Upon arriving at school, Xiang Wan had barely sat down at her desk when her eyes fixed rigidly on its surface.
She had just gotten a new desk yesterday...
With her head bowed, her fingernails dug deeply into her palms. A desire to go mad surged within her, like tumultuous waves constantly assailing her reason.
In the end, she still forced herself to endure it.
As long as she could endure until graduation, that would be enough...
She couldn't cause any more trouble. If the school expelled her, she would truly have no way out...
Clenching her teeth, she grabbed a wet wipe and furiously scrubbed at the desk, but no matter how hard she tried, it was futile.
The desk was not destroyed and could still be used; the likelihood of getting it replaced was slim, so she could only try her best to cover those graffitis, which were so impactful to her, with textbooks.
Although unpleasant incidents had occurred that morning, the rest of the day passed by smoothly.
After school in the afternoon.
Xiang Wan intentionally waited half an hour, until most of the people had left, before she went to retrieve her backpack from the locker.
But the students, who should have already left, were all lingering around the lockers, their eyes on her, as if... waiting to watch some drama unfold?
A feeling of unease rose in her heart, but she forced herself not to overthink it.
That was, until she saw her own locker door hanging open weakly, sprayed with ambiguous patterns and words in colorful paint.
The backpack she had placed inside that morning had vanished without a trace, along with the spare umbrella, and her cellphone was in that backpack...
Xiang Wan's body began to tremble uncontrollably.
She had been enduring, over and over... She hadn't wronged anyone, not in the past nor the present.
But why were they bullying her like this?!
She looked coldly at the faces around her, they were laughing, laughing unabashedly.
"Who did this?!"
She couldn't help but explode.
Not far away, a few girls with dyed colorful hair, chewing gum provocatively at Xiang Wan, occasionally blowing bubbles.
Xiang Wan recognized one of them, named An Lili, who was in her class.
She walked up to them, teeth clenched, and confronted, "Was it you guys?"
An Lili laughed scornfully, "So what if it was? What can you do to me, Miss Xiang? Isn't the dad who arranged for a bodyguard to protect you around the clock already dead? I heard he was blown to bits. What's the matter, can't accept it? Going to come at me with his urn to settle the score?"
An Lili's words set off a burst of piercing laughter around them...
The tightly wound string in Xiang Wan's mind finally snapped.