Students and teachers passing by all directed their gazes our way, and Shen Mochen was extrely embarrassed, especially since Catherine was now approaching, her eyes as sharp and bright as the edge of a knife.
"Calm down, Princess, I really haven't cuckolded you!"
"Teacher Cai, please don't be upset, what happened?"
Shen Mochen patted Cai Yuncui's shoulder, a look of confusion on his face. He deliberately raised his voice, trying to prove his innocence and composure to the bystanders.
Cai Yuncui wiped her tears, her chest rising and falling slightly. Her face, pure and innocent, now appeared even more pity-inducing, like pear blossoms soaked with rain: "Tell now, where were you at noon?"
"? I was studying in the school library!"
"Really?"
Shen Mochen nodded vigorously, "Really, the class monitor was in the library too. She can vouch for !"
Catherine stood aside, her face impassive.
"That's good, that's good..."
Cai Yuncui's hands rested on her chest as she breathed a long sigh of relief, her face filled with relief.
Shen Mochen's face showed confusion, "Teacher Cai, why are you suddenly asking about this? Did sothing happen?"
"I heard that you were bullied by so bad students in your class... I was really worried and wanted to co see you. But who knew, you weren't in class at noon, nor in the study room... And the students who bullied you were also not in class, I beca very scared... scared that you were being bullied by them again... I nearly searched the entire school but I just got here and I don't really know my way around, I couldn't find you anywhere... I kept thinking of bad things, the more I thought, the more scared I beca..."
Cai Yuncui, her face flushed, stamred out the whole situation. She seed ashad of her overreaction, looking down, her glasses still fogged with moisture.
Shen Mochen opened his eyes wide, though no one could really see, "How, how did you learn about this?"
"I saw it posted on the Confession Wall..."
Shen Mochen blinked, speechless for a long while.
The ssage on the Confession Wall was his doing; his intention was to get Gu Yange to see it and then cause trouble for Gao Le as a way to get back at him, but he did not anticipate this additional effect.
After all, on many occasions Yin Caiyu would frequent Buque, and Shen Mochen had grown accustod to being alone at school, he couldn't imagine anyone caring about him so much over an insignificant ssage.
Shen Mochen touched his neck, feeling uneasy; he was not accustod to accepting kindness from others.
Although many girls had shown interest in him before, it was mainly due to his looks. Cai Yuncui's pure goodwill, however, left him at a loss.
Cai Yuncui asked, "That student called Gao Le, the one who bullied you, is it true?"
Shen Mochen answered vaguely, "Um, um... but it's all right now..."
"Let's go to your class teacher; we must report this kind of issue!" Cai Yuncui grabbed Shen Mochen's hand.
"Eh, there's no need..."
"It's okay, I already spoke with your teacher Ms. Xun yesterday, don't be scared with here!"
"No, really, there's no need..."
As Shen Mochen struggled with Cai Yuncui, Catherine suddenly grabbed Shen Mochen's wrist.
Cai Yuncui was startled, finally rembering Catherine was still nearby, "Right, Catherine is the class monitor, right? Do you know about this?"
"I know." Catherine coldly pulled the two apart.
"Then you should take care of it; you can't just watch as Shen Mochen gets bullied." Cai Yuncui said.
Catherine separated the two, but still held Shen Mochen's wrist, standing in front of him, "This has nothing to do with Teacher Cai, does it?"
"Ah..."
Cai Yuncui was stunned. Was Catherine this indifferent? Her first impression of Catherine was very good; Catherine had helped her sort out the class order when she was flustered during her first class, and in her mind, Catherine was supposed to be a polite and warm-hearted good kid.
Why had she suddenly turned so cold?
"How can you say it has nothing to do with ? I am a teacher, after all..."
"You're just the PE teacher, you shouldn't be responsible for students' daily performance, right!"
Catherine inexplicably grew more irritable and did not even use honorific language with Cai Yuncui.
In fact, she did not have to act this way. Whether Cai Yuncui cared for Shen Mochen or not was between the two of them.
She had never considered Shen Mochen her boyfriend; everything she did was to make him fall for her. She had also never thought of herself as Shen Mochen's girlfriend, she only wanted revenge.
That's how it should have been.
But when Catherine saw other won get close to Shen Mochen, she just inexplicably felt annoyed, just as she had with Gu Yange this morning, and now with Cai Yuncui.
She could overlook soone like Gu Yange, but facing Cai Yuncui, who was no less beautiful than her and seed even closer to him, she just wanted to tear them apart.
Why did she feel this way... She felt sure it wasn't jealousy, but a disgust for those who overstepped their bounds!
After all, Shen Mochen was ostensibly her boyfriend, and eventually, Shen Mochen would beco helplessly in love with her.
Shen Mochen's body and mind, everything he was at the mont, should be her possession!
Others should not reach for her things, especially without her permission.
With that thought, Catherine felt a sudden clarity in her heart.
Cai Yuncui was taken aback by the rebuff and only after a long mont did she bite her lip, fuming, "I... am Xiaochen's sister!"
Catherine smiled and added insult to injury, "As far as I know, you're just his sister's friend."
Cai Yuncui found herself at a loss for words again, irritated. She felt Catherine was hostile toward her, but she hadn't done anything to anger her, had she?
Besides, Catherine's words made her angry too. What did she an by 'just his sister's friend'?
I'm still Xiaochen's crush, I certainly have more right than you, the class president!
With that thought, Cai Yuncui found her backbone, and she gripped Shen Mochen's other hand, "Co on, let's go find your Teacher Xun!"
Catherine also tugged at Shen Mochen's hand, her tone leaving no room for argunt, "You can't go, class is about to start, co back to class with !"
"Xiaochen, won't you listen to Sister Cai?"
"You should think about who is more important to you."
Both tugging at him, Shen Mochen stood speechlessly between the two, shivering as sparks flew.
None of you are that important to , can you both let go? Help! So many people are watching, Shen Mochen just wanted to yell at the sky inside his heart.
If it were two average girls, he could easily brush them off, but he could not afford to offend either of these two. One was the genuinely caring superpower user neighbor sister, and the other could easily do away with her lousy boyfriend at the bottom of a river—the noble girlfriend. Hurting either wasn't a good option; either could hang him out to dry!
"Sister Cai, I'll go to class first, I'm really okay. The class president already gave Gao Le a talking-to this morning, and he knows he was wrong... Let's talk at ho this afternoon, okay?"
Shen Mochen said with a placating smile, between two evils, choosing the lesser.
Better to offend the honest ones first!
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