Chapter 279: The Gentle Psychiatrist (49)
Tang Meng was speaking to the young man in a straightforward way.
The words that came out of the young woman's mouth, however, surprised Cheng Ying and the friends around him. A young man in the group poked Cheng Ying on the shoulder to ask him who the young woman in front of them was.
"Miss, have you made some kind of mistake?" was Cheng Ying's response.
The young man appeared calm and was even smiling with concern.
"Even if I added you as a friend, you would not even accept my friend request," Tang Meng continued on stubbornly. "I only wanted to know how you have been these past few years!"
Tang Meng's words sounded ambiguous and instantly made everyone feel like gossiping. And this caused Cheng Ying to frown.
He had just emerged from the school gate after walking a few steps and was currently still in close proximity to the school. If he were to create some kind of fuss, he would most definitely be talked about by the people around him, which in turn might affect everyone's view of him. This would be detrimental to his newly-made reputation.
Now, in the clique, there happened to be a young woman who was strongly attracted to Cheng Ying. She swiftly tugged on Cheng Ying's sleeve and inquired to the young man in a low voice about what was going on with this woman in front of them.
Cheng Ying smiled. Then he looked at the young woman gently as he answered her, "Have you not always wanted to know the reason I transferred to another school from my original one?" He seemed to stop for a brief moment before he continued, "It was because this woman and her friends could not stand the sight of me, so they poured their leftovers on me." He said this as he shot Tang Meng a glance. "Her family is very powerful, so I had no choice but to transfer to another school."
The girl was stunned, and this went the same for Cheng Ying's classmates as well as the people around her. The atmosphere went awkward for a moment, and then Cheng Ying spoke up again.
"I do not want to accept your friend request because I think you are disgusting." Cheng Ying addressed this to Tang Meng. "Please get out of my sight quickly; thank you." He then directed his attention back to his peers. "Let us head out too. Sorry for making you guys hear this kind of unpleasant thing."
Cheng Ying was displaying a guilty look on his face.
The young woman next to him, who was attracted to the young man, was the first one to react and glared at Tang Meng fiercely, seemingly as if she were looking at some dirty garbage floating in the sewage. Then she took the lead to pull Cheng Ying away.
The rest of Cheng Ying's classmates around them also promptly came back to their senses at this point in time, and their eyes when they looked at Tang Meng instantly became full of malice.
"How can there be such disgusting people in the world? Has humanity been declining so much that this has happened?"
"The morals in the world are degenerating with each passing day!"
"Cheng Ying, do not think any more about the past. Everything is all in the past!"
"Yes, yes, Cheng Ying, do not think about those unhappy things again! I am going to treat you today!"
"Seriously, this woman is also very shameless! How dare she actually show up here to find you without harboring any shame at all? Is she mentally retarded?"
"More like having a personality disorder!"
"I think psychopath is the right word."
Tang Meng was choked on the spot, and her pupils were filled with shock. There were four or five other people around who heard Cheng Ying's words, and they all cast glances that were full of disgust or a hard, interrogative stare at her.
Boys and girls at this age all have their own double-standard attitudes. And if they were to be faced with people who bullied others, they would feel the need to enact justice.
If their friend was bullied by someone else from another school, they would immediately be turned into a righteous partner or companion.
It was not until now that Tang Meng truly became aware that Cheng Ying had completely changed. The young man would most certainly never have spoken to her like this if it were in the past.
When the young woman finally recovered from the shock, she noticed that everyone around her was looking at her as if they were looking at a street rat.
Tang Meng has been a rich and spoiled eldest young lady ever since she was a child. She typically looked cold, aloof, and confident wherever she went. So when has she ever been stared at like this or been subjected to this kind of treatment before by others?
The young woman felt angry and bitter, and she wanted to say something and anything in response, but soon enough she found out that she was not able to say a single thing at all. There were so many people around her, and she did not recognize any of their faces, so who was she going to justify her actions to? Was she going to clarify this to every single person here? Would they even hear her words?
In the end, Tang Meng had to head back to the police station in a state of despair.
But as soon as she walked in, she was immediately criticized by her senior (direct leader or boss).
"Tang Meng! Where have you been?" Wu Bin asked in a hard tone. "At first, you were the one who wanted to keep an eye on this case, and I did not stop you. But now the circumstances have finally turned around, and you have finally come across something. So what are you thinking about every day now?"