“No!”
Wang Meng’s answer left all three of them stunned.
They hadn’t expected that she would still refuse even after they had gone to such lengths.
Wu Peng’s parents immediately looked at Gou Huo with a hint of anger — hadn’t he said she was cowardly and easy to manipulate?
“Wang Meng, don’t be ungrateful,” Gou Huo warned, his expression as dark as the bottom of a pot.
He had lost face and could no longer keep up his act. His tone was sharp.
According to his understanding, as long as they showed the right attitude, combined with the fact that her family was currently short on money, there was no reason for her to refuse.
“I’m sorry, Director!”
Wang Meng was a bit frightened, but her stance remained firm.
She bowed and said, “Because this isn’t just about me. It’s also about Gu Chen!
“She was seriously injured to save me! If I did this for money, I would be betraying her after she risked her life to save me. No matter what, I can’t do something so ungrateful for the sake of profit.”
“You!!”
Gou Huo could no longer maintain his composure, his old face flushing red with rage.
*Bang!!*
Before he could speak, the door to the private room was kicked open.
Gu Chen and Tang Ziya walked in, their expressions equally grim.
“What are you two doing here?”
Seeing the two of them, the Dean of Instruction’s momentum weakened slightly.
He still had a bit of a Psychological Shadow concerning Gu Chen because of the funeral incident.
Wang Meng hadn’t expected them to appear suddenly either.
She was both surprised and happy, calling out nervously, “Gu Chen, Class Monitor?”
Her anxiety dissipated significantly.
“You’re too silly. You’re considering me instead of taking the money? Don’t you feel like you’re losing out?”
Gu Chen looked at her helplessly.
Gu Chen hadn’t expected that the reason for Wang Meng’s refusal was her own injuries.
She felt quite moved.
If Wang Meng had accepted, Gu Chen would have felt that her effort had been wasted.
‘Not bad, saving her wasn’t in vain.’
“You’re Gu Chen?”
Upon hearing the name, Wu Peng’s father locked his gaze on her.
He then stepped forward naturally to greet her.
“Hello, my name is Wu Fugui. I’m Wu Peng’s father. Regarding my son’s matter, it’s really — “
“Stop!”
“Sorry, I don’t have a good impression of people named ‘Fugui.’ Please shut up.”
Gu Chen interrupted him directly.
Wang Meng had a simple personality, and it was normal for her not to see through people, but Gu Chen wasn’t someone who was easy to deal with.
As soon as they opened their mouths, she knew exactly what kind of nonsense they were planning to spew.
“Uh…”
The man was left completely stunned and at a loss. How had the name “Fugui” offended her?
“Child, I am his mother. This whole thing was just a mistake Wu Peng made in a moment of confusion, but he’s been like this since he was young. It’s all because we as parents didn’t teach him well. Doesn’t the school teach you to be understanding and look at things from other people’s perspectives? You aren’t a parent, so you don’t understand this feeling. You’re a good child, so you should be more generous. We will also provide you with compensation, all right?”
Wu Peng’s mother had no choice but to chime in, her tone even more sincere and pitiful.
“Oh, it seems you really didn’t teach him well. You don’t know how to do anything else but use moral blackmail, do you?”
Gu Chen was so angry that she laughed.
‘A moment of confusion? I think Wu Peng is a natural-born seed of evil. And what does she mean by being more generous? I almost died at Wu Peng’s hands, and a single ‘be generous’ is supposed to resolve everything?’
She didn’t bother being polite and started shouting at them.
“Since you knew he was a bad seed from the start, why did you even give birth to him just to let him hurt people?”
The middle-aged couple exchanged a glance.
They hadn’t expected Gu Chen to be so stubborn.
Gu Chen continued, pointing at the man.
“Why didn’t you just spray him against a wall back then?”
Then she pointed at the woman.
“Why didn’t you just strangle him on the spot when he was born?”
“A beast that bites people needs to be euthanized. Why should a murderous beast be forgiven?”
Gu Chen didn’t give them any face at all, unloading a barrage of insults.
The couple’s faces turned the color of pig liver from anger, and the Dean of Instruction’s face was flushed red with rage.
“You little brat, try cursing again!”
Wu Peng’s mother finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
She became hysterical and let out a shrill scream.
“Humph, the fox’s tail is finally showing.”
Gu Chen had suspected earlier that these two were just putting on an act.
They could only fool a simple girl like Wang Meng.
‘Forgiveness? Forgiving him is God’s business. It’s already good enough that I didn’t personally send him to meet God.’
“Let’s go!”
Seeing that there was absolutely no possibility of negotiation, Gou Huo could no longer save face and could only lead the others away.
As he left, he couldn’t hide his murderous gaze.
Although being retaliated against later was inevitable, Gu Chen wasn’t afraid at all.
After driving the three away, Gu Chen looked at Wang Meng.
“Wang Meng, they didn’t do anything to you, did they?”
“No, the Director just brought me here to talk about terms,” Wang Meng replied.
Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
“That’s good.”
She grumbled, “That guy Gou Huo is strange too. It’s just a child from a relative’s family. Is it worth going to all this trouble?”
“I’m not sure. Listening to their conversation earlier, the Director and that man don’t really seem like relatives,” Tang Ziya analyzed. “I think Wu Peng is more likely to be his son.”
“Then it’s even weirder. Even biological brothers wouldn’t want to get involved in this kind of mess, right?”
Gu Chen rolled her eyes.
In this situation, they weren’t thinking of a way to distance themselves, but instead lowered their pride to ask Wang Meng for a Letter of Leniency.
This relationship was incredibly tight.
“Alright, she shouldn’t have agreed to this in the first place. It’s a good thing Wang Meng didn’t agree, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to clear her name.”
Tang Ziya interrupted, seemingly having deduced something.
“What do you mean?”
“If they really wanted to pay compensation and get the Letter of Leniency, they should have done it at a notary office to prevent either side from backing out. Coming here to talk and mentioning an immediate transfer… I think it’s mostly a plot targeting Wang Meng.”
Tang Ziya’s eyes darted around, looking very angry.
“Class Monitor, are you saying they weren’t asking for forgiveness?”
Wang Meng still hadn’t reacted, her face a mask of confusion.
“Yes. If you had taken the money, they would likely have turned around and bitten you, saying you seduced Wu Peng to go to the Back Mountain to extort him. When the other party refused to pay, you slandered him. Then, after secretly taking money from his parents, you changed your story. At that point, it would have become a case of extortion.”
As soon as those words were spoken, both Gu Chen and Wang Meng’s eyes widened.
*My god!*
These people were truly vicious.
Luckily, Wang Meng held her ground and didn’t agree, otherwise they really might have turned black into white!
Gu Chen felt a lingering fear and advised, “In the future, you must discuss anything with us. Don’t make decisions on your own. It’s easy to get played, understand?”
“Yes, I understand.”
Wang Meng nodded, having learned about the wickedness of society.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. Didn’t Wang Meng refuse anyway?”
“Yeah.”
“Damn, we still got tricked!”
Gu Chen was suddenly startled and blurted out.
“What’s wrong!?”
Tang Ziya asked hurriedly.
Logically, everything should be fine now.
Could there be a flaw in her judgment?
“They haven’t paid for this private room yet. Isn’t it going to be charged to us?”
Gu Chen explained.
“…”
In the end, Wang Meng was the one who paid.
It was a huge loss!
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