Zhang Chen’s sudden words made Bai Xiruo, who had already been deeply moved, freeze all over!
Zhang Chen’s first question was whether she had been hurt, and now he seemed like he was going to stand up for her.
This was the first time anyone had helped her, and the first time anyone had stood up for her!
She looked up at Zhang Chen in a daze, her eyes full of disbelief, her heart unable to calm down for a long time…
Faced with Zhang Chen’s question, the classmates still in class shook their heads. No one made a sound.
“Nobody saw it?” Zhang Chen’s gaze swept over the few people around Bai Xiruo. “I don’t believe it.”
The girl sitting in front of Bai Xiruo felt unnerved under Zhang Chen’s stare. “I really didn’t see anything. I even got hit by the desk…”
Zhang Chen then looked at the few people by the podium. “You didn’t see anything either?”
“No, I was wiping the blackboard, Brother Chen.”
“I… didn’t see clearly.”
“It seems like… it was Luo Hao?”
“Luo Hao, huh.” Having gotten his answer, Zhang Chen glanced at Luo Hao’s seat. His school bag was still on the desk, so it looked like he hadn’t left yet.
In front of everyone, Zhang Chen slowly walked toward Luo Hao’s seat…
Bai Xiruo’s gaze also followed blankly. Innocent as she was, she seemed to have guessed what was coming.
Then, the next second…
Crash!
He flipped it over!
Luo Hao’s books spilled all over the floor beside the trash can as the desk toppled over…
Not a single person in the whole class dared step forward to stop Zhang Chen!
“Nobody is allowed to pick them up.”
Zhang Chen calmly warned everyone there. His voice wasn’t loud, but everyone in the classroom heard it very clearly.
“Whoever picks them up, I’ll flip theirs too.”
“Tell him this: when he comes back, he has to apologize to Bai Xiruo first and pay for the damaged stationery. Only after Bai Xiruo forgives him can he pick them up!”
“If he doesn’t pay, and doesn’t apologize…”
“Every time he picks them up, I’ll flip them again!”
“If he has a problem with that, he can come find me.”
After saying that, Zhang Chen rolled down his sleeves and walked step by step back to his seat by the back doorway, picking up his own school bag.
He patted Duan Chenxu, who had a face full of admiration:
“Where’s Li Junhao? Didn’t I tell him to keep an eye on Bai Xiruo? Where did he run off to the moment class ended?”
Duan Chenxu shrugged innocently.
“Tch, so unreliable.” Zhang Chen slung his school bag over one shoulder and clicked his tongue.
Before leaving, he reminded Duan Chenxu once more: “Keep an eye on things.”
Duan Chenxu understood. “Okay.”
Then Zhang Chen stayed no longer and left the classroom briskly.
And once Zhang Chen left, the atmosphere in the class, which had dropped to freezing point, was instantly relieved…
Everyone looked at Bai Xiruo with a new sense of awe, no longer daring to provoke her easily.
And when they looked at Luo Hao’s seat, their gazes carried pity and sighs…
The classmates who got along well with Luo Hao were powerless to help. They could only kick his books a little farther away from the trash can, then joked with each other and mocked him:
“What kind of expression do you think Luo Hao will have when he comes back and sees this?”
“The sky is falling, hahaha…”
At this moment, Bai Xiruo heard the teasing around her, but she wasn’t in the mood to care about their looks.
Right now, only she knew how deeply moved she felt inside…
Tears brimming in her eyes, she continued slowly tidying up her desk.
When she was little, if she got into an argument with a classmate and dared to fight back, it was because she had her parents.
She had love.
No matter what happened, her loving parents would always stand on her side.
A child raised in love would of course not grow up insecure and timid.
But from the very first day she moved into her uncle’s house, after she lost her parents’ protection…
When she ran into this kind of thing again, her uncle would not come to school and stand on her side like her parents did. Instead, he would make her bow her head and apologize to the classmate who bullied her!
No one helped her. She could only bear these grievances on her own.
Her uncle was very busy. He told her he had no time to come to school and clean up her messes.
If she caused trouble for them at school again, they would kick her out of the house.
She didn’t dare cause trouble for them. She didn’t dare cause trouble for anyone. No matter how badly she was bullied at school, she never dared fight back. She could only beg for mercy…
She had long grown used to it… this life of being bullied…
But today, Zhang Chen, the very person who had also bullied her like most of the other classmates at the beginning, had actually stepped in to help her.
He had stood up for her and backed her up!
The feeling of being protected… she had not felt it for such a long time…
Meanwhile, Luo Hao, who had just come back from running outside, was still smiling and greeting students from other classes. It was only when he got back to the classroom that he discovered his desk had been flipped over…
“??? Who did this?!”
“Fuck his whole family!!” he cursed angrily as he walked toward his seat.
“Zhang Chen.” Jiang Minghua in the front row answered directly. “Go fuck him, then.”
“Zhang, Chen, Brother Chen? Why did he flip my desk?” The moment he heard it was Zhang Chen, half of Luo Hao’s anger instantly vanished, and his tone immediately became restrained.
A real man knows when to yield and when to stand firm!
He still didn’t dare mess with Zhang Chen…
His good buddy Yang Tianyu stopped him from reaching down to pick up the books and nudged his lips toward Bai Xiruo, indicating:
“You have to apologize to her first, otherwise Zhang Chen said that every time you pick them up, he’ll flip them again.”
“Apologize?” Luo Hao followed the direction and looked at Bai Xiruo. Seeing that she was still tidying her desk, he also realized that he had bumped into her when he’d rushed out of the classroom earlier.
When he ran out, he had even heard a loud crash, and when he looked back, he saw her desk had been overturned…
But he thought Bai Xiruo had nothing to do with him, so he just fled the scene…
Yang Tianyu continued, “Not only do you have to apologize, you also have to pay for the stationery. Zhang Chen said so.”
“If you don’t get her forgiveness, your desk is going to be flipped again in the future.”
“Here, if you don’t believe me, ask Duan Dog. He’s watching you.”
Luo Hao frowned and sighed, feeling very unwilling. What kind of mess was this…
Even teachers didn’t find this kind of thing easy to deal with. Why was Zhang Chen suddenly sticking his nose in?
Didn’t he also bully Bai Xiruo?
Then Luo Hao turned to look at Duan Chenxu by the back door.
Just then, Li Junhao happened to come back. Duan Chenxu called out to him, and he sat in Zhang Chen’s seat to listen to Duan Chenxu speak.
Halfway through, he suddenly looked up sharply, his eyes cold as they fixed on Luo Hao…
Luo Hao’s heart immediately sank. This was bad!
The unwillingness in his heart was instantly scared away by Li Junhao’s glare!
He definitely didn’t want to be blocked at the school gate by Zhang Chen and that group of delinquents.
So he hurriedly moved toward Bai Xiruo’s seat, wanting to beg for her forgiveness.
But Li Junhao stood up first and immediately cursed, “Your mom ¥%#¥%#, so you’re the only one bullying Bai Xiruo, huh?!”
“Wait! Brother Hao, I didn’t mean it!”
“Fuck you ¥#%! I just left for a bit and you pull this crap in front of Brother Chen! I’ll kill you!”
Zhang Chen was a student, after all, so he still had to be somewhat civilized. But Li Junhao was a rough guy and didn’t care about any of that!
He was already a little angry today because Zhang Chen had told him to get a haircut. And now Luo Hao had gone and caused trouble for Zhang Chen. If Zhang Chen got unhappy, wouldn’t that make things hard for him too?
Besides, Bai Xiruo was the person Zhang Chen had specifically told him to watch over!
“I’m sorry, Bai Xiruo. I’m sorry. I only have 32 yuan. I’ll give it all to you. If it’s not enough, I’ll bring more tomorrow. Please forgive me.”
Luo Hao rushed up to Bai Xiruo and clasped his hands together in apology. His eyes were full of terrified sincerity, sincerely scared out of his mind.
Bai Xiruo didn’t take it. She had never accepted an apology before, so facing this situation, she was at a complete loss.
But if she didn’t accept it, that meant she wasn’t forgiving him!
“You wait for me after school!” Li Junhao also walked up to Bai Xiruo’s seat and, seeing this, immediately dropped a harsh threat. “And bring more people too.”
“Brother Hao, don’t.” Luo Hao looked at Bai Xiruo. “I really was wrong, Sister Bai. I didn’t do it on purpose. I was too rushed.”
“Isn’t the road wide enough for you to walk on, you bastard!?” Li Junhao pointed at the aisle and shouted.
He then noticed that Bai Xiruo seemed to sniffle, so he lowered his head to glance at her condition. Although her hair was a bit long and partly covered her eyes, he could still see.
She was crying!
“Fuck! She’s crying! How am I supposed to explain this to Brother Chen? I’ll kill you!”