Chapter 1006: Beautiful Girl (51)

Not long after the lawsuit concluded, Tang Guo turned around and sued her school as well.

Armed with overwhelming evidence, she proved that the school had failed to investigate the rumors and, under pressure from various parents, had simply expelled her. With the assistance of thirty outstanding lawyers, victory naturally belonged to her.

After suing the school, she also sued the teacher who had humiliated her in class.

To the onlookers, she seemed utterly crazy.

She merely smiled and said, "If they didn't want to be sued, then they shouldn't have done those things in the first place. They violated my rights. Why shouldn't I sue them?"

The teacher, of course, lost the case. She was ultimately dismissed by the school, blacklisted with a permanent "never to be hired again" designation, and before long, even her teaching license was revoked.

After receiving compensation from countless defendants, Tang Guo established a foundation under the identity of a victim of verbal abuse.

The foundation's declaration was simple:

If someone has been slandered, defamed, or verbally attacked, and they are truly innocent, the foundation would forever stand by them and fight lawsuits on their behalf.

The thirty world-renowned lawyers, who had gained both fame and prestige from the case, also publicly announced that they were willing to spend the rest of their lives representing such victims and defending their rights.

Afterward, Tang Guo paid them the compensation they deserved. As for the settlement money she herself had obtained, she publicly disclosed every single amount on her social media account. From then on, every expenditure made with those funds was transparently recorded there.

That action inspired countless people to donate to the foundation.

Especially those survivors who had endured their darkest days, grown up, and now lived decent lives. They contributed the most money.

They hoped that the world would contain fewer rumors and malicious words, so that the next generation would never have to suffer the same terrible verbal abuse they had once endured.

Those who had originally intended to speculate whether she would exploit all this for her own gain lowered their heads in shame.

Remembering that this was the same girl who would drag rumor-mongers to court at the slightest provocation, they felt fortunate that they hadn't impulsively spread rumors about her abusing her power for personal benefit.

After all that, Tang Guo requested a transfer.

Schools everywhere extended olive branches to her as soon as they heard the news. They had all looked into her academic record. She was an exceptional student whose only lost mark throughout her studies had been a single point deducted from a Chinese composition.

In the end, she chose another school in the same city. Its reputation wasn't as prestigious as her previous one, but it was closer to home and had a much better atmosphere.

Everyone thought that the matter had finally come to an end.

Tang Guo had won the lawsuit. No one would dare bully her again, and those who spread rumors would no longer dare to act recklessly.

Even those who had lost the case, despite their unwillingness and their repeated appeals, no longer dared to do anything against her.

But no one knew that a month later, those defendants stopped filing appeals entirely.

When their friends and relatives saw them again, they were shocked by their pale complexions and hurriedly asked what had happened.

The defendants merely shook their heads, revealing bitter smiles. Despair and terror filled their eyes, but they said nothing.

How could outsiders know that what they feared most now was the arrival of night?

Whenever darkness fell and they lay down on their beds, the moment they closed their eyes and drifted into sleep, they would enter a horrifying world.

That world was anything but friendly.

The entire world verbally abused them.

Malicious words flooded from every direction. People spoke of things they had never done as though they had truly happened.

No matter where they went, they would encounter scornful eyes and mocking laughter.