Chen Zimo grabbed Class Monitor Su Qing’s hand and turned toward the classroom, leaving Gu Xiaoxiao and the others standing there awkwardly.
The moment he stepped inside, his sleeve was tugged again. He turned around and saw that Su Qing was the one holding onto it.
Her face couldn’t be seen clearly, but her small, delicate ears were flushed all the way to the tips. Her head was lowered like an ostrich, almost burying itself into her own ample chest.
This was what men liked.
Some people could hide their looks, but their figure could never be hidden.
Absolutely stunning.
Chen Zimo admired for a second before realizing he was still holding Su Qing’s hand.
He quickly let go and gave an awkward smile. “Ahem, Class Monitor! The weather is nice today!”
Even someone as thick-skinned as Chen Zimo felt a little embarrassed.
“It’s… it’s okay.”
Su Qing lowered her head even further, as if trying to disappear into the ground.
That sight made this old man’s heart tremble.
As if suddenly remembering something, Chen Zimo gently lifted Su Qing’s face with both hands. Beneath the large black-framed glasses that covered half her face, he saw a pair of clear, transparent eyes tinged with a hint of sorrow.
“Su Qing.”
“This morning I heard a sentence: in this world, aside from death, there is nothing that cannot be overcome.”
“Let’s encourage each other.”
After saying that, Chen Zimo walked back to his seat.
But a different kind of light shone in Su Qing’s eyes.
…
Gu Xiaoxiao was nearly driven mad with anger.
Someone had actually dared to ignore her.
Her developing chest rose and fell rapidly as she gritted her teeth and muttered in a voice only she could hear, “Chen Zimo, if you weren’t part of the Chen family, would I have even given you the chance to treat me well?”
“I’ve decided!”
“Even if you return to the Chen family, I’ll never give you the chance to pursue me again.”
“You might as well be with that ugly class monitor!”
Beside her, Yang Xiaoqian looked equally stunned.
“Today’s Chen Zimo is different.”
“What happened to him?”
“Where did that simp who chased Gu Xiaoxiao go?”
Thinking about the benefits she used to receive because of Gu Xiaoxiao, and how they were now gone, her mood immediately sank.
“No, we must make Chen Zimo apologize to Gu Xiaoxiao. That way I…”
“Chen Zimo, you’re something else! You’ve really changed!”
“You even dared to reject campus belle Gu Xiaoxiao. Worthy of being my brother!”
Smack!
Chen Zimo slapped Zhang Bin’s hand away. “Get lost! I’m not gay. Stay away from me.”
Zhang Bin stood there blankly for a moment before finally realizing what Chen Zimo meant. He hurried after him. “Chen Zimo, you bastard! Your whole family are bastards! How dare you call me gay…”
Just then, two bodyguards blocked their path.
“Chen Zimo!”
He looked up and saw Lin Jiangxue and Chen Qingya getting out of a car.
“Trouble.”
Chen Zimo waved at Zhang Bin, signaling him to leave first.
Then he turned and walked back toward the school.
“Chen Zimo, stop right there!”
“Stop him!”
The bodyguards rushed forward and blocked him at the school gate.
“Chen Zimo, you countryside nobody, where are your manners? You don’t even greet Mom when you see her!”
Chen Qingya was furious at his disrespect.
Although Chen Zimo had learned martial arts during his years as a soul, his current thin body likely couldn’t handle a fight.
He also noticed out of the corner of his eye that someone from the security office was about to come out.
He turned to look at Lin Jiangxue and Chen Qingya with a face full of disdain.
“Lin Jiangxue, Chen Qingya, what do you want?”
Hearing him call her by name, Lin Jiangxue flew into a rage and raised her hand as she strode toward him.
“Chen Zimo, I am your mother, and you dare to call me by name? You’re asking to be beaten!”
“Get down on your knees right now and accept punishment!”
Seeing her raise her hand to slap him, Chen Zimo didn’t hesitate. He grabbed her wrist and shoved it aside. Lin Jiangxue staggered and nearly fell, only saved by Chen Qingya’s quick reaction.
Lin Jiangxue was livid, her chest heaving.
For the past two years, Chen Zimo had been her most convenient punching bag. She could beat or scold him at will with any excuse. He would obediently kneel and accept punishment.
But she had overestimated her authority and underestimated her current position in Chen Zimo’s heart.
“You unfilial son!”
“Chen Zimo! She’s your biological mother! You dare to lay hands on her? You’re worse than an animal!”
Chen Qingya was nearly hysterical. She had never imagined Chen Zimo would fight back.
“Bah!”
Chen Zimo looked utterly disdainful.
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“I’m telling you, this is school. Don’t cause trouble. Leave immediately.”
Lin Jiangxue roared, “Unfilial son! Where is your upbringing? How did my Chen family raise such an unfilial child!”
“Hahaha!”
Chen Zimo burst into laughter.
“I have no upbringing?”
“I grew up in an orphanage. My family all died. I often didn’t even know where my next meal was coming from. What use would upbringing have been?”
“Besides, what right do you have to hit me? What right do you have to say I have no upbringing?”
“I was just defending myself. What did I do wrong?”
“And you two, this is school. If you dare lay a hand on me again, I’ll have you sent to the security office.”
As he spoke, he pointed toward the surveillance camera nearby.
Hearing him curse his own family as dead, Lin Jiangxue burned with even greater fury.
“Chen Zimo, how dare you speak to me like this? You even want to call the police? I’m your mother!”
Chen Zimo’s expression turned serious. He carefully took a piece of paper out of his pocket and unfolded it.
“Ms. Lin Jiangxue, I won’t blame you for being old, but did you forget what you signed last night?”
“That’s strange. Alzheimer’s isn’t that common at your age.”
“But it doesn’t matter. This is your signature, right?”
Seeing her own signature on the paper and the bandage wrapped around Chen Zimo’s head, Lin Jiangxue’s face showed embarrassment.
She had signed it, and the injury had been inflicted by Chen Tinghao.
But thinking of why she had come, thinking of her obedient adopted son Chen Zixuan, she quickly pushed aside the embarrassment.
Straightening herself and looking down at him, she said arrogantly, “Chen Zimo, don’t say I didn’t give you a chance.”
“You will immediately come home with me, kneel in the living room for three hours, and I will forgive you. You can return to the Chen family and become my son and the Chen family’s heir.”
She lifted her chin proudly, as if a noble was granting charity to a beggar.
Chen Zimo couldn’t help laughing.
These people clearly needed him. They needed him to donate a kidney to their precious adopted son Chen Zixuan.
Yet in their minds, Chen Zimo was still the timid, soft-hearted boy who tried desperately to please his family, who never dared to raise his voice, who willingly took the blame for everything and even knelt to apologize.
That was the Chen Zimo they remembered.
But this Chen Zimo was no longer the one from his previous life, who endured humiliation for the sake of family ties.
“Go back with you? Kneel in the living room for three hours to beg for your forgiveness?”
“Are you insane?”
“If your brain is really sick, go see a doctor.”
“I finally escaped the wolf’s den, and you want to morally blackmail me into going back?”
“Go eat shit!”