Reborn in the 1990s, I want my husband to live to be a hundred.

Chapter 168 Thicker Skin Than a City Wall

"Where's Wenxin?" With Wenjing safely back, Deng Xiuzhen's illness immediately improved significantly. She realized she hadn't seen Wenxin for several days. It was the weekend, and Wenxin usually came home.

"I saw Sister Wenxin enter the school that day, so I came back, and then I didn't ask her anything," Wen Yu replied. These past few days, Deng Xiuzhen has been sick, so he asked the teacher for leave, skipping morning and evening self-study sessions and coming home every day.

Everyone was relieved to hear that Wenxin had gone to school.

"Qin Wenxin, you have no ability yourself, yet you use someone else's company's research results to participate in the competition. Tsk tsk, your skin is probably thicker than a city wall, isn't it?" Jiang Xinyue and a group of people blocked Qin Wenxin's way.

"City wall? How can a city wall be as thick-skinned as her? Xin Yue, don't overestimate the city wall." Liu Liu smiled with a wink.

"I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as Qin Wenxin!" Zhou Juan sneered.

"Don't even mention her, she's a genius girl at our school!" Wang Li said sarcastically.

"You! How could you do this? Wasn't it you who invited me to participate in the first place? If it weren't for you, why would I have participated?" Qin Wenxin's eyes turned red with anger, and her chest heaved.

"We invited you? You're shameless, you've got a Guinness World Record for shamelessness! You're a liberal arts student, we invited you to participate in a computer competition? Don't you have any shame?" Jiang Xinyue shoved Qin Wenxin, making her stumble.

"You're a disgrace to our school!" Wang Li slapped Qin Wenxin across the face.

"How could you hit someone?" Qin Wenxin cried helplessly.

"We're going to hit you!" Zhou Juan and Liu Liu joined in.

Several people punched and kicked Qin Wenxin until she was too scared to even cry. They stopped and warned her as they left, "If you tell anyone, we'll beat you even harder next time!"

Only after they had gone far away did Qin Wenxin dare to get up and stumble towards the school gate.

Behind her, a bald man quietly followed, his eyes lecherously fixed on Qin Wenxin.

Qin Wenxin walked forward aimlessly, not knowing where to go.

Go home? Deng Xiuzhen cursed her for being shameless and wished she could beat her to death.

Go back to the dorm? Her roommates either looked down on her or mocked her. If she went back looking like that, they'd probably laugh their heads off.

Tell the teacher? The teacher said she was morally corrupt for plagiarizing!

But it was clearly the teacher who made her participate! Now they're all denying it, and everyone's blaming her.

Last time Jiang Xinyue and her friends hit her, she told the teacher, and the teacher said she deserved it, saying that they hit her to uphold justice...

Qin Wenxin just wanted to avoid the crowd, so she walked further and further away from the crowd.

"Qin Wenxin, what are you doing here? What happened to you?" Liu Haiyang quickly caught up with Qin Wenxin and asked, his tone full of concern.

When Qin Wenxin saw Liu Haiyang, she was taken aback at first, then turned around and left.

Although she felt she had nowhere to turn, she still had her pride, and she remembered what Liu Haiyang had said to her.

“Wenxin, listen to me, I have my reasons. The school leaders said if you don’t take responsibility, they’ll expel you. If you’re expelled, where will you study in Kyoto? Wenxin, I’m doing this for your own good!” Liu Haiyang stepped forward and pulled Qin Wenxin.

"Get away from me! Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think I don't know what kind of person you are? Jiang Xinyue already said that you instructed them to bully me, just to shut me up and prevent me from revealing the dirty things you did! You're the worst of them all! You're even worse than them!" Qin Wenxin stared at Liu Haiyang, trembling with anger.

"Since you already know, let me tell you a little more: this wasn't my idea, it was the school's arrangement. If you behave and don't make a fuss, I can protect you, stop you from being beaten and bullied, and even guarantee you a place in a good university..." Liu Haiyang leered as he approached Qin Wenxin again.

"You son of a bitch..." Qin Wenxin was so angry that she couldn't help but curse and slapped him across the face.

"You hit me? You little bastard, how dare you hit me? I'll teach you a lesson!" Liu Haiyang pounced on him.

"Help! Help!" Sensing danger, Qin Wenxin turned and ran, shouting as she ran.

Before he could run more than a few steps, Liu Haiyang caught him.

"Help! Help!" Qin Wenxin shouted as she pushed.

"Stop shouting. No one will come even if you shout until your throat is hoarse," Liu Haiyang said with a lewd grin.

Qin Wenxin struggled desperately, but as a girl who had just been beaten, she was no match for a strong middle-aged man.

Soon, Liu Haiyang dragged her into the nearby grove of trees.

Because of the leak of research data, Qin Wenjing's studies abroad were terminated, and she returned to Kyoto University.

After completing the formalities, the family ate at a restaurant near the school. Before the food was even served, Qin Yanlin received a phone call from an unknown number.

A male voice told him, "Come to Kyoto Hospital immediately, Qin Wenxin is injured."

The family rushed over by taxi. When they saw Qin Wenxin covered in injuries, Deng Xiuzhen felt a pang of pain in her heart and strode over to ask, "Wenxin, what happened to you?"

"Get away! All of you get away! We don't need your help! We don't need your help!" Qin Wenxin said emotionally.

"Wenxin, you..."

"Get out! All of you get out!" Qin Wenxin interrupted Deng Xiuzhen and shouted.

"Wenxin, tell us what's wrong, don't yell at your mother," Qin Wenjing said.

"Never mind, I'll go out first. Wenjing, you stay with Wenxin." Deng Xiuzhen said as she walked out, pulling the young man in the ward as she left.

The boy was quick-witted and followed him out.

"Who are you? What are you doing with Wenxin? What happened to her injuries? What happened?" Deng Xiuzhen asked.

The boy replied, "Auntie, my name is Zhou Qiang, and I'm a student at Kyoto University. Today, I went on a field trip with my classmates. We heard someone shouting for help, so we ran towards the sound. In the woods, we saw a bald man bullying Qin Wenxin."

Upon hearing our voices, the man turned and ran.

The classmates went after that man, and when I saw that Qin Wenxin was injured, I brought her to the hospital.

At the hospital, she told me her name and asked me to call my uncle.

"Thank you so much for today! Wenxin, she..." Deng Xiuzhen wanted to ask about the situation at the time, but thinking that Zhou Qiang was a boy, she decided to ask the doctor later.

“Auntie, Qin Wenxin was only beaten, nothing else happened. When we arrived, the man only wanted to take off her clothes, but because Qin Wenxin resisted and we arrived in time, he didn’t succeed,” Zhou Qiang said in a low voice.

Deng Xiuzhen felt relieved and repeatedly thanked him.

"Please don't mention it, it's what we should do," Zhou Qiang continued.

"Auntie, I was worried about Qin Wenxin's injury, and I didn't want too many people to know who was being bullied, as that would damage the girl's reputation, so I brought her directly to the hospital."

My classmates don't know what's wrong with me, so I need to hurry back so they don't worry.