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Chapter 76

"Why is the office so messy! Did no one clean up?"

Early in the morning, a shrill question rang out from the Chinese language teaching research room on the third floor.

Teacher Jiang Ru was bad-tempered, and had just had a conflict with students during morning reading class, so she strode into the office fuming and immediately began berating the two young interns who were there early to grade homework assignments.

"Are you blind? You got here so early but didn't think to tidy up the office! You were waiting for me to come do it, weren't you?"

Momo lifted her head from a pile of student compositions, her voice hoarse as she said, "These assignments have to be handed back after morning reading class, so I have to finish grading them right away."

"Why did you have to come early this morning to grade assignments?"

Lisa complained resentfully, "We were helping you make teaching ppt slides yesterday."

"So it's my fault now?"

"Teacher Jiang, I think you might be giving us too much work." Momo worked up the courage to say. "The other interns are all able to do trial lectures already, but we spend every day in the office grading papers."

Jiang Ru's expression changed slightly, and she snapped in her shrill voice, "With your level, you want to give lectures? You haven't even learned to walk yet but want to run!"

"That's...that's because you gave us several classes worth of assignments to grade. We don't even have time to sit in on classes and learn."

Lisa gently tugged at Momo's sleeve, hinting that she shouldn't say any more.

Their supervising teacher would evaluate and score their internships, and only interns with high scores could stay on, so it was very unwise to have conflicts with the teacher at this time.

"What, you're not satisfied? You don't even want to grade assignments, how will you become teachers in the future!"

Momo grimaced, though she was very unhappy she held in her temper.

During the break between classes, she sat alone on the empty stairwell, calling Jaehyun.

"Are you doing alright over there? I heard new recruits get bullied, you have to be clever and not go head to head with them."

"You're worrying too much," Jaehyun's voice sounded very relaxed. "The captain and them take good care of the new guys, it's even more laidback than when we were training at school."

"Really, don't lie to me okay."

"I'm actually more worried about you. How's the new job going? With your frank personality, you won't be very popular in the workplace."

Momo's eyes reddened all at once, and she tried hard to hold back the sour feeling rising in her throat. "I...I'm not that frank, I'm just more upright."

"Praising yourself makes you happy huh?"

"I'm telling the truth."

"Mo, have you been wronged at all? Don't lie to me, you should let me know about anything."

"No, really nothing." Momo forced herself to restrain her emotions as she said, "Even if there are unhappy things, I can handle them. Jaehyun, don't worry about me. The point is, you're not alone in working hard, I will work hard too!"

On the other end of the call, Jaehyun spat a mouthful of bloody spittle as he squatted on a rock in the woods, and rubbed the bruise at the corner of his mouth.