Chapter 996: Beautiful Girl (41)

 “Xiao Guo, come down!” Zuo Ran shouted, his voice trembling. His eyes fixed on Tang Guo's dangling legs. This was the tallest teaching building, eight stories high. If she fell from there, even if she survived, she would be crippled. “Come down. Whatever it is, we can talk about it properly, okay?”

“Xiao Guo, come down.” Wei Liang's eyes had already turned red. “Please come down, okay?”

Tang Guo smiled as she looked at the two of them, her voice distant and airy. “Come down where? You mean jump down from here?”

“No!”

Zuo Ran and Wei Liang shouted simultaneously, frantically shaking their heads.

“No, Xiao Guo. Turn around, pull your legs back, and come down the stairs.”

“That sounds troublesome. Wouldn't it be easier to just come down directly from here?”

Their lips trembled uncontrollably.

No.

They had never imagined things would come to this.

This wasn't the outcome they wanted.

They had only wanted to teach her a lesson. They had merely been unwilling to accept her rejection. They had never imagined she would climb to such a terrifying height.

“I beg you.” Wei Liang was truly terrified now. He dropped to his knees. “It's my fault. It's all my fault. Just come down. Once you're down, you can do whatever you want with me, okay?”

Seeing this, Zuo Ran also knelt immediately. His knees hit the ground with a heavy thud, painful enough to make those around wince, but neither of them felt any pain.

They only wanted the girl on the rooftop to come down.

They were wrong.

Everything was wrong.

They should never have done those things.

Seeing the smile that remained on her face the entire time only made them feel worse.

“Listen!”

Wei Liang suddenly shouted. The crowd fell silent and turned toward him.

“Listen, all of you. Listen carefully!”

“I, Wei Liang—”

He grabbed Zuo Ran by the collar and yanked him upright.

“And him, Zuo Ran. The two of us have always been completely innocent with Tang Guo. Nothing ever happened between us.”

After saying this, he saw the hesitation and disbelief on everyone's faces and nearly broke down.

Why were they still doubting him?

He was one of the people involved!

If he said nothing happened, then nothing happened!

“All those rumors… Zuo Ran and I spread them. It was all our doing.”

Zuo Ran continued, “That's right. The two of us did everything. We spread the rumors because we failed to win Xiao Guo over.”

“Our plan was to wait until the entire school turned against her. Then we'd be the only people who believed her, and she'd definitely see us differently.”

“At that point, we'd pursue her again, and maybe she'd say yes,” Wei Liang continued. “But she still rejected us, saying she wanted to focus on studying.”

“So we became angry and humiliated.” Zuo Ran's eyes reddened. “Not only did we ignore the rumors about keeping her, we deliberately accelerated them. When the school asked us to come forward and clear her name, we refused.”

“And when she came to ask us for help that day, we took revenge on her by personally admitting to those fabricated relationships.”

“She only ever treated us as friends,” Wei Liang shouted. “It was because we couldn't accept her rejection that we retaliated and claimed we'd kept her for an entire vacation.”

“She never spent our money, and she never accepted our gifts. Even when we bought her snacks or lunch, she'd treat us to street food afterward.”