Chapter 174: Whose Responsibility Is It
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
There were only two simple words in the chat box, but there was an inexplicable surge in Lu Qianling’s heart.
Seeing the message from Meng Chuyuan, her brows relaxed, and the uneasiness and grievance hidden in the bottom of her heart lessened.
“Meng Meng, my Snow White is here. I’ll go and welcome her.” Lu Qianling’s lips curled up slightly. She did not care about the outcome she was about to face.
When her deskmate saw that Lu Qianling was about to stand up and leave her seat, she kindly advised, “If you can’t get your homework back, just obediently give one to Teacher. Don’t be silly and quarrel with her again.”
“Depends on my mood.” Lu Qianling put her phone into her pocket, put her hands in her pockets, and walked out of the classroom casually.
Lu Qianling came to the teacher’s office and stood in a more conspicuous position by the window. When teachers who taught her level saw her, they would look over curiously, wanting to see what trouble she had caused this time.
Their class teacher had mentioned Lu Qianling in front of the other teachers many times. Everyone in the office knew about what happened in their class. There was a female student who was not very serious and often took leave from school. She would skip class when the leave was not approved.
Some time ago, it was said that Lu Qianling’s behavior was getting much better. It had only lasted for less than two weeks, before they heard that she had even quarreled with her teacher.
The English teacher had just finished teaching their class. She washed her hands and came back to sit on the office chair. She looked at Lu Qianling seriously. “Didn’t I ask you to hand in your homework? Why haven’t you handed it in today?”
Lu Qianling replied calmly, “Can you call a missing person home for dinner?”
A sullen expression appeared on the teacher’s face. She reached out her hand to adjust her glasses and said coldly, “Why are you comparing your homework to a missing person? How can that be the same?”
Seeing Lu Qianling’s sloppy standing posture with her hands in the pockets of her school uniform, the teacher became even angrier. She frowned and said, “Stand properly and take your hands out of your pockets.”
Lu Qianling took out her hand without changing her expression and adjusted her standing posture.
Seeing that she looked a little more like a student, the teacher’s expression
improved a little. “I asked you to call your parents over. Did you call them?”
The form teacher of their class was the English teacher. Coincidentally, a teacher in the next class was on maternity leave, so she had heavy tasks this semester and taught three classes of English at the same time. Sometimes, she would be a little negligent in the management of the class when she was busy.
This time, Lu Qianling had so coincidentally fallen victim to the homeroom teacher’s negligence.
Suddenly, there was a light knock on the office door. A young woman appeared at the door.
The people in the office looked at the door curiously. The teacher closest to the door asked, “May I ask who you’re looking for?”
Meng Chuyuan was wearing a mask and her voice was a little muffled. “I’m Lu
Qianling’s parent. I’m here to look for her form teacher.”
That teacher was a little surprised. He did not expect Lu Qianling to have such a young parent.
Lu Qianling saw that Meng Chuyuan had finally arrived. She couldn’t care less about the occasion and ran straight to Meng Chuyuan. “I thought you were
lost. ”
When she came in just now and did not see Meng Chuyuan, she was, in fact, quite flustered.
After all, Meng Chuyuan was at the age where she had just entered society. Lu Qianling felt that with this being her first time facing a teacher as a parent, she might appear slightly less assertive.
However, when Meng Chuyuan met her form teacher, her performance and aura could completely crush the entire venue.
Although she was once a student, Meng Chuyuan was not afraid of any teacher. “Hello, teacher. I’m Lu Qianling’s sister-in-law, Meng Chuyuan.”
When the form teacher heard her name, she thought of the variety show that had recently become popular online, Meng Chuyuan, who was frequently on the trending searches.
She didn’t have time to watch live-stream variety shows during workdays, but she could still get some information occasionally when she used her phone. The netizens’ ratings of Meng Chuyuan were as high as 90%. Today, she was lucky enough to see her in person. It was really as the Internet said.
She had a pair of bright eyes and a faint smile reflected in her eyes. She had a humble attitude and carried a sense of affability. She was definitely a woman who could make people like her even without showing her face.
Facing such a gentle and polite Meng Chuyuan, the form teacher’s voice could not help but soften. “Hello.”
“I have a rough understanding of Lu Qianling’s situation in school. Because you didn’t receive her homework, that’s why…?”
Meng Chuyuan deliberately did not say too much because she wanted to see what his teacher’s true opinion on this matter was.
“When I was marking the class’s work, I really didn’t see Lu Qianling’s homework. So I wanted her to submit a copy, but she was unwilling and insisted on arguing with me in class. Hence, I could only ask to meet with her guardian.”
Lu Qianling felt that she was complaining to Meng Chuyuan. She could not help but say, “But I’ve already submitted my homework, why do you need me to submit another copy?”
The teacher pointed at the thick stack of homework on the table and said, “The stack of collected homework is still here. I’ve flipped through it twice but I still can’t find your notebook. Is it that difficult for you to submit another copy of
“This is not a problem of making up for unsubmitted homework, okay?” Lu Qianling became a little carried away as she spoke, and her tone became extremely emotional. “You have always been biased towards your class representative, and you have never trusted me since the start. To put it nicely, you’re calling this making up for unsubmitted homework, but in reality, you just don’t trust me. You think I’m lying to you, right?”
Lu Qianling didn’t receive any explanation for the treatment she had received yesterday afternoon, so she felt quite aggrieved. In order not to affect the normal teaching, the teacher directly invited her out to reflect on her mistakes.
Meng Chuyuan put her hand on Lu Qianling’s shoulder and looked down at her. “Calm down for a while. It’s wrong for you to offend the teacher like this. Have you forgotten what I told you at home?”
“It doesn’t matter. She doesn’t see me as a good person anyway.”
Seeing that Lu Qianling was unwilling to admit her mistake, Meng Chuyuan did not force her to in front of so many people. However, this matter still had to be resolved.
After a while, Meng Chuyuan directly communicated with the teacher,
“Teacher, I’m sorry. This child is more stubborn. I apologize to you on her
behalf.”
“It’s okay. It’s not the first day she has caused trouble for me.” As a form teacher, she would discuss with her parents if there was anything she couldn’t handle and ask them to help discipline her.
“What trouble have I caused? I’ve only missed a few days of class, but my results are still above the average in the class, right?”
Lu Qianling felt that as long as she did not drag the class down with her grades, it could not be said that she had caused trouble. As for the attendance evaluation, it was not within her consideration. She thought that the form teacher and the other students cared too much about their reputation and were too caught up with wanting that pennant.
“It’s her fault for being rude to you in class.” Right after, Meng Chuyuan continued, “But why did her homework suddenly disappear after she handed it in to the class representative? Whose responsibility is it now that her homework has disappeared?”
Putting aside other problems, the reason why Lu Qianling’s homework had not been found yet was because they did not bother giving Lu Qianling an explanation for their mistake. Instead, they urged her to make up for the lost homework. This was the key reason behind Lu Qianling losing control of her emotions..
