Because of Fang Qianan's presence, both the teacher and the students were a little absent-minded in this class.
However, as the instigator of disrupting classroom discipline, Fang Qianan was completely unaware of this. All his thoughts were focused on the blurry figure he had just seen... In fact, when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember whether he had seen anything strange. After all, normal people would not carefully look at the reflection of their mobile phone after the screen was turned off.
It must be because I was scared by that thing in the comprehensive building before, so I am so suspicious, right?
Fang Qianan casually pulled out a book from the pile of reference books on the desk of a student next to him, and flipped through it nervously without reading it.
The student was naturally angry but dared not say anything. When the political teacher heard the sound of flipping pages coming from the back of the classroom, his face changed slightly, but he couldn't say anything. His expression looked very ugly.
Li Xiu, who was sitting next to Fang Qianan, was directly affected. The fingers holding the pen turned slightly white and he was enduring it with great difficulty.
So, when the bell rang, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
…
"Hey, Xiu, hurry up, show me the method you mentioned for exorcising ghosts."
After the political teacher announced the end of get out of class, Fang Qianan didn't even wait for everyone else to leave the classroom. He jumped up from his seat and went straight to Li Xiu and spoke anxiously.
Li Xiu shuddered at the sudden cold breath that fell on his ear, and subconsciously moved away a little, but Fang Qianan had one hand on the desk and the other hand pressing on the back of his chair. Li Xiu seemed to be held in Fang Qianan's arms, and even if he wanted to move away a little, there was nowhere to go.
"Hmm...wait a minute, let's talk after everyone else leaves."
Li Xiu hummed vaguely, trying in vain to make himself less noticeable.
However, looking over Fang Qianan's shoulder, Li Xiu was not surprised to see that as early as when Fang Qianan took the initiative to talk to him, the other students all looked in his direction with inquiring and puzzled eyes.
Li Xiu was silent.
It's no wonder that other students in the class couldn't help but steal glances at them.
To outsiders, Li Xiu's thin figure looked even weaker under Fang Qianan's suppression. Not to mention using power and status to suppress him, just based on the difference in size, Fang Qianan looked like he could crush Li Xiu to death at any time.
But to say that Fang Qianan disliked Li Xiu to the extreme and planned to teach him a lesson personally, judging from the current situation, it really doesn't seem like that.
It can even be said that at this moment, Fang Qianan's slightly bent posture and whispering in Li Xiu's ear seemed... seemed to reveal a hint of extremely subtle flattery.
Wait, wait a minute, when has Fang Qianan, the prince of the Fang family and Qiming's most feared school bully, ever needed to "please" others?
There were people who were looking at Li Xiu and Fang Qianan and were wondering about their breathing.
But the moment the thought "Fang Qianan is trying to please Li Xiu" flashed through his mind, he came to his senses because of the extreme absurdity of this idea.
The next second, he shuddered again because of his thoughts at that moment: Damn, what was he thinking? If he accidentally revealed his thoughts just now, he probably wouldn't be able to stay in Qiming anymore.
While wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, the student glanced curiously at his other classmates and found that they had also withdrawn their gazes, with an expression of looking at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses.
He then breathed a sigh of relief.
…
Li Xiu's expression was not right. Looking at Li Xiu like this, even Fang Qianan, who was a thick-skinned man, could sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the class.
The boy frowned and looked back.
"Why, you guys aren't leaving get out of class?"
Young Master Fang's cold words made everyone shrink their necks instantly, and their curiosity was thrown directly into Java. They left the classroom in a panic to avoid offending the prince.
Watching the classroom empty out at an astonishing speed, Fang Qianan raised his eyebrows, turned around with satisfaction, and smiled at Li Xiu attentively.
"Okay, is that okay now?"
With a hint of unconscious eagerness, Fang Qianan continued to urge.
Li Xiu sighed in his heart.
...He doesn't have any proper method to exorcise ghosts.
A faint bitter smile appeared on the lips of the thin and pale boy, and his dark eyelashes rustled slightly. Then he tore off a piece of paper from the notebook and wrote a line of words on the white paper in a flamboyant manner.
[Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness]
After writing, he handed the note to Fang Qianan.
Fang Qianan stared blankly at the familiar words on it, his expression frozen.
"What's this?"
he asked in shock.
He always thought that Li Xiu, who was born in a family that practiced shamanism, would draw some talismans or write some spells for him.
However, now he saw...
"Socialist core values."
Li Xiu actually answered him seriously.
"Are you kidding me?"
Fang Qianan's face turned a little ugly.
His tone was only slightly harsher, and the aura lingering around him instantly became sinister and menacing. For a moment, the cold, arrogant boy who hadn't cared about violence and school bullying seemed to have returned to Li Xiu. Li Xiu couldn't help but shudder slightly, and he took two steps back. His stunted ankle, clearly unaffected by any external force, inexplicably began to ache.
However, Li Xiu's loss of composure only lasted for a short moment.
"Who dares to play tricks on you, Fang Qianan? I don't want to be bullied at school again."
Li Xiu said indifferently.
Fang Qianan was stunned: "Didn't we agree to settle that matter? And I swear that I won't let anyone bully you again, okay?"
Li Xiu did not respond to Fang Qianan's various promises regarding school bullying.
His eyes and expression were very cold, so cold that Fang Qianan felt inexplicably uneasy.
"Hey, Xiu, that... I've already told you, I'm sorry, I won't do it again... I didn't mean to..."
Fang Qianan scratched his hair and said sullenly.
Li Xiu looked at him steadily. It was obvious that Fang Qianan, as the eldest son at the top of the pyramid, could not understand what his previous actions meant to an ordinary student like Li Xiu.
After two seconds of silence, Li Xiu curled the corners of his mouth.
What on earth are you expecting...
He thought to himself with self-mockery.
After suppressing all his emotions, Li Xiu spoke expressionlessly and easily changed the subject.
"Reason and science are the most effective weapons to dispel supernatural forces. If you'd like, next time you encounter something like this, you can just recite the mathematical equations... But, you probably can't remember such complex mathematical laws, right?"
Li Xiu spoke softly to Fang Qianan, without a trace of emotion in her tone.
As for what he said, it did sound a bit sarcastic at first, but combined with Li Xiu's serious expression, it seemed that he was serious.
"The core socialist values are only 24 words long. Even you should be able to memorize them."
"...oh."
Fang Qianan was a little confused by what Li Xiu said. He didn't know what to answer for a moment. He could only hold the note Li Xiu gave him tightly and responded blankly.
"Well, fine, I'm leaving."
Li Xiu had also packed up the reference books that she would read during lunch break. Putting the books under her armpit, Li Xiu pulled away from her seat and limped towards the classroom door.
"A Xiu, where are you going?"
Fang Qianan looked at him puzzledly and asked.
"Lunch break."
Li Xiu replied.
Fang Qianan subconsciously said: "Aren't you with me?"
Hearing this, Li Xiu turned around and gave him a very strange look: "Why should we be together?"
Fang Qianan was startled, then realized that after encountering the ghost, he had also taken the political class and memorized the core socialist values. They were not close friends, so there was really no reason for them to stick together even during lunch break.
That's the truth. But why do I feel so uncomfortable?
Fang Qianan fell into confusion.
Seeing that Li Xiu ignored him and turned to leave, Fang Qianan suddenly felt an impulse in his heart.
I don't want this person to leave me.
[A Xiu can only stay...by my side.]
There seemed to be a voice whispering deep in my mind.
"Fang Qianan...it hurts, let go!"
When he came to his senses, Fang Qianan found that he had rushed to the corridor and directly stopped Li Xiu. Not only that, in order to restrain the young man's actions, he inadvertently grabbed the other's wrist.
Perhaps because he used too much force, Li Xiu gasped, frowned, and showed a look of suppressed pain.
Fang Qianan's pupils shrank instantly.
He stared at Li Xiu's face, which had a slightly painful expression. Inexplicably, his mind emerged the expression of Li Xiu when he humiliated her before. The latter was so angry that his eyes were red and filled with tears because he could only be manipulated by others.
Without warning, a dark heat suddenly surged deep within the body.
Fang Qianan's hand trembled, as if it was burned, and he quickly pushed Li Xiu away.
"Feel sorry."
The boy said hoarsely.
"What else do you want to do?"
Li Xiu did not notice anything unusual about Fang Qianan.
He frowned and rubbed his wrist. No matter how much he reminded himself that the person standing in front of him was the school bully, his tone became uncontrollably bad.
"No, nothing." Fang Qianan stammered. "It's just..."
Halfway through his speech, Fang Qianan fell silent again.
Li Xiu looked up at him unhappily, only to find that for some reason, the other party had an expression of surprise and doubt on his face.
Was this because he was scared stupid before?
Li Xiu thought maliciously in his heart.
At this moment, a polite and flattering call suddenly came from the corridor.
"Mr. Fang!"
Li Xiu turned her head and saw at a glance that those little followers who were as small as goldfish poop and followed Fang Qianan on a daily basis had all run to this floor.
"I'm leaving."
Li Xiu felt a headache when he saw those children of powerful people. He no longer cared about anything else. Taking advantage of Fang Qianan's distraction, he made a quick decision and ran away with the book.
[A Xiu——]
Fang Qianan subconsciously wanted to follow again, but at this time other people had already come over and blocked his way.
"Mr. Fang, when I saw the messages in the group, I thought they were lying to me. I didn't expect you to actually be in the classroom attending the class?"
"Hahaha, the old guys in class must be shocked, right?"
"By the way, Mr. Fang, I saw a really funny joke in another class group, saying that you are now with that little lame..." Halfway through the sentence, the follower suddenly remembered the message sent by Fang Qianan in the group and quickly changed the subject, "It said that you and that Li Xiu have a good relationship, hahahaha."
"It's so funny! Do those people even know what your status is, Master Fang? How dare they say such nonsense?"
"But the person you were with just now was Li Xiu, right? What's going on, Mr. Fang? Are you trying to amuse yourself?"
The followers had actually seen Li Xiu a long time ago.
At this time, someone finally couldn't hold it in anymore and asked tentatively as if nothing had happened.
Fang Qianan's gaze was still fixed on the direction where Li Xiu had left. He didn't immediately respond to his followers' probing. As for his expression...
Several people exchanged glances and felt that Fang Qianan's expression at this time was really strange.
He didn't look angry, but if he looked happy, his stiff facial muscles didn't seem to indicate happiness.
These people were all sharp-witted people who had worked so hard to get by Fang Qianan's side. They had been with the prince for quite some time, but they had never seen Fang Qianan like this—
"Mr. Fang, did that guy offend you?"
Fortunately, among their group, there is a fool named Wang Rongfa.
When everyone else kept silent and tried to guess Fang Qianan's thoughts, this one person just shouted out without caring about anything.
"How about I go and teach him a lesson? I'm saying this little cripple still hasn't suffered enough, and he's still coming here to get in the way..."
Because of the malice in his heart, Wang Rongfa naturally disliked Li Xiu. At this time, when he saw Fang Qianan's face was not right, he naturally thought that Li Xiu had also offended Fang Qianan.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Fang Qianan suddenly turn his head and look at him coldly.
"How dare you—"
For a moment, the sound that fell into Wang Rongfa's ears seemed a little distorted.
It was clearly the middle of the day in the school corridor, but the moment Fang Qianan's gaze caught Wang Rongfa's eye, he felt as if the surroundings had suddenly darkened. Fang Qianan's pale irises looked like the eyes of a zombie, filled with a gloomy, eerie aura of death.
Wang Rongfa's body froze.
"Hey, Mr. Fang, I guess Lao Wang is just talking casually."
"Haha, he was just blinded by the goddess. Master Fang, you have already given the order. Who would dare to bully that little classmate named Li Xiu?"
"that is..."
Fortunately, after realizing that the atmosphere was too tense, someone in the crowd spoke up and started to smooth things over.
At the same time as the others spoke, the terrifying aura that made Wang Rongfa unable to move and his back glowing disappeared in an instant, so fast that Wang Rongfa himself was a little dazed.
He couldn't help but look at Fang Qianan again.
Fang Qianan's face was still very sour when he looked at him, and his eyes were full of warnings... However, Wang Rongfa did not feel the slightest bit of eerie horror.
"...You're already in your second year of high school, and you're still engaging in school bullying. Don't you think you're pathetic?"
Fang Qianan became increasingly unhappy when he saw Wang Rongfa staring at him in a daze.
With his status, he naturally doesn't need to take into account the self-esteem of a small fry like Wang Rongfa.
"Bullying Li Xiu for having no background or family background, ha, ridiculous. If you have the ability in the future, go and fight the Cheng family or the Xu family? Those two families are the ones the Zhang family would choose for marriage," Fang Qianan said with a sneer, "but you don't dare, do you?"
"I, I—"
"The Wang family's business relies entirely on the support of those two families, so how dare you fight them?"
Fang Qianan spoke in a calm tone, but his words were blunt.
Wang Rongfa's face flushed red, but he didn't dare to refute a word.
Fang Qianan looked at Wang Rongfa as if he was garbage.
"A toad can't eat swan meat, so it can't blame anyone. Wang Rongfa, don't think about taking your anger out on others. If you have the time, take a piss and look in the mirror to see what kind of person you really are."
…
It was rare for Fang Qianan to say so many words in one breath.
His undisguised disgust made it impossible for Wang Rongfa to stay in the small group.
He was essentially expelled.
When the others gathered around Fang Qianan, chatting and laughing, and went to take a lunch break, Wang Rongfa was the only one left in the corridor. Seeing the boys' backs disappearing, his face, which had originally turned purple, gradually turned pale.
"Wow, that guy is finished..."
"I guess business will be affected?"
"Hee, he's a nouveau riche. He was able to enter Mr. Fang's circle only because of good luck and shamelessness. It's normal for him to be kicked out."
…
There were quite a few students who witnessed what happened just now.
Wang Rongfa stood there stiffly, easily hearing the laughter from the others. After being expelled by Fang Qianan, the other students in the school naturally didn't have to worry about his thoughts.
humiliation.
pain.
panic.
…
Everything happened so fast that Wang Rongfa still couldn't understand why he had ended up in this situation. Just ten minutes ago, he was chatting and laughing with that group of second-generation people.
Just because he said he was going to cause trouble for that cripple, the social circle he had worked so hard to build up was completely destroyed.
With Fang Qianan's words, it is estimated that no one in the entire Qiming will want to have anything to do with him anymore.
I'm really finished now.
Countless bad ideas flashed through his mind. Wang Rongfa's body felt cold, his chest felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on it, and his eyes were dark.
He didn't even know how he had left that corridor. He only knew that he had escaped in a panic, because wherever he went, he seemed to hear those people's rampant and vicious taunts.
"He's just a little cripple... When did he hook up with Fang Qian'an? Damn, he looks like a man who is neither male nor female. I guess there's nothing he can do except sell his ass."
In order to avoid other students, Wang Rong unknowingly walked to the side of the comprehensive building. At this time, the teachers had already gone to eat, and the students would not come here.
The spacious and magnificent complex therefore appears particularly quiet.
Wang Rongfa randomly found a corner and sat down on the bench with his back hunched. While grabbing his hair, he lowered his head and stared at the ground - he recalled Fang Qianan and Li Xiu whom he had just seen, and his expression gradually became hideous and distorted.
He had never been known to be broad-minded. After such a blatant humiliation, the number of people he resented doubled.
"A bastard like Fang Qianan really thinks he's the prince. He wants to bully me just for a cripple? How can he have the guts to bite a guy like that? What a fucking pervert..."
Wang Rongfa's voice suddenly stopped.
Because he just happened to catch a glimpse of a familiar figure walking by not far away. He would never mistake that limping, slightly tilted back.
It's Li Xiu.
Wang Rongfa's eyes suddenly lit up.
He never thought that he would have such good luck... You see, when he was most upset, he happened to meet someone he could vent his anger on.
No one knew why Li Xiu came to the comprehensive building at this time, but in Wang Rongfa's opinion, Li Xiu had been bullied somewhere and looked even gloomier than usual.
He lowered his head, his chin almost touching his chest, and his long hair hung down, covering his face.
Wang Rongfa didn't think much about it, sneered, and followed him.
"Ka--"
"Ka--"
"Ka--"
What was a mistake was that Wang Rongfa forgot that the complex building was really quiet at that moment. He had only taken a few steps when he found that the sound of his footsteps was echoing very clearly in the empty hall.
Li Xiu, who was standing not far in front of him, seemed to pause for a moment. At that moment, Wang Rongfa thought that Li Xiu had discovered him, but he didn't expect that the latter didn't stay at all. After pausing slightly, he didn't even turn his head and continued to walk towards somewhere on the first floor of the comprehensive building.
Wang Rongfa chased after him and found that Li Xiu went directly downstairs from the fire escape.
Shit, this little bastard has actually discovered me just now, right?
Wang Rongfa no longer cared about the sound of his footsteps, and simply opened the door and chased after him. However, it must be said that even though this little cripple had a limp, his steps were surprisingly fast. Wang Rongfa thought he ran quite fast, but through the stair railing, Li Xiu's shadow was always looming, separated from him by a staircase.
Fortunately, Wang Rongfa did not lose him in the end. He saw Li Xiu push open the fire door at the end of the stairs and walk into the third floor below ground of the teaching building.
"Crack—"
Wang Rongfa also pushed open the fire door. When he reached the basement level, he saw a long corridor.
There is an elevator at one end of the corridor and a public restroom at the other. There are several offices in the middle, but they all look locked.
A chill mixed with dust spread up along his ankles, and Wang Rongfa shuddered.
Damn, it's cold.
He complained softly, glanced at the elevator, and sneered - the lights in the elevator were completely dark, obviously not activated.
Li Xiu had obviously just discovered Wang Rongfa, and in order to escape, he ran to the third underground floor in a panic. He originally planned to press the elevator, and while Wang Rongfa was still on the stairs, he would take the elevator back to the first floor and then run out.
As a result, the guy was unlucky. When he came down, he found that the elevator on the third floor below ground of the school was not in use at all, and he had no way to escape.
So...
Now the little cripple could only be in one place.
While thinking, Wang Rongfa also walked into the public toilet at the end of the corridor.
"Tick-tock—"
It's eerily quiet here.
Even the sound of water running from the faucet could be heard clearly. A faint stench filled the air, masked by the thick, nauseating scent of sandalwood. There was no one else in the bathroom.
Wang Rongfa peeked around and easily found that no one was in the other cubicles, only the door of the cubicle at the very end was closed.
Obviously, Li Xiu was inside.
Otherwise, how can we say that God is helping him...
Wang Rong couldn't help but grinning in ecstasy.
He looked around again, and after making sure that there was no one around, he picked up the mop used for cleaning behind the door and walked to the cubicle.
...In fact, at the very beginning, Wang Rongfa wanted to drag Li Xiu out of the toilet and give him a good beating with his fists.
However, Fang Qianan's previous warning to him was still fresh in his mind. Even though he cursed him harshly, Wang Rongfa still didn't have the courage to confront Fang Qianan directly.
However, this does not mean that he intends to let Li Xiu go.
Because just now, he found that Li Xiu had nothing on him, not even a schoolbag or a coat.
And when he walked, his hands just hung like that, as if they were empty.
This guy didn't bring his cell phone.
"...So, who told you not to bring your phone? Otherwise, you could have asked your husband who loves to fuck disabled people to come and save you."
Wang Rongfa laughed and ridiculed the people in the cubicle.
As he spoke, he passed the mop handle through the door handle of the bathroom stall and locked the door tightly from the outside.
Li Xiu was trapped in the bathroom stall, unable to open the door. Furthermore, the guy's legs were not in good condition, so even if he wanted to climb out, he couldn't. Unless someone heard his cries for help and helped him get the mop handle from outside, Li Xiu could escape.
It's a pity that Li Xiu just happened to run to minus three.
And from the deserted situation just now, it can be seen that no one uses this floor at all, and no one will come here at all.
"Bang--"
The compartment door was gently knocked on by someone from inside.
Wang Rongfa clapped his hands and took a step back.
"Just stay here."
He spoke to Li Xiu with resentment.
"Wait a day or two, I'll let you out when I'm in a better mood."
Li Xiu in the cubicle still didn't say anything.
Instead, there was another bang on the cubicle door.
"Bang--"
"Tsk, still pretending here."
I have to say, it's really satisfying to see someone locked in a cubicle with nothing but banging on the door.
After his passion subsided, Wang Rongfa calmed down a little.
Of course, Li Xiu would definitely complain after he got out, but I didn't leave any physical injuries on him. Well, at worst, I could find a few people to perjure myself and say that I didn't do anything wrong... With no evidence to support it, could Fang Qianan really embarrass me in front of so many people for a crippled person?
With a hint of uneasiness, Wang Rongfa swallowed and thought in his mind.
He turned and walked out of the bathroom door.
Then, Wang Rongfa glanced at the mirror on the bathroom sink.
The mirror that takes up almost an entire wall faces the toilet cubicle.
The reflected scene froze Wang Rongfa's movements.
"Bang--"
"Bang--"
"Bang--"
The cubicle door continued to bang regularly.
Wang Rongfa's breathing gradually became heavy. He was like a robot that had not been oiled for a long time. He turned his head with great difficulty and looked above the compartment in the corner.
When he entered the cubicle, he was busy searching for people in the cubicle, and naturally had no time to look at the ceiling above the cubicle.
But now, he finally set his sights on that location.
A slender figure was hanging above the last cubicle in the toilet.
A piece of waste electrical wire that had not been hidden properly during renovations hung from the ceiling, forming a rough loop. A swollen and blue face was tied to the loop, with its face hanging down and its chin almost reaching its chest.
A long tongue slipped out, blocking the head's gaping mouth. The handsome face, once popular among students, now looked unusually distorted and hideous.
Maybe... just maybe, when the noose tightened, the man struggled so hard that his neck became so long that it became a thin strip.
In the windless bathroom, the dead body, who was stretched into a long strip, was shaking rhythmically.
Therefore, his toes hit the door of the toilet cubicle regularly, again and again.
…
"Bang--"
"Bang--"
"Bang--"
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