CHAPTER 47: CHAPTER 47 EVIDENCE

Rong Zhi slightly curled his lips, looking at him neither warmly nor coldly, his tone extremely calm, "If I can prove my innocence, Mr. Zhou, will you apologize?"

Zhou Zhongming was incredulous.

Did he just hear a joke? Apologize? Prove himself? Did Rong Zhi think he hadn’t lost enough face and was now setting himself up to get slapped even more?

"Fine," Zhou Zhongming was confident and fearless. He was sure Rong Zhi couldn’t come up with any evidence, so he just curled his lips into a cold sneer, his voice full of sarcasm, "As long as you can prove it, I will apologize for what I just said!"

Rong Zhi gave a slight hum, calmly took out his phone, and started fiddling with it in front of a few people.

Zhou Zhongming snorted, his tone was mocking, "What kind of attitude is this? Playing with your phone? And expecting to come up with evidence to prove your innocence? Don’t make me laugh, you’d better sign the withdrawal paper and leave school sooner."

Yu Nian glared at him, looking nervously at Rong Zhi.

The other party’s expression was overly calm, and his aura was serene. Watching him, Yu Nian felt an incredible calmness settle inside.

After a while, actually just a few minutes, but the people in the principal’s office felt like half a century had passed. Zhou Zhongming was about to make another snide remark when Rong Zhi suddenly moved.

The young man slowly lifted his face, his eyebrows slightly raised, calm and courteous, and asked indifferently, "Is there a computer?"

Of course there is!

Principal Ming also wanted to see what evidence she could produce, so he immediately pushed the computer towards her. Rong Zhi took it and calmly thanked him.

The laptop was on and usable. After Rong Zhi tapped a few keys on that pair of hands like artworks, a video frame suddenly popped up on the previously blank computer screen.

Rong Zhi hit the spacebar and stepped aside, his chin lifted slightly, lips curled with a smile, "Evidence."

"I want to see what sort of trick you’re playing." Zhou Zhongming was eager to see Rong Zhi expelled, and he was the first to push forward.

Yu Nian twitched the corners of her mouth, her hands itching, and Yao Xiaoshan quickly pulled her back.

Everyone, including Principal Ming, leaned in front of the laptop.

The video had already started playing.

On the screen, it was clear this was surveillance in a corridor, with sound.

Although a few people were pixelated, the footage was still clear. From a girl deliberately causing trouble, to unreasonable pestering, and the final threats, everything was clearly recorded by the surveillance.

And the girl was a face familiar to those present, the one who posted accusing Rong Zhi of harassment, Yang Yuli!

After watching the video, none of them could quite regain their senses.

Rong Zhi sat in a nearby sofa, his legs lazily crossed, fingers casually twirling his phone. When he caught their collective gazes, he raised an eyebrow, a faint smile on his face, "I also have a recording, want to listen?"

Zhou Zhongming immediately shuddered, opened his mouth to stop it, but it was too late.

The same female voice from the video rang out in the office.

The first few minutes were Yang Yuli and a male voice discussing how to publish on forums that Rong Zhi was an illegitimate child.

This male voice was somewhat familiar too. Yu Nian, who had a good relationship with the homeroom teacher of Class 16 and had occasionally seen the other party counseling students in the office, realized it after thinking for a moment.

She suddenly exclaimed, "Mo Jia Shi?!"

Principal Ming was puzzled, "Mo Jia Shi?"

Yu Nian pieced the whole thing together, feeling like she realized something significant, her face grim as she said heavily, "It’s the student who was suspended for a week for violating school rules some time ago."

As for the reason for the violation, everyone present knew it clearly.

The latter part of the recording thus seemed even clearer and more disturbing.

After listening, Yu Nian’s fingertips trembled violently.

Yao Xiaoshan, however, noticed something else, she frowned and looked at Rong Zhi, "Those thugs didn’t touch you, right? Are you hurt?"

Yu Nian suddenly looked up, rushed in front of Rong Zhi, and pulled up her sleeve. She remembered that Yang Yuli had said over the phone to have Lu Yi and them break Rong Zhi’s legs.

Her fingers shook, she bit her lip trying her best to hold back, patting Rong Zhi’s arm repeatedly, her voice trembling, "Let the teacher see your leg, I’ll check for you. No, we’ll go to the infirmary, now."

Rong Zhi laughed lightly, helpless as Yu Nian held his arm.

This little teacher was so concerned she was acting irrationally. If she were genuinely hurt, could she still sit here just fine?

Rong Zhi lowered his eyes slightly, shifted his hand to pat the soft top of the little teacher’s head, smiling, "It’s fine, all the legs are just fine."

Yao Xiaoshan, Principal Ming, Zhou Zhongming: "..."

Is this the time to joke?

Yu Nian was stunned, immediately wanted to punch him but was afraid of hitting too hard, her strength light as she tapped Rong Zhi as if tickling him.

But this also allowed her to calm down, her gaze swept past everyone, landing coldly on Zhou Zhongming, a silent cold smile, "Yang is a student from Class 1, right? I wonder how our Classmate Rong offended her to provoke such a vicious retaliation?"

"Young in age, but such a ruthless heart."

Yu Nian’s nature was gentle, unable to say harsh words like Zhou Zhongming.

Zhou Zhongming stared hard at Rong Zhi’s face, his expression extremely bizarre. How could it be that it was clearly Rong Zhi’s character at fault, but the initiator turned out to be Yang Yuli?!

And where did Rong Zhi get the video and recording!

He didn’t believe it! This must be something Rong Zhi fabricated to slander Yang Yuli. After all, she had a prior record!

Zhou Zhongming thought he had figured it out and forcibly stabilized his emotions, looking at Rong Zhi with increased disgust, "I didn’t expect you’d actually fabricate evidence to clear your name."

Rong Zhi didn’t lift his head, just slipped the phone back into his pocket and spoke directly, "The video is from the National Music Hall."

Fabricating an official video from such a place, is she looking to go to jail?

Principal Ming had visited the music hall before. He had found it familiar earlier; Rong Zhi reminded him, he slowly touched his head, "It’s real, not fabricated."

Zhou Zhongming’s face grew harder to look at, his lips pressed tight, gloomy and stiff to the extreme.

Principal Ming took a deep breath, sighed, "Mr. Zhou, today’s events were entirely caused by Yang, Classmate Rong was innocent and suffered an undeserved calamity. I’ll have someone investigate and report on the situation later, but for now, please apologize to Classmate Rong."

If Zhou Zhongming hadn’t said such harsh words at the start, it wouldn’t have escalated to this point where he couldn’t back down.

Zhou Zhongming’s reaction was huge. Upon hearing this, the face under his glasses twisted, an extremely deep red.

To apologize to a student with such poor character, this was impossible!

"Even if he didn’t take action, the fact remains that he has a history of misconduct and poor grades!" Zhou Zhongming seized upon this one stain, raised his head, and adopted a superior posture, "I will not apologize to a poor student."

"You!" Yu Nian’s cheeks flushed with anger, "Shameless! You clearly agreed just now!"

Zhou Zhongming argued more righteously, "Did I say anything wrong? Yu Nian, can you say you haven’t seen Rong Zhi’s academic records? And Rong Zhi, the things you’ve done are like a dirty stain, once they’ve been thrown on you, don’t think you can wash them clean."

Yu Nian was stunned for a moment.

She clenched her fist, eyes widening, and jumped up from the sofa to swing at Zhou Zhongming—

"Yu Nian!"

Yao Xiaoshan didn’t have time to intervene.

However.