Slapping the "National Little Sister" in the Face

Someone started a livestream right there on the scene.

Ji Chuxing shielded the gardener behind her as she faced the crowd attacking her from all sides.

Tang Chuxin had just returned to school that day and would be concentrating on preparing for the college entrance exam from then on. She was trending all over social media, and with "Tang Chuxin returns to school" added to the topic, it drew countless onlookers in less than a minute.

Quite a few fans who had heard the news had also poured into the livestream, seething with indignation.

"How can someone be like that? It's bad enough she deliberately smashed the standee, but she won't even apologize!"

"She's unbearable. I can't believe someone like that is around Xinxin."

"I strongly demand that this person be expelled for Xinxin's personal safety."

"That's right. I suspect she's a professional anti-fan. Who else would do something like this?"

"What rotten luck. It's Xinxin's first day back at school, and her good mood's been completely ruined!"

"Ah, hurry and comfort Xinxin. The little fairy must be so upset..."

Facing the aggressive fans, Ji Chuxing found it rather amusing.

They weren't far from the school gates. Once related terms started trending online, the entertainment reporters waiting outside rushed onto campus, impossible to hold back.

Before long, someone had doxxed Ji Chuxing.

"Class 16 at Nanzhong, a class full of academic failures. She transferred from the countryside and has never passed an exam."

"No wonder she could do something like this. She looks okay, but who would've thought she was so twisted? She won't throw acid on Xinxin one day, will she?"

"Oh, she's just envious and jealous. Our Xinxin is beautiful and a top student, while she's just an academic failure!"

"Apologize. Enough said. Since she goes to the same school as Xinxin, we won't force her to do anything else."

News spread quickly online, and Tang Chuxin's return had attracted plenty of attention.

The students of Class 16 were following the news online too. Under Tang Chuxin's trending topic, they saw Ji Chuxing, whose expressionless face was all too familiar to them.

"Fuck!" Zhao Feifei exclaimed. "Who the hell does Tang Chuxin think she is, having people surround our God Ji?!"

"Come on, let's go see what's happening!"

By now, most of the entertainment reporters had entered the school. After all, who wouldn't want entertainment news about a hot young starlet?

Ji Chuxing, however, wasn't in a hurry to leave.

The gardener wore a hat and stood behind Ji Chuxing, who was shielding her.

Ji Chuxing looked at the aggressive crowd, the corners of her lips curving upward. "Very good."

Her indifferent, utterly guiltless attitude made the fans even angrier.

"You sure think you're in the right. Even if it weren't for Xinxin, we'd have to teach you some manners today."

"Apologize!"

"That's right, apologize to our Xinxin on a livestream for the whole internet to see!"

Facing so many phones and cameras, Ji Chuxing smiled. She rarely smiled, and when she did, there was a dazzling brilliance to her.

"Very good," Ji Chuxing said again with a nod.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you going to apologize or not? Girls, hold her down and make her apologize!"

Her refusal to apologize and her haughty manner were infuriating to watch.

Ji Chuxing pointed to where the standee had fallen. "You stuck the standee to a fire hydrant and even smeared it with a huge amount of glue. Nice work. You really know how to get things done."

She swept her gaze over the school path, where petals and confetti poppers littered the ground. "The cleaners had just finished sweeping this path. It isn't a dump, but now it's covered in the trash you threw down. You must think pretty highly of yourselves."

Those two or three short sentences stunned all the fans present.

The livestream, which had been full of condemnation just moments ago, also fell silent for an instant.

The fans who had been so aggressive a moment ago instantly lost their bluster.

Everyone knew that fire hydrants couldn't be obstructed. If something happened, it would hamper emergency response.

"Quick! Turn off the livestream!"

"Stop filming!"

"Stop streaming!"

"Turn it off!"

They had filmed Ji Chuxing without a care, capturing the glue-covered fire hydrant and the trash-strewn school path as well. If that went online, Tang Chuxin would come under attack.

"Oh, why have you stopped filming? The reporters are all here. What can't we sit down and clear up properly? Why were you so quick to doxx someone?"

Another girl's voice came from outside the crowd.

"Film it! You haven't finished filming yet, so why are you ending it? Where's your basic professionalism as actors?"

Zhao Feifei held a phone in her hand, looking as though she were recording a video or livestreaming.

"Come on, come on, let's take a look. On her first day back at school, our National Little Sister turned the place into a dump. Tsk, tsk, tsk, she really is the cleanest little fairy in the whole wide world."

Zhao Feifei's tone was asking for a beating. When she finished, she made a retching sound. "Blech-"

"And they even used public facilities as props. Tsk, tsk, tsk, how could such a grand welcome not be broadcast to the entire internet? Keep watching, everyone!"

The link to her livestream was posted right under Tang Chuxin's trending topic. In an instant, more than ten thousand fans flooded in, along with many anti-fans.

The entertainment reporters who had rushed in had yet to process the conflict between Tang Chuxin's fans and a bystander or anti-fan when the huge reversal left them dumbstruck.

The Xinxin fans nearby couldn't hold back any longer and rushed forward to snatch Zhao Feifei's phone.

But they couldn't get their hands on Zhao Feifei.

Wu Hao went even further. He had gotten a big camera from somewhere and hoisted it onto his shoulder, recording as he described the scene.

"Come on, come on, let's get a three-second close-up of this ground that looks like a dump."

"Stop!"

"No more filming! You're not allowed to film!"

"So we have to stop just because you say so?" Young Master Lu, his arm still in a sling around his neck, had also come over to join the commotion.

"You have to look at the whole picture, don't you? You're allowed to film other people, but they're not allowed to film you?"

A crowd of Xinxin fans surged forward.

The gardener watched Ji Chuxing, a girl facing accusations from so many people, and finally couldn't hold back.

"I don't know anything about your big star. I only know this student did nothing wrong!"

The gardener pulled Ji Chuxing behind her, shielding her. "You people are simply outrageous. You covered the school path in trash. That aside, I couldn't be bothered to call you out for your lack of manners, but when that basketball came flying over just now, it would have hit you if this student hadn't stepped in. How can you be so utterly ungrateful? You didn't even thank her, and instead you accused her?"

"You can call me dirty all you want. I'm just a sweeper, covered in dust and not clean, but what did this student do? Just how much hatred and resentment does it take for you to abuse your own schoolmate like this?"

In just a few words, the gardener completely turned the situation around.

Zhao Feifei and the Class 16 students who had rushed over after hearing the news let out a few mocking chuckles.

"Got it on video. Fine, since they've kicked up such a fuss, post it online, Haozi."

There was no need for Wu Hao to post it online. Although Tang Chuxin's fans had shut down their livestreams, there were plenty of entertainment reporters present, and many of them wanted negative news about Tang Chuxin. This time, her fans had ganged up to bully someone, which was bound to generate buzz.

Just half an hour ago, they had been promoting how close she was to her fans and how considerate she was of them. Then, in the blink of an eye, a topic emerged about Tang Chuxin's fans bullying an ordinary person who wasn't a fan.

New livestreams and videos were already spreading online.

"I'm dying of laughter. What's wrong with Tang Chuxin's fans? Are they trying to give us today's funniest trending topic?"

"I've been saying it all along: she never keeps her fans in check. She makes such a huge production out of going back to school. Doesn't it disrupt normal classes?"

"Ah, sorry, but just one question. They call her the National Little Sister, but... who agreed to that?"

"If my little sister acted like that, I'd hammer her to death! National Little Sister? Give me a break. Don't insult the term."

"Ugh, Tang Chuxin's National Little Sister persona is really disgusting. Someone finally dared to slap this so-called National Little Sister in the face. Honestly, this student is naturally much prettier than Tang Chuxin!"

"They're the ones with no manners, yet they casually cyberbully an ordinary person. I'm speechless. They didn't even find out what happened before barking everywhere. I'm so sick of it. I don't want to see Tang Chuxin trending anymore."

"Could you please apologize to this student? Also, the cleaner works so hard, and you actually insulted her. Your manners really leave a lot to be desired."

"Could you please clean up the school?"

By now, the commotion had drawn the security guards, who immediately dispersed the crowd from outside the school. The entertainment reporters who had entered were forcibly escorted out, and the people nearby were dispersed as well.

Seeing all the standees on the school path and the trash covering the ground, Director Yan, who had hurried over, roared, "Who did this?! I already said you weren't allowed to make such a huge spectacle at school!"

"Wu Hao, where did you get that big camera? Put it down!"

"What's going on? Is nobody attending class? What are you all gathered here for?"

Hearing Director Yan's lioness-of-Hedong roar from far away, the people nearby forgot everything else and scattered in an uproar, fleeing in every direction and leaving nothing but trash all over the ground.