Chapter 165: Chapter 127: Do You Know a Pest Named Ah Bao?

Although it wasn’t Shu Yao who delivered the blow, the crisp sound of the slap still sent a thrill of satisfaction through her.

Back with the other girls.

Without giving them a chance to explain, Wan Shanyan scolded, "Are you all trying to start a rebellion? Don’t you know what today is? Anyone who disrupts the order of this event or doesn’t want to be here can get the hell out!"

Seeing Director Wan blindly defending Lin Zhenxiang without even trying to understand the situation, the girls were so furious their eyes reddened.

E Yue erupted on the spot, her voice echoing throughout the hall. "Why don’t you ask her what she did to us!"

"She and Huo Jiao locked all of us in an abandoned warehouse! They even put a signal jammer outside the door so we didn’t even have a chance to call for help!"

Wan Shanyan’s pupils constricted. She glanced at the black box on the floor, then turned to Lin Zhenxiang, her expression one of disbelief.

As the girls all started talking at once, she began to piece together what had happened.

This group of girls had broken school rules and were afraid of being punished by her. So, they had followed Lin Zhenxiang’s suggestion to hide in an abandoned warehouse in a remote corner of the campus, planning to slip into the event just as it was about to start.

At first, Lin Zhenxiang and Huo Jiao had been hiding inside the warehouse with everyone else. But then, the two of them went outside, using the excuse that they were going to stand watch.

But once they were outside, they shut the heavy warehouse door and slapped a combination lock on it.

A short time later, the girls inside discovered that the signals to their Light Brains had all been cut, leaving them unable to contact the outside world. It was only then that they realized they’d fallen for Lin Zhenxiang and Huo Jiao’s trap!

It was all to stop the other girls from stealing their spotlight at the presentation!

Lin Zhenxiang buried the slapped side of her face in her hands. Tears streamed down like a bursting dam, and her watery eyes were filled with innocence and grievance.

She offered no defense. Instead, she suddenly spun around to face Huo Jiao, a look of utter disbelief on her face. In a thick, tear-choked voice, she cried, "Jiaojiao, I treated you as a friend! How could you do this to me? In the short time I was in the restroom, you went and did all these horrible things!"

Huo Jiao looked as if she’d been struck by lightning, completely dumbfounded.

’Stopping the other girls from attending the presentation... that was clearly a plan between the two of them. How did it suddenly seem like she was the only one at fault?’

Huo Jiao quickly realized what was happening. Lin Zhenxiang was trying to wash her hands of the whole affair and pin all the blame on her.

No, Lin Zhenxiang wasn’t just trying to absolve herself. From the very beginning, she had been using her as cannon fodder!

Betrayed, Huo Jiao was consumed by rage and immediately bit back. "Lin Zhenxiang, it was you who proposed this! Every girl here can testify! You’re the one who led us to hide in that warehouse, and you’re the one who dragged me outside with you to ’stand watch’! You remember what you said to me after we left, don’t you!

But I know you won’t admit it!"

She turned to the other wronged girls to set the record straight. "Lin Zhenxiang told me herself that if you all couldn’t attend the presentation, then she and I would be the most beautiful and eye-catching girls at the event!

That six-digit combination lock—she had me get it from her Flying Machine! She’s the one who told me where to put the signal jammer! After I brought everything over, she suddenly said she had to go to the restroom and never came back!

When I saw it was almost time for the presentation, I did think about letting you all out, but I don’t know the combination to the lock! I didn’t turn off the signal jammer or take it with me, and yes, I admit I was being selfish!

But Lin Zhenxiang was the one who made me do all of it!"

"You’re lying!" Lin Zhenxiang sobbed in denial. "Before I went to the restroom, I told you that if I wasn’t back in time, you should open the warehouse door, let them out, and go to the presentation together!

But in the end, you were the only one who showed up! When you arrived, I even asked you where everyone else was. Do you remember how you answered me? You lied and said they were late, and that Director Wan didn’t want them disrupting the event, so she refused to let them in!"

"You’re the one who’s lying!" Huo Jiao shouted, terrified that no one would believe her. "I never said anything like that!"

She screamed with such force that her voice cracked!

Lin Zhenxiang and Huo Jiao each stuck to their own version of events, and both sounded equally adamant and convincing.

But Lin Zhenxiang was more influential than Huo Jiao, and with her deeply aggrieved expression, she certainly looked like someone who had been wrongly accused.

"Oh my god, Huo Jiao, how can you blame Xiangxiang for the dirty deeds you did yourself!"

"Xiangxiang is a public figure. What good would it do her to stoop to something so despicable!"

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