Someone pushed Mengmeng, taunting, "If you can protect that slut, you’re probably no better. Get lost or you’ll be cursed at too."
Mengmeng stumbled backward, not expecting the shove.
"Mengmeng, be careful!" Tong Mo had just tried to catch her when someone else embraced the girl even faster.
"Are you okay?" Mengmeng looked up into Gu Zhihan’s eyes, brimming with concern.
She quickly shook her head, "I’m fine, I’m fine."
Hearing her say this, Gu Zhihan finally relaxed.
After letting go of the girl, he kicked the boy who had just pushed Mengmeng, "Do you want to die?"
The boy was kicked to the ground.
With a cold face, Gu Zhihan didn’t even glance at him, instead, he pulled Mengmeng away, "Let’s go."
Mengmeng also quickly pulled Tong Mo along, "Chun Mo, let’s go, we don’t care about these people."
"Yeah!" Tong Mo clenched her lips tightly, stopping the tears from falling.
However, they had no idea that this was just the beginning.
When they entered the classroom, they saw the blackboard covered with intimate photos of Tong Mo and Zhuo Wen, some from their visit to the hospital, and some from her visit to Zhuo Wen’s home...
The person who spread the rumors even wrote lengthy captions as if afraid that others wouldn’t understand.
"Going to the hospital for a prenatal check-up together."
And, "Spending the night at the teacher’s house."
"Damn it! These must be fake!" Luo Mengmeng angrily tore down all the stuff from the blackboard.
She firmly believed that these were all slanders; no one knew Tong Mo better than she did. Although Tong Mo appeared carefree, she was in fact very principled, so there was no way she could have done these things.
Afterward, Gu Zhihan, and the just-arrived Lu Zichen and Jiang Yibai, all swiftly joined in to tear down the photos.
Lu Zichen glared at the crowd below with fury, "Are you guys sick? Don’t you know that spreading rumors is illegal?"
He ripped the photos in his hands into shreds as he spoke.
"How do you know this is a rumor?"
"Yeah, what if it’s true?"
Tong Mo could no longer contain her anger, her hands slamming down on the podium, her eyes tinged with frightening red, "Stop spouting nonsense, my relationship with the homeroom teacher is innocent!"
"Just because you say it’s innocent, it is?"
"Coming out of the homeroom teacher’s house in the middle of the night, and you claim to be innocent?"
"Exactly, for all we know, you might already be carrying a bastard child. Who would believe your claims of innocence?"
Since it was still before morning self-study, students from other classes also gathered around to watch the commotion, pointing and hurling insults at Tong Mo.
"I’m not pregnant!" Tong Mo exclaimed once more, pounding the desk, trying to explain.
But her explanation sounded too feeble amidst the countless voices of accusation, and were soon drowned out by the denigrating shouts.
Even the intervention of Mengmeng and the others was to no avail.
"To do such things and still deny it!"
Just when Tong Mo felt a chill enveloping her, a commotion suddenly arose at the classroom door.
"The homeroom teacher is here!"
"This shameless, disrespectable creature, it’s a wonder he still has the face to show up."
Zhuo Wen stood at the doorway, pale, his tall frame shivering as if about to snap under the weight of heavy snow.
His hoarse voice and reddened eyes revealed a struggle, as he spoke almost voicelessly, "Tong Mo, let’s go explain this matter."
After speaking, he aged a decade in an instant, his face etched with defeat.