After my whole family read my mind, they slayed the villain with a bang, and I won without lifting a

Chapter 174 The Story of School Bullying

Ji Shiyan stood with his hands behind his back, glancing at Lu Yining from time to time. He appeared calm on the surface, but in reality, he was becoming anxious.

Hey, you blockhead, come up with a topic to talk about!

What's with all this quiet?

Lu Yining didn't speak, and Ji Shiyan couldn't think of a topic. The two stood there quietly for a while, when suddenly a question popped into his head, and he quickly explained.

“Ningning, she and I are just cousins. We don’t have any physical contact. She just came over and tried to hug me. That was her doing, and I dodged her. Anyway, I will never accept being hugged by any man.”

"Of course, except for girlfriends."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yining remained unmoved, but what she was thinking was...

[Pu Minglan is hopelessly in love with Ji Shiyan. I remember it was mentioned in the original book that after Pu Minglan confessed to Ji Shiyan and was rejected, she blamed everything on the original female lead, Lu Yanke.]

Pu Minglan believed that Lu Yanke's existence was blocking her path, which was why Ji Shiyan didn't accept her confession. This led Pu Minglan to constantly target Lu Yanke, doing anything, big or small, to make her uncomfortable.

[Hmm...but now...it seems like the person Pu Minglan is targeting has changed from Lu Yanke to me...]

"What kind of person do you think your cousin, Pu Minglan, is?"

Lu Yining asked casually.

The moment the question was uttered, an alarm bell rang in Ji Shiyan's mind. This question had to be answered carefully; it couldn't be taken lightly!

Ji Shiyan pretended to think seriously for a while before speaking: "She seems simple, but she is actually cunning and ruthless. She is no good person."

Lu Yining looked at him with some surprise: "I thought you would protect your cousin."

[After all, we're family. I originally thought Ji Shiyan would praise Pu Minglan a lot in front of me.]

[I never expected... he would be so... willing to betray his own family for the greater good?]

Moreover... Pu Minglan's methods are indeed quite ruthless, but... how did Ji Shiyan know this?

Lu Yining was very curious about this, so she simply asked the question that had been on her mind.

When asked the question, Ji Shiyan's gaze became more complicated. He seemed to be tracing back to the past, his eyes unfocused and unfocused.

Lu Yining waited for a while before hearing him say, "When I was in junior high school, there was a family gathering at home. My mom asked me to pick up my cousin after school and then go home together."

“After school, I went to her classroom and found no one there. I asked her classmates, and they said that she had gone to the bamboo grove at school with some classmates.”

"At the time, I was a little puzzled and couldn't quite understand why she would run to the bamboo grove instead of going home after school. However, I soon found the answer to that question."

At this point, Ji Shiyan's eyes narrowed, and the chill emanating from him intensified: "When I got there, I actually saw my cousin hitting someone!"

"Seven or eight girls formed a circle and kept kicking the girl on the ground. I also saw my cousin reach out, grab the girl's hair, and then press her head down, banging it on the floor again and again."

"I originally intended to go and stop it, but a teacher happened to pass by at that moment, saw what was happening, and rushed over to stop it."

"So to this day, she has no idea that I discovered her other side long ago. And from that time on, I no longer wanted to talk to her or have any contact with her."

"It's just a pity." Ji Shiyan sighed, "The teacher was standing a bit far away at the time. When he yelled, he actually gave others a chance to escape. In addition, there were no surveillance cameras installed in the bamboo forest, so out of seven or eight people, four of them managed to escape successfully."

“One of the four who escaped is your cousin,” Lu Yining confirmed.

"Yes." Ji Shiyan nodded: "If there hadn't been no surveillance cameras in the bamboo forest, they definitely wouldn't have been able to escape, and she would have been among those who received punishment."

“At first I was curious why that girl was being bullied like this but didn’t tell the teacher the truth and tell the teacher who was bullying her.”

"It wasn't until later that I found out that the girl had told the principal, and the teacher had also told the principal about it. But because of the Ji family's power, the principal didn't do anything to my cousin. Even the girls who ran away weren't touched, because their families also had a lot of power and status."

"The principal even made the teacher and the victim keep their mouths shut so they wouldn't tell the truth. So, in the end, only those few people with no family background or with some but not much influence were disciplined."

At this point, a hint of disappointment flashed across Ji Shiyan's eyes. That was the first time he truly understood society, and also the first time he was disappointed in the principal.

Seeing that Ji Shiyan was a little down, Lu Yining spoke to him in a lighthearted tone: "Then congratulations! At least you saw through her true nature early on and stopped being deceived by her."

Upon hearing this, Ji Shiyan was taken aback for a moment, but quickly smiled in relief. Indeed, if it weren't for that incident, he probably would have thought his cousin was a good person.

If it weren't for that incident, he would never have known that his cousin was the kind of person who had two faces, one in front of others and one behind their backs.

What you said makes perfect sense.

Lu Yining hummed in agreement. She looked around at the scenery and thought to herself, "Time really flies when we chat while walking. We've arrived at this little pavilion in just a few words."

Just as Lu Yining was about to remark on how beautiful the scenery was, a cell phone rang, interrupting her from saying anything more.

She took out her phone, and after seeing the contact name, she moved her finger and answered the call.

"Hey~ Third Brother, missed me? Why are you calling me? You don't want me to go shopping, do you?"

Third Brother can be really lazy sometimes.

[If he stays in one place and someone asks him to move, or if he needs something but doesn't have it with him, he'll stare blankly at the ceiling for a long, long time...]

[It's been so long that sometimes I wonder if he only reluctantly gets up to get it when it's a statue...]

I wonder if he was questioning the meaning of life or contemplating something during that moment of blank staring...

Sometimes, when someone is around, he's too lazy to move, so he'll ask someone else to get it for him.