“Holy crap, did you hear? Today Xu Si pushed a guy from Class 7 into a corner and beat him up. His face was all swollen. I heard that student had pretty good grades and even won scholarships in previous years.”
“Isn’t the guy who got beaten up Liu Xingfa from Class 7?”
“Yeah, that’s him!”
“Stop talking about it, Xu Si is coming this way.”
The youth wore his school uniform casually. His black hair fragments contrasted sharply with his pale skin, making him look unapproachable. Only after he left did those people breathe a sigh of relief, unsure how much of their conversation he had heard.
Yang Shikun had heard most of their gossip and felt angry: “These people know nothing but spread rumors behind others’ backs. I think Si-ge should have beaten that beast to death. It’s disgusting how he acts like a good student but does inhuman things behind everyone’s back.”
He wanted to rush over and argue with those ignorant people, to throw Liu Xingfa’s disgusting actions in their faces and show them what kind of person he really was.
Hao Ming was also angry: “Si-ge, should we explain? Everyone thinks that beast is the victim and that you’re bullying him.”
Hearing this, Xu Si looked up at both of them: “Let them talk.”
After all, he wasn’t a good person either. If this matter got out, that girl probably wouldn’t be able to stay in school anymore.
“Liu Xingfa, did Xu Si really hit your face?”
A male student looked at Liu Xingfa’s swollen face with confusion.
Liu Xingfa remembered Xu Si’s dark eyes and words from yesterday, and still felt somewhat scared. But then he thought, Xu Si definitely wouldn’t tell anyone about this, so he could say whatever he wanted.
He touched the injury on his face and pretended to be scared: “Yeah, I don’t know how I offended Xu Si. I’d never even met him before, let alone spoken to him. He suddenly beat me up, and my face still hurts.”
A somewhat chubby female student spoke up: “Damn, that’s too much! He can’t just randomly pick someone to beat up.”
Liu Xingfa: “I really don’t know how I provoked him.”
“Oh my, your face looks seriously injured. Should you go to the hospital?”
“Those injuries look really painful.”
“You’re so pitiful, Liu Xingfa.”
He was surrounded by people, rightfully enjoying their sympathy. When something happens, people tend to naturally side with the supposed weak ones, believing they’re the ones being bullied. Liu Xingfa was exploiting exactly this psychology. But these people were really stupid, believing everything he said.
The news about Xu Si beating someone up spread to Class 17 through other classes. However, most people in Class 17 knew Xu Si better. Though he usually seemed not to care about anything, he was actually protective of his own. When people first came to cause trouble in their class and their classmates were bullied, this guy who always seemed half-asleep in the back grabbed a chair and charged at those troublemakers, single-handedly taking down a group of people: “Don’t fucking mess with Class 17.”
Although Xu Si always lazily slept in the back row, after that incident, almost no one dared to cause trouble in Class 17 anymore.
At noon, Liu Xingfa was going on and on to people around him about Xu Si’s evil deeds, portraying him as a campus bully who randomly picked on students.
Xu Si and Yang Shikun had just bought their lunch when they saw Liu Xingfa entering the cafeteria. Yang Shikun felt like his eyes were contaminated seeing this filthy person again.
When Liu Xingfa met Xu Si’s gaze, he remembered how yesterday the youth had pinned him down and punched his face repeatedly. He had felt like he was dying from the pain, but the youth hadn’t let him go.
“Xingfa, isn’t that Xu Si? The one who bullied you?” A male student beside Liu Xingfa whispered.
“Yes, that’s him.” Liu Xingfa came to his senses, realizing they were in the cafeteria, in public. Xu Si couldn’t do anything to him here. As he passed by Xu Si, he muttered under his breath, “Stupid motherless bastard.”
Xu Si glanced at him and immediately slammed his food tray onto Liu Xingfa’s head. In an instant, sauce dripped down from Liu Xingfa’s head.
Xu Si grabbed his collar: “Shut up.” Then he threw Liu Xingfa to the ground.
The incident from yesterday was already spreading like wildfire, and this sudden event attracted everyone’s attention in the cafeteria. People forgot about their food as all eyes turned to the scene. Who doesn’t love some drama?
Yang Shikun couldn’t help cursing: “Liu Xingfa, are you asking for it? Didn’t you get beaten up enough yesterday? You just had to run your mouth again?”
Liu Xingfa stuck his neck out and said: “What did I say? What are you saying I did? Why are you hitting me?”
The boy next to him also spoke up: “This is school violence! How can you just randomly hit people? This is too much!”
Even the usually good-tempered Hao Ming was speechless. He said to Liu Xingfa: “Randomly hitting people? That’s funny. Si-ge never hits ‘people.’ Heaven sees everything you do. Don’t ask others why when you have no shame yourself.”
Xu Si crouched down, looking at the disheveled Liu Xingfa, and warned quietly: “Keep acting up, and I guarantee you won’t even make it out of this school.”
Only after Xu Si left the cafeteria did everyone feel the oppressive atmosphere lift.
The boy next to Liu Xingfa helped him up: “Xingfa, they’re bullying you too much. Should we tell the teachers?”
“No need.” Liu Xingfa remembered the youth’s look just now and fearfully shrunk his neck. “I’ll go back to the dorm to change. My clothes are all dirty.”
“Want me to go with you?”
“No need.”
After leaving the cafeteria, Yang Shikun was about to explode with anger, cursing: “Stupid Liu Xingfa, wasn’t yesterday’s beating not enough? Today he dares to come provoke us again, and then acts innocent asking why we hit him. I’m laughing my ass off.”
Xu Si pressed his lips together without speaking.
After finishing his rant, Yang Shikun was still upset. He looked at the cold-faced Xu Si: “Si-ge, don’t mind that idiot. He’s not even human. And he calls himself a good student? If he’s a good student, are there any bad students left in this world?”
At the mention of good students, Xu Si thought of someone who spoke precisely and properly, like an elementary school student. He replied flatly: “I don’t care.”
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