Meanwhile, An Xiulan was going to her class after running practice. She was about to ascend the stairs when she saw two senior year boys laughing at her in a mocking tone.

“Isn’t she the sister of that Cut sleeve?” The first senior boy snickered.

“Who knew that the boss Lu was interested in such kinky things?” The second boy laughed.

These sentences caused her to pause in her footsteps.

“Who knew that he had a thing for assholes?” The first boy laughed. They didn’t stop there. They used some very bad and offensive words to describe him. Some words were too bad that they made her puke.

An Xiulan didn’t find anything but since it was the morning time and the floors of the schools were getting cleaned. She grabbed the mop from the cleaner uncle and thanked him. Before those boys could say another word about her brother, she hit their butts.

“You dunderheads! Who gave you the right to call my brother names!” An Xiulan shouted, startling other students._.

The boys shouted as they placed their hands on their aching buttocks. They shouted at the girl who was possessed by a Ghost, “Are you crazy? Your brother is gay! Shouldn’t he be embarrassed? Hit your brother. Why are you hitting us? “

This time An Xiulan hit their butts as well as legs. “In this world, only my mom, dad and I have the right to berate him or scold him! Who are you to preach? I could beat him or even curse him , but you, a worthless pest, can’t!! The words you used for him. I recorded everything. I will show them to your mummy! Since you know so much about gay ****, I must ask your parents to do a quick history search of your browser.”

“She is a crazy bitch, “The first senior shouted as he ran from there.

But who was An Xiulan? She was an athlete who ran faster than them. She ran after them, hitting them with the mop in between. The boys were shouting but she didn’t stop. She would teach them a good lesson today.

The other senior students shuddered as they recalled the fiery look in her eyes. “This junior is fierce. Let’s go to class. We see nothing, we hear nothing and we say nothing.”

Song Xueyun hadn’t expected to see this scene first thing after she came to her building. She saw a line of boys in a chicken position holding their ears and doing up and down. The goddess An Xiulan was standing there burning in rage holding the mop as if it was her sword. If anyone stopped chanting apology, she would hit the ground and they would shudder before chanting the mantra.

“Xiulan, what’s going on?” Song Xueyun asked as she held her heart hoping for the worst.

“Xueyun, these groups of seniors were speaking nonsense about my brother, “An Xiulan said with a huff. “I don’t know what caused them to say offensive words about my brother. But don’t worry, I taught them a lesson that they wouldn’t forget all their life. They must know that I, An Xiulan, could bear her own insult but not my brother’s!”

Song Xueyun didn’t know what to say but she tried to calmly handle this matter. She went forward and said in a soft voice, “Xiulan, what I’m trying to tell you...please take it in calmly.”

“Don’t worry, Xueyun. I’m the calmest person you will ever know, ” An Xiulan said patting her shoulder. “I might not be proud of my extraordinary beauty but I’m proud of my calmness.”

Li Sicheng snorted. He just saw her calmness. It was dangerous.historical

“Xiulan, Lu Xuan and Han Zixin’s romantic dance video is getting viral on the school forum, ” Song Xueyun said. “Some people are making fun of both of them calling them gay couples.”

An Xiulan held the mop in her hand and went ahead to beat them again.

“What are you doing?” Song Xueyun cried.

“They deserve to be beaten just the same for soiling my Cheat Prince’s name!” An Xiulan said in anger.

“Didn’t you say you are a very calm person?” Song Xueyun asked.

“I’m, ” An Xiulan proudly said. “But my calmness just went to buy soy sauce! I will not stop.”

Before she could beat anyone more, they heard the strict voice of the discipline teacher.

“What’s happening here?” The discipline teacher asked.

“Sir, she is bullying us!” The boys cried.

An Xiulan glared at them. “You dare snitch on me!”

“An Xiulan! Follow me to the principal’s office. You can’t take advantage of your position to bully innocent students, “The discipline teacher scolded her.

“Sir, if using these words for my best friend and brother makes them innocent, then I’m bullying them!” An Xiulan said in an angry tone.

“What words?” The teacher asked.

Without any filter, she said all the beeped words.

The teacher looked at the boys who lowered their gazes.

“Sir, even if my brother and best friend are gay but why it was treated as if the word gay is a curse, ” An Xiulan asked. “One hand we vouch about being open-minded and acceptable to all kinds of communities and on the other hand, we are still using the word gay as some kind of course word. This happened in school which was quite startling to me. If it was someone else, I would have understood but our school had been giving positive messages to all the students and people. Yet, such a shameful thing was uttered about someone from our school. Isn’t it quite saddening?”

Song Xueyun and Li Sicheng looked at each other with wide eyes. The girl really had guts. To protect herself from punishment for beating the boys, she trapped the discipline teacher in the web of her words. She was just like those old sly politicians who quote world problems when someone asked them questions just to confuse people.

An Xiulan really knew how to use the art of words.

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*Cut sleeve– it’s a term for homosexuality. There is a story behind it. It comes from a historical account wherein an emperor’s male lover fell asleep against his sleeve, so the emperor cut it off lest he disturb him.

*Chicken punishment — the punished person must squat, loop their arms behind their knees and hold their earlobes. Back in my high school almost 6 years ago, it was quite famous. Yes, it was reserved for the most naughty boys of the class. Lol! Do tell me if you have ever gotten it.