Chapter 41 Internet is a scary place

The headteacher entered the class and made an announcement.

“Class, since teachers have an important meeting to attend, I won’t take your class today.”

The class exclaimed in happiness. What student wouldn’t be happy to have free periods?

However, their bubble of happiness soon popped.

“But it doesn’t mean your class won’t happen,” Teacher Jin said and the whole class quieted down. As a teacher, he knew what went through the heads of these students but since they were in high school, they had to take their studies more seriously.

“Sir, who will take our class?” asked Demo with a sad look on his face. When the teacher said that class was not going to take place, he quickly made plans with Ye Jun to sneak out of the school to play games at the internet cafe which was located behind the school. Such an awesome plan to spend time was ruined by their headteacher just like that.

“Someone from class Ten A will come and keep an eye on all of you,” Teacher Jin said. “If you have any doubts, you can ask them. They will help you clear your doubts.”

The meeting would go on for more than an hour and every teacher and staff member had to be present there. Someone came up with the idea to put students of Class A and B to keep other students. These two classes have more strength than the others. Not only would they help maintain discipline but they could also help students in clearing doubts.

The class groaned, expressing their dissatisfaction. Initially, the teacher thought that students were unhappy with students of Class A entering their class because they didn’t want to study. That was why he left the class to send two students from class A to Class K.

If the teacher had known why all of them had sour looks on their faces, he wouldn’t have sent those two students of class A here.

Ever since someone posted on a school forum how Peng Cheng insulted a student of Class K when he was asked to tutor, the entire class K had been in a bad mood. Thankfully, the name of the student wasn’t known yet.

However, class Ten K knew who was insulted by who. Qiao Wei had seen An Xiulan’s red eyes that day.

What stunned everyone the most was why the class of brownies hadn’t retaliated yet by beating Peng Cheng? It wasn’t like class Ten K at all.

An Xiulan heard Han Zixin grunting and his body stiffened all of a sudden. Yes, she experienced first-hand how his aura turned bloodlust and stifling. When she glanced at the door, she found Han Nanxian standing there while Teacher Jin was talking to him. They were talking about a doubt clearing session.

“Do you want candy?” An Xiulan asked in a soft voice. Although they were supposed to be enemies from a few days onwards, she still offered him candy because as long as the candy was in his mouth, he wouldn’t say bad things to that boy and in return, it wouldn’t cause a fight in the class. With candy in his mouth, he would be too lazy to start a fight. She wasn’t kidding. It always worked.

Han Zixin gave her a dirty look but quietly picked up a candy from the packet she had put between her and his bag. It tasted as good as her tiffin boxes. His urge to cause havoc was suppressed with a candy in his mouth.

Every day An Xiulan would bring a tiffin box and it would end up in Han Zixin’s stomach as Qiao Wei couldn’t bear to look at the healthy homemade food.

An Xiulan being the foodie that she was, would always wait for Qiao Wei to bring her delicious and different varieties of food every day.

As if Han Nanxian was less to cause groans and grunts in the class, Gu Shangyan too appeared a few moments later. An Xiulan’s eyes met with him and she didn’t react like before and merely gave him a small smile. She was ashamed to bring shame to him. If someone found out that someone like him from class Ten A was related to someone like her who scored the lowest score in the entire school, his dignity might be crushed. It was better if she stayed away from him.

What An Xiulan learned in the last few days was that the internet is a scary place. She didn’t know all those people who were commenting on the post that someone had anonymously posted on the Internet and neither did those people knew her personally. Yet, they had the audacity to comment about someone they never met or talked to.

Fortunately, she wasn’t sad as she had only read two or three comments on Qiao Wei’s phone but from the sympathetic looks on their classmates’ faces, she could tell that the matter was worse than she had expected it to be.

For the first time in her entire existence, An Xiulan thanked the heavens for her naivety and ignorance.

She would rather be naive and ignorant than be all-wise like the rest of them!

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Author Note: Do you think sometimes Naviety is better than knowing everything when you have no idea what you know?

The question might be complex but imagine someone thinking they have all figured you out even when they never met you or talked to you.