Chapter 96

Lin Yu asked in confusion: "Xu Zijun usually only has a good relationship with Li Xiang and the others. Those girls are from the class next door; when did they get to know Xu Zijun?"

If it were someone else, Lin Yu wouldn't be confused; after all, in a school, it's not strange for anyone to know anyone.

But this was Xu Zijun.

She basically didn't talk to anyone, and the only people she interacted with closely were Li Xiang and her group. She was a very introverted person, not even familiar with people in her own class, let alone those in the next class.

Lu Yan He also frowned.

"She looks like she's being coerced by those girls," Chen Qin said.

Just as Chen Qin finished speaking, they saw Xu Zijun being pushed from behind by one of the girls.

Xu Zijun stumbled.

"Damn it!" Li Pengfei immediately glared with anger, "How dare they bully a girl from our class!"

He lifted his leg, ready to rush over.

"Let's go over and see first," Lu Yan He pulled Li Pengfei back, "Don't be impulsive."

Lu Yan He was mainly thinking of his own previous embarrassing incident—not long ago, he had suspected Chen Siqi of coercing and bullying Xu Zijun, but it turned out that wasn't the case at all.

Who knew if this would be another misunderstanding.

The four of them followed.

Passing the small shop and walking further ahead brought them to the school wall.

But walking along the wall, there was a hidden corner where the laboratory building and the school wall formed an angle; it was a blind spot for school surveillance, and occasionally couples secretly in love would date there.

Xu Zijun looked nervously and uneasily at the few girls surrounding her.

They were all from the class next door.

She had been called out of the classroom by someone.

"Come with us for a bit," the leading girl said.

Xu Zijun naturally wanted to refuse.

However, the leading girl had an unquestionable air about her.

Moreover, the other party was very famous in the grade; her father was a lawyer who had once helped a teacher at the school win a lawsuit that everyone thought was unwinnable.

"We have something to ask you," she said.

Xu Zijun wanted to ask, "Is there anything that can't be asked directly in the hallway?" but because of her family background, she was naturally timid and insecure. Facing the group of them, she didn't dare to ask in the end and followed them.

She was not a day student; she lived on campus. Xu Zijun had always been afraid of being bullied, so she had always kept a low profile and never associated with people she didn't know. Encountering such a thing suddenly today, Xu Zijun didn't know why they had called her out either.

Xu Zijun looked at them nervously.

The leading girl was named Hong Zhixing.

She stood with her arms crossed in the middle of the girls, looking at Xu Zijun with cold eyes.

"I heard you voluntarily gave up your recommendation quota for independent enrollment?" she asked.

Xu Zijun was stunned.

She had thought for a long time and never imagined they had come to find her for this.

Xu Zijun was stunned for a few seconds and didn't answer. At this moment, a short-haired girl beside Hong Zhixing immediately said in a stern tone: "I'm asking you a question, are you deaf?"

Xu Zijun shrank back and nodded.

"Why?" Hong Zhixing frowned slightly and asked, "Why would you voluntarily give up this quota? This quota is very precious to you, isn't it? I heard you're from the countryside, or a small town? Anyway, your family background isn't very good, right? You should want to get into a good university and get ahead more than the average student, so why would you give up such an opportunity?"

Hong Zhixing's tone was condescending.

Between the two of them, the aura was completely unbalanced.

Xu Zijun had almost no aura to speak of and was completely suppressed by Hong Zhixing.

Even though Hong Zhixing hadn't actually done anything, just frowned slightly and stood with her arms crossed.

Xu Zijun's lips moved, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.

"I'm asking you, is playing dumb fun?" the short-haired girl beside Hong Zhixing spoke again, "If you don't want to say it, I'll say it for you. Do you like Chu Saiying, so you're trying to get him to notice you through this method? To thank you?"

Xu Zijun raised her head in disbelief and looked at them.

"Did I hit the nail on the head?" the short-haired girl sneered, "It's truly ridiculous. You should look in the mirror at yourself; a fat pig, actually dreaming of getting Chu Saiying's attention."

"I didn't!" Xu Zijun's eyes turned red. She seemed unable to hide a certain grief and indignation, her emotions becoming uncontrollably intense, "It's not like that!"

"What are you pretending for?" Seeing Xu Zijun's eyes turn red, as if she were about to shed tears, the short-haired girl immediately said with disgust.

"That's enough," Hong Zhixing turned her head to look at the short-haired girl, signaling her to shut up.

The short-haired girl then closed her mouth.

Hong Zhixing said to Xu Zijun: "I don't care whether you did or didn't, I'm just reminding you: don't harbor thoughts you shouldn't. Someone like Chu Saiying is not someone you can climb up to. Without you voluntarily withdrawing, Chu Saiying wouldn't have gotten the recommendation quota for independent enrollment. I don't believe you're that kind-hearted, nor do I believe your motives are that pure. I'm just telling you: Chu Saiying is someone I've set my sights on. No one can snatch him from my hands. Even if, with your appearance, the possibility of Chu Saiying liking you is less than one percent, I will not allow such a possibility to happen. Understand?"

Xu Zijun lowered her head, her chin trembling slightly.

"Let's go," Hong Zhixing said to the other girls.

"Are we just letting her go like this?" the short-haired girl asked unwillingly.

"What else do you want to do?" Hong Zhixing looked at her with some impatience, "Use force? Get this straight: I have no interest in satisfying some perverted psychology by bullying others. If you're staying by my side to do this kind of thing, leave early."

The short-haired girl's face became somewhat ugly.

Hong Zhixing took the lead and walked away.

Lu Yan He and the others were standing at the corner.

Hong Zhixing and the others walked here and ran right into them.

Their expressions changed instantly.

"Why are you here?" Hong Zhixing asked with a frown.

Her gaze fell mainly on Lu Yan He.

As for this star student in the school, Hong Zhixing naturally knew him too.

Li Pengfei looked at them, sneered, and said in a threatening tone: "You brought Xu Zijun from my class to this nook and cranny, and you're asking us why we're here?"

Hong Zhixing realized what was happening and sneered.

"Suspecting us of bullying her?"

"It's not suspicion, it's an eyewitness account," Lu Yan He said calmly, "We all saw the whole process of what you did to our classmate Xu Zijun just now."

Hong Zhixing's eyes flickered, but she kept a straight face, "So what? We were just looking for her to have a chat."

"What you see as a chat might not be the same in the other person's eyes," Lu Yan He said, "I can only say that you can be glad you didn't actually use force; otherwise, we wouldn't just be bystanders. Of course, we waited here to remind you: if you ever coerce her to go with you in such a large group again, whether it's behavioral bullying or verbal humiliation, we will be witnesses to prove that you bullied a classmate."

The expressions of Hong Zhixing and the girls beside her finally changed.