“Okay.”
“Did you eat the snacks I gave you this morning? Were they to your liking? I’ll buy them for you again next time,” Zhou Yining asked softly.
“They were all delicious. You might not believe it, but my family usually doesn’t let me eat these things. If I want to eat them, I have to buy them at school and eat them secretly.”
Jiang Xizhi blinked her beautiful fox-like eyes at Zhou Yining, her eyes full of smiles.
Zhou Yining was also amused by her.
“Okay, I’ll buy them for you later. Don’t eat them secretly, let’s eat them openly.”
“Okay.”
The two had already arrived at the open-air corridor where they had been last time while laughing and talking.
“Take out the wrong questions and let me see.”
Jiang Xizhi obediently took out her three wrong questions.
“Actually, I looked at the answers later and roughly know where I went wrong, but it’s still a bit difficult to do it again.”
“Okay, these three wrong questions all have a common point.
You haven’t mastered this one formula clearly. This one formula also has three variations…”
Zhou Yining became extremely serious when she started explaining the questions, wishing she could cram all the knowledge into Jiang Xizhi’s brain.
Her tone was gentle, and she would occasionally ask Jiang Xizhi if she understood.
Jiang Xizhi’s ear tips couldn’t help but turn red as she listened.
Zhou Yining was really good to her, and she was also very gentle.
How could she have hated Zhou Yining because of Zhang Ye before?
Zhou Yining was organizing the questions for her when she noticed that Jiang Xizhi was a little distracted.
Zhou Yining reached out and gently wrapped her arm around Jiang Xizhi’s lower back.
“What are you thinking about? You’re distracted.”
Jiang Xizhi’s ear tips suddenly turned red again.
The place where Zhou Yining had just touched her lower back felt soft and itchy.
“No, I wasn’t thinking about anything. Sorry, please explain it to me again. I didn’t hear it just now.”
Zhou Yining looked at her amusingly. The little fox had been caught and her face was flushed.
She was quite cute. “Okay, I’ll explain it again. You must listen carefully this time.”
“Okay.” Jiang Xizhi only felt her heart beating fast.
She took a deep breath and covered her chest with her right hand for a few seconds before refocusing her attention on listening to the explanation.
When the bell rang, Zhou Yining had already explained all three questions to Jiang Xizhi.
She instructed, “This week, you first review the content in your notebook by yourself, and then I’ll go over the key points with you again on Sunday.”
“Okay, I know. Thank you, Little Zhou Teacher. I’m leaving first.”
Jiang Xizhi blinked at Zhou Yining and ran towards the classroom.
Zhou Yining also quickened her pace back to the classroom.
She still wrote outlines during evening self-study.
When school was over, Tian Xue was already waiting for Zhou Yining at the classroom door.
She looked at Zhou Yining’s expression and still asked, “Are you really okay?”
“I’m okay. Didn’t you say you were going to treat me to milk tea? Let’s go, I’m still waiting,”
Zhou Yining said in a relaxed tone. She couldn’t rush this matter, and she didn’t want Tian Xue to worry.
“Okay.” Tian Xue’s eyes lit up.
She had lost her temper with Zhou Yining at noon, and she was eager to make up for it.
Hearing that Zhou Yining was still willing to let her treat, Tian Xue’s mood immediately improved.
“Let’s go. The milk tea shop at the entrance has several new flavors. You can drink whatever you want.”
“Okay, let’s get fruit tea, otherwise I won’t be able to sleep later,” Zhou Yining said after thinking about it.
After the two of them came out of the milk tea shop, Tian Xue became like before and started telling Zhou Yining about the gossip at school.
Zhou Yining listened with pleasure, because she knew that Tian Xue must be very important to the original owner.
After the two separated, Zhou Yining was still thinking about Lin Shaohui’s matter.
If she encountered Lin Shaohui next time, she would have to find a way to get more favorable evidence.
Although she had recorded last time, the recording only mentioned the video.
It didn’t specify what the video was about or what Lin Shaohui and his group had done.
Thinking about this, Zhou Yining sighed again. After several recordings, her broken phone was now terribly slow.
It took a good few minutes to open WeChat. Zhou Yining was really afraid that this broken phone would mess things up.
She had uploaded the previous audio to the cloud drive and then deleted the audio on her phone, otherwise the phone would freeze.
Zhou Yining casually picked up her phone and glanced at it, and saw that the 900 yuan in manuscript fees had been credited to her account.
If she could earn manuscript fees this week, then she would definitely have to replace her phone first.
When she returned home, the family was gone, but Zhao Xiuna was still at home cleaning up.
People had come to the house, and the floor was dirty. The bedsheets were also stained with snacks by the children. Zhao Xiuna was taking the clothes to the washing machine.
Zhou Yuanfei didn’t return to his room today.
Zhou Yining glanced at him, didn’t say anything, and was about to walk straight to the dining room.
Zhou Yuanfei stopped her. “Zhou Yining, don’t go too far.”
“What did I do?” Zhou Yining asked, her gaze coldly towards Zhou Yuanfei.
“I’m still your father, can’t you save me some face in front of relatives?”
“Face is earned, not begged for. If you don’t have face, you can only blame yourself, right? Isn’t it just that you’re incapable?” Zhou Yining glanced at Zhou Yuanfei, her tone indifferent.
Zhou Yuanfei was almost angered to death. “How have you become so sharp-tongued? I almost don’t recognize you anymore.”
“Yeah, so what? I’m quite comfortable like this now.” Zhou Yining was too lazy to pay attention to him and went straight back to the dining room.
Zhou Yuanfei was so angry that he sat on the sofa and gasped for breath. He couldn’t even out-argue Zhou Yining now. Mainly, in order to shut Zhou Yining up today, he lost two hundred yuan. Zhou Yuanfei became even angrier when he thought of this.
Zhou Yining was in a good mood as she went to wash up, and then she went to bed early.
High school students lacked everything, but they lacked sleep. Given her grades, there was no need to review, and the homework was even more unnecessary.
She had finished it at school. After Zhou Yining came home, she just wanted to sleep well.
At 5:30 in the morning, the alarm clock rang on time.
Zhou Yining reluctantly got out of bed. She really wanted to take the college entrance exam now.
Getting up early was really deadly.
Zhou Yining resigned herself to getting up and then went to school.
During the big break after the second class, she had to do exercises.
After the exercises, there was a short 20-minute break.
Tian Xue was too sleepy and went back to class first.
Zhou Yining, on the other hand, was strolling around the playground.
It was definitely a torment to go back into the classroom.
As she walked, she saw a few people not far away gathering towards her.
Zhou Yining’s eyesight was very good, and she immediately recognized that the leader was Lin Shaohui.
Zhou Yining took out her phone, pressed the record button in advance, and then put her phone away, pretending to walk away.
Lin Shaohui and the others immediately took the bait and ran towards Zhou Yining.
“I thought it looked like you, and it really is. Zhou Yining, we’re really destined. What do you think?” Lin Shaohui teased, and the two boys next to him laughed.
Zhou Yining looked at him and asked coldly, “Is this very interesting? Tell me, what do you want?”
Lin Shaohui looked Zhou Yining up and down. “Tsk tsk tsk, your temper is growing. Do you know how respectful your little friend is when she sees us?”
Zhou Yining scoffed. She looked coldly at Lin Shaohui. “Just you? What’s there to be respectful about?”
Lin Shaohui frowned. Seeing the coldness in Zhou Yining’s eyes, he curled his lips. “Zhou Yining, you’re really boring now. I still like the way you cried and begged us a year ago. Your little friend is more interesting.”
“That’s right, that’s right.” Han Fei echoed from the side.
Another follower of Lin Shaohui couldn’t stand Zhou Yining’s arrogance.
He scoffed, “What are you pretending for? Have you forgotten about the video? You still dare to talk back to us. Do you really think we’ve deleted the video?”
Zhou Yining’s eyes darkened, but she was secretly delighted. A fool had taken the bait.
“Isn’t it just pretending to be a girl, sneaking into the girls’ locker room, and secretly filming us changing clothes? Let’s not talk about the fact that we were all wearing underwear.
Even if we weren’t, so what? The despicable ones are you who secretly filmed us. We’re all victims.
Stop threatening me with the video. If you have the guts, post it. I’ll take another look at you.”
Zhou Yining’s voice was very loud, with an aura of disregard for the consequences.
She coldly swept her gaze over the three of them. “As long as you dare to post it, I’ll dare to call the police. As long as people have done something, they will leave evidence.
Secretly filming is not a small matter. If you want to go to jail, feel free to post it. No one is stopping you. Post it now.”
Lan Guangwen was frightened by Zhou Yining’s aura.
In the past, Zhou Yining would cower and tear up whenever this matter was mentioned, and she would ask them to keep their voices down, afraid that others would hear about it.
How had Zhou Yining become like this after a year? She was actually speaking so loudly. Wasn’t she afraid of making things worse?
Lin Shaohui was also taken aback, but boys of this age valued face.
He refused to let himself be at a disadvantage and still pretended, “Okay, Zhou Yining, I haven’t seen you in a year, and you’re quite brave now. I underestimated you. But do you really think we don’t dare to post it?”
“Then post it. Post it in front of me now. You men only know how to brag. You’re all cowards. It’s really ridiculous.” Zhou Yining said loudly, as if she was going to watch the people post the video now.
“You, you think I’ll post it just because you tell me to? You’re crazy, Zhou Yining, you’re really crazy now. What bad luck.”
Lin Shaohui and his group came to block Zhou Yining because they felt that Zhou Yining looked better than before and was also doing well in school.
It would be fun if she could kneel down and cry to beg them, but who would have thought that Zhou Yining was not only tough but also not afraid of this matter getting out, and even had a tendency to go crazy?
This was not what he wanted to see.
Lin Shaohui instantly felt bored. He curled his lips. “It’s boring, it’s really boring. Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go quickly.”
Lin Shaohui ran into a wall with Zhou Yining and quickly gave his two followers a look.
The three of them left the playground dejectedly.
Zhou Yining pressed the save button and saved the recording.
Sooner or later, she would make these animals pay the price.
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