People were funny creatures.
Everyone said you couldn't trust hearsay, yet they believed lies picked up through hints and whispers.
They said seeing was believing, yet they still struggled to accept the truth before their eyes.
Take the students of Class Sixteen. They had all seen the principal personally welcome Xu Mu, but they stubbornly believed he was still the good-for-nothing they remembered.
But what harm did a bunch of students mean?
They just wanted to bring Xu Mu down from that lofty, unbelievable status to somewhere familiar.
They wanted him to be an ordinary student again, not some legendary "big shot."
It was understandable. If an unremarkable classmate or coworker suddenly turned out to have some extraordinary status, you wouldn't adjust to it right away either.
To reconnect with him, you might instinctively bring up old times, trying to put him back on your level.
The same went for these students.
Xu Mu had been one of the class's underdogs, even nicknamed "Good-for-Nothing." That was why they had blurted out such wild remarks and found what they had seen so hard to believe.
Still, that was no reason for Xu Mu to show off and put them in their place. What harm could these kids mean?
Right?
"Xu Mu, what have you been doing while you were away?"
After waiting and waiting, Liu Shuo had finally seen Xu Mu again.
So the moment Xu Mu returned to the classroom, Liu Shuo went up to ask him.
The classroom, lively a moment ago, suddenly fell quiet at Xu Mu's arrival.
"Me?"
Xu Mu remembered the chubby kid. Because his family was rich, Liu Shuo had always treated the old Xu Mu like his lackey.
Liu Shuo liked to show off, but he was decent enough.
After a moment's thought, Xu