Chapter 24 — No Longer Pure

Gu Mengyao was about to lose her mind. What the hell was going on? Hadn't Zhong Yongliang said nobody would be using the bathroom at this hour? Then what was Wei Zhao doing in there? Pressing both hands over her eyes, she shouted "Pervert!" and sprinted away.

As for Shen Yushu, although she also let out a shriek, she did not cover her eyes. Instead, she stole two more curious glances before running off after Gu Mengyao, muttering to herself as she went: "A man's thing really is just like the books say — it can swell up and shrink. This morning it looked so stiff and huge from outside, but now it's shrunk a lot. So bizarre."

"Xiao Shu, what are you talking about?" Gu Mengyao caught Shen Yushu's muttering and asked, not quite understanding.

"Nothing..." Shen Yushu blushed. If Gu Mengyao had heard what she just said, she would have lost all face.

"I can't take it. I'm going to have a breakdown." Gu Mengyao ran all the way back to the classroom without stopping, panting heavily. "How could that thing do this to me? How could it reveal something so disgusting right in front of me? I'm done for. I'm ruined. I'm not pure anymore."

Shen Yushu curled her lip and thought: If one glance makes you impure, then I had two looks — wouldn't that make me a slut? It's not like looking kills anyone. The unlucky one is Wei Zhao, the fellow who got stared at. With that in mind, she tried to console her: "Yaoyao, that's the men's bathroom, okay? We're the ones who went peeking."

"Ah." Gu Mengyao thought it over. Indeed, that was true. The man was just using the men's bathroom; he hadn't done anything wrong. The one at fault was her, for going to peek. She frowned, then suddenly thought of a point: "Oh, right — you're the one who dragged me there."

"No I didn't! Wasn't it that jerk Zhong Yongliang saying nobody would be using the bathroom at this hour, and calling us to come?" Shen Yushu, of course, pushed every bit of blame off herself and shoved Zhong Yongliang forward as the scapegoat.

"Ugh." Gu Mengyao sighed and had no choice but to chalk it up to bad luck. Though she felt her psyche had been gravely traumatized, having never seen such a foul sight in all her life, there was nothing she could do about it. Just as with yesterday, when she'd drunk from the cup Wei Zhao had used — she could hardly blame anyone else for that.

In any case, there was no way she was letting this Wei Zhao stay in her house. Her life had been perfectly peaceful before; nothing had gone right since this creature showed up. In just two days she had already become impure — not only had she lost her first kiss, her eyes had seen something that should never be seen. If she let him stay for two whole months, who knew what other consequences might follow.

Gu Mengyao decided that when Daddy came home from his business trip, she would speak to him in person. Even if she had to pay this bastard a penalty to break the contract, she could not keep him by her side any longer. He was just too dangerous.

Wei Zhao was not bothered by Zhong Yongliang's scream; in fact, it only made him feel better. What startled him badly were the screams from Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.

"What the hell are these two girls doing running into the men's bathroom?" Wei Zhao frowned at the thought. "They peek at me while I'm taking a leak and then scream — they've got no peeping skills at all."

"Peeping calls for discretion. If you scare the person you're spying on, then it's not peeping anymore."

Wei Zhao pulled his pants up and swaggered toward the door.

"You're not going anywhere!" Zhang Naipao and Gao Xiaofu suddenly blocked Wei Zhao's path.

"Your boss is in that kind of state. I'd advise you to take him away and get him changed as fast as possible. In a minute all the students out for the exercises will be back, and if they see him like this, he'll lose all his face." Wei Zhao glanced at Zhong Yongliang, who was lying in a puddle of urine and groaning, and twisted his mouth.

Zhong Yongliang's rear end had already been swollen; now he had fallen flat on his back, with the force landing squarely on his bottom, and the pain was so intense he could not even stand up.

"This..." Gao Xiaofu was troubled. After all, Wei Zhao had a point. In this school, face was everything. If people saw Zhong Yongliang coming out of the bathroom soaked in urine, he would become a laughingstock from then on.

"Hmph, this isn't over." Zhang Naipao also felt this was not the time to get tangled up with Wei Zhao; there would be plenty of chances to deal with him later. "You just wait."

"Whatever." Wei Zhao shrugged indifferently and strode out of the men's bathroom.

"What the hell are you two standing around for? Get over here and help me up!" Zhong Yongliang had not felt much of anything at first, but after Wei Zhao said that, he got scared too — he couldn't afford such humiliation.

"Bro Liang, your clothes..." Zhang Naipao looked at the soaking-wet Zhong Yongliang with disgust. This was, after all, not water but urine. Helping him up would be like smearing a handful of piss all over his own hands.

Gao Xiaofu had the same thought. Several times he reached out his hand, only to stop midair.

"What, too dirty for you?" Zhong Yongliang frowned at once and, feeling displeased, reached out and grabbed a handful of Zhang Naipao and Gao Xiaofu each. In an instant, the two were covered in wet urine stains.

There was nothing the two could do but force bitter smiles and help Zhong Yongliang up, one on each side. Going back to the classroom like that, however, was out of the question. They could only find someplace to wash up and change into clean clothes before returning.

The three had no choice but to slip out through the school's back gate. The feeling of having tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice left Zhong Yongliang deeply aggrieved, and he secretly swore to himself that he would teach that country bumpkin a lesson he would never forget.

For no other reason than that Wei Zhao had exposed his manhood in front of Gu Mengyao. That was something he could not allow — as if his own woman had been defiled by another man. Although Gu Mengyao was not yet his woman, Zhong Yongliang firmly believed that day was not far off.

With his family background and his domineering ways, Gu Mengyao was bound to fall for him. With that thought, Zhong Yongliang felt somewhat better.

When Wei Zhao returned to the classroom, the recess exercises were still not over. Back in the mountains, when he had first heard the term "jiancao," his initial reaction had been: No way — the big city really is something else. The students at school actually do that kind of thing during class breaks? And the school even officially sets aside time for it?

Later, of course, Wei Zhao discovered he had misunderstood. The so-called jiancao was simply doing calisthenics on the playground during the break. From this it was clear that Wei Zhao did not have the simple, innocent nature of someone from the mountains; if anything, he was rather dirty-minded.

Seeing Wei Zhao walk into the classroom, Gu Mengyao gave a "hmph" and lowered her head. A moment ago she had still been praying that Zhong Yongliang and his gang would give Wei Zhao a good beating to vent her resentment. But now, seeing that Wei Zhao was perfectly fine, it was obvious that Zhong Yongliang's side had come off worse.

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