Pampered by the School Bully
Chapter 355 - 348. Seeing her message, Huo Feng felt guilty! (2)

Chapter 355: 348. Seeing her message, Huo Feng felt guilty! (2)

In the afternoon, after leaving school, Huo Feng had already been wandering outside the campus for a whole day.

He didn’t want to go home, didn’t want to meet up with friends, didn’t want to see his brothers, didn’t want to visit anywhere someone could recognize him as Huo Feng.

In essence, what happened today was indeed the greatest humiliation Huo Feng had experienced in his 18 years of life!

The sudden calamity, the ’good student’s setup, the ’good teacher’s’ false accusation, his biological father’s distrust, and Pu Sangzhi’s contempt... Each of these was a factor that could easily hurt Huo Feng.

And when so many of these factors came at him together, Huo Feng was truly crushed.

In the afternoon, after falling out with Pu Sangzhi, Huo Feng had completely despaired...

He left the school with extreme thoughts in his mind.

His initial plan was to get a new SIM card for his phone, buy a train ticket, run away from home for maybe half a month or a month...

Go somewhere where no one knew him, work odd jobs, have some fun, make a bunch of new friends, not go to school, and just hang out in society.

After all, he was just a bad student, a delinquent, or you might say a hopeless Adou, living a listless life fit for his image.

But later, when he flipped through his wallet and found only 300 yuan, the cold reality slapped his face violently...

In today’s society, having a phone is more important than having cash because the money is all in the phone...

However, after such a humiliating event, Huo Feng had no desire to turn on his phone at all, didn’t want anyone to be able to contact him.

So, in the end, he could only abandon the idea of running away far from home. He chose a remote internet café and rented a single-person private room.

From the afternoon until night, in the old game, he leveled up a new account to an old one, even sold gear to earn back the internet café money. Just that this money was transferred to his card, so he still had no cash...

During this time, his phone was off the entire time, though he had charged it fully, he had never considered turning it on.

The internet café was on the pricier side, especially since he had rented a single-person room, costing 15 yuan an hour. From the afternoon into the night, he had already spent over 200 yuan because he had also bought snacks and beverages.

At half-past two in the morning, Huo Feng estimated that his acquaintances would have probably gone to bed by then and cautiously turned on his phone to ask the internet café owner to exchange some cash from his phone balance.

He had originally wanted to be carefree to the end, rebellious enough to infuriate his father.

But who would have thought, after powering on the phone, that the barrage of messages received... would soften his heart.

Huo Feng hadn’t dared to open these messages, deliberately trying to ignore them, forcing himself not to click on the message-filled WeChat.

After turning it on, Huo Feng immediately took his phone to the internet café owner and got 500 yuan in cash, conveniently ordered a bowl of midnight noodles, bought a bag of snacks, and several Red Bulls.

After returning to his single booth, Huo Feng should have turned off his phone immediately, but as he was about to do so, his hand slipped and accidentally tapped the ’Notes’ app...

In the app, the very first note was a life goal he had set for himself: "Get into Tsinghua, marry her and bring her home"...

Suddenly seeing these eight characters, memories of Pu Sangzhi tutoring him flashed through his mind, and for a moment, Huo Feng softened.

He quietly looked at these words, inevitably recalling the reaction Pu Sangzhi had when he had said those words to her.

Sometimes, Huo Feng felt quite weak...

Every time he thought of her, every time he pictured her face, his heart would be pulled by her.

Just like now, he still weakly thought of her, still felt an impulse... to seek her out.

Huo Feng had actually thought about a lot of things this noon.

The so-called good and bad student theories, he had pondered a whole set of them.

In the end, he concluded that good students were all alike, all looking down on bad students like himself.

Chen Ruixiang was one, and Pu Sangzhi was as well...

Thinking of being looked down upon by Pu Sangzhi made Huo Feng angry inside...

Yet that anger seemed to have lasted only one day.

Because by this moment, he was already starting to miss Pu Sangzhi.

The deep night is the most lonely and desolate moment of the day.

In such moments, the emotions that have been brewing are easily released...

Therefore, Huo Feng eventually couldn’t overcome the thoughts of missing Pu Sangzhi in his heart and couldn’t help but click into WeChat.

He wanted to see... if there was anything related to her in WeChat?

He also wanted to know... how she was doing after being spoken to like that by him today?

With various thoughts in mind, Huo Feng saw the explosive row of messages in WeChat.

Several groups were looking for him, each of his ten brothers had sent him messages, and at a glance, the messages filled the screen of his phone...

Huo Feng tapped into the very first message at the top and began to slowly scroll up.

He freed one hand to open a Red Bull and, while drinking, lazily leaned on the couch, intently reading the messages.

The messages from Pu Sangzhi were sent at noon, so they were at the bottom, which Huo Feng hadn’t scrolled to yet.

But even though he still didn’t know that Pu Sangzhi had messaged him,

Seeing in the group that his brothers kept tagging him, telling him ’your big sister-in-law is terribly worried’ and such, Huo Feng’s hardened heart finally began to soften.

After reading through a 99+ message group, seeing his brothers looking for him everywhere, Huo Feng felt deeply gratified.

Finally, he found some reasons to stay.

Even though so many people insulted him, oppressed him, his pack of sons were still truly with him.

At this moment, Huo Feng had dismissed the idea of leaving home to travel far away.

He thought, for his ten sons, he must stay.

His ten sons still missed him, were still looking for him...

After exiting the group message, Huo Feng started looking at private messages.

He went through all the messages his ten sons had sent him privately, one by one; each of them was anxiously asking, each of them concerned about him. These messages soothed Huo Feng’s wounded spirit, slowly warming his heart.

He sipped on his Red Bull, and the corners of his lips lifted slightly. Finally, he showed his first smile of the day, although it was faint...

Suddenly, Huo Feng clicked on the private message from Wang Chao.

Among a long list of caring messages, there were two that mentioned Pu Sangzhi.

The messages read:

[Feng bro, how could you speak to sister-in-law like that? Those words were too harsh!]

[Sister-in-law cried because of you, she cried during both of her exams this afternoon; the invigilator was even freaked out by her. Her eyes were swollen from crying! Don’t you feel any pity?]

[Anyway, I think you were too harsh on sister-in-law. She truly cares about you, she searched for you with us the whole afternoon, didn’t even eat, and was upset by you to the point of crying all afternoon...]

[Think about it yourself, I reckon you should apologize to sister-in-law.]

Huo Feng suddenly saw a series of such messages...

That instant, the hand holding the Red Bull paused mid-air, his expression froze, and even his heart ached intensely!

That piercing heartache suddenly stimulated Huo Feng’s nerves, causing him to frown tightly, quickly putting down the Red Bull and clenching the fabric over his chest.

"Huuh..."

Huo Feng took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, busying himself with calming his emotions before finally feeling a bit more at ease.

Undoubtedly, knowing that Pu Sangzhi cried because of him, Huo Feng felt just as upset, just as pained!

He didn’t expect her to cry...

He didn’t expect that she would shed tears over Huo Feng...

Realizing that he was the cause, Huo Feng felt an even stronger sense of self-reproach and guilt!

It was only then that Huo Feng belatedly realized, he had done wrong...

He really shouldn’t have; of all things, venting his anger on Pu Sangzhi was the least acceptable.

To have made her cry...

Was he still a man?

And so, Huo Feng’s heart inevitably fell into a bout of self-doubt, self-blame, and self-repentance.

After a while, as he scrolled further down in the chat history, Huo Feng discovered that Pu Sangzhi had also sent him WeChat messages.

She sent many; each one was comforting, each one showed trust and concern for him.

Seeing these sincere messages of care, Huo Feng felt even more regretful! He covered his eyes directly, looked up, and heaved a deep sigh...

She said: [I trust you wouldn’t cheat, I believe in you!]

She also said: [I understand your feelings, even though I don’t know the situation, but you must have been wronged.]

And the last message: [Pu Sangzhi understands Tian Feng... I get you.]

She trusted him so much, so much...

She had searched for him the whole afternoon...

She had sent him so many messages...

She didn’t even eat lunch, waiting for him outside the classroom where he was taking his exam...

She stopped him, actually also not wanting him to be penalized...

She clearly did so much...

And damn him, he had actually lashed out such harsh words at her!

Thinking of all these, Huo Feng’s sense of guilt began to uncontrollably condemn himself!

He really deserved to die...

How could he treat her like that?

Was his brain sick!

"Tsk..."

At this moment, Huo Feng truly felt that he was extremely pathetic!