Quick Transmigration: Kitten's Healing Handbook - Chapter 72

Chapter 72: Light In The Cracks 5

Lin Yao ultimately chose to stay home. Whether returning to school and being bullied by many people or staying home and being pressured by relatives was painful, but at home, at least she could hide in her own room, at least there was a place where she could escape.

During the Tuesday lunch break, Lin Yao was about to go to the dining hall to get some free white rice and seaweed egg drop soup, but she was stopped by Xu Qiuran, who pulled her to a blind spot of surveillance: “I heard you gave your brother a 200-dollar red envelope for his birthday. I didn’t realize, you look so poor, and yet you can come up with 200 dollars. ”

Lin Yao lowered her head in silence. L City isn’t large; there are only a few good schools. It’s not surprising that children with brothers, sisters, or relatives’ families attend the same school or even the same class as her brother.

“When I first heard about it, I didn’t believe it. Lin Chen is known for being generous at school. How did he end up with such a poor sister as you? By the way, do you want to know what your brother says about you at school? ”

A ripple appeared in Lin Yao’s mood, but it quickly returned to dead silence. It wouldn’t be anything good…

Facing the silent Lin Yao, Xu Qiuran felt uneasy. She had her young ladies grab Lin Yao’s hair and pull it back, forcing her to look at her: “Your brother says you’re very stingy. For your birthday, you only gave him 200 dollars and a pile of dusty old notes. The notes were so dirty that he didn’t even want to touch them; he threw them away directly. He said that 200 dollars wasn’t enough for him to treat his classmates to milk tea.

Tsk tsk tsk, poor Lin Yao. It’s not that your family doesn’t have money, it’s that you don’t have money, hahaha!

What’s the use of giving your brother money? You don’t get a kind word in return. Why not give this Miss 200 dollars? I’ll be magnanimous and not bully you for the next week—no, that’s too long—for the next two days. ”

Lin Yao was forced to look at Xu Qiuran. Because of the pain of her hair being pulled, tears welled up in her eyes: “Xu Qiuran, you know I don’t have any money, really. ”

Xu Qiuran raised her eyebrows, looking at the handprint on Lin Yao’s face that hadn’t faded yet. She slapped her again on the still-swollen area: “Will you give it to me nicely, or should I have someone search your schoolbag and beat you up to take it? ”

“That’s all the money I have left for this semester’s meals, Xu Qiuran, please, let me go… ”

Xu Qiuran slapped her again: “See? You really do have money, and you still dare to lie to me! You’re asking for it. It’s none of my business whether you have food to eat. Give me the money! ”

Lin Yao naturally didn’t dare to keep the money in her schoolbag. For her, the classroom was the most unsafe place, but even if she carried it with her, she still couldn’t keep her remaining living expenses…

Lin Yao took the money from her small cloth pouch and was immediately grabbed by Xu Qiuran.

Xu Qiuran directly took the two large bills, and threw the remaining ten and twenty dollar coins on the ground: “Charity from you. ”

After Xu Qiuran left with her friends, Lin Yao squatted down and picked up the scattered change, one by one, putting it away. The pain on her face, lunch was impossible…

Worried about encountering Xu Qiuran again in the dormitory, Lin Yao could only go to the rooftop of the classroom building to hide for the afternoon. From the heights, she looked at the noise in the school, the classmates chatting and playing shoulder to shoulder, or sweating on the playground. Such a normal learning life was so far away from her, so far that if she jumped down from here, could she join these classmates…?

On the eve of the math competition, she was stopped by Xu Qiuran again on her way back to the dormitory after school: “Good student, the math competition is about to begin. Remember to give me the prize money. ”

Lin Yao had been eating only free white rice and soup for a month, and the tuition fees for the private high school were very expensive. Relying solely on scholarships, she might not be able to pay her tuition fees for the second half of the year…

“Xu Qiuran, if you want the prize money from the competition, you can work hard yourself. ”

“Oh, you’re learning to talk back! One word, are you giving it or not? ”

Lin Yao clutched the hem of her school uniform. After a long while, she trembled and said, “No. ”

“Heh, you’ve got some unexpected backbone. Since I can’t get the money, you won’t get it either. ”

Before Lin Yao could react, a cloth was stuffed into her mouth, and she was dragged to the spare equipment room for physical education, tied up, and thrown into the warehouse. As the door slowly closed and locked, the last bit of light in the warehouse disappeared.

Unless old sports equipment is broken and there is no new equipment to replace it, no one will come to the spare equipment room to get equipment. Usually, no one comes here…

In the dark environment, Lin Yao couldn’t even perceive the passage of time. If it ended like this, wouldn’t it be a kind of liberation…?

Lin Yao undoubtedly missed the math competition. For two whole days, Lin Yao didn’t show up for class, wasn’t in the dormitory, and didn’t go home, even after her parents were contacted, so the head teacher started to panic. These students wouldn’t be so excessive as to kill someone, would they!

Xu Qiuran was uneasy. When questioned as a classmate in the same dormitory, she naturally knew nothing. The head teacher was so anxious that she was about to call the police when a classmate from the next class provided a clue: “I remember seeing someone pull Lin Yao away two days ago, towards the playground. ”

The head teacher didn’t want to ask more questions. It was the students with good family backgrounds in the class who did it, and as long as no one died, everything was not a problem.

The head teacher and other teachers who didn’t have classes searched the playground and its surroundings. When a teacher saw that the spare equipment room was locked, she immediately realized that the person might be inside, and the lock was clearly not the same type as the school’s standard purchases: “Quick! Someone go find the security guard for lock-picking tools! ”

The teacher knocked on the door of the spare equipment room: “Lin Yao! Are you in there! Lin Yao! Are you in there! ”

Lin Yao’s nutrition had been poor for over a month due to the extremely poor food, and now she had gone two full days without food or water. Her consciousness was already blurry.

She seemed to hear someone calling her name. The instinct to survive made her want to respond, but her mouth, stuffed with a cloth, was already numb and swollen, making it difficult to breathe, let alone make a sound…

Gradually, she couldn’t hear the sounds from outside anymore. Did the people who came to save her leave? Was she going to die…?

The lock was cut with bolt cutters. The moment the door opened, light came in, but what Lin Yao felt was not warmth, but a glaring light that seemed to burn her.

Lin Yao only felt a flash of white light before her eyes, and she completely lost consciousness. She should have been saved, but at this moment, she felt some regret, that her suffering did not end at this moment.

When Lin Yao woke up, she was in the hospital. Headmaster Liu Youcai was sitting beside her. When he saw that Lin Yao was awake, he started to lecture her: “The children nowadays are really fragile mentally. I heard from the doctor that you have self-harm behavior. Is a little scuffle between classmates really necessary? “