They only care about so-called “face”

Xu Yueming, afraid of being scolded, didn’t dare to peek and quickly started reading her own book.

Zhou Yining didn’t bring her bag, so the books she had under her desk were limited.

She could only grab one to pretend.

Luckily, she did her homework quickly and kept it at school; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to hand in today’s assignments.

When the first class ended, Zhou Yining took her cup and got up to get water.
The boys in the class started gossiping again.

“Zhou-jie is getting prettier, and her aura has changed too.”

“Yeah, especially after changing into nicer clothes, she looks even better.”

“But Lin Shaohui and them filmed those videos of her, such a nice girl, what a pity.”

“Damn, speaking of the videos, has anyone seen them?
Any resources?”

“Are you crazy?
Lin Shaohui and them just got arrested, do you want to go in too?”

“Tsk, just kidding, okay?
Besides, don’t you want to see them?”

Yu Yang’s seat was next to them.

Hearing this, Yu Yang slammed her water cup heavily on the desk, startling the few boys.

“What are you doing? You scared me to death.”

The boy who had just asked about the videos covered his chest and glared at Yu Yang.

Yu Yang glared back, standing up and scolding,

“Cheng Fei, you guys are so perverted.

Zhou-jie is already upset enough about what happened, and you’re still joking about the videos.

You guys are disgusting.”

Yu Yang’s voice was loud.

Cheng Fei’s face turned red.

Seeing everyone in the class looking at him, he tried to defend himself, “I was just saying it, I didn’t really want to watch, I didn’t want to watch.”

“Yeah, we just blurted it out.

Besides, the people who filmed the videos have been caught, the videos are long gone.”

Many people in the class were still looking at the boys, especially the girls.

Since Zhou Yining came, girls would often ask her questions, and she would explain them if she had time.

Therefore, Zhou Yining had pretty good popularity in the class.

The girls started to ridicule Cheng Fei and the others one by one.

“I’ve finally seen real-life perverts.

Turns out they’re right here with us.

Girls in the class, be careful.”

“Exactly, some people have foul mouths and rotten hearts.

Cheng Fei, if I remember correctly, Zhou-jie helped you with your homework before, right?

Is this how you repay her?

You’re so disgusting.”

“Yeah, joking about other people’s pain, so dirty.”

“Today we’ve seen real perverts, what an eye-opener.”

“Hey, don’t generalize.

There are still many normal guys among us, just those few are abnormal.”

“Right, from today on, you’re expelled from the guys’ club.”

“Yeah, yeah, we guys don’t have people like you.”

“We girls definitely don’t have people like that.”

The class was talking all at once, but everyone was united in ridiculing and mocking Cheng Fei and the others.

The few boys returned to their seats, looking ashamed, burying their faces in their books, not daring to raise their heads.

Zhou Yining witnessed this whole process.

When she came back from getting water, Yu Yang was arguing with those boys, and more and more people joined in.

Zhou Yining originally wanted to go and confront them herself, but now it seemed like she didn’t need to.

The corners of her lips curved up.

She felt that the girls in her class were quite cute.

Of course, some of the boys were normal too.

That’s right, she was biased; girls could always get better treatment from her!

Zhou Yining walked into the classroom as if nothing had happened.

Some girls wanted to comfort her but didn’t know how to start.

Zhou Yining didn’t really care.

School was a miniature society, and everything that happened in school was actually a microcosm of real society.

Society’s malice towards women was undisguised.

She could imagine that if her video were posted online, would more people sympathize with her and stand up for her, or would more people think that there’s no smoke without fire, wanting to get the video?

Never underestimate other people’s malice, especially men.

Their malice towards women is often undisguised.

Soon, the class bell rang, and Cheng Fei and the others finally felt like they had come back to life.

Being called perverts by the whole class was no fun.

He would never be so loose-lipped again.

During the second class break, the students still had to go to the playground for exercises, but because it was Monday, all the students had to line up for the flag-raising ceremony.

Zhou Yining wasn’t wearing school uniform pants.

She switched places with Yu Yang, who was standing in the inner row, so it wouldn’t be too obvious from the outside.

The teacher from the academic affairs office began to host the flag-raising ceremony.

Just as they were preparing to raise the flag, Zhou Yining heard the sounds around her gradually becoming noisy.

“Damn, why is someone on the roof of the teaching building?”

“Look, there’s a girl sitting on the edge of the roof.
Damn, is she trying to commit suicide?”

“Where, where is she?”

“On the tenth floor of the building across the way.”

Zhou Yining looked in the direction people were pointing and saw a girl sitting on the edge of the teaching building roof, as if she would be blown off by the wind.

The crowd erupted.

The school leaders were also shocked and quickly said, “Each class, line up and have the students return to the teaching building first.”

But the students wouldn’t listen to the command at this moment.

Everyone was concerned about what was happening with the girl on the roof of the teaching building.

People at the school were scared to death.

They immediately called the police and 119 to wait for rescue.

At the same time, several teachers rushed to the roof, wanting to persuade the student.

At this moment, someone had already recognized who the girl on the roof was.

The students were discussing in the crowd.

“Isn’t that Shi Qian from Class 2?”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s Shi Qian.

She asked the teacher for leave before the exercises, saying she wasn’t feeling well.

How did she get to the roof?”

“What’s going on?

Didn’t hear about anything happening in Class 2.

Wasn’t it Zhou Yining from Class 19 who had something happen?”

“Zhou Yining is fine.

I even saw her on the way to school this morning.

She looked great.”

The students were confused, while the teachers, at the request of the school leaders, were trying to keep things quiet and start dispersing the students on the playground.

The PE teacher shouted loudly through a microphone,

“All students return to class as quickly as possible in order.

The homeroom teachers should quickly supervise the students in each class to return to class.

Any class that doesn’t follow the rules will have points deducted by the duty students.”

There was a burst of discussion from the students.

“They’re trying to cover it up again before figuring out what’s going on.”

“Yeah, they’re deducting points before we even know why that student is jumping.”

“Let them deduct points, it’ll be fine if no one goes back.”

“That’s right, don’t leave, everyone stay.”

A few classes that listened had already left in order, but more classes wanted to stay and watch the fun, especially the sophomores; many stayed.

Zhou Yining looked at the girl sitting on the rooftop of the 8th floor, her brow slightly furrowed.

Hadn’t the Lin Shaohui thing already come to an end?

The students at school only thought that she was the one who had been secretly filmed.

What was Shi Qian trying to do?

The playground was in chaos, with groups of people watching the fun and others worried about Shi Qian.

The scene was chaotic.

Ten minutes later, police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances drove into the school.

Firefighters had already spread out the safety cushion and were quickly inflating it.

The safety cushion was large and thick, but its effective height limit was limited, generally only five stories high.

If it was higher, even if someone fell onto the safety cushion, there was still a high possibility of injury.

Zhou Yining ran to the teaching building.

She directly pressed the elevator to the 8th floor, wanting to see if there was anything she could do to help.

When she took the elevator to the 8th floor, she found that Li Yuting and Tan Yue were also there.

Li Yuting was still relatively calm, but when Tan Yue saw Zhou Yining, she immediately cried,

“What to do? What to do now?

The teachers have set up a cordon and won’t let us go over to persuade her.”

Zhou Yining frowned and quickly explained to the teacher from the academic affairs office,

“Teacher, we are Shi Qian’s friends.

We know why she wants to commit suicide.

Please let us go over and persuade her.”

“Get out of the way, get out of the way, what class are you from?

You’re just adding to the chaos.

Don’t you see it’s chaotic enough?

Get down quickly.”

The male teacher from the academic affairs office was anxious and clearly angry that students had come up.

He said to the other two young teachers, “Stop the elevator.

No one is allowed to come up.

Also, have you contacted Shi Qian’s parents?

Contact them quickly.

If something happens, the school will be in big trouble.”

“Okay, okay, we’ll take care of it right away.”

“By the way, take these three girls down. Don’t let me see them again.
Get them out of here.”

Zhou Yining didn’t want to leave, but there was nothing she could do.

She was “invited” down by the two young male teachers.

Tan Yue was about to cry, she murmured,

“Everyone didn’t know about this, why did she have to do this?
Why can’t she think things through?”

Zhou Yining, seeing that she couldn’t go up to the rooftop, had to quickly run back to the playground.

Luckily, Shi Qian hadn’t moved, she was still sitting on the edge of the teaching building.

Shi Qian’s legs were dangling outside, making people tremble with fear, as if she would fall off the roof in the next second.

The homeroom teacher of Class 2 had already rushed over.

She held a microphone and persuaded, “Shi Qian, calm down, you must calm down.

Let’s solve things slowly.

Don’t be impulsive.

If you want to say something to the teacher, or if you want me to convey something, you can tell me.”

On the rooftop, a firefighter went over to give Shi Qian a megaphone.

He was afraid of irritating Shi Qian, so he was very careful.

Shi Qian also saw the firefighter, she reached out to the firefighter, indicating that she wanted the megaphone in the firefighter’s hand.

The firefighter immediately handed over the megaphone.

His movements were very careful, for fear of angering Shi Qian because of his actions.

Shi Qian took the megaphone and shouted below, “Have my parents arrived?”

The homeroom teacher quickly comforted her, “Soon, soon, they’ll be here soon.
They’ll definitely be here in ten minutes.”

Shi Qian picked up the megaphone, and the harsh sound of the megaphone sounded again, “Then I’ll wait another ten minutes.”

Her tone was rarely calm, and the legs she had hanging outside shook again, making people feel particularly worried.

Zhou Yining pursed her lips as she looked at Shi Qian sitting above.

Was she really just because of Lin Shaohui and the others?

Or was there another reason?

Not far away, the homeroom teacher of Class 2 was still earnestly persuading,

“Shi Qian, you have always been a good kid in the teacher’s mind.

Let’s talk about things slowly.

If you have conflicts with your parents, you can also talk calmly.

The teacher is here, don’t be afraid, go back to a safe place first, okay?”

Shi Qian put the megaphone to her side, no longer answering any of the homeroom teacher’s words.

The firefighters were also guarding the rooftop, but Shi Qian’s sitting position was too dangerous.

As long as her body leaned forward, she would fall.

No one dared to act rashly.

The best way was to persuade Shi Qian to wait in place and let the firefighters carry out the rescue.

Ten minutes later, Shi Qian’s parents finally arrived at the playground.

Shi Qian’s father took the microphone from the teacher with a stern face and said,

“Shi Qian, stop making trouble.

So many people are watching.

If you’ve caused enough trouble, come down quickly.”

“Yeah, Qianqian, your dad and I are so busy, but we still made time to come.
What are you doing?”

Shi Qian’s mother also didn’t understand what Shi Qian was trying to do.

Shi Qian, sitting on the edge of the teaching building, laughed, but when she laughed, her eyes were filled with tears.

Shi Qian excitedly picked up the megaphone from her side and shouted below,

“Shi Wanlong, or should I call you Director Shi?

Besides your face, what else do you care about?

Is your face worth so much?”

“Shi Qian, don’t talk nonsense.

So many classmates are here.

Are you trying to make me lose face?”

Shi Wanlong was wearing a white shirt with a stand-up collar and suit pants.

He looked like a shrewd and capable person.

Shi Qian cried even harder,

“You only care about your face, you only care about yourself.

I was secretly filmed by Lin Shaohui, so what?

He’s the one who’s wrong.

Why are you blaming me?

Why are you saying I’m shameless?”

Shi Qian took a breath and continued, “Yes, I made you lose face, so just pretend you don’t have me as a daughter, okay?”

Shi Wanlong was the director of a certain unit in Nanchuan City.

Usually, he was the one who directed others to do things.

Now that his daughter had caused such a big incident, he felt that his face had been completely lost.

Therefore, his tone became stern, “Shi Qian, my patience is limited.

I won’t say anything about what happened before.

Come down here quickly.

Don’t think that you can force me and your mother to feel guilty by doing this.”

In Shi Wanlong’s opinion, his daughter was just throwing a tantrum, just going against him.

He absolutely did not believe that Shi Qian would jump.

Shi Qian’s mother thought the same way.

Her mother was a teacher at Third High School, with a decent job, but she was not as calm as Shi Wanlong.

She was a little panicked and advised, “Qianqian, don’t scare mom.
If you’re angry with us, don’t joke with yourself.
Go up quickly, don’t sit there.”

Shi Qian shook her head while crying.

Since returning from the police station, she had not had a moment of peace.

She still remembered the look in her father’s eyes, full of disgust, as if she herself had seduced those boys to film the videos.

“My face has been completely lost because of you.”

“Do you know that I went to a meeting today and ran into a friend from the police station?

He even asked about you being secretly filmed.

I’m a director, at least.

How can I face people in the future?”

“There’s no smoke without fire.

There are so many girls in your school, why didn’t they film others, but you?

You know in your heart how you were posing in school.”

“Shameless, simply shameless.

You still have the nerve to call the police after this kind of thing happens.

That Zhou Yining is also a shameless madwoman.

No wonder people wanted to film you guys.

I think you three are birds of a feather!”

“You still dare to talk back, you still dare to talk back, I’ll beat you to death…”

Every sentence filled with malice was said to her by her father, and her mother remained silent throughout the whole time, not standing on her side.

She still had wounds on her back from being whipped with a belt by her father.

Shi Qian suddenly laughed loudly.

She laughed at her father’s hypocrisy, only thinking about his official career, laughed at her mother for always putting her father first, and laughed at herself for being born into such a hypocritical family.

Only when she behaved well could she get a rare word of praise from her parents.

Once she did not meet their expectations, they would beat and scold her.

She lived in endless PUA [Psychological manipulation] .

Shi Qian suddenly felt very tired, she thought of what Zhou Yining had said, yes, people should live for themselves, other people’s opinions were not important.

But she was too tired, too tired to continue.

See, her parents only thought that she was throwing a tantrum.

Even though her legs were already dangling in the air, they were still unwilling to say a soft word to her.

No one cared about her, they only cared about their so-called face.

Shi Qian put the megaphone to her side, a long-lost smile on her face, she looked relaxed.

Her body slowly leaned forward, and she jumped from the 8th floor.