"What? Expelled!" Yu Qian could hardly believe her ears. The girls with her were stunned. "Why are you making us drop out!"
"The people who caused trouble at the school gate after school yesterday were hired by you to smear Xia Qingyu, weren't they?" the school leader said, his face darkened. "Our City No. 1 High School is a key high school in the city, and such behavior is absolutely not tolerated."
"No! It wasn't us!" Someone immediately denied in a panic. "We don't know anything! We don't know anything!"
"Yes, we had no idea about this," Yu Qian said, panicking inwardly but forcing a calm expression. "This is a frame-up!"
"A frame-up?" the school leader scoffed.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door. After the school leader said, "Come in," Xia Qingtian pushed the door open and walked in. "This is a copy of the confession I got from the police. The other party has already admitted that they were hired by students of City No. 1 High School to do this."
Hearing Xia Qingtian's words and seeing the document in the manila envelope in her hand, Yu Qian and the others' hearts leaped into their throats. The girls with less courage had their complexions visibly draining of color.
"Thank you for your trouble," the school leader said, taking the envelope from Xia Qingtian. "Although the other party has already identified them, having this evidence will make things easier to handle."
"What should we do..." A girl was on the verge of tears, frantically tugging at Yu Qian's sleeve, only to be shaken off.
"This is a frame-up!" Yu Qian stubbornly refused to admit it. "We didn't do this! We don't know anything!"
She had used a fake identity and a temporary phone number obtained online, without using her ID. Even if that person had a confession, they couldn't possibly identify her. She had even destroyed the SIM card last night.
These fools, on the other hand, practically had "I did it" written all over their faces. How detestable!
Useless!
"A fake identity, fake information, even a black-market phone number. I must say, you were very well-prepared," Xia Qingtian said, looking at Yu Qian.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Yu Qian clenched her fists at her side.
"Whether you understand or not is not important. What's important is that yesterday you added a last-minute request, asking Zhu Hai to make a big scene, and brought sulfuric acid to the school. In a moment of panic, he accidentally sent the message using your own number," Xia Qingtian said to Yu Qian with a cold smile. "If not for the message you sent afterward, it would have been very difficult for us to find out it was you."
Hearing Xia Qingtian's words, Yu Qian froze and immediately recalled the text message she had sent in a fit of anger yesterday...
She couldn't remember whether she had used SIM card slot one or two to send it.
Realizing her carelessness had put her in danger, Yu Qian felt a wave of dizziness and swayed, almost falling.
"I want to know how my sister offended you all. Do you have to be so vicious, not only hiring people to cause trouble at the school gate and ruin her reputation, but also demanding that the person carry sulfuric acid to disfigure my sister's face? What heinous deeds has Qingyu committed that you feel compelled to ruin her life to stop?"
Xia Qingtian's hands hung by her sides, trembling slightly.
It was fortunate that the Zhu Hai from yesterday was a coward and didn't actually bring sulfuric acid.
Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable!
"It wasn't me! It was Yu Qian! We had no idea about the sulfuric acid!" one girl quickly denied upon hearing this.
"Yes! It was Yu Qian! Yu Qian came up with this idea! It has nothing to do with us!"
"It wasn't us, we really didn't know! Don't make me drop out! My dad will beat me to death!"
The girls begged with tearful voices.
"You're scared now? What were you doing before?" the school leader slammed the table in anger. "You're afraid of being punished by your parents for dropping out, but did you ever think about the lifelong harm your scheme would have inflicted on Xia Qingyu? You're afraid of getting hit or scolded, yet you resort to the cruelest means to frame Xia Qingyu! You are truly incorrigible!"
Hearing the school leader's words, some girls lowered their heads in shame, while others cried out of fear. Naturally, some girls were extremely indignant: "It was Yu Qian's idea! We just..."
"Just didn't stop her, didn't refuse, and even found it amusing?" Xia Qingtian looked at that girl, her eyes icy. "Then you are even more disgusting than her."
When the girl met Xia Qingtian's gaze and heard her words, she guiltily turned her head away.
"All of you are expelled! Leave City No. 1 High School with your belongings now!" the school leader declared. "I will personally contact your parents!"
Upon hearing the school leader's words, someone's eyes rolled back, and they fainted.
Yu Qian, with a pale face, looked at Xia Qingtian, her teeth gritted, her eyes sinister.
"What are you looking at me for?" Xia Qingtian looked back.
"It's all your fault! If you weren't here, it wouldn't have turned out like this!" Yu Qian pointed at Xia Qingtian and yelled. "My plan was so perfect, but you meddled! Without you, Xia Qingyu wouldn't be so arrogant! Without you, Zhu Hai wouldn't have been caught! Without you, none of this would have happened! It's all your fault!"
"Thank you for the compliment. Protecting my sister is my duty," Xia Qingtian gave a smile that conveyed "I'll infuriate you to death without consequence." "Oh, right, you didn't use the wrong SIM card number. This confession is also fake."
Xia Qingtian opened the manila envelope on the desk and took out a stack of A4 copies. Under Yu Qian's shocked gaze, she forcefully tossed them up.
The white A4 papers fluttered down to the ground like a mockery of her ignorance and stupidity.
Finally, Yu Qian's eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Looking at these girls who were weeping or had even fainted, Xia Qingtian felt no sympathy whatsoever.
In her past life, Xia Qingyu had likely suffered all of this. What was she, this older sister, doing then?
She was cynical, full of hatred for the Xia family under Song Junhan's instigation, and cursing Aunt Liu and Xia Qingyu with the most vicious words.
Xia Qingyu, who endured it all alone, years later, upon hearing from Song Junhan that she had a high fever, still rushed into the night alone without hesitation, only to end up with no remains.
Her Qingyu, indeed, was such a good girl, who, amidst all the unfairness and despair, still held tenderness and love in her heart.
In this life, she would ensure Xia Qingyu was safe, well-provided for, happy, and successful in everything.
Expelling so many students at once naturally caused the parents to make a scene. However, after hearing what their daughters had done and whom they had plotted against, they were completely stunned.
A farce, sown in jealousy, grew with great fanfare, and finally ended in desolation and silence.
In the end, only a joke remained.