Chapter 186: Writing a Self-Criticism
Chapter 186 Write a Self-Criticism
This time, Jiang Huaiyu learned her lesson from spreading rumors, opting not to show her face and instead bribed three female classmates to spread gossip about Mengyu.
Afraid of meeting them at school, she invited the three students to have a meal and chat at this more secluded snack shop, all to avoid other classmates.
But she never imagined that despite all her efforts to hide, she would run into Wu Jiangsheng.
At this moment, she wished she had never been to the snack shop, never said those words to the three girls.
Wu Jiangsheng continued to press on: "Who are you trying to drive out of the campus?"
"We, I, didn’t, we didn’t try to drive anyone out," Jiang Huaiyu said stubbornly.
"How come I heard that you are trying to drive Mengyu out of the campus?"
Wu Jiangsheng’s ice-cold gaze swept over the four girls and settled on Jiang Huaiyu.
"You really don’t remember the lesson, do you? Do you still remember what I told you the first time you spoke ill of Jiang Mengyu during the first semester?"
Jiang Huaiyu shrank like a quail, not daring to speak.
Wu Jiangsheng took out paper and pen: "Write a self-criticism, and write down honestly everything about how you fabricated rumors and slandered fellow student Jiang Mengyu."
Jiang Huaiyu was unwilling to write. She remained silent and didn’t pick up the pen.
"Don’t want your legs anymore, do you?" Wu Jiangsheng said through clenched teeth.
Jiang Huaiyu’s face turned even paler.
When she first started at the county high school, Jiang Huaiyu found that Jiang Mengyu attracted a lot of attention from boys, especially Wu Jiangsheng, whom she had taken a liking to at first sight for his extraordinary background and handsome appearance. However, his attention was always on Mengyu.
Enraged that someone she deemed beneath her was more popular, she called Mengyu a "vixen, young but already seducing men" behind her back.
And Wu Jiangsheng happened to hear it.
He cornered her on her way home from school and started beating her without saying a word. She hurt all over after that encounter, a pain she never wanted to experience a second time.
After the beating, Wu Jiangsheng warned her that if he heard her say anything bad about Mengyu again, he would break her legs, ensuring she’d never be able to go to school again.
She hid at home for three days before daring to go back to school.
Later, it was her mother who taught her a strategy: deliberately befriend Mengyu at school, and then Wu Jiangsheng stopped troubling her. This also led to the subsequent "Three Jades in Harmony" rumor about Mengyu, Shuiyu, and Huaiyu.
Now, hearing Wu Jiangsheng speak in such a cold tone about "not wanting legs," how could she not be afraid?
After all, she knew this student wasn’t great academically, but his word was his bond. If he said he would break her legs, he meant legs, not arms!
She certainly didn’t want to end up disabled.
Trembling, she picked up the pen and began writing her self-criticism.
Wu Jiangsheng then ordered the other three girls: "Each of you has to write too."
Jiang Huaiyu was shocked: "Isn’t it enough that I write?"
She still had a little trick up her sleeve—she knew a bit about forging handwriting. If only she wrote, she could later deny it, citing different handwriting. But if all three wrote it, she wouldn’t be able to deny anything.
Wu Jiangsheng glared, radiating Evil Qi: "No, they took part in the rumor-spreading too. They must write!"
The three girls said in quick succession: "I’ll write, I’ll write, I’ll write."
Even Jiang Huaiyu had surrendered, so how could the three classmates dare not to write? They wrote down everything about how Jiang Huaiyu bossed them around, where they went to spread the rumors, what they said, and how they besmirched Jiang Mengyu’s reputation.
And at the end, they promised never to repeat the offense.