Chapter 21.2 : The Principal Stands Up for Tang Qingmo (Part 2)
"Principal, you have to stand up for me!"
Zhang Ling cried with snot and tears running down his face, hoping to get the principal to back him up.
But Principal Lin would not convict someone based on a student's crying alone. He frowned and looked at Tang Qingmo.
"Student Tang, is what Student Zhang said true?"
Having just finished his lottery draws, Tang Qingmo was in a fairly good mood. He nodded and said, "If the principal is only asking about what happened in the classroom today, then yes—I was the one who hit Zhang Ling."
"Principal, you heard him too!" Zhang Ling and Wu Detong were overjoyed.
They never expected Tang Qingmo, this idiot, to admit it himself!
But in the next second, Tang Qingmo said calmly, "However, I fought back in self-defense."
"Because I saw Zhang Ling trying to lay hands on me like he usually does. For my own safety, I could only strike first and knock him down before he could hurt me."
"Usually lays hands on you?" Principal Lin looked at Zhang Ling. "Student Zhang, what does Student Tang mean by that?"
Principal Lin was a shrewd man. The moment he heard Tang Qingmo's words, he vaguely guessed what was going on.
"I…"
Wu Detong immediately cut in, "Principal, those things were just minor scuffles on ordinary days—nothing worth paying attention to!"
"Teacher Wu, that's a ridiculous thing to say," Tang Qingmo replied in an even tone.
"I was beaten and abused by Zhang Ling and his lackeys. They stuffed my desk full of trash, threw away my stationery and textbooks, and even locked me in the restroom to beat me…"
"So in Teacher Wu's eyes, all of this counts as just 'minor scuffles'? No wonder when I came to you for help before, you pretended not to see anything."
"What?!" Principal Lin was shocked.
There was campus bullying in his school?
And the homeroom teacher knew about it but never reported it to him?!
"Tang Qingmo, you—" Wu Detong never expected the usually submissive Tang Qingmo to tear the lid off like this. For a moment, he didn't even have time to stop him.
Tang Qingmo took out his phone and handed it to Principal Lin.
"Principal Lin, this is what I saw on my desk when I returned to the classroom today. Fresh and hot."
He handed over a photo. The drawer was stuffed full of garbage, and the desktop was covered with vicious graffiti—insults against parents, curses telling him to die, and other unbearable words.
"This… this…!!" Principal Lin stared at the photo on the phone, his hands trembling.
Such malicious, curse-like words were something only uneducated thugs would write!
"Principal Lin, just now in the classroom, Zhang Ling and his followers already admitted they did this. The entire class can testify," Tang Qingmo said.
He immediately took his phone back, worried that Principal Lin might drop it if his hands shook too much.
Then, without ceremony, he sat down on the sofa in the principal's office and said with a smile, "There are plenty of surveillance cameras installed around the school. Just pull the footage and you'll know I'm not lying."
"Is what he said true?!"
Principal Lin immediately turned to look at the guilty-looking Zhang Ling and Wu Detong.
"We… we…"
Just from their reactions alone, it was obvious that everything was true!
"Wu Detong! As a homeroom teacher, you ignored a student being bullied—and even aided the wrongdoing! How could our school produce a scum like you?!"
Wu Detong was so frightened that his entire body trembled.
"Principal, it's not like what Tang Qingmo said!"
When he looked at Tang Qingmo, who was standing to the side leisurely watching the show, anger surged in his heart.
This was all Tang Qingmo's fault!
If he hadn't exposed the bullying, how could the principal have discovered it?!
What Wu Detong didn't expect was that under normal circumstances, Principal Lin might have wanted to smooth things over.
But after last night's trending scandal about the real and fake young masters—the video exposing how the Tang family abused the real young master had been secretly filmed by Tang Qingmo himself—combined with Tang Qingmo's unhurried attitude now…
Principal Lin felt that the Tang Qingmo before him was definitely not simple. He could not afford to offend him for the sake of a teacher who had already lost his professional ethics!
Thus, he made a decisive call on the spot:
"Wu Detong, our school cannot afford to keep someone like you. Go pack up your things today. Don't come back tomorrow!"
"Principal! It's not like that—please give me one more chance!"
Wu Detong was so scared that he knelt on the floor, hugging Principal Lin's leg and begging.
He couldn't understand it!
Wasn't Tang Qingmo just a discarded son of the Tang family?
Principal Lin ignored him completely and turned to the trembling Zhang Ling. "As for you! Taking the lead in bullying a classmate—you deserve expulsion…"
"I want to see who dares!!"
