Think about it, have you ever had a good outcome when you targeted Xiao Kang from next door? Besides, even elementary school kids know that troubles come from speaking without caution. You heard that rumor, so just keep it in your mind; why do you have to speak it out loud?"

"When I spoke it out loud, isn’t it true that all of you wanted to hear it?"

"You..."

"Clearly all of you had your ears perking up, but now you turn around and say I’m spreading gossip. Teacher Loo, is there anyone like you?"

"Xiao Su... speaking ill of others behind their back is truly not good, especially since the matter you mentioned has already been resolved, but you just have to drag it out all because of the grudge with Xiao Kang.

But Xiao Su, think about it, isn’t the grudge in your mind always because you initiated things, and couldn’t get along with Xiao Kang?"

Listening to Loo Ping speak to this point, Su Man sneered, "Is Teacher Loo preaching to me like I’m one of your students?"

"You don’t have to do this. After all, you used to be a college student, and I merely graduated from a vocational school, nowhere qualified to preach to you. I’m just unwilling to see you go wrong again and again, so I came to advise you a few words!

You have to know that slander and defamation have legal consequences; you can’t let a bit of anger send yourself to jail, right?"

When she heard Loo Ping mention "you used to be a college student," a storm surged in Su Man’s eyes, and she said through gritted teeth, "You’re mocking me, aren’t you?"

"What?"

Loo Ping didn’t know Su Man hadn’t graduated from college.

"Are you playing dumb?"

Staring hard at Loo Ping, Su Man felt like she could eat a man.

"How am I playing dumb?" Loo Ping looked bewildered. She stood up, "You should have heard what Xiao Kang said to me. I’m trying to be a good person and have told you what needed to be said, whether or not to listen is entirely up to you."

Feeling Su Man’s emotions off, to avoid any incidents, Loo Ping left behind her words and swiftly exited the living room.

The footsteps in the yard gradually went farther away, Su Man grabbed the enamel mug on the coffee table and smashed it to the ground.

After breathing heavily for a while, she returned to the bedroom, changed clothes, and did makeup in about twenty to thirty minutes before leaving with a handbag.

She needed to vent her emotions, needed someone to listen to her speak. So she picked up the telephone receiver and made a call. When the person answered, she visibly brightened hearing the voice she wanted, "I miss you... okay, I’ll wait for you in the shop, you better not lie to me... remember to find a good excuse, otherwise, if you’re discovered, neither of us will have a good outcome... I’m hanging up now, um, goodbye."

Putting the receiver back, Su Man took out a small mirror from her bag, touched up her face with some powder, then swayed her way out of the living room.

She didn’t care that Sister Wen Yue and her three siblings, or her son, Wen Peng, were about to return from school, only thinking about her own happiness.

After being expelled from school, Su Man invested all her thoughts into business. Now, Su Man was no longer a small street vendor; she had leased a fifty-square-meter store selling clothes.

Usually, Su Man only took care of sourcing goods, occasionally visited the store, checked the accounts at the end of the month, and felt quite satisfied with her current life.

Provided she didn’t think about her relationship with Wen Siyuan, or the suffocating marriage they had.

...

Song Family.

"You’re not angry?"

"Godmother, if I said I wasn’t angry that would be a lie, but I don’t want you and my mother to be upset about someone’s gossip and hurt yourselves."

Upon arriving at the Song Family, Kang Li recounted the events Ming Han and Ming Wei encountered at school, advising Mrs. Qi not to be upset about the neighborhood women’s gossip. But Mrs. Qi’s heart still felt uneasy, thinking Luo Yanqing and Ming Han, Ming Wei were greatly wronged.

Unexpectedly, where this woman didn’t answer, her gaze fell upon Loo Ping: "Teacher Loo, what do you think?"

Upon hearing, Loo Ping said calmly, "Can’t match them in talking, can’t match them in fighting, not being afraid would be strange indeed."

"Then what’s the reason for Xiao Su’s behavior? Clearly afraid of Professor Kang, yet can’t contain the urge to gossip, talking about his man and children among us. If Professor Kang really digs into this, won’t we also be implicated?"

"Sister He, then what are we waiting for? Let’s go home!"

"As you say, let’s hurry back to each of our homes."

The two women standing next to Loo Ping exchanged a glance, hurriedly said goodbye to Loo Ping: "Teacher Loo, you take care, we’ll talk more another day." Watching their departing figures, Loo Ping paused for a moment, then turned to enter her yard gate, noticing Kang Li’s figure in her line of sight.