The next moment, the school bully suddenly grabbed the school flower. "Why are you talking so harshly? If you don't like him, why do you keep going up to him every day to fuss over him?"
The school flower froze, then bit her lower lip hard, looking deeply aggrieved. "You're yelling at me? Would I have done that if it weren't for you?"
"Do you think I wanted to follow a cripple around every day, smiling for his sake?"
"I really don't understand why you treat a cripple so well!"
That was far too cruel.
"Hiss..." Yin Ge's head suddenly throbbed.
What was going on?
He loved her, and she loved him?
What kind of love triangle was this?
Clearly, the school bully himself was just as shocked.
"W-what are you talking about?"
He immediately let go of the school flower's hand and instinctively looked at Zhang Zichen.
The school bully's reaction made the school flower feel even more wronged, and she ran away crying.
At that moment, although Yin Ge could not see Zhang Zichen's expression, she could imagine how hurt he must have been.
The school bully became even more flustered. "Zhang Zichen, I really didn't know she felt that way. I don't like her!"
Zhang Zichen did not say a word.
"Wait here. I'll bring her back to apologize to you!"
After saying that, the school bully chased after the school flower, leaving Zhang Zichen alone in the little garden.
Seeing this, the dorm manager turned and left.
Yin Ge heard soft crying behind her. In the silent illusion, it sounded especially clear.
Could it be that Zhang Zichen transferred schools because the school flower rejected him...? Yin Ge pondered silently.
She placed the school flower at the top of her list of suspects. But the problem was that the homeroom teacher had clearly used Discernment on the school flower, and she possessed a Godhead.
Could it be that the homeroom teacher was not the Son of Heaven?
Or did both the homeroom teacher and the school flower possess Beasthood?
Yin Ge fell deep into thought.
Meanwhile, the dorm manager had not gone far when the sound of fighting suddenly came from behind him.
"Fuck you! Who gave you permission to confess to her?"
A voice filled with fury rang out.
Hearing that voice, the dorm manager hurriedly turned around.
Then Yin Ge saw the PE representative pin Zhang Zichen to the ground and beat him viciously.
Seriously? The PE representative liked the school flower too? Didn't teenagers have anything else to do...? Yin Ge was somewhat surprised by his arrival.
In that case, the PE representative was suspicious as well!
While Yin Ge was thinking, the dorm manager had already run toward them. "Hey! What are you doing?!"
Hearing him, the PE representative instinctively tried to run.
"Stop right there!" The dorm manager's voice was full of authority. "I've already seen your face. Running won't help you. Come on, you're coming with me to the academic affairs office!"
The PE representative stopped, but there was not a trace of fear on his face.
Very soon, the dorm manager brought Zhang Zichen and the PE representative to the academic affairs office.
"Close the door behind you," the principal said with a frown.
Zhang Zichen sniffled and shut the door.
"Why is it you again?" The principal lowered his voice. "Didn't I talk to you this morning? And now you're back here again this afternoon?"
He was speaking to Zhang Zichen.
"Call your parents and have them come here!" He was speaking to both Zhang Zichen and the PE representative.
Yin Ge could hear the impatience in the principal's voice.
At the mention of calling parents, the PE representative looked completely unconcerned.
But Zhang Zichen panicked. "Principal, I didn't do anything. He was the one who hit me."
"No matter who hit whom, since it happened, it has to be dealt with. We'll talk after your parents arrive." The principal handed his phone to the dorm manager.
The dorm manager passed it to the PE representative.
The PE representative finished the call quickly. When it was Zhang Zichen's turn, his arm trembled, and the phone trembled with it. He seemed extremely resistant.
But before absolute authority, there was no room to negotiate when it came to calling one's parents.
In the end, he still made the call, quietly telling his parents to come to the school. His voice shook.
Did his parents treat him badly? He looked so afraid... Yin Ge thought silently.
Before long, both boys' parents arrived.
Slap!
A loud slap rang out as the PE representative's father struck him hard across the face. "I sent you to school to study, not to fight! Who told you to start a fight?"
The PE representative's face immediately swelled up. Even Yin Ge felt it hurt just watching.
Seeing that, the principal hurriedly stood up. "Sir, please calm down!"
"We asked you here to resolve the issue..."
Amid the chaos, Yin Ge stared intently at Zhang Zichen. Both his parents had come, and they were anxiously checking his injuries.
Yet Yin Ge was deeply puzzled. From the looks of things, Zhang Zichen's parents cared about and loved him very much, but his earlier behavior had not seemed like that of someone from a harmonious family.
Could there be some hidden reason behind this?
Yin Ge decided to keep watching.
But throughout the entire process, Zhang Zichen's parents remained patient and fiercely protective of him. They even demanded that the PE representative apologize to him.
It was not until the PE representative was taken away by his father that Zhang Zichen's father bent over deferentially, offering the principal a cigarette and apologizing.
"I'm sorry, Principal. My Zichen has caused you trouble."
"He's always being mocked and bullied because of his disability. It isn't his fault."
Was he really saying that in front of the child?
Yin Ge felt that was inappropriate. And he was being so humble that anyone unaware of the situation would have thought Zhang Zichen was the one who had beaten someone up.
Naturally, the principal did not accept the cigarette. He frowned deeply and waved at Zhang Zichen. "Go outside first. I need to speak with your parents alone."
After Zhang Zichen left, the principal sighed. "I know it isn't easy for parents like you to care for a physically disabled child, but Zhang Zichen's mental state is extremely unstable."
"You've seen it yourselves. He gets into trouble at school every other day. For the child's mental health, I suggest that you arrange for him to transfer schools as soon as possible."
"That way, the other students won't mock or bully him anymore, right?"
Transfer schools?
Hearing those two words, Yin Ge immediately perked up.
Zhang Zichen's transfer had something to do with the principal?!
But she quickly dismissed that thought.
The principal was a soldier, one of her people. But he absolutely could not possess Beasthood.
After that, the conversation between the principal and Zhang Zichen's parents revolved entirely around transferring schools.
Yin Ge was certain that Zhang Zichen outside could hear every word.
Honestly, it was cruel.
But as an observer, Yin Ge could do nothing.
After the conversation ended, Zhang Zichen's parents left with him.
The dorm manager, however, remained in the office. Just as Yin Ge wondered why he had stayed behind, he spoke.
"Principal, today I saw them in the little garden..."
The dorm manager began reporting the school bully's movements to the principal! From morning to evening, from the cafeteria to the little garden, he spilled everything like beans from a bamboo tube.
So this old man was a lookout?
Yin Ge could not describe how she felt at that moment. She sensed the principal's desire to control the school bully, and it made her feel suffocated.
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