Hu Yuying had no room to resist in front of Long Aotian, or rather, she didn't dare to resist at all.
She was easily brought to Wang Shuo's seat.
Seeing Long Aotian bring Hu Yuying over, Wang Shuo looked at Long Aotian with some unease.
"Go ahead" Long Aotian gestured for Hu Yuying to speak.
The commotion here had already made everyone in the class subconsciously look over.
Feeling everyone's gazes, Hu Yuying became even more nervous. She clenched her fingers tightly, her lips trembling slightly.
Finally, after a few breaths, Hu Yuying made up her mind and bravely looked at Wang Shuo: "You need to apologize to me."
When Wang Shuo heard this, he first looked at Hu Yuying.
Seeing Wang Shuo glare at her, Hu Yuying instinctively stepped back, her body trembling uncontrollably, so much so that her fingernails left an imprint on her palm without her realizing it.
"You, you need to apologize to me." Although her words trembled slightly, Hu Yuying tried her best to maintain a calm facade.
But Wang Shuo remained silent, and the surroundings seemed to fall into silence. She could clearly hear her own heartbeat, her face growing paler and paler, and her gaze inadvertently shifted to her side.
Upon seeing Long Aotian's figure, her heart felt briefly at peace.
Wang Shuo first looked at Hu Yuying, then at Long Aotian.
Seeing Wang Shuo look at him, Long Aotian tilted his head slightly and suddenly smiled, his tone lazy with a hint of arrogance: "Didn't you hear? Do I need to repeat it for you?"
He was clearly unruly, carefree, and lazy, but his gaze was incredibly sharp—no, to be precise, it was his aura.
His aura was very powerful...
Wang Shuo subconsciously swallowed.
People are like this. When they encounter someone weaker than themselves, and think they can bully him, they will act particularly arrogant.
But if they encounter someone stronger than them, even if they might still be unconvinced in their heart, their attitude will involuntarily softens.
Looking at Hu Yuying, Wang Shuo felt that if he didn't apologize, he would definitely be beaten by Long Aotian.
This posture clearly shows that he was going to protect Hu Yuying!
He wasn't like this in the past.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have deliberately thrown your things on the ground."
Upon hearing Wang Shuo's apology, the burden on Hu Yuying's heart immediately lifted.
So much so that Hu Yuying didn't know how to describe the feeling. It was as if her whole being suddenly became very light and relaxed.
Not just physically, but more so psychologically.
Upon hearing Wang Shuo's apology, Hu Yuying instinctively wanted to say, "It's okay!"
But before she could speak, her shoulder was poked twice.
She looked at Long Aotian.
Long Aotian raised an eyebrow and wink's to her.
Hu Yuying immediately understood, took a deep breath, but still said with obvious lack of confidence: "You, you also need to pay back the stationery you broke."
Wang Shuo pursed his lips, unwilling but could only nod, because he couldn't beat Long Aotian, and even more so because when facing Long Aotian he had the illusion of facing those people from society.
He had no doubt that Long Aotian really knew people from society: "Alright."
(T/N: You mean like.... His parents? I understand what you mean but still please be more specific to make my job earlier.)
He immediately took out a handful of pens from his pencil case.
As a professional slacker, these pens are all just for show in his pencil case, so they were all pretty new.
Hu Yuying only took five pens, because five of her own pens had been broken.
Hu Yuying didn't take the rest and returned them.
This can be considered a new beginning, so with this out of the way Long Aotian turned and left.
Seeing this, Hu Yuying quickly followed.
After returning to her seat, Hu Yuying looked at the pens in her hand, and unconsciously smiled.
She wasn't happy because she got five pens; she was happy because of the apology and the entire process of him returning her five pens.
In the past, if she was bullied, she was just bullied.
If her pens were broken, they were just broken.
No one would apologize to her, and no one would replace the things they damaged for her.
It was as if damaging her things and bullying her were perfectly acceptable.
But today was different, not only did she receives an apology but also got compensation for her damaged items.
If this were in the past, it would have been unimaginable!
"Thank you, Long Aotian." In just one morning, Hu Yuying had already lost count of how many times she had thanked Long Aotian, but she still wanted to say it.
It seemed she knew nothing else, but to thank him!
"Why thank me? You mustered up the courage to regain your own dignity, and damaged items should naturally be compensated." Long Aotian glanced at Hu Yuying and continued slowly: "If you yourself are incompetent, it's all for nothing ."
What Hu Yuying lacked most right now was encouragement and affirmation from others. A casual word of encouragement can gradually help her regain her confidence.
Hu Yuying wasn't stupid. She knew that if Long Aotian hadn't stood behind her today, she wouldn't have found the courage.
It was noon.
Long Aotian glanced at Hu Yuying, who was still writing notes: "Come on, let's go eat."
Hu Yuying hesitated for a moment the said softly: "I... I'm not that hungry yet."
"Who asked if you're hungry or not? You're my follower now."
"Follower, understand? It means wherever I go, you have to follow."
"Let's go!"
"Alright then." Hu Yuying got up, tidied her things, then glanced at Long Aotian's messy desk.
She quickly tidied his as well, and only then followed Long Aotian out of the classroom.
Walking behind Long Aotian, he was very tall, at least compared to a female like Hu Yuying.
Watching Long Aotian's back, Hu Yuying carefully avoided his shadow behind him, afraid of stepping on it.
"Excuse me, student, please wait a moment."
Long Aotian continued to walk forward, because according to the original novel's description of the villainous male supporting character Long Aotian, he didn't think anyone would call him.
"Wait a moment, classmate." Two figures jogged up to Long Aotian.
The newcomers were two girls, slightly out of breath, said apologetic: "Excuse me, student, we're doing campus promotion, may we bother you for a moment?"
Long Aotian looked at one of the girls, his lips twitching slightly.
Exquisite, beautiful, elegant, she was very pretty. Upon seeing her, Long Aotian couldn't help but recall the description of the second female lead, the White Moonlight in the original novel.
Before Long Aotian could fully react, the girl had already pointed the microphone at him: "Excuse me, classmate, what improvement do you think the food in the school cafeteria needs?"
Despite the girl's best efforts to hold the microphone, the height difference still made things somewhat unsatisfactory
Long Aotian frowned slightly, and subtly bent down a little: "I haven't eaten there yet, so I don't know what needs to be improved."
After speaking, he straightened up again: "We're going to eat now, excuse us."
Then he led Hu Yuying towards the cafeteria.
Li Qingxue had interviewed many people, but none had given such an answer like him.
And the way he bent over was quite gentlemanly...