"Uncle, I might be coming home late tonight because we've got exams coming up and a classmate's uncle plans to go over some extra problems with us," Zhou Siyu, sensing the tension in the air, seized the chance to bring up the topic of returning late from school.
"What time will you be back?" Shen Jianhua asked, feeling uneasy. "It's not safe for a young girl to come home too late. Let me pick you up!"
Even though his wife had said the troublemakers had been caught, it was still better to be cautious now that the child was grown up. He didn't want her to catch the attention of some bad elements again.
Zhou Siyu panicked at the thought and hastened to decline, "There's no need to pick me up, I'll be home before it gets dark."
If Shen Jianhua came to pick her up, he would find out who was tutoring her, wouldn't he?
This was unacceptable.
The incident with Song Zhengguo had caused quite a stir. The reputations of the girls associated with him were all destroyed.
