It didn't take Yang Li long before he found both culprits who spread the nonsense. One of them is a guy who did it for money, and the other is a girl who kept her account anonymous in a class private chat. She did for fun, so my reaction was: she was a piece of human scum and almost no one would care about her.
Sadly, murder isn't an option, and neither is committing arson or kidnapping. I guess these actions are made illegal for people like me. I also have a human conscience, so I want to commit something- less permanent?
"What's that?" Li Honglie pointed at the plastic bag in my hand.
"Not much." I replied as we get off the bus. It was just an electrical razor, few roles of duct tape, a glass of heavy lavender perfume in a box, a taser, and a box of sharpies.
I handed her the bottle of perfume, she looks at me confused, "Just take it as a gift."
"I heard Li Honglie you gave her a bottle of perfume," Yang Li taps my shoulder from the seat behind, "I know you're sugar-coating your plan but don't make her misunderstand something."
"Misunderstanding what?" I asked. Li Honglie is going to be part of my operation: Yang Li, who is stingy as ever, worked hard and asked me for a 'raise,' found out the well-known anonymous rumor-spreader was sensitive to perfume and often would give her headaches.
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Bai Lidong has spent most of his childhood admiring his father's job and his father's coworkers, and his childhood model is none other than his father's Major. Now, Bal Lidong is working as a reserved surgeon, inspired to do good for the country.
He was recently hired to work under an elderly woman who was married to the veteran Major, and his tasks were simple: protect her grandson. Bai Lidong, as the proud young man of justice he is, gladly accepted. What he thought was a simple task with a simple explanation, and the boy he assigned to protect was nothing than the well-known innocent Xie Feihao who won't even hurt a fly... however, his world turn upside down when the young boy first knocks down one of his female classmates with a taser, tied the girl up against a chair with duct tape, then grabbed a razor comes out of nowhere and shaves her head, bald.
Bai Lidong thinks it's not right and tries to prevent Xie Feihao from getting in trouble, but the only response he got was, "Your job was to protect me, not being a nanny."
The only thing that pops out of his head was: 'I'm working for Zhen Liyue and not you.'
Bai Lidong didn't say anything, he knows at some point he will work for Xie Feihao. Xie Feihao's actions might be crude, but his motives are clear and reasonable, and his personality and the confidence to order his friends around, are the same personalities he found on Xie Feihao's grandfather.
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Li Honglie was about to go to the cafeteria when he noticed Xie Feihao wasn't sitting in his seat.
"You're looking for Haohao?" Yang Li asked while his eyes are glued to his phone, "Got suspended for shaving someone's head."
Li Honglie was a bit shocked, not from the fact that Xie Feihao was suspended, but from the fact that he was suspended for something that small... technically in her opinion, it wasn't a small incident, but she expected Xie Feihao to get suspended in a larger incident, maybe something like burned all the books in the library.
"Rooftops?" Yang Li asks her.
"Give me a minute." She pulls her phone out of her pocket, plans to give Xie Feihao a phone call, but the moment she turns on the phone... was Siren's social media page, and there first thing that popped up was that one picture.
"You know her too?" Li Honglie turns her head, but the one person who reacted wasn't the person who expected.
"I heard her name is Na Yi!" Li Feifei's eyes were sparkling, but it seems like she doesn't really know how to express her excitement, "Too bad she doesn't have a social media account."
"Uhh- yeah..." Li Honglie has no idea how to react to this conversation.
Li Feifei quickly realizes who she was talking to and ran away like a rabbit. Li Honglie felt awkward for a second, but she thought it didn't feel bad. She turned her head back to the screen while walking out of the classroom.
Xie Feihao answered her call, and the first thing she heard was a loud bang. "Hey! Quiet down will you?" Li Honglie heard Xie Feihao's screen from the other end, "What do you want?"
She instantly notices the bad mood in his tone and forgot what she was going to say after Li Feifei interrupted her. "Nothing." Li Honglie replies.
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"I wish I was fired." Bai Lidong sighs after downing a glass, he regrets accepting this job and now he can't back down either.
His coworkers have never heard him complain before, especially he's the same guy who made the role to not mention anything negative after a workday. Bai Lidong ignored their gaze and asked for another glass of wine.
One of his coworkers took a seat next to him and ask him what was wrong. Bai Lidong only complains about his day and the young master's behavior, out of surprise, most of them agreed with the point that Xie Feihao behaved unexpectedly.
"Today, someone tried to assassinate him." One of them opened their mouth. Luckily this was a private bar hosted by none other than Zhen Liyue herself, if this was in public, their heads would have been surely cut off.
"It was too late for him to look away." He continues, "Do you remember when you all first killed someone right? The tremble and the struggle to eat meat?" Everyone nods, "The mistress's grandson is abnormal, his reaction wasn't a shout or a scream that he was afraid of dying, but throwing up like he was disgusted."