Chapter 127: 127 Someone is Acting Lowly

Chapter 127: Chapter 127 Someone is Acting Lowly

Qin Cuifen and Zhou Xuelian immediately got anxious, “Captain…”

“Twenty-five laps,” Chen Yingjie declared, his face menacing and his eyes deadly, frightening everyone into silence like cicadas in the cold.

But Chen Huaying wasn’t afraid. She lifted her chin and walked up to Qin Cuifen, sneering, “Harming others without benefiting yourself—I’ll remember this.” She was the first to leave and accept her punishment.

Qin Cuifen shrank her neck, having originally wanted to ingratiate herself with Chen Huaying. Unable to outdo Sheng Ning no matter what she did, she simply decided to sabotage her too.

“Cuifen, I’ll slowly return all your ‘kindness’ to me in the future,” Sheng Ning, the second one to leave, passed by Qin Cuifen and gave her the sweetest smile.

For a moment, it blossomed like spring flowers, brightening up the somewhat dim dormitory.

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Chen Yingjie pursed his lips, watching coldly from the sidelines.

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The evening’s inspection of the female comrades’ affairs spread like wildfire through the War Wolf Rescue Team. Orders were strict, and nobody would gossip lightly about the female comrades. But the idle chatter among the women themselves could not be stopped. All of them coming from the General Union Song and Dance Troupe, where fierce competition already existed, seizing any opportunity to mock a rival was too good to miss.

Hence, on the training field where Sheng Ning and others stood as punishment, female comrades occasionally passed by, taking the chance to point fingers and whisper.

Faced with those schadenfreude gazes, a few of them kept their heads down and ran. Since her period had ended, Sheng Ning’s physical fitness had returned to its peak, her breathing steady as she completed lap after lap, surprisingly matching Chen Huaying, who had grown up in the Dean’s compound since childhood.

Even the aloof Liu Yilan couldn’t help stealing glances.

Given Sheng Ning’s beautiful appearance and her delicate and frail demeanor, one wouldn’t expect her to carry a burden or lift a finger. Even if she wasn’t as weak as Qin Cuifen had claimed, those words wouldn’t have been entirely baseless.

But today’s run completely overturned everyone’s impression of her.

Qin Cuifen and Zhou Xuelian lagged far behind, whispering to each other. They were caught and severely reprimanded by someone sent by Dai Bin to supervise.

“Serves them right!” Wu Youli spat disdainfully, utterly contemptuous of Qin Cuifen’s behavior.

With just a few people in the dormitory, everyone else had cleaned up and left early. Only the two of them arrived late and stayed until the end, coincidentally their hygiene being the most lacking. Who else but them could have purposely made a mess?

“Truly brainless. If you want to frame someone, at least make an effort to cover your tracks,” Liu Yilan commented with disdain.

“They’re not brainless; they’re greedy,” Chen Huaying hit the nail on the head. “They want to frame us but don’t want to implicate themselves. They take everyone for fools!”

When they reached the opposite side of the training field, they were momentarily farther from the supervising eyes. Sheng Ning slowed her pace to align with the others and apologized sheepishly, “I’m sorry, it’s my fault you’re all involved.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, what does their disgrace have to do with you?” said Chen Huaying nonchalantly.

“It’s not your fault!” Liu Yilan threw out coldly, continuing to march forward, panting heavily.

Wu Youli bit her lip, her expression resolute, “It wasn’t your doing; how can we blame you? Don’t overthink it.” Although she was upset about losing five points, Sheng Ning was a friend she recognized. Naturally, she would stand by her friend in a crucial moment.

The blame could only fall on Qin Cuifen.

Wu Youli, who had grown up in an intellectual family, was witnessing such behavior for the first time and was truly shocked by Qin Cuifen’s shamelessness.