Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 466: Cannon Fodder Stepsister Doesn’t Want to Die (23)
She always does this—when she encounters a problem that’s difficult for her, she’ll unconsciously nibble on the end of her pen. Jiang Ci doesn’t even need to look to know she’s probably thinking hard while gently biting the new rabbit-shaped pen cap she just bought. Her brows furrow slightly with her deepening thoughts, then she soon figures out the solution, those brows relax, and she quickly writes down the answer at an incredible speed.
She’s smart, the smartest person Jiang Ci has ever met.
Of course, she’s also the most hardworking person he’s ever seen.
So he’s not at all surprised to see her in Class One this time.
But the seat she’s chosen...
If he remembers correctly, the deskmate she picked might not be easy to get along with.
Soon, the class bell rang, and a loud "thud" suddenly came from the desk next to Jiang Lai.
A water bottle, probably around two liters, was heavily placed on the adjacent desk.
Jiang Lai didn’t even lift her head; she didn’t care who sat next to her.
"Hey, go sit at another desk. I don’t like sitting with others."
The boy’s voice was a bit sharp but hoarse, like a duck’s quack, very unpleasant to hear.
Jiang Lai looked up and saw a boy with a mushroom haircut and cheekbones so prominent they almost seemed to fly off his face; he was small and ugly.
"What are you looking at? Didn’t you hear what I said?!"
The other party seemed emotionally unstable, speaking and acting bluntly with no regard for classmates. Jiang Lai could tell at a glance that he was a spoiled oddball from a family who only knew how to study but wasn’t particularly smart.
Jiang Lai put down her pen.
"You don’t want a deskmate, right?"
With that, she nodded and then turned sideways to kick the desk beside her to the back aisle.
"There, that should do it."
"Are you crazy?! Are you?! Who gave you permission to move my desk?!"
As he spoke, the boy flung his bottle at Jiang Lai directly. At this moment, all the classmates were watching. Amidst the sympathetic gazes, Jiang Lai grabbed a pen from the desk and stabbed it directly.
The plastic bottle instantly got a hole, and water streamed down Jiang Lai’s arm, soaking most of her school uniform sleeve.
She frowned and looked at the boy with the duck-like voice.
Then she unscrewed the bottle cap and poured it over his head.
The whole class was stunned.
This new classmate was fierce, daring to provoke someone with mental issues.
As expected, the duck-voiced boy exploded instantly, clenching his fists and glaring at Jiang Lai with nostrils flaring, taking huge gasps of air, swinging his arm ferociously toward Jiang Lai.
Seeing this, Jiang Ci quickly stood up and pushed through the crowd.
Before he could reach them, there was another coarse shout from the boy, followed by the sound of a desk being overturned. Upon looking again, the boy had already been kicked into a corner, sitting cracked on a trash bin.
As for his desk, it was knocked over to the side, with books scattered all over the place.
The scene became chaotic.
Qiao Chuweng, who had been quietly watching from the side, whispered to the person next to him.
"Go call the teacher. There’s a fight going on in the class picking on classmates."
The classmates watched silently as some boys in the back row stepped forward to restrain the rampaging duck-voiced boy. He probably had never been humiliated like this in his life, his face flushed with embarrassed tear streaks, continuing to curse relentlessly.
Jiang Lai clapped her hands and glanced at the watching classmates.
"You all saw what just happened, right?"
Everyone blinked and then subconsciously nodded.
"Hmm, and the class has functioning surveillance, right?"
"Yes."
"Then that’s enough. Where’s the teacher’s office? I need to talk to the teacher."
Fighting and then actively seeking out the teacher?
What’s this new student thinking?
Seeing that she was unharmed, Jiang Ci silently turned back around, returning to his seat, belatedly realizing that his actions just now were a bit odd.
That feeling was still very clear.
It was anger.
Because Jiang Lai was almost bullied.
As for where this inexplicable emotion came from, Jiang Ci attributed it to the fact that Jiang Lai was supposedly his sister in name; his rival for the next two years. To some extent, he had already considered her one of his own, and if she was to be bullied, it should only be by him.
Sorting out his feelings, Jiang Ci boldly stood up again and walked toward Jiang Lai.
"Go change your clothes before you see the teacher."
Jiang Lai glanced at him, said nothing, and turned to leave.
In the end, both of them were called out to the hallway; the homeroom teacher of Class One taught physics, wore glasses, had dark skin, and his gaze was very stern.
"Who started this?"
Jiang Lai kept her head down in silence, while the boy beside her shouted loudly.
"She kicked me! Everyone saw her kick me!"
The homeroom teacher stared at Jiang Lai.
"Just got to class and already fighting, Jiang Lai, Hu Yi, what do you two want? This is a place for learning. If you don’t want to study, then leave!"
Jiang Lai looked up, her expression calm.
"Teacher, I’ve worked so hard to get here from the art class to study better. Regardless of who it is, if they affect my learning, I won’t be courteous to them."
"You think you can stay in our class for long? Do you think that by getting in once or twice with luck, you’re one of us in Class One?! Look around and see if anyone in our class considers you important?!"
"Everyone, shut up!"
The homeroom teacher obviously didn’t want to waste any more time on them.
"You two, go back and write a self-reflection of fifteen hundred words and hand it to me before class tomorrow!"
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Jiang Ci had finished the test early, twirling his pen while looking at Jiang Lai outside the window.
With her personality, she shouldn’t have suffered. Sure enough, the two of them quickly returned to the classroom.
Jiang Lai returned to her previous seat, and Hu Yi glared at her viciously, dragging his desk to the side forcefully, not forgetting to drop a harsh word at the end.
"Just you wait, come the final exam, you’ll definitely flunk! I’m telling you..."
Jiang Lai said nothing, calmly flexing her wrist and flicking a piece of eraser with force.
The eraser accurately shot into Hu Yi’s open mouth and then got swallowed.
A moment ago, the fierce Hu Yi suddenly opened his mouth wide, firmly clutching his neck and vainly vomiting something out.
"Jiang Lai, you——!!"
"Hu Yi, if you speak again, I’ll tell the teacher you’re disrupting the whole class’s learning!"
Jiang Lai complained first, choking Hu Yi; his face flushed red, almost suffocating with anger.
With her surroundings quieted down, everything was just a small episode, having no impact on Jiang Lai.
After a physics class, the homeroom teacher requested the new classmates quickly join a study group. Following Class One’s tradition, the class functions on a group basis for mutual help, with each group complementing strengths and weaknesses to enhance weaker academic performances.
Normally, everyone in the group has strengths and weaknesses, and this way of mutual learning and exchange during breaks and after class, drawing on each other’s strengths to make up for weaknesses, has always been a hallmark of Class One.
