Chapter 6: Scum’s Redemption – 1

Su Zhiyi stared at her sister’s lackey in shock. She felt all the blood rush to her head, her mind buzzing with anger.

Ding Yi, the liar, didn’t flinch and spoke righteously. “Sister Zhiyi, Nanfeng and I are old classmates with Gu Xizhou. How long have you known her? Would we need to lie in front of the teacher?”

“You…”

Lying, slinging mud, and blaming the victim were the stock tricks of Su Nanfeng’s little clique.

Ding Yi, certain there was no third party and no surveillance cameras in the restroom, spoke with absolute confidence. “Teacher, every word I speak is the truth. If you don’t believe me, just ask Gu Xizhou when she gets back from the hospital.”

“Besides, our Nanfeng has such a good background and excellent character. Why would she bother getting into a conflict with an ordinary student like that?”

At No. 1 High School, there was no shortage of wealthy and well-connected students. But every year, with the incoming class, there were always a few who required special attention from the school leaders.

Su Nanfeng was one of them.

Her mother Su Tianyu’s company, Triumph South Medical Instruments, was a leading domestic enterprise and a super taxpayer. And Su Nanfeng, as the Su family’s only Alpha child, naturally attracted many eyes.

Although school was an ivory tower, some children, due to their parents’ immense social influence, lived a life of favoritism different from ordinary people.

Because of this, the Dean of Students found this situation very troublesome.

She frowned, glanced at Su Nanfeng, who was pressing her lips together as if refusing to say more, looking utterly wronged. Then she turned to Ding Yi and asked, “Is that really what happened?”

Ding Yi nodded, speaking with conviction. “It’s the truth. Teacher, you can ask any student who came up from our middle school if you don’t believe it.”

“Gu Xizhou is quite notorious.”

Hearing this, Su Zhiyi clenched her fists. Looking at Su Nanfeng, her whole body trembled. “I don’t believe that someone who would step forward on the subway to stop a voyeur would do something as petty as stealing!”

Su Nanfeng, hearing her sister’s words, turned her head. Her eyes were red as she choked out, “Then do you think I’m the type of person who would hit someone for no reason?”

“Zhiyi…”

Su Nanfeng sounded so wronged, as if she might burst into tears the next second.

If it were Su Zhiyi from before, who knew nothing, who had never interacted with Gu Xizhou, she would certainly have believed her sister’s pitiful tears.

Just like everyone else who had believed Su Nanfeng before, she would have started to ostracize Gu Xizhou.

But the Su Zhiyi of now knew her sister far too well.

Su Zhiyi looked at Su Nanfeng with red eyes, deeply disappointed. “Who knows? Who knows if you’re just an adolescent Alpha with raging hormones who likes bullying classmates.”

Her tone was pained. Having seen through her sister’s lies, she no longer wanted to speak to Su Nanfeng.

Su Zhiyi turned her head to the Dean of Students and spoke sincerely. “Teacher, I believe Gu Xizhou did not do such a thing.”

“This morning, I was late because she and I caught a voyeur on the subway together and went to the police station to give statements.”

Su Nanfeng turned her head and glanced at Su Zhiyi beside her. A flicker of surprise passed through her narrow, phoenix-like eyes.

Police station?

That rabbit-like Gu Xizhou dared to do something like that?

Ah, right.

She had almost forgotten; Gu Xizhou was the type of “good” kid who, even without lunch money, would break off her bread to feed stray cats at school.

Now that she’d differentiated into an Alpha, having the ability to act righteously wasn’t strange.

But Zhiyi, her sister…

Su Nanfeng looked at the girl who resembled her so closely. Her face was taut, expression serious, as she spoke with deep sincerity. “Gu Xizhou is a brave and upright person. Although she’s small and looks like a rabbit, she has a strong sense of justice.”

“I don’t think she would fight with Su Nanfeng without a reason.”

“Moreover…”

Su Zhiyi turned her head to Su Nanfeng beside her. Taking a deep breath to suppress her sobs, her words became sharp and incisive. “Su Nanfeng is a special talent student in Class 1. Her restroom should be on the first floor. Yet she came up to the third floor to use the restroom next to our class. Isn’t that suspicious?”

“Since you claim Gu Xizhou stole her watch, then why did Gu Xizhou end up biting her face so ferociously!”

“And when I heard the noise and reached the door, all I saw was Su Nanfeng kicking Gu Xizhou.”

Su Nanfeng looked into her sister’s eyes, filled with questioning tears, and felt a massive shock to her spirit.

In her memory, her sister had never spoken to her like that, nor shown such strong dissatisfaction and doubt.

How could it be, after so long apart, all because of one Gu Xizhou…

Gu Xizhou. Damn that Gu Xizhou.

Su Nanfeng clenched her fists, a simmering rage building inside her.

Once this matter was over, she would see exactly what kind of spell Gu Xizhou had cast on her dear sister to make her trust her so much and doubt her own flesh and blood.

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The interrogation yielded no conclusion. Su Zhiyi repeatedly defended Gu Xizhou, pleading with the Dean to handle the matter impartially, but was ultimately dismissed from the office.

As the three left together, Su Nanfeng called out, “Zhiyi…”

But Su Zhiyi ignored her, brushed past her, and returned to the classroom, fuming.

All afternoon, Su Nanfeng sent Su Zhiyi many messages.

Sometimes asking why Su Zhiyi had come to study at No. 1 High School, other times explaining the grievances between her and Gu Xizhou.

Following Ding Yi’s script, Su Nanfeng painted Gu Xizhou’s image as utterly despicable.

A thief, a compulsive liar, a voyeur, and a homosexual.

Su Zhiyi scanned the messages. Just one glance was enough to see, between the lines of Su Nanfeng’s words, how they had bullied Gu Xizhou before Su Zhiyi had met her.

Su Zhiyi knew well that school bullying was never just about physical abuse.

Bullies weaved a web of rumors and slander, trapping fish that had been swimming freely among their school, isolating them from the crowd.

Left alone and helpless, the victim was like someone standing on a cliff’s edge, one step away from the abyss of despair.

Until the victim could bear it no longer and chose death—physical liberation, yet their soul would find no peace.

Her sister was that kind of murderer.

Thinking of this, Su Zhiyi felt a suffocating tightness in her chest, finding it hard to breathe.

Su Nanfeng… wasn’t like this before. Why had she become so bad now?

She vaguely remembered that from about four or five years old, both their mothers were rarely home.

Her mother Su Tianyu was busy managing the company business, while her Mom Mu Zhilan was a concert pianist, touring the world. In that huge villa, only the two sisters depended on each other.

Until they were ten, when her mother had an affair and their Mom chose divorce.

During the divorce, their Mom had wanted to take both daughters, but their mother only permitted her to take one. Their Mom chose her, the one born a few minutes later.

After that, their mother forbade her sister from seeing Mom.

Although the sisters stayed in contact privately, they were ultimately not as close as they had been in childhood. Being able to convince her Mom to let her attend the same high school as Su Nanfeng had made her truly happy.

Even with so much weighing on her heart, so many misgivings, seeing Su Nanfeng again still brought her joy.

After all, she was her sister.

But she had never imagined her sister would be that kind of abuser.

At this thought, a tear slipped from the corner of Su Zhiyi’s eye. She raised a hand and gently wiped the tear away. Through blurred vision, she looked at Gu Xizhou’s empty desk at the front of the classroom.

Based solely on that morning’s experience, the intelligent Su Zhiyi had seen through Gu Xizhou’s essence at a glance: a good child, weak as a rabbit but righteous.

Su Zhiyi bit her lip softly. Her eyes gradually hardened with resolve. She told herself: I must help her.

But how?

First, she needed to talk to Su Nanfeng, to find out what she had done over the years, whether she had reached a point beyond redemption.

If Su Nanfeng truly was beyond saving, she wouldn’t mind taking on the role her parents had neglected and teaching her how to respect others.