, but he even harassed them! Do you think we're wrong to hit him?"
The three of them were justified in their actions. After all, they believed their beating wasn't bullying; they were standing up for the girls, a heroic act! And what if they didn't teach this fat boy a lesson and he harassed his classmates again?!
"Even if he was wrong, you can't beat him in private. You could tell the teacher or take other measures. Hitting someone like this is bullying. And you're three against one. Who is the real bad guy?"
After hearing this, Qin Tianze was a little puzzled that there were still people being beaten for stealing at King's High School, but he also knew that three against one was a bit strange. Moreover, if theft really happened, why didn't the school report it and ask the boy to apologize publicly?
In the past, if Qin Tianze's school encountered a theft, the whole school would be informed and even the parents would be called.
"We'll just beat him up, but are you guys really going to stand up for him? Do you like stealing and harassing girls like him?"
A boy was so angry that he felt he did nothing wrong.
"Oh, now I remember. Aren't you the Qin Tianze from the forum whose dad is the kitchen boy? Why are you so nosy? You don't care about people bullying girls, but you intervene when we teach them a lesson? You live by the sea?"
The other boy remembered Qin Tianze's identity, and as he spoke, he was very disgusted with Qin Tianze's pretentiousness.
He acted as if these students couldn't tell right from wrong. Could they just hit anyone? If it weren't for that fat guy stealing things from girls and denying it even after being caught several times, would they have hit anyone?
"Okay, I won't bother with people anymore. I'm leaving. It's disgusting."
After one of them greeted them, the three of them left without saying anything else. As a result, Qin Tianze, Miao Tianyuan and Wang Zifan looked at each other in bewilderment.
Stealing things and harassing girls sound like serious crimes for high school students.
But after the people left, the boy who was crying on the ground spoke in a sobbing voice.
"I didn't steal anything, I didn't steal anything, and I didn't harass Wen Ruanruan... She gave it to me... She gave it to me..."
The crying boy said a name that surprised Qin Tianze, and even Miao Tianyuan and Wang Zifan heard it.
"Wen Ruanruan? Is that the Wen Ruanruan who spoke without thinking before?"
"Is that Wen Ruanruan, the one who looked down on us and cursed at us?"
The two immediately thought of the first time they met Qin Tianze, and the girl who stood up and made sarcastic remarks.
Qin Tianze also felt that something was wrong, so he squatted down and looked at the slightly fat boy and spoke.
"What exactly happened? Why did they beat you? What does it have to do with Wen Ruanruan? Tell me, I will believe you."
Boys who walk with Wen Runruan will always be unlucky. This is something Qin Tianze noticed when he was a child. At that time, he was in the same school as Wen Runruan, and was beaten by a boy for no reason. After asking, he found out that a boy confessed to Wen Runruan, but Wen Runruan said that the person she liked was actually Qin Tianze, so Qin Tianze was unlucky and was beaten. In the end, Wen Runruan just apologized lightly and let the matter go.
Qin Tianze had experienced this kind of harmful method before, so he felt that something was wrong.
The boy with a swollen face seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw at this time. He raised his head and looked at Qin Tianze. He wanted to reach out and pull Qin Tianze, but he was afraid of dirtying Qin Tianze with his hands, so he retracted his hand and said in a wronged voice.
"My name is Xie Hui. I'm in Class 5, Grade 1. I sit behind Wen Runrun. One time, Wen Runrun's hairpin fell off, so I picked it up for her. But she said she didn't want it anymore, so I kept it for a while. But after that, Wen Runrun seemed to drop her hairpins all the time. I picked them up for her every time, but she said it wouldn't be clean if it fell on the ground. If I liked it, she asked me to keep it, so I kept it. But then she started telling everyone in the class that I was stealing her things..."
When the boy said this, tears of grievance fell from his eyes, and then he choked up.
"My classmates searched my desk and opened my schoolbag. Inside was a hairpin that Wen Ruanruan had previously rejected. They accused me of stealing. Wen Ruanruan also said I harassed her, often touching her back during class and even kicking her chair..."
This was probably because she felt extremely wronged, so she was crying until she was almost exhausted.
"You didn't tell the teacher? What did the homeroom teacher do? Did he just let everyone in the class rummage through your things?"
Miao Tianyuan was shocked, and then after asking, he couldn't help but feel confused.
"Why were you holding a girl's hairpin when she no longer wanted it? Now you've been caught red-handed, and you can't explain yourself."
Moreover, there is really no clear evidence to prove Xie Hui's innocence.
"They wouldn't let me tell the teacher, saying if they found out they would definitely announce it to the whole school and even force me to drop out. My dad paid a lot of money for me to go to school, so I couldn't drop out, and I couldn't tell the teacher..."
Ah, this! I’m really impressed! Miao Tianyuan scratched his head in anger, unable to think of any solution.
Qin Tianze was also helpless and felt that there was no solution to this problem, so he stretched out his hand to pull the other party up, but the other party actually retreated and refused to let Qin Tianlang pull him up.
"You should get up first. The floor is not clean either."
He said, then added.
"Actually, this doesn't necessarily mean you'll be expelled. If you really didn't take anything, we can call the police to investigate. Besides, there are surveillance cameras in the classroom. Can't we check them?"
That's right, all the students in King's High School are real rich second-generations. As long as they are within the campus area, all places except the toilets are monitored. This is not to say whether people are free or not, but to protect the personal safety of these rich second-generations. This is very necessary. So if you want to determine whether Xie Hui harassed Wen Runrun or stole something, you can find out immediately by checking the surveillance.
"No, the surveillance camera is broken. Someone in the class wanted to check it, but it just happened to be broken. I don't know what happened, and I just can't prove my innocence. I don't like Wen Ruanruan and I didn't harass her. I only took those hairpins because she didn't want them anymore. I originally planned to throw them away after the weekend..."
Xie Hui was finally willing to get up from the ground. Wang Zifan came over to help him, but he was so scared that he immediately shrank back, he was so scared that he couldn't stand it.
"I didn't hit you, why are you afraid of me? It's like I'm bullying you. People will bully you if you're so timid. Even if you didn't steal anything, you're still inferior to them. The evidence has been destroyed. How can you prove your innocence?"
...The boy is crying again.
Wang Zifan was really overwhelmed. He really didn't expect that the little fat boy would start crying after he said a few words. He didn't know how to comfort him for a moment, and the three of them looked at each other.
"Are you willing to believe that I didn't harass Wen Ruanruan?"
Xie Hui asked cautiously, his voice choked with sobs. The three boys had no choice but to nod.
"As long as you tell the truth, I will believe it."
"If what you say is true, I will believe it."
"Then do you have any evidence to prove that you didn't harass Wen Ruanruan? Besides the surveillance footage."
Of course, the three people's reactions were different. After all, we can't judge anything based on this person's one-sided statement. In the end, we heard the boy say something in a low voice.
"I don't like girls."
???
What does this mean?
Qin Tianze suddenly understood something and looked at the boy who was about to step back in front of the three of them. He was speechless for a moment and thought of those hairpins.
"So you kept those hairpins that Wen Ruanruan didn't want because you thought they were pretty?"
Often homosexuals are more sensitive to and prefer colors and delicate things. Xie Hui doesn't like Wen Runrun but keeps her hairpin, which proves that he simply likes hairpins...
"...Well, I didn't dare take it home, for fear that my family would find out."
Xie Hui said another sentence, then quietly looked up at the three people. After finding that the three people did not have any expression of disgust, he spoke again.
"My family knows I don't like girls, so I can't bring girls' things home."
The truth is now revealed. How can a person who doesn't like girls harass others?
"Then you are innocent. Whether you tell the teacher or your family, you will be fine. You don't need to apologize. The one who should apologize is the one who made the mistake."
Wang Zifan didn't think there was anything wrong, but after realizing the other party's situation, he felt that the matter was easy to solve.
"Yeah, if you can't take it anymore, call the police. Your family can provide evidence. As long as they can prove that you don't like girls, then the charge of harassing girls will be lifted. Then those who bullied you will apologize to you."
Miao Tianyuan also offered some advice, saying that he didn't think there was any problem with liking a certain gender. He estimated that among the children in the Qin family, even if they liked a dog, the whole family would close their eyes and praise the dog for being so cute.
"Wuwuwuwu..." Xie Hui cried again, and then sobbed.
"Wen Ruanruan threatened me, saying that if I told my teachers and parents, she would tell everyone that I didn't like girls, and all my classmates would hate me. I didn't dare tell my family or my teachers... I didn't dare call the police..."
Ah, the way to survive is blocked!
"So Wen Ruanruan knows that you don't like girls?"
Qin Tianze reacted immediately and understood the situation, then he heard Xie Hui say.
"There are four very rich and handsome boys in our class. They've been very close to Wen Ruanruan lately. Some people in the class say that one of them might be in a relationship with Wen Ruanruan, but I don't know who it is. The three people who beat me up just now are their lackeys. They must be angry because Wen Ruanruan said I harassed her, so they kept beating me. I really can't stand it anymore..."
Xie Hui started crying again. It seemed that he had been bullied for several days and was beginning to collapse.
The familiar routine made Qin Tianze helpless. He knew that Wen Runrun liked to shift the blame in this way. She just wanted to stir up the boys' possessiveness and desire to compete. But for her own sake, she even wanted to harm an ordinary classmate. It was terrible and hateful. However, the fact that the other party didn't like girls seemed to be a secret, and there was no way to tell it to anyone. Qin Tianze could only say.
"Wash yourself. You don't dare tell the teacher or your family, so just keep your distance from your classmates for now. Don't get bumped by them alone. Go out to more crowded places, okay?"
No matter how much Qin Tianze tried, he couldn't help. This involved Xie Hui's privacy, and he had no right to make decisions for the other party.
An indescribable feeling of powerlessness came over him. Qin Tianze looked at the person in front of him, as if he saw himself being beaten because of Wen Runruan. He thought for a while and said.
"I'll take you back to your class."
I hope Wen Ruanruan can see that I should be more restrained, right?
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