This was a middle school student with a blunt fringe and a small, round face.
She was still in her school uniform, her backpack slung over her shoulders. Her eyes were filled with malice, and when she saw Li Mengxiao, she rushed forward as if to slap her. Fortunately, quick-thinking police officers intervened and stopped her.
"Bitch!" Even though she was restrained, the middle schooler continued to curse loudly, "Shameless slut! Seducing my idol, why don't you just die!"
Hearing this, Li Mengxiao was utterly bewildered. She hadn't been in the industry for long, and the number of artists she was truly familiar with could be counted on one hand. The only artist she was close to was Xia Qingtian.
When had she ever seduced an idol?
The middle schooler, seemingly losing all reason, kept lunging forward. Eventually, the police had to pull her away, ensuring Li Mengxiao's personal safety.
Soon, the middle schooler's parents arrived, their attitude arrogant. The first thing they said was, "My child is still a minor. It's just a child's prank. If you have the guts, arrest her. It'll save us the trouble!"
The ensuing argument was headache-inducing.
Finally, the police officer in charge invited Xia Qingtian and her two companions aside and explained the situation.
It turned out this wasn't the first time the girl had done something like this.
She was an extremely fanatical sasaeng fan. She had previously injured someone, and her family had paid compensation to the victim. Because she was a minor, she hadn't faced specific criminal charges.
After that incident, the sasaeng fan had only resorted to harassment, causing disturbances outside people's homes, but hadn't harmed anyone else.
"Anyway, my birthday hasn't passed yet, I'm not even 14! What can you do to me?" The middle schooler was now yelling, "She's the shameless one! I just want to teach this little whore a lesson! I'm upholding justice! So what! You police are useless and can't handle such a slut! I'm exercising justice! So what!"
Her emotions seemed to be running high, and her voice even cracked.
Finally, an older policeman let out a stern shout, "What's all the noise about! Your birthday is tomorrow according to your ID! Do you believe I'll put this case on hold right now and process it tomorrow, locking you up for a few years!"
The older policeman's roar made the middle schooler's entire family back down, and they immediately fell silent.
"Exercising justice? What right do you have to exercise justice? Is that what you call justice?" The older policeman snorted, placing his teacup on the table with a cold voice. "Apologize quickly! If compensation is due, pay up honestly! Otherwise, if this escalates, you'll have a criminal record at such a young age, and then where will you go to cry! Instead of focusing on your studies, you talk about exercising justice? What a joke!"
With the older policeman's coordination, the subsequent matters proceeded more smoothly. The middle schooler's parents expressed their willingness to pay symbolic compensation and have Li Mengxiao clean the wall and the area outside the door again.
The middle schooler, however, gritted her teeth and refused to apologize, her eyes glaring as if she wanted to kill someone.
Li Mengxiao still looked bewildered, as if this was the first time she had encountered such a situation and wasn't sure what to do.
"We do not accept any negotiation," Xia Qingtian stated. "As previously discussed, let the case be held until tomorrow. We don't care about compensation; I just want her to have a record!"
"You! How can you be so malicious!" The parent's face changed upon hearing Xia Qingtian's words. "She's just a child!"
"She's not my child, what does she have to do with me?" Xia Qingtian retorted sarcastically. "Besides, looking at her, this won't be the last time she harasses my friend. Why waste national resources and trouble Uncle Police Officer next time? It's better to settle it all today."
Xia Qingtian's words made the middle schooler's family turn pale.
"After all, who wouldn't want to exercise justice?" Xia Qingtian said with a sarcastic smirk.
"You! You wretched woman! You're all in cahoots! None of you are good people! You just wait! I'll kill you! I will definitely kill you!" The middle schooler shrieked with a sharp voice.
"Isn't this already considered a threat?" Xia Qingtian's expression was calm. She glanced at her watch and smiled, "I have plenty of time. We can take our time dealing with this. Even if we have to stay here until tomorrow, I don't mind."
While Xia Qingtian said she had time, the middle schooler's family couldn't afford to drag this out with her.
Seeing Xia Qingtian's attitude, the parent feigned hitting their child on the back and cursed a few times, telling her to apologize to Xia Qingtian.
The middle schooler said nothing, but Xia Qingtian mocked, "What? Afraid of wrinkling the uniform if you hit too hard? How much does that school uniform cost? Is it a branded special edition, or a custom haute couture?"
Hearing Xia Qingtian's words, the parent gritted their teeth and delivered two hard slaps to their child's face.
After delivering the slaps, the parent turned to Xia Qingtian with a grim expression.
"Children make mistakes. A verbal reprimand and a little education should suffice. Domestic violence is never good," Xia Qingtian said in a lukewarm tone that almost choked the originally arrogant parent.
The middle schooler, who had just been slapped, looked utterly shocked and bewildered. She wanted to throw a tantrum but could tell from her parents' darkening faces that this matter was far more serious than any of her previous mistakes.
Although extremely unwilling, she lowered her proud head and apologized to Xia Qingtian and Li Mengxiao.
Seeing that Li Mengxiao had no intention of pursuing the matter further, Xia Qingtian said, "I want a handwritten apology letter and a letter of guarantee from her, ensuring she will no longer harass my friend."
Xia Qingtian's request wasn't excessive. The parents knew Xia Qingtian was likely a tough nut to crack. They could only scold their child while urging her to quickly write the guarantee letter and apology letter, and also to curse the celebrities for harming their child and turning her into what she was.
Their obsession with chasing stars had completely eroded any sense of reason.
"I forbid you from speaking ill of Ling Feng Han!" The middle schooler, who had been silently enduring, held the pen and dutifully wrote the apology letter and guarantee.
As soon as she heard her parents mention her idol, the middle schooler became agitated, her voice raising considerably. She pointed her finger at her parents' noses, her voice trembling, "You have no right to talk about my idol! Do you know how hard he works!"
Seeing their child like this, the parents immediately deflated, like extinguished firecrackers, and even placated her with comforting words.
The middle schooler, filled with indignation, finished writing the apology letter and guarantee, slapped them onto the table, and turned to leave, acting as if she had suffered immense injustice.
The child's mother immediately chased after her, murmuring soothing words.
The child's father looked embarrassed, signed the documents according to procedure, and then left.
Xia Qingtian picked up the apology letter and guarantee, her mouth twitching. "Her handwriting is bad enough... but she used so much pinyin..."
If she had put even a fraction of that effort into her studies, she wouldn't be writing like this.