Chapter 16 Kindness Repaid With Evil

• Tang Yin hastily restarted his phone, anxiety knotting up his stomach.
• Ji Youyou took a look at his phone and the mocking in the curl of her lip grew more pronounced. “Tang Yin, what are you trying to do? Are you intentionally shutting off your phone to drag your feet? Then again, you can only use junk like this since you can’t afford a good phone, am I right?”
• Tang Yin ignored her and just waited for his phone to reboot after restarting it.
• “Everyone knows how poor Tang Yin is, it’s only normal if he doesn’t have the money!” Lin Chenfeng mocked, playing up to Wang Rui.
• “What are you pretending for if you don’t have the money?! You and Ji Youyou sure make a great pair, since both are so f*king poor! One of you stole the class funds while the other is putting up a false front that’s crumbling right in front of our eyes!” Wang Rui sneered.
• “That’s enough, cut it off!” Ding Xuan interjected icily, no longer able to stand it.
• Wang Rui just snickered. “Yet another poor f*ck!”
• “You!” Ding Xuan nearly blew his top.
• Tang Yin pulled Ding Xuan back while restarting his phone.
• “Tang Yin, never mind. I…” Ji Youyou lifted her chin and looked pitifully at Tang Yin with eyes that were swollen from excessive crying.
• Tang Yin looked at her and sighed. “If I don’t do this, what will you do?”
• “Oh? You still have the time to whisper sweet nothings to each other? Hurry up and transfer the money!” Wang Rui stretched her palm out again, glaring at Tang Yin and Ji Youyou in plain disgust. “If you can’t show us the money, I’ll contact the Academic Services Office immediately and have them expel you!”
• “And what if they do manage to transfer the money? What will you do then?!” Ding Xuan bellowed at her fiercely.
• “Him? Transferring the money? If he can, I’ll walk out of here on my hands!” Wang Rui shrugged and made a huge roll of her eyes.
• Feeling sorry for Ji Youyou, Tang Yin lifted his head to glance at her, then hastily tapped open his WeChat app when he saw that his phone had finally rebooted.
• Tang Yin quietly exhaled in relief when his Wechat app did open.
• “Did you think that everyone could be rich? We should just contact the Academic Services Office about this! People who steal both the class and the Student Association’s funds should be expelled,” Lin Chenfeng taunted.
• “Exactly! Do they really think that any poor f*ck can sit in the same class as us? What are you waiting for?! Aren’t you supposed to transfer the money? If you do, I’ll immediately walk out of the classroom on my hands!” Wang Rui was sure that Tang Yin didn’t have the money from the way he was fumbling and sweating profusely.
• Ding dong!
• The whole class’ WeChat notification tone rang out in unison.
• Tang Yin put down his phone and looked askance at Wang Rui.
• “Wow. He really transferred it, look in the group, quickly!”
• “20,000… He really transferred it…”
• “It really is 20,000!”
• The students in the class all looked shocked. They hadn’t thought that Tang Yin would actually be able to deliver since they all knew him to be a poor student who couldn’t even afford to eat properly. If so, how could he have so much money in his WeChat app? How was he able to transfer this amount of money now?”
• “Impossible!” Wang Rui was struck still for a moment before she hastily thumbed open her WeChat app and saw the transfer record in the class group chat. “How can this be?! How can he really have so much money…”
• “I’ve already transferred the money to you. It should be your turn now, right?” Tang Yin looked at Wang Rui with a mocking grin. “Someone did say that she would walk out of the classroom on her hands!”
• “Tang Yin, that’s too much!” Lin Chenfeng interjected coldly before hiding Wang Rui behind himself. “Wang Rui’s just a girl. How could you let her do such a thing? You can’t treat her like this even if you did transfer the money!”
• “Oh? And why not?” Tang Yin stared at Lin Chenfeng blankly.
• The class was silent, but the gazes they directed at Tang Yin were full of animosity.
• Why not?
• Of course you can’t treat her like that because Wang Rui is gorgeous; she’s a goddess in most of our class’ eyes!
• Lin Chenfeng blanked out at Tang Yin’s questions before glowering at him.
• “My dear class monitor, shouldn’t you listen to your conscience and stop with your double standards? Ji Youyou is a girl too; why didn’t you think about being more of a gentleman when you were showering her with taunts and insults? Why is it that you’re unhappy when the same thing happens to Wang Rui?” Tang Yin smiled thinly as he walked up to Lin Chenfeng. “Could it be that Wang Rui is the only girl in your eyes?”
• Wang Rui’s eyes were red and she felt aggrieved. “What gives you the right to make me walk out on my hands?”
• “Weren’t you the one who said it earlier? Are you going back on your word then?” Tang Yin’s eyes narrowed into slits and he looked daggers at Wang Rui.
• “Tang Yin, why don’t you just let it go?” Ji Youyou cautiously tugged at Tang Yin’s sleeve.
• Tang Yin turned his head to look at her and shook his head, speechless. What on earth is this girl thinking? Doesn’t she care about all the hurt they’ve caused her?
• “Just let it go…”
• “Exactly, just let it go since she can’t do it.”
• His classmates told him, trying to placate him.
• “That’s not good enough!” Tang Yin bellowed and pointed at the door. “Walk out on your hands!”
• “You!” Tears of vexation ran down Wang Rui’s cheeks. “Tang Yin, none of us even know how you got that money, so what gives you the right to bully a girl like me?”
• Tang Yin’s upper lip curled. “I picked it up. So what? How is that any of your business?”
• The class looked at Tang Yin incredulously when they heard his explanation.
• Picked it up?
• Just where could one pick up 20,000?
• “Quiet!” Just then, they heard a flurry of footsteps outside the door.
• Tang Yin turned his head and saw a few people walking briskly into the classroom.
• He felt that the man leading the group looked familiar, but just couldn’t place it in that moment.
• “Those people are from the Academic Services Office…”
• “They’re really from the Academic Services Office!”
• The six to seven people looked toward Tang Yin with wary and sober gazes once they entered the classroom.
• When she saw that staff members from the Academic Services Office were here, Wang Rui wailed and cried, squatting on the ground holding her arms as if she’d been through a terrible ordeal.
• “What’s going on?” Director Zhang—who was in the lead—took a glance at her and inquired right away.
• “Director Zhang, Tang Yin from our class picked up 20,000 from somewhere and is now putting on airs, insisting that a girl from our class walk out on her hands!” Lin Chenfeng hurriedly declared, pointing a finger toward Tang Yin.
• “Put on airs? Who gave him the guts? Who does he think he is?” Director Zhang lifted his chin and threw a dirty look at Tang Yin.
• “He’s the one… I suspect that he stole a wallet while he was working at my family’s restaurant.” A clear, crisp voice rang out from behind Director Zhang.
• Tang Yin tilted his head and looked toward the direction of the voice and his face darkened right away.
• Lin Chuchu!
• This girl, what is she doing here?
• “Are you Tang Yin? You stole someone else’s wallet?” Director Zhang’s face was hostile and he glared at Tang Yin in irritation.
• Tang Yin instantly understood. So Lin Chuchu went to the Academic Services Office and accused me of stealing a wallet?
• What is wrong with her? I just helped her family out of some big trouble yesterday and she’s slandering me the next? Such a person actually exists?!
• “I did not!” Tang Yin objected frostily.
• “It’s him! His whole dorm knows; they’ll tell you right away!” Lin Chuchu pointed at Tang Yin with her finger.
• Tang Yin’s gaze swept around and as expected, he found Chen Wei standing with his head down not far away. Tang Yin immediately understood. Chen Wei actually conspired with Lin Chuchu?!
• “It’s him!” Lin Chuchu pointed toward Tang Yin.
• Tang Yin took a deep breath and forced the question out through clenched teeth. “Lin Chuchu, are you sure that you want to repay kindness with evil? You sure you want to slander me?”