Chapter 51: At Least Show Some Respect

“There’s really no particular reason,” Ye Wuqi admitted honestly. “I just found it funny that you had no idea I was the school bully, and even asked if I was being bullied by one.”

“How could you be the school bully…” Ye Luo suddenly lowered her eyes, a bit lost. This kind of ancestor of hers hardly needed her protection at all…

“Hey, hey, don’t scare me,” Ye Wuqi panicked again. “Alright, alright, it was my fault, I lied to you, I admit it, okay? I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please don’t be like this, really, please don’t. Gosh, I don’t even know why I’m so afraid when you look like that.”

At last, Yan Baba spoke up for him, brash and straightforward: “Sister Luo, Qi is just playful, he doesn’t mean you any harm. Forgive him this time, we’re all in the same class, so give him some face, yeah?”

Lei Xingxing then asked in his innocent way, “Sister Luo, do you have some kind of grudge against the school bully? Why can’t Qi be the school bully? He’s way cooler that way, and no one will mess with us wherever we go, Qi will always have our backs.”

Ye Luo grew even more bewildered.

Her ancestor truly did not need her protection…

In fact, he could even protect others…

“Hey, you…” Yan Baba and Lei Xingxing started to panic as well.

But in the next instant, Ye Luo collected herself and regained her calm expression. “I’m fine. Let’s go.”

With that, she entered the school ahead of them.

Ye Wuqi, Yan Baba, and Lei Xingxing were still quite unsettled, but they hurried after her, coaxing her as they went.

They tried every manner and style of coaxing.

At last, Ye Luo stopped and looked at them with a serene gaze, but her tone grew firmer. “I really am fine.”

“Huh?” Ye Wuqi was taken aback, still a little unsure. “Really?”

“Yes.”

“So that’s it? You’re not mad at me for lying to you?”

“Yes.” After all, he was her ancestor, and a little lie wouldn’t change that.

“That’s great!” Ye Wuqi finally relaxed and smiled.

Yan Baba and Lei Xingxing smiled too, relieved.

And as soon as the tension eased, Ye Wuqi grinned mischievously again. “But you still haven’t answered the big gorilla’s question—do you have a grudge against the school bully? And why can’t I be the school bully?”

“I don’t have any grudge against the school bully.” She paused, her tone even more indifferent. “I just don’t want you to be the school bully.”

Yan Baba immediately waggled his eyebrows, teasing, “Oh, oh, is this a confession? Wasn’t the two hundred thousand yesterday enough?”

Ye Luo fell silent.

“Baba, one day I’m going to rip that mouth of yours off!” Ye Wuqi laughed and kicked Yan Baba, then turned to Ye Luo with a smile. “Don’t mind him. But whether you want it or not, I am the school bully. It’s actually pretty fun, and I’m not planning to hand over the title to anyone just yet. But I’ll always look out for you, don’t worry.”

Ye Luo’s feelings grew complicated.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this…

But if her ancestor was the one and only school bully, then all the oddities would finally make sense.

Like how everyone called her ancestor “Brother Qi”; like how everyone was inexplicably afraid of him; like how no one dared to make fun of him; like how, whenever her ancestor mentioned Qin Zhaoyu as the school bully, Yan Baba and Lei Xingxing’s faces would turn odd and their attitudes would shift…

Wait a minute.

Her emotions were so tangled that she couldn’t help but give Ye Wuqi a complicated look.

And then, unable to resist, she asked, “Why does the principal protect you so much?”

She’d heard about it her first time at this school: it was because the principal looked out for the school bully that he had never been expelled.