After leaving the classroom, Chen Youliang hurried to the lawn downstairs, seeing his underlings with faces crying a flood of tears, which instantly made his blood pressure soar.
After kicking each one of them, Chen Youliang, fuming with rage, cursed: "Useless! Useless! Useless! All day long, you can't do anything right, you don't leave a grain when you eat, what's the use of me keeping you? Always messing up, so many of you and not one can win a fight, all of you are good for nothing!"
"Brother Leong, it's not our fault!"
One of the underlings complained with a pained look: "Don't be fooled by that guy's sickly appearance, but somehow he's incredibly strong. We hadn't even made our move when he grabbed us by the collar and threw us all out!"
Chen Youliang, hearing what the underling said, did not continue to rage but instead nodded in agreement: "This kid is really strong. I reckon he used to work in the fields or carry bricks in the countryside. Even with my physique, after he kicked me yesterday, I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep all night!"
"Brother Leong, we're not as strong as he is, what should we do?"
Another underling said with a mournful face.
"Being strong doesn't matter, in this day and age, we need to value intelligence!"
Chen Youliang waved his hand angrily: "If brute force doesn't work, we'll use our brains!"
"Ah?! Brother Leong, you mean... we outsmart them?"
The underling's eyes lit up, rubbing the bruise on his face and asked.
"We must outsmart him! Hmm... let me think of a strategy. It seems this bumpkin is also after Lin Xuerou; probably my rival. However, if I can use him to my advantage, I'll be able to showcase my strength in front of Lin Xuerou and make this bumpkin utterly embarrassed!"
Chen Youliang found a flowerbed to sit down, rested his hand on his chin, his eyes flickering with a sinister gleam.
"Exactly, Brother Leong is mighty!"
The crowd of underlings hurriedly flattered him and also limped over to sit beside Chen Youliang, starting to search their phones for clever strategies.
At this moment, Chu Nan was quietly sitting in the classroom, listening to the middle-aged teacher talk about positive moral education, yet images of his days fighting for his life in the Middle East and struggling to survive with his brothers in the midst of bullets and gunfire surfaced in his mind.
The scenes from back then were so thrilling, while the atmosphere at present was so peaceful and harmonious. The stark contrast made Chu Nan feel as if he were in an illusory realm for a moment, feeling somewhat at a loss.
Thinking back to when he was about to leave, the stern face of his old buddy, Chu Nan was somewhat speechless.
Not giving me money, fine, freeze the bank account if you must, do you think I can only kill and not make my own money?
Now I'm a delivery knight for Ma's Department Store Co., Ltd., able to earn a good few dozen in one night...
Besides delivering goods for Mashouzi, I also have another particularly lucrative job, which is pretending to be Ming Yue's boyfriend!
The two girls who assigned me this task seemed very wealthy, paying a deposit of twenty thousand without a second thought, truly a no-cost lucrative job!
While Chu Nan was indulging in this beautiful dream, Lin Xuerou was sitting on pins and needles, constantly adjusting her posture, her face alternating between red and pale, biting her lower lip and tightly clenching her fists as if struggling with some unspeakable secret.
"Xuerou, what's wrong with you? Is the delivery guy that scary? Look at you, you're turning purple!"
Zhou Yuanyuan finally noticed something was off with Lin Xuerou and couldn't help but ask with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yuanyuan, I... I think my period has started, do you have a pad?"
Lin Xuerou's face flushed red as she spoke in a voice as low as a mosquito's buzz, feeling extremely frustrated inside.
She had clearly calculated the days; her period wasn't supposed to start until tomorrow, so she didn't bring any sanitary pads with her today. To her surprise, it came early!
It must have been those shrimp crackers!
"No, who brings that stuff to class? It's not like you can eat it!"
Zhou Yuanyuan crunched on another potato chip and consoled, "Just bear with it for now. When class is over, I'll go back to the dormitory and get you one."
"It's too late, it feels like... it feels like it's about to leak out!"
Lin Xuerou was so anxious she was nearly in tears, her frequency of shifting her sitting position increasing, clearly struggling to hold back.
"What should we do? Our dormitory is so far from the teaching building, even if we take the campus shuttle, it's a five-minute round trip."
Zhou Yuanyuan felt helpless too. Why did it have to happen now of all times? Neither earlier nor later, but just at this moment!
And they were in the middle of a class; whether there would be a shuttle bus available was another question!
Ming City University is a prestigious national university with an expansive campus and well-equipped facilities.
Although many of the students here are second-generation rich and accustomed to driving, the campus is also equipped with electric shuttle carts for students without cars.
"Or... maybe I can use some toilet paper as a temporary pad. You take notes for me, okay?"
Lin Xuerou, having thought of a solution at last, immediately took out the toilet paper Chen Youliang had returned to her and asked the teacher for permission to go to the bathroom.
The middle-aged teacher nodded in agreement, as teachers generally wouldn't ask too many questions when a female student requests to leave for such reasons. After all, they know that it can be inconvenient for girls at times, and it's quite normal to leave during class.
Lin Xuerou carefully walked out of the classroom with her legs pressed together, inching her way to the restroom. Upon entering, she found a bucket on the floor, half-filled with dirty water and a mop, most likely left by the janitor.
Since students seldom come to the washroom during class, janitors usually take this time to clean the facilities.
Trembling, she hurried into the last stall and locked the door.
With the toilet paper in her mouth, just as she was about to pull down her pants, a burst of hurried footsteps rapidly approached from a distance.
"Hey! Is anyone in there? What's going on? I haven't finished cleaning yet, come out quickly!"
A middle-aged janitor banged hard on the stall Lin Xuerou was in and shouted in a rough voice, clearly annoyed.
"What?!"
They say when you're out of luck, you'll get a toothache from drinking cold water. Lin Xuerou hadn't even managed to pull her pants down when she got such a fright that she cried out involuntarily, and the toilet paper she was biting dropped straight into the toilet bowl!
Lin Xuerou felt like crying but no tears would come; with a trembling voice, she spoke, "Auntie, sorry, I... I got my period. Could you please come back to clean a bit later?"
"Really, what's with the students these days. Hurry up! Don't waste time!"
The middle-aged aunt muttered annoyedly to herself. She had just run out of toilet cleaner and had gone to the storage room to get a bottle.
She didn't expect to find the stalls taken when she got back, naturally feeling a bit displeased.