Free Web NovelChapter 61: Chapter 61: Comeuppance
In truth, it didn’t matter if she deleted it; the damage was already done.
Some netizens actually visited the Class 7 student’s Weibo and found that she really did have a depression diagnosis on her page. Moreover, the vast majority of her posts were protests.
The netizens immediately exploded. They swarmed back to Laura Rhodes’s Weibo to "pay her a visit."
[So it was true. What a scumbag!]
[I demand she be fired! A teacher like that doesn’t deserve to teach!]
[Finally, someone dared to speak up. Since everyone is exposing her, I’ll step forward too. I was a student of hers a few years back, and I’m working now. Laura Rhodes used to be my homeroom teacher. My grades were above average, but my parents got sick during my senior year of high school. For Teacher’s Day, Laura Rhodes demanded every student give five hundred yuan for a gift for the teachers. My family was struggling financially, so I explained my situation. After that, I was constantly targeted by her!]
[My grades were good back then, and I got along with my classmates, so the mental pressure wasn’t that bad. But I was truly miserable. I didn’t dare say anything before because she had connections, and I was scared. Now that she’s being publicly shamed, you can call it kicking her while she’s down or say it’s unethical, I don’t care. I’m going to expose this kind of teacher no matter what!]
Netizens were left dumbfounded.
Because in less than an hour, numerous students had come forward to talk about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Laura Rhodes.
But what shocked everyone even more was that a popular celebrity actually came out and made a statement.
The celebrity’s name was Hector York. In the past two years, he had starred in many web dramas, a lot of which were huge hits, and he had a massive following.
However, he rarely posted on Weibo, so when he spoke up, all his fans were shocked. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
Hector York: [Three years ago, I admitted to having plastic surgery. But in all these years, I’ve never explained why I did it. Today, seeing Mr. Rhodes trending, I feel I need to step forward and say a few words.]
[I was her student five years ago. In my second year of high school, I transferred into Class 1 with the top rank in our grade, and Mr. Rhodes became my homeroom teacher. During one lecture, I noticed she made a mistake. After class, I went to her office to point it out. I didn’t realize she was unhappy at the time. It wasn’t until later that she started subtly insulting me in class, filling my ears with all sorts of humiliating words.]
[As a 17-year-old, I wasn’t strong. My grades plummeted after that. But the thing that truly changed my life happened during a lunch break. I was going to ask Mr. Rhodes a question, but I happened to walk in on her with a school administrator. Afterward, her verbal abuse escalated to occasional physical violence in the classroom. That’s how I got the scar by my eye!]
[Later on, my parents fell ill one after another, and she started badmouthing them. After a full year of being belittled and insulted, I had no choice but to drop out of school. I was discovered by a talent scout by chance and, through a twist of fate, entered the entertainment industry. The first money I earned, I used for plastic surgery. Now, my parents are healthy, my family is happy, and that’s enough for me. But I hope to expose this kind of teacher, and I also hope the Education Bureau will strengthen its reforms!]
Reading through the entire post, his fans couldn’t help but tear up.
They never knew that the idol they cherished so much had suffered such treatment in high school!
If only he hadn’t met a teacher like her.
Without a teacher like that, would their idol have been able to go to college like a normal student and have a passionate romance?
No one suspected Hector York of just selling a sob story.
After all, if he wanted to play the victim, he would have shared his story back when he first became famous. Doing so would have probably gained him a whole new wave of fans.
