In her senior year of high school, Lin Zhi was cornered in the bathroom by the school bully and extorted for money. When she couldn't pay, they threatened to go after her friends.
She thought no one would help her.
But whenever someone cornered her, some “accident” always seemed to happen. Tang Li would suddenly find a bucket of dirty water dumped over her shoes. Ding Mei would raise her hand, only for a security guard to “happen” to walk by and stop her. Even half the amount on a debt note would get torn away.
Xi Yue, the scariest troublemaker in the whole school, had never said a word to her. But whenever he passed by, he would toss her his school jacket to keep her warm, or slip a roll of clear tape into her backpack. Two words were carved into its side: “Don't be afraid.”
Everyone called him a cold-blooded monster. Yet he helped her tape her torn textbooks back together, slipped hot buns into her desk when she was made to stand as punishment, and even climbed back over the school wall late at night just to return the homework notebook she'd left behind.
She thought she was fighting alone. Only later did she learn that someone had been clearing the path for her every step of the way.
The person everyone at school feared was gentle with her alone.
What she had to do was simple: tear away the bully's disguise, expose the model student's mask, and show everyone who the real villain was.
This time, someone was standing behind her.
