Heads-up! The CEO's Wife is a Hidden Big Boss! novel Chapter 1091

Chapter 1091: I’ll Break His Legs if You Two Turn Out to Be Dating (Lu Guixin Part 15)

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Everyone instinctively looked over, only to see Zhou Fu aggressively charging into the office and striding up to Principal Lin. His voice was cold and firm as he said, "I’m the one who scolded Su Zeyue in front of everyone. It has nothing to do with Lu Guixin, so there’s no need to get her involved."

Principal Lin gulped hard when he saw Zhou Fu, and he hurriedly glanced at the screen. His worries melted away when he realized that the screen had gone black—the other party had already ended the video call. He didn’t want to be asked about the relationship between Lu Guixin and Zhou Fu when he had finally just solved the Su family’s problem. He wanted to protect Zhou Fu.

His gaze then returned to Zhou Fu as he said sternly, "Don’t you know how to knock before you enter?"

Zhou Fu, who was a whole head taller than Principal Lin, stared him down. "If you want someone to be held accountable for this matter, you can just expel me. Why expel Lu Guixin instead?"

"Nobody’s expelling Lu Guixin. She’s the victim here, so she’s naturally involved in this matter," Principal Lin patiently said with a sigh.

Zhou Fu frowned in confusion. "Victim?"

Tian Rong came to a sudden brake at the doorway when he heard that. Everyone back in the classroom was saying that Lu Guixin deserved to be expelled and that Su Zeyue was the victim instead. Given the way the Su family works, they’ll definitely force the school to expel Lu Guixin. How did she turn out to be the victim in the end?

Principal Lin explained, "The posts on the school forum were posted by Su Zeyue. The school will give Su Zeyue a demerit on her disciplinary record, and the police will handle the slander case."

"The police will be called in?" Tian Rong stared at the Su family in shock and disbelief. The upper-class families value their reputation and face the most, yet the Su family is allowing Su Zeyue’s academic record and case record to be marred? That would bring shame to the entire clan. Have they gone out of their minds? Did I even hear correctly?

Even Zhou Fu’s frown deepened.

Principal Lin gently said, "The members of the Su family are reasonable, and they know right from wrong. Su Zeyue is already an adult, so she naturally has to bear the consequences of her own mistakes."

Su Cheng clenched his fists as he went purple in the face, but he could only suck it up since he knew that they were only getting what they deserved.

Just then, his phone rang. It was a call from the police station asking him to bring Su Zeyue over to assist in the investigation.

After ending the call, Su Cheng turned to Principal Lin and said with a slightly pale face, "I’m taking my daughter to the police station. I’ll get my assistant to handle the rest of the paperwork here."

Principal Lin smiled and nodded. "Please take care, Mr. Su."

Su Cheng tightened his grip on his phone. Things wouldn’t have reached this stage if Principal Lin had told me about Lu Guixin’s parents!

It was too late to say anything, though.

Su Cheng, who was filled with regrets, closed his eyes and took a deep breath before turning around to leave.

Tian Rong felt complicated as he watched the family leave. Are they really going to send their daughter to the police station?

"Alright, go back to your classroom now," Principal Lin said to Zhou Fu and Tian Rong.

This was completely different from what Tian Rong had imagined before coming to the principal’s office. This is so weird. The way the school is handling this matter is just so righteous. What went wrong?

Zhou Fu found it strange, too. Before leaving, he scanned the inside of the office, and he fell into deep thoughts when he noticed how Mr. Dong and his form teacher were in shock.

Everyone present in the office earlier mentioned nothing about Lu Guixin’s background.

...

Capital, Royal Garden.

After ending the video call, Lu Chengzhou leaned back against the sofa and crossed a leg atop his other leg while lazily propping his face up with a hand. His dark eyes were focused on his wife as he asked, "Why do you seem even angrier than me?"

Gu Mang didn’t answer the question and simply drank a sip of water.

While playing with her fingers, Lu Chengzhou teasingly said, "This shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. When you were still attending Ming City High School, you were indifferent to such posts, and you didn’t allow me to get involved. You had your fair share of scandals and love letters."

"Oh," Gu Mang looked at him with a poker face.

A smile formed on Lu Chengzhou’s face when he saw her expressionless face. "Why are you so angry this time when it’s just history repeating itself?"

Gu Mang narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze cold and aggressive. Her voice was frigid and dangerous as she said, "It doesn’t matter if it happens to me, but not my daughter."

Lu Chengzhou raised his eyebrows. "Then why did you agree to let her go to Ming City?"

"I won’t interfere in their decisions." Gu Mang slowly grazed a fair and slender finger against the glass cup.

She had never interfered in any of her children’s decisions before.

Lu Chengzhou nodded in understanding. "Aren’t you afraid that someone might abduct her?"

"Afraid?" Gu Mang lazily cocked an eyebrow. Isn’t he the one who’s afraid?

Lu Chengzhou didn’t respond to that. Instead, he showed the message he received from Lu Jilai to her. "They’ve looked into Zhou Fu’s background. Nothing special. He’s just the male protagonist of the rumors who our daughter pays no attention to."

As soon as he said that, two messages appeared on his screen. They were sent by Gu Si. One was a photo, while the other was a line of words saying [Brother-in-law, your future son-in-law is rather handsome.]

The message was such a wet blanket to Lu Chengzhou that his expression suddenly darkened and his eyebrows became knitted together. He didn’t bother to see the photo as he stared at that line of words. Future son-in-law? Is Gu Si trying to rile me up? Did he think I didn’t see the posts on the school forum?

Although it was just said in jest, Lu Chengzhou didn’t like the words "future son-in-law" at all. He tugged the corners of his lips up mockingly as he tapped on the keyboard, [Pay attention to your health while you’re young. If you don’t feel well, you’re welcome to come to the capital to get a medical check from my wife.]

On the other side, Gu Si narrowed his eyes in annoyance when he saw the message. "I was kind enough to give him information. Never mind that he didn’t believe me, but he even indirectly called me crazy. Also, what’s with ’my wife’?"

The corner of Lu Jixing’s lips twitched as he struggled to hold back his laughter. "Uncle, you’ve got a history of pranking my father. It’d be a wonder if he believes you."

"Tch." Gu Si put his hands behind his head and lazily leaned back against his seat, chuckling. "Fine, then I’ll just sit back and watch the show."

...

Meanwhile.

Gu Mang took Lu Chengzhou’s phone and zoomed in on Zhou Fu’s photo. She raised her eyebrows when she saw how he looked. "He’s not bad-looking."

Expressionless, Lu Chengzhou snatched the phone from her hands and calmly asked, "Aren’t you hungry? Let’s go out and eat."

He then got up, grabbed her hand, and started to walk out.

As Gu Mang looked at his side profile, amusement shone in her eyes. "Don’t you trust Gu Si?"

"No." After taking a few steps, Lu Chengzhou took out his phone to check the time. Seeing that it was currently his daughter’s break time, he video-called her.

Gu Mang smiled, but she didn’t say anything about it.

It was only when they had arrived and sat down at the restaurant that Lu Guixin finally picked up the call. The background was a small balcony of the academic building. And when she showed up on the screen wearing gold-rimmed glasses, Lu Chengzhou wasn’t quite used to it.

When he noticed her bloodshot eyes through the screen, he asked, "Did you not sleep well last night?"

"I forgot the time while going through the many exam questions I couldn’t answer," answered Lu Guixin obediently.

The corners of Lu Chengzhou’s eyes twitched slightly just as his hand holding a pair of chopsticks froze. He pretended not to hear her, and he said, "You can always come back if you’re not happy there."

"It’s fine." Lu Guixin pushed up her glasses. "The teachers and students here are quite nice."

The students there are quite nice? They were so nice that they ganged up and insulted her on the school forum? Although Lu Chengzhou knew very well that his daughter was highly adaptable, he couldn’t believe his ears when he heard what she said. He looked up, met her eyes squarely, and asked in a meaningful tone, "Is it the students that are nice or a certain someone?"

"A certain someone?" Lu Guixin repeated that last bit without flinching. After seemingly realizing who her father was referring to a couple of seconds later, she ah-ed and said with a laugh, "Are you talking about Zhou Fu, Dad?"

Lu Chengzhou didn’t answer her and instead put a small piece of pastry on Gu Mang’s plate.

Lu Guixin thus obediently explained, "It’s just some rumors on the school forum. Zhou Fu has already clarified the matter. We have nothing to do with each other."

Lu Chengzhou calmly studied Lu Guixin’s face as he watched out for the slightest bit of change in her expression. After that, he gently asked, "Then what’s the deal about you wooing him?"

"You believe that?" Lu Guixin removed her glasses and moved the phone closer to her face. "Dad, look at the face you and Mom gave me. Is it pretty? Do you think I need to do that? It’s only the guys who woo me."

Lu Chengzhou, who seemed to like what he was hearing, smiled. "What if you really are wooing him?"

"I’m telling the truth, Dad." Lu Guixin then earnestly told him about the day when a few male students asked to add her on WeChat. "I didn’t even know who Zhou Fu was prior to that. Apparently, he’s quite famous in school. Everyone knows about him, except me. My deskmate even laughed at me for that."

Lu Chengzhou believed this. Although his daughter appeared to be mild-natured and approachable, she was actually indifferent to everything, so it wasn’t a surprise to him that she didn’t show any interest in Zhou Fu.

It was at that moment that he suddenly felt that there was nothing bad about her emotional detachment disorder. At the very least, she wouldn’t be lured away by others.

Lu Guixin sighed and said in resignation, "I inherited my good looks from my parents, so it’s only natural that I have a bit more scandals."

At that, Gu Mang quietly glanced at Lu Chengzhou. It was clear that, with just a few words from Lu Guixin, his mood had improved a lot.

"Alright, I’ll believe you for now." Lu Chengzhou nodded and then said slowly with a smile, "But I’ll break his legs if you two turn out to be dating."

It was obvious whose legs he was going to break.

Just then, the school bell rang.

"Go back to class." Upon seeing the dark circles under her eyes, Lu Chengzhou added, "Don’t stay up too late to study. Make sure that you get enough rest. Results aren’t that important."

"Got it, Dad." After ending the call, Lu Guixin raised her eyebrows and said to her phone with a rebellious smile, "Mom was only in Year Three when you wooed her. I’m just following your example."

The wicked glint in her pretty eyes when she smiled made her look much like her parents.

Lu Guixin then stuffed her phone and earphone into her pocket and put on her glasses to play her role of a good girl again. When she noticed a few figures on the far side of the road in her peripheral vision, she looked over and narrowed her eyes slightly.

...

In front of the Year Three’s academic building.

"What’s going on? Why is..." Xia Cheng looked at Su Zeyue, whose eyes were red and swollen, in disbelief, before looking at the latter’s parents. Her words trailed off when she saw the darkening looks on Mr. and Mrs. Su’s faces. Su Zeyue’s the one leaving instead of Lu Guixin?

Su Cheng angrily spat, "Since it’s her fault in the first place, she should be the one bearing the consequences of her own mistakes!"

Su Zeyue couldn’t help but feel humiliated when she recalled the message she had sent to Xia Cheng earlier. At the thought that she was about to go to the police station, another tear fell from her eyes. She was panic-stricken.

"Uncle Su..."

"Xia Cheng!" Mrs. Su cut her off and stared meaningfully at her while clutching onto her expensive handbag.

Xia Cheng was flustered to meet Mrs. Su’s eyes. "Yes, Auntie...?"

Mrs. Su hesitated to speak. In the end, she looked down and slowly loosened her fingers while saying weakly, "We still have things to settle. You... Take care."

There wasn’t anything she couldn’t understand at this point. Although she didn’t have the energy to guess the relationship between Lu Guixin and Zhou Fu, it was obvious that the latter cared about the former.

It was also clear that Xia Cheng was using them to chase Lu Guixin away. Had Lu Guixin really been an ordinary student, they naturally wouldn’t mind Xia Cheng hiding the truth about the school forum incident and pushing the blame on Lu Guixin since they could easily get rid of her.

But it just so happened that Lu Guixin came from a family that they couldn’t afford to offend. The entire Su family was nearly destroyed because of that. If Mrs. Su hadn’t been friends with Xia Cheng’s mother for more than a decade, she really wanted to give Xia Cheng a tight slap across the face.

Mrs. Su then turned around and got into the car.

Upon driving out of Ming City High School, the sedan drove off in the direction of the police station.

When Su Zeyue realized that there was no turning around, her panic turned into resentment and hatred. "What’s the big deal about them?! Her parents are so smart and powerful, but they still ended up giving birth to a stupid daughter like her!"

"Shut it!" Su Cheng glared at her, but before he could say anything else, his phone rang. He retracted his gaze and answered the call.

It was unknown what the caller said to him, but he suddenly sat right up with sheer panic on his face while clutching onto his phone. "What did you say?! All of our projects with the capital are canceled?!"

...

Xia Cheng absent-mindedly returned to the classroom, and she remained distracted throughout the entire lesson.

When the teacher left at the end of the lesson, the classroom, which was usually quiet as the students seized the chance to rest, suddenly turned noisy.

"Holy crap! What’s going on? The school called the police? Does that mean the police were the ones who exposed Su Zeyue’s ID on the school forum to clear Lu Guixin’s name?"

"It must be them."

"Whoa! Given the Su family’s fortune and influence, I didn’t think the school would be able to do anything to Su Zeyue. I thought Lu Guixin would surely be the one to leave as a show of warning to us all so that nobody would dare to talk behind Su Zeyue."

"Yeah! Ordinary people can’t afford to mess with the rich. I didn’t know that Principal Li was so tough. Not only was he unafraid of power, he even stood up to them. How come I didn’t know the school was so righteous?"

"Principal Lin is the representative of justice!"

"Lu Guixin is actually the victim here. Although she’s not good at studying, she’s always kept a low profile. But she was suddenly targeted and was nearly expelled as a result."

The classroom was filled with such talks.

The girls who helped Su Zeyue to insult Lu Guixin just now were furious, but they didn’t dare to openly sing the opposite tune in front of the entire class.

Xia Cheng couldn’t be more annoyed as she stared at the paper on her table while clutching the pen in her hand. The fact that Su Zeyue sent me a message just now proves that the principal must’ve made the decision to expel Lu Guixin. Why did the principal suddenly change his mind?

It then suddenly dawned on her that Zhou Fu had gone to look for Principal Lin. Could it be Zhou Fu...? No, that’s impossible. Zhou Fu’s just a student without parents. He doesn’t have such influence. Then what exactly happened back then?

Tian Lu didn’t answer the question. Duh, who doesn’t know the notorious flirt from Experimental High School who changes girlfriends even faster than he can change his clothes? He’s even dated a lot of girls from our school.

Tian Lu’s eyes widened in surprise when she saw how close they were. The campus belle of our school and the campus beau of the school next door know each other?

Tian Lu’s eyes bulged even more. Little princess? What on earth is their relationship?

Sweetie... The cringy endearment sent Tian Lu shivering as she politely refused him, "Thank you, but I’ll just peel them myself."

At the thought of that, she couldn’t help thinking, What a jerk!

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