After Zhao Shucheng and Gu Senxiang's parents signed the papers, they left quickly because they had no problems.

When Gu Senxiang's parents left, they looked at Zhao Shucheng and then at their daughter, but they knew this was not the place to talk, so they took Gu Senxiang home first.

Li Wanxin looked at Gu Senxiang's retreating figure and said to Zhao Shucheng, "Qi Ming, are you in a relationship?"

Zhao Shucheng paused for a moment, then said, "No."

"You've been hiding this from me. If you two weren't dating, why would you both be brought to the police station? What's the deal with that girl? Did her boyfriend come looking for trouble?"

Zhao Shucheng gave a wry smile and said, "Mom, you really misunderstood. To be honest, Gu Senxiang was implicated because of me this time."

On the way home with his mother, Zhao Shucheng recounted the cause and effect of the incident.

After listening, Li Wanxin sighed and said, "Then do you know who's causing trouble?"

Zhao Shucheng shook his head and said, "It's not clear yet, but the police are investigating, and we'll have an answer sooner or later."

"Sigh, you're still a student, you should focus on your studies. When you find out who did it, you should keep your distance from them."

"I see!"

After returning home, Gu Senxi learned about the near-accident his sister had faced and felt a lingering fear.

Qi Ming had told himself to be careful about his sister's safety lately, so why hadn't he taken it seriously? When his sister called him, he didn't answer, and was even too busy playing with Yi Yao.

Gu Senxi felt he hadn't taken good care of his sister, but upon hearing that Yi Yao had texted him before he went to the school's back gate, he immediately retorted:
“This couldn’t have been done by Yi Yao. She was with me the whole time and didn’t send any text messages.”

"Are you sure she didn't do anything? But this text message was sent from Yi Yao's phone."

"Impossible! Impossible!" Gu Senxi simply couldn't believe that Yi Yao would do something to hurt Gu Senxiang.

Gu Senxiang looked at her younger brother intently and said, "We can't say for sure what happened right now; we'll have to wait and see what the police investigation says."

She knew that Yi Yao was the person her younger brother liked, so naturally she didn't want to believe that the person she liked would do anything bad. However, Gu Senxiang had already learned from her brother's account of his day with Yi Yao that Yi Yao had received text messages and then sent them back behind his back, even calling them spam.

In the past, Gu Senxiang felt sorry for Yi Yao because she thought Yi Yao was being bullied, but now it seems that Yi Yao is not as simple as she appears, and her younger brother seems to have been completely controlled by Yi Yao.

The next day.

After Zhao Shucheng and the others arrived at the school, there were already rumors about Zhao Shucheng and Gu Senxiang's encounter with danger the previous night, and everyone was speculating about what exactly happened.

Hearing her classmates' discussion, and glancing at Zhao Shucheng who seemed completely unaffected, Yi Yao hesitated for a moment, feeling somewhat worried.

Just as she was feeling a little uneasy, Li Xin came into the classroom and said, "Yi Yao, come out with me for a moment."

Yi Yao followed her homeroom teacher, Li Xin, out of the classroom with trepidation. When they arrived at the teachers' office, they found that there were not only teachers inside, but also several people in police uniforms.

Yi Yao panicked for a moment, but she managed to calm herself down and answered the police officer's questions.

The police initially thought Yi Yao was the instigator, so they questioned Yi Yao about her relationship with Zhao Shucheng, or whether she knew the thug who was beaten by Zhao Shucheng and brought to the police station yesterday.

However, after Yi Yao denied it outright, he pressed her about sending text messages to Gu Senxiang.

Yi Yao told the police that she received a text message from an unknown number asking if she was Qi Ming's girlfriend. She admitted she wasn't, which was why she gave the message Gu Senxiang's phone number, and she didn't know what had happened.

The police knew that Yi Yao was hiding something, but they didn't have much evidence to prove that yesterday's events were related to her. They could only tell Yi Yao to go back to the classroom first and let them know if she thought of anything or if there were any new developments.

Although Yi Yao was not taken to the police station to assist with the investigation, the students could see the police coming to the school and even Yi Yao being taken to the office by her homeroom teacher.

So soon, news of Yi Yao's crime spread throughout the campus, and some people speculated that the incident in which Zhao Shucheng and Gu Senxiang encountered danger last night was related to Yi Yao.

Yi Yao naturally noticed that her classmates were looking at her strangely, treating her like the murderer, but she had no way to defend herself.

Tang Xiaomi suddenly smiled after seeing this scene.

Zhao Shucheng had actually been paying attention to Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao, since Gu Senxiang was the victim in this incident, and the culprit was either Tang Xiaomi or Yi Yao.

But Yi Yao acted very innocently, as if she had genuinely forwarded the text message to Gu Senxiang out of kindness.

Tang Xiaomi naturally noticed Zhao Shucheng's gaze, and her expression immediately changed, as if she was afraid that Zhao Shucheng would notice her.

Unfortunately, Tang Xiaomi seemed to be celebrating too soon. Although it was impossible to find any connection between the text messages and her, those thugs had already confessed to their mastermind after they were arrested.

Based on the phone number provided by the thugs, the police have traced the message to Tang Xiaomi, instructing them to teach Qi Ming's girlfriend a lesson. The original target was supposed to be Yi Yao, but for some reason, Yi Yao forwarded it to Gu Senxiang, which led to Zhao Shucheng fighting with the thugs and calling the police.

Because Tang Xiaomi's case falls under the category of instigation, unlike Yi Yao's case which involved assisting in the investigation, she was directly taken away by the police for questioning.

The students were just discussing yesterday's events and their relationship with Yi Yao when Tang Xiaomi was taken away as the mastermind, which truly shocked them.

Yi Yao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the focus of her classmates' discussion had shifted from her to Tang Xiaomi.

However, when some classmates said that Tang Xiaomi was arrested because her text messages with the thugs were discovered, Yi Yao panicked. She wondered if the police had seen the messages she sent to Tang Xiaomi, and whether Tang Xiaomi would implicate her. This plunged Yi Yao into a state of panic.

Seeing Yi Yao's restless state, Zhao Shucheng had already guessed that the danger Gu Senxiang encountered was actually related to Yi Yao.

Unexpectedly, Yi Yao, who proved her innocence with her death in the original story, was not as innocent as she seemed.

In fact, Zhao Shucheng had already guessed this. After all, when he was watching the show, he found it strange that Yi Yao was sending messages behind Gu Senxi's back, and why Tang Xiaomi suddenly asked someone to teach Qi Ming's girlfriend a lesson, but gave her Yi Yao's phone number.

In the original storyline, although Qi Ming's girlfriend was not publicly acknowledged, she was always seen with Gu Senxiang. Unless Tang Xiaomi was blind or stupid, she would know that it was not Yi Yao.

If Tang Xiaomi wanted to cause trouble for Yi Yao because Yi Yao saw her being bullied, why did she say that Yi Yao was Qi Ming's girlfriend instead of Gu Senxi's girlfriend?
Now it seems that Yi Yao, who appears to be the easiest to bully and the most innocent, is not as simple as she seems.

That's true. If Yi Yao were truly innocent and had proven her innocence with her death, she wouldn't have been so easily rescued, transferred to another school, and continued her studies and life as if nothing had happened.

The school never expected that their students would give them such a big surprise. They quickly convened a meeting to discuss countermeasures and methods for the school to focus on combating school bullying.

Tang Xiaomi naturally couldn't keep it a secret for Yi Yao, so after arriving at the police station, she only hesitated for a moment before telling the whole story.

She positioned herself as an accomplice, someone Yi Yao had leverage over, which was why she had no choice but to obey Yi Yao's orders and find someone to teach Gu Senxiang a lesson.

As for the reason, he also gave his own guess: Yi Yao actually likes Qi Ming, but Qi Ming is very close to Gu Senxiang. She is unwilling to accept this, so she uses her own weakness to threaten him and make him find someone to teach Gu Senxiang a lesson.

The police asked, "Then why did you send the text message to Yi Yao instead of Gu Senxiang herself when you found her?"

“I don’t know either, because I did what Yi Yao said. She told me to find someone to teach Gu Senxiang a lesson, but to have them contact her via text message. At first, I was also suspicious and thought that Yi Yao was planning to use a self-inflicted injury to gain Qi Ming’s sympathy and favor by pretending that she was hurt because of Gu Senxiang.”

"But after I got to school today, I found out that Yi Yao forwarded the text message to Gu Senxiang. If Gu Senxiang is hurt, Yi Yao's mistake can be considered unintentional at most. If Gu Senxiang is okay, it can be explained as a misunderstanding."

Tang Xiaomi hadn't expected that Yi Yao, who seemed so easy to bully, would actually have so many ideas. If she didn't know the whole story, she would have thought Yi Yao was innocent.

But now that Yi Yao wants to make her a scapegoat, she naturally can't agree to that. After all, compared to having her classmates find out she was bullied at No. 1 High School, she doesn't want Yi Yao to stay out of it, and she certainly doesn't want to go to jail.

The police were also surprised that a simple brawl would take so many twists and turns, involving hired assailants and a mastermind behind it all. If they hadn't known that the participants were all high school students, they would have thought it was some major case.

Although Yi Yao had previously cooperated with the investigation and appeared innocent, Tang Xiaomi's testimony and the undeleted text messages on Tang Xiaomi's phone undoubtedly proved that Yi Yao was not as innocent as she had appeared. Therefore, they decided to have Yi Yao go to the police station to assist with the investigation.

In the afternoon, the police car arrived at the school again, and in front of everyone, Yi Yao was taken away from the school in the police car.

Li Xin suddenly felt a headache coming on. Originally, Tang Xiaomi was a suspect, but he could say that she was a student who had just transferred to the school and he didn't know the student's true nature before.

But now Yi Yao has been taken away. She's been a student at their school since the first year of high school, and she seemed so honest and unremarkable.

Tang Xiaomi could be said to have little to do with him, but Yi Yao's situation was a matter of school education, and Li Xin was starting to worry about how to write his report.

After school, Zhao Shucheng found Gu Senxiang and said, "Gu, given what happened, I'll take you home for a while."

Gu Senxiang said, "No need, my younger brother is coming back with me."

"No way. You almost got into danger because of me, so I have to take responsibility until the truth comes out."

Gu Senxi, looking around nervously, asked, "Qi Ming, why hasn't Yi Yao come out?"

"Don't you know? Yi Yao was also taken away to assist in the investigation, but she hasn't come back yet. She probably went home first."

"Oh, I'll take my sister home. You should keep your distance from her, otherwise I'm worried that one day your suitors will turn their attention to her again."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, this won't happen again. After all, most people are good people. At most, they might be a little jealous and say a few words, but there aren't many who would dare to directly cause trouble for your sister. After all, if they had that kind of guts, they would confess to me directly, which would be much better than secretly causing trouble for your sister."

After Zhao Shucheng took Gu Senxiang home, he rode his bicycle back to the alleyway of his own residential area.

Lin Huafeng was worried when she saw that Zhao Shucheng had returned, but her daughter had not.

Ignoring her previous discord with Li Wanxin, she knocked on the Qi family's door and asked, "Qi Ming, you're out of school, but why isn't Yi Yao home yet? Was she kept after school, or is she at a classmate's house?"

Zhao Shucheng was surprised that Lin Huafeng didn't know about Yi Yao's situation. He said, "Aunt Lin, Yi Yao might not be back for a while. Yesterday, someone impersonated me and caused trouble for my classmate. Luckily, I was with my classmate, so we weren't in danger. But Yi Yao seems to be involved in this matter, so she was taken away by the police to assist with the investigation."

Lin Huafeng was stunned when she heard this. After all, her daughter was a very quiet and timid person. How could she possibly do such a thing?
But she didn't have time to argue with Zhao Shucheng. She hurriedly closed the door and went to find her daughter.

Although she didn't believe it, the police had solid evidence and confirmed that Yi Yao and Tang Xiaomi had attempted to hire someone to injure another person, and were preparing to file a public prosecution.

Tang Xiaomi's family and Lin Huafeng naturally could not accept that their young daughter would have to go to jail, so they tried every means to save their child.

They knew the key to this matter was Zhao Shucheng and Gu Senxiang, or more precisely, Gu Senxiang, since she was the victim and Zhao Shucheng had acted as a hero.

Gu Senxiang never expected that Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao's family would come to their home and hear that they hoped he would issue a letter of understanding to exempt Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao from being sentenced.

Gu Senxiang was undecided and looked at her parents.

Although Gu's parents were furious about what Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao had done to their daughter, they also sympathized with Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao's parents. They felt that Tang Xiaomi and Yi Yao were still young and should be given a chance. Therefore, they persuaded Gu Senxiang to sign the letter of understanding, but also asked Tang Xiaomi's parents and Lin Huafeng to keep their children in check and not continue to target their daughter. (End of Chapter)

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