Stop Bothering Me, Emperor

Chapter 39 - Revenge

Several girls saw Song Zheng talking to that handsome guy, and their attention was immediately caught.

Song Xiao looked at Song Zheng and frowned slightly. Maintaining etiquette as a nobleman, he hadn’t looked very much at those middle school female students at all. It was only now that he noticed that Song Zheng was among them.

“I didn’t,” Song Xiao replied bluntly.

“Pfft…” A few girls laughed. You pretend to be on familiar terms, but the other person simply isn’t familiar with you at all.

Song Zheng choked for a moment. She had initially thought that in this setting, Song Xiao would say something to her at least – she never expected that when he did, it would be a sentence like that. Such a big, living person standing here – how could he not see her?

“A card reader system is installed on this boiler. You only have to swipe your meal card to draw water. Currently, Sheng Meng High’s single card system is a work in progress. By the time all of you enter high school, the meal card, water card, library card, and entrance card will all be combined into one.” The vice president took out a meal card. “Does anyone want to try it out?”

Song Zheng had lost face and was currently standing in a conspicuous position in the crowd. She felt somewhat embarrassed, so when she heard this, she immediately raised her hand. “Me!”

Seeing her so proactive, most of the vice president’s previous annoyance at being disturbed dissipated. He smiled as he passed her a thermos. “Be careful not to be scalded by the boiling water.”

At that time, when the president said to include this “drawing water” segment, the vice principal had been worried that no one would respond. They had already discussed it, and if no one were willing to step up, the vice president himself would demonstrate. Now that someone was willing, it was naturally the ideal situation.

Most of the middle school students didn’t stay at the school, so they were very curious about this. Some boys were also eager to give it a go, wanting to try and play with it.

The card reader machine needed to be swiped once for the water to come out and another time to stop. Song Zheng collected some water and was about to swipe the machine to stop when her wrist suddenly turned numb. The thermos in her hand fell to the floor with a crash, instantly shattering the inner tube. It let out a loud ‘bang’, and the water inside, which she had just collected, immediately sprayed out, while the water from the boiler also gushed out.

“AH!” Song Zheng immediately screamed. The other students were also frightened and moved back one after another.

Yu Tang unhurriedly pressed the emergency button on the boiler to promptly turn off the water, then said to the panicking vice president, “Tell the infirmary to bring a stretcher.”

“Ah, right, Li Meng, hurry up and run over.” The vice president pointed at a student union member as he spoke.

The boy made a sound of assent, then turned and ran off. The teacher supervising the group was young and didn’t have much experience either, and could only support Song Zheng in a fluster. “Don’t move, there’s glass in your leg.”

Song Xiao looked at Song Zheng, who was scared stupid and had started to cry, sighed, then turned to go to the water room and get a basin of cold water. He poured it over her leg, washing off the hot water and glass, then carried her out from the pile of glass fragments.

Song Zheng wasn’t thin, but Song Xiao’s small body carrying her was a little strenuous. Yu Tang couldn’t bear to watch, so he jerked his chin at the head of the PE department. The tall and robust Minister of War walked over and took Song Zheng. “I’ll do it ba.”

Just as they reached the dormitory’s main entrance, the stretcher from the infirmary arrived. Because the student union had informed the infirmary in advance that it was to be on call today, and no accidents were allowed to happen, a doctor had been on standby the whole time; there was even a special team of student volunteers to carry people.

“Wu…” Song Zheng’s leg was scalded. She cried until her tears and mucus overflowed, and she screamed when she was shifted.

The supervising teacher was also terrified and followed her all the way to the infirmary.

“It’s just some blisters; she’s fine. The school’s boiled water isn’t even that hot.” The school doctor in the infirmary treated the burn and comforted her at the same time.

“Teacher, was she going to perform a dance?” Cheng Xinran, who was responsible for the arts program, asked the supervising teacher on the side after she looked through the name list. After receiving confirmation, she took out a pen and crossed out Song Zheng’s name.

When Song Zheng heard about the performance item, she cried even more wretchedly. She had initially planned to perform a breathtaking dance and steal the limelight. Now that her leg was scalded, she couldn’t even perform, to say nothing of the extreme pain.

“Give your parents a call ba.” The supervising teacher passed a handphone to Song Zheng.

Song Zheng was going to call Qiu Mingyan at first, but as she was pressing the buttons, she changed her mind, and directly called Song Zicheng instead. When his voice came through, she immediately started to cry mournfully. “Daddy, I’m at Sheng Meng High; I was scalded.”

Frightened by that shrill voice, Song Zicheng asked her what happened, only to hear her cry incessantly. “Give the phone to your teacher.”

After understanding the situation, he promised to go over in a short while to bring her to the hospital. Only then did Song Zheng stop crying.

The school tour wasn’t over yet, and the student union put a contingency plan into action. A few of the students stayed behind to take care of Song Zheng, and the rest would continue to take the middle school students around on tour. Because Song Zheng greeted Song Xiao earlier, he was taken to be someone who was familiar with her and stayed behind.

“Someone definitely pushed me when I was drawing water!” Song Zheng swore when she spoke to the supervising teacher.

At that time, the people who had been standing around Song Zheng were all members of the student union, and the supervising teacher felt it was a little awkward. “Back then, everyone was quite far away from you – I saw it, don’t make things up.”

“It’s true!” Song Zheng glared as she looked around. When she spotted Song Xiao, whose face was indifferent, something struck her. “Song Xiao, was it you?”

The supervising teacher promptly pulled her back. “What nonsense! If it weren’t for this gege who carried you out, you would still be drenched in hot water!”

“If it wasn’t because he felt guilty, why would he help me?” The more Song Zheng spoke, the more it made sense to her. Last time, she had scalded Song Xiao, and this time, Song Xiao had taken the opportunity to retaliate – she was definitely right. “Teacher, there’s surveillance in the dormitory; help me investigate it.”

Song Xiao looked at his shu sister making up venomous slander and only felt that she was being ridiculous. “I’ll have to trouble you to take care of her; I’m leaving first.” When he finished speaking, he turned and left the infirmary.

This type of brainless shu sister was vastly inferior to his sisters from before.

Just as he left, he got a call from Song Zicheng. “Xiaoxiao, Song Zheng scalded her leg at your school. Xiao Si is heading over soon; go and help dad take a look.”

“I was just in the infirmary.” Song Xiao looked at Song Zheng, who was still making noise inside. “It’s nothing much; just a few blisters.”

“Oh, if it’s nothing, then that’s fine. You go to class ba.” When Song Zicheng heard the indifference in his son’s voice, he also didn’t dare say much and hung up after saying a few more words.

Song Zicheng sending Si Dashu to handle it and not coming himself was probably because he was afraid of being caught by the media. It was the same as when Song Xiao was hospitalized back then, except now, it was that daughter of his whom he had once loved dearly.

No matter how good the feelings were, it was inevitable that they would be whittled down. This was true of romantic love, as well as familial love.

Song Xiao put his phone away and slowly walked over to Yu Tang, who was waiting outside. He looked quietly at Yu Tang’s face, but as soon as the latter raised his eyes to look at him, he dropped his gaze. Directly looking at the emperor was a huge disrespect. “That… let’s go ba.”

He hadn’t clearly seen what happened in the dorm building just now. He wanted to ask the emperor, but this clearly wasn’t a good place to talk, so he didn’t continue to speak.

Yu Tang wordlessly pulled his hand out of his pants pocket and took the lead as he turned around and walked away. However, his hand was extended behind him, the fingers twitching as they indicated for Song Xiao to take his hand.

Song Xiao looked around. Class was currently in session, and there wasn’t anyone around. The infirmary’s corridor was also empty, so he obediently reached out to hold Yu Tang’s hand.

“Alright, don’t cry. Is there anyone you know in this school? Teacher will call them to come to see you.” The supervising teacher tried to comfort Song Zheng. Song Zheng had been very excited previously while they were on the way here, saying that she had a surrogate brother who was particularly handsome or something.

“That’s right, Song Zheng, where’s your surrogate brother? I’ll help you call him.” A female student close to Song Zheng had also stayed behind to accompany her. Hearing the teacher say this, she was also eager to help.

Song Zheng lowered her head and thought about it, and her eyes flashed. That was right, now was just the right time to pretend to be pitiful and show those four big brothers how miserable she was and get them to help her teach Song Xiao a lesson. “Ok.”

It was currently the final morning class, which was self-study. Everyone was doing their best to rush their homework, but 4G naturally weren’t doing their work. They gave all their classwork to their little servant to do. The leader, Jiang Yuntian, was playing a video game, and the other three were playing Fight The Landlord at the back of the classroom.

“Excuse me, is Jiang Yuntian in this class?” A cute little female student poked her head into the class. 4G put down the things in their hands and raised their heads to look at her.

Self-study class was too dull, and now that they had an excuse to leave the classroom, 4G responded enthusiastically and followed the female student out. The little girl looked at the four handsome guys following her, one after another, and was extremely excited. “You guys really are Song Zheng’s older brothers ah. I’m her bestie, Zhang Haohao.”

“Who did you say it was?” Han shao picked his ear.

“Song Zheng ah.” Zhang Haohao emphasized once again.

4G looked at each other, and the long legs that had just stepped into the infirmary drew back at the same time.

“Hey, why aren’t you guys going in?” Zhang Haohao asked, puzzled.

Song Zheng heard the noise from inside and immediately said excitedly, “Yuntian ge, Shaoyang ge, is that you?”

Jiang Yuntian rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and gave Shen Shaoyang a meaningful glance. “She’s calling you, you go in ba.”

“She’s clearly calling you!” Shen shao retorted unhappily.

In the end, the easily bullied Yang shaoye, who wasn’t fond of talking, was pushed inside. “You go ba, Zheng meimei is waiting for you.”

Song Zheng had already sent the supervising teacher away with an excuse. Zhang Haohao didn’t follow Yang shaoye in, so it was just Song Zheng in the infirmary now. Song Zheng looked at Yang shaoye and immediately burst into tears, crying as she recounted her pitiful tale of being bullied by that demon Song Xiao and showing off the large blisters on her leg.

Yang shaoye said little, but he was very direct. After being betrayed by his three comrades, he was already annoyed, and he listened impatiently to Song Zheng. “Enough, enough. Previously, I thought that you were pitiful and decided to help you vent. After all that, it turns out you’re an illegitimate daughter.”

These young masters were young, and still had naive ideas of debts of gratitude and revenge, but they also had principles, and what they hated most were illegitimate children of all sorts. They had thought it was pretty fun at first since Song Zheng was a celebrity’s daughter. Later, because they were paying attention to Song Xiao, they became aware of the fact that Song Zheng was an illegitimate daughter, and immediately lost interest.

The tears on Song Zheng’s face were on the verge of falling when her mouth fell half-open. Stupefied, she stared blankly as the four of them left, leaving her with an equally dumbstruck Zhang Haohao.

Si Dashu came fairly quickly; it wasn’t even noon yet when he arrived to pick Song Zheng up. Song Xiao didn’t go out to see him; instead, he nestled in the dormitory for an afternoon nap with His Majesty the emperor.

“Someone definitely pushed me!” When Song Zheng saw Si Dashu, she finally had a supporter, and noisily insisted on obtaining the surveillance footage.

Si Dashu was helpless, and could only go to the administrator to look for their cooperation. When the school heard what Song Zheng said, they also felt that something was wrong. The head of the guidance department placated Si Dashu and said that they would consult their superiors. Turning to leave, the person hurriedly gave the security branch a call.

“Uncle Xiao Si, if you see anything later, you must tell my dad the truth.” Song Zheng pulled on Si Dashu’s sleeve and spoke pitifully.

Si Dashu felt that something wasn’t right, and gave Song Xiao a call.

Song Xiao was lying on the wide double bed and yawning. After he received the call, he turned to look at the emperor who was playing Tetris beside him. “Song Zheng’s matter, did you have a hand in it?”

Yu Tang dropped a few pieces in one corner and then didn’t insert one in the right place. Immediately, there was a blank space, and he frowned. “Don’t worry about it.”

“It really was you?” Song Xiao sat up and frowned at him. Modern society wasn’t the same as Great Yu; back then, the emperor wielded the power of life and death, and if someone was displeasing to his eye, then ‘kacha’. However, that wasn’t possible now.

Because of that one displacement, there was nowhere to place the next few tiles, and they quickly stacked up. Yu Tang closed his game and raised his eyes to look at Song Xiao. “For zhen to not destroy her face is already lenient treatment.”

Seeing that Song Xiao was fuming, Yu Tang was somewhat unhappy. Reaching out, he grabbed Song Xiao close and gripped his chin. “What’s wrong? You feel sorry for her?” That shu girl had a vicious mind and had almost damaged Song Xiao’s face. Yu Tang had personally taken revenge for him, but not only didn’t Song Xiao thank him for his favor, he even felt outraged on that shu girl’s behalf?

“Song Zheng wants to look at the surveillance footage now!” Song Xiao said angrily. The emperor had clearly been an expert at getting someone else to do the dirty work before – why was he so simple and cruel this time?

Yu Tang was taken aback, and the hand grasping Song Xiao’s chin immediately turned into a caress. “Empress, is this worry for zhen?”

Little Theatre

‘Beauty That Topples Countries’

Xiaoxiao: Your Majesty, Song Zheng splashed boiling water over me

Fish Tang: Kacha

Xiaoxiao: Your Majesty, Zhang Xiaoren bit my shoe and spoiled it

Fish Tang: Kacha

Xiaoxiao: Your Majesty, didi peed on me

Fish Tang: Kacha

Xiaoxiao: …This can’t be kacha-ed ba

Fish Tang: (Seizes didi’s teething rusk) kacha kacha

Didi: QAQ