"What?" Ji Ying was shocked when she heard this. She even felt a surge of anger rising from the bottom of her heart. Her eyes reddened again. "On what basis? Just because of a fake video?"
"My mentor told me to call you and ask you to come back quickly! Maybe there's still a way!"
"Alright, I understand. Thank you! I'll go back now!"
"Expel you?" Zhao Weili asked, puzzled. "Is your Dean an idiot?"
Ji Ying felt a sourness rising in her nose. She rubbed it with the back of her hand and said resentfully, "I don't know if he's an idiot, but it's obviously not a joke. I'm going back now, so please let me out!"
However, Zhao Weili shook his head. "Get out of the car? I'll send you back. I'd like to find out how stupid your school's Dean is. We'll find out whether he's pretending to be stupid or he's truly stupid!"
Ji Ying was taken aback. She did not expect a high and mighty mayor like Zhao Weili would personally go over for such a small matter. She really could not understand what he was thinking!
Suddenly, Zhao Weili spoke again, "Don't worry. With me around, nobody would expel you, and neither would they dare to expel you!"
Ji Ying looked at Zhao Weili's handsome side profile in confused. She did not expect the man to be kind enough to help her. Recalling what she said earlier, she realized that he did not even get angry at her. She could not quite figure out Zhao Weili's personality. Perhaps it was more accurate to describe him as weird?
She turned to look outside the river and said in a self-deprecating manner, "Ever since I met you, everything has gone haywire!"
"Is that so? I don't think so! Perhaps you just don't know how blessed you are, and you can't see it because you're in it!"
"Bah!" Ji Ying chuckled at Zhao Weili's shameless words, but she did not really think it was because of him.
Not long after, the car drove through the school gate and arrived at the office building.
Zhao Weili opened the car door, and Ji Ying quickly jumped out, about to run off toward the office building.
"Wait!"
Zhao Weili's voice rang from behind her, and Ji Ying stopped in her tracks.
"Give me your phone!"
Without waiting for Ji Ying to question him, he reached out and pulled out her phone. Then, he opened up her contacts, entered two numbers in succession, and saved them all under his name.
Ji Ying received her phone and frowned. She wanted to say something but did not.
"Both of these numbers are my personal numbers. You can call me any time, and I'll pick up immediately!"
As the mayor, Zhao Weili's personal number was a very important resource and a symbol of his status. From this, anyone could tell how special Ji Ying was to him.
"There's no need for that!" Ji Ying was still trying her best to not be affiliated with Zhao Weili, and was trying her best to forget and draw a clear line between them. If they continued on, their relationship would only become more and more complicated. Even though they did nothing wrong, just the fact that he was once Jiang Ningxin's fiancé would cause her to suffer even more unnecessary misunderstandings and stress. Therefore, being able to cut off all ties with him was the best way to help her.
"If you delete my contacts, then you'll be expelled for sure!" Zhao Weili smiled faintly.
"…"
"Is this guy a monster? You've taken a fancy to her, just like that?" Ji Ying stared blankly at Zhao Weili's handsome face that was nothing but indifferent at the moment. She could not detect any hint of a joke on his face.
"I'll never be your woman!"
She felt very aggrieved. This guy was still threatening her even at a time like this!
"You don't have to feel burdened. I, too, believe that nothing good comes out of force. Without your emotional reciprocation, you'll be nothing but a soulless corpse even if we're lying side by side in bed. There's no point to that."
"You..." Ji Ying was at a loss for words.
What she did not expect was that in just a short hour, she had already become the focus of attention in the school and even the most influential person in Yan State. She ranked first at the top of Yan State's search list!
As a result, the moment she appeared, everyone who saw her started pointing fingers at her and whispering to each other.
Ji Ying could tell that things were getting worse!
She had originally wanted to go to the office building, but now he went straight back to the dormitory.
"Lil Ying, quickly come and take a look! Zhou Hui and I published a lot of posts explaining that the person wasn't you, but they were constantly drowned in the sea of posts. We couldn't even find them anymore!"
"It's fine. Don't worry about it!"