DDT - Chapter 36
Chapter 36: School Tyrant × The Pushover (13)
On the short walk from the classroom to the office, Yi Shuhan tried to struggle, but her efforts were futile. The girls held her in a death grip, pushing her forward as she stumbled along.
A growing unease filled Yi Shuhan's heart. She mustered her courage and shouted, "What are you doing? Let me go!"
But the girls weren't scared in the slightest. One of them sneered, "So, you have your day of reckoning, you little bitch? How dare you speak to us so arrogantly after stealing the class funds? The headteacher is waiting for you in the office. If you show some remorse, maybe he'll just give you a demerit and school probation after you pay the money back. But if you refuse to confess, just wait for the principal to expel you!"
Yi Shuhan was completely bewildered. Stealing class funds? A demerit and probation? Expulsion?
But after a moment, she pieced together a few key pieces of information from the girl's words: the class funds were missing, someone had framed her for stealing them, the person who framed her was clearly in league with Wang Yun, and Wang Yun wanted revenge on her.
It had to be said that Yi Shuhan's logical thinking was exceptionally sharp. Just from the situation and the girl's words, she had already deduced most of the truth.
Yi Shuhan adjusted her footing, trying her best not to look so pathetic as she walked.
The group of girls was making such a scene that a crowd of onlookers had gathered along the way.
"What's wrong with that girl? Why is she being dragged like that?" an uninformed bystander asked someone next to them.
"I don't know. It doesn't look like anything good," the person replied.
Just then, a sharp-eyed student recognized Yi Shuhan. "Hey, hey, hey! Isn't that Yi Shuhan, the top student from the key class?"
"Yi Shuhan? The academic ace who's always first in the grade?" someone asked in disbelief.
"That's her, alright. I've seen her a few times!" The student who knew Yi Shuhan began to ramble on about her academic achievements.
Hearing this, the girls escorting Yi Shuhan were displeased. One of them broke away from the group, sidled up to the gossiping students, and whispered conspiratorially, "Top student? What kind of top student is that? Do you know what she did?"
The other students, who had been annoyed at being interrupted, immediately fell silent when they heard there was gossip. They leaned in to listen as the girl chattered on. "She stole our class funds—6,400 yuan! With such poor character, what kind of damn top student is she?"
Hearing this, the students all looked incredulous.
The boy who had just been praising Yi Shuhan's brilliance looked as if he'd been slapped across the face, his expression turning sour.
He retorted, "Just because the class funds are missing, why does that mean the top student stole them?"
The girl rolled her eyes at him. "Because we saw her."
For a moment, the boy was speechless. But he had a secret crush on Yi Shuhan, and he refused to believe she would do something like that.
"Go on, get out of here. Don't be an eyesore. I'm not going to believe your nonsense!" the boy said, angrily waving his hand to shoo away the girl who was spreading rumors.
The girl was unhappy. As she left, she muttered, "Yi Shuhan is being kept by an old man. What's there to like about her?"
The boy's lungs ached with anger. Seeing that the situation was turning against her, the girl quickly scurried off to rejoin her group, which was already far ahead.
The boy didn't notice his own classmate's face light up with the thrill of fresh gossip before he greased his heels and slipped away to spread the firsthand rumor he had just heard.
Meanwhile, after a "long" trek, Yi Shuhan finally arrived at the teachers' office.
A thick wall of people had already formed at the office door. Without someone deliberately spreading the word, there was no way so many people would have come to watch the spectacle. Yi Shuhan felt a little dizzy. She knew this had to be Wang Yun's doing! That Wang Yun, what had she ever done to offend her? Why did she have to target her at every turn?
Two hands shoved her hard from behind, and Yi Shuhan stumbled into the office. She looked up and saw her headteacher's ashen, constipated-looking face.
Yi Shuhan steadied herself, her legs trembling slightly as she walked forward. The headteacher of the key class was notoriously fierce and misogynistic. Even though she had consistently ranked first in the grade, he always gave her a foul look. He was constantly repeating in class that even if girls got first place, it was only through rote memorization; they could never compare to the superior logical thinking abilities of boys.
Yi Shuhan had long known that her headteacher couldn't stand her. Now, her heart sank. He had finally found the perfect excuse to come after her!
Before Yi Shuhan could even come to a stop, the headteacher smacked her across the head with a stack of workbooks. "You little brat! How dare you steal the class funds! Hand over the rest of the money, now!"
Seeing the headteacher's crude and violent behavior, several female teachers nearby couldn't bear to watch. One of them tried to step forward to intervene, but a colleague secretly pulled her back. "Are you crazy? Teacher Jiang has connections. Do you want to lose the job you worked so hard to get?"
The female teacher hesitated, cast an apologetic glance toward the crowd, and remained where she was. Teacher Jiang had layers of connections at the school and was on good terms with the school leadership, often giving them "gifts" during holidays. As a result, he was very popular among the school's higher-ups.
Now, he was just disciplining a student who had stolen money. A little hitting and scolding seemed perfectly reasonable. The surrounding teachers didn't want to get involved in this mess.
"Sir, I didn't steal any money!" Yi Shuhan defended herself, her voice full of conviction. In her mind, since she hadn't stolen anything, she had every right to be confident. But to Headteacher Jiang, this impudent girl was talking back to him, being stubborn to the end, and refusing to confess!
This was a direct challenge to his authority!
"So young and already so corrupt! All you know is how to steal with your dirty hands. I bet you stole your first-place grades, too! You shameless little bitch!" Headteacher Jiang spat, heaping a pile of accusations on Yi Shuhan's head.
Yi Shuhan's eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at the teacher she had, on some level, respected. She never imagined such words could come from the mouth of this seemingly venerable educator!
Yi Shuhan was still young, after all. The blood rushed to her head, and her face flushed red with anger.
"Sir! I didn't steal the money! I really didn't!" Yi Shuhan retorted loudly, but to little effect.
"Just admit it, Yi Shuhan. We saw you secretly going through the class monitor's bag after gym class!" At that moment, one of Wang Yun's lackeys, who had been watching from the doorway, spoke up.
"That's right, that's right. We were wondering why you were digging through his bag! Turns out you were short on cash!" a second girl chimed in, her words flowing so smoothly it was as if they had rehearsed it many times.
"You're lying! You were the ones who went back to the classroom first!" Yi Shuhan shot back, then turned to the headteacher. "Teacher Jiang, you can search my bag. I really didn't take the class funds!"
"Search what? You probably already used the money to buy a new phone! I made a special trip to the phone store. Your new phone costs over 4,000 yuan! Where would a student like you get that much money for such a high-end phone? You shameless thief!"
Hearing them mention her phone, Yi Shuhan finally remembered the phone she couldn't find earlier. "Did you take my phone? You're the real thieves! Give me back my phone!" Yi Shuhan trembled with rage. No matter how brilliant a student she was, she was still just a seventeen-year-old girl. Being bullied and humiliated by her classmates, slapped on the head with textbooks by her own teacher in front of everyone, and verbally abused in every way possible—how could she possibly endure it?!
Fat tears rolled down from Yi Shuhan's eyes, streaming down her cheeks. Her small, helpless appearance stirred a sense of pity in some of the female teachers and male students.
The headteacher pulled open a drawer, took out a brand-new Motorola flip phone, and slammed it onto the floor. The phone hit the ground with a loud crack, and a corner seemed to shatter.
"Is this the phone you bought with the class funds?! Fucking shameless! Did your parents give birth to you just so you could be a petty thief?" Teacher Jiang glared viciously at the sobbing Yi Shuhan, a surge of pleasure rising within him. He had long found this girl an eyesore. This time, he would use this opportunity to drag her down from the clouds, stomp her into the mud, and make sure she could never get back up again!
In his heart, girls didn't deserve to go to school, didn't deserve to waste educational resources. They should just stay at home and have babies!
As Teacher Jiang stood in the office, spewing spittle and insults, he even grabbed another textbook from his desk and threw it at Yi Shuhan's head. He was feeling incredibly satisfied, but no one saw a boy standing at the office door, his face filled with indignation as he lowered the phone he had been using to record a video. He saved the video, then returned to the dialer, selected "Sister Chi," and pressed the call button.
Chi Junluo, who had been sleeping soundly in her own classroom, was jolted awake by her ringing phone. She answered it, still dazed, but after hearing the voice on the other end, she was instantly wide awake. Chi Junluo's face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye. The other students in the class felt the air suddenly turn cold. A sharp-eyed classmate saw Chi Junluo's foul expression, shivered in fear, and didn't dare to speak, silently putting their head on their desk and pretending they hadn't seen anything.
Chi Junluo hung up and was about to leave the classroom for the grade-level office when her phone rang again.
She answered with a dark expression. "Sister Chi! I have some bad news, but I'm not sure if I should say it."
The underling on the other end sounded like he was in an internet cafe; the background was incredibly noisy. Chi Junluo was already fuming and was about to hang up. "If you don't know, then don't say it."
The underling had followed Chi Junluo for three years and could hear the anger in her voice. Though he didn't know what had happened, he quickly said, "Sister Chi! Don't hang up! It's about Yi Shuhan!"
Chi Junluo's hand, which was about to end the call, paused. She brought the phone back to her ear. "Spit it out!"
"Sister Chi! I don't know who Yi Shuhan offended, but the school forum is now flooded with photos of her messing around with some old men in a KTV. They're really explicit!"
Chi Junluo rubbed her temples, a headache forming. "She wasn't messing around! The photos must be photoshopped. Save a copy of all of them for me, then contact Xiao Wu and the others to delete the posts. I have an emergency here. I'll call you back later!"
After giving her orders, Chi Junluo hung up and stormed out of the classroom.
My poor, unlucky heroine, just you wait! Chi Junluo is coming to save the day!
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