When the principal heard Young Marshal Mu mentioned, he turned and looked at him expectantly.
As long as Young Marshal Mu was on board, there couldn't be any insoluble problems.
Yun Xi's proposal was good. Not only would it prevent the school's reputation from being damaged, but it would also avoid having the students' learning motivations be affected.
This matter could be handled as a big problem or a small problem. If it wasn't handled correctly, everyone would be negatively affected.
"Right, right, right...Yun Xi is right. This matter really needs to be handled carefully."
Yun Xi turned and pulled at Mu Feichi's sleeves. With her eyes narrowed, she asked with a smile, "Young Marshal Mu, I will also be affected by this incident. I want to make sure my name stays out of it, okay?"
Mu Feichi tilted his head as he looked at the little rascal sitting beside him. His dark eyes looked into her pleading eyes that were as cute as a kitten's. Every flutter of her eyes felt like a feather tickling his heart.
His heart ached slightly.
He wanted nothing more than for his little rascal to ask him for help, so now that she had asked, what reason did he have not to agree?
"We will keep you out of it. As for my favour..."
"...I'll be forever indebted to you." Annoyed that this guy was trying to take advantage of her in front of her homeroom teacher and her principal, Yun Xi scowled.
But she didn't have the guts to lose her temper at Mu Feichi in front of the two of them, so she could only hold it in.
Seeing how obedient she was being, Mu Fei nodded in satisfaction. Then he turned to look at Qi Yuan, who was beside him. "You go through the formalities with the principal and Mr Xu. This matter must be handled in a low-key manner. For any other follow-ups, the principal will need to give me an explanation."
"Yes, yes, we know what to do. We won't let you down."
Suppressing this matter was definitely the best option for Jing High School. However, the prerequisite was that Young Marshal Mu had to agree, otherwise nothing would matter.
Fortunately, he had agreed.
The principal glanced at Yun Xi and Mu Feichi. He had a pretty good idea who the big shot taking care of the transfer student Yun Xi was.
Coupled with everything that had been revealed to them today, they would have to pamper Yun Xi from now on.
Qi Yuan took the principal and Mr Xu downstairs to work out all the formalities. Yun Xi glared at Mu Feichi, but Mu Feichi ignored her and stretched out his hand to walk with her.
"Go on, I'll take you in to show off."
Of course, Yun Xi understood what he meant and said angrily, "Do you want me to be the fox using the tiger to intimidate others?"
"Isn't it the same thing?"
"Young Marshal Mu, are you trying to say that I need to ride on your head to intimidate others?"
"Haven't I always let you ride on my head?"
He'd spoiled her so much that she now had the balls to ride on his head, so what else could he say? He had to accept his fate.
"..." They couldn't communicate on this issue.
Or rather, the immature side of Young Marshal Mu didn't know how to communicate with her.
...
Through the bars, Yun Xi looked at Li Sinuo, who was sitting on the ground with a haggard, embarrassed expression. She probably hadn't slept very well because she'd been interrogated all night.
If she had been able to fall asleep at this time, it would have been extraordinary.
"Li Sinuo." Standing by the bars, Yun Xi called out to her.
Upon hearing her voice, Li Sinuo suddenly raised her head. When she saw that it was Yun Xi, she got up from the ground really fast and rushed to the bars.
"Yun Xi...Yun Xi, please save me. I really didn't do anything. Those things had nothing to do with me. I really didn't know anything... It was all Lin Sen's doing, and it had nothing to do with me..."
"You didn't put poison in my cup or poison Yumo?"
"I...I...I wasn't in my right mind at the time. I didn't even know what it was. If I had known, I definitely wouldn't have done it..."
"No, I know that you definitely would do it again. You knew what fatal harm and consequences it would bring. You knew very clearly how serious it was. After all, the consequences could have been devastating to me. Getting rid of me would have done you no harm and in fact, would have been good for you. That is what you wished for the most. You wouldn't have shown any hesitation."
"No...you're wrong. I wouldn't have. Believe me! As long as you help me this time, I will never be your enemy again. I promise."
"Why should I help you? Free a time bomb that threatens me and risk all that trouble? Do I look that stupid?"
Her clear eyes gleamed with a cold light as she sneered. "Li Sinuo, you deserve everything that has happened to you today and in the future. From the beginning, I gave you a chance, but you didn't appreciate it. Don't expect me to save you now."
"Yun Xi, please help me! No one can help me except you. I don't want to go to jail. I have to go to college..."
After an entire night of worrying with her imagination running wild, Li Sinuo had thought about all the various consequences and various endings that were awaiting her, and she couldn't accept any of them.
Turning her head abruptly, she looked at the dignified man standing behind Yun Xi, exuding the extraordinary aura of his blue-blooded background.
She knew who it was without even asking. Since Yun Xi refused to help her, she decided to place all her hopes on that man.
"Young Marshal Mu...Young Marshal Mu, please help me... I don't want to go to jail. I swear I did nothing. I'm innocent... Please let me go..."
His sharp eyes seemed to be able to see right through her. Mu Feichi raised his cold eyes and his voice didn't contain the slightest emotion. "There's no use in begging me. I listen to her."
"..." Li Sinuo didn't give up. At this time, she couldn't have cared less about her self-esteem or pride. As long as she could get out of jail, she didn't care about anything else.
After all, things were different this time. This case involved drugs, so her entire life would basically be ruined.
"Yun Xi, please, as long as you help me this time, I'm willing to do anything you ask me to do, please..."
"You chose this path yourself. I can't help you."
Yun Xi looked at Li Sinuo coldly. She had probably never expected such a day to come.
She had used Li Sinuo's own methods against her, and then made Lin Sen the scapegoat while she'd reaped all the benefits.
Not only would Li Sinuo be unable to get rid of the shame of being incriminated in drugs, but she also couldn't implicate Yun Xi in anything, so Yun Xi was basically killing two birds with one stone.
"Let's go." Mu Feichi stretched out his hand and pulled on Yun Xi's arm.
Behind them, Li Sinuo stretched out her hands from between the bars and yelled with all her strength, "Yun Xi, please help me! Please..."
Yun Xi didn't turn around. Even though the crying and pleading behind her were extremely pitiful and miserable, she wasn't moved at all.
To be kind to one's enemy was to be cruel to oneself. Li Sinuo was a person who would never repent and had no bottom line. Even if she let her go this time, she would still scheme against her if she had the opportunity in the future.
In that case, Yun Xi wouldn't be rescuing someone, but cultivating an enemy for herself.
Although she was kindhearted, she wasn't that stupid.
After experiencing the extremes of human nature in her previous life, she knew better than anyone who could be helped and who couldn't be helped.
After being reborn, she was determined that she wouldn't act stupidly ever again.
Leaving the jail, Yun Xi looked up at the bright sunshine above her head, squinting slightly.
It was rare to have such an abundance of good sunshine in the middle of winter. Although the road was covered with snow, the sunlight shining on her body gave her a bit of warmth.
Compared to the cold of Muyang Town, Jingdu was much warmer, and it had heating everywhere.
The dry warmth made her feel very comfortable.
Now that she had embarked on the road to revenge, there was no chance that she was ever going to look back.
Even if she was damned to perdition, she would never stop.
She'd closed her eyes to soak up the sun. Now, before she'd opened her eyes, she caught a whiff of Mu Feichi's faint scent of mint.
She slowly raised her head. Blinking, she snapped back to reality.
"Young Marshal Mu, what are you doing?" His cold, handsome face was looking at her, reflected in her clear dazzling eyes.
Mu Feichi sighed. In reality, he couldn't explain what he was doing. It was just that when he'd watched her countenance as she was daydreaming, he'd suddenly felt a little anguished.
His little wildcat should be living happily and innocently, instead of doing things she didn't want to do like during the last few days.
"The sky won't fall, since there's always me."
His deep eyes were filled with gentleness, and he raised his hand and caressed her head.
"Are you frightened by my vicious methods?"
Mu Feichi chuckled. "Those little tricks of yours aren't vicious. If it were me, I wouldn't be as mercifully softhearted as you are."
She understood what he meant. She smiled and said nothing.
"Okay, let's go. I'll take you back to class. Naturally, someone will take care of things here, so you don't need to worry about it any further."
Yun Xi nodded and followed him to the car.
...
News of Li Sinuo's expulsion quickly spread throughout the senior grade. No one was able to find any real information, and they only knew that she had gotten expelled from school because she'd made a serious mistake.
After repeating the year and getting expelled at the most critical time, she definitely wouldn't be able to take the college entrance exam, so her future was probably ruined as well.
Teachers of the various subjects didn't know the inside story so they all felt sorry for Li Sinuo, but Mr Xu, who knew the inside story as her homeroom teacher, said nothing.
This was the result the school had wanted. Even without Li Sinuo, he still had Yun Xi. As long as Yun Xi could become the top scorer on the college entrance exam, he, her homeroom teacher, would also get a share of the glory.
As soon as Li Sinuo's scandal was exposed, Zhou Chengzhe approached Yun Xi and inexplicably accused Yun Xi of manipulatively meddling in the matter somehow.
Yun Xi didn't deny or admit it. She chuckled lightly and asked Zhou Chengzhe to show her some evidence. If he couldn't show her any evidence, she could accuse him of slandering her.
After Zhou Chengzhe had lost the biology competition, his image as the teacher's pet wasn't as good as it had been before. He didn't dare to incur trouble for himself because of an insignificant person like Li Sinuo, so he left it alone.
Yun Xi was in a good mood. She sent a message to Zhao Yumo to come to school for class. After she had pretended to be sick for so long to fool their enemy, she really would fall behind in her studies if she didn't start coming back to school right away.
As soon as school ended that day, Han Yaotian called Yun Xi and apologized to her for what had happened.
Yun Xi knew that he wanted news about Lin Sen, but she didn't have the energy to talk to him, so she hung up the phone after a short conversation.
She took the bus home and was three stops away from where she got off the bus when she looked up to see that a cup of hot chocolate was being handed to her.
She raised her head and glanced at the man sitting next to her. She froze a little, then smiled at him. She took the hot chocolate he'd handed over and said, "Thank you".
Feng Yang tilted his head and glanced at her. "After what happened last night, are you okay?"
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Yun Xi didn't understand what he meant and looked at him in confusion.
"Didn't Young Marshal Mu catch Lin Sen last night? You were right on the front lines of the operation. He really wasn't protecting you very well."
Yun Xi smiled and said lightly, "You're really very well-informed. Can't you see I'm okay?"
"I'm very glad that you're okay, but don't be so reckless next time."
After a pause, Feng Yang took out a few pieces of tissue from his pocket and handed them to her. "Your mom is coming back today. The Su family is going to lower the pressure on your dad, but you be careful."
The bus stopped at the entrance to the villa complex's courtyard. Feng Yang walked with Yun Xi since they were neighbours. They paused near the entrance of her house.
"Please thank Su Ximan for me for helping take care of my dad."
She really didn't want to become the enemy of a clever, haughty heiress like Su Ximan. It wasn't that she couldn't beat her, but it would be a lot of trouble.
The family behind Su Ximan gave her extremely strong backing.
Yun Xi not only didn't have a strong family backing her up, but she had a large number of family members who were dragging her down.
Even with her extraordinary methods, the lack of a strong family backing, compared to Su Ximan, put her already way behind at the starting line.
Feng Yang understood her reasoning, and his sullen, handsome face looked amused.
"After all the trouble she's caused you, you still want to thank her?"
"Yes." Yun Xi smiled. "Thank you too for helping me so much."
"It was nothing. However, will your mother's return affect you?"
Her face relaxed and indifferent, Yun Xi shrugged with a half-hearted smile. "Are you still worried that I could suffer at the hands of my mother?"
Thinking about the last time they'd worked together, Feng Yang was no longer worried. He nodded and handed a business card over to her. "If you ever need help, call me."
Yun Xi took his business card and looked at it. There were only names and phone numbers on the black business card. There were no job descriptions, addresses, or titles. It couldn't be simpler.
She couldn't help being a little curious. After all, she didn't know what industry Feng Yang was in.
"I'm actually curious about what you do."
Since he was very well-informed, it was obvious that he didn't work in an ordinary industry.
Moreover, unlike what the outside world said about him, he probably wasn't in the bodyguard industry either.
If he was a bodyguard, he wouldn't have so much spare time to turn up in front of her randomly all the time.
"Which industry do you think I'm in?" Feng Yang raised his eyebrows and asked in return without changing his expression.
"I can't guess. I thought you were a bodyguard once, then I felt like you were working in a company, but now I don't think it's either one."
Feng Yang's eyes darkened as he looked at her, and he didn't say anything directly. "Since it's neither, it means that it isn't time to tell you yet. I will tell you later when I have the chance."
"Okay." Yun Xi didn't ask any further questions. She turned around and entered the Yun family house.
Standing at the door of the house with her expression indifferent and calm, Yun Xi looked around at the house in front of her.
Since her mother was back, this family probably would no longer be peaceful in the future.
After stepping into the living room, Yun Xi glanced at the people who were sitting there. Liang Xiuqin had come home, so everyone was there to greet her.
Both her second uncle and her second aunt were there. Yun Yuanfeng and her grandfather were sitting on the sofa, and they looked up at her when they saw her come home.
Liang Xiuqin also glanced over. She had been living outside the villa complex for more than a month. She had been fine when she didn't see that scourge Yun Xi, but when Liang Xiuqin saw Yun Xi, it reminded her of all the hardships she had suffered during this period of time, and her good mood was completely ruined.
With a cold snort, her eyes shot daggers at Yun Xi.
She had ended up suffering all because of that wretched girl. If it hadn't been for her, she wouldn't have become like this.
After her club was destroyed, no one came to patronize it anymore for fear that she had offended someone and they would get dragged into her mess as well. All she had left were her savings.
Also, the fact that Yao Ying had seized control of the family, losing her such a large amount of income that now she was basically broke.
Sitting on the sofa, Liang Xinyi finally had the rare opportunity to feel smug. At this moment, she looked at Yun Xi condescendingly.
Yun Xi had never understood where Liang Xinyi's superiority complex came from.
Since Liang Xiuqin had come back, Yun Ziling felt a little bit happy at the moment, and her expression was also smug.
Yun Xi changed her shoes in the hallway, then with cold eyes she looked at the group of people on the sofa.
The look on everyone's face was different. It was simply amusing and entertaining.
After chuckling to herself, Yun Xi put on a smiley face that covered up her true emotions. After saying hello to her second uncle and her second aunt, she looked at Liang Xiuqin, who had been glaring at her.
"Oh, Mom is back!" Yun Xi smiled, then turned to look at Yun Yuanfeng and asked meaningfully, "Dad, you agreed to let Mom come back? Has the situation with the Su family been resolved? Where's Grandfather Feng? Have you given him a heads-up yet?"
Before Yun Yuanfeng could answer her, Liang Xiuqin stood up angrily.
"Wretched girl, what do you mean? You just can't stand me coming back, can you? If you're really so unhappy to see me, then go back to the countryside. Then I won't have to see this eyesore, and you won't be able to jinx me again."
Seeing that her mother hadn't changed her ways at all, Yun Xi sneered and felt amused.
After being banished from the house for a month, she hadn't changed at all. She had thought that her mother would have been able to think things through while living outside for a month and try to be more low key. Now she realized that she had really overestimated her mother.
"Mom, I wasn't even talking to you, so why are you so anxious? I don't have any problem with you coming back, but we at least have to give the Feng family a heads-up. After all, they live in the same villa complex as we do so it's inevitable that we will encounter them at some point. If Madame Feng is unwilling to let bygones be bygones, I'm afraid we'll all have to live on the streets."
"You..." Liang Xiuqin's expression changed. From the fear that he would really drive her out for this, she suddenly turned her head to look at Yun Yuanfeng.
After all, for her to be able to return to the villa complex, in addition to getting help from Liang Xinyi to resolve the crisis with the Su family, she had also needed Yun Yuanfeng to humble himself by pleading with the Feng family.
"Yun Xi, we're all a family. Your mother and I aren't divorced, so we can't keep making her life outside the home. Others would think that our relationship has soured and that we're going to divorce. It wouldn't be good for any of us if people outside started to gossip.
Although Yun Yuanfeng had had the idea of divorcing her, it was the critical time of his promotion at the moment. Family harmony was also a criterion for judging personal qualities. Naturally, he wouldn't burn bridges with Liang Xiuqin at this time.
Yun Yuanfeng felt it was his decision when Liang Xiuqin returned. He would only ask Yun Xi if he wanted to be on her good side or he needed her for something.
With Yun Yuanfeng's selfish temperament, he couldn't care about Yun Xi's feelings.
Yun Xi raised her eyebrows and deliberately played dumb, asking, "So, what do you plan to do, Dad?"
"I heard that you're tutoring the Feng family's heiress. Can you tell them about your mother's return? After all, we are a family, and no one would want a family to break up. I believe that Madame Feng is benevolent and won't hold a grudge against us."
He really couldn't bear the humiliation of personally going to the Feng family to beg Madame Feng, and, even if he did, they might not give him the time of day.
But Yun Xi was different. She had a good relationship with the Feng family's heiress. As long as the Feng family's heiress was willing to put in a good word for her, Madame Feng definitely would oblige.
"Since it was Dad who agreed to let Mom come back, it would be more appropriate for Dad to talk to Madame Feng. It not only would show that you two have deep feelings for each other but would also show that Dad feels apologetic about what Mom did. If Madame sees that Mom has repented and that Dad is sincere, she might let bygones be bygones.
Yun Xi calmly kicked the ball back to Yun Yuanfeng, as she turned to look at Liang Xiuqin, continuing to play dumb.
After all, she had been oppressed by her mother, and he still hoped for her to put in a good word for them. Her father was fooling himself.
But she was not that stupid and not that easy to manipulate.
Liang Xinyi wanted her mother to come back since it would benefit her and her schemes.
But she simply couldn't let bygones be bygones.
They wanted to ask her for help, right? So how could there be no conditions?
"Yun Xi, you also know Madame Feng. Although she lives in the same villa complex as we do, she isn't willing to see just anyone. Because of this incident with your mother, Madame would never willingly see us. You're different since you can enter their house."