Who Are You to Teach My Child a Lesson?

After hanging up with Gu Zhuoling, Shen Xinde sat obediently in his seat and drew.

"Xinde, let's trade again today!" Jiang Nan came over with his finished drawing.

Shen Xinde was a little embarrassed. "Nan Nan, I promised this one to my brother."

Jiang Nan didn't say anything else. He waved it off, then carried his chair over and sat down beside Shen Xinde.

Class was nearly over, so Shen Xinde told Moon Teacher, who had come to admire the children's drawings, that his guardian would be late and that he wanted to stay in the classroom after school.

Moon Teacher agreed, of course. Apart from the children who were picked up at the usual time each day, the others could wait in the classroom for their guardians. It was safer that way.

"Xinde, then I'll keep you company!" As soon as Jiang Nan heard, he raised his hand to ask the teacher too.

"No, no, Nan Nan, you can go home first," Shen Xinde said, trying to stop him.

Jiang Nan didn't mind at all. "It's okay. No one keeps me company when I go home anyway. I'll tell Uncle Driver to pick me up later."

Jiang Nan had never told Shen Xinde about his family. Presumably, his parents were busy with work and neglected to give their child enough attention.

Shen Xinde didn't try to stop him again.

As soon as class ended, the children lined up and were led out. Only Shen Xinde and Jiang Nan were left in the classroom, along with a young teacher to look after them.

Shen Xinde had finished drawing, and his hands were covered in crayon stains.

Looking at the two best-behaved students in the class, the young teacher wasn't too worried. She told them she needed to use the restroom and that they had to stay in the classroom and not go out on their own.

Shen Xinde agreed, then told Jiang Nan to stay seated while he went into the adjoining room to wash his hands.

When Shen Xinde came out, shaking the water off his hands, he saw a familiar figure standing in front of his desk. It was Chen Ming.

He seemed to have gotten into another argument with Jiang Nan. Chen Ming reached out and tried to grab Jiang Nan's clothes.

"What are you doing!" Seeing that something was wrong, Shen Xinde immediately ran over and stepped between them.

Chen Ming was clearly furious. When he saw Shen Xinde, he knew he was on Jiang Nan's side and gave him a hard shove. Caught off guard, Shen Xinde stumbled backward and nearly fell.

Luckily, there was a desk behind him, though his back hurt badly when it struck the desk.

Seeing Shen Xinde's pained expression, Jiang Nan angrily stepped forward and grabbed hold of him. "Xinde, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. What's he doing?"

"He wanted me to apologize. I wouldn't, so he tried to hit me."

Jiang Nan was excellent at expressing himself, and after those two sentences, Shen Xinde immediately understood.

Presumably, Chen Ming was still angry about everyone ganging up on him earlier, so when he saw Jiang Nan alone in the classroom, he thought no one would help Jiang Nan and decided to get revenge.

"You bad guy!" Seeing that Shen Xinde was all right, Jiang Nan turned to confront Chen Ming.

"Hmph! You coward! Fight me one-on-one if you've got the guts!" Chen Ming had clearly been spoiled at home. He had been a shameless little bully from a young age, wanting to hit people whenever anything displeased him.

"Bring it on!" Jiang Nan wasn't afraid at all. This bad guy had hit both him and Xinde, and he needed to be taught a lesson.

With that, Jiang Nan tried to rush up and fight him.

Shen Xinde naturally held Jiang Nan back. Although Chen Ming was the same age as him, he was unusually big. How could someone as small as Jiang Nan beat him? He could easily get hurt.

"Nan Nan, don't be angry." Shen Xinde soothed Jiang Nan and told him to pack his schoolbag first. "He's a bad guy. Let's ignore him."

Jiang Nan was more inclined to listen to Shen Xinde, of course. He hmphed at Chen Ming and followed Shen Xinde to pack his bag.

Chen Ming wasn't happy, of course. He had issued a challenge, yet no one paid him any attention. Feeling that his dignity had been trampled on, he immediately let out a yell and rushed over to grab Shen Xinde, who was closest to him.

Shen Xinde was carefully tucking his drawing into his schoolbag when Chen Ming yanked him. He lost his grip on the bag and dropped it on the floor before he could put the drawing inside. Without another word, Chen Ming stepped on the drawing.

When Jiang Nan saw Chen Ming playing dirty, he immediately went over to stop him. But Chen Ming shoved him hard, and with nothing behind him to stop his fall, Jiang Nan landed on the floor.

Shen Xinde didn't have time to worry about the state of his drawing. He saw Jiang Nan sitting on the floor and Chen Ming already coming at him with his fist raised, so he rushed over and kicked Chen Ming.

Chen Ming was too big to be knocked to the floor, but it still hurt, and he turned his anger on Shen Xinde.

He turned around and grabbed Shen Xinde's arm, digging his nails into Shen Xinde's soft, pale skin. Shen Xinde didn't let himself be pushed around and reached out to grab Chen Ming's hair. Neither of them would give way.

It wasn't until the young teacher came in, shouted for them to stop, and stepped forward to separate them that it ended.

Shen Xinde and Chen Ming, along with Jiang Nan, who had gotten up from the floor and joined the fight afterward, were all hauled into the office by the teacher, who called their guardians.

Chen Ming's father was already outside the kindergarten to pick up his child, so he was naturally the first to arrive at the office. He was a bald man with a big belly and a somewhat mean-looking face.

When he heard that the children had been fighting, the man began making a racket as soon as he entered, saying that the teacher was irresponsible, asking whose brat had dared hit his Yaozu, and saying that his Yaozu was very well-behaved, among other things.

"So it was you two little brats who dared hit my son!" The man looked at the two children sitting beside the teacher and swinging their feet, not looking frightened in the least, and was instantly furious.

Chen Ming, too, seemed to have found someone to back him up when he saw his father. As though he had suffered a terrible injustice, he threw his arms around his father and burst into loud sobs.

"Chen Ming's father, please don't be angry. This was a quarrel between children. We need to find out what started it..."

"Tch, what a wimp." Jiang Nan looked at the boy who had been acting so high and mighty and fearless just moments ago, now clinging to his father and crying with snot and tears streaming down his face. He looked down on him and whispered to Shen Xinde.

Shen Xinde nodded emphatically in agreement.

Perhaps because no hair covered the bald man's ears, he was sharp enough to hear them.

"What did you two little brats say!" the man shouted, rushing forward to slap them.

"Chen Ming's father! Please don't be angry. Misunderstandings between children are perfectly normal..." Caught in the middle, the teacher was at her wit's end. She held the man back to keep him from hurting the children.

"What misunderstanding! They must have bullied my son! My son has never been mistreated at home! You can tell at a glance these two kids have no manners!"

The man clearly had no intention of letting the matter go or sitting down to settle it peacefully. He stepped forward and reached out to hit them.

"Who are you calling ill-mannered!" Jiang Nan seemed to have been set off by those words. He stood up and shouted at the man.

"So what if I'm talking about you!? Didn't your parents teach you any manners!?" The man hadn't expected this little brat to talk back to him. He immediately felt that he had lost face and craned his neck as he shouted.

The teacher hadn't expected this parent to be so uncivilized, arguing with a child over every little thing. She frowned. "Chen Ming's father! You've gone too far! Please show some respect!"

The man ignored her attempts to stop him, pushed the teacher aside, and tried to slap Jiang Nan.

Seeing this, Shen Xinde immediately pulled Jiang Nan behind him and looked at the man warily.

"You two little brats, today I'm going to teach you a proper lesson in your parents' place!"

The man's face was flushed, and his rather fierce features scrunched up, making him look even more frightening. He reached out to slap Shen Xinde across the face.

"Who are you to teach my child a lesson?"