SYLM Chapter 45

Chapter 45: Tit-for-Tat

Chapter 45 Tit-for-Tat

The school principal’s office.

Principal Lu Jianghong sat in his office chair, occasionally touching his balding head.

His frequently used insulated tea mug was currently being used as a lever by Tang Ying, who was standing in front of his desk.

Logically, Tang Ying, who had taken a week off, should be back tomorrow. But Lu Jianghong had barely stepped into his office when Tang Ying barged in, the door slamming open so loudly it startled him!

Although Tang Ying’s outfit and makeup seemed to be going for a gentle and elegant style today, for some reason, her naturally sharp and assertive ice-cold face immediately brought back the familiar, explosive atmosphere that seemed ready to level the entire office. Less than ten seconds into their conversation, the scene from just now unfolded—

“I’ll say it again, Fu Yi Wen absolutely could not have plagiarized.”

“…”

An explosive, sarcastic personality with a deeply complex family background.

Tang Ying was not to be trifled with.

Lu Jianghong knew this.

Afraid that Tang Ying might throw his thermos at any moment if the conversation didn’t go well—something she was definitely capable of—Lu Jianghong tried to take the cup, but Tang Ying coldly moved it to her other hand and held it down.

Although he still couldn’t figure out how Tang Ying had heard the rumors at school while on leave, Lu Jianghong didn’t want to provoke her at the moment. He had no choice but to withdraw his empty hand, adjust his reading glasses, and smooth things over like mixing mud:

“Teacher Tang, don’t get excited, sit down, sit down, let’s—”

Suddenly, his phone rang, interrupting Lu Jianghong.

Tang Ying coldly pulled out her phone and hung up without hesitation. Then, looking at Lu Jianghong, she said coldly:

“Sorry, let’s continue.”

“Okay… about the possibility of Fu Yi Wen plagiarizing—”

The annoying phone rang again. Tang Ying unconsciously ground her back teeth. This time, she didn’t hang up. Instead, she turned and answered, her tone extremely impatient:

“Stop calling like my life is on the line, it’s annoying. I’ll be there in a minute!”

After speaking, Tang Ying didn’t even give the person on the other end of the line time to respond, and hung up, turning off her phone.

“Okay, we can continue now.”

“…”

This Teacher Tang seems to have a bad temper with everyone…

Meeting those cold, impatient phoenix eyes, Lu Jianghong adjusted his reading glasses and said carefully:

“About Fu Yi Wen’s problem, Teacher Gu also talked to me a lot yesterday. She also kept emphasizing that Fu Yi Wen could not have plagiarized. I also want to believe that, but we need evidence. You can’t just listen to one person. Besides, Teacher Gu is Fu Yi Wen’s homeroom teacher, so she—”

“Do you have evidence that Fu Yi Wen plagiarized?”

“Huh?”

Suddenly being asked back, Lu Jianghong felt inexplicably nervous. He sat up straight, cleared his throat, and opened his mouth tactically:

“As for the evidence to prove that she plagiarized, we don’t have it yet. We have to investigate.”

“So there’s no evidence.”

The cold voice rose an octave. If looks could kill, Tang Ying would have turned Lu Jianghong into a sieve:

“You suspect students without evidence? There are more than 700 students in the whole grade. You don’t suspect anyone else but Fu Yi Wen. What’s wrong? Does she offend you?”

Tang Ying’s tone was very bad. As a leader, Lu Jianghong lost some face:

“Teacher Tang, you can’t say that. We treat every student equally. This time, with Fu Yi Wen, we’re just afraid that the child will go down the wrong path—”

“Don’t give me those big principles, I don’t want to hear it. Just tell me who suspects Fu Yi Wen of plagiarism, teacher or student. Bring that person over, I’ll ask myself.”

“…”

Ask herself? That would be terrible.

In this situation, unless someone wanted to stir up trouble, everyone knew that Sun Li Xia’s name should not be mentioned.

…

Lu Jianghong’s face changed again and again. When he spoke again, he still tried to smooth things over:

“Teacher Tang, don’t get excited. I know Fu Yi Wen is your student, it’s normal for you to have personal feelings—”

“This has nothing to do with whose student she is. Fu Yi Wen is incapable of plagiarism.”

“Teacher Tang, that’s not right. I understand you have personal feelings, but you can’t judge something based on subjective feelings. Yes, Class 12 is what you teach now, and Fu Yi Wen is your student now, but how long have you been teaching her? How can you guarantee that she didn’t plagiarize? Teacher Sun has been teaching Fu Yi Wen for almost two years, and she didn’t cover up or act unfairly at this time. She said what she had to say. You—”

“Wait, is it Sun Li Xia who suspects Fu Yi Wen of plagiarism?”

The moment she caught the key point, a storm instantly brewed in Tang Ying’s sharp phoenix eyes.

Great, it was that old green tea bitch. Could she be any more shameless!?

…

Seeing Tang Ying’s face turn so dark that it could drip ink, Lu Jianghong realized that he had slipped up and cursed inwardly, trying to take it back:

“…Uh, this matter, it’s not like you think, Teacher Tang… Hey no, Teacher Tang, Teacher Tang!”

How could Tang Ying listen to Lu Jianghong’s attempts to salvage the situation?

She turned around and left in a huff, almost knocking the office door off its hinges!

But as soon as the door opened, Tang Ying realized that someone was standing outside.

Who else could it be but Gu Wan Jun?

Eyeing each other, probably due to their mutual understanding as friends, both of them didn’t say anything, but through their gaze, knew what they would do next.

Tang Ying left the school principal’s office and headed straight to the fourth-floor arts and sciences office.

Gu Wan Jun walked into the principal’s office and got straight to the point respectfully: “Principal Lu, I want to talk to you again about Fu Yi Wen in our class.”

“Oh dear, Teacher Gu, let’s put your student’s matter aside for now. Teacher Tang should be going to see Teacher Sun, I have to go and see.”

Lest they start fighting again.

Lu Jianghong didn’t say the second half of the sentence, but as he lifted his butt from the office chair, Gu Wan Jun suddenly reminded him calmly:

“In this situation, Principal Lu, if you go, will you speak for Teacher Sun or Teacher Tang? You should know what kind of personality Teacher Tang has, right?”

“…”

Gu Wan Jun’s words successfully stopped Lu Jianghong. The man tactically adjusted his reading glasses and fell into thought.

Her words reminded him.

Tang Ying and Sun Li Xia were not easy to deal with, and if there was a conflict, he would offend both of them.

…

Seeing Lu Jianghong start to waver, Gu Wan Jun seized the opportunity and interjected:

“Principal Lu, since you are not going to the arts and sciences office, let’s talk about Fu Yi Wen’s matter, we can’t delay this any longer.”

“…”

Alright, we’re back to Fu Yi Wen’s problem again. After talking for so long, Gu Wan Jun was waiting for him here.

One, Tang Ying, who would start a verbal or physical fight, and the other, Gu Wan Jun, who was eloquent, spoke flawlessly, but was always setting traps.

Lu Jianghong began to wonder how he had managed to recruit two such incompatible teachers to the second year of high school.

—

Arts and sciences office.

Tang Ying’s “breaking into the room” startled everyone in the office.

Just as the other teachers were wondering why Tang Ying had returned today when her week off wasn’t over yet, the person in question had already stopped in front of Sun Li Xia’s desk.

It was just after the morning self-study period, and Sun Li Xia had just arrived. Seeing Tang Ying come to her aggressively, she had already guessed the reason.

Noticing that the other people in the office were looking in their direction, Sun Li Xia’s expression was indifferent, her tone like a senior caring about a junior:

“Teacher Tang is back, is everything settled at home?”

Tang Ying felt disgusted from the bottom of her heart at the pretentious appearance of the person in front of her. She didn’t humor her at all and got straight to the point:

“You said in front of Lu Jianghong that Fu Yi Wen cheated on this exam, what’s the evidence?”

“Oh, you’re talking about that.”

Sun Li Xia acted as if she had just reacted, and said in a flat tone: “I didn’t say that Fu Yi Wen must have cheated, I just felt that her child’s score was a bit abnormal this time, so I truthfully reflected the situation to Principal Lu.”

“Abnormal score?”

Tang Ying snorted coldly, her tone faint:

“Wouldn’t it be that Teacher Sun has the prejudice that the students in the regular class can never compare to the students in the honors class, but this time Fu Yi Wen’s political score was better than everyone in Class 1, so Teacher Sun, you were triggered, right?”

“…”

Tang Ying knew how to be sarcastic.

In fact, before coming to the second year of high school, Tang Ying knew that Sun Li Xia was a person who worshiped the high and stepped on the low in her bones, and only treated good students as students.

Because when she was first transferred to the second year of high school to take over Class 12’s politics, Tang Ying learned through certain special connections that Sun Li Xia’s transfer to teach Class 1 was not originally arranged by the school, but Sun Li Xia asked her husband, who worked in the Education Bureau, to find a senior leader of the school, so that they would transfer her class, because she felt that teaching Class 12 would not produce results.

If it was understandable that teachers liked students with good grades, then from the day she was transferred to the second year of high school, Tang Ying had seen Sun Li Xia’s disgusting two-faced face, and she truly hated this kind of garbage that was not worthy of being a teacher from the bottom of her heart.

…

The late but present sarcasm instantly made the atmosphere in the entire office tense.

It was dangerous to stand with Tang Ying and Sun Li Xia, so the other teachers watching the excitement had nothing to do with them, and no one said a word.

Tang Ying’s words hit Sun Li Xia’s lungs, and the person who was being sarcastic felt a little embarrassed, she stared at Tang Ying, and her tone was not as calm as before:

“I have been teaching Fu Yi Wen politics since the first year of high school, and her political score can only be considered as average, she is not a smart child, and her foundation is far inferior to those students with top grades, how can she improve so quickly?”

“What do you mean not a smart child? So children like Fu Yi Wen who work harder than talent deserve to die if they get good grades?”

“I didn’t say that, don’t distort my meaning, I suspect that there is a problem with Fu Yi Wen’s score just because I am stating the facts, without any other reasons mixed in, Teacher Tang, you took a week off, and you don’t know the specific situation, so you rushed over to question me, isn’t that too rude?”

“Didn’t you know I was rude the first day? Who doesn’t know in the whole school year?”

Tang Ying raised her eyebrows slightly, her phoenix eyes were as cold as ice, wishing she could carve Sun Li Xia into a sieve:

“You don’t have to pretend to be decent in front of me, if your teaching ability is poor, find the reason in yourself, if you are angry because the students I teach get better grades than the students you teach, if you have any dissatisfaction, just come at me, don’t pour dirty water on my students.”

“Teacher Tang, watch your attitude.”

“What attitude? I have this attitude.”

“You—okay, I won’t talk nonsense with you, you said that Fu Yi Wen didn’t cheat, then how do you explain that her essay answers are almost the same as the answer?”

“Political essays are always the same, why don’t you say that combining the materials is also plagiarism? Besides, where did that answer come from? As the leader of the arts and sciences team, you can’t even keep the answer safe before the exam, but after the exam, you suspect that the student has seen the answer, you only suspect Fu Yi Wen, why don’t you suspect the class representative of Class 1?”

“Fu Yi Wen comes to the arts and sciences office every day after class, and going to the office is like going home, everyone knows this, all the teachers see it.”

While saying that, Sun Li Xia looked around at the others, and when she received the implied look, the other teachers were about to open their mouths to agree and express their opinions, but they were scared back by Tang Ying’s sharp eyes!

After scaring the others away, Tang Ying turned her head and stared at Sun Li Xia, her eyes almost sparking:

“You have the nerve to say that Fu Yi Wen comes to the office every day, what does she do in the office? Isn’t it because you have endless work to do and order her around every day?”

“Did I ask her to come? Did I ask her to do those things? That’s all she volunteered!”

“Fuck!”

Tang Ying couldn’t help but swear, she didn’t even want to look at Sun Li Xia’s hypocritical and ugly face:

“Okay, that’s well said, I really want to ask Teacher Sun for the secret of having such a thick skin? Is it just being shameless?”

“…”

The mask of deliberately pretending to be generous was finally torn to pieces by Tang Ying, Sun Li Xia was so angry that her face changed color, and she finally couldn’t help but call the person in front of her by her full name:

“Tang Ying, don’t go too far!”

“What’s wrong, I’m just stating the facts, is Teacher Sun triggered?”

“…”

The mocking meaning in the phoenix eyes that turned up at the end of the eyes was full, Tang Ying folded her arms and hugged her chest, and the cold, loud, and full of breath directly tore through the last piece of decent mask:

“Even if you are really triggered, what can you do to me, I tell you, I have been putting up with you for more than a day or two, I was too lazy to pay attention to you before because you were old and your brain didn’t work well, and you are still here to do evil endlessly? I know you are a relationship household, who is not a relationship household these days, if you really have the ability, compete with me, see who has the stronger relationship, if you can’t compete, get out of Ningcheng No. 1 High School, dare you?”

“…”

When things came to this point, Sun Li Xia was beaten back by Tang Ying, and she was so angry that her blood pressure was about to rise, she knew that she would not be able to take advantage of arguing with Tang Ying, so she simply said that she was going to find the big principal to reason.

Go if you want, Tang Ying wasn’t afraid of her.

Before returning Fu Yi Wen’s innocence, Tang Ying couldn’t wait for the matter to become bigger, and then she would see how this old green tea bitch would end!

The two of them dragged each other to the door, Tang Ying, who was walking in front, pushed the office door while scolding with a cold face.

As a result, as soon as the door opened, Fu Yi Wen, who was holding the political assignment, suddenly appeared in their sight.

She stood straight at the door of the arts and sciences office, with red eyes.