Don't Say You're Heartless (Modern Edition)

64 Looking for trouble

"The show is for you, so naturally, the target is you." Thinking of this, Yang Qiong felt frustrated. She had just dealt with Lu Shaojie, and now this Li Enyi- what was going on?

"I don't think he has any improper intentions toward me." Shen Qiuhua was confident in her judgment. Although Li Enyi frequently appeared in her life, his gaze and tone of voice did not suggest he had any particular thoughts about her-or any feelings for her.

"How could that be? My Qiuhua is so beautiful, what man wouldn't be moved?" Yang Qiong couldn't believe it.

Shen Qiuhua was speechless. Even the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't make every man fall for her. "A man like him, with money, wouldn't have trouble finding beautiful women." After saying this, she fell into thought. "I can't see his intentions, but it definitely isn't because he's attracted to my looks."

"Alright, let's not think about him. It's too tiring." Yang Qiong was irritated. Why focus on such a person when the two of them had such a short time together?

"Who made it tiring?" Mentioning this, Shen Qiuhua became upset-not with Yang Qiong, but with herself. Recently, she had been getting softer, and Yang Qiong had been becoming increasingly excessive. If this continued, she would need to take sick leave.

Yang Qiong was in the wrong but was like a cat that had stolen something, just grinning foolishly.

On the third day back at work, the school underwent a personnel change. The previous principal had been transferred, and a new principal, Mr. Xu, had arrived. Principal Xu was a middle-aged woman in her forties, very conservative, and looked hard to get along with. After introducing Principal Xu to the meeting, she gave a long, lengthy speech. Yang Qiong nearly fell asleep. If Shen Qiuhua hadn't been sitting next to her, she probably would have dozed off.

Shen Qiuhua would never be rude in public. Even though she didn't like long speeches either, she maintained a proper posture and gave the impression of listening attentively. In reality, she was doodling scenes of a little white rabbit outsmarting a big bad wolf in her notebook. Although her colored pens didn't have the fine point of a brush pen, her drawings were still vivid and lifelike.

Yang Qiong noticed this and grabbed the notebook, adding humorous captions like "Little rabbit, you're so pretty, why not tease the wolf a bit?" Shen Qiuhua shook her head, disappointed at the waste of her good drawings on such frivolous text.

Work after the start of the semester went as usual. After a semester of adapting to the work, Shen Qiuhua and Yang Qiong were no longer newcomers and now gained experience in teaching and preparing lessons. However, the new Principal Xu seemed to particularly dislike Shen Qiuhua, frequently finding small faults.

Yang Qiong hadn't noticed at first, as her classes were held outside. One day, after going upstairs to teach materials, she saw Principal Xu and Shen Qiuhua standing at the end of the corridor, engaged in a conversation. Seeing her beloved Qiuhua, Yang Qiong was concerned and rudely eavesdropped.

Principal Xu's voice was loud and stern. "Teacher Shen, this is not how you should conduct your classes. You're too lenient with the students. Look at your students-they don't have any sense of teacher-student relationship with you. This is unacceptable! Do you understand the respect for the teacher's authority?"

Shen Qiuhua kept her head down, her gaze calm as she stared at the floor. After listening to the end of Principal Xu's lecture, she simply nodded and said, "Understood."

"Understood, yet you still teach like this? I know you're a new teacher, but you can't just act on your whims, can you? Your classroom management is problematic and must be corrected!"