Chapter 47: Lynching

Lin Xiaomei grabbed Yu Yuhui’s collar and dragged her out of the classroom.
The corridor during lunch break was not empty.
There were students who had just returned from the washroom, men and women leaning on the railings chatting in groups of three or four, and a few girls who had just come out of the toilet.
When they saw this scene, they subconsciously stopped and pointed at them.
Lin Xiaomei seemed not to notice these gazes, but instead deliberately slowed down her pace.
“What’s wrong? Aren’t you good at talking?” She whispered in Yu Yuhui’s ear, breathing in a smug tone, “Why don’t you say anything now?”
Yu Yuhui didn’t answer, but just let her drag her.
When they walked to the center of the corridor and became the focus of most attention, a voice that was so calm that it was creepy came from behind Lin Xiaomei.
“You could actually… go a little further, right?”
Lin Xiaomei’s footsteps stopped instantly.
She turned around in disbelief.
She saw that the girl she was pulling behind had an encouraging smile on her face.
“Ha?”
“For example,” Yu Yuhui glanced at the students who were watching, “You can push me to the ground and pull my hair. Or tear my clothes.”
“That way, they’ll look… a little more excited.”
“You fucking…” Lin Xiaomei looked at her serious expression and felt like a complete clown.
“Or…” Yu Yuhui tilted her head, “Let’s change the angle.”
“What if I ask you to kneel down and lick my shoes in front of everyone?”
“Can you do it?”
“What the hell are you talking about!” Lin Xiaomei was startled by her words, and the strength in her hands loosened a little.
Yu Yuhui looked at her expression of shock and anger, and a smile of sudden enlightenment appeared on her face.
“Ah, it seems not.”
She nodded as if she had come to some interesting experimental conclusion.
Then, her eyes suddenly became sharp.
“What if it was Xiahou Ming who asked you to do this?”
Lin Xiaomei’s breathing suddenly stopped.
Uncontrollably, that image emerged in her mind—
Xiahou Ming looked down at her with a condescending look, and then gave her that… humiliating order.
Her cheeks instantly burned.
A shiver of fear and excitement ran up her spine and up to her head.
Yu Yuhui looked at her instantly flushed face, her unfocused eyes, her slightly parted lips.
She looked like an adolescent girl completely lost in her own fantasy.
A satisfied smile appeared on her face.
She leaned close to Lin Xiaomei’s ear and put a final end to her fantasy:
“In that case, you will definitely feel… comfortable, right?”
“I… I didn’t!”
Lin Xiaomei suddenly came to her senses and retorted almost screaming.
She didn’t say another word, but just pulled Yu Yuhui and turned into the women’s restroom.
With a “bang”, Lin Xiaomei locked the rickety wooden door of the toilet from the inside.
The dirty, damp air filled with the smell of disinfectant instantly enveloped them.
She threw Yu Yuhui hard against the stained tile wall.
“There’s no one here now!” She grabbed Yu Yuhui’s hair and pressed her cheek hard against the cold, damp wall. “Can you tell me now?”
Bang!
Lin Xiaomei clenched her other hand into a fist and slammed it hard on the wall next to Yu Yuhui’s ear, making a dull thud and shaking off several pieces of peeling wall paint.
“What on earth did you do to her!?”
Yu Yuhui didn’t say anything.
Her breathing was a little rapid due to the oppression, but her eyes still looked at Lin Xiaomei calmly through the blurry reflection of the water stains on the wall.
“Are you dumb?” Lin Xiaomei sneered, and the strength in her hands increased. “Do you still think that talking to someone like me is dirtying your mouth?”
She suddenly turned Yu Yuhui’s body around, so that her back was against the wall and she was facing herself.
Bang!
This time, her fist no longer hit the wall, but hit Yu Yuhui’s lower abdomen hard.
Because of the sudden severe pain, Yu Yuhui’s body suddenly arched forward, and she let out a suppressed groan, with fine cold sweat instantly seeping out of her forehead.
“What? Do you feel pain now?”
Lin Xiaomei was breathing heavily.
Looking at her painful appearance, there was no trace of victory on her face, but a deeper irritation.
“A guy like you who only knows how to hide behind others and use dirty tricks… you’ve definitely never been beaten like this before, right?”
Bang!
She punched again, hitting the same spot.
Yu Yuhui’s body, like a broken shrimp, curled up even tighter.
“I’m telling you, Yu Yuhui,” she gritted her teeth, speaking slowly, “don’t think I don’t know what you’re thinking. Don’t you just want to turn her into a monster like you?”
Bang!
“Do you know… how much I hate you like this…”
She was like a madman, throwing punch after punch, pouring all her anger into Yu Yuhui’s thin body.
“It’s all because of you… it’s all because of you, you monster… that’s why she became like that…”
“Only then… will I forget who I am…”
Her voice, from anger at first, gradually became tearful.
“Why…?”
Her fist landed weakly on Yu Yuhui’s body.
“Why is it that you can do it but I can’t…?”
She asked, sobbing.
“Why do you do that?!”
“Why do you let her follow you like a dog!?”
“Why do you think you can do this to her? Ask her to prepare your lunch box! Ask her to search everywhere for you!?”
“That spot… that spot… should clearly be mine…”
By the end of her speech, she was sobbing, and the rain-like punches turned into a series of soft beatings.
She looked at the woman in front of her who allowed herself to be beaten and endured it silently from beginning to end, and finally broke down completely.
She stopped, supported herself on the wall with her hands, and gasped violently, tears and sweat mixed together and dripped from her chin.
Yu Yuhui stood up with difficulty.
She raised her head and looked at the girl in front of her, whose mind and body were at the limit.
“Lin Xiaomei, you really… are not suitable for hitting others.”
Lin Xiaomei suddenly raised her head and looked at her in disbelief.
Yu Yuhui looked at her like she was a bit bored, and lightly added one last blow:
“Ling Yicai should have come by herself.”
Then, Yu Yuhui’s head tilted slightly without leaving any trace.
The corner of her mouth gently touched the faucet beside her.
A trickle of blood immediately seeped out slowly from the corner of her pale lips.
Lin Xiaomei was awakened by the glaring red color.
She looked at Yu Yuhui, at her face which was slightly pale due to pain, but her eyes still showed contempt.
She failed.
Yu Yuhui slowly stood up.
She extended her tongue and gently licked the blood on her lips.
“Go back and tell her it was you who did it.”
“I’ll wait and see,” she said, a smile full of anticipation on her lips, “what she’ll do to you.”
After saying that, she straightened her messed collar as if nothing had happened, calmly walked past the distraught Lin Xiaomei, and left the dirty toilet.
Lin Xiaomei was left alone, standing there.
She looked at her slightly trembling hands, and then at the blurry reflection on the wall.
Finally, she raised her hand suddenly and punched the cubicle door beside her with all her strength.
“Bang—!”