A Young Woman's Heart

When Mo Xueyao squeezed into the crowd, she was slightly stunned, because one of the main characters in this incident was actually Mr. Xue.

He stood there calmly, while opposite him was a girl who was incessantly accusing him.

"What's going on?" Mo Xueyao asked, puzzled, and nudged Duanmu Ji, who had also come to join in the fun.

"Mr. Xue sexually assaulted this girl by touching her thigh," Duanmu Ji explained simply.

"Impossible! You saw it with your own eyes?"

"No."

"That's exactly the kind of person he is! He looks respectable, but he's actually a despicable scoundrel! He just walked up to me and touched me! Hypocrite, beast in human clothing!"

"I just brushed past you," Mr. Xue replied calmly.

"The lobby is so spacious, why did you have to walk right past me?" the girl screamed, looking like she was about to go crazy with anger.

Although Mo Xueyao felt that Mr. Xue would not do such a thing, she couldn't help but have some doubts after hearing her detailed account and angry accusations.

"It was because everyone was going upstairs..." Mr. Xue was interrupted by the girl opposite him before he could finish speaking.

"Yeah, when we're going upstairs, can't you let me go first? Don't you know ladies first? You deliberately pushed your way in, weren't you just trying to do something shady?!"

The argument was almost entirely one-sided; Mr. Xue's tone remained calm throughout, but every attempt he made to explain ended in failure.

This was determined by Mo Xueyao, a senior high school student, based on the school uniform she was wearing.

Perhaps due to the busy studies in her senior year of high school, she had obvious dark circles under her eyes and was a little overweight, the kind of slightly bloated, puffy look.

"Do you know how tough my senior year of high school was? You've wasted so much of my time, and you still won't admit it!"

"Her mental state doesn't seem very good..." Mo Xueyao muttered softly.

"Maybe it's because of the pressure of senior year?" Hua Yinyin came over at some point and stood aside, pondering as she spoke.

"What are you all doing standing here? What's going on!" The teacher on duty finally came over. He dispersed the crowd and walked over to Mr. Xue and the girl. "What's wrong, you two? What happened?"

"Teacher! He shamelessly touched my butt!"

"Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" The teacher on duty was also a second-year high school student and had some impression of Mr. Xue. Every time, he would get a top three ranking in the whole grade and was a model student in the eyes of the teachers.

"It can't be wrong!" The girl's voice was sharp, making Mo Xueyao's eardrums ache slightly.

"This girl is shameless. She was touched and she still has the nerve to say it..." A girl from some unknown class next to her said sarcastically.

“Of course we have to say something. It’s not my fault that I was molested,” Mo Zhuyou said, expressing her opposition.

"There's no conclusive evidence yet that Xiaoxue touched it," Mo Xueyao remained neutral. "Did anyone see it?"

"No, I was the first to find it. I came over as soon as I heard the screams." Duanmu Ji shook his head.

The girl then recounted what she had just said to the teacher. The teacher on duty frowned as he listened, glancing at Mr. Xue, who had a calm expression, several times. At first, he thought that Mr. Xue was upright and had nothing to hide, but then he thought that Mr. Xue was doing the opposite and deliberately pretending to be innocent.

"Alright, this might just be an accident." In the end, the teacher on duty decided to downplay the incident and smooth things over. "Mr. Xue, please apologize to this girl."

"Sorry, my backpack bumped into you," Mr. Xue said very sincerely.

"He used his hands!" But the girl persisted.

"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that. If it happens again, we'll have to investigate it seriously." The teacher on duty patted the two of them on the shoulder. "Okay, go back to the classroom now."

"Hmph—Mr. Xue?" The girl seemed to have heard of his name before and wasn't surprised by it. "A beast in human clothing!"

Mr. Xue remained silent for a while, and only when she went upstairs and her footsteps could no longer be heard did he step up the stairs.

Mo Xueyao quickly chased after him and patted him on the shoulder: "What exactly happened, Xueyao?"

"It's possible that the backpack touched her body while she was here."

"You really didn't touch it, did you?"

Mr. Xue smiled faintly and shook his head: "Of course not."

"Phew, I don't think you're that kind of person. Hmm, I believe in you!" Mo Xueyao encouraged him.

“It’s nothing,” he replied casually. “See you in the band room later.”

Having spent so much time with Mr. Xue, the members of the Xue Music Band certainly didn't think he was that kind of person. Even though the girl spoke with such certainty, they felt that she was just under too much psychological pressure and overreacted for a moment.

The band's practice was not affected and continued as usual.

However, to everyone's surprise, the last day of this month turned out to be anything but peaceful.

In just one morning and one noon, news of Mr. Xue's story had spread throughout the entire campus.

People are jealous, and many boys from other classes, after learning about this, felt that Mr. Xue must be wrong and was just making excuses.

"All handsome guys are no good! So what if they get good grades? They might just turn out to be high-IQ criminals!" Someone said this loudly as they walked past the door of Class 2, Grade 11.

Even his own classmates began to doubt him.

Only Mo Xueyao remained firmly on his side, mainly because she remembered that when she went out with Mr. Xue before, he always acted very gentlemanly. Even when Hua Yinyin took the initiative to flirt with him, he didn't react much—how could he do such a low-class thing?

"Xiaoyao, do you think Xiaoxue might have really touched it?"

"How could that be? Lele, you don't believe him either?"

"Well... not really, it's just that I've heard a lot of people say that, and it's spread all over the school... so I was wondering if it could be true. After all, it takes two to tango."

"Tsk, that's the sentence I've hated the most since I was a child." Mo Xueyao rolled her eyes. "Xiaoxue doesn't have that kind of low taste. Otherwise, when she was with us in the band room, she would have had plenty of opportunities to grope him, right? And you and Yinyin often went over to tease him."

"Maybe it's because he can't bring himself to steal from people he knows? Or maybe he just has this kind of fetish? Just like some people who don't lack money still like to steal things."

"That's impossible..." Mo Xueyao waved her hand. "Don't think about it too much. Everyone will probably forget about it in a few days."

Although she said that, she was beginning to waver.

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Chapter 182 The Last Day of November (Part 2)

Mr. Xue didn't care about these rumors, but he didn't try to avoid them either. To him, everything seemed to be as usual.

"Hmph, you're finished." That girl, having just finished lunch, still had the nerve to come to Mo Xueyao's classroom to provoke them. "Now the whole school knows, your hypocritical mask is about to be torn off!"

Mr. Xue looked up at her, then picked up his suona and walked to the door.

The latter, though frightened, stubbornly puffed out his chest: "What do you want? Are you angry?"

"I'm going to band practice," Mr. Xue replied casually. "Senior, aren't you going back to the classroom to study?"

"What? You think I'm free? Humph, if it weren't for you, I definitely could have studied more today. You ruined my good mood all day!"

"Okay." Mr. Xue nodded and turned to walk downstairs.

"What's so good about it..." Mo Xueyao didn't understand what Mr. Xue was thinking. "The rumors have spread all over the school. Shouldn't he explain?"

"Perhaps, not explaining at this time is the best explanation?" Wang Jiale guessed.

"If I were framed, I definitely wouldn't put up with it like this..." Mo Xueyao muttered as she stood up and followed Mr. Xue to the band room.

“By the way, the school should have CCTV cameras, right?” Wang Jiale followed behind her. “Why don’t you check the CCTV footage?”

"Surveillance? Does our school have surveillance?" Mo Xueyao asked with a suspicious look.

"...Could it be that Xiaoxue doesn't know either, just like you?" Wang Jiale sighed and covered his forehead. "Wait a minute, Xiaoyao, let's go to the monitoring room first and see what's going on, then we'll know."

"Ah? That's right!" Mo Xueyao slapped her palm. "Let's go, let's go quickly!"

The impact of this incident may not be significant enough to warrant the attention of school leaders who need to review the surveillance footage.

But Mo Xueyao felt that as long as she explained the situation clearly, she should be able to get the teacher in charge of the monitoring room to show them the surveillance footage.

No, the person in charge of the monitoring room seems to be a security guard.

Mo Xueyao had never been to the monitoring room before. It was actually located behind the security booth, in a small room without even windows.

There was only one ventilation opening, making the air feel very stuffy.

The lights inside were on, and an older teacher and a younger teacher were squatting next to a computer, checking something—Mo Xueyao didn't recognize them; they were probably teachers from the first or third year of high school.

"Hmm..." Mo Xueyao tiptoed and looked around, finally finding the security guard she recognized. "Uncle! What are you doing?"

"Oh, the computer broke down around noon today, and the two teachers are repairing it," the security guard explained. "It was working fine this morning, but when I came over after lunch, it suddenly broke down."

"Huh, something's wrong?" Mo Xueyao instinctively felt that this was someone's conspiracy, but the real campus is not a TV drama, and it is impossible for everything to be related, so this is probably just a coincidence.

"Hmm, it seems to be broken. I wonder if it can be fixed..."

As they were talking, the older teacher stood up and said, "It seems like the motherboard is broken; we might have to replace it."

Mo Xueyao had taken computer classes before, so she knew the basic hardware components of a computer. She quickly asked, "Where's the hard drive? Is the hard drive okay...?"

"The hard drive should be fine; it's the motherboard that's burned out. We don't know how to repair it, so we'll have to replace it. We'll have to get a professional computer repairman to come over." The young teacher stroked his chin.

"When will it be fixed?" Wang Jiale seemed even more anxious than Mo Xueyao.

"Uh, tomorrow or Monday? What, are you in a hurry to use the surveillance?"

"Hmm... something urgent needs to be discussed. We need to check the surveillance footage to confirm if it's true."

"What's wrong?" the older teacher asked calmly.

Mo Xueyao quickly explained the whole story in a simple way: "A girl from another class said that a boy in our class molested her, so we wanted to check the surveillance footage to see if it was true."

The two teachers exchanged a glance, seemingly marveling at how much knowledge today's children possess—though in reality, high school students aren't exactly young anymore; it's just that, in the teachers' eyes, they should perhaps still maintain that innocence.

"Then let's come back tomorrow or next Monday—by then everyone might have forgotten about it," the young teacher laughed. "Girls are more sensitive and like to make a big deal out of small things."

Wang Jiale was a little unhappy, but still didn't say anything.

Mo Xueyao nodded, then turned to Wang Jiale and said, "Well... I think we've done our best."

"Okay, let's go, let's go, we still have to practice!" She put the previous matter out of her mind. "Anyway, Xiaoxue herself doesn't care, so we don't need to be anxious like the emperor isn't worried!"

"Who are you calling a eunuch!" Mo Xueyao pouted.

In this era before widespread internet access, rumors didn't spread quickly, but they changed rapidly. By the time school ended, the rumor had become increasingly exaggerated.

Some people even said that Mr. Xue forced himself on her, got her pregnant, and now doesn't want to take responsibility...

If the girl initially sought revenge due to her obsessive personality, then at this point, she has also become a victim because of these inaccurate rumors.

However, not many people actually believe such exaggerated rumors. It's just that because the rumors have become exaggerated, more people actually think that it's true that Mr. Xue molested that girl in the morning.