Qin Yue felt like the world was moving in a slow-motion, the time seemed to have stopped, her mind buzzing noisily as she couldn't think of anything else with only the cold mechanical voice of 707 echoing in her head in a loop like a broken recorder.

"Yue..Yue Yue? What happened? Are you alr-" Noticing her abnormality, Pei Lang approached her slowly as he worriedly asked but before he could finish speaking, Qin Yue pushed him aside and bolted out of the door with a sudden burst of strength on her legs.

Unable to understand what happened just now, Pei Lang blankly stared at the empty hallway through the door which slowly became crowded with more students who noticed their exchanges.

After pulling back his thoughts, Pei Lang remembered the abnormal look on Qin Yue's face when he caught a slight glance at her while she pushed him aside. Remembering it now, he felt cold as he shivered.

Her face looked pale as a ghost and her lips were grimly pursed tight. Especially her eyes, her eyes...were gleaming with a dangerous light, like a beast woken up from its deep slumber.

At that moment, his mind blanked in shock, fear and disbelief. For the first time, he felt like he brushed past death itself. He never felt so fearful his whole life like he did when he met her eyes that time. They were cold, sharp and filled with....murderous rage.

'No! This isn't right. He must stop her before she does something!' His instincts were screaming danger when she started to act strangely and he felt that if he didn't stop her in time, she might really do something unthinkable.

He must stop her!

Pei Lang pushed through the crowd without any second thoughts and ran towards the way Qin Yue went off to, which was 1st year class B.

....

Qin Yue ran towards the 1st year class B without caring about her surroundings. With a few steps, she reached outside the 1st year class B and slammed the door open with a loud 'bang!'.

All the students inside and outside the class jumped in fright at the loud noise and turned to look at Qin Yue who swiftly made her way towards Ruan Jing Xin's seat with a scary look on her face.

Everyone kept a distance away from her in fear of attracting her rage upon themselves as they watched her walk to the second last row unimpeded.

The seat was empty, she had noticed that with just a glance from outside but something caught her eyes which made her come and take a closer look.

But after seeing what it was, her eyes grew so cold that it could freeze someone with a single glance, her hands clenched tightly into fists, shaking uncontrollably.

With shaking voice that was laced with unconcealed rage, Qin Yue spat out in a very frighteningly low pitch.

"Who did this?"

Unable to understand what and who she was asking that to, the surrounding students only felt biting chill upon hearing her cold voice.

Not hearing any response, Qin Yue turned her head and sized up the students in her sight coldly then asked again,

"I asked you,"Who the f*ck did this?!" " With a 'bang', Qin Yue hammered her fist on the desk which was in a very poor condition.

There were scribbles and doodles carved on the surface with a sharp object that read 'Shameless kept gigolo' and many other mocking words and doodles. One of the desk leg was broken and was being barely supported by a book and the sides of the desk was covered with chewing gums.

There was some residue of glue on the chair and a small piece of torn fabric which could easily be left unnoticed if one didn't pay close attention to it was stuck on the glue.

It was clearly the signs of someone being bullied, and the person being bullied was none other than her own brother! It was her brother! How dare they lay a hand on her brother, her family!?

Qin Yue hammered the desk again with great force which broke it into two half.

"Ahh!!" The spectating students cried out in surprise and fright upon seeing her action. They could already guess her purpose on coming here and the reason behind her anger.

They knew that Ruan Jing Xin was being bullied by some students and some of them had even joined in for fun. Those who did so were sweating profusely in fear of being found out as they did their best to blend together with the surrounding, acting like a background prop.

Qin Yue didn't expect them to answer her and walked to the back of the class and found her brother's locker. It was unexpectedly left open or to be exact, the lock was broken beyond repair.

She opened the locker and a waft of rotting smell hit her nose which made her scrunch her brows tightly as she blocked her nose with her wrist.

What she found was a dead rat inside the locker. Not only that, there were also many junks and dirty socks that were deliberately placed by someone to mock her brother. While rummaging through them, she found a piece of note that wrote,

'At noon in the school grounds. Come there if you don't want to die.'

The sender was anonymous and the time indicated in the note was the current time. Which meant her brother had already gone there.

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Crumpling the piece of note in her palm, Qin Yue quickly ran out of the class without even caring about the shocked looks of the students all the way to the school grounds. Her mind was only thinking of her brother.

Save him, she must save him! Can't be late!

...

Pei Lang ran towards the 1st year class B and noticed many students gathering around the hallway with shocked and confused looks on their face. He quickly made his way inside the class but unfortunately, he came a tad bit late.

He pulled aside a student and asked him about Qin Yue. The student shook a little in fright as he answered him.

"She...she came here just a while ago. Then, then she broke the desk into two and..ran..ran out of the class after finding a piece of note in, in..the locker. I-I don't know where she went."

Pei Lang frowned after listening to his words and let him go then made his way down as he asked around.

Damn it! Hope he isn't too late.

...

'Thud! Bang!' The sounds of punching and kicking could be heard in the hidden corner of the school grounds which was covered by trees.

"Ah! Ngh!" Ruan Jing Xin let out muffled groans every time he was hit. He tried to fight back but was completely outnumbered by the boys.

His shoulders were locked by two boys at both sides and the remaining guys took turns to hit him.

His whole body was aching in pain, his right arm was dislocated and some rib bones were broken by the impact from the kicks and punches.

He wouldn't have suffered this much if he had just let them beat him for a while without retaliating but they just had to speak bad about his big sister right on his face.

He couldn't keep down the uncontrollable rage bubbling up inside his heart at their obscene smiles as they spoke about his big sister. So he fought back and punched the leader's face but was quickly held down and was beaten up even more.

They seemed to have completely disregarded the risks in beating up a fellow student inside the school premises because they thought of him as nothing but a poor, lowly orphan who only got into the school through the back door by clinging unto a rich young lady.

"Okay stop. Let's call it a day here. You better remember this lesson and stay away from the school belle. One day, I will make her mine so stop having any thoughts about her. Since she can choose you, she can also choose me, right?" The leader spoke with a smug face to his minions.

"You are right, boss." They echoed to his words with an ingratiating smile on their face.

Satisfied, the leader laughed in a good mood but his face suddenly dropped at Ruan Jing Xin's sarcastic remark.

"Heh...stop daydreaming. You? You don't even...deserve to carry her shoes. Ptui!" Ruan Jing Xin's lips were injured so he spoke slowly to avoid tugging on his injury.

He then spat out the blood rushing out from his throat right after speaking, he looked miserable. He was barely holding on, he felt faint and his eyes were blurry but he still locked his cold, unsteady eyes on the leader no matter what.

"You motherf*ucker!!" His words triggered the leader and a punch landed on his face again, this time it was packed with rage. His jaw bone creaked at the impact and blood rushed out of his mouth, trickling down his parted lips.

"How dare you say that to me? How dare you look down on me?! I'm the young master of a rich family too! How am I not qualified to make the school belle my woman?! She is just a young lady from a big family, what is so great about that?! If I just waved my finger at her, she will come to me voluntarily like any other sluts out there!"

As he shouted out whatever came in his mind, completely blinded by rage, the leader continued raining down punches upon punches on Ruan Jing Xin's body.

"Isn't this the face that you used to seduce her? Then I'll just ruin it and see if she would still care about you, a piece of shit!" With a cold glint flashing through his eyes, Ruan Jing Xin glared at the man after hearing his words. His whole mind was dizzy and he saw two reflections of the man in front of him. He shook his head but still couldn't see clearly.

But still, he sarcastically sneered at him and said,

"A dog's barks...filled with lies. If you....have the ability...go..and prove it with action instead."

"You! How dare you!!" This completely enraged the leader as his eyes became bloodshot. He couldn't care less about anything as he kicked hard on Ruan Jing Xin's stomach. The boys holding on him let him go as the impact from the kick threw him back, his back hitting the wall behind him with a loud 'thud!'.

"I'll let you know my ability!" Without stopping, the leader kicked him again on his chest then lastly, he was about to kick him on his chest again but just at this moment, Ruan Jing Xin moved a bit which made his trajectory to change and hit his head instead.

"F*ck! I..I didn't mean to!" The leader finally got back to his senses after realising what he had done as his face became fearful of the consequences.

Ruan Jing Xin's head collided with the wall behind him, blood flowed down the injury on his head as it quickly dyed the white school uniform red, his head buzzed so much that he couldn't tell what was what. His eyes felt so heavy.

Just then he saw from the corner of his eyes, a figure running towards them. He stared at the familiar silhouette coming nearer with his blurry eyes as he blinked and blinked.

Before he lost his consciousness and everything turned black, he was enveloped in a very warm embrace which felt so familiar to him, as if he had experienced it many times before.

With the warm feeling wrapping his aching body, he felt his eyes drooping, he felt at peace and secure inside this warm embrace. Then he let his eyes close with a slight smile on his face.

...

Holding onto the young man who was in a very miserable state in her arms, Qin Yue felt her heart nearly stop beating. Her calm face revealed a slight crack as it started to crumble; worry, concern, rage, heartache, many such emotions mixed inside her as it suffocated her.

She raised her hand shakily and placed it under his nose, he was still breathing. With this, she felt like her heart could finally continue beating as she gently brushed aside the hair that stuck to his face mixed with blood and dirt.

A tear dropped on his bruised face from atop, it belonged to her. Her heart was in so much pain at the moment that she felt like a hand was squeezing it tightly.

When she finally searched around every corner of the school grounds and found this place, she came at the time to see him getting kicked on his head as he collided to the wall.

At that instant, her body moved on its own, her mind buzzing, her eyes had no one but him as she forgot to breathe for a second.

She was late. She couldn't protect him on time. She came too late. He was hurt to this state.

All her fault, all her fault, it was all her fault! She didn't protect him well. She shouldn't have stayed quiet upon noticing his strange behaviour the past few days. It was her fault. IT WAS ALL HER FAULT!!

Something seemed to have snapped inside her as a mysterious and overbearing force suddenly moved inside her body, flowing from her dantian to all around her body.

Lying down the unconscious Ruan Jing Xin as gently as possible on the ground, she stood up slowly.

The 5 boys were stunned on their place upon her arrival as they blankly stared at her back. They came back to their senses upon feeling something wrong with her. What came into their mind was only one thing as alarms rang in their mind.

'RUN!'

But...it was too late for them to escape as the beast had already been let out, roaring in rage as it watched its prey with bloodthirsty eyes.

Qin Yue turned her head as she faced the 5 men and mumbled in a low, cold voice.

"It's all my fault....so"

"I'll fix it myself."