Chapter 20: So it was you who messed with Bai Xiruo?!
Zhang Chen's sudden words made Bai Xiruo, who had been deeply moved, freeze!
Zhang Chen's first sentence was asking if she was hurt, and now, he seemed to be standing up for her.
This was the first time someone had helped her, and the first time someone had stood up for her!
She looked up at Zhang Chen blankly, her eyes filled with disbelief, her heart unable to calm down for a long time...
Facing Zhang Chen's inquiry, the students still in the classroom shook their heads, no one spoke.
"Didn't anyone see anything?" 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 a chill 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 at the podium: "You didn't see anything either?"
"No, I was erasing the blackboard, Chen Ge."
"I... didn't see clearly."
"It seems, it seems like it was Luo Hao?"
"Luo Hao, is it." Getting the answer, Zhang Chen glanced at Luo Hao's seat; his backpack was still on the desk, so it seemed he hadn't left.
In front of everyone, Zhang Chen slowly walked towards Luo Hao's seat...
Bai Xiruo's gaze followed him blankly; the naive girl seemed to have guessed something.
Then, the next second...
CRASH—
Overturned!
Luo Hao's books scattered all over the floor next to the trash can as the desk fell...
Not a single person in the entire class dared to stand up and stop Zhang Chen!
"No one is allowed to pick them up."
Zhang Chen's calm warning reached everyone present; his voice wasn't loud, but everyone in the classroom heard it exceptionally clearly.
"Whoever picks them up, I'll overturn theirs."
"Tell him, when he comes back, he has to apologize to Bai Xiruo first, pay for the damaged stationery, and only after Bai Xiruo forgives him can he pick them up!"
"If he doesn't pay, doesn't apologize."
"He picks them up once, I overturn them once!"
"If he's not convinced, tell him to come find me."
After speaking, Zhang Chen pulled down his sleeves, walked back to his seat by the back door step by step, and picked up his backpack.
He patted Duan Chenxu, who looked admiringly at him:
"Where's Li Junhao? Didn't I tell him to watch Bai Xiruo? Where did he run off to again after class?"
Duan Chenxu shrugged innocently.
"Tsk, so unreliable." Zhang Chen slung his backpack over one shoulder, clicking his tongue.
As he left, he reminded Duan Chenxu again: "Keep an eye on things."
Duan Chenxu understood: "Okay."
Then Zhang Chen didn't linger and left the classroom swiftly.
As soon as Zhang Chen left, the icy atmosphere in the classroom instantly eased...
Everyone looked at Bai Xiruo with reverence, no longer daring to provoke her easily.
And when they looked at Luo Hao's seat, it was with a mixture of pity and regret...
Luo Hao's good friends were powerless to do anything about it, they could only kick Luo Hao's books a little further away from the trash can, then joked with each other:
"What kind of expression will Luo Hao have when he comes back and sees this?"
"The sky has fallen, hahaha..."
At this moment, Bai Xiruo, listening to the taunts around her, was not in the mood to pay attention to their looks.
Only she knew how moved she was at this moment...
With tears in her eyes, she continued to slowly tidy her desk.
When she was little, she would argue with classmates and dared to fight back, because she had a mom and dad.
She had love.
No matter what happened, her loving mom and dad would always stand by her side.
A child who grew up in love would naturally not be insecure or timid.
However, from the first day she moved into her uncle's house, after she no longer had her mom and dad's protection.
When she encountered such things again, her uncle would not stand by her side at school like her mom and dad, but instead made her bow her head and apologize to the classmates who bullied her!
No one helped her; she could only bear these grievances herself.
Her uncle was very busy and told her he didn't have time to come to school to clean up her messes.
If she caused any more trouble for his family at school, he would kick her out of the house.
She didn't dare to trouble them, she didn't dare to trouble anyone; no matter how much she was bullied at school, she never dared to resist, only begged for mercy...
She had become accustomed to it, this life of being bullied...
But today, Zhang Chen, the person who initially bullied her like most other classmates, actually stepped in to help her.
He stood up for her and supported her!
She hadn't felt what it was like to be protected in a long time...
Just then, Luo Hao, who had finished his run outside, was still cheerfully greeting people from other classes. When he returned to the classroom, he discovered his desk had been overturned...
"??? Who did it!?"
"I'll f*** his whole family!!" He cursed angrily as he walked towards his seat.
"Zhang Chen." Jiang Minghua in the front row answered directly, "You go f*** him then."
"Zhang, Chen, Chen Ge? Why did he overturn my desk?" As soon as he heard it was Zhang Chen, Luo Hao's anger immediately subsided by half, and his tone instantly became subdued.
A man knows when to bend and when to stand tall!
He still didn't dare to provoke Zhang Chen...
Yang Tianyu, his good brother, stopped him from picking up his books and gestured with a pursed lip:
"You have to apologize to her first, otherwise Zhang Chen said, you pick them up once, he overturns them once."
"Apologize?" Luo Hao looked in Bai Xiruo's direction, and seeing her still tidying her desk, he realized that he had bumped into her when he rushed out of the classroom earlier.
He had heard a loud bang when he ran out and looked back to see her desk overturned...
But he thought it had nothing to do with Bai Xiruo, so he just committed a hit-and-run...
Yang Tianyu continued: "Not only apologize, but also pay for the stationery, Zhang Chen said so."
"If you don't get her forgiveness, your desk will keep getting overturned."
"Look, if you don't believe me, ask Duan Gou, he's watching you."
Luo Hao frowned and sighed, feeling very unwilling. What kind of situation was this...
Even teachers wouldn't easily handle this kind of thing, why was Zhang Chen suddenly meddling?
Didn't he also bully Bai Xiruo?
Then Luo Hao turned to look at Duan Chenxu by the back door.
At this moment, Li Junhao just happened to return, was called over by Duan Chenxu, and sat in Zhang Chen's seat to listen to Duan Chenxu speak.
Halfway through, he suddenly looked up sharply, his eyes coldly fixed on him...
Luo Hao immediately felt a bad premonition!
The unwillingness in his heart instantly vanished, scared away by Li Junhao's gaze!
He didn't want to be ambushed by Zhang Chen and his group of hooligans at the school gate.
So he quickly started to walk towards Bai Xiruo's seat, to ask for her forgiveness.
Li Junhao, however, stood up first and cursed: "You motherf***er, so it was you who messed with Bai Xiruo!?"
"No! Hao Ge, I didn't do it on purpose!"
"F*** you, I was only gone for a little while and you're causing trouble in front of Chen Ge! I'll kill you!"
Zhang Chen was a scholar, so he was more civilized, but Li Junhao was a rough man and didn't care about any of that!
He was already a bit annoyed today because Zhang Chen had told him to get a haircut, and now Luo Hao was making trouble for Zhang Chen again. If Zhang Chen was unhappy, wouldn't that make him uncomfortable?
And Bai Xiruo was someone Zhang Chen had specifically told him to watch over!
"I'm sorry, Bai Xiruo, I'm sorry, I only have 32 yuan, take it all, if it's not enough I'll bring more tomorrow, please forgive me."
Luo Hao ran in front of Bai Xiruo, clasped his hands together, his eyes filled with genuine fear, extremely sincere.
Bai Xiruo didn't take it; having never accepted an apology before, she was at a loss for what to do in this situation.
But her not taking it meant she didn't forgive him!
"You wait for me after school!" Li Junhao also walked to Bai Xiruo's seat, and seeing the situation, immediately issued a harsh warning, "You bring more people too."
"Hao Ge, no, don't." Luo Hao looked at Bai Xiruo, "I really made a mistake, Bai Jie, I didn't do it on purpose, I was too rushed."
"So the aisle is that wide and it's not enough for you to walk through, is it!?" Li Junhao pointed at the aisle!
He then noticed that Bai Xiruo seemed to have sniffled, so he looked down at her. Although her hair was a bit long and covered her eyes somewhat, he could still see.
She was crying!
"Damn it! She's crying! How am I going to explain this to Chen Ge? I'll kill you!"
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