Arrested by the Police

Waking up the next morning, Xia Ping felt refreshed. Before going to sleep last night, he had spent three hours typing out sixty thousand words. Added to the thirty thousand he had already written, he now had a total of ninety thousand.

In another two or three days, he would be able to finish this work completely.

Although such a workload seemed massive, for a martial artist like him, it was nothing at all.

After finishing breakfast, Xia Ping left home, intending to head to school, but he soon noticed a group of middle-aged men and women gathered nearby, seemingly chatting about gossip with great enthusiasm.

"Did you hear? Last night, two perverts were streaking near Tianshui City No. 95 Middle School. Truly, public morals are declining, and people aren't what they used to be. I never expected anyone would actually do something so indecent."

"Of course I heard. Those two perverts seemed to have run a lap and a half around the school before someone called the police. Three police cars arrived immediately, over a dozen officers stepped out, and they arrested those two perverts on the spot. Everyone was clapping and cheering."

"Good arrest! If perverts like that aren't taken away, how can social order be maintained? My daughter won't even dare to walk on the street anymore, fearing she'll be attacked by those kinds of perverts."

"I heard those two perverts seem to be students from Tianshui City No. 95 Middle School."

"No way, they're actually students? Are they crazy? Starting to have such fetishes at such a young age—they're animals."

"With the college entrance exam approaching, maybe the study pressure is too high."

"Even if the pressure is high, you can't go around streaking. That's a crime."

"But there's no need to worry about those two perverts for now. According to information from the police, they violated the Public Security Administration Punishments Law and have already been detained for seven days according to the law. They cannot be bailed out."

"But they'll come out sooner or later. We'll have to keep an eye on them when they do."

"Right, we must keep an eye on them. These two are potential future criminals; we can't let our guard down."

The group of middle-aged men and women discussed it with spittle flying everywhere.

Xia Ping remained speechless. He was one hundred percent certain that the two arrested perverts were definitely Gao Wan and Yang Wei. He hadn't expected them to be so unlucky as to actually get arrested by the police.

However, he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them. He soon arrived at school, but today seemed different from the past. After what happened yesterday, he had become a celebrity in his class.

The moment he walked in, he felt the scorching gazes of countless classmates. It was estimated that these students already knew about the two brothers-in-misfortune, Yang Wei and Gao Wan, being arrested by the police.

Xia Ping was very calm. He returned to his seat, completely ignoring the gazes from all around, and began to type. For him, typing was the real serious work; it was about to earn him a large sum of Federal Coin.

Ding-a-ling.

The bell for class rang, and the homeroom teacher, Qiu Xue, walked in. She immediately noticed two empty seats in the class and asked with some confusion, "Where are Yang Wei and Gao Wan? Why haven't they come to class?"

"Teacher, they were arrested," one student shouted. "It's said they were detained by the police for seven days and can't even be bailed out."

Arrested, and detained by the police?!

Qiu Xue was struck dumb, feeling completely bewildered. What the heck, what kind of situation is this?

Although she had only been teaching for half a year and had taught some bad students, she had never imagined that her own students would one day be arrested by the police. What kind of bad things could they have done to get arrested?

"What exactly happened? Why were they arrested by the police?" Qiu Xue asked hurriedly. Because she had some business yesterday and left Tianshui City right after class, only returning this morning, she didn't know what had happened at the school.

"They were streaking around the school, acting indecently, so some righteous middle-aged women called the police and had them taken away," a student replied, though his expression was extremely strange.

Because he had been at the scene last night, he remembered how Gao Wan and Yang Wei had screamed at the top of their lungs like slaughtered pigs when the police grabbed them as criminals and tied them up to be thrown into the police car. He couldn't forget it for a long time; it was truly heartbreaking to hear and tear-jerking to witness.

There was even a group of women throwing eggs and cabbage at the two of them, leaving them in a miserable state.

Qiu Xue was stunned. "Why would they streak at school?" She remembered that although these two students didn't have the best personalities and sometimes bullied their classmates, they shouldn't have gone so far as to commit such an indecent act.

"I guess the pressure was just too high," Xia Ping replied casually.

The pressure was too high?!

A wave of contemptuous gazes shot toward him as the students looked at Xia Ping. Like hell it was! When it comes down to it, isn't it because you, you bastard, forced them to sign that contract, which drove them to streak around the school?

It could be said that Yang Wei and Gao Wan being arrested by the police was entirely caused by this bastard. In ancient times, that would be like forcing a good person into prostitution, yet this guy still claimed they did it because of high pressure. It was too shameless—how could his face be so thick?

"Was the pressure too high?"

Qiu Xue didn't know the details, but she felt this was a very fitting explanation. Wasn't the pressure high? With only five months left until the college entrance exam, this was a major event that would determine the watershed of their lives.

Yesterday, she had even held a class meeting to conduct career counseling, analyzing the severity of the situation. That probably increased the pressure in their hearts even more, leading them to lose their minds and streak at school.

Sigh, when it came down to it, this was still her fault for not noticing the psychological state of her students and failing to release their psychological pressure in time. She never expected something like this to happen, leading to them being arrested by the police.

Thinking of this, Qiu Xue couldn't sit still. She said, "Students, since such a thing has happened, let's change today's class to self-study. I'm going to the police station to see the two students and see if they need any help."

After speaking, she hurried out of the classroom.

The students nearby looked at the culprit, Xia Ping, with strange expressions, but Xia Ping remained very calm, completely unaffected by these gazes.

"Self-study? That's perfect. I'll take this time to finish typing out the remaining plot," Xia Ping thought with joy. If he didn't have to attend class, he would have plenty of time to write his novel.

The day passed in the blink of an eye. It was calm and peaceful at school today, and the defeated Xiong Batian seemed to have vanished without a trace; it was said he had been sent to Tianshui City No. 1 People's Hospital for treatment and wouldn't be able to return for a short time.

As for Yang Wei and Gao Wan, they had been arrested, and it would be seven days before they could get out.

"Phew!"

After returning home, eating dinner, and going back to his room, Xia Ping typed frantically. He typed for another few hours, reaching a full one hundred and twenty thousand words for the day, which he then published all at once onto the internet.

He opened Penguin and checked his novel's page. Because the publication time was so short, the website hadn't had time to arrange any recommendations, and there weren't many reader comments, making the situation look quite bleak.

"I can't let it go on like this. I must take the initiative and stir up some hype to make this novel go viral," a glimmer of sharpness appeared in Xia Ping's eyes.