Chapter 50: It Only Leads You Into a Trap

The third period was originally scheduled to be the head teacher's math class, but it was temporarily changed to history. Xiang Yu guessed that the matter involving Chen Ze had not yet been fully resolved.

Xiang Yu was very glad. The longer it took to resolve, the more it proved how furious Teacher Li and Principal Xie truly were.

Xiang Yu's guess was completely correct. Teacher Li had not only seen Xie Xuan's diary and Chen Ze's reply letters, but she had also seen the subject grades of Xie Xuan as recorded by the head teacher.

Chinese: 92, Math: 81, English: 83, Comprehensive Arts: 102, Physics: 65, Chemistry: 64.

Her total score was thirty points lower than the previous mock exam.

They firmly believed that it was Chen Ze who had lured Xie Xuan into puppy love, thereby ruining her academic performance.

Chen Ze felt deeply wronged. He had merely thrown out a few ambiguous signals to Xie Xuan and had not actually entered into a relationship with her; her declining grades should be her own problem.

He offered a subtle defense for himself.

In response, Teacher Li slammed Xie Xuan's diary right into his face.

Pointing at him, she shrieked, "Take a look at her diary! The amount she wrote in these five days equals the volume of the past few months. Writing in the morning wasn't enough, so she continued in the afternoon, and some entries were even written in the middle of the night. You were just playing around, but Xie Xuan fell into it completely."

Chen Ze's face drained of color instantly. In his heart, he regretted provoking a brainless, lovestruck fool like Xie Xuan to go after Xiang Yu, only to bring disaster upon himself.

Principal Xie stood nearby with a face as dark as a thundercloud.

Xie Xuan stood in the corner, shedding tears and not daring to move a muscle.

Teacher Zhang felt as though his head was about to explode.

He had also read the diary and the letters, and he truly had not expected that Chen Ze was still entangled with Xiang Yu, and that he had spoken those words to Xie Xuan, causing her to act on impulse and listen to Ye Nuanxin's instigation to design a stampede incident on the stairs.

If Xie Xuan's diary hadn't documented only that much, he would have suspected that Chen Ze and Ye Nuanxin had set up an elaborate double-trap to frame Xiang Yu.

You couldn't blame him for overthinking; the recent events involving Xiang Yu and Ye Nuanxin had utterly refreshed his understanding of human nature. Some malice doesn't wait until one enters society—it begins as early as fifteen years old.

Chen Ze did not dare to speak another word. Standing at one meter seventy-eight, he shrunk his shoulders and stood there, scolded by Teacher Li like a worthless grandson.

He exercised the utmost restraint to keep himself from lashing out at the venomous Li Weiwei, whose mouth was spewing a torrent of abuse and whose face was etched with sheer hatred for him.

He had always been handsome, academically gifted, smooth, and composed, deeply favored by teachers and classmates, and the pride of his parents. Yet, to suffer such humiliation was simply going too far.

He screamed frantically in his mind: If not for the fact that Xie Xuan was still useful, with such a boastful, haughty personality, such a brain and appearance—she was merely the daughter of a small-town middle school principal, and he wouldn't even want her if she were handed to him on a silver platter!

She was far inferior to Xiang Yu.

His future wife would definitely be a wealthy, privileged beauty!

Heh, if Xiang Yu were here and knew what he was thinking, she would undoubtedly mock him even more ruthlessly than Li Weiwei.

He looked outwardly respectable and dignified, yet inwardly he was utterly filthy and corrupt—obsessed with wealth and status, academically accomplished yet full of scheming and utterly devoid of scruples.

Coupled with parents who were as ravenous and merciless as wolves and tigers, greedy and selfish, what on earth was there to be proud of?

Chen Ze was chewed out by Li Weiwei for an entire period, the accusations revolving around his malicious intentions and his audacity to set his sights on the apple of her eye.

The insults became so harsh that even Xie Xuan could not bear to listen. Trembling, she spoke up for the man she adored, "Mom, Chen Ze isn't that kind of person. He's so wonderful... and he will be worthy of me in the future."

Li Weiwei turned her fury back onto her daughter, poking Xie Xuan's forehead with a finger adorned with a large gold ring. "Is your brain squeezed in a door? Aside from a polished exterior, Chen Ze is completely worthless. He has good grades now, but high school might be a different story. There are countless people out there who surpass him in both talent and looks, not to mention coming from much better families. Even if he manages to get into college, once he steps out into society, a family background and social tier like theirs will only drag you down into a bottomless pit. You ignorant frog at the bottom of a well!"

Li Weiwei was consumed by rage, showing no mercy whatsoever as she berated her own daughter.