Chapter 43: A Taste of One's Own Medicine

The entire noon passed uneventfully.

During the afternoon class, the moment Jiang Qingqing walked into the classroom, an aura of palpable fury radiated from her entire being. Her face looked as cold as frost as she glared viciously at the back rows, gritting her teeth.

"Lin Tian, stand up right now!"

Instantly, all eyes in the classroom turned toward the back.

As if he had anticipated this long ago, Lin Tian stood up with effortless nonchalance, his eyes revealing a flash of unbridled rebellion and defiance.

Since the teacher was standing right there, Long Yuqing couldn't turn around to ask directly, so she lowered her voice to a mosquito-like buzz and whispered, "What did you do this time?"

Lin Tian didn't answer. Instead, he met the sharp gaze coming from the podium, "Teacher, what trouble have I caused this time?"

"You know perfectly well what you've done!"

It was a rare sight for Jiang Qingqing to lose her temper so severely in front of the entire class. With an enraged roar, she slammed a piece of paper violently onto the podium.

"What is this trash you wrote?! Come up here right now and read it out loud to the whole class!"

Hearing this, Lin Tian walked up without the slightest trace of haste. He picked up the paper and began to read with complete indifference.

The content on the paper was nothing less than a "love letter" he had written to Zhou Xiaoli.

Almost immediately, as he read the words on the note line by line, strange and varied looks were cast upon him from every corner of the classroom.

There was shock, suppressed snickering, admiration, and even a sense of pity.

Among them was also Long Yuqing's utter bewilderment.

"Has this guy lost his mind? He actually wrote a love letter to his mortal enemy Zhou Xiaoli, and the content is so... vulgar."

Especially when it came to certain excessively bold phrases, she felt embarrassed just listening to them.

"I like you, and I want to be with you in close, face-to-face contact to feel each other's passion and warmth..."

Lin Tian read every single word without blushing or missing a breath, completely devoid of awkwardness or shame.

"Damn, Tian bro is legendary! He has completely thrown away all shame!" Liu Buping thought to himself in silent admiration from his seat.

As one of the main subjects involved, Zhou Xiaoli's face was flushed bright red. Overwhelmed with a mixture of anger and shyness, she kept her head lowered.

"This lunatic might not care about his dignity, but I still want mine!"

At this moment, she could already feel many gazes around her secretly landing on her.

Had she known it would come to this, she never would have let her momentary anger get the better of her by handing the note to the head teacher.

"Keep reading! I didn't say stop, so you aren't allowed to stop!" Jiang Qingqing frowned, her voice laced with suppressed anger.

True to her words, Lin Tian didn't stop. Without even pausing for a breath, he continued:

"As the saying goes, blows are a sign of affection, and scolding is a sign of love; you don't fight, you don't fall in love. From the start of the first semester of our freshman year until now, the number of times we've greeted each other's family members is countless, and during this period we've also had a few brief, small-scale physical altercations. Based on this, it's clear that you love me too, so I've decided to take the initiative and win both your heart and soul."

With that, he suddenly raised his head, gazing with profound affection at the distressed Zhou Xiaoli, "Are you willing?"

"I..." Zhou Xiaoli's hands wrestled anxiously under the desk.

Right at this moment, she was so embarrassed she wanted to dig a three-room-and-a-hall apartment into the floor just to bury her head and hide from everyone.

However, caught up in the atmosphere, the students in the class couldn't help but start chanting, "Get together! Get together..."

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoli's cheeks turned so red they looked almost ripe.

At that exact moment, Jiang Qingqing said coldly, "Whoever is speaking out will copy the school rules ten times."

In an instant, the previously roaring and lively classroom fell completely silent.

Pointing directly at Lin Tian, Jiang Qingqing indirectly lashed out at him, continuing, "Some people are already rotten oranges, yet they still shamelessly try to ruin others. To be honest, I really don't understand the point of such people existing. Do we really need a single rat dropping to ruin a whole pot of soup?"

Long Yuqing's brow furrowed tightly, her inner displeasure written all over her face.

Who couldn't tell that those words were directed at Lin Tian?

"This old hag talks way too much nonsense!" Liu Buping cursed inwardly in anger.

Originally, he had held a certain degree of favorable impression toward this hot-tempered, drop-dead gorgeous head teacher with her fiery figure and cold, exquisite face.

At this very moment, he realized how wrong he had been. Unable to help himself, he slipped his hand under the desk to take care of his "little brother" while fixing a burning gaze upon her.

Somehow sensing something inexplicably disgusting, Jiang Qingqing glanced over and caught Liu Buping's hand in motion.

Her first reaction was that the kid was secretly playing with his phone during class, so she hurriedly strode over in a huff.

"What are you doing?!"

Hearing that cold snap right above his head out of nowhere, Liu Buping trembled violently, momentarily plagued by the terrifying illusion that he might become impotent on the spot.

"N-nothing," Liu Buping stammered.

"Nothing?" Jiang Qingqing reached out toward where his hand had been. When she pulled his hand away, there indeed was nothing else there.

But... she caught a strange scent.

"Could he possibly be..."

At this thought, Jiang Qingqing's pupils constricted slightly, though she kept her expression completely composed as she withdrew her hand and let out a cold snort. "Pay attention and focus, everyone! No daydreaming allowed!"

With that, she resumed lecturing Lin Tian.

The entire class period passed without a single lesson being taught; the students simply endured her 45-minute nagging.

The moment class ended, they finally won their release.

"Lin Tian, step outside with me for a moment."

Ignoring the teasing remarks from the crowd, Zhou Xiaoli pushed through the psychological pressure, walked up to Lin Tian, and stepped out first.

Lin Tian was about to get up when Long Yuqing grabbed his sleeve, asking with bewilderment, "What on earth is going on between you two? Why would you write her a love letter?"

"It's nothing. I just wanted to gross her out, simple as that. Who told her to go spreading rumors to frame the two of us this morning!"

After offering this brief explanation, Lin Tian strode out after her.

Hearing this, Long Yuqing stared blankly at the back door of the classroom, thinking to herself, "Actually... that wasn't entirely an unprovoked frame-up..."

In a deserted corner by the stairwell, Zhou Xiaoli stood with a grim expression, arms crossed over her chest, and turned around to demand aggressively, "Are you out of your mind? Why would you write such disgusting crap!"

"Disgusting?" Lin Tian let out a cold laugh inwardly. "I merely repeated your disgusting behavior from this morning right back to you. If you can spread rumors to frame others, why can't someone else do the same to you?"

"You—" Zhou Xiaoli was so furious that her chest rose and fell rapidly. She gritted her teeth, "I never realized before that you could stoop to such cheap and dirty tactics!"

"That's because I didn't realize before that you could be so repulsive!" Lin Tian retorted without yielding an inch:

"Deliberately withholding other assignments from me, deliberately keeping me in the dark, deliberately tripping me up at every turn, and deliberately fabricating stories about my relationship with other classmates—to put it bluntly, you should be thanking your lucky stars that I didn't resort to physical violence against you!"