Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 132 Encouraging the Emperor to Take Action Again

Li Kaiyang's words shocked everyone in the class, causing the entire classroom to fall into a brief silence.

We hear about rescues every day, but many people are encountering a rescuer right next to them for the first time.

Everyone looked at Han Zhou eagerly, wanting to confirm whether what Li Kaiyang had just said was true. Chen Long's eyes widened, and he asked in a loud voice, "Holy crap, is it true? You were actually injured while saving someone?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was also surprised and looked at Han Zhou in disbelief, feeling that she might need to get to know this guy again.

Faced with everyone's eager gaze, even Han Zhou, with his thick skin, felt a little uncomfortable. However, there was nothing wrong with admitting it, so he replied, "I did save a child, and that's when I injured my hand."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Kaiyang became excited and said with great enthusiasm, "I knew it was you! I wanted to get to know you that day, but you guys walked too fast and I was blocked by a group of people so I couldn't catch up. I could only watch you walk away."

He became more and more excited as he spoke, and finally rushed off the podium and excitedly came to Han Zhou. "I remember there were two girls with you at that time. They were all very young and dragging suitcases. I was wondering if you were also from Lincheng University. I didn't expect that you were not only in this school, but also in the same class as me. What a coincidence!"

He was breathing rapidly, looking like a fanatical fan; anyone who didn't know better would think he was facing not a classmate he had just met, but a popular celebrity.

Xiao Xiaoxiao pushed him away a little with an annoyed look on her face. This guy was too close. Didn't he see that there was another person here?
She listened intently, then slowly unscrewed the thermos she had brought and took a sip of water.

"Brilliant!"

Chen Long first gave Han Zhou a thumbs up, then looked at Li Kaiyang and asked curiously, "Hey buddy, Han Zhou is really good at saving people, but you don't need to be so excited, do you think the child he saved is your relative?"

The last sentence was obviously a joke, but this guy's fanatical behavior was indeed a bit abnormal.

Li Kaiyang first shook his head, then nodded, his expression changing several times. He said with a hint of shame, "You know what, I found out afterward that the child is actually related to me by blood. It seems to be the child of the sister-in-law's brother-in-law's daughter's nephew's sister's brother-in-law. The relationship is quite distant."

"puff!"

Seeing that this person could actually utter such a long string of nonsense with a straight face, Xiao Xiaoxiao couldn't help but spray all the water in her mouth onto Han Zhou's face next to her, and lowered her head to cough incessantly.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Looking up and around, she saw that Han Zhou was suddenly "covered in sweat." She was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized something, and her expression changed drastically. She frantically searched her body, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find a single piece of paper.

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

Fortunately, Han Zhou didn't take it to heart. He calmly wiped the water off his face, then silently took out a tissue from his pocket and said thankfully, "It's a good thing you didn't drink boiled water."

"You talk too much!"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little embarrassed. She first glared at the culprit, Li Kaiyang, because it was all his fault for talking nonsense. Then she lowered her head slightly, grabbed a tissue, and haphazardly wiped the water off Han Zhou's body.

Everyone couldn't help but chuckle, but what they were more concerned about at the moment was Li Kaiyang, who looked remorseful, and they wanted to learn from him the whole story of the rescue.

At this moment, Chen Long was in a daze, his thoughts still lingering on Li Kaiyang's answer. He didn't even notice that Han Zhou had been sprayed with water. He asked, "What do you mean by 'seven aunts and eight great-aunts'? Are you serious?"

He suspected the guy was just making a joke.

"Of course I'm serious." Unexpectedly, Li Kaiyang's expression turned serious, and he said in a serious tone, "I have no reason to joke about something like this."

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Deng Xue, who was sitting not far away, cautiously raised her hand and asked timidly, "I would like to ask, how did you remember such a long prefix?"

What she really wanted to ask was, "Why did you bother to remember such a long prefix?" but her nervousness caused her to misunderstand the question.

However, Li Kaiyang understood what she meant: "It's not easy to remember, mainly because I want to completely sever ties with this family and never have any contact with them again."

At this point, the guilt on his face deepened, and he solemnly said "I'm sorry" to Han Zhou.

Everyone was confused. Wasn't it about saving someone? Why were they apologizing to Han Zhou again? What exactly happened on the first day of school?
Even if you don't specifically try to remember, you probably won't have any contact with these distant relatives in the future...

Furthermore, Han Zhou really wanted to remind Li Kaiyang that this guy had probably misremembered; the titles of some relatives were completely wrong. Wasn't the uncle, aunt's brother-in-law, and sister's husband the same person as the uncle himself?

He thought to himself, but unlike the others, he knew perfectly well why Li Kaiyang was apologizing to him. He shook his head and said, "It's nothing, you don't need to apologize to me."

"I'm not apologizing for my shameless relatives, but for my own stupidity!"

Li Kaiyang said seriously, "As a college student who just finished his high school physics exam, I didn't even realize you might be injured at the time, otherwise I might have recognized you much earlier."

How did this turn into high school physics again...? Chen Long was getting more and more confused, scratching his head and asking, "What are you guys talking about?"

This is also a question that others want to ask.

Just then, Chen Zheng, who had been silent all along, spoke up: "I've told you before that we live in the information age. You can just search online for anything. It's impossible for something as important as saving lives to go unnoticed online. While you were scratching your head, I already found posts related to the incident."

He pushed up his glasses, looking calmly at the posts on his phone, as if he had everything under control. It would have been even better if his glasses had some reflection at this moment.

Chen Long was initially delighted, but then said impatiently, "If you found it, just say so. Why are you pretending to be cool with your mouth shut?"

Thank you, my real-life mouth double.

Many students in the class had the same thought: they silently gave a thumbs up to this straightforward sports committee member and thought that they would continue to support him as a formal class committee member a month later.

Chen Zheng's expression froze. He had been so engrossed in looking for the post that he had forgotten he was in the classroom. Seeing so many eyes staring at him, he felt extremely uncomfortable, his mind went blank, and he wished he could escape the classroom immediately. He didn't dare to say a word.

Fortunately, Li Kaiyang finally realized that he hadn't properly explained what happened that day to everyone, so he volunteered, "Let me tell you. I've read the posts online, and some of them are just nonsense, completely irresponsible. The comments section is even worse. It's more objective for me to tell you."

Right now is the time to elect the class's student union secretary, and everyone can go back to their dormitories to rest after it's over. But even though their time has been taken up, no one in the class feels impatient, including the candidates. They are all silently waiting for Li Kaiyang to continue.

Tang Wenshuang, the newly appointed class monitor, didn't say much. She was also quite curious about the rescue incident that Li Kaiyang had mentioned. Since no one had any objections, there was no need to interrupt everyone's interest.

Of everyone, only Land Rover felt annoyed. He had just questioned Han Zhou in front of the whole class whether he was faking his injury, and now someone was suggesting that Han Zhou was injured while saving someone, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face for him.

"Dude, just tell me already, stop keeping me in suspense. I feel like bugs are crawling all over my body right now."

"Say it quickly."

"I think I've heard a similar rumor before, but I don't know if it's the same thing..." "..."

Urged on by everyone, Li Kaiyang, having organized his thoughts, finally spoke.

"The situation that day was quite dangerous. It was probably caused by a child who was not properly supervised and somehow ran onto the balcony, and accidentally fell from the seventh or eighth floor."

"what!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was startled. Some with strong imaginations immediately conjured up certain tragic scenes and couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

Xiao Xiaoxiao secretly curled her lips. These guys were really making a fuss over nothing; they'd never seen the world before.

She stole a glance at Han Zhou.

"The onlookers' reaction at the time was similar to everyone's now. I was the same. The scene was chaotic. People who were far away didn't dare to get close, and those who were close quickly ran away. No one thought about catching the child. The most they could do was call 120 immediately because everyone knew that being hit by a child falling from such a height was extremely dangerous."

Even though several days had passed, Li Kaiyang still felt his blood boil whenever he thought about it again, and he slammed his hand on the table, his expression excited.

"But at this critical moment, something unexpected happened. A figure rushed out of the crowd like a white lightning bolt, shouting 'Destiny is on my side!' Almost instantly, he arrived downstairs, leaped forward, and caught the child who was about to fall to the ground at the last moment. Then, he made a decisive move, using a spin and roll to dissipate the force... Well, I don't know exactly what he did, but in short, the child was saved safely and avoided a fatal fate."

Everyone was stunned. Wait, are you telling a story here?
But it does sound like it's been ignited...

Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at Han Zhou with a strange expression and whispered, "Is it really as exaggerated as he said? Also, why did you shout 'Destiny is in my hands'?"

What the hell is destiny on my side...?

Hearing such praise, even Han Zhou felt a little embarrassed and explained, "It's not 'destiny is on my side,' I just asked a friend to watch my luggage and said 'wait for me here'..."

He glanced at Li Kaiyang, who was beaming with excitement. How dare this guy claim that his account was more objective than anyone else's...?

After a brief silence, someone asked, puzzled, "Um... Li Kaiyang, right? How should I put it, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that what you said is too exaggerated. I might not doubt you if you said the third or fourth floor, but the seventh or eighth floor, isn't that a bit too high? Even if you tried to catch a newborn baby with your bare hands, you could get seriously injured..."

He did not choose to directly verify with Han Zhou, the person involved, but instead asked Li Kaiyang, the narrator, because he respected and admired the rescuer. However, he found it difficult to accept such a description that disregarded the facts.

This questioning is reasonable. Li Kaiyang was not angry and replied seriously, "The seventh or eighth floor is the seventh or eighth floor. I have no need to exaggerate the facts. You may also think that my description of 'white lightning' is exaggerated, but that is the fact."

Chen Long stared at the ceiling for a while, then decided that asking the person in question would be simpler and more efficient than calculating the potential energy conversion. So he nudged Han Zhou beside him and asked, "Han Zhou, tell me, what floor is it?"

All eyes turned to Han Zhou.

Han Zhou smiled wryly and said, "The floor number isn't really important, but if I had to say, it would probably be around the seventh or eighth floor."

The reason he didn't want to publicize his arm injury was partly due to this consideration. Catching a child falling from a great height with his bare hands is quite an extraordinary feat, and most people would be skeptical of it. He didn't want to attract too much attention, so he slipped away quickly.

The classroom was quiet for a moment, then whispers began to circulate. Although the witnesses and those involved confirmed the story, no one really believed what the two had to say.

Just then, Land Rover, who had returned to his seat, spoke up, chuckling, "Tsk tsk, you really are amazing. Catching a kid who fell from such a height and only breaking an arm instead of being paralyzed for life, you're quite the hero."

His smile was laced with sarcasm, and the implication was clear: Han Zhou was bragging, deliberately using the height to highlight his own heroic act of saving lives.

He had used the word "hero" on Han Zhou before, and now he used it again with the same sarcastic tone. However, he seemed unaware of one thing: such sarcasm should not appear at this time.

Regardless of which floor the child fell from, Han Zhou's act of saving the child is admirable, and the fact that he was injured while saving the child is undeniable. Lu Hu's silence was fine until he spoke, which immediately reminded many people of his previous mockery of Han Zhou for faking injury to avoid military training, causing them to frown.

Chen Long had long disliked Land Rover, and upon hearing this, he instantly flew into a rage, standing up and cursing, "What the hell are you talking about? Do you believe I'll beat you to a pulp? What do you mean it's just a broken arm? You make it sound so easy. If you're so tough, go and save someone for me. I'd treat you like royalty even if you lost a single hair. What kind of skill is it to bark like a dog here?"

Thank you, my real-life mouth double.

Many students were moved and silently gave Chen Long another thumbs up in their hearts.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Lu Hu's heart skipped a beat. He stood up as well and said loudly, "Watch your mouth! Saving someone is awesome, but that doesn't mean you can talk nonsense and pat yourself on the back. We all got into Linda University, so our physics isn't bad. Can't you respect the facts?"

"The truth? The truth is that Han Zhou has a broken left hand and a dislocated right hand. He struggles to even get into bed every day. Unlike you, who can crawl like a dog! I was just about to say something to you. You envy others who don't have to do military training and break their own hands. I could do it for you too. What are you talking about, you're being sarcastic!"

Chen Long once again transformed into the Emperor of Encouragement, his words dripping with sarcasm as he continued, "You're the best at physics, but you're completely brainless. You didn't even see what happened back then, and now you dare to bark like a dog? You can even say something like 'lifelong paralysis'? Do you think everyone likes your sarcastic jokes?"

Land Rover's face turned pale and then red: "How vulgar..."

"You're the thinnest, you're the fucking thinnest..."

Chen Long was about to continue his tirade when Tang Wenshuang stopped him in time: "Chen Long, please calm down!"

She actually thought Chen Long's scolding was quite good, and even a little funny. His words were rough but his point was valid. Some things really shouldn't be joked about. But she couldn't let the class meeting turn into an argument. Maintaining order was her responsibility.

"I'm very calm. Anyone with eyes can see that this guy is targeting Han Zhou. It was one thing the first time, but now he dares to spew nonsense. He has no bottom line. People who don't know better would think his family's ancestral graves have been dug up."

Chen Long shrugged. His temper was only directed at idiots like Land Rover. He was quite polite to girls. His tone softened a little, but he still looked annoyed and said, "Anyway, I'm telling you this: this idiot wants to be the class monitor? I'm the first to disagree. He can be a dog, he can be a dog, what a piece of trash."

This statement served as a wake-up call for others. It's difficult to determine Land Rover's capabilities based on just one incident, nor can it be concluded whether he truly has character flaws. However, mocking his act of saving lives was indeed a low act. Thinking about this, even those who had previously wanted to support him began to hesitate.

Land Rover could have raised questions like the previous student did. The comments on the seventh and eighth floors were indeed exaggerated, and most people actually had doubts. But there was no need to let personal emotions get in the way. Those words were really thoughtless.

Li Kaiyang was furious. He could accept everyone's doubts, after all, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might have doubted it just by hearing it from others. But the term "lifelong paralysis" was really hard for him to accept.

He took a deep breath: "If you don't believe me, you can ask the relevant people for information. As far as I know, there are several senior students in this school who were also onlookers at the time. You can ask them what happened."

"The aftermath is that Han Zhou successfully rescued the child, but the child's family refused to thank him or offer any compensation. They simply ran away with the child. Han Zhou did not pursue the matter and did not utter a single word of complaint before leaving. He did not even show any signs of injury at the time and must have gone to the hospital on his own afterwards."

At this point, Li Kaiyang paused, his voice low.

"The above content is all true. I think this ending is already very disheartening. Everyone can be skeptical, but please do not criticize blindly and do not make things even more disheartening."

We will make further revisions and minor adjustments.

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