The Rising Phoenix

Chapter 1042: Chapter 1042: Whining To Her Grandfather

Mo Zhenhua frowned deeply, a flash of annoyance crossing his features as he looked up from his ruined desk. However, before he could even utter a single word of reprimand, Mo Jiao had already rushed across the room like a whirlwind and thrown herself toward him.

"Grandpa, you absolutely need to help me! Someone is bullying me!" Mo Jiao cried out, her voice heavily laced with forced grievance and dramatic indignation.

The moment he heard that his precious, doted-on granddaughter had apparently been bullied on school grounds, Mo Zhenhua’s strict expression immediately darkened into a protective scowl.

"Who dared to bully you?" Mo Zhenhua asked in a deep, booming voice. "Tell Grandpa right now. Grandpa will personally make sure to teach that person a proper, painful lesson."

"It is that wretched new student, Bai Xifeng!" Mo Jiao immediately replied, not missing a single beat.

"Bai Xifeng?" Mo Zhenhua repeated the name slowly, tasting the syllables.

The name sounded strangely, deeply familiar to him. He furrowed his brows and tried to recall where exactly he had heard it before. Recently, it seemed as though that specific name had been popping up everywhere throughout the school’s administrative meetings.

After a few moments of silent thought, a vague but powerful impression surfaced in his mind.

Wasn’t Bai Xifeng the exact monster freshman who had caused quite a massive stir among the faculty recently? The one who had somehow climbed all the way to the 888th floor of the Cultivation Pagoda in record time? The one whom practically every single veteran teacher had been discussing with awe lately?

Mo Zhenhua narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, stroking his beard. Still, regardless of how jaw-droppingly talented this new student might be, his granddaughter was his granddaughter. Blood was thicker than water. Since Mo Jiao had come directly to him seeking political shelter and claiming that Bai Xifeng had bullied her, he naturally could not simply ignore the matter and brush her off.

"What exactly happened between the two of you?" Mo Zhenhua asked, adjusting his robes.

Seeing that her grandfather was entirely willing to listen to her side of things, Mo Jiao immediately began recounting the incident outside the hall. Of course, she smoothly and conveniently omitted all of her own glaring faults, her rude pointing, and her initial accusations. Instead, she exaggerated Bai Xifeng’s blunt actions as much as humanly possible.

By the time she finished spinning her tale, Bai Xifeng had practically become an unreasonable, vicious villain who constantly targeted, harassed, and publicly humiliated her for absolutely no reason at all.

Mo Zhenhua listened quietly from beginning to end without interrupting. However, the more he listened to her story, the deeper the crease between his ageing brows became.

Even though he doted on his granddaughter greatly and gave her almost anything she wanted, he was an elder director for a reason. He was not completely foolish. After hearing her highly dramatic story, his sharp instincts told him that something did not quite add up. The narrative was simply too one-sided to be completely true.

Still, seeing Mo Jiao’s heavily aggrieved expression and purposefully reddened eyes, Mo Zhenhua chose not to immediately point out the glaring inconsistencies in her logic.

"Very well." Mo Zhenhua finally said, setting his ruined brush down. "I will look into this matter personally."

Hearing those reassuring words, Mo Jiao’s eyes immediately brightened with malicious joy.

"Really, Grandpa? You will handle it?" Mo Jiao asked.

"Of course." Mo Zhenhua nodded calmly, his voice even. "However, before I make any official judgment or pass a punishment, I will investigate the matter thoroughly myself."

A brief trace of sharp dissatisfaction flashed across Mo Jiao’s face. She had deeply hoped her grandfather would simply fly into a rage and order Bai Xifeng’s immediate suspension or punishment right then and there. Unfortunately, she knew his strict temperament well enough to know she could not push him any further without making him suspicious.

"Alright." Mo Jiao reluctantly nodded her head.

Only after receiving her grandfather’s firm promise did the raging anger in her heart lessen slightly, replaced by a smug satisfaction.

Meanwhile, far away from the director’s grand office, Bai Xifeng was completely and blissfully unaware that Mo Jiao had already run off to complain about her to the higher authorities. Though, realistically speaking, even if she had known about the complaint, she probably would not have cared in the slightest.

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"Well, that was absolutely crazy." Bai Xifeng stated with a chuckle after they had finally walked far enough away from the chaotic situation.

"You seriously didn’t remember her at first?" Xie Lanying asked, glancing sideways at her friend as they strolled down the path.

"Well, I definitely do now. She is that pampered, completely crazy girl who practically caused her own teammate to lose his entire arm." Bai Xifeng stated, shaking her head at the memory.

"What? Lose his arm?" Xie Lanying stopped in her tracks, looking genuinely surprised to hear that. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, completely serious. However, the guy was incredibly lucky that he happened to encounter me that night. I just so happened to have a premium elixir on hand that could fully regenerate his arm." Bai Xifeng stated, a proud smirk spreading across her face. "Well, of course, a miracle like that wasn’t exactly free. He had to scrape together literally all of his savings and even borrowed a bunch of coins from his friend at the time just to pay me. But that selfish woman? She didn’t even bother lending him a single copper coin to help him out."

"Wow... I mean, I have heard rumours about her reputation before, but I have never actually sat down and talked to her. People always said she acts like that because she is the spoiled granddaughter of one of our school directors." Xie Lanying remembered what people had been talking before.

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