Su Mo looked at Xiao Rui with some disdain. He said to her, "I should be asking you this question. Teacher Han has not offended you, has she? Then why do you dislike her so much? Are you that happy after gossiping about Han Ruochen? Will you gain something after talking about her behind her back? I really do not understand what you are thinking. If you think that Miss Han is better than you, then you should work hard. Why are you dragging her down with you? Don't you think it's really ugly?"
"Teacher Su, why do you side with Han Ruochen so much? I know that you like her, but this is too much!" Xiao Rui's face turned red with anger. Because she was too angry, she didn't even pay attention to her words.
Su Mu's face turned just as red as hers, but his was due to embarrassment rather than anger. He flicked his gaze at Han Ruochen, who was looking at him with a questioning look in her eyes, and he panicked. He glared at Xiao Rui and snapped at her, "Teacher Xiao, have you gone crazy?" Su Mo was no longer even willing to talk with Xiao Rui. In the past, even though he was aware of Xiao Rui's feelings for him, he had kept a polite distance without embarrassing her, but now he was truly upset with her and didn't want to bother with her.
By the time Xiao Rui realised that she had done something wrong, it was too late for her to do anything. She opened her mouth to correct her mistake, but—
"What is going on here?" Principal Duan walked over. Earlier, he had heard the sound of quarrelling; he ignored it, thinking that it was just some brats making trouble, but then the noise became louder, and he realised that it was not the students but the teachers who were causing this chaos. He walked over to the group and looked at them with confusion in his eyes.
He looked from one guilty face to another and questioned again, "Why are you all standing here? Why aren't you checking the exam copies? The students will be out of their classes in a few minutes. Do you want them to watch a spectacle of their teachers fighting like little children? Just what is going on here?!" His voice rose slightly at the end of his question, which made many teachers flinch.
In the end, it was a male teacher who had been rejected by Xiao Rui who spoke up, "It's Teacher Xiao. She came to the school earlier and told everyone that Teacher Han had hired thugs to ruin Yang Jianming, and there was no such thing as Teacher Yang trying to harm Teacher Han, and that it was all her own scheme because she got entangled with a thug. Just now, Teacher Xiao provoked Teacher Han, and the latter retaliated, but then again, Teacher Xiao was ruining the reputation of Teacher Han… this is something that she deserves."
"Teacher Chen, you!" Xiao Rui couldn't believe her ears. Teacher Chen had always been her little dog; if she said east, then he wouldn't dare to head to the west, and now that same man was tattling against her?
Teacher Chen simply snorted when he heard Xiao Rui call his name. He knew that he and Xiao Rui had no future. He had also heard the good thing that Xiao Rui said about him behind his back; how could he not hate her? How dare this woman call him a little licking dog? Who did she think she was? She was lucky that he was even willing to pay attention to her, just because she was slightly pretty. How dare she say that he was just a piece of trash in her eyes? Humph, today he would make her pay.
Principal Duan glared at Xiao Rui, as he was very well aware of the virtue of this woman. He turned to look at Han Ruochen and worriedly asked, "Teacher Han, are you okay? Did these people make things troublesome for you?"
When Han Ruochen heard Principal Duan's question, she was relieved. Principal Duan's words showed that he still trusted her and was worried that she was getting bullied by the thugs, unlike some scum who thought that she was getting into trouble by getting involved with some thugs.
She glared at Xiao Rui before telling the truth to Principal Duan. "I have no idea who these thugs were. I was just trying to do a good deed. Who would have expected that saving a life would turn into something so hideous?"
Xiao Rui's face turned red when she heard Han Ruochen's remark. She knew that the woman was mocking her. Her face turned red and blue before she loudly exclaimed, "Who knows whether it is true or not? Maybe you just made a random story because you were trying to hide the truth."
Han Ruochen glanced at the woman as if she were looking at an idiot and said to her, "Then you can go ahead and question the police officers. Maybe then you will be able to find out the truth. They saw me last night and I have enough evidence to back my claim."
Principal Duan was also angry with Xiao Rui's constant trouble. He glared at her and said, "Teacher Xiao, why are you so confident that Teacher Han did something wrong? Were you there when she was planning something against Mr. Yang? Did you hear it with your own ears?" He questioned her sharply.
When Xiao Rui heard Principal Duan's questions, she wanted to say that she did hear it, but then she swallowed her words back when she caught Han Ruochen's gaze. She knew that this woman had gone crazy; she even dared to put her own lover in the cell of the prison…who was she compared to him?
She lowered her head and shook it. "I didn't."