At forty-minutes past eleven, Elena began to pack her things hurriedly once the class was dismissed. Then she ran out of the classroom.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, she almost received a splash of liquid on her face.
Elena had relatively quick reflexes, and she immediately dodged to the side. However, she still managed to get some of the liquid on her clothes.
Thankfully, it was only water instead of something that could disfigure her, like sulfuric acid.
She glared at the three people who stood at the side. “What’s the meaning of this?”
“It’s nothing, really. The weather’s too hot, so we wanted to lower the temperature for everyone. You’re the one who still came over even though you knew that we were going to splash water on anyone who’d come through here.”
The girl who held the plastic bucket shrugged and made light of the entire situation.
“Dang it, why are you so silly? Everyone knows that we are splashing water here, and they have all made way for us. Why did you have to come over here?”
The two girls behind them also laughed like idiots. “Exactly. How could anyone be so stupid that they’d put their face right into the water that was meant for feet.”
Many students were around them, but no one dared to say anything.
They could not care less about a situation unless it directly involved them. On the contrary, they also enjoyed fanning the flames and would rue it if things were not heated enough!
Elena clenched her fists and swept her cold gaze across the three of them. Then she pursed her lips and walked toward the school gate.
Barely two steps later, a girl stopped her immediately.
“Hold it right there! Little Miss Ugly wants to leave after she bullied someone else?”
The girl beside her immediately dropped to the ground and groaned. “Oww! Elena, why did you hit me? It hurts!”
Elena stared at the antics of that girl. With that kind of acting skill, she could have been an actress instead.
She attracted disasters like a moth to a flame. How could a simple and unobtrusive walk be enough to ‘bully’ someone?
Some of the students had understood the situation immediately. Those girls wanted to frame Elena!
As the situation progressed, however, more people who did not know about what had transpired began to gather around them.
The moment they saw a girl moaned and squirmed on the ground, they stopped the ugly Elena.
It looked as though Elena had hit those girls and tried to leave, but they had prevented her departure.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Elena glared at the girl in front of her and asked unemotively.
“You bullied them! Now apologize!”
“Cici, she has to pay her medical bills too,” the girl who stood next to the fallen girl snorted.
That Cici girl agreed immediately. “Yeah! Apologize, and then pay her medical fees!”
Elena glanced at the fallen girl before she looked at Cici. She sneered, “Did I touch her? Pay for her medical fees? Why don’t you just rob me?”
“Elena, you’re still so aggressive after you beat her up! You’ve crossed the line!”
The girl on the ground immediately covered her stomach and curled into a ball. “It hurts …”
The people around her began to point their fingers at Elena. “She had crossed the line.”
“Yeah, how can you beat someone in school, it’s too violent!”
“I heard that she’s in a relationship with a filthy rich old man. She has money now, that’s why she’s so daring.”
“Really? She looks so disgusting. Did someone really take her in as a sugar baby?”
“Didn’t you watch Layla’s live broadcast two days ago? There was a man with Elena at that time, but no one saw his face.”
“Now that you mention it, yeah, I remember it now. Damn, the old man’s voice was really sexy though. I’ve listened to that so many times.”
“Sadly, he’s an old man…”
At that point, Elena’s relationship with an older man became a hot topic once again.
Cici stared at Elena and thundered, “Don’t think that you can do whatever you want just because you have a rich man behind you.”
“That’s right. She and the rich man forced Mia to record the live broadcast so that they could paint Mia as the villain, and so that everyone would curse at her.”
Another girl also raised her voice and said, “But what no one knows is that the rich man had forced Mia into recording the video.”
“I knew about it, of course. I was outside the room the whole time, but I didn’t dare to go in. They had dozens of thugs who stood outside the door. Whoever dared to go against them would be beaten up!”
Cici stared at Elena’s eyes with a look of righteous indignation, as if she itched to shred Elena into pieces.
“So what, if you’re rich? You’ve brought dozens of thugs to force Mia into making a live broadcast. Then, you beat her up after that. I saw it with my own eyes!”
Since their actions were all spontaneous, the slutty Elena would surely have no time to start a live broadcast or record their conversations.
That was precisely why Cici and the other two girls were not afraid that they would leave any evidence of their defamatory statements.
“Are you brave enough to say that again?” Elena took out her cell phone.
Cici slapped the phone out of Elena’s hand. The latter’s phone dropped to the ground as she could not evade it in time.
“She’s going to call her old man again! She wants to frame us again!”
At that moment, the indifferent crowd that had listened to that slander became genuinely disgusted with Elena.
The fact that the ugly woman forced Mia to do a live stream might just turn out to be true.
Someone took photos of the scene immediately, while some even took videos to clear Mia’s name.
They were there on account of Mia’s discontent.
Elena, however, knew that the mastermind behind the whole charade was none other than Mia herself.
However, how could the brainless Mia come up with that plan?
From the looks of it, there must have been another skilled person behind the curtain.
Other than Ava, who else was skilled enough to support Mia from behind the scenes?
With the way that battle was fought, it might just be enough for Mia to change her fortune.
It was a good trick!
“Elena, what else do you have to say for yourself?” Cici stepped forward.
She did not expect Elena to stand there so calmly instead of pressured to retreat.
Cici was somewhat surprised as she thought that Elena would be afraid because of how much everyone had hated her.
Far from it, it looked like Little Miss Ugly’s bravery was sky high!
Elena stared at her and remarked indifferently, “You’ve already said everything that is needed to be said. What else is there for me to say?”
“Does that mean that you’re admitting that your man had brought dozens of thugs to force Mia to do a live broadcast so that your friend’s name would be cleared?”
“Nope.” Elena stepped forward suddenly. Her gaze was so cold that it could stop anyone in their tracks.
“It’s against the law to bring dozens of thugs to the hospital and commit crimes there. You can make a police report about it!”
“You…”
“Bentson is a law-abiding place. No one would allow such a thing to happen. I hope that you’ll go ahead and report it to the police. If you don’t want to, I can do it.”
She took one more step forward and forced Cici to take two steps back.
“You’ve broken my phone, so why don’t you call the police and make that report? I’m also hoping that they’ll clear me of anything that I didn’t do.”
“Otherwise, if you guys were to come at me one by one with all the things that you have mentioned, how many more people will be pressured into jumping off a building just because they were falsely accused of something?”
She maintained her forward march and forced Cici to retreat.
Everyone looked at Elena’s calm expression, and some even began to whisper, “She didn’t even touch them just now, they were the ones who sat on the ground in the first place.”
“Yeah, I also saw how they nearly splashed Elena with water when she came out.”
Of course, there were still those who remained on Mia’s and Cici’s side.
“Cici, don’t be afraid of her, call the police. She had hit someone just now!”
“Yeah! Plenty of people can vouch for you, what are you afraid of?”
“Exactly. There are plenty of people here who can bear witness to what she had done. There’s no need to be afraid.”
Elena’s thin lips curled up before she turned to the crowd, “Which one of you saw me push her onto the ground?”
Elena pointed her finger at the girl on the floor who had been clutching at her stomach.
“If I had pushed her, my fingerprints would definitely be on her body. Which one of you saw it with your own eyes? Come forward! If you can prove that I pushed her, then I will give you a hundred thousand dollars!”