After thinking it over for a moment, Cheng Xi replied, “Okay.”

Mr. Liu then looked towards Lu Chenzhou, who nodded his head nonchalantly.

“What you promised me earlier, I expect it in full.”

Lu Chenzhou merely replied coolly, “Yes.”

Cheng Xi looked him over once. “What did you promise him?”

Lu Chenzhou didn’t deign to reply. “You can start talking now.”

Both men fluidly ignored Cheng Xi’s question. After hesitating for a long moment, Mr. Liu started talking. “The reason why Chen Jiaman decided to quit school was, as my daughter said, because she was bullied. More specifically, she was a victim of schoolyard violence.”

“Chen Jiaman’s personality was reclusive and eccentric. Not only that, but her parents were frequently gone, so she only had her old grandmother by her side. For most of her school life, she was crowded out by her peers. When she was small, the kids couldn’t do all that much to her, but in middle school, as they...

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