Eating Shit on Livestream, Are You Worthy?
Zhou Sixue bit her lip hard, unable to say a word.
In just two hours, the viral forum thread had already accumulated thousands of replies. Nanzhong had only a little over two thousand students across all three grades, so it was easy to imagine how much attention the incident had drawn.
And most of the comments were extremely nasty.
"She dared to do it but won't admit it, huh? Who knows what dirty business Ji Chuxing had going on with those people next door that made them come after us to vent their anger?"
"It's been this long and she still hasn't come out to explain herself. Someone like her will get kicked out of Nanzhong sooner or later."
"I'm pretty scared to be at the same school as someone like that. Who knows who she'll provoke next time, or who'll get caught in the crossfire?"
"I heard Ji Chuxing has a thing going with a thug from the technical school. Tsk, tsk, tsk, how old is she? Already doing adults-only stuff. Shameless!"
On the anonymous, virtual internet, people didn't have to take responsibility for anything they said, and there was no telling who was behind those words.
Maybe they were just keyboard warriors, or maybe they were among the countless polite, hardworking good girls and gentlemen one passed every day.
Zhao Feifei had just torn through the forum, single-handedly arguing down the entire board and sending quite a few people slinking away.
But seeing these comments now still made her furious.
She couldn't resist pulling out her phone to continue the fight.
"What a load of bullshit! You trash hiding behind the internet, if you've got the guts, say it under your real names! Who knows if the people spreading rumors about my God Ji are projecting something they've done themselves onto her!"
"Without my God Ji, who knows how badly you people in Set Sail Class would've been beaten!"
"Who knows if you were the ones who provoked them and dumped all the blame on my God Ji!"
The replies to Zhao Feifei came quickly, too.
"God Ji? I'm dying laughing. What makes Ji Chuxing worthy of that?"
"Set Sail Class has the best-behaved students. How could they possibly stir up trouble outside school? If Set Sail Class started it, I'll eat shit on livestream!"
Zhao Feifei was so angry she laughed. She turned to Ji Chuxing. "God Ji! Just wait and watch them eat shit!"
Ji Chuxing patted her shoulder, still cool and composed. "It's nothing. No need to get angry with idiots."
What was with that calm tone, like she was seventy or eighty? Zhao Feifei couldn't help but feel zen herself.
It was still the midday break, and Class 16 was the only place that was a little lively at the moment.
Ji Chuxing returned to her seat and took the little laptop she had just assembled out of her backpack.
Before Zhao Feifei and Wu Hao could see what was on the laptop's desktop, Ji Chuxing tapped away and brought up a surveillance video.
Several of them were completely dumbfounded.
Wasn't this the video of that person from Set Sail Class getting beaten up?
Wu Hao slapped his forehead. "God Ji, you have a video! Why didn't you say so earlier?"
As for where God Ji had gotten the video, Wu Hao's brain couldn't work that out for the moment.
Ji Chuxing shrugged and said honestly, "Well, I didn't think they'd show off just how low their IQs could go."
After watching the video, Zhao Feifei slapped the desk and laughed like a maniac. "I'd like to see if they eat that shit or not!"
After sending the video to Wu Hao, Ji Chuxing flopped onto her desk and fell asleep in a second.
Her breathing was soft and shallow, and she looked impossibly well-behaved.
Only Lu Xing had a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
Unlike that idiot Wu Hao and the simple-minded Zhao Feifei, he could tell that Ji Chuxing had obtained the surveillance footage by hacking directly into an off-campus surveillance system.
So God Ji really was pretty godlike?
At noon, the situation was still brewing on the forum.
Although Zhao Feifei had the video, she didn't post it right away.
For a counterattack, the timing had to be just right.
After the comment "If Set Sail Class started it, I'll eat shit on livestream," row after row of identical replies had followed, piling up to nearly a hundred.
The more Zhao Feifei read, the more delighted she became. Eager to stir up the excitement, she even provoked many similar comments and grinned at her phone like a fool.
At two thirty in the afternoon, the bell rang to signal the end of the midday break.
With something so serious happening on the school forum, Liu Xiuping, the homeroom teacher of Set Sail Class, barged straight into Class 16. "Ji Chuxing, come with me to the principal's office!"
Ji Chuxing was still groggy from sleep, slumped in her chair in a daze, a little tuft of hair drooping crookedly on her head. She was clearly in a very bad mood.
Zhao Feifei considerately put noise-canceling headphones on Ji Chuxing, then gave Liu Xiuping an impatient look. "By the way, Teacher Liu, first, you're not our homeroom teacher, and second, you're not a school administrator. Why are you calling our God Ji to the office? Is the principal's office your house?"
Liu Xiuping's face turned green at the retort. "Who taught you to speak to a teacher like that? Zhao Feifei, even if you aren't my student, I can still have the school expel you!"
Zhao Feifei put on an exaggerated expression. "Oh, I'm so scared. But I'd advise you to check the forum first and watch your class eating shit on livestream."
Liu Xiuping had seen how brazen Zhao Feifei and Lu Xing could be, and knew that both of them came from influential families, but she looked down on people like them.
She hadn't expected Zhao Feifei to dare show her no respect at all in front of so many people!
At that moment, Lu Xing also leaned lazily back in his chair. "Old woman Liu, I'd advise you to check the latest viral thread on the forum first. Sort out your own business before you go looking for trouble with someone else!"
Liu Xiuping's chest heaved with anger as she swept her gaze over everyone present. "You two, don't think you can do whatever you want here just because your families have money. I'm telling you, you're nothing but a bunch of rich trash!"
Those words completely enraged the people in Class 16.
But not everyone was as bold as Lu Xing and Zhao Feifei.
They could only glare at Liu Xiuping in anger.
Ji Chuxing bit into a milk tablet with a crunch and slowly stood up. "You're telling us? Who do you think you are?"
The girl's voice was clear and cool, and it didn't sound like she was saying anything outrageous. But when the words came out, they struck Liu Xiuping across the face like a slap.
It stung like fire.
Ji Chuxing seemed very serious, but her tone was contemptuous. "You? Are you worthy?"
At that moment, Class 16 fell utterly silent. No one dared make a sound.
Liu Xiuping seemed stunned by the words. She had always been proud: she had returned from studying at a prestigious school abroad and been hired at a high salary. Even the principal treated her with deference.
She could hardly believe that someone had dared speak to her like that. When she came to her senses, a towering rage surged up inside her.
She took a deep breath and was about to speak when Teacher Huang's voice came from the doorway. "Teacher Liu, you can't simply go over my head and do anything to the children in Class 16. You have no authority to do that."
With those words, the anger Liu Xiuping hadn't had a chance to spew out was swiftly lodged in her chest.
Teacher Huang was always pleasant and amiable, with a kindly look for the students of Class 16, like a man with no temper at all.
But at that moment, every student in Class 16 felt Teacher Huang's anger.
Liu Xiuping's fury could neither rise nor fall, all of it stuck in her chest, and in the end it instantly shifted to Teacher Huang. "Huang Hongfei, look at what kind of trash your students are!"
"Liu Xiuping! Don't tell me this is what you call good manners!" Teacher Huang raised his voice.
His face remained stern and his gaze steady. "Whatever my students have done, I'll discipline them. Teacher Liu, you'd better deal with your own class first. After all, this has caused such a huge stir and even affected Class 16's reputation."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Teacher Liu, surely you haven't come looking for trouble with Ji Chuxing without even watching the video or finding out what happened?" Teacher Huang gave a cold snort. "It was your Set Sail Class students who went out and provoked trouble. The surveillance video shows it clearly. With something this serious, you'll probably have to give the students' parents a proper explanation."
Teacher Liu's expression changed. She hurriedly pulled out her phone and glanced at the latest viral thread on the forum. Her face changed dramatically, and she marched out, her high heels clattering.
Only then did Teacher Huang's expression soften. He waved a hand and said to the students of Class 16, "All right, hurry up and get ready for class."
He spoke earnestly, frustrated that they couldn't live up to his expectations. "When something happens, talk to your teacher properly. What is there that I can't help you resolve? Every one of you is like a fighting cock. How much do you think you can handle, huh? You, Zhao Feifei, and you too, Lu Xing: an eight-hundred-word self-criticism, on my desk after school!"
"And you too, Ji Chuxing!" Teacher Huang said sternly. Ji Chuxing sat in her seat and obediently looked over. Teacher Huang choked up, remembering that Ji Chuxing was one of the victims of the incident, and switched to a gentler tone. "Don't lose your temper like that again."
Ji Chuxing obediently replied, "Oh..."
Teacher Huang left, and Class 16 erupted again. Someone shouted, "Old Huang is awesome! He even dared stand up to Old Woman Liu!"
Wu Hao let out a shriek. "God Ji is even more badass!"
Class 16 broke into cheers too. "God Ji is badass!"
"God Ji is awesome!"
"God Ji is domineering!"
At that moment, every gaze directed at Ji Chuxing was full of warmth and excitement!
Lu Xing tugged at the corner of his mouth indifferently and silently called her God Ji in his heart too.
Yeah, that was the biggest concession his dignity as a man would allow.