Those who commit too many evil deeds will inevitably face retribution.
Ji Zhaoxi never expected the missing class funds to appear in her own drawer.
After PE class ended, everyone was panting and resting on their desks.
Just then, a few boys came in noisily and happened to bump into Ji Zhaoxi's desk.
Red banknotes cascaded onto the floor, gleaming in the sunlight.
The class instantly fell silent.
Ji Zhaoxi stared dumbfounded at the money on the floor, her face suddenly turning pale.
Who was framing her?!
This scene wasn't in the script!
All eyes in the classroom focused on Ji Zhaoxi. She crouched down, her hands trembling as she picked up the money from the floor.
Just then, a pair of well-defined hands appeared in her line of sight, accompanied by an approaching cold aura.
"Is this money... the class funds or yours from this morning?"
Ji Zhaoxi forced herself to stay calm: "It's the class funds."
Xie Sili gave a low hum and didn't say much else. He took the money from Ji Zhaoxi's hands and said calmly, "Ji Zhaoxi found the class funds. I'll go tell Jiang Shiyi now."
After Xie Sili left, Ji Zhaoxi's legs went soft. She didn't dare to look at anyone else's expressions at all.
She was doomed. She had been framed, and her classmates would definitely think she stole it.
She was pretending to be a good person this morning, and by the afternoon, the class funds appeared in her drawer.
But to her confusion, no one actually mocked her.
She sneaked a glance at the people around her. They had resumed what they were doing and didn't seem to care about the incident at all.
She sat in her seat, agonizing over it for more than ten minutes before she couldn't help but ask.
"Do you guys think I stole it?"
She shouldn't have wronged Jiang Shiyi. It was only when it happened to her that she realized how terrifying it was.
Her deskmate looked at Ji Zhaoxi in surprise: "Why would you think that? No one thinks so."
Ji Zhaoxi was on the verge of tears: "But the money fell out of my drawer."
Her deskmate nodded nonchalantly: "Then someone probably put it in your drawer."
No one believed Ji Zhaoxi had the guts to steal the class funds.
Ji Zhaoxi was now utterly bewildered.
She lived in fear and trepidation for the next few days. Seeing that indeed no one looked at her weirdly, she finally relaxed.
The stolen funds hadn't been solved for days, and the class found a new suspect.
It was the boy who had initially made a joke about Jiang Shiyi.
He sat in his seat, his face flushed red: "Are you guys crazy? Would I stoop so low for this little money?"
Someone nearby muttered a rebuttal: "It's not just a little money."
Furious, the boy threw his book at the speaker and cursed, "What do you mean? You think I took it?!"
"What the hell do you mean? What gives you the right to suspect me!"
Spit flew through the air. The boy who was hit also got angry and yelled at the top of his lungs, "What do I mean? You were the only one not there at the time. Isn't it normal to suspect you?"
The next second, Braces Guy fiercely grabbed the boy's collar: "Try spouting nonsense again?"
The people around quickly stepped forward to stop them.
Braces Guy let go of the boy, throwing him to the ground, and sneered, "Even if you want to suspect someone, it shouldn't be me. Shouldn't the most suspicious person be Ji Zhaoxi? The money fell right out of her drawer."
He brushed the dust off himself, his face growing uglier: "What, you guys are just targeting me?"
Ji Zhaoxi, who was just watching the drama: ?
With dirty water splashed on her, Ji Zhaoxi couldn't sit still anymore: "Hey, don't drag me into this. Now I'm starting to suspect that you stole the money and stuffed it into my drawer."
Turning the tables and making counter-accusations was Ji Zhaoxi's strong suit.
Her deskmate tugged at Ji Zhaoxi, afraid she might get beaten up.
But she couldn't budge her.
Ji Zhaoxi's heart trembled in fear when Braces Guy glared at her, but she still spoke up in a small voice: "We were all on the field at the time. Where did you go? If you're short of money, I can lend you some. Why did you have to secretly take the class funds?"
"Last time I even saw you and some guys from outside the school robbing a primary schooler's money. It's only normal for me to think this way."
This is what a gloomy lurker is like: observing everyone from the shadows, and during a dispute, bringing out the opponent's weakness to launch a fierce attack.
As soon as she said this, the whole class was in an uproar.
"Robbing primary schoolers? Do you have no shame?"
"Damn, he never seemed like a good guy anyway."
"That's so lame..."
Braces Guy looked at his classmates' expressions in panic. He rebutted, red in the face, "Nonsense! They robbed him, I didn't!"
Ji Zhaoxi gave him an honest, innocent look: "Whatever you say."
After saying that, she quietly sat back down.
She observed her classmates' reactions from the corner of her eye. Seeing their disdainful looks, Ji Zhaoxi silently gave herself a thumbs-up in her heart.
Good job.
Even an honest person shouldn't let others bully them so easily.
Just as she was about to sneak a peek at Braces Guy's expression, her gaze happened to meet Xie Sili's from a short distance away. Both of them froze.
Ji Zhaoxi paused for a moment, then turned her head away as if nothing had happened and started doing her exercises.
Misunderstood by everyone, Braces Guy ended up crying out of sheer frustration.
Later, it was found out that another boy had stolen the class funds, but Braces Guy knew about it at the time and even wanted a cut.
Putting the money in Ji Zhaoxi's drawer was a choice Braces Guy made in a panic.
He figured that since Ji Zhaoxi was so timid, she definitely wouldn't have the nerve to defend herself.
But he never expected that exactly because Ji Zhaoxi gave the impression of being overly honest, no one suspected her at all.
Because the amount involved was quite large, both boys were taken home by their parents.
Having eliminated an annoying person, Ji Zhaoxi was in a very good mood.
But life doesn't always go your way. When you're in a good mood, it always throws a little trouble your way.
The sky hung low, dark clouds pressing down. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled as heavy rain poured down. Raindrops splashed on the ground, creating ripples, and the entire campus was enveloped in a thin mist.
Ji Zhaoxi watched in silence as the students left one by one, holding up their umbrellas.
She used to bring an umbrella every day, but her bag was too full this morning, so she didn't pack it.
And as a result, it just had to rain...
Ji Zhaoxi started letting her imagination run wild. If Jiang Shiyi hadn't brought an umbrella, would the rain stop?
[No.]
A cold voice echoed in her mind.
The system was back.
[Even if she is the Child of Fortune, she isn't at the level where she can control the weather.]
"Oh," Ji Zhaoxi replied dryly.
The system checked on Ji Zhaoxi's performance during this period.
Ji Zhaoxi hadn't disappointed it. Although she wasn't the kind of vicious female supporting character it wanted, this feeling of an honest person doing evil was also pretty good.
To be honest, it had doubted whether Ji Zhaoxi could complete this task at the time. After all, there were too many people faking their resumes nowadays.
But her eyes were too sincere, and it couldn't help but give her this chance.
"System, if I do something wrong, will there be a punishment? Will you electrocute me?"
Ji Zhaoxi anxiously asked the question she wanted to ask the most.
The system paused for a moment.
[There is no punishment for failure. You just need to remedy it. We are a proper system and can bear the consequences of our host's mistakes.]
If you ever get electrocuted, you might want to consider whether you have ended up in a telecom scam ring.
