After confirming with Xiao Zhu that there were no upcoming schedules for the next few days, Su Yuqing decided to return to her school.
She still had some procedures to complete.
There were also some belongings left at the school that she hadn’t brought back.
She attended a private school. Due to her falsified middle school entrance exam results, she hadn’t been admitted to a regular high school. The Su family sent her to this prestigious private school, where students were either academically outstanding or came from influential and wealthy families. Su Yuqing had suffered a great deal here.
It was common knowledge that she was the Su family’s unwanted burden.
In the car, she closed her eyes to rest, but couldn’t help sneering inwardly as she recalled the past.
The tuition fees were paid from her biological father’s annual dividends. In other words, from childhood to adulthood, she had never spent a single penny of the Su family’s money.
On the contrary, the Su family owed her.
Moreover, why were her middle school entrance exam results falsified?
She sneered. Jiang Chenan’s sister attended the same school and had entered with high scores back then.
She had always ranked at the top of her class.
But how those scores came about… they both knew perfectly well.
During every exam, Su Yuqing would write Jiang Wanting’s name, while Jiang Wanting, to torment her, never took the exams seriously.
To please Jiang Chenan and secure Ou Yulan’s position in the Su family, Su Yuqing swallowed all her grievances.
“Su Su, we’re here.” Xiao Zhu’s voice pulled Su Yuqing back to reality.
She opened her eyes and glanced at the school gate.
Xinghua High School!
A shadow flickered in her eyes as she opened the car door and stepped out. “Xiao Zhu, I’ll go in by myself. You can come pick me up later.”
“Su Su…” Xiao Zhu hesitated, but meeting Su Yuqing’s gaze, she nodded. “Alright. Should we wait here for you?”
“That works too.” Su Yuqing got out of the car, her skirt fluttering slightly in the breeze.
“Student, may I ask who you are? It’s class time now, and the school doesn’t allow… Oh, Student Su?” As Su Yuqing approached the main gate, a security guard stepped out.
Su Yuqing had taken leave—everyone at the school knew she had signed with an entertainment company.
“Hello, I’m here to complete some procedures,” Su Yuqing said with a smile.
She hadn’t yet collected her graduation certificate or her exam admission ticket, though the latter would likely be issued later.
“Go ahead. Everyone’s in class right now,” the security guard said, glancing at her without making things difficult.
Su Yuqing usually kept her head down, but the guard still remembered her quite well.
“Thank you.” Su Yuqing expressed her gratitude and entered the school grounds.
She made her way to the teaching building with ease.
“Ding…”
Just as she reached the lawn, a sharp bell rang out.
Class was over.
She paused for a moment before continuing forward. The teachers’ office was on the fourth floor.
“Huh? Who’s that?” Students who had stepped out of their classrooms for some fresh air noticed Su Yuqing’s back and grew curious. “She’s not wearing the school uniform?”
“Probably not a student from our school.”
“Wait, doesn’t she look like Su Yuqing from Class Three?”
At those words, the surroundings fell silent for a moment.
Then, a few curious students followed her. They genuinely wanted to see Su Yuqing.
Rumors said she was gaining popularity now.
“Come in.” Su Yuqing knocked on the office door and entered only after hearing a response.
“Hello, Teacher Xia.” She nodded to the other teachers before walking over to the desk of Teacher Xia, the homeroom teacher of Class Three.
Teacher Xia looked up, surprise flashing in her eyes when she saw Su Yuqing. “Su Yuqing? What brings you back?”
“I came to fill out the necessary forms and pick up my graduation certificate.” Su Yuqing smiled obediently.
She needed to settle school matters before the Su family could react.
She wouldn’t allow anyone to disrupt her college entrance exam.
“Alright, even if you hadn’t come, I would have notified you to come next week,” Teacher Xia said indifferently.
She didn’t like Su Yuqing.
Usually, she kept her head down, spoke little, and her grades were all over the place.
Talking to her felt like bullying her.
However, Teacher Xia glanced at Su Yuqing again—the girl seemed to have changed.
Su Yuqing also noticed the scrutinizing gaze but paid it no mind.
She filled out the forms Teacher Xia handed over one by one and signed them.
Afterward, she collected her graduation certificate.
Looking at the timid girl in the graduation photo, she sighed inwardly, “Thank you, Teacher Xia. Goodbye, teacher.”
“Goodb—”
Before she could finish, Su Yuqing had already turned away.
Teacher Xia’s expression darkened slightly, but she said nothing more.
“It really is you, Su Yuqing!” As soon as Su Yuqing stepped out of the office, she was stopped.
They were her classmates.
“How dare you come back? If it were me—”
“If it were you, what would you do?” Su Yuqing looked calmly at the speaker.
This was one of Jiang Wanting’s followers, who had often given her a hard time in class.
“Go die?” Su Yuqing curled her lips, her eyes sparkling with a hint of elegance.
He Manxi stared at Su Yuqing in disbelief. “What did you say?!”
“I said, are you going to die?” Su Yuqing repeated casually, her lips still curved.
Her clear, cold eyes fixed on He Manxi, making the other girls instinctively fall silent.
She let out a soft, mocking laugh. “All bark and no bite. What a loyal dog.”
With that, she bumped into He Manxi and walked away.
“Su Yuqing, stop! What did you just say? If you have the guts, say it again!”
All she got in response was Su Yuqing’s defiant back.
A moment later, Jiang Wanting arrived after hearing the news. “Where’s Su Yuqing? Where is she?”
“She already left.”
“What? Why didn’t you stop her?!” Jiang Wanting’s face darkened.
“I—”
“Useless!”
Meanwhile, Su Yuqing went to the dormitory. Yes, she lived in the dorm because the Su family didn’t have an extra car to pick her up and drop her off every day.
Since it was between classes, the dormitory was empty.
She found her bunk, opened the locker, and took out all the important things inside, leaving the rest untouched.
Grabbing a bag to carry her belongings, Su Yuqing left the school directly.
At the school gate, Xiao Zhu and the driver were still waiting.
“Su Su, Brother Fu said you should focus on preparing for the college entrance exam, so he won’t assign you any other work for now,” Xiao Zhu said in the car.
“I understand.”
The top priority was the college entrance exam.
“Also, Brother Fu said you shouldn’t look at any online news recently.”
Su Yuqing raised an eyebrow, thinking of the Su family, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.
“Got it.”
Fu Jin was worried it would affect her exam.
Back at her place, Su Yuqing asked Xiao Zhu and the driver to leave. She studied for a while, then opened her laptop, her fingers flying across the keyboard.
If Fu Jin were here, he would recognize the familiar garbled code.
At the Jiang residence, Jiang Chenan looked gloomy. “Is He Suyan an idiot? Why is he helping that bitch Su Yuqing?”
With the He family backing her, it wouldn’t be easy to touch Su Yuqing.
“Young master, He Suyan can’t protect Su Yuqing forever!” his assistant said.
“I know, but I want revenge now!” Jiang Chenan couldn’t hold back any longer. “Go investigate Su Yuqing’s schedule right now.”
He refused to believe he couldn’t deal with that damned girl.
“Understood.”