Reincarnated as a Poor Little Green Tea, Am I Destined to Be Bullied? - Volume 1 Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Low Pressure

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If she hadn’t remembered wrong, Xia Mujin had called her “Yahan” at that time.

Aren’t you a maid in Xia Mujin’s house? And you’re also working part-time as a teacher at Qihai No.1 High School?

Or is teaching your main job, and being a maid is part-time?

But the gap between these two professions… isn’t it a bit too big?

What happened to the saying that different industries are like different mountains!

Little Yueye was confused by her career planning. Just as she was puzzled, this young female teacher with a somewhat icy aura swept her gaze around the classroom, as if checking the attendance of the students like other teachers do.

But it was this action that made Lin Yueye’s heart skip a beat.

In the classroom, you always have this illusion that the teacher’s gaze seems to linger on you a bit longer, and you’re about to be called on or get into trouble!

As the teacher withdrew her gaze, Lin Yueye couldn’t tell if the illusion just now was really an illusion or not.

From the moment the icy young woman arrived in the classroom, the class math representative had been going around collecting homework notebooks. By now, she had placed a large stack of books on the podium. This class representative, who had seemed like a somewhat clever little delinquent yesterday — after all, even in top classes there are troublemakers — now appeared meek and submissive when facing the math teacher.

“Um… Teacher Luo, all the homework has been collected, except for one…” The class representative glanced cautiously towards the back row where Lin Yueye sat.

“Alright, I know. She hasn’t been coming to school recently, don’t worry about it. Go back to your seat, prepare for class.”

Her voice was as cold as her appearance, with an unapproachable aura of authority.

The female class representative had been quite bold yesterday. Lin Yueye had spotted her secretly playing on her phone during self-study time. Now she had transformed into a model student befitting the overall quality of this class. She returned to her seat sheepishly, not daring to make a sound.

“Surname Luo, first name Yahan, Luo Yahan… she looks about the same age as me.” Lin Yueye muttered under her breath, really not knowing how she had managed to start working so early, and even be responsible for teaching such an elite class.

Perhaps she just looked young, but was actually not that young?

At least, if one were to observe the rise and fall of her chest constrained by her work clothes, it was indeed not small.

“Everyone’s here.”

A terrifyingly steady aura, transmitted through the miniature amplifier placed on the podium, echoed ethereally in every corner of the classroom.

The young teacher’s dreamy blue hair fell on her shoulders, flickering like fluorescence. She stood at the podium without any sign of stage fright. On the contrary, she seemed more at ease than those veteran teachers. She slowly sat down on the chair, pressed her hand on the pile of homework books, and continued speaking.

“Well then, we’re ready to start class. But before we begin, I need to reiterate something. The boarding students should have already received the message in advance, so this is mainly for the day students to hear.”

“This matter concerns one of our classmates. You must listen carefully and seriously. The school is not only teaching you learning abilities but also trying to teach you social skills and continuously improving human nature.”

Uh…

Lin Yueye’s head was buzzing. She knew who this “concerning one of our classmates” was really about.

After all, the boarding students who had already arrived in the classroom were all turning their heads back upon hearing this, while the day students were looking at each other in confusion, not knowing what the teacher was talking about. But they followed everyone else’s gaze towards the back, and the focal point of their gazes converged on only one corner.

“This is bad, Yuebing… I think we’re in trouble.”

“No, you’re in trouble. I’m invisible, I’m invincible.”

“You despicable cat…!”

Luo Yahan cleared her throat lightly, drawing the attention of the classroom back to herself.

“Yesterday, quite a few subject teachers should have gone to the student dormitories to explain the circumstances of the matter to you. A classmate in our class comes from a poor family background but works hard to support herself through school, clean and honest. However, due to some rumors, she has been under a lot of pressure. It’s only recently that she has found the courage to return to school. We hope that everyone can pay more attention to your classmates’ conditions.”

“You all know very well who I’m talking about, and you also know who was involved before.”

“Regardless of what happened in the past, you need to know to improve your own discernment. I don’t want excellent students to be ganged up on just because of a few slanderous words. If that’s the case, it shows that your judgment is nothing more than that. Even if you score high marks, once you enter society, you’ll be easily misled by others’ words and go down the wrong path. For your own sake, don’t spread rumors. Rumors end with the wise.”

“Moreover…”

The classroom was already under low pressure, windless.

And Luo Yahan’s words, delivered in a further lowered tone, dragged the atmosphere of this space further into an icy cave.

“The school decided in a meeting yesterday that those who have participated in spreading rumors before… regardless of your grades, the school will punish severely. We need to let everyone know that the school’s attitude towards bullying behavior cannot possibly be perfunctory.”

Dead silence.

Generally speaking, there should be some applause to celebrate the school’s decision at this time…?

But the situation was that there wasn’t a single sound.

Even Yuebing could hear the tone in Luo Yahan’s last words.

【Her last words sounded like a threat… human, it’s as scary as when you put my snow biscuit outside the window.】

“I can’t keep up… Didn’t you hear? They’re going to kill the chicken to scare the monkey..”

【Kill a chicken? Make soup?】

“No soup.”

Uncultured greedy cat, don’t speak.

It’s unclear whether these people know about Luo Yahan’s situation, but since she’s a maid in the Xia family, she must have some connection with Xia Mujin, right?

Her last words…

Was it the school that wouldn’t tolerate it, or the Xia family?

Last night, the school’s teachers collectively went to various dormitories to dispel rumors and suppress public opinion. Such intensity… the timing of its appearance, isn’t it a bit too coincidental?

This couldn’t help but remind Lin Yueye of something Xia Mujin had said last night.

— It seems that Yueye has accepted my proposal? Then, I should also show some corresponding attitude.

Perhaps factually speaking, Lin Yueye should be grateful.

But subjectively, she really couldn’t feel grateful…

Because this means that Xia Mujin always had the ability to dispel rumors, and it shouldn’t have come to the point where 【Lin Yueye】 was attacked by slander until she fell into despair.

But at that time… did she choose to be a cold onlooker, doing nothing?

【Human? What’s wrong with you?】

Lin Yueye’s tightly clenched fist gradually loosened, and she shook her head.

Her silver bangs half-covered her lifeless red eyes.

“It’s nothing… I just feel that I’m still too naive, there’s no such thing as a free gift in the first place…”

【Hm? But you gave me snow biscuits to eat.】

“That’s different.”

It’s different.

Kindness exists by chance, no one stipulates that those people walking on the road must hold an umbrella for every rain-soaked cat they see passing by.

Unless the cat coos and wags its tail at you, evoking a certain mentality that can hardly be called “conscience”.

In essence, it’s a kind of 【exchange】.

Yuebing asked once, and upon seeing Lin Yueye’s slightly furrowed brow, she also fell silent.

Perhaps even small deities can understand some of the ways of the world.

Luo Yahan picked up a piece of chalk and tapped the blackboard. She should have finished talking about Lin Yueye’s matter.

Next, she gave a reminder that made many male students instantly bury their heads in their textbooks.

“Also, although I’ve explained clearly to you that you should care about others, some boys shouldn’t use ‘caring’ as an excuse to harass. Early love is also prohibited by school rules. Moreover, even if you write a love letter to confess, others might not necessarily respond to you, understand?”

Only at this moment did scattered laughter break out in the classroom, easing some of the tense atmosphere.

But few people noticed this blind spot.

— Since it was something that had just been explained clearly, decided in a school meeting, then from a teacher’s perspective, is it necessary to make such a preemptive judgment and admonition without catching anyone in the act?

Unless…

Someone had instructed her to emphasize this point?