in2ebook Chapter 254 Thorny Rose (11)
Chapter 254 Thorny Rose (11)
Yan Zhen held up his umbrella to shield himself from the falling trash and sighed helplessly.
These people targeting her were just high school students, so they didn't dare to go too far and used some common methods of school bullying.
But this kind of thing is fine once or twice, but if it happens too often, it's like a toad crawling on your feet—it doesn't bite, but it's disgusting.
The only way to end this one-sided bullying is to make a big fuss about it.
She quickly came up with an idea.
After having dinner at the cafeteria, Yan Zhen attracted all sorts of stares along the way. She felt like she had become a hot commodity, exuding a charming, money-grubbing aura that lured people who were either short of money or had ulterior motives to pounce on her one after another.
After attending evening self-study, Yan Zhen returned to his dormitory.
As soon as she reached the third floor, she heard wails coming from dormitory 307, and a crowd of onlookers had gathered at the door.
Yan Zhen maintained his pace and walked past the people at the door into the dormitory.
In the living room, all seven girls were there, their faces looking rather grim. In her own room, a girl who wasn't from room 307 was kneeling on the floor, clutching her arms and wailing, her forehead covered in cold sweat.
The room was a mess. The bed curtains, blankets, and pillows on my bed had been pulled down, textbooks were scattered all over the floor, the small desk lamp was broken, and an unknown liquid had been splashed on the desk. The whole dormitory room smelled strange.
The girl was kneeling on the ground, her hand holding a mousetrap with a sharp blade instead of a clip. The trap would automatically lock when triggered, and a small key was needed to open it. Her fingers were bleeding profusely from being pinched.
Upon seeing Yan Zhen enter, the girl's eyes flickered, clearly showing some guilt, but she preemptively shouted, "How dare you hide such a dangerous thing in the dormitory? I'm going to report you!"
“Okay, when the counselor arrives, I’ll tell her about your burglary and damage to my personal property.” Yan Zhen leaned against the door frame. “I remember the school has a clear rule that theft will result in expulsion.”
The girl's expression changed.
Finally, after "friendly negotiation," Yan Zhen agreed to help the girl remove the mousetrap on the condition that she pay compensation and restore the dormitory to its original state.
After more than two hours of cleaning, Yan Zhen received a brand new set of bedding, a dormitory restored to its original state, and an extra 3,000 yuan in "compensation for mental distress" in her WeChat account.
The bullying continued the next day and even escalated – the rat in the drawer turned into a live snake, someone put "spicy" food in her bowl while she was eating at a restaurant, and the things falling from above her head changed from trash into flower pots.
What left Yan Zhen speechless was that she took leave from evening self-study to go out and buy things. A boy followed her out of the school and stopped her outside the school, saying that he wanted to do a "deal" with her.
"You pretend to be bullied by me, then drop out of school. Once I get that million, we'll split it 50/50."
Yan Zhen ignored him and continued walking forward.
The boy, undeterred, followed: "You won't last a week anyway. Since you're going to drop out of school anyway, you might as well make this money... How about a 60/40 split? You get 60, I'll get 40!"
"Seven parts, three parts! You get seven, I get three!"
"82! That's my bottom line!"
Yan Zhen didn't even turn his head.
The boy stared at her back, gritted his teeth, glanced around to make sure no one was watching, took out his phone to record a video while quickly walking forward, intending to ambush Yan Zhen from behind.
He wanted to try and get that million.
But as soon as he got closer, Yan Zhen turned around without warning, and the stun gun in his hand almost hit his face.
The boy was startled and immediately stopped.
Yan Zhen said coldly, "Get lost if you don't want to die."
The boy gritted his teeth, weighed the situation for a few seconds, and realized that this seemingly thin and weak girl was not as easy to deal with as he had imagined. He could only walk backwards reluctantly.
Yan Zhen went out for a while and returned to the dormitory with a heavy backpack.
When she entered the dormitory, Xu Zhiyun was doing a test paper at her desk, seemingly serious, but actually secretly glancing at Yan Zhen out of the corner of her eye.
Yan Zhen gleaned something from her action. He lifted the bed curtain and looked up at the top of the bed. The new quilt was folded neatly, just as it had been when she left that morning.
There was nothing unusual on the surface. Just as she was about to reach out to touch it, Xu Zhiyun suddenly coughed.
Yan Zhen turned to look at her.
Xu Zhiyun kept his eyes straight ahead and coughed twice as a hint.
Yan Zhen understood, took a step back, puffed out his cheeks, and blew on the bed sheet, causing a layer of fine powder to float up.
Sure enough, someone had tampered with her bed.
Yan Zhen was silent for a few seconds, then rolled up the three-piece bedding set and took out a spare one from the wardrobe to change into.
As Yan Zhen was dealing with the three-piece set, he passed by Xu Zhiyun and whispered, "Thanks."
Xu Zhiyun responded softly, "Mm."
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On the third day, the bullying escalated further.
Despite his best efforts to defend himself, Yan Zhen was still hit by a basketball thrown rapidly from behind after evening self-study, causing him to stumble forward and fall to the ground.
She scraped her hands and knees from the fall.
By the time she got up from the ground, the culprit had already disappeared.
Yan Zhen stood still and took several deep breaths.
She walked slowly toward her dormitory, and as she passed Swan Lake in the center of the school, she heard hurried footsteps behind her.
Yan Zhen turned around and a boy ran towards her, roughly snatched her schoolbag, and ran into the woods next to her.
Yan Zhen: "..."
Does this person think she can't see through such an obvious tactic to lure her over?
Yan Zhen stood there for three seconds, then, remembering the plan she was going to carry out that night, she touched the stun gun in her arms and "chased" into the woods.
"Don't run! Give me back my backpack!"
The woods were pitch black. As soon as Yan Zhen entered, she was hit on the back of the head and collapsed limply.
A black cloth bag was quickly placed over her head, and someone carried her, who was "unconscious," into the depths of the woods.
A few minutes later, the man put Yan Zhen into the restroom in the grove.
This restroom was a spare because it was far from the dormitory and the teaching building, and hardly anyone came here. Yan Zhen immediately realized what the other party wanted to do—lock her in the spare restroom.
The man put Yan Zhen into the restroom, then reached into her pocket to search for her phone.
Taking advantage of the other person's attention being on her pocket, Yan Zhen took out a stun gun with one hand, struck forward by instinct, and ripped the cloth bag off her head with the other.
A scream came from the bathroom. Yan Zhen, who had just pulled off the bag, saw clearly that there was a man and a woman in front of him. The man had been shocked by a stun gun and was lying on the ground unconscious.
The girl is Xu Zhiyun.
Xu Zhiyun was surprised that Yan Zhen was still awake. When she realized that she had been exposed, she panicked and suddenly raised her hand, slapping the stun gun out of Yan Zhen's hand. Then she pounced on Yan Zhen and grabbed his neck.
This was Xu Zhiyun's first time doing something like this, and she was both anxious and scared. She kept increasing the pressure on her hands, and her voice was trembling with anxiety as she said, "Four days is enough. You just need to stay here for four days. I really need that money! Once I get the money, I'll come back and apologize to you!"