The students were all sent back to their classrooms for lessons.
Su Qianqian frowned. Although she couldn't see it clearly, she could roughly confirm that it was the girl who ran to the teacher to complain that she had cheated on the monthly exam.
Su Qianqian, sitting in the classroom, had her brows furrowed.
Although this was just a story in a book, with all the characters being fictional and the events being orchestrated by the system, and none of them having their own thoughts, the sudden appearance of such a plot still made Su Qianqian a little unable to accept it.
Why was this plot structured? What benefits does this plot offer for the development of the system's world?
This was the first time Su Qianqian had spoken so seriously, coldly questioning the system.
[Waste System: Please don't worry, host. You know that this is a virtual world created by the system. Every character here is generated by the system code.]
The host is currently in the first three chapters of the book he is reading. During this period, the system's structure is immature and incomplete.
Furthermore, it has infinite loopholes and undefined details. During this period, the system only generates some code and performs simple calculations, but the system does not control the direction the code takes, because their outcome will not change or affect the stability and balance of the system world.
Moreover, from the host's perspective, everyone the host comes into contact with is merely a virtual character. The expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on their faces are all calculated by the system and cannot be compared with living people.
The host should be more concerned about what will happen after this plot is triggered. The useless system cannot spoil the plot in advance, so please be patient.
After hearing the explanation from the Waste System, Su Qianqian calmed down a bit.
Because she didn't find such a plot when she was reading the novel, and the reason she read the novel was because it was a world of romance where most of the supporting characters were not very smart, just for fun. She didn't like reading heavy and painful plots. Reading novels was to make up for the unpleasant things in the real world.
The Waste System is right; this is just a virtual world and cannot be brought into reality.
But……
[Useless System: Let me tell you something, host—this plot twist was also unexpected for you, little waste. Perhaps you changed some plot points, leading to this possibility. So, what you'll face next are difficulties you couldn't have foreseen.]
Su Qianqian let out a long sigh.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be another of the system's elaborate schemes.
She knew it; unscrupulous bosses were the best at exploiting people.
How could she possibly appear here out of nowhere and inherit a huge fortune?
Su Qianqian is not a saint, nor does she have the right to be a saint.
In the original world, she was an orphan who survived through her own efforts from childhood to adulthood.
However, she did not allow herself to become extremely selfish.
She doesn't resent what she doesn't have, and she cherishes what she does have.
Moreover, she firmly believed that as long as she worked hard, she would eventually get what she wanted.
In the end, she achieved her goal. At least she had enough to eat, wear, and live in, and she didn't have to worry about survival. She also had a stable job and didn't have to struggle to make a living.
So Su Qianqian had seen so much suffering in the world, but she still hoped that, if possible, life wouldn't be so hard.
She was just an ordinary person with a little conscience and love.
However, Jiang Cuo also noticed that Su Qianqian was acting strangely.
Thinking back to the scene she witnessed at the school gate, Su Qianqian's first reaction was to turn around, cover her eyes, and whisper comforting her in her ear.
Jiang Cuo's heart stirred slightly.
Unexpectedly, even at that time, Su Qianqian was still thinking of her.
Does Su Qianqian like her that much?
However, halfway through the class, just as Su Qianqian had calmed herself down, someone stood at the classroom door.
Dean of Students: "Su Qianqian, Jiang Cuo, you two come out here for a moment."
The homeroom teacher was still teaching when the head of the academic affairs office called out to students, and the class instantly fell silent.
Everyone knows what happened this morning, but no one dares to speak up because it's such a big deal, and none of them can afford the consequences of talking about it.
The head of the teaching department looked grave. After speaking, he turned and left. Su Qianqian stood up with her head down and followed behind.
Jiang Cuo pursed her lips and followed. In the corridor, the director of the teaching affairs office left Su Qianqian several meters behind, while Jiang Cuo followed not far behind Su Qianqian.
Jiang Cuo was able to grasp the key points of the exam questions so accurately because she was good at observation, which allowed her to carefully perceive the changes in Su Qianqian's mood at that moment.
It was terribly wilted, completely lacking its usual sunny and cheerful demeanor, looking like a frostbitten eggplant.
As Su Qianqian walked, she felt her little finger being pulled.
She subconsciously turned around and saw Jiang Cuo standing behind her, hooking her index finger around her little finger, with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“This is not your fault. This has nothing to do with you. You are also a victim.”
Jiang Cuo's voice slowly reached Su Qianqian's ears.
Strangely enough, Jiang Cuo's words were usually cold and indifferent, but this last sentence from him made Su Qianqian feel extremely at ease.
Because someone told her for the first time that she was not wrong, that she was a victim.
In the original world, she had no parents and no one to support her. Even if there were mistakes that weren't hers, they would be pushed onto her and made her bear the responsibility.
Su Qianqian's expression relaxed considerably, and then she answered softly, "I understand... Jiang Jiang."
It's conceivable that even this seemingly flawed system, composed of data from the system, is not truly real...
"I've already told you, don't call me that at school..."
Upon arriving at the principal's office, the principal looked at Jiang Cuo and Su Qianqian with an apologetic expression.
"Don't be afraid. The principal called you here not to reprimand you, but to protect you. The principal has heard about what happened with that girl and knows it wasn't your fault. The principal just wants to know if you had any contact with that girl after school yesterday?"
Su Qianqian and Jiang Cuo shook their heads at the same time.
The principal stood outside the window, his face filled with worry.
"That's good. Don't worry, the principal won't let any public opinion affect you. You can focus on your studies from now on. After your homeroom teacher finishes class, the principal will find out more about the situation, and you can go back to class next period."
But Su Qianqian felt that things were not that simple.
Whenever the Waste System experiences a mental breakdown, it adds a line about something it doesn't know, but the main system does.
In other words, the Waste System might just be a small branch, like these plot points not recorded in that book.
Behind the waste system lies a much larger main system that governs the entire structure of this book.
Sure enough, Su Qianqian had only thought halfway through her plan when a middle-aged woman's heart-wrenching scream came from outside.
"Which of you is the principal? Come out here! You drove my daughter to the brink of suicide, and you're just sitting here so calmly. Murderers should pay with their lives, don't you know that?"
Su Qianqian and Jiang Cuo also went out the window to look and saw a middle-aged woman shouting wildly on the playground, with a boy carrying a schoolbag following behind her.
At this moment, the homeroom teacher also rushed over. "Principal, I asked the girl's parents to come over for a talk yesterday, but they didn't come this morning. Moreover, I clearly called the girl's mother last night, and she kept saying she agreed, but she didn't come this morning. The person on the playground is indeed the girl's mother. I have visited her home before and met her."
The middle-aged principal pushed up his glasses. "It's alright, no need to rush. Go and bring that parent to the principal's office."
"Su Qianqian and Jiang Cuo, you two go to your homeroom teacher's office and stay there. Don't wander off, and don't talk to strangers."
However, the girl's mother did not give Su Qianqian and Jiang Cuo a chance to leave.
They stormed into the principal's office with great momentum.
The boy followed behind her, holding several pieces of paper and handing them to his mother. "Mom, take this quickly. This is my sister's will. It's written very clearly on it. Tell them what it says, and don't let them mislead you."
The woman seemed to suddenly realize something, took the things her son handed her, and muttered to herself, "Luckily I didn't go this morning, otherwise I wouldn't have known that the school treated my daughter like this. They didn't even tell me beforehand that something like this happened. If someone hadn't called me, I wouldn't have known. They tried to cover it up. What a lousy school, ugh."
The woman kicked open the principal's office door and scanned the room with her eyes.
Finally, the blow landed on Su Qianqian, and then he glared fiercely at her, walked towards her, raised his hand, and pretended to slap her.
At this moment, Su Lian suddenly appeared out of nowhere and ran in front of Su Qianqian. A crisp slapping sound rang out, but it was Su Lian who got slapped.
Su Lian covered her face, which was red from being slapped, and stood in front of Su Qianqian.
The homeroom teacher stepped in front of his student and looked at the girl's mother, saying, "Ms. Parent, I have great sympathy for what happened to your child, but you can't just start hitting people. Let's talk this out. The matter is still under investigation. How can you act so impulsively and hurt my student?"
When the woman saw that the school had no intention of compensating her and instead told her to wait, she immediately became unhappy. "What are you making me wait for? My daughter is gone! In her suicide note, she clearly wrote that you withheld her scholarship money. And this Su Qianqian, she made my daughter isolate you at this school. As teachers and principals, no one has ever explained the situation to me. You even tried to hide it. Is this how teachers should act?"
The teacher frowned. "Parent, I called you last night and asked you to come in for a talk with your daughter today. Why didn't you come with her?"
Upon hearing the teacher's question, the woman immediately glared at him, trying to hide her guilty conscience. "Don't give me that nonsense. You just want to avoid compensation, don't you? Let me tell you, it's no use who comes. Nobody's leaving here today without a million."
The moment the woman uttered the phrase "a million," a coldness appeared on the principal's face.
"Excuse me, parent, I am the principal of this school. Do you see that thing hanging on your left wall?"
As the principal spoke, he pointed to the camera on the wall and said to the woman, “There are cameras in my room. Everything you say and do will be clearly recorded.”
Hearing the principal say that, the woman's arrogance immediately diminished, but after glancing at what she was holding, she slammed it on the principal's desk.
"Don't try to scare me just because I'm from the countryside. Look at this yourselves. This is what my daughter wrote this morning, clearly documenting your evil deeds. You still want to deny it to me?"
However, just as the principal was about to pick up the papers, the woman quickly snatched them back.
“You’re a principal, yet you wear glasses. Is your eyesight really that bad? You insist on holding them in your hands to look at them. How am I supposed to know if you’re going to tear these papers up? These are the last things my daughter left me. If you tear them up and deny them, who am I supposed to complain to?”
"What kind of mother is this? Instead of grieving for her deceased daughter, she comes to the school demanding money." The homeroom teacher's eyes were also filled with anger.
“I’ve been to your house before and made a home visit. You clearly favor boys over girls and don’t care about your daughter’s feelings at all. Every time she receives her scholarship, she goes back to buy things for your son. This girl has complained to me more than once, and I’m powerless to change anything. How could she write that the school is withholding her scholarship? Besides, this time she didn’t even make it into the top ten, but ranked over three hundredth. I called you here to discuss your daughter’s studies, but you didn’t even show up this morning.”
"Fine, so this is the true face of a school, shifting all the blame onto others. You think you can bully ordinary people like us? Fine, I'll find some reporters and let everyone see what your school is really like."
By this time, the sound of ambulances on campus had disappeared.
Several police officers appeared in the principal's office.
Upon seeing the police, the woman became visibly flustered again, crumpling the few pieces of paper in her hand into a ball and clutching them in her palm.
The woman clearly didn't expect the school to actually call the police. After all, the school would be the most guilty party in such a situation, and it would definitely try to protect its reputation by settling the matter privately.
That's why she was so confident today, coming over so aggressively to settle scores with the school.
"Don't give me that useless advice... My daughter even wrote that it was Su Qianqian from your class who bullied her and made her isolated by the whole class. Su Qianqian, right? Your family is rich, right? Just because you're rich means you can bully honest people, right? Don't hide behind your classmates, come out here! The police are here now, tell me the truth, or they'll arrest you and put you in jail."
The woman's cloudy eyes darted around.
Su Qianqian's family is wealthy, and she's heard that Su Qianqian's parents divorced a long time ago, so no one cares about her anymore. She wants to get some benefits and ask for some compensation. She'll definitely scare her into giving it to them obediently.
Since the police are present, the school certainly won't give in easily. She's determined to get the money, and she doesn't care who pays for it.
Su Qianqian sensed that Jiang Cuo had moved slightly, intending to block her way, but before Jiang Cuo could make a move, the police had already taken action.
"This is a school. Don't cause trouble here. Talk things out and don't scare the students."
After the police spoke up, the woman had no choice but to behave herself.