Ark Heroine Development Plan

Xingxiong wanted to accept such praise with a smile, but when she saw Chen's expression, she stopped what she was about to say.

"... Envy? That's not entirely true."

She complained, "Ajie is a real headache a lot of the time. The most annoying thing about her is her hobby. Xiao Chen, you know that very well."

"..."

Chen Moran remained silent. Indeed, she absolutely could not stand it if her sister ran around the streets all day long, with her mind full of Nanako and Nanako.

No, it should not just be that she can't bear it, she will definitely beat her sister severely.

"You've worked so hard..." Chen really felt that Xingxiong had a hard time at this time.

"Well... actually... ah, nothing, nothing."

Xingxiong almost couldn't help but feed Chen some dog food again, and dealt with it vaguely.

"Any plans for the next few days?"

"Plans? Just work as usual... Then we'll wait for the operation you mentioned, Xingxiong, to encircle and suppress the Hongyi Gang."

"...Xiao Chen, you have to do something besides work, right?"

Chen took the drink back from Xingxiong and bit the straw in thought.

It seems... there is really something to do.

Chapter 7 - Not two chapters, but one chapter with words

"Sister Huijie... I'm sorry for causing you trouble."

The thin little girl held Chen's hand tightly, her voice thin and weak.

"It's okay." Chen patted the little girl's head, "I've finished my work for today."

This was the thing Chen hadn't mentioned to Xingxiong.

Ever since meeting Guan Yueli in the orphanage, Chen has been there several times and has a good relationship with the children there. Guan Yueli even teased her that she has the potential to be a good mother.

Chen really wanted to refute at that time - because no one was more like a loving mother than Guan Yueli at that time, but then she thought that this seemed to be praising Guan Yueli again, so Chen held back and didn't say anything.

As for the girl next to him who looks timid and fearful, everyone in the orphanage calls her Xiaomeng.

Xiao Meng is a very quiet girl. Every time Guan Yueli plays games with other children, she watches from the side. Only when Guan Yueli tells a story will she come over cautiously.

So Chen quickly discovered that she was sensitive and delicate, and after a contact that could be considered successful, their relationship quickly improved.

And now, Chen Zheng took Xiao Meng to her school, to find her class teacher, to meet a few people... who made her feel bad.

This is an old-fashioned topic that makes people extremely uncomfortable and even angry.

Bullying.

Xiao Meng has friends at school, and quite a few of them. The children in the orphanage are all her friends. Although they are of different ages, they are not all in the same class, but there are always one or two of them in every class.

Xiao Meng was the only one who didn't meet her orphanage companions in the class.

At first, Xiao Meng's situation was not too bad because her friends would come to play with her. But as time went on, she still failed to make friends in the class. Some other children also noticed that she was shy and introverted and not very good at communicating with others.

Along with it come some common labels used among children, and along with it come some unpleasant behaviors among children.

Her companions couldn't always be with her, and Xiao Meng didn't want to cause trouble for her friends. She just thought... it would all be over after she got home anyway, it would just be a short while.

Compared to the good things you have, these bad things are so insignificant.

But... because she ignored those isolation and pranks, she did not get the expected "fear", so the children who did not get the "pleasure" began to become more aggressive.

The snowball of malice continues to grow.

From the little bugs under the table to the chalk eraser on the door, from the hidden stationery to the torn textbooks... the children who get "fun" from it increase their innocent and pure cruelty.

Chen discovered Xiao Meng's situation two days ago. That day, she did not see Xiao Meng listening to Guan Yueli telling stories. Instead, she heard the girl's helpless crying in the bathroom cubicle.

After that, Chen's heart was filled with pure, almost uncontrollable anger.

"Why don't you tell your Guanyue...sister Guanyue?" Chen asked at that time.

However, what Chen could not understand was that Xiao Meng, with tears on her face, was full of panic at that moment. She clenched Chen's hand and begged her not to tell Guan Yueli.

"Sister Guanyue... will hate me. She will hate a girl like me who has no courage at all. I don't understand many of the stories she tells, but there are some... some that Xiaomeng can understand."

The little girl, whose skirt was soiled with tears, sobbed and sobbed, "The little rabbit whose carrots were taken away... If he doesn't use a shovel to drive away the evil snake, he, he will always have his carrots taken away."

"Sister Guanyue likes Brother A-li. He helped Xiuxiu fight off a big dog, but he got bitten several times. Sister Guanyue brought him a lot of delicious food..."

"Sister Guanyue also likes Sister Yunming. Yunming can climb up a very high tree and bring Xiao Mi down. Sister Guanyue... likes brave children."

The lonely little girl hugged her knees and murmured sadly: "I don't want Sister Guanyue to find out that I'm so timid..."

Chen never thought that a child who had just started elementary school could be so delicate, but she also understood... Xiao Meng was precocious and introverted, and as an orphan, a girl like this... was too easy to be bullied.

Many children who are bullied are unwilling to fight back or speak up.

Then Chen said:

"Does Xiao Meng believe Sister Huijie?"

……

In the office, a gentle middle-aged man sat at his desk and said in a gentle voice:

"Well, now that both sets of parents are here, let's sit down and have a good talk, okay?"

Chen was sitting on one side holding Xiao Meng's hand. On the other side was a father and son. The child didn't look grumpy, but rather a little uneasy, while the adults had an expression that was not very patient.

"Student Ji Xiao, Liu Lingmeng's parents told me that you and several other students in the class have been bullying her. Is this true?"

Although the teacher's voice was gentle, it carried a kind of majesty that made children naturally afraid.

The little boy, who was already nervous, shuddered and hesitated, not daring to speak.

"What are you talking about!"

The impatient parent said directly: "How could my Xiao bully others? He has always been very sensible."

"Mr. Ji." The head teacher frowned and knocked on the table. "Please pay attention. I want your child to answer the question, not you."

"Ji Xiao."

The intimidating voice made the little boy shudder again. He glanced at Xiao Meng who was hiding behind Chen and opened his mouth:

"I……"

The little boy's parents put their hands on his shoulders.

The boy named Ji Xiao looked up and saw his father looking at him.

"I, I didn't."

He suddenly gained courage, and something that remained in his heart, something called "kindness", suddenly disappeared under his father's eyes.

"I didn't!" he answered loudly.

The head teacher's expression looked a little unhappy. He glanced at Ji Xiao's parents, said nothing at first, then turned to look at Xiao Meng, his tone and expression becoming much gentler.

"Student Liu, can you tell the teacher what Ji Xiao did?"

Xiao Lingmeng clutched the corner of Chen's clothes and bit her lip. She met the teacher's encouraging gaze and wanted to speak, but the man opposite her stepped heavily on his crossed legs and stared at the girl.

The boy looked at his father thoughtfully, and then imitated him by glaring at Xiao Meng.

"What are you looking at?"

Chen asked him expressionlessly.

In fact, it is very difficult for Chen now to suppress the urge to beat that guy up.

"Why, you still won't allow me—"

The man immediately retorted, but before he could finish his words, he swallowed them back.

Chen was wearing ordinary everyday clothes, but that didn't mean her aura was affected.

"Shut up when you shouldn't talk, and be obedient when you should listen."

She took a step forward, her voice cold:

"If you don't understand such a simple truth when you're over forty, do you know how to be a human being?"

"Do you want me to teach you?"

Even though he was caught in the peripheral vision, the boy's legs suddenly went weak and he immediately hid behind his father, hiding even more securely than Xiao Meng.

The man's expression froze and he couldn't say a word.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the head teacher immediately intervened: "Um... Liu's parents, calm down first. Ji Xiao and Ji's parents, please apologize first."

His position is very clear, because if he still can't tell whether bullying exists or not, he has been a teacher for so many years in vain.

"apologize?"

The man immediately became excited upon hearing the apology: "Why? What did I say or do? This woman came up and said she wanted to teach me a lesson? Who doesn't respect others more? Teacher Tang, what do you mean?"

This is the kind of parent that teachers hate the most, but the teacher also has his own difficulties. He had to continue: "You just scared-"

"Do you want to apologize?"

A faint female voice interrupted the head teacher.

This sentence was not said by Chen.

But Chen felt relieved instead.

Because she knew that the woman must have discovered the child's problem earlier than she did.

Although he didn't want to accept that she had any merits, Chen had to admit... the woman named Guan Yueli, the love she poured into those children was absolutely genuine.

Standing at the office door, Guan Yueli leaned against the door frame and asked lazily.

"Are you going to apologize?"

The man opened his mouth wide and looked at the cherry blossom-like woman in front of him, his Adam's apple bulging unnaturally.

"Like an idiot."

The woman walked into the office with a sneer, and grabbed Xiao Meng, who was hiding tightly, from behind Chen as if she were grabbing the scruff of a kitten's neck.

"Why would you rather look for Sister Huijie than me?"

She said with a sad face: "Do you hate Sister Guanyue?"

"No, no, no... No!"

The girl shook her head frantically: "I am... I am afraid..."

As she spoke, tears began to fall: "I'm afraid that Sister Guanyue... wuwuwu... Sister Guanyue hates me, Guanyue... wuwu..."

"Alright, alright... How could Sister Guanyue hate Xiaomeng?"

The woman hugged the crying little girl and let her lean on her shoulder, not caring about the tears that kept flowing down her neck and clothes.

"Sister Guanyue would be very happy if Xiaomeng relied on her."

"Really...really?" Xiao Meng asked with sobs.

"Sister Guanyue never lies!"

The woman smiled and hooked the little girl's pinky finger: "Pink."

The head teacher looked at the woman who comforted Xiao Meng and made her cry stop immediately. He realized belatedly that he had been staring at her face. His face turned red and he looked away.

"Okay, my little Meng won't cry anymore, let's talk business, idiot."

Guan Yueli, who was holding Xiao Meng, looked down at the man who was only 1.7 meters tall.

"You, who are you talking about!" The man blushed, "Don't think you look——"

"Such a noisy idiot."

Guan Yueli, who was blocking Xiao Meng's ears, said calmly, "I'm going to ask you a question now. Do you want to talk about it?"