The Reborn CEO Jiang Is Also Acting Coquettishly Today - Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Director Jia felt that teaching a student like Jiang Zhixia would probably shorten his lifespan by several years. Why wasn’t he the dean of students for the freshmen or the seniors? How did he happen to cross paths with Jiang Zhixia’s grade, hitting the mark dead center?

However, no matter what, this matter still had to be handled.

Jiang Zhixia herself maintained the defense: “She said harsh words to me, and I was very scared, so I wanted to block her mouth. Then I saw a colorful piece of candy in her bag that looked delicious, so I used that thing to block her mouth, right?” Her statement left everyone speechless. If it hadn’t been for Lin Su rolling on the ground afterward and revealing her complete state of wretchedness, Director Jia wouldn’t even have known what that thing was.

Director Jia hurriedly had people send Lin Su to the hospital, but in his heart, he truly harbored no good feelings toward this student. She was merely wearing the skin of a student; he didn’t even want to look at her.

In short, the mess that was already quite large now became even larger. The principal and teachers, who were supposed to rest soon for the weekend, were forced to swing into action, and they had absolutely no good faces for the few students who had stirred up trouble. Fortunately, the situation could still be controlled. If this had been kept hidden and not brought to light, what a massive scandal it would have brought to No. 1 High School.

The parents of Lin Su and the others rushed to the school under the relentless life-snatching calls from the principal and Director Jia. In the office, they unceremoniously questioned Director Jia’s blind judgment. Several teachers were left completely overwhelmed and frantic. Meanwhile, Jiang Zhixia and the others were shut outside the door to write their self-criticisms.

“How could a perfectly good girl like our Lin Su do this kind of thing? It’s just squabbling between students, yet our Lin Su is the one lying in the hospital right now. The school should be the one giving me an explanation!” Lin Su’s mother had her eyebrows raised in fury, her icy gaze sweeping across everyone present.

The principal and Director Jia were displeased to the extreme. The facts were already laid out before them, yet the parent in front of them wasn’t thinking about how to solve the problem, but was blindly making a vexatious mess.

“Lin Su’s parent, we have already.”

“Let’s call the police.” Jiang Zhixia poked her head in from the doorway: “The police uncles won’t lie, let’s call the police.” She was still chewing bubblegum in her mouth.

“Get out for me!!”

“No way!”

Director Jia and Lin Su’s mother erupted into roars at the same time.

Jiang Zhixia unhurriedly stood back.

“Principal, Lin Su and the others are still students, and exposing this wouldn’t bring any benefit to the school either…” Lin Su’s mother calmed herself down and began to persuade the principal.

The principal let out a deep sigh: “Let’s call the police.”

“Lin Su is a student, and the one being bullied is also a student.” At this stage of the matter, it was no longer something that a simple criticism could resolve.

“Principal!!” Lin Su’s mother screamed in disbelief.

So the principal does have backbone after all; it’s truly a regret that this wasn’t properly resolved in the past life. Jiang Zhixia leaned against the corridor outside the door, listening to the dispute behind her.

“Hey, how did you know she had that kind of thing on her?” By this time, Zhou Jing had also guessed what Lin Su had done. She and Lin Su were practically a case of kings never meeting each other; each ruled a different grade and were only occasionally called out by mutual friends to gather at parties, so they couldn’t be considered close. At any rate, Lin Su had always shown her a fair amount of respect, so she hadn’t expected her methods to be so disgusting in private.

The two girls following Zhou Jing, whose worldviews had been continuously shattered within a single day, hung their heads and wrote their self-criticisms. It was simply tragic; they had clearly just gone to spectate, yet they had to write self-criticisms and even have their parents called. Spectating requires caution! But in their hearts, they also felt a sense of shared glory; they were simply different from Lin Su’s group. This world was truly too filthy! The impurity in people’s hearts made it unbearable to watch; cold reality was everywhere.

Only the members of their Bingyu Family were consistently a flash of bright color in this world. Perhaps the hair color on their heads made commoners unable to accept them, and perhaps their destined lonely fate left them deeply misunderstood, but this was precisely the best manifestation of their unique inner selves that refused to wallow in the mire with others.

Pfft— Jiang Zhixia glanced at the self-criticism of the girl next to her. The little girl’s language skills must be quite decent; she was copying a few lines entirely without putting her heart into it. “I didn’t expect it either; I really thought it was candy, I’m scared.”

“I’d believe you over my dead body.” Zhou Jing rolled her eyes ungracefully. “Hey, sister, you look pretty good. Want to make friends?”

“Hahaha, sure, I’m very happy to make friends with you, Senior.” Jiang Zhixia nodded, “It’s just that I have a bit of an urgent matter, Senior. Your friend is my friend, so could you let this friend do me a favor?”

The girl who was expressing her ethereal and refined concepts looked up, completely failing to foresee what she was about to face next:

Jiang Zhixia directly stuffed the paper and pen into her hand: “Just copy one based on this. I greatly admire the Bingyu Family, you know.”

The current Family Head, Zhou Jing: Inexplicably ashamed. She then watched Jiang Zhixia already walking away lightly: “Hey, where are you going?”

Jiang Zhixia waved her hand.

In the infirmary, Cheng Xi and the little girl had already finished cleaning their wounds. Cheng Xi had only been bruised a few times during the pushing and shoving, which wasn’t a big problem, but because of her fair skin, she looked somewhat pitiful. The other girl’s injuries weren’t heavy either, consisting mostly of some previous marks.

Director Jia came over to ask a few questions. The girl was sobbing and completely unable to speak, while Cheng Xi picked out what she knew to say. Director Jia then left with hurried steps, instructing them to rest well.

The infirmary teacher also went out after processing the wounds. The girl’s parents would take some time to arrive after being notified.

The quiet room held only the two of them.

The girl shrunk into the corner, speaking with a crying tone: “I’m sorry, Xixi, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have spoken wildly in front of Lin Su. I was just too scared, I was really scared. I was afraid they would beat me, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I beg you, don’t blame me, I’m sorry, Xixi… forgive me.”

Cheng Xi kept her eyes lowered and did not look at her, yet her voice was as gentle as always: “It’s okay, I… I don’t blame you, and they didn’t do anything to me either.” Cheng Xi couldn’t help but swallow her saliva twice: “Being scared is human nature; it’s their fault, not yours. Though perhaps it’s also to blame that I make others dislike me too much… Actually, I was also very scared. Fortunately, Lin Su and the others have been discovered by the teacher now… We will be fine.” Humans are truly disgusting; committing such acts and then wanting to push all the guilt away with a few brief sentences? Cheng Xi felt it was highly ironic.

“Xixi, thank you!” The girl was covering her face with tears, choking with emotion as she was about to throw herself into Cheng Xi’s embrace.

“Thank you for what? Thank you for Xixi forgiving you? Thank you for selling Cheng Xi out to Lin Su’s little clique to preserve yourself? Thank you for selling out Cheng Xi—who was protecting you—even though you clearly knew the other party’s methods? Thank you for dragging an innocent person down with you even though you clearly could have resisted?” Jiang Zhixia pushed open the door with the light behind her back, the sinking light casting mottled shadows across her face.

“Hmm?” she questioned.

The girl hadn’t expected someone to overhear this conversation of theirs: “It’s not like that, it’s not like that, it’s that I was also very scared, I was too scared so I—”

“So that’s why you fabricated a story to Lin Su saying Cheng Xi seduced her boyfriend? To make Lin Su shift her gaze onto Cheng Xi and away from your body? So that’s why you go afterward to beg for forgiveness from the true victim, Cheng Xi?” Jiang Zhixia walked to the side of her bed.

“Jiang Zhixia, it’s okay, she—” Cheng Xi opened her mouth, trying to put on a brave front.

“You shut up. If you say ‘it’s okay’ one more time, I will beat you up.” Jiang Zhixia pressed Cheng Xi back down, continuing to look at the girl whose face was stark white.

“While it’s true that not everyone has the courage to fight back after being bullied, nobody pushes their own friend into a fiery pit with their own hands, right?” Whenever she thought about how Cheng Xi had suffered so much injustice and hardship yet still had to maintain her later kindness and love, Jiang Zhixia had the urge to pull her into her embrace.

“You knew what kind of methods Lin Su and her group would use, right? You even harbored a thought along the lines of ‘it doesn’t matter, she’ll end up just like me by then.’ Perhaps when you were kneeling on the ground, you were still thinking about what kind of wretched state Cheng Xi would be in. Tsk, look at you, both weak and malicious. How are you any different from Lin Su?” Jiang Zhixia leaned close to her.

“Wah—no, I’m not.” Unable to bear the pressure, the girl burst into a loud howl of crying, her face covered in tears and mucus, causing Jiang Zhixia to dodge away in disgust.

Cheng Xi maintained her silence, not speaking.

“Nannan, what’s wrong with you? Mom is here, I’ve come.” Chaotic footsteps echoed outside, along with the voices of a man and a woman speaking. The girl on the bed cried even more sorrowfully: “Mom, Mom, I’m here.”

The woman who pushed open the door hurriedly ran over to her front, pulling her into her embrace.

Jiang Zhixia instinctively looked toward Cheng Xi sitting on the other bed. Her gaze was very peaceful.

She will never wait to receive such a family member; being able to break away from relatives and remain alive has already used up all her strength. Fate is just this unfair, isn’t it?

“Hey, Xixi, want to go grab food?” Jiang Zhixia extended a hand to her, “I was originally supposed to just throw away the trash and go home for dinner.”

Cheng Xi paused for a moment, then placed her hand in hers and stood up.

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