Lu Yinghan's weekend ended with her browsing the Peach app.
Since she couldn't make payments herself, she asked Butler Liu to help her place the orders and gave him cash for them.
Seeing that all the items had been successfully ordered, Lu Yinghan was thrilled.
She was already imagining her little personal stash growing bit by bit.
On Monday morning, she happily put on her backpack and walked to school.
“Hey!”
Just as Lu Yinghan got off the bus, someone grabbed her by the arm.
A slight sting made her knit her brows.
She turned around with annoyance to look at the child pulling on her.
It was a young boy who appeared to be her classmate, wearing cute round black-rimmed glasses.
Perhaps because of the glasses, his eyes couldn't be seen clearly.
His soft hair was styled into a cool wolf cut...
A trendy kid??
An extreme contrast?
“Let go.”
“I have something to tell you!”
The boy's tone was somewhat urgent, and his grip tightened.
Lu Yinghan drew in a sharp breath.
“Let go and we can talk properly. If you don't, I'll scream right here and say you're bullying me.”
People were already looking over. Noticing the attention, the boy immediately let go.
“Can we talk now?”
“Speak.”
Lu Yinghan shook off his hand and quickly pulled her arm back to rub her wrist.
The boy gritted his teeth and looked at her.
“Come over here. Let's talk over there.”
The boy looked around and pointed to a nearby alley.
“Why do we need to go over there? Can't you say it here?”
The boy shook his head frantically.
He took the lead and walked toward the alley.
Lu Yinghan sighed and followed him.
As soon as they stopped walking, the boy spoke up.
“Do you have money?! Give it to me!”
His voice and hands were trembling, and his knuckles turned white as he gripped his backpack straps.
Lu Yinghan scanned him up and down.
She vaguely understood what was happening.
“I don't have money. Here, these are my pockets and this is my backpack. You can search them yourself.”
“Ah... Okay.”
The boy looked down in disappointment. He glanced at Lu Yinghan, turned around, and ran off exceptionally fast.
With autumn approaching, everyone was wearing a jacket. Although the boy was wearing one too, the occasional glimpses of his arms revealed quite a few bruises...
Lu Yinghan stood in place for a moment, thinking, but soon shook her head.
What does this have to do with me? Why am I paying so much attention?
She adjusted her backpack and walked leisurely toward the classroom.
The students in the classroom no longer looked at Lu Yinghan with as much hostility as before.
Ever since she had used a pocketknife to scrape off the thumbtacks one by one without caring about their feelings...
Deep down, none of them really dared to mess with her anymore.
They always felt that if pushed too far, she would do something dangerous...
The boy from this morning sat at his desk. Seeing Lu Yinghan come in, he immediately ducked his head, hiding behind his textbook.
He felt ashamed of what he had done that morning.
He was nervous that she would mock or threaten him about it.
His heart beat like a drum, and his legs shook uncontrollably under the desk.
Lu Yinghan glanced at him, said nothing, and walked over to her desk.
The boy let out a long sigh of relief.
After calming down, he slowly turned his head to steal glances at Lu Yinghan.
Who knew what was going through his mind.
Elementary school classes were forty-five minutes long. As soon as the bell rang, neither the teacher nor the students dragged their feet; everyone packed up their textbooks and began their break.
As usual, Lu Yinghan sat at her desk working through practice problems to catch up with the class.
The hallway outside the classroom grew increasingly noisy.
The voices grew louder and louder.
And it didn't sound like the usual racket from kids playing games...
Perceptive as she was, Lu Yinghan immediately raised her head to look outside.
Sure enough, several older boys started appearing one after another at the classroom doorway.
Hands in their pockets, they scanned the room with delinquent airs.
“Hey, where's Jiang Yibai in your class?”
The boy leading them was short, with narrow squinty eyes and a hooked nose.
He had a signature crew cut.
He looked somewhat tough to mess with.
Hearing someone call for Jiang Yibai, the students in the classroom all turned in unison to look at the boy with the wolf cut.
Lu Yinghan narrowed her eyes grimly.
She watched as the squinty-eyed boy, accompanied by lackeys taller than himself, walked up to Jiang Yibai.
The class was full of first-grade little sprouts.
None of them had ever seen a scene like this before.
Dumbfounded at their seats, they didn't know what to do.
Some shrank back in fear.
Seeing this, the squinty-eyed boy squinted even further in satisfaction.
Yes! This was the exact feeling he wanted!!
Strutting over, he stood right in front of Jiang Yibai.
The squinty-eyed boy raised his hand, signaling the lackeys behind him to surround Jiang Yibai.
“Yo, getting brave, are we? Making us wait so long this morning, huh?”
Tsk.
A textbook case of school bullying.
Lu Yinghan marvelled internally.
So much for treating everyone equally. Even if teachers treated everyone equally, would students do the same?
The class hierarchy here was so severe.
Jiang Yibai—in her past life, his family had owned a famous pharmaceutical company. Not only did they provide pharmaceutical support, but they also supplied all sorts of globally advanced medical equipment. Everyone had wanted to get on their good side.
Even the Lu family and the Xie family had tried to build good relations with them.
Yet the kid of the Jiang family was being bullied like this at school right now?
They'd be crying tears of regret in the future.
Lying at his desk near the front, Xie Chengsheng was woken up by the commotion. He raised his head and frowned at the group of boys.
Perhaps because his gaze was too direct, the group's attention gradually shifted toward him.
“What? What are you looking at? Got a problem?”
The squinty-eyed boy puffed out his chest, arrogance radiating off him as he relied on being a third-grader to look down on Xie Chengsheng.
“Why? Can't I look? Do you own the school? Why do you care so much?”
Xie Chengsheng snapped back without holding back.
Though his voice still had a hint of childish softness...
...the words coming from his mouth possessed a natural, commanding aura.
The atmosphere between both sides instantly turned tense.
The squinty-eyed boy's short temper flared immediately, and he thrust his finger angrily at Xie Chengsheng.
“Do you dare give me your name?”
“Xie Chengsheng.”
Thump!
Instantly, the bullies lost all their bravado.
The pointing finger was slowly lowered...
“Boss... he seems to be that kid from the Xie family.”
“Yeah, let's just drop it. We shouldn't cross him.”
The squinty-eyed boy felt timid and unnerved, but his gaze remained vicious.
He shot a silent look at Xie Chengsheng.
Before leaving, he glared fiercely at Jiang Yibai to warn him again.
“Just you wait until tomorrow!”
The chilling words slipped through his teeth,
making Jiang Yibai shudder all over.
Still, he felt a little relieved.
At least he had gotten through today.
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