One must never harbor the intent to harm others, but one must always guard against being harmed.
Some people in this world were so rotten that, as children, they shone flashlights at Gatanothor; when they grew up, they donated Digestive Tablets to impoverished mountain areas; when they got old, they put casters on every cane in nursing homes; and before they died, they swallowed huge amounts of unchewed popcorn kernels just so they could go pop during cremation.
Living in a society like this, being cautious was only right.
Besides, this matter concerned Xue Jian's own interests, so he had to be on guard.
Perhaps because the hallway cameras were recording, Xue Jian did not make a move while Lin Li followed Guo Zhun to escort the answer sheets. He merely watched Lin Li with an extremely complicated look in his eyes.
The complexity had gone beyond what humans could describe. They said the eyes were the windows of the soul, so Xue Jian seemed to have crashed a little. Maybe he should consider switching to a Mac.
On the way downstairs to eat at the cafeteria, Lin Li passed the bulletin board.
The "Come take a look →" and "← Fellow students, take this as a warning" signs he had posted on either side of the disciplinary notice had been torn down. Who did that? How awful.
—Some people really were born rotten. They would even do something that harmed others without benefiting themselves.
After silently cursing the declining morals of the world a few times, Lin Li still stepped forward and carefully wiped the glass outside the disciplinary notice with his school uniform sleeve, ensuring that any future pilgrims would be able to see it more clearly.
After lunch in the cafeteria, he returned to the Class 4