It hurts so much

" What do you have with you ?" Lu Biya who was chatting with Yan Nianze raised her head from the screen of her smart phone and looked at Tan Jing and Su Meirong who came inside the classroom. She noticed the particularly thick book in Su Meirong's arms and could not help but jeer, " I did not know that you were this studious. What happened? Did your dear daddy beat you up after you failed last time?"

Su Meirong did not receive a passing grade the last time in fact, she would have barely scraped in the passing students if Xua Ying Yue did not come to their class. For three years that girl has been getting the top rank and because of this extra addition of a genius student, Su Meirong who was already a poor student was dumped to the bottom list.

If Xua Ying Yue was poor and dimwitted then Su Meirong had nothing to say to her as long as she cushioned her fall, Su Meirong would have silently tolerated Xua Ying Yue but she was brilliant and the more brilliant Xua Ying Yue was the more she was scolded by her father, who would always look at her report card and snap at her calling her useless for not being able to defeat a girl from the downtown.

She was really upset, if it was someone else who was making fun of her then she would have said something but this was Lu Biya, the princess of the Lu corporation even if she wanted to retort, she could not. In the end, she choose to stay silent while leaving Tan Jing to deal with Lu Biya, only Tan Jing was able to handle Lu Biya who had a perverted character.

Lu Biya pretended to be gentle and kind on the surface while making Tan Jing look like she was the one who was leading the bullying because Tan Jing was a fool who only knew how to sniff drugs and smoke cigars, she did not know that Lu Biya was using her as a shield while guiding her from behind like a dog.

Only Tan Jing was fool enough to not realise this but then again she had a rich mother who married three old millionaires and inherited their fortune after they died but Su Meirong has to keep her footing stable in the world of the rich being a nouveau rich while taking each step carefully, thus she was very careful around these two girls and understood their personalities too well.

She was stupid but not as stupid as Tan Jing.

"It's nothing … that pauper was writing stories in that book like a dumb bitch and I took it from her," Tan Jing rolled her eyes as she took the notebook from Su Meirong and dumped it in front of Lu Biya. " That poor girl really thinks that she can move the world by writing some stories, she is too naive."

Lu Biya on the other hand did not hear a thing that Tan Jing said, no one knew but she too was a literature student like Xua Ying Yue. Before that girl came she was the star of the literature department but then Xua Ying Yue came and stole the limelight on which she has worked for years—— Lu Biya was not a fool, she understood that her skills were at most mediocre and she won't be able to reach too an unreachable height but Xua Ying Yue …she was different.

She opened the book and started reading the brief snippets of ' The puppeteer pauper's revenge tales' and the more she read, the more her eyes widened.

Tan Jing, this fool, she had no idea what kind of treasure she has found! This novel was not something that should be submitted at the school level, this novel was something that can win a literature price if all the entire volumes were published!

Lu Biya skimmed to the end of the notebook and was slightly disappointed when she saw that the last volume was missing. If they all were written then —— however, she still looked at the masterpiece in front of her and her eyes started to flicker slightly. Even though this work was still incomplete, it was enough for her to win this stupid competition right?

As she thought over everything, she finally came to a decision and stood up.

…

" You woke up right?" Doctor Li asked as she helped Xua Ying Yue up from the infirmary bed, she handed the latter a bowl of shredded pork noodles and said, " I brought this for you, you look dead on your feet …eat something."

Xua Ying Yue looked at the bowl of warm noodles in her lap and remembered how she landed in the infirmary. She stared at the steam that was wafting from the bowl and then felt that the steam was blurring her eyes —— they took it. They took her years' worth of work with them.

Doctor Li went back to work but when she heard the sound of someone sniffing behind her, she was stunned on the spot as she turned to look at Xua Ying Yue who was crying. At first Doctor Li did not want to get entangled with Xua Ying Yue, the last time she got entangled with a young girl who was getting bullied she almost went into depression when she found out that the girl jumped off.

She was in her forties and never married anyone nor did she has a child with her. To her these girls were pitiful and sometimes, she will blur the line between them as a teacher and student and take them as their daughter…at least that was what she did when the last girl came for help.

Doctor Li had listened to the woes of the girl and tried to help her, she got so engrossed in the life of the girl that she started to take her as her guardian. One could only imagine the pain Doctor Li went through when she heard that the girl committed suicide and Xua Ying Yue did not look any better than that girl.

This was why Doctor Li did not want to get close to her but now that Xua Ying Yue was crying in front of her, she could not stop herself. She walked over to Xua Ying Yue and softly asked as she sat next to her. " Does it hurt?"

Xua Ying Yue nodded and replied with tears streaming down her cheeks. " It hurts, it hurts so much, Doctor Li... It hurts so much."