Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Cen Yi and his friends walked forward. They discussed the quest center’s removal of the age restriction and wanted to check out the quest center after they finished playing.
The group of high-spirited young men chatted and laughed loudly amongst each other. They seemed exceptionally lively.
Qiao Lingxiang stood at the entrance of the cafeteria and kept staring at Cen Yi and his friends as they walked towards the field noisily. There was envy in her eyes.
Some people in this world were born to be like the sun. They could attract many good people to their sides. Cen Yi was one of them.
In this world, other people were born to live the lives of worms in a latrine. They were despised by everyone. Even if they didn’t say or do anything, no one liked them. They were surrounded by evil intentions. All they received was ridicule and unconcerned gazes.
Qiao Lingxiang was one of these people.
She silently headed towards her classroom as she walked along the stone path filled with golden-yellow leaves.
At this moment, the bell signaling the start of the first morning lesson had already rung. Qiao Lingxiang walked into her classroom slowly. When her huge figure appeared at the door of the classroom, the noisy classroom instantly turned quiet.
They had watched the fight between Qiao Lingxiang and Qiu Chen and Cheng Tian at the school gates this morning.
Although Qiao Lingxiang was badly beaten up by Cheng Tian, Qiu Chen was beaten up even worse by Qiao Lingxiang. It was said that Qiu Chen lay on the ground and couldn’t get up after getting beaten. In the end, his family came and got a few of his relatives to carry him to the hospital.
His family was furious and they even sought out school management but the school management really had no time to see Qiu Chen’s family members. They were busy begging the urban management authorities for resources.
The teachers were busy with their classes so Qiu Chen’s family members ran to the school’s management office to wait for them. But it was just a waste of their time.
At this moment, Qiao Lingxiang, who had finished her breakfast, looked at the floor and entered the classroom as per normal. Her surroundings were too quiet. Normally, when she entered the classroom, a few male students would throw paper balls at her. However, they didn’t do it today.
This made Qiao Lingxiang very uneasy. She was afraid that her classmates would make fun of her secretly or think of new ways to tease her.
Thus, she carefully checked her table, her chair, the legs of her table, and the legs of her chair. They were all in good condition. There was no spit, glue… or weird liquids anywhere.
But Qiao Lingxiang was still scared. She turned quietly and scanned the silent classroom. The students who met her gaze all turned around and focused on their books or did their work.
None of them wanted to look her in the eye.
Qiao Lingxiang was terrified. She sat down slowly and glanced at the paper on the table. There were no weird prints on her paper.
She just had a fight. Did that actually encourage her classmates to treat her better?
Or was this a new way of teasing her?
Qiao Lingxiang observed her environment quietly. She kept her guard up.
She thought if this was a new way of teasing her, they would definitely take action later on. She was waiting for their next move. She would catch the person who laughed at her the loudest and pinch him or her to death.
She wasn’t afraid of fighting anyway. Even if they beat her up badly, she would still be fine in the end.
Unfortunately, they wouldn’t be. Even if she could only return one punch for every ten punches they gave her, they would hurt for many days. On the other hand, she would be fine after a short time.
Qiao Lingxiang thought about it thoroughly. She wasn’t afraid of their bullying!
However, even after the morning had passed, nothing happened to her.
They had no teacher this morning either and it wasn’t just the first lesson. No teacher came the entire morning.
The students in class only remained quiet for the first lesson. For the remaining lessons, they continued playing and fooling around like they always did. More than half of the male students even ran out of the classroom to play.
The number of people in class gradually decreased. When she noticed that no one was coming to bully her, Qiao Lingxiang finally took out her phone and wires from her bag. She placed them at the back of the class and charged her phone.
Normally, she wouldn’t dare to do this. if she left her phone at the back of the class, it would probably sustain all kinds of damage.
The screen might crack or it might be thrown into the rubbish bin. Or, glue could be poured onto it. All these were possible.
This was one of the reasons why Hou Manrong always thought Qiao Lingxiang was disobedient. Her phone was always ruined. When it was ruined, she had to buy a new one for Qiao Lingxiang.
In the past, when their family was still well-to-do, they could still afford a few cell phones. But now, inflation rose exponentially and money wasn’t worth anything now. A phone could even cost a few tens of thousands. Hou Manrong was exceptionally irritated by Qiao Lingxiang because of this.
At the end of last year, after Qiao Lingxiang had to get another phone, Hou Manrong pointed at her and scolded her.
“If your phone breaks again, you can go and die. Our family will go bankrupt from buying phones. What’s the point of raising you…?”
Qiao Lingxiang silently carved Hou Manrong’s words into her heart. She didn’t dare to charge her phone in class anymore.
In the past, she always charged her phone in her dormitory. As long as she was within the school zone, there would be electricity.
But in the end, even though she had the money to buy a new phone, she couldn’t get any energy coupons. Without energy coupons, she couldn’t stay in her dorm anymore. Qiao Lingxiang had no choice but to turn off her phone for a day.
Today, she noticed that the number of people in the classroom had decreased greatly. At first, there were more than 50 people in the class. Now, there were only slightly more than 10 people. They were all ladies who were completing their schoolwork obediently.
This was why Qiao Lingxiang dared to take out her phone and charge it at the back of her class.
During the final lesson, when Qiao Lingxiang was completing her work, two message notifications rang out in the quiet classroom where only the sound of pen scratching on papers was heard.
She raised her head and thought for a long time before she turned to glance at her phone. The screen of the red piano case phone was lit up.
It looked as though she had received some messages.
Qiao Lingxiang put her pen down and got up. She took two steps and stopped at the corner near the back door. She picked up her phone and glanced at it. There was a message from an unknown number on her phone.
“A master in living skills. I will provide you with top-notch logistics services and be the perfect partner for your journey. If you’re a master and feeling lonely, you can come and find me??? What kind of logistics services? Do you know how to cook?”
Qiao Lingxiang replied in a hurry, “I’ve learned extreme wilderness survival.”
Since she started elementary school, Hou Manrong sent her to a children’s camping base. She went there twice every year because Qiao Yuelan needed to go to her tutor, Hou Manrong needed to work, and Qiao Pengfei had to participate in the restoration of artifacts at his university.
No one had time to take care of her.
Hence, they put her name on the children’s wilderness camping list every year. Once, someone sent her application form to the extreme wilderness survival camp for special people…