"So..." Boss hesitated. "You don't mean your head teacher, do you?"
"Uh... yeah, my head teacher. Wait, Boss, why are you looking at me like that... I'm a victim too!" Lin Yi looked utterly innocent.
Boss: "..."
Silence fell.
"Ahem..."
Lin Yi gave a dry cough to break the awkward atmosphere, then began telling Boss, bit by bit, what he had encountered in the head teacher's office.
That included what looked like Tomato Meat Sauce Pasta in the trash can, and the scraps of paper littering the corner of an otherwise tidy room.
"Oh, right..." Lin Yi pulled the little notebook he used for writing notes out of his pocket, opened it, and handed Boss the scrap of paper. "I found this in the head teacher's office."
Boss paused slightly, looking at Lin Yi with an increasingly strange expression.
She took it and unfolded it, her eyes slowly narrowing.
"It looks like your head teacher didn't eat it."
"Huh?" Lin Yi was thoroughly confused. "She didn't? But in the trash can..."
"Being in the trash can doesn't mean she ate it." Boss shook her head slightly and returned the paper to Lin Yi. "She used this method to strengthen her resolve, but things aren't looking good."
Lin Yi still didn't quite understand and couldn't help muttering, "Isn't that a bit too hasty a judgment?"
Boss gave him a sidelong glance. "I've encountered more cases like this than you've secretly watched videos. Just trust me."
"Uh..." The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched.
"Wait, how did videos suddenly come into this..."
"Okay, Boss, I believe you."
"But let me make one thing clear: all the videos I watch are perfectly respectable... no, wait, what videos, Boss? I have no idea what you're talking about."
Boss didn't pursue the subject, instead warning