Chapter 32: Fight

Xun Su stepped on her thick-soled shoes.

With every step, the clack clack of her heels on the floor seemed to strike He Rou’s heart.

Under that gaze, He Rou could only keep shrinking back.

Her back pressed against the edge of the podium, with nowhere to retreat.

Xun Su got closer and closer.

He Rou could even smell her perfume.

“Did you fucking hear me?”

Xun Su walked up to the podium, suddenly reached out, grabbed He Rou by the collar, and yanked her down hard.

“I… I…”

He Rou’s voice trembled violently.

She looked at Luo Yun.

Luo Yun was leaning back in her chair, holding her phone, scrolling through something.

She didn’t even lift her eyelids, as if she hadn’t heard the commotion.

“A bumpkin like you can’t even speak properly, and you dare touch my things?”

Seeing He Rou silent, Xun Su grew angrier.

She raised her hand and slapped He Rou’s terrified face.

Slap!

The sound echoed in the quiet classroom.

He Rou’s face was turned to the side.

The spot that was hit burned, and tears immediately spilled from her eyes.

“He Rou, hit back.”

Luo Yun sat in her seat, speaking the counterattack words as if she didn’t care about He Rou’s situation at all.

He Rou’s mind was in chaos.

“I…”

“If your body gets touched by her again, then all these months, you still haven’t understood my lesson? Do I need to ask for another few months off for you?”

After hearing Luo Yun’s words, He Rou’s mind cleared, and the burning pain on her face began to go numb.

“…”

He Rou gritted her teeth, a white mark on her lip from biting.

She watched Xun Su raise her hand again, and only one thought filled her mind.

‘I absolutely cannot disobey. I absolutely cannot go against what she said.’

Just as Xun Su’s second slap was about to land, He Rou suddenly reached out and grabbed Xun Su’s wrist tightly.

Xun Su froze.

She didn’t expect this chick-like girl to dare resist.

“You…”

“Sorry…”

He Rou muttered softly, and then, with a strength she didn’t know where it came from, she suddenly charged forward.

She rammed her head into Xun Su’s shoulder.

Xun Su’s shoes had an unstable base.

Knocked off balance, she staggered backward, crashing into a row of desks and producing a loud noise of metal scraping.

The henchmen around screamed and rushed to help.

Luo Yun finally stopped what she was doing.

She shifted her sitting position, watching the performance she had orchestrated, thoroughly entertained.

Xun Su got up from the floor, her hair a mess, her clothes wrinkled.

She screamed and lunged at He Rou like a madwoman.

“I’ll kill you, you bitch!”

The two tangled together.

It wasn’t so much a fight as it was a catfight.

Xun Su kept clawing at He Rou’s face and neck, while He Rou clung to Xun Su’s hair, refusing to let go.

He Rou’s leg ached to the bone, but she didn’t dare loosen her grip.

She felt someone kicking her stomach.

He Rou felt her world shrink in an instant, shrinking down to only the tugging and the pain before her.

Luo Yun just sat there, as if watching two fighting cocks.

She even took a bottle of water out of her bag and took a slow sip.

The other students in the classroom huddled in the corners, none daring to step in to break it up.

Until the classroom door was pushed open again, and a commanding roar interrupted everything.

“What’s going on! Everyone stop!”

The Class Teacher arrived.

The teacher looked at the mess on the floor, at Xun Su with disheveled hair, and then at He Rou, who was on her knees, trembling all over but with a vacant stare.

“Fighting first thing in the morning? Do you think you’re emperors here?”

The teacher walked in angrily.

“You’re He Rou, right? I just signed your skip-grade transfer application yesterday. I haven’t even had a chance to get to know you, and you already cause this kind of trouble.”

“Phew…”

He Rou didn’t listen to the teacher’s words.

During the fight just now, her leg seemed to have been injured again. It hurt a lot.

“I’m talking to you! Haven’t you been in school long enough to know respect for teachers?”

The teacher bypassed the people standing around He Rou and came directly in front of her, looking down at her.

“So… sorry, teacher.”

“You, go to my office. And Xun Su, you always cause me trouble. Anyway, everyone involved in the fight this morning, come with me.”

The teacher’s voice was loud.

Fighting was a serious matter anywhere, especially in this school.

The people here were all from wealthy or powerful families.

She provoked her, he provoked him, and in the end, because of her, he would provoke him, or even because of her, she would provoke her.

This kind of fight involved the school, the parents behind the students, the backers behind the parents, and the backers’ backers.

Everyone protected their own.

There were always one or two people in the school you couldn’t mess with.

So fairness and justice simply didn’t exist.

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In the office, the teacher’s scolding nearly lifted the roof.

Xun Su cried pitifully, claiming she was the victim.

He Rou stood to the side, head lowered, like a wooden dummy.

Finally, the punishment came down.

Xun Su, He Rou, and the other accomplices had to write a three-thousand-word self-criticism.

Luo Yun, of course, was completely unaffected.

She didn’t even step into the office.

Teachers always turned a blind eye to students from her family background—they didn’t even care if she skipped class.

So the scales of justice were clearly tipped in Luo Yun’s favor.

When they came out of the office, Xun Su gave He Rou a vicious glare and mouthed the words,

“You just wait.”

He Rou ignored her.

Because Luo Yun was now standing in the hallway, watching her.

He Rou walked up to Luo Yun, not knowing what to say.

“…”

“Great job, Xiao Rou. Your first experience was great, right? Later on… let Xiao Rou feel my happiness, haha…”

Luo Yun’s smile twisted, as if she was thinking of the most wonderful thing.

“What… happiness.”

“You’ll know later.”

Then Luo Yun took He Rou’s hand and led her away.

They returned to the classroom.

By then, Xun Su had already moved away from that spot.

She had suffered a big loss this morning.

She couldn’t understand why, when she had never provoked Luo Yun, Luo Yun had to pick a fight with her today.

But she had to swallow this bitter loss quietly.

After all, her family background couldn’t compare to Luo Yun’s.

But that He Rou…

As long as Luo Yun wasn’t around her, she could take revenge sooner or later.

When they came back, class had already started.

They didn’t even announce their arrival when they entered.

Luo Yun didn’t care, and He Rou had forgotten.

That’s how it was for people who often skipped school.

But the teacher didn’t care either.

Since the salary here was high, they ignored these young masters and ladies as much as possible.

Losing their job was the real concern.