You are all bad women! Don't come over!-Chapter 70 - 68: Resentment
According to the descriptions of Shen Mochen’s junior high classmates, he would still get into fights occasionally, but overall he was a good student. He was very outgoing, had many friends at school, and held considerable prestige.
Certainly, many girls liked him, but he didn’t accept any of them and soon declared that he had a girlfriend, who was Yin Huailian.
However, at this time, his life was still strained financially, and the two underage girls, Yin Caiyu and Yin Huailian, couldn’t earn much money. To pay for various school-related expenses, they lived day-to-day, tightening their belts. Explore more at novelbuddy
If nothing unexpected happened, the three of them would have continued living in this poor condition for many years. But as fortune would have it, Yin Caiyu awakened her superpower at sixteen.
This was the fairest lottery in the world and it brought about a sea change in their lives overnight.
Yet fortunes and disasters hinge upon each other, and before they could enjoy their happiness for long, a team from Yu Huai City failed to stop a beast tide, letting a monster into the city.
That day was Yin Huailian’s sixteenth birthday, and Shen Mochen encountered the monster while on a date with her. Just like that, Yin Huailian was devoured by the monster, her life fixed before she turned sixteen.
His old classmates didn’t know what happened next because Shen Mochen soon transferred to Fengye Middle School, one of the well-known private schools in Yu Huai City.
According to the descriptions of teachers and students at Fengye Middle School, Shen Mochen was a different person there. He was reticent, rarely smiling, and although his popularity with the opposite sex continued to grow, he still did not accept any of the girls’ confessions.
When he first transferred to Fengye, his grades weren’t top-notch, especially since he had no previous exposure to the TAST content and was somewhat unaccustomed to it. But he had a good foundation, and he quickly caught up, taking the top spot in rankings and never slipping after that.
Other people saw him as a bookworm, without any other interests or hobbies. His only hobby was studying. He rarely participated in most class activities, and would go straight home to study after school.
As a result, girls trying to pursue him had to use excuses like, "My uncle is a senior teacher at such-and-such cram school; he’s going to give me a lesson today, do you want to join us?" or "My brother is at National University; do you want to come to my place and check out his study notes?"
Such a bookish style, combined with his out-of-this-world female following, naturally led to dissatisfaction among many of the boys, making bullying in school inevitable.
When girls shielded him, the boys turned to scheming in the shadows.
Shen Mochen at first bore it and secretly gathered evidence, until one day, unable to endure any longer, he pinned down one of the boys who had been bullying him repeatedly, in front of all the students in the classroom, and knocked out two of his teeth.
When the other party’s parents came to the school, fuming with rage, Shen Mochen took out all the evidence he had gathered, and at the same time, the girls indignantly stood up for him en masse. It even escalated into an internal school protest, allowing the matter to fizzle out.
After witnessing Shen Mochen’s ferocity in beating someone, no one dared to bully him again.
However, Catherine, who had a keen eye, looked closely into the details of this incident and found that the boy beaten by Shen Mochen was the one with the weakest background among the bullies.
It seemed that all this was within Shen Mochen’s plotting. He might not have retaliated simply out of intolerance but as a premeditated act of establishing authority.
Subsequent investigations and questioning revealed that several of the girls who had organized the school protest to exonerate Shen Mochen had significant clout at the school. In the days leading up to the incident, they had variously learned from Shen Mochen that he was being bullied, each feeling a combination of sympathy and anger.
This further confirmed Catherine’s suspicion that even while being bullied, Shen Mochen remained rational and had even prepared to ensure he could come out of the situation unscathed.
It’s worth noting that, after this incident, the other boys who had bullied Shen Mochen also suffered from mysterious attacks, each one ending up with a bruised and swollen face.
Of course, this didn’t draw much investigation from the police, as those boys instantly became the public enemies of all the girls at Fengye Middle School when Shen Mochen made the campus bullying evidence public. Since all the girls at Fengye were under suspicion, the principle of "no crime in the multitudes" applied, and thus, everyone was free of suspicion.
The police also suspected that Shen Mochen himself might have been the assailant, but he insisted he had an alibi; he was with other classmates when the boys were attacked.
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When asked which classmate it was, he claimed he couldn’t remember, but it was definitely a female classmate. Then the girls jumped in, each affirming that Shen Mochen was with her.
Some said they were studying together, some said they were out shopping, some said they were in a bookstore... and some even claimed that they were at a hotel at the time.
The police knew these were tall tales, but proving everyone was lying would be a massive undertaking. Besides, many of the girls at Fengye had significant backgrounds and could even contact their superiors directly. They didn’t want to provoke public outrage and after expressing their condolences to the victims, they declared the incident beyond their purview.
Not long after, those former perpetrators dropped out of school. Shen Mochen lived a relatively peaceful life at Fengye Middle School, until half a year ago when he transferred to First Middle School. Before that, he had even made a special trip to the hair salon to get a haircut.
Catherine scrutinized Shen Mochen’s files with great care, feeling as though she was reading a fantasy novel from an alternative world.
But when her thoughts returned to reality, she felt an astonishing anger towards Shen Mochen; she knew he definitely threw the game on purpose.
The reason was also easy to guess; he didn’t want to compete with her for first place, or rather, he didn’t dare to take first place from Catherine.
If Fengye Middle School’s students came from families that were simply a normal privileged class, still bound by societal rules, then the families of First Middle School students were the rules themselves. Individual cunning could hardly change anything, so he wisely chose to avoid confrontation.
But one person’s joy is not the same as another’s, and Catherine couldn’t care less about comprehending Shen Mochen’s plight. All she knew was that her only joy was gone.
She had been so bored for so long, and the one person who kindled her hope, because of his own cowardice, made her lose that joy forever.
And even if she did force Shen Mochen to take the exams seriously, it would be useless. If there was a first time, there would be a second time.
Once suspicion takes root, even if she later surpassed him, she would subconsciously wonder if he was deliberately losing again.
So she loathed Shen Mochen, she hated this guy who had teased her and then disappeared without a trace, wishing she could bite him twice every day.
If you want to slack off, then don’t start by flirting with me, you bastard!