Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 99: Sudden Incident

Chapter 99: Chapter 99: Sudden Incident

"He got into trouble and you didn’t tell me?" Fu Yu was somewhat annoyed, they were playmates after all!

Even if he was only close with Han Jiayang, but he was familiar with Han Mingyue as well!

Zhen Yu swallowed the food in her mouth, half turned and said, "Would it have been useful if I told you?"

Fu Yu was choked up, stubbornly said: "How do you know it wouldn’t have been?"

"Besides, even if it was useless, you shouldn’t have kept it from me!"

Zhen Yu lowered her gaze and turned around, "I didn’t keep it from you, I just didn’t have the time to say."

Fu Yu raised his hand to run his fingers through his hair, offered no rebuttal, and quietly continued eating.

-

After finishing her meal, Zhen Yu rushed out of the classroom to find Han Mingyue and saw him as soon as she stepped out.

The two exchanged smiles and walked towards the cement platform where the flag was being raised.

"Her,"

"You..."

Almost at the moment Zhen Yu opened her mouth to ask, Han Mingyue also started, he smiled upon hearing Zhen Yu’s voice, "You go first."

"Has she bothered you again?"

"No, I came to find you right after lunch."

"If she doesn’t call you, just ignore her!" Zhen Yu said snappily.

"I know." Han Mingyue smiled warmly, "Has she troubled you?"

"Not at all! I just peacefully had a class!" Zhen Yu replied succinctly.

"That’s good."

Han Mingyue stared at the ground, paused for a moment, then spoke again, "Xiao Yu, you, you should stop meddling in my affairs."

Zhen Yu sharply turned her head to look at him, her eyes intense.

Han Mingyue sensed her movement but didn’t turn his head, swallowed, and added, "I can take the punishment myself, don’t get yourself involved too."

Zhen Yu remained expressionless, yet her gaze softened, absentmindedly she muttered, "Got it."

-

About ten to twenty minutes later, the students who lived in dormitories and ate at the cafeteria gradually returned to the classroom.

The boys showed no particular changes, but the girls were all whispering and gathering in small groups.

Liu Ting and Zhen Yu both keenly noticed this abnormality, exchanged a glance, and Liu Ting spoke first.

"Zhen Yu~ Has something happened?"

Zhen Yu obviously had no idea, she had just returned to the classroom herself, so she simply responded, "Let’s wait and see."

After the class bell rang, the biology teacher entered the classroom.

After the routine greeting and barely sitting down, Liu Ting quickly approached Zhen Yu and said in a hushed tone, "Wu Qiong is missing!"

Zhen Yu suddenly understood, this was the time when things came to light.

-

The biology class was a total mess, the teacher called several names of female students, but still couldn’t stop them from whispering to each other.

Eventually, she simply acted as if she hadn’t heard them and kept on with her lecture.

Like most teachers, she thought, if you don’t study that’s your loss, not mine.

When the bell rang signaling the end of the class, the biology teacher quickly packed up her things and left, having no desire to deal more with this class given such poor discipline.

As soon as the teacher stepped out of the classroom, a loud burst of noise erupted inside.

"No way? Really?"

"I’m telling you..."

"I heard..."

"Ah? Really? Are you sure?" Wang Ping’s loud voice arose not far behind Zhen Yu, clearly indignant.

The girl he was talking to responded loudly after being questioned: "Why would I lie to you?! It’s all over the place, go outside and ask around if you don’t believe me!"

Wang Ping was silent for a moment before dejectedly saying, "I can’t believe she’s this kind of person! I even helped her before..."

While he was speaking, Wang Ping suddenly stopped.

Others might not understand, but Zhen Yu understood the unspoken implication.

In the previous life, Wang Ping always stood up for Wu Qiong in the dormitory; this life, besides bothering her during the National Day, Wu Qiong had used her multiple times in the dormitory as a scapegoat.

"Better hurry back to the dorm after school to check! Maybe you’ve also lost something!"

-

Good news usually stays hidden, but bad news travels a thousand miles.

With their voices so loud, coupled with the girls passing the message from one to another, within a class period, all classmates knew about Wu Qiong’s theft in the dormitory.

When the classroom was in a boisterous chaos, the class bell rang.

Teacher Cao entered the classroom with Wu Qiong, and everyone immediately fell silent.

If it were any other teacher, the students might have continued being unruly for a while, but in front of Teacher Cao, everyone absolutely dared not act recklessly.

Because he was not just a simple class teacher.

A few months into the term, with Teacher Cao’s domineering aura fully present, almost all students held a deep respect for him, as mice would fear a cat.

Sometimes, he didn’t even need to speak; a glance from him was like a gust of wind sweeping across the prairie, and the students would instantly shrink down, each one huddling up like quails.

Just like right now.

The cold gaze of Cao Yong swept across, bringing total silence in the class.

He cleared his throat and began to speak, "Before we start the class, there’s something I need to tell you all!"

"Here it comes~" was the thought running through every student’s minds.

"Presumably, you all know about Wu Qiong’s situation! This incident has caused a very negative impact, and after the school administration’s deliberation, it has been decided to order Wu Qiong to move out of the school within a week!"

"A buzz..." the classmates all knew that boarders stayed at school because their homes were too far away, and now they began to murmur, "If she moves out, where will she live?"

Zhen Yu watched this scene calmly, internally lamenting the ’love of parents worldwide’.

-

In the previous life, it was the same, the school’s so-called ’order’ came after consulting with Wu Qiong’s parents, and it was Father Wu and Mrs. Wu who had decided themselves.

The school originally wanted to record a major demerit against Wu Qiong and even announce a school-wide condemnation, but they hadn’t planned to kick her out of the school or the dormitory.

Probably because they felt her home was too far from the school and feared that expelling her could lead to her dropping out!

Eventually, Father Wu and Mrs. Wu pleaded repeatedly, asking the school to give their child a chance not to record the demerit, and agreed to have her move out.

After hearing this, the classmates felt that the school leaders had decided to handle it quietly probably because Wu Qiong’s grades were good enough to attend a high school and possibly even a key high school.

They strictly warned the class teachers not to propagate this matter further, so in the previous life, there weren’t many who confronted or ridiculed Wu Qiong face to face.

And indeed, Mrs. Wu rented a house and took Wu Qiong as a day student; outside of class time, Wu Qiong would not linger around in school, gradually diminishing the focus on this incident.

In the previous life, Wu Qiong didn’t manage to attend a key high school, and it’s uncertain whether this incident played a role, but she didn’t go to the most attended Qi City Second Middle School by her classmates; instead, she went alone to Kedong High School.

Probably because there, no one would know or talk about this past of hers.

-

Cao Yong silently counted to sixty, giving the students a minute to buffer.

Then he picked up the eraser, tapped it against the blackboard behind him, and seeing the students quiet down and look towards him, continued his lecture.