What's wrong with me, a school principal, listening to students' suggestions?

"First of all, what is the student union for? It's there to work for the benefit of students, not to be anyone's personal thugs."

"Secondly, student council members are also students."

"Anyone who puts the student council in opposition to the students is making an enemy of the entire school!"

The playground fell silent again, and everyone listened intently.

Zhao Mengyao, standing in the student council formation below the stage, had tears welling up in her eyes again.

Lin Yucai turned around and looked at Deputy Director Liu.

"Director Liu, your proposal is eight pages long, right?"

Deputy Director Liu nodded reflexively.

"Let me summarize for you: the core idea is that you want to be in charge."

"But unfortunately, this school..."

He pointed to himself.

"I'm in charge."

The skinny guy in the audience patted Liu Meng on the shoulder: "Two minutes! Look at Baldy Liu's face!"

Deputy Director Liu's complexion was indeed changing at a visible speed, from white to red, and from red to purple.

"Phone numbers must be handed in during class and will be returned after class."

"This is a matter of respect for the teacher giving the lesson, and it's perfectly reasonable."

Lin Yucai continued to announce new regulations.

"But no one, including the student union, is allowed to conduct body searches during breaks, study periods, or dormitories."

"Those who violate this rule will be dealt with as violators of student privacy."

As soon as he finished speaking, another round of applause erupted on the playground.

"Furthermore, starting today, the daily management of the student union will be transferred to Vice Principal Su for direct responsibility."

Su Qingyan stepped forward, stood in front of the stage, and nodded to the audience.

Deputy Director Liu clenched his fists, but couldn't utter a single word.

Zhang Yang shouted from the crowd, "Sister Su is awesome!"

Su Qingyan glared at him from afar.

Zhang Yang raised his hands above his head, in a gesture of "I was wrong, I surrender," but his mouth was stretched wide to his ears.

The students began to whisper among themselves.

"Vice Principal Su is in charge of the student union? Does that mean the student union will be incredibly powerful?"

"Didn't you hear what the principal said? It's all about working for the students' benefit!"

"So, the student council can now push forward suggestions from the suggestion box?"

"This is what a student council should be like! A student council should work for the benefit of students!"

The discussion among Lin Yucai and others gradually subsided before they spoke again.

The tone remained the same, but everyone could hear the difference in tone.

Finally, let me tell you about the outcome.

"Director Ma Desheng, although he did not participate in the search, as the head of the Academic Affairs Office, he failed in his duty of supervision."

"Suspended from duty for three days to reflect on your actions and submit a 1,500-word self-criticism."

Ma Desheng stood below the stage, his face showing no sign of dissatisfaction, and nodded slightly.

He does bear responsibility; he shouldn't have turned a blind eye.

"As for Deputy Director Liu..."

Lin Yucai's gaze shifted to Deputy Director Liu.

The entire audience held their breath.

"Our school has decided to expel him."

The buzzing on the playground stopped abruptly.

Everyone's expression froze.

Su Qingyan looked at Lin Yucai in surprise, her eyes behind her glasses filled with shock. She had no idea about this decision beforehand.

The students looked at each other, dumbfounded.

Expelled?

Direct dismissal?

Deputy Director Liu swayed, and the color drained from his face within two seconds.

Then he suddenly raised his head and shouted in a shrill voice.

"What right did you have to fire me? You had no right to!"

"On what grounds?"

Lin Yucai put his hands in his pockets and glanced at Deputy Director Liu with his head tilted to the side.

There was no anger in his eyes, but rather a hint of disgust.

But Deputy Director Liu's knee buckled slightly.

"I don't want to say the reason in the meeting, not because I want to save face for you."

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

Lin Yucai's voice echoed across the entire playground through the loudspeaker.

Deputy Director Liu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He opened his mouth, then closed it again.

The thin layer of anger on his face vanished completely, replaced by a deep fear.

More than 800 people on the playground saw the change in his expression.

No one knows exactly what happened, but everyone can see that Deputy Director Liu chickened out.

"What's going on? Why does Baldy Liu look like he's seen a ghost?"

"I don't know, but it must be quite a lot, otherwise the principal wouldn't have bothered to expel him directly."

The students were all confused, but no one intended to investigate further.

For them, it's enough that the main villain is defeated!

Lin Yucai did not linger on this topic.

He turned his gaze away from Deputy Director Liu and looked back at the audience.

"Now let's get down to business."

His tone shifted abruptly, as if the tense atmosphere from before had never occurred.

"Grade 10 students, you've been at school for over half a month now."

The students in the high school formation instinctively straightened up.

"If you feel there's anything about the school that could be improved, anything that makes you uncomfortable, or you have any thoughts..."

"Write down your suggestions and drop them into the suggestion box. I will read each one carefully."

The first-year high school students looked at each other in confusion, and then someone raised their hand and shouted.

"Principal! When can we sign up for extracurricular classes? I heard from a senior in the second year of high school that there's an e-sports class!"

Lin Yucai smiled and said, "Registration will be open uniformly after the arts and sciences classes are divided."

He paused, then added a sentence.

"If you have any areas of interest that the school hasn't yet opened, you can also submit suggestions."

"I will recruit a new extracurricular activity teacher as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, all the first-year high school students were excited.

"Really? Can I learn street dance?"

"Submit a suggestion."

"What about electronic music production?"

"Submit a suggestion."

"What about the drone?"

"Submit all the suggestions and proposals," Lin Yucai emphasized, shaking his head with a smile. "I'll review them one by one."

The group in Gao Yifang's formation immediately stirred up, with everyone talking at once.

That initial enthusiasm I had when I first enrolled has been rekindled.

"Vice Principal Su."

Lin Yucai stepped back half a step and moved aside to give up the podium.

Su Qingyan, standing to the side of the stage, raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

I didn't prepare a speech, not even a mental outline.

But she didn't even blink when she walked onto the stage.

"From today onwards, the student council will only do three things."

She held up three fingers, then bent them down one by one.

"Gathering suggestions, promoting implementation, and serving students."

Three sentences, concise and to the point.

The applause from the audience erupted without hesitation.

Su Qingyan's gaze swept across the student council formation and stopped on one person.

"Zhao Mengyao".

Zhao Mengyao stood up straight in the crowd, her back taut, her chin slightly raised, but her eyes were clearly red.

"You did a great job, and you're still the student council president."

"What happened before is not your responsibility. If you have any ideas in the future, just report them to me directly."

Su Qingyan's tone was calm, but every word carried weight.

Zhao Mengyao's lips trembled slightly.

She took a deep breath and nodded emphatically.

I tapped it too hard, and the stray hairs on my forehead swayed several times.

The student council member next to her patted her on the shoulder. Zhao Mengyao didn't say anything, but the hand that was gripping the hem of her school uniform finally loosened.

Side view of the flagpole.

Deputy Director Liu stood there, motionless.

A two-meter vacuum zone was created around him.

No one looked at him, and no one spoke to him.

He stood there all alone, clutching that crumpled eight-page proposal in his hand.

A morning breeze blew by, and the hem of his clothes trembled.

He wanted to leave, but his legs felt like lead.

Lin Yucai's last words kept echoing in his mind.

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