Shen Qingqing said indifferently, "I'm not that idle."
Unseen by the teacher, Alisha glared at her fiercely, then grabbed the teacher's arm and cried pitifully, "Teacher, you must uphold justice for me. It's really not my fault. She was the one who troubled me. If this continues, I can't stay here anymore."
Alisha was a genius.
Before coming here, the teacher had learned about every student. Alisha was among the most outstanding.
"Don't talk nonsense. You finally got in, you should attend classes properly." The teacher pacified her, then looked at Shen Qingqing with much sternness, "How could you bully your classmate?"
Since the teacher had already made up her mind, Shen Qingqing was too lazy to explain. She lowered her gaze, appearing nonchalant.
The teacher, seeing this, became even more indignant. "Your admission here means you have talent, but what are you doing now? Are you wasting your talent like this?"
"You're spending all your time arguing with classmates and bullying your peers?"
Her face was filled with disappointment. "If this is how you are, you truly don't deserve to study here. I hope you reflect on yourself. Now, apologize to Alisha."
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.
Alisha stood behind the teacher, emboldened by her support, and looked at Shen Qingqing with undisguised triumph.
"If you apologize to me, given that we're in the same class, I won't hold it against you."
Compared to Alisha, Shen Qingqing seemed even more unreasonable. The teacher sternly said, "Apologize. If you don't apologize, you can stand outside. Come back to listen to the lecture when you know you're wrong!"
Shen Qingqing remained still. "I refuse."
Enraged, the teacher stepped forward and reached out to grab her, intending to forcibly expel her. "I think you really need to go back and learn what respect for elders means!"
"You'd best not touch me," Shen Qingqing finally spoke, unhurriedly. "Alisha was the one who troubled me and spilled my paints. My clothes got dirty; that was her own doing."
Alisha immediately retorted, "That's a false accusation! Teacher, don't believe her!"
Shen Qingqing glanced at her dismissively. She took a tissue from her bag, wrapped it around her hand, and picked up the fallen paint pot.
"Look at the label on it."
Only then did everyone see the letters on the pot.
—klina.
Shen Qingqing said leisurely, "The klina brand paints, you all should know, are priceless and not obtainable with just money. Now that she's spilled my paints, she must compensate me."
However, the crowd did not believe her.
"You put a label on it and call it klina?"
"Since you said yourself it's not something money can easily get, how did you obtain it? Besides, these paints look no different from what we usually use."
"If they are so precious, why did you leave them lying on the table?"
"You could have just put them away properly."
They babbled on, no one believing her, as if Shen Qingqing were a complete fraud.
Shen Qingqing's response was to directly pull Alisha towards the door. Alisha struggled desperately, but she was no match for Shen Qingqing's strength and was dragged out.
The teacher and classmates, thinking they were going to fight, panicked and rushed to follow.
They arrived outside the classroom, which was actually a villa with a garden filled with plants and trees.
In the center of the garden was a fountain.
At that moment, the water flowed down in an elegant arc from the air. The water at the bottom was clear, and a loud splash echoed in the air!
It turned out Alisha had been thrown directly into the fountain.
She knew how to swim, but caught off guard, she flailed in panic, thrashing in the water, which caused everyone to gasp in astonishment.
The teacher cried out in a panic, "Quick, someone save her!"
But all those present were girls. Even if there were boys, seeing that the water in the pool wasn't deep, they saw no need to jump in.
"Stop struggling, the water isn't deep. You can stand up." Shen Qingqing looked down at her.
Alisha slowly stood up from the water, her hair plastered to her face and her dress clinging to her body. The lower half of her body was still submerged, making her look utterly disheveled.
But her gaze was fixed fiercely on Shen Qingqing. "You pushed me into the water! I'm going to call the police!"
Shen Qingqing lowered her eyes and looked at her skirt. "Before you do that, why don't you see how much you'll have to pay to match my paints?"
Alisha instinctively looked down. The paint on her skirt hadn't faded at all. In fact, it looked even more vibrant in the water.
The teacher's expression changed slightly. She murmured, "Klina paints, they don't dissolve in water, and they even emit a unique fragrance when wet."
For a moment, everyone's expressions froze.
Alisha looked at her dress in bewilderment. "How could you possibly have klina paints?"
But the fact was before them. This was indeed klina paint.
"Shen Qingqing, how did you get it?"
"It's said that these things were sold by a certain big shot, and there were requirements for price and quantity. They weren't sold in unlimited quantities."
Everyone looked at her with curiosity.
The scorn and disdain from moments ago had vanished completely, replaced by envy and curiosity.
Seeing this, Alisha was about to explode with rage. She was clearly the victim, yet the person who wronged her was now the center of attention.
She wrapped her arms around herself, glaring at Shen Qingqing. "You, you deliberately harmed me! You put those paints on the table on purpose!"
Shen Qingqing raised an eyebrow and looked down at her. "What do you mean?"
"The whole thing was your plan from the start," Alisha's imagination ran wild, her words sounding plausible. "You deliberately placed expensive paints on the table, making me think they were worthless, then pushed me over and spilled them. That way, you could naturally make me pay for them!"
The more she spoke, the more convinced she became that this was the truth.
"You have such a wicked heart!"
"That's utter nonsense." Shen Qingqing hadn't expected her to have such a wild imagination. "How could I have predicted that you would come to trouble me?"
"We don't get along, do we? If I come to trouble you, do you need to predict it?"
Alisha blurted it out, but then realized something was wrong. She instinctively looked at the teacher, and indeed, the teacher was looking at her with disappointment.
"Teacher..."
Just now, she had said Shen Qingqing troubled her, but now...
The teacher glanced at the paints and, recalling something, looked at Shen Qingqing with a complex expression. "This matter ends here. Whoever needs to pay, pays. Whoever needs to apologize, apologizes."
Alisha looked at the teacher, incredulous. "Who has to apologize?"
"Of course, you do!" The teacher's expression was furious, her tone stern. "You troubled someone and spilled their paints. Don't you owe them an apology?"
Alisha was astonished, then enraged. "Impossible! I will never apologize!"