"Before you make a move, why not explain why?" Yu He raised a hand and asked.
"You don't know? Can't face up to what you've done?"
"Pee in a puddle and take a look at yourself. Who do you think you are, daring to seduce Sister Li's Senior Lu!"
The two sycophantic girls spoke one after another.
Yu He thought for a moment and vaguely recalled Lu Chenyu's situation that morning. She was speechless.
She glanced provocatively at Han Lili, "Are you an idiot?"
"Shit!" Han Lili spat out her gum and cursed, "You're tired of living!"
"You're the idiot!"
"How dare you call Sister Lili an idiot!"
The three of them clenched their fists and bared their knives, scaring Luo Xiaoyao so much that her legs trembled. There was even a knife!
She tugged at the hem of Yu He's school uniform. "Classmate, please don't provoke them anymore."
Yu He remained unfazed. "Since they're here for me, don't hurt anyone innocent. Let Xiaoyao go."
"Do you think we're stupid? If we let her go, won't she go call a teacher?" one of the sycophantic girls said.
Han Lili, however, said, "It's fine, let her go."
She stared at Luo Xiaoyao and warned, "If you dare to call a teacher, I guarantee you won't be able to stay at Kaiwei!"
Luo Xiaoyao shivered with fear and clutched Yu He's clothes. "I... I won't go. I'll stay and accompany you..."
Even though her voice was trembling with fear, she was still unwilling to leave alone.
"No need. Go wait for me outside the door. I'll have something to ask you later." Yu He gave her a reassuring look.
Luo Xiaoyao hesitated, but eventually went out.
As the door was closing, Yu He suddenly said, "Guard the door. Don't let anyone in."
Luo Xiaoyao: "?"
Was her deskmate also afraid of being seen being bullied?
That made sense. Such a thing was not honorable and would only make her lose face if it got out.
Then should she go find a teacher?
But if she called a teacher, would Han Lili really make her unable to stay at Kaiwei in the future?
The corridor outside the classrooms was deserted after school. Luo Xiaoyao stood by the restroom door, hesitating for ten minutes, before finally making up her mind.
It should still be in time to call a teacher now, right?
"Creak~"
At that moment, the restroom door opened.
Yu He walked out, unharmed.
"Classmate, are you alright?" Luo Xiaoyao inspected her from head to toe.
She was completely unharmed!
"I'm fine, let's go," Yu He said.
"How could they let you off so easily?" Luo Xiaoyao was shocked.
In the past, when she was going downstairs, she had accidentally blocked Han Lili's path and was pushed down the stairs by them.
Another time, when she went to the restroom, because she was a little slow, they had doused her with water and locked her in the restroom for an entire afternoon...
"They probably saw reason," Yu He said.
Saw reason?
They realized that school bullying was wrong?
Luo Xiaoyao followed her steps, looking back three times. She didn't see the three of them come out of the restroom.
The two of them returned to the classroom.
"Classmate, thank you," Luo Xiaoyao said, still feeling a lingering fear.
In the past, whenever she was bullied by Han Lili, everyone had turned a blind eye.
In the current situation, even though they were targeting Yu He, she believed that if she had stayed, they would definitely have attacked her.
Although she didn't know what methods Yu He had used to deal with them, she had a hunch.
Her goddess deskmate was very capable!
"By the way, you said earlier that you had something to ask me. What was it?" Luo Xiaoyao remembered Yu He's earlier words.
Yu He packed her schoolbag and looked at her.
Luo Xiaoyao blushed under her gaze and smiled shyly.
Yu He felt that the time was almost right and asked directly:
"Is Robin your father?"
The smile on Luo Xiaoyao's face instantly stiffened. As if she remembered something, the next moment, "Bang—"
She fell to the ground, chair and all, her face filled with a terror even greater than when facing Han Lili.
"I... I don't know any Robin."
Luo Xiaoyao frantically put away her schoolbag and hurried away, stumbling out of the classroom.
Yu He watched her retreating figure. It seemed she had found the right person.
She had watched the surveillance footage of the car accident countless times. The traffic rules at the time were fine; a car suddenly rushed out and hit her adoptive mother's car.
The case concluded that the driver of the offending vehicle was drunk, but he was already dead and could not be held accountable.
However, after the offending driver died, his wife's illness suddenly had funds for treatment, and their daughter was now attending Kaiwei Academy.
It was hard for Yu He not to suspect something was amiss.
—
Ye Zisu deliberately waited in the classroom until everyone else had left before slowly packing her textbooks.
Then she walked towards the restroom.
She had received word that Han Lili would be teaching Yu He a lesson in the restroom after school.
She wanted to see Yu He's miserable state with her own eyes!
There was no one else in the corridor, and the restroom door was closed.
Ye Zisu listened at the door for a while, but heard no sound.
Curiously, she gently pushed the door open, only to be startled.
She saw the three of them, Han Lili and her two companions, lying in a disheveled state on the wet floor, their limbs twitching, crawling towards the door in bizarre postures, their faces contorted in pain.
Fortunately, it was daytime. If it were night, one might think it was Sadako from The Ring...
Seeing that someone had finally arrived, the three of them laboriously raised their heads, their mouths agape, wanting to call for help, but no sound came out. Tears streamed down their faces.
Ye Zisu was terrified and bewildered.
What was going on?
Weren't they three supposed to be teaching Yu He a lesson?
Why were they all down on the ground? And where was Yu He?
"Call 120."
Finally, Han Lili laboriously used her tears to write words on the floor, asking Ye Zisu to call an ambulance.
That evening, the heads of several major departments at the City Center Hospital, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Surgery, Orthopedics, and Neurology, gathered to study the case.
They finally diagnosed the conditions of the three individuals.
Their limbs were paralyzed, their vocal cords were affected, and their tear glands had been tampered with by needles.
There were no other bruises or injuries on the three of them, which indicated that the person who did this had exceptional skill in locating acupuncture points, likely an experienced old Chinese medicine practitioner.
But how could an experienced old Chinese medicine practitioner be in a school, playing such a pointless prank on three female students?
"Excuse me..."
A weak voice suddenly sounded in the conference room.
The conference room door had been pushed open at some point, and a man wearing thick glasses peeked in and asked.
"Who are you? Don't you know the hospital's conference room can't be entered without permission... Mr. Qi, it's you, hehe~"
One of the attending physicians turned around angrily, only to find it was Qi Nan. He chuckled awkwardly.
Qi Nan had been searching for clues about an anonymous divine doctor recently. He became so excited at the mention of "old Chinese medicine practitioner" that he immediately perked up.
"Where is this experienced old Chinese medicine practitioner you're talking about?" he asked.
"We haven't seen him in person, but the patient in room 201 should know," another doctor replied.
Qi Nan thanked them and turned to head towards room 201.
In the ward.
"Investigate! Your school must thoroughly investigate who did this heartless act. I want their entire family to pay the price!"
Mrs. Han stood by Han Lili's bedside, gnashing her teeth as she spoke to Director Luo.
The school bore a certain responsibility when a student had an accident on campus, even if that student had a poor track record before.
Moreover, Han Dalei held a significant official position in the city.
"Madam Han, please calm down. I will investigate this matter thoroughly," Director Luo replied subserviently.
Han Lili lay in the hospital bed, her limbs weak and unable to speak.
However, she still struggled to tug at her mother's clothes and shook her head, indicating that there was no need to investigate.
She had underestimated that country bumpkin!
To think she carried needles with her, such a sinister thing!
She would get her revenge for this humiliation herself!