Xia Qingtian put away her phone and leaned by the desk, asking Jiang Yingying, "Did you really cry?"
"Xia Qingtian, that's enough!" A girl who was good friends with Jiang Yingying pulled Xia Qingtian away and said, "Don't be so relentless when you're in the right!"
"You know I'm in the right? If you knew I was in the right, where were you when our class monitor was being unreasonable with me? Why didn't you rush out to uphold justice then?" Xia Qingtian retorted immediately.
"You!" The girl flushed and stammered when Xia Qingtian shot back, "Our class really has the worst attendance. It's understandable that Jiang Yingying is angry and anxious."
"What does poor attendance have to do with me? You don't care about the real truants, but you're picking on me for taking sick leave to assert your authority?" Xia Qingtian smiled. "That's a good plan! So I deserve to be bullied by you all?"
The girl was completely silenced at this point.
"Alright! I misunderstood you! I'll apologize, okay!" Jiang Yingying could only lift her proud head and look at Xia Qingtian tearfully, as if she were the one who had been wronged.
"Fine, apologize," Xia Qingtian was not going to indulge Jiang Yingying. "Be sincere, be genuine, and get the emotions right."
"You!" Jiang Yingying's outburst was just an angry retort. Most people would have been ashamed if a delicate girl spoke like that, but how could this Xia Qingtian be so shameless!
"What about me?" Xia Qingtian met Jiang Yingying's gaze, her smile bright. "Could it be that the class monitor needs me to teach her how to apologize? So you can only throw your weight around and assert authority, and you can't do anything else!"
Despite feeling extremely wronged, Jiang Yingying's face turned red as she shouted, "I'm sorry! Is that enough!"
After saying this, Jiang Yingying turned and was about to run out of the classroom crying, but her friend pulled her back.
Seeing Jiang Yingying crying inconsolably, as if she had suffered immense injustice, her friend also got angry and glared at Xia Qingtian, saying, "That's enough! You're going too far! This is outrageous!"
"Am I going too far?" Xia Qingtian said with a smile. "What's the saying? Right, don't think you can be rude just because you're pretty and act cute, and expect others to tolerate your bad behavior!"
"Pfft." Someone recalled that these were Jiang Yingying's exact words when she had slammed the table earlier. To hear Xia Qingtian throw them back at her, someone couldn't help but laugh out loud.
This sound seemed to shatter Jiang Yingying's pride completely. She suddenly flung her friend's hand away and ran out of the classroom crying.
"Yingying! Yingying!" Her friend immediately chased after her worriedly. The two did not return until class began.
When the elderly teacher took attendance, he happened to call out their names and sighed, saying, "What's going on with Finance Class One? How long has this semester been? Have you all gotten too cocky! Today, Finance Class One, those I called out and were absent, all of you in the class, notify them! Anyone absent will be treated as failing! You won't have to participate in the semester-end exams! You dare to skip mandatory courses! You've gone too far!"
Upon hearing this, someone couldn't help but laugh, remembering Jiang Yingying's previous outburst.
One by one, people started to chuckle, and soon everyone was laughing, while the teacher stood there, utterly bewildered.
What had happened?
Young people nowadays were becoming increasingly difficult to understand...
After this class, there was only one more major class in the afternoon.
Xia Qingtian asked Li Xiaoxiao if anything had happened while she was away. Li Xiaoxiao scratched the back of her head. "You haven't been here for so long, and the morning wasn't as exciting as your presence."
Li Xiaoxiao counted on her fingers, telling Xia Qingtian about recent school arrangements, who was dating whom, and who had broken up with whom.
Xia Qingtian only listened to the gossip for amusement. However, she was more interested in the school's essay competition.
She had missed classes due to her injury. Although she had a leave slip, it only guaranteed that her credits wouldn't be deducted.
To earn extra credits, she needed to participate more in school activities.
Taking advantage of the free time in the morning, Xia Qingtian went to the library to find some materials, wrote her essay for the competition, printed it out using the library's printer, and then submitted it to her advisor.
As she reached the door of the advisor's office, Xia Qingtian heard the advisor's stern criticism from inside.
"What are you crying about? One is the class monitor, and the other is the academic representative." The advisor said impatiently, "You led the skipping of classes, and you have the nerve to come to me for makeup leave! You want to claim sick leave from the start! What illness do you have? Where are your hospital certificates? Let me see them!"
Hearing the advisor's words, Jiang Yingying felt even more wronged and started to wail.
Why could Xia Qingtian take sick leave, but they couldn't!
Xia Qingtian looked perfectly fine, with no broken limbs or legs, and didn't seem like she needed sick leave at all.
"Xia Qingtian also took sick leave for a long time!" Jiang Yingying's friend retorted indignantly, "We only took one class!"
They had just learned from a classmate that the teacher had called their names for attendance and threatened to fail them, so they had rushed to the advisor to get makeup leave forms.
Personal leave was possible, but it would deduct credits. They still wanted to apply for scholarships, so they could only request sick leave, which did not deduct credits.
"Xia Qingtian's is sick leave, with a certificate from the hospital. Do you have one?" the advisor asked.
"Advisor, we didn't intend to skip class, it's Xia Qingtian who..." Jiang Yingying's tearful words were interrupted by Xia Qingtian.
"Advisor, excuse me." Hearing Jiang Yingying mention her name, Xia Qingtian walked in, knocked, and handed over the completed essay. "I heard from a classmate that our school has an essay competition. I've been sick for a while and haven't been able to come, so I feel a bit bad. I wanted to see if I could do something for our Finance department. I just finished writing it. It might not be very good, but please see if it can be used."
Seeing the essay Xia Qingtian handed over, the advisor's mood clearly improved. "Look at Xia Qingtian! You two are the class monitor and academic representative! Why don't you want to do anything for the class or the department? You only know how to lead in skipping classes!"
Hearing the advisor's words, Jiang Yingying and her friend's expressions turned even uglier. This Xia Qingtian was truly despicable and shameless!
They had felt it during military training. Xia Qingtian looked like a seductive slut, so pretentious! She even went to reapply sunscreen whenever they rested, all to seduce others!
They had noticed that many male classmates had been staring at Xia Qingtian back then, even calling her the new campus belle of the Finance department.
A bunch of blind fools, they only liked that kind of slut!
The two glared at Xia Qingtian menacingly, but Xia Qingtian didn't even spare them an extra glance and simply said goodbye to the advisor with a smile.