Chapter 104: Does the School Not Care About Such Troublemakers?

Gu Ci originally had no interest in such matters.

However, seeing Wen Zixin’s reddened eyes, she narrowed her own eyes slightly. "Is someone bullying you?"

Wen Zixin shook her head hurriedly. "No, it's the teacher..."

As she spoke, Wen Zixin slid her phone over to Gu Ci so she could see. "Look, Sister Ci, look at how outrageous they are being!"

Gu Ci tilted her head, scanning the post from top to bottom with a glance. Her eyes gradually grew cold.

"A few people mentioned this came from Weibo. What happened on Weibo?"

As soon as she said this, Wen Zixin noticed it too and quickly switched her phone to the Weibo app. The moment she typed in "Songdu No. 1 High School," several trending topics appeared immediately below:

#Songdu No. 1 High School Bullying Incident
#New Dean of Students at Songdu No. 1 High School
#The Rotten Apple in the School of Top Students
...

Clicking into the topics, the entire screen was filled with those two videos of theirs, along with the news that their homeroom teacher had become the Dean of Students for the senior year at Songdu No. 1. Someone had even posted the academic grades of every student in their class to "corroborate" the reports above.

Compared to the school forum, the resentment on Weibo was sky-high, filled with endless vitriol!

Looking at the filthy comments, Wen Zixin was trembling with rage. Gu Ci’s brows gradually knitted together.

"Damn it!" A boy in the class cursed aloud, unable to stop himself from slamming his fist against his desk.

In the span of a single break, everyone in Class 12 knew about the incident. They remained silent, moving with a tacit understanding. During this break, they all skipped the snack bar and stopped playing games, instead sitting with their phones, typing away furiously. Just looking at their indignant expressions was enough to imagine what they were doing.

Gu Ci’s approach was simpler and more brutal.

She directly hacked the accounts of the most aggressive trolls on both Weibo and the forum, handing out a "package deal" of permanent bans and mutes.

Just then, a cry of "What the hell?" rang out in the classroom. "What the hell? Why did the comment I was just roasting disappear? I wrote such a long paragraph! Isn't that a waste of my energy?"

"Mine too. The comment vanished, and our replies went with it. Doesn't that mean I wasted my time scolding them for nothing?"

"Deleting comments like this? Isn't that just letting them off the hook? This has to be on purpose!"

Gu Ci, "?"

The next period was supposed to be Jin Jiejiao’s class, but the preparatory bell rang, and Jin Jiejiao did not appear. By the time the start-of-class bell rang, she was still nowhere to be seen. This had never happened before.

Suddenly, everyone was on edge. Just as they were about to go check where Jin Jiejiao was, their Chinese teacher walked into the classroom.

The little old man, his head somewhat bald, placed his textbook on the desk and cleared his throat. "Teacher Jin is tied up with something and cannot make it. She asked me to cover this lesson. Students, please open your textbooks to page 78..."

During the lesson, a new post appeared on the forum:

【The people in Class 12 were there before, so why was the school perfectly fine back then?】
【With all due respect, haven't you noticed that all these things only started happening after that transfer student arrived?】
【I know this; whether it’s the incident in the cafeteria or Duan Jingyi’s bet, it all has to do with her...】
【I noticed it too, and it’s always that transfer student leading the way! So she’s the real troublemaker, right?】
【Birds of a feather; I don't think the homeroom teacher or the students of Class 12 are any good!】

After this post appeared, someone took screenshots and forwarded them to Weibo, where the person specifically distorted the facts regarding the bet. In an instant, there were over a thousand replies...

【Why doesn't the school deal with such a disruptive student? What if she ruins our children?】
【I was wondering why my child's grades dropped last time; turns out it's because of students like this in the school!】
【I heard she's from the countryside. No wonder she's so ill-mannered, daring to treat a teacher like that and bully classmates. If she's from the countryside, that's not surprising.】
【I think the other students in Class 12 can stay at No. 1, but this transfer student from the countryside and their homeroom teacher, who doesn't know how to discipline, must be expelled!】
【Right! That transfer student from the countryside and that homeroom teacher must be expelled!】

Every voice and every sentence pointed toward Gu Ci, the transfer student who had stirred up trouble since arriving at No. 1, and the homeroom teacher who was "incompetent" yet had been promoted to Dean of Students...

When Gu Ci saw these comments, there was not a ripple of emotion in her eyes. She calmly prepared to bring up the two complete videos from before, editing the code to get ready to upload them.

Just then, the Chinese teacher, who was lecturing on the podium, called Gu Ci’s name. The little old man looked at her cheerfully. "Student Gu Ci, please answer the question I just asked."

Gu Ci was multitasking and knew exactly what the teacher had asked. The Chinese teacher looked at her with encouragement. He was currently teaching an article from the textbook, asking what rhetorical device was used in a passage where the protagonist administers first aid to a poisoning victim, and what emotion it expressed.

Clearly, this passage used parallelism to express the author’s admiration for the protagonist’s decisive actions and high level of competence. In fact, this was a "gimme" question from the teacher intended to remind her to pay attention in class and boost her interest and confidence in the subject.

Gu Ci put down her phone, glanced at the description of the protagonist forcing a warm drink into the unconscious victim, and knew the answer was obvious.

She replied, "It uses irony, expressing the author’s profound sarcasm and anger toward the protagonist, thereby achieving the purpose of criticism or education."

The Chinese teacher, "???"

Because of Gu Ci’s answer, the little old man felt stifled for most of the period. Even when he wanted to ask more questions later, the thought of Gu Ci made him lose the courage to do so. In short, it was incredibly frustrating.

Because of this, although the Chinese teacher didn't call on anyone else to answer questions for the rest of the class, he kept looking in Gu Ci’s direction with a gloomy expression, leaving her unable to pull out her phone to upload the videos in front of him.

At this critical moment, the situation on Weibo had escalated further, and a teacher came over and called Gu Ci away.

Finally, the class ended.

Xiao Yang slammed his desk with a bang, furious. "Damn! It must be the people from Class 1 playing tricks!" He stood up immediately. "I’m going to find the people in Class 1 and get to the bottom of this. I want to see exactly who is stirring up this mess!"