Transmigrating into a Book: Beating Up the Little Tyrant Today

"I won't answer; there's no need to."

The eel put the phone aside:

"I was wondering why Qiu Shiyue has been surrounded by so many people lately."

"The girls felt really embarrassed accepting her things, and they wouldn't take them back. They could only take turns training with her, and they didn't dare to say anything when they were tired. She would get upset if they raised their voices even slightly when giving her pointers."

"We have to coax her into buying her water and queuing up for her meals, just because we've accepted her favors."

The eel became more and more agitated as she spoke, “No, I have to tell them. I can’t let Qiu Shiyue trample on their kindness.”

She tried to leave again, but Blizzard stopped her. "You shouldn't show yourself. Watch me."

*

There were three or four girls from Team Two chatting and laughing in the laundry room, including Xiao Li, who had been bullied by Qiu Shiyue before.

When they saw the blizzard approaching, they felt inexplicably guilty and left a tap running for her.

It was clearly Qiu Shiyue who was unfair for not giving Blizzard and Sasha the necklaces, but they were the ones who felt bad.

Blizzard could tell they were too empathetic, so he softened his gaze, gave them a quick glance at their necks, and then lowered his head to wash the towel.

As if casually remarking, "Why aren't any of you wearing necklaces?"

Although she didn't say it directly, they knew what necklace she was talking about.

Girls with slightly weaker mental fortitude unconsciously touch their necks.

Fearing she was there to cause trouble, no one dared to speak first.

Knowing Blizzard's character, Xiao Li took out a pearl necklace from his pocket and said, "We wanted to find a chance to return it to her, but she wouldn't give us the chance. We couldn't decide whether to accept it or not. As soon as we said we didn't want it, she glared at us."

The other girls nodded in agreement.

Xiao Li handed the items to Blizzard, saying, "You're all on the same team, so you should see each other a lot. Could you please pass these on to us?"

Blizzard nodded, took the necklace in his hand and glanced at it, "Were the eel necklace and yours given to you by Qiu Shiyue together?"

"Yes."

"It doesn't feel quite right."

Xiao Li shook her head. "We don't wear jewelry much, and we don't know much about pearls. She just said it's a specialty of Hainan, and everyone has it. Uh, I didn't mean to mock you."

Blizzard waved his hand, telling Xiao Li not to overthink it, and weighed the pearl box in his hand. "It feels a bit different in weight from the eel string."

"is it?"

They looked at each other, and the others ran back to their dorms to get their pearls to show Blizzard.

Blizzard removed all the pearls and put them in a basin of water; sure enough, they didn't sink.

He then took out the key and scratched it on the pearl, easily leaving a mark.

"Look, better quality pearls have a relatively high density and should sink when placed in water, but yours floats completely on the surface."

"Good pearls have a thicker nacre layer, which can withstand a certain amount of friction and scratches. But yours has been over-treated to cover up flaws, using an inferior coating, which has damaged the natural structure of the pearl's surface and reduced its scratch resistance."

"There are many other things that show that yours is different from that of the eels and the others."

"how so!"

"Yeah, none of us have ever worn one."

"that is!"

Xiao Li was eager to prove himself: "I didn't even open the packaging. It was still sealed open when I gave it to you. How would I know anything about this? You have to prove to me that it was the original packaging when you opened it just now."

Blizzard reassured her, and was about to say that her phone was recording the whole thing in her pocket when she heard her shout angrily and anxiously, "What kind of person is she! I thought she was shameless enough to give me a taste of her own medicine, but I didn't expect her to do something like this. Who wants Qiu Shiyue's things!"

With a loud thud, the laundry room door was kicked open.

Several people turned around, and Qiu Shiyue was furious:

"You took my things, and you still dare to gossip behind my back? If you don't like them, give them back to me."

Xiao Li took the necklace from Blizzard and handed it to Qiu Shiyue.

"We didn't intend to accept it at the time, but you insisted on giving it to us. Now we're returning it to you!"

She wanted to question Qiu Shiyue about why she was being unfair to her, but after thinking about it, she decided to give her face and said, "My mother said that I can't just take things from other people."

The other girls returned the money together now, placing it in Xiao Li's palm for Qiu Shiyue to take.

Qiu Shiyue didn't take it, letting Xiao Li stretch out his arm, and sneered, "How could someone like you have a mother?"

Xiao Li's expression suddenly changed.

She had never directly confronted Qiu Shiyue, and she couldn't bear such words; her eyes immediately welled up with tears.

Qiu Shiyue took Xiao Li's necklace, glanced at it casually, and then screamed:

"The pearl necklace I gave you was full and round; even if it wasn't incredibly valuable, it was still presentable. What is this? Plastic?!"

"impossible."

Xiao Li said righteously, "I've kept this thing with me ever since you gave it to me. It's impossible for someone else to have replaced it. You know the situation yourself."

Qiu Shiyue's eyes were piercing, and a smile played on her lips, a smile that was anything but malicious.

Xiao Li finally understood, "You suspect that we switched the product?"

"You admit it?" Qiu Shiyue asked back.

"Admit what? You dare to do it but not to admit it!"

Qiu Shiyue watched as her face turned red and her neck thickened, while she herself remained calm and composed:

"Enough with the nonsense. If you don't want it, then don't. I'm not so cheap as to beg you for my things. Just return them as they were."

"But all my pearls are perfectly round, definitely not like those that look so plasticky. Are you kidding me?"

"Either give me pearls or give me money, it's up to you."

Xiao Li's hands trembled, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak. The other team members didn't dare to argue back, and some even thought about asking their parents for money to help them out, rather than provoking Qiu Shiyue.

Blizzard remained still, finding an excellent spot to watch them talk, conveniently recording the conversation with his phone in his pocket.

Xiao Li remembered her.

"Sister Xiaoxue, when you took it off just now, wasn't it brand new? The outer plastic film was still there, right? You can prove it to us!"

Qiu Shiyue glanced sideways at the blizzard.

She just said so much, and she didn't even react when she scolded Xiao Li.

The reason she's been silent for so long must be because she saw the gift she gave to the eel.

You're tempted, aren't you? That's why you're standing obediently to the side like you're invisible.

The plan was about to succeed, and he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

These people are not worthy of accepting her things.

Okay, that's for Team One. Team Two will get this kind of plastic one.

If they accept it, they have to listen to her. If they don't accept it? They can't return it as plastic; it has to be either real pearls or she has to pay them. Either way, she won't lose out.

I just don't know if these people will be able to recoup the cost of the pearl for her.

“You see, she’s not saying a word, which means she doesn’t trust you.”

Qiu Shiyue continued, "The pearls I gave everyone were all the same, and the invoices were all issued together. How could they be fake? You're just feeling guilty. So hurry up and pay! Otherwise, I'll sue the coach, the media, and all of you for your moral depravity!"