242: The boy's broken justice

Haizhou City is separated from South Bay Island by a strait.

Haidong Experimental Middle School is a prestigious school that combines both junior high and high school.

Its teaching staff and educational resources are quite substantial.

Due to some historical reasons, this school is not a fully public school, but rather a hybrid of public and private.

Therefore, besides entering through excellent high school entrance exam scores, one can also enroll by paying high tuition fees.

Gongye Shiyi, as a second-year student at this school, was admitted based on his grades.

As one of the many students, he was very inconspicuous.

He maintained simple relationships with classmates, had no puppy love, had average grades, and occasionally managed to get into the top ten of the class.

He did not have a secret crush on any female classmate.

He did not deliberately try to curry favor with the homeroom teacher or other teachers.

The only thing remarkable about him was perhaps showing off his excellent athletic ability during the annual sports meet.

However, even so, because his presence was too low and he didn't deliberately try to get along with his classmates,

even though his performance at the annual sports meet was very eye-catching, no female classmates expressed admiration for him.

Although he was quite good-looking, his ordinary, low-key, and boring personality really made girls unable to take an interest in him.

And the value of a high school student's life is often determined by academic performance and popularity with girls.

Therefore, judging from these two aspects,

his high school life was really not brilliant.

But Gongye Shiyi was actually quite satisfied with his high school life.

Such a peaceful life was exactly what he was pursuing.

However, he did not expect that his peaceful life would one day be broken.

"Is this student Gongye?"

"Could you trouble yourself to go to the storage room on the third floor?"

That afternoon, for a special reason, Gongye Shiyi stayed at school for a while longer.

It was precisely because of this that he happened to be stopped by a teacher and asked to do a small favor.

He had no reason to refuse; after all, this was at school. Even if he didn't deliberately try to build good relationships with teachers, he couldn't refuse such a small request.

So, he went to the storage room on the third floor.

Then he witnessed a dark incident within the school.

A man was forcing himself on a female student, and that man was none other than...

A teacher at the school.

Gongye Shiyi interrupted the process, causing both parties to fall into a state of panic.

Obviously, neither of them expected that there would still be students coming here at this time.

"Help..."

Before the female student could cry out, her mouth was covered.

"Hey, stop right there, which class are you from!"

The male teacher looked at Gongye Shiyi, his eyes full of threats.

"Let me tell you, if you dare to speak about what happened today, I will make sure no school in the country dares to accept you!"

Gongye Shiyi suddenly remembered the identity of this male teacher.

This male teacher was named Xu Xuli, a teacher transferred from a university.

His background was very extraordinary.

As soon as he joined the school, he jumped the queue to get various teacher ratings and gave speeches to the whole school as an outstanding teacher.

During every school event, he was often able to sit in the seats next to the principal and vice-principal.

Being a teacher was just a stepping stone for him to gild his resume; he himself could be described as a young master from an academic elite family.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before he could be promoted to vice-principal, and then pivot into politics or other fields.

"You should know who I am, so you should understand that what I said is not empty talk."

"Wuwuwu!"

The corridor of the third-floor storage room was silent.

Only the female student struggled and made sobbing sounds.

Gongye Shiyi backed out of the storage room and closed the door.

"At least you know what's good for you."

Xu Xuli looked at the closed door and released his hand covering the girl.

Although he was a second-generation piece of scum, he wasn't without a brain.

Obviously, now was not the time to continue, and he had lost the mood.

First, he had to destroy the evidence, and then there would be time later to slowly deal with these two students.

Make them afraid to speak nonsense.

"If you dare to go out and talk nonsense, you will be kicked out of this school tomorrow."

Xu Xuli slapped the girl and then threatened her.

He had investigated the girl's background; she was from a poor family, and a little threat would keep her from saying anything reckless.

However, the girl underneath him didn't speak, just stared in terror.

"Hmm?"

Xu Xuli realized something was wrong, but it was too late when he turned his head.

A huge solid iron rod struck him heavily on the head.

Under the immense force, he fell directly to the ground, and large amounts of blood flowed continuously from his head.

The girl's face was also splattered with blood; she screamed in terror, tears and snot flowing uncontrollably due to fear.

And behind Xu Xuli, Gongye Shiyi was holding a solid iron rod he had found from somewhere.

He looked at the unconscious teacher in front of him with an expressionless face.

He did not continue to attack. The first blow was an act of righteous justice and self-defense.

If the opponent lost the ability to resist, continuing to beat him

would be considered excessive defense.

He dropped the iron rod and looked at the screaming girl.

However, everything that happened afterward exceeded his expectations.

Although he was mature enough internally, he was still a minor at the time and underestimated some things.

Of course, Xu Xuli could not have been killed by him; it was just a skull fracture and a concussion.

This incident caused a sensation throughout the school.

After Xu Xuli woke up, he hired a professional legal team.

And he insisted that he had witnessed Gongye Shiyi molesting and attempting to rape a female classmate.

And was then beaten and injured by Gongye Shiyi.

This matter was quickly investigated, and the female student was also taken away to give testimony.

And then... in front of Gongye Shiyi, she identified him as having molested and attempted to rape her.

The teacher who asked Gongye Shiyi to go to the storage room to get something also denied the incident.

The school's surveillance happened to be updating that day.

Gongye Shiyi's testimony was confirmed as perjury, and then.

He was detained.

Because he was still a minor at the time, he was only sentenced to one year in prison with a one-year probation.

He was also suspended from school for one year.

Added to the time for evidence collection, investigation, court hearings, and trial, by the time he returned to school, it was already two years after the incident occurred.

As for why it was only a one-year suspension and not expulsion.

Xu Xuli used his connections to keep his student status.

"He is not yet an adult, his inner world is not mature enough, and after making a mistake, society should choose to be tolerant of him and give him another chance."

"I also regret it very much; as a teacher, I allowed such a thing to happen at school."

"If I had stopped it earlier that day and been a little more careful, perhaps this kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

This is what Xu Xuli said in interviews with reporters and in speeches at the school.

But the real reason.

Was because of his inner anger and resentment; he wanted to personally torture Gongye Shiyi.

Therefore, he needed Gongye Shiyi to return to school.

And then leave Gongye Shiyi with a lifetime of trauma, making Gongye Shiyi feel fear whenever he thinks of him for the rest of his life.