Chapter 111: Overstepping
Li Han and Xiao Xu shattered Song Zhen's car window, setting off the alarm. Pedestrians near and far stopped, and quite a crowd gathered. The teacher on duty in the Administrative Building rushed out in a fury and gave the three of them a thorough dressing-down. He had clearly been badly frightened. "What is wrong with you? Which college and department are you from? Can't you see how many cars are here? Is this a place to throw things around? To toss a ball around?" With Nanjing University's homecoming festival approaching, the owners of the cars parked on campus were all people of some standing. Every campus was keeping a tight watch; nothing could go wrong with discipline, conduct, sanitation, or safety. Yet trouble had struck right here at the Administrative Building. The responsibility would fall on him, and he could not afford to have anyone above him pursue the matter.
Li Han and Xiao Xu were clearly stunned by what had happened. Both had entered university through the ordinary route of studying and passing their exams. They occasionally committed minor breaches of university rules, such as staying out overnight and dodging dorm inspections, or getting into fights in a fit of youthful impulsiveness after enrolling. But those were all things that could be settled within the university's ivory tower, nothing particularly serious. Now, however, they had smashed someone's sports car window. This was no longer merely a university matter.
The consequences, and perhaps even the compensation alone, were more than university students without any source of income could bear. Their spirits had already hit rock bottom.
The commotion naturally reached those upstairs. Before long, a large group came down from the Administrative Building, including members of Nanjing University's Homecoming Festival Committee, the Publicity Department, and some