A Young Woman's Heart

"Tsk tsk, you really think the 'goddess' cares about you?" Li Hongran teased.

Zhou Yong wasn't having it. He put down his backpack, swaggered over to Mo Xueyao, and reached out his hand, asking, "Mo Xueyao, um, about the physics homework I assigned yesterday..."

"Physics homework?" Mo Xueyao hesitated for a moment, and Li Hongran immediately showed a 'you see what I mean' look, but she quickly took out a physics homework from her schoolbag. "Yes, I told you I would save it for you, so I didn't lend it to anyone else."

"Thanks!" Zhou Yong proudly took Mo Xueyao's homework, feeling that her body fragrance still lingered on it, seemingly mixed with the scent of flowers and fruits.

"Look at how smug you are," Li Hongran said irritably. "I didn't expect her to actually remember."

"Tch, what do you take Mo Xueyao for? She's very approachable!" Zhou Yong retorted, displeased, in defense of Mo Xueyao.

"Yes, yes, in your heart, she is perfect."

"Get lost, get out of my way while I'm copying my homework!"

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Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Little Delinquent

Li Gutao is very annoyed lately.

His grades in junior high school were not very good. Although he took the high school entrance exam, he failed to get into any school.

Fortunately, Hangzhou has abundant educational resources, including not only regular high schools and key high schools, but also many vocational high schools and technical schools.

Compared to vocational high schools, vocational high schools probably seem more like regular high schools.

So Li Gutao enrolled in the school on his own and became a vocational high school student.

You can't say that students with poor grades aren't good kids, but generally speaking, among a large group of people who don't get into high school, the chances of someone doing something bad are higher.

Even vocational high school students often pass the high school entrance exam, but they still choose to pursue a 3+2 self-study program for a more stable path to a junior college.

For this reason, Li Gutao specifically chose a school with a relatively large number of female students.

That's right, it's the early childhood education major.

There are fewer men in places, so there will be fewer conflicts, right?

Moreover, he harbored an unrealistic fantasy that he might be able to find a girlfriend among a large group of girls.

However, in reality, he was delusional. Although there were only five or six boys in a class of early childhood education majors, those who were going to look down on him still did.

I'm still single to this day.

That's not the point. The point is that he originally thought vocational schools with more girls would have a better atmosphere, but in fact he was completely wrong.

Where there are many girls, although there are few hooligans, there will be many delinquent girls...

At first, he didn't care about delinquent girls at all. After all, he was a boy, and no matter how tough they were, they were just bullying girls.

Unexpectedly, the girl in the class who was considered a troublemaker actually gathered a large group of her followers—or rather, her underlings.

Even the other boys joined their camp, fawning over them like lapdogs.

Li Gutao, who was neutral and didn't want to offend anyone, was targeted by two rebellious girls in his class.

Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not about love.

However, since these two are on opposing sides, they need to win over the few boys in the class.

He happened to be the fifth boy who hadn't yet chosen a side.

The problem is that Li Gutao is not interested in this kind of thing at all.

No matter who joins, they have to bully the other side. Although it's not like the boys who fight directly, all sorts of backstabbing and petty squabbles will still happen.

He felt it was childish, but he couldn't shake it off.

After all, these two delinquent girls still control the class officers. If he doesn't take sides, anyone can make things difficult for him.

The key point is that these two groups were extremely serious, as if they really were gangsters.

After school, Li Gutao was cornered in an alley by the most assertive female delinquent.

This ridiculous situation left him both amused and exasperated.

This young delinquent had dyed the ends of her hair dark red. She usually covered them with a decorative headband so they weren't noticeable, but she would untie them when she was outside of school, and the red ends of her hair would immediately make her delinquent look even more pronounced.

"Hey! Li Gutao!" The young delinquent grabbed his collar, bringing his face, which should have been fairly good-looking but was inexplicably covered in terrible smoky makeup, close to his. "You still want to remain neutral? Aren't you being incredibly stupid? Trying to be a fence-sitter? Believe me, I'll get everyone here to punch you today!"

"Can you guys stop being so childish?"

"Naive? I think you just don't understand what society is all about!"

Upon hearing this, Li Gutao was speechless.

It's not that I can't reason with them, it's that I simply can't reason with them.

He deeply regretted not studying hard in junior high school; otherwise, he wouldn't have had to be in the same class as these women who had nothing better to do.

"Hurry up, kneel down and submit now, say you're willing to join our Qinghua Gang, and I'll spare your dog's life. Otherwise..." The young delinquent's eyes slid down viciously, landing on Li Gutao's crotch, "...and I'll make sure you're childless!"

Li Gutao was both amused and annoyed. He straightened up and said very seriously, "I really don't hit women."

"Ah Tao, I think you should just give in. Look how much the big sister cares for you, she even came to personally recruit you." A boy who looked effeminate said, making a delicate gesture with his fingers, which almost made Li Gutao vomit up his dinner from the night before.

“Yeah, even though you’re not afraid of girls, there are two of us guys here. And with so many girls around, if you make a move, they might yell ‘molestation’,” another guy chimed in.

"Damn it, are you guys really just bored and have nothing better to do?" Li Gutao spat on the ground, thinking about how to escape.

You can get away for now, but you still have to go to school tomorrow, right?

Isn't there a way to solve the problem all at once?

"Hey, that's... Tao." Mo Xueyao, who was passing by the alley, looked at the group of girls crammed together and was a little curious. She stood up on the pedal of her bicycle and glanced inside, only to see an unexpected person.

"What's wrong?" Li Wanyan asked.

“It’s one of my junior high school classmates,” Mo Xueyao answered subconsciously. “Did this guy have a romantic encounter? So many girls are surrounding him, but it doesn’t seem like it. Did he cheat on someone, or is he juggling several women at the same time?”

"Are you very familiar with him?" Li Wanyan noticed something amiss.

"When... ah... um, I'd say we're fairly familiar with each other." Mo Xueyao stood on her bicycle and watched for a while, vaguely hearing a few threatening words. "Could it be school bullying? Wanyan, do girls bully boys too?"

“It’s possible,” Li Wanyan replied.

"Ah!" Mo Xueyao quickly shouted to Li Gutao, "Atao!"

It wasn't because of Li Wanyan's answer, but because those people suddenly made their move.

Li Gutao was the one who got ganged up on.

Within three seconds, he was lying on the ground, rolling around, trying his best to protect his vital parts from being hit.

Women can be even more ruthless than men when they fight, and they often use all sorts of indecent attacks.

Some people even spat on him...

Mo Xueyao originally wanted to pretend she didn't see anything and leave, but in the end she couldn't help herself.

Although I am a girl now, the memories of my three years of junior high school are indelible.

After all, Li Gutao was one of her best friends.

"Hey, what are you doing!"

Mo Xueyao rushed over. The girl who had been beaten the most and whose hair was dyed red turned around and walked aggressively in front of Mo Xueyao: "What, you want to be beaten too? Get lost, you bitch!"

"Are you an idiot?" Having been inexplicably insulted, Mo Xueyao was naturally in a bad mood, and his usual boyish temper flared up. "Want to fight?"

"Huh? Interesting, you want to fight me?" The delinquent girl was a woman herself, so she had no pity for Mo Xueyao, who was of the same sex. The other woman's beauty became the reason for her to be ruthless.

Mo Xueyao didn't adhere to any principle of not hitting women; her consistent rule was that if anyone dared to bully her, she would retaliate.

Otherwise, someone like her, considered an "oddball" by others, would probably have been bullied into developing autism long ago.

Of course, fighting with a woman was definitely a first for me.

When the other person made a move, she didn't hold back either. Relying on the reflexes she still had from her boyhood, she dodged the slap, then punched the other person in the stomach. Immediately afterward, she leaned forward and grabbed the other person's hands and neck, in what was roughly a 'strongman locks down a man' move.

"Are you sick? You hit people just because you disagree with them?" Mo Xueyao asked through gritted teeth. The other person's strength was astonishing, leaving her with little energy to speak.

"You filthy bitch—!" The young delinquent lowered her head and opened her mouth to bite Mo Xueyao's arm, but a black cat that jumped down from the wall stepped on her face.

"Meow--"

"Stop! What are you doing?!" Teacher Su from the medical office came running over breathlessly, but the young delinquent mistook her for a student. "Mind your own business, fuck your mother!"

"Meow—" The black cat Cookie looked like it had its fur standing on end, ready to attack at any moment.

For some reason, it seemed quite hostile towards this young delinquent.

"Stop!" With a shout, the head of student affairs, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and black stockings that changed thickness with the seasons but never color, walked over. Beside her was Jingdie, a math teacher who looked like she had a bad temper. "Which school are you guys from? How dare you cause trouble near our Yukong High School?"

"Go!" The young delinquent suddenly broke free from Mo Xueyao and fled in panic with the others, leaving only Li Gutao rolling around on the ground in a sorry state before staggering to his feet.

"Hey, Tao, are you alright?"

"Xiao Yao?" Li Gutao barely opened his eyes—his eyes were swollen from being punched. "Uh, why is it Xiao Yao, little sister? No... why are you calling her so familiarly?"

Even at this point, they're still concerned about strange things.

Mo Xueyao could only try to explain, "Ah, it's because that's what my brother calls you. I've heard him talk about the past a lot, so I remembered it and just called you that subconsciously."

"Oh...you actually rushed over all by yourself just now, that was really...too reckless..." Li Gutao breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily, a teacher came."

"What exactly happened to you guys?" Dean of Students Yinling pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses and asked seriously.

Li Wanyan quickly stepped forward and calmly recounted what had just happened.

Simply put, it means that Mo Xueyao wasn't there to fight, but to help.

In addition, both of them were good students with good grades, and the head of the teaching department remembered their names, so no further inquiries were made.

"Which school do you go to?" Yinling asked Li Gutao. "Is bullying this serious at your school?"

"Ahem..." Li Gutao was embarrassed to answer for a moment, but Yinling didn't need him to answer, because she had already figured out which school uniform it was.

"Xiao Qing, could you help deal with this student from another school? It seems we need to clean up the area around the school a bit. Fights are even happening near our school these days," Yin Ling said to Su Yuqing, then turned and walked into the school, clearly going to discuss something with the principal.

"Yaoyao, are you alright?" Li Wanyan looked Mo Xueyao over, but still asked with some concern.