Chapter 172: Thrashing Sheng Yueyue
"You’re the one whose parents got divorced! Your whole family is divorced..." Dong Baozhu shot back, furious.
Perhaps it was because her Cousin Jiaojiao was by her side, or perhaps she had just reached her breaking point.
After shouting, Dong Baozhu felt a sense of relief wash over her. She remembered her brother telling her how Cousin Jiaojiao had beaten up a classmate for insulting her.
She, too, had often wanted to beat up the classmates who spouted nonsense and made passive-aggressive comments about her all day long.
When the girl saw Dong Baozhu dared to talk back, her anger flared. "Let me tell you, you’ve got some nerve, talking tough when you have an uncle in prison!"
"You... you..." Dong Baozhu’s face flushed bright red, and for a long moment, she couldn’t form a complete sentence.
"Excuse me, you’re deliberately trying to hurt Dong. What do her uncle’s affairs have to do with her?" Gu Jiaojiao said, unable to stand by while her cousin was bullied.
"Who are you? Don’t think you can boss me around just because you’re pretty. Do you have any idea who my dad is?"
The girl asked arrogantly, pointing a finger right at Gu Jiaojiao’s nose.
There was nothing Gu Jiaojiao hated more than someone pointing at her nose. ’Another daddy’s girl,’ she thought.
"I don’t care who your dad is. I, Gu Jiaojiao, am not one to be trifled with. You bully my cousin again, and we’ll see if I don’t beat you to a pulp."
Gu Jiaojiao said this softly, grabbing her left hand with her right and cracking her knuckles loudly. CRACK! CRACK!
The arrogant girl was so scared she stumbled backward. "Gu... Jiaojiao, I wasn’t lying."
"Dong Baozhu thinks she can seduce He Ailin from our class just because she’s pretty. But let me tell you, Dong Baozhu, he’s just toying with you..."
Gu Jiaojiao was speechless.
’This little brat said all that just to slander Dong Baozhu and steal a boy.’
’Are sixteen and seventeen-year-olds really this precocious these days?!’
Dong Baozhu’s eyes were red with anger. "How can you say that with a straight face? ’Toying with me’? Hah! When did you ever see me getting close to He?"
"Stop playing innocent. The entire tenth grade, Class Two, knows about it. You gave him a love letter, and he wrote back to you. It happened more than once, too!"
Seeing that Gu Jiaojiao wasn’t actually attacking her, the girl grew bolder and raised her voice. She probably would have bolted if Gu Jiaojiao had made a move.
No matter how powerful her dad was, he wasn’t as powerful as Song Dan’s dad, and rumor had it that Gu Jiaojiao had beaten up Song Dan without a second thought.
"Love letters? How could I..." The accusation left Dong Baozhu speechless, unsure for a moment how to refute it.
He Ailin had never given her any stupid love letter. That was a love letter her younger aunt had written to He Ailin’s older brother.
She was only delivering it for her aunt. And she had, in fact, picked up a reply from He Ailin’s older brother for her aunt as well.
To think this classmate was using that to frame her! "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Dong Baozhu was furious and about to explode. She didn’t understand why this classmate would slander her like this in public.
"Nonsense? Hmph. Are you denying you two exchanged love letters? That time I saw you at the school gate, I saw you two..."
This girl had liked He Ailin since middle school, so she always paid close attention to his every move.
The day He Ailin went looking for Dong Baozhu, she knew at a glance that their relationship was anything but simple.
She had indirectly warned Dong Baozhu, but as soon as she mentioned He Ailin, Dong Baozhu immediately denied knowing him well.
This just made the girl latch onto Dong Baozhu even more stubbornly, insisting that she was trying to seduce He Ailin.
"Didn’t you hear what I just said? I really don’t know He Ailin well," Dong Baozhu stressed again.
’Other than helping my younger aunt deliver letters, I really don’t know He Ailin. Besides, I can’t possibly marry my own uncle’s younger brother, can I!’
Before, it was because her younger aunt didn’t want to make it public. But now, her aunt was officially engaged to He Ailin’s older brother.
"That was a letter from my younger aunt to He’s older brother. My aunt is already engaged to his older brother."
The other girl was speechless.
After a few awkward seconds, she pouted petulantly. "Well, why didn’t you just say so? You made me think He was your boyfriend!"
"You never asked me, so how was I supposed to tell you? I can’t just go around shouting at every classmate that my younger aunt is marrying He’s older brother!"
Dong Baozhu finally felt vindicated. It wasn’t that she was unaware of the gossip among her classmates.
But she knew the person her younger aunt had always wanted to marry was Su Shuochi.
What she didn’t understand was why her younger aunt was secretly writing to He Ailin’s older brother.
Her classmates only ever pointed and whispered behind her back. No one had ever confronted her directly. Today was the first time.
"Dong Baozhu, I’m sorry. I really didn’t know," the girl apologized sincerely.
Once she learned that Dong Baozhu and He Ailin would be relatives, she immediately wanted to get on Dong Baozhu’s good side.
And just like that, the two girls walked off hand-in-hand, leaving Gu Jiaojiao not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
’It’s great to be young. An age where you can be as willful as you want.’ She forgot that she herself was only eighteen.
"Cousin Jiaojiao, are you waiting for me?" Dong Qiming asked as he parked his bike, seeing Gu Jiaojiao standing in the middle of the path.
"Not really. I was going to walk my cousin to her classroom, but her classmate dragged her away. By the way, how are your parents?"
"Sigh! They’re still in a cold war. It’s mainly my dad ignoring my mom," Dong Qiming said worriedly.
Gu Jiaojiao didn’t know how to comfort her cousin, so she brought up Su Shuochi instead.
The moment they started talking about him, both cousins’ moods lifted, and they walked into the classroom side-by-side, talking and laughing.
"Gu Jiaojiao! You bitch! How dare you cheat on that cripple and shamelessly hook up with another guy!"
Sheng Yueyue’s shrill voice echoed throughout the classroom. She was wearing a white dress.
She was tall and slender, her face made up exquisitely, yet here she was, screeching with no regard for her appearance.
Gu Jiaojiao frowned at her words and sneered inwardly, looking at Sheng Yueyue’s face, which was twisted in a ferocious grimace.
She recalled Mr. Sheng’s eyes welling with tears, and the worried, gloomy face of Sheng Shiwu.
’The Sheng Family is really reaping what they sowed!’
Gu Jiaojiao wanted nothing more than to slap her a few times, but she had to maintain her composure. "Sheng Yueyue, what do you mean by that?"
Sheng Yueyue glared at Gu Jiaojiao, her eyes filled with rage. "You dare ask me what I mean? You’re so shameless."
"How is she shameless? Jiaojiao is my cousin. What’s wrong with us walking together?"
Dong Qiming took a step forward, shielding Gu Jiaojiao from Sheng Yueyue’s venomous gaze.
Sheng Yueyue planted her hands on her hips, looking aggressive. "You know I don’t like her, yet you’re deliberately helping her. We’re the ones who are neighbors!"
"Being your neighbor is a curse. We have to endure your demonic wailing and screeching every day. Your family spoils you, but I won’t put up with it."
Dong Qiming said this mercilessly in front of all their classmates.
"Your mom is the one who wails and screeches all day! Every student here knows your dad doesn’t want your mom anymore..."
SLAP! SLAP!
Unable to contain his rage, Dong Qiming lunged forward and started wailing on Sheng Yueyue. No matter how arrogant she was, Sheng Yueyue was no match for Dong Qiming in a fight.
All she could do was take the beating.
Gu Jiaojiao didn’t step in to break up the fight. She had a clear sense of right and wrong, and besides, she never felt sympathy for malicious people.