The Nani Fashion Issue By:Kinoshita Nakui 4.8/5 Ratings 2.3 K Reads 3.6 M Words Tags Synopsis: Chapter 112: So Envious
Zhang Xiaoxiao never considered herself a good person.
She was vain, bullied others, had a jealous streak... she was covered in labels that marked her as a bad person.
When she was little, because her mother was disabled, she was treated differently by her classmates.
When children can't solve a problem on their own, they go to their parents for advice.
"Do they hit you?"
Her mother asked that.
Zhang Xiaoxiao rembered it vividly.
At that ti, she counted on her fingers and described everything that happened to her.
Her pencil case was thrown around, people deliberately stepped on her foot when she picked up a dropped pen, she had to do more work than everyone else during classroom duty, and they were always mocking her for no reason...
Her mother just nodded tiredly:
"Alright, I understand. This is just harmless kids' stuff. Don't worry about it."
Zhang Xiaoxiao didn't understand what her mother ant. She only felt wronged.
After that, her life beca increasingly oppressive. By the ti she reached middle school, when classmates actually punched her in the face with their fists, she didn't go to her mother anymore.
She swung her own fists and tussled with them.
Later, their parents were called in. Zhang Xiaoxiao would never forget the day she walked out of the teacher's office. Her mother's worried face looked at her with disappointnt:
"Xiao Xiao... can't you just be less trouble for ?"
At that mont, she suddenly felt that the fists that had been raining down on her body before didn't hurt at all.
She stopped fighting back.
Until one day, a transfer student ca to her class.
Within the first week of her arrival, she witnessed several bullying incidents. Like an idiot, she rushed over to stop them, and then, inevitably, got beaten.
"It hurts so much! When it hurts this much, can't you even cry out?"
She shouted through tears, sitting on the ground, wiping away never-ending tears like an idiot.
"If you don't ddle, it won't hurt."
Zhang Xiaoxiao said.
"But I can't just stand by and watch! Haven't you told the teacher or your parents? It hurts so much! Boohoo!"
The girl sniffled, and it seed to pull on the swollen spot on her face, making her cry even harder.
Zhang Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, just replied:
"Splash so cold water on it, and it won't hurt."
"Really? Then I'll try that when I get ho."
"That's what I've always done."
"What's... your na?"
"Zhang Xiaoxiao. And you?"
"Your na is three characters. Mine is two. I'm Bai Yi. White for my surna, Yi for 'still'."
From that day on, she rembered that na forever.
The day after Bai Yi was beaten, the class teacher resigned, and almost all the students who hit her transferred schools.
"I told my dad. He said this is school bullying, the most unforgivable kind of evil!"
A smile broke through her unhealed, swollen face.
At that mont, Zhang Xiaoxiao could only think... how envious she was.
After becoming friends with Bai Yi, she suddenly felt like she was living a whole other life.
She realized she could choose a different way to live, a way of survival that didn't depend solely on herself—
A parasite.
"Zhang Xiaoxiao?"
The surrounding noise was suddenly interrupted by a calm male voice, but it was jarring.
Zhang Xiaoxiao put down her phone and looked at the person who spoke. It was Bai Yi's father.
Was he here for the Xingnan Music Festival too? He had way too much free ti.
"Uncle, is there sothing you need?"
She forced a smile onto her face.
"Hmm, there's sothing I'd like to discuss with you."
Director Bai said it casually.
"It's about your job."
Zhang Xiaoxiao froze, and a wave of powerlessness washed over her.
"Let's find a quiet place to talk."
Director Bai didn't give Zhang Xiaoxiao a chance to refuse. He had already turned and walked away without looking back, as if he was certain Zhang Xiaoxiao would follow.
Zhang Xiaoxiao followed.
The two of them arrived at an empty open space. Director Bai spoke first:
"Xiao Xiao, you and Yi Yi have known each other for over a decade, haven't you? To be honest, I'm surprised."
Zhang Xiaoxiao lowered her head and let out a hollow laugh:
"Yeah, over a decade."
"Yi Yi is different from you. She's a very kind child."
Director Bai turned his head to look at her and said offhandedly:
"Even though you've been by her side for so long and done many excessive things, she still hasn't really grown up."
"Then maybe I haven't gone far enough."
Zhang Xiaoxiao lifted her head, a faint, ugly smile appearing on her face.
Director Bai glanced at her in surprise, then looked away:
"When people do wrong things, they have to pay a price. I can pay for my daughter's mistakes, but there's no need to pay for so irrelevant people."
"Zhang Xiaoxiao, you too. If you do wrong things, you have to pay the price."
Zhang Xiaoxiao tilted her face up as light slid across it:
"So, was losing my job your doing?"
"I never told her to fire you. If you had gone back to the company today, then you wouldn't have been fired."
Director Bai didn't deny it; he said it flatly.
Zhang Xiaoxiao was stunned for a mont, then asked with a self-deprecating laugh:
"If I rushed back now, would it be too late?"
Director Bai said:
"Of course."
"I'm so envious. You can decide my entire future with just one sentence."
Zhang Xiaoxiao shook her head, clenched her fists, and her nails dug viciously into her flesh.
"Aren't you the sa? You've used your status as Yi Yi's friend to make things convenient for yourself."
Director Bai's brows furrowed slightly:
"I've actually been wanting to find a chance to talk to you for a long ti. Because you saved Yi Yi from the lake, I've been turning a blind eye all these years."
"But now, I can no longer tolerate you staying by Yi Yi's side."
Zhang Xiaoxiao picked up her phone and looked at Director Bai:
"What do you think would happen if I called Yi Yi right now?"
Director Bai remained unmoved:
"Don't throw away your last shred of dignity yourself."
"Didn't I offend soone you can't afford to offend, so you ca to get back at ?"
Zhang Xiaoxiao retorted.
This was her final counterattack.
Director Bai suddenly let out a laugh:
"You can think of it that way if you want. Zhang Xiaoxiao, you still don't understand Yi Yi."
How ridiculous. Did all officials talk in such cryptic riddles?
With that, he turned and left, leaving behind one last sentence:
"Yi Yi said today is your birthday. After today, you'll be 27, right? The pace of life in Jinling is too fast."
"While you're still young, find another place to develop."
Director Bai's voice was very light, but Zhang Xiaoxiao felt a stabbing pain all over her body.
A parasite will always be found out one day.
It's just that this day ca too suddenly.
How envious she was.
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