The Abusive Novel System Pleads with Me to Resign-Chapter 86

The two boys who entered were not from Class C. The original owner of this body had few friends at school and was unfamiliar with students from other classes, so Shen Ying couldn’t recall their names.

Neither of them had particularly distinctive features—just one tall and burly, the other much shorter with a middle-parted hairstyle and glasses.

Shen Ying looked disappointed. "Just the two of you?"

Her words left them momentarily stunned. Then, the bespectacled middle-parted one smirked. "You think that’s not enough?"

"What a shame. If we’d known you were this open-minded, we’d have brought more guys. Next time, we’ll definitely round up the rest of the crew."

Shen Ying grinned. "Deal. A promise is a promise."

The two: "..."

Seeing her completely unfazed, they felt provoked. Without further ado, they moved toward her—the shorter one circling behind to trap her between them.

Just as they were about to act, Shen Ying suddenly spoke. "I have a pre-written post on my social media, set to go live in half an hour."

Assuming she meant to expose them, they scoffed. "You think you’re some celebrity? That the whole world will see your little post?"

"Even if you died in this classroom today, no one would bat an eye."

Shen Ying sidestepped, evading their grasp.

Calm and nimble, she continued, "Oh, it’s not about me. It’s about a horrifying case of infant murder."

The tall one’s expression instantly darkened.

Shen Ying went on, "Years ago, the second son of a certain company CEO and his second wife died in an ‘accidental’ fall before turning one."

"No one’s ever questioned it. But I’d like to inform everyone that the CEO’s eldest son—just six at the time, born to his first wife—is highly suspicious."

The bespectacled one found her rambling absurd, but the tall guy reflexively snapped, "So what if you say it? You’ve got no proof."

Shen Ying shrugged. "Do I need proof? Given this young man’s strained relationship with his stepmother and the escalating inheritance battle, even a hint of suspicion would trigger an all-out investigation."

She wasn’t wrong. Even if he were innocent, his stepmother would seize this narrative to turn his father against him.

The tall one paled, sweat pouring down his face.

Shen Ying added, "Oh, and while I can’t guarantee my post will go viral, I do have quite the audience now."

She pulled out her phone and opened her account. Her follower count had skyrocketed—tenfold in just a week, mostly schoolmates.

Her last post, from over half a year ago, was now flooded with vile comments.

At this point, even a single period from her would incite a mob.

She smiled. "Plenty of these followers probably know your family. And even if they don’t, their current obsession with me ensures they’ll dissect every word I say."

"Then we’ll see if it reaches your stepmother’s ears."

It would. Her niece attended this school. If Shen Ying named names, the stepmother would know immediately.

Still a teenager, the tall boy’s nerves crumbled under the weight of his childhood darkness dragged into the light.

Panicked, he blurted, "It wasn’t my idea! He talked me into it!"

"I only came to stop him from doing something stupid!" With that, he turned on the shorter one, pinning him down.

The bespectacled guy was dumbfounded. "Are you out of your damn mind? Grab her, not me!"

"Wait—were you actually involved? How could a six-year-old even—"

Before he finished, Shen Ying interjected with faux concern, "Oh no. Now a third person knows."

"I can keep quiet, but this one seems like a blabbermouth, doesn’t he?"

The tall boy’s eyes widened in terror. He clamped a hand over the other’s mouth, screaming, "Shut up! SHUT UP!!"

Shen Ying perched on a desk, rubbing her ears from the noise.

Lazily, she remarked, "Muzzling him won’t help. You’d have to silence him permanently."

"But unlike a nobody like me, if Mr. Middle-Part died here today, it’d definitely make waves, right?"

The tall one looked utterly defeated. He regretted ever stepping into this room, ever crossing paths with Shen Ying.

Now he faced losing everything—all because of this idiot’s scheming.

Furious, he roared, "This is your fault! You said taking down the girl Zhong Chen couldn’t handle would impress him! That’s why I came!"

The shorter one, gasping for air, thrashed wildly.

Shen Ying finally offered, "There is a way out, though."

"I can give you leverage over him. Then you won’t have to worry about him talking."

The tall one froze, staring at her.

The bespectacled boy, finally free, spat, "Bullshit! I don’t have any secrets!"

Shen Ying smiled. "No? Then let’s make one."

She turned to the tall one. "Fuck him."

Both boys shuddered, exchanging disgusted glances at the mere thought.

Shen Ying checked her phone. "23 minutes till auto-post."

The shorter one, swallowing his revulsion, yelled, "You’re just bullying this dumbass! What’s stopping us from overpowering you and taking your phone?"

Shen Ying clapped. "Bravo! The mastermind’s brain does work better."

With that, she tossed her phone into a nearby bucket of dirty water.

"Cheap phone, no waterproofing. Now, to cancel the post, one of you’ll have to lend me yours."

"Then I’ll need to enter my newly changed, ultra-complex username, password, and verification to log in."

"Or you could try forcing me to change my mind in the next 20 minutes."

As she spoke, a gleaming razor blade appeared between her fingers, flipping with startling precision.

The thin edge could slice skin at the slightest touch, yet she handled it effortlessly, never even looking.

Her gaze drifted to their necks, eyes, temples.

It dawned on them—while she might not be a martial artist, her repeated victories over Zhong Chen proved she had her own methods.

The tall one realized: if this escalated, others might walk away, but he’d be ruined.

Then his gaze turned fierce as he suddenly grabbed the smaller guy’s head and slammed it against the wall. Dazed, the smaller guy was pinned onto the table before his pants were yanked down, followed by the sound of a belt being undone.

By the time the smaller guy regained his senses, he was paralyzed with terror—

“Hey, hey, hey! What the hell are you doing? Stop! No! I was wrong, I swear I was wrong. I’ll never mess with you again!”

“Ah—”

The scream pierced the quiet of the campus night.

Outside, everything was silent, but inside the brightly lit equipment room, an ugly act was unfolding.

Shen Ying watched from the sidelines, sighing inwardly.

Even if she were watching adult films, she wouldn’t have picked actors with looks like these. Sacrifices had to be made for the sake of making some quick cash.

Over ten minutes later, the smaller guy lay sprawled across the table, disheveled, his lips pale, his face streaked with sweat from the pain and the mess of tears and snot from his sobbing.

He looked like a used-up rag.

Shen Ying stood up and said to him, “Our earlier agreement still stands. Next time you come looking for me, bring more of your buddies.”

The smaller guy shuddered violently, his face draining of color at the horrifying implication of her words.

The taller guy wasn’t faring much better either. He forced himself to ask, “What about the post?”

Shen Ying nodded. “What post?”

The taller guy panicked. “I did what you asked! You promised you’d delete it!”

Shen Ying replied, “But there was never any post to begin with.”

The taller guy’s expression went blank before twisting into something feral.

Just as he was about to lash out, Shen Ying cut in, “Don’t be disappointed. Now there is.”

“Take one more step, and I’ll send out the evidence of you assaulting your male classmate.”

“I’m sure the students still following me online would lose sleep over it. And I doubt the parents and relatives of this middle-parted friend of yours would let it slide either.”

“No!”

“You can’t!”

Both of them shouted at the same time. If that disgraceful scene got out, neither of them would have a place in their circles anymore—let alone any hope of inheritance, given that both had other brothers in their families.

Shen Ying nodded. “Good, you understand. Then why are you still standing here? Did you develop a taste for it and want a few more rounds?”

Their faces twisted in disgust as they hastily pulled up their pants and stumbled out in a pathetic escape.

After waiting a while to ensure they were gone, Shen Ying finally left the equipment room.

The moment she stepped out, she spotted Xiao Yun leaning against the wall nearby.

Shen Ying wasn’t surprised—she had noticed a shadow outside the door over twenty minutes ago.

Their eyes met, and Shen Ying spoke first, “I thought you’d leave once you saw the person was safe.”

After all, Xiao Yun wasn’t the type to stick around for drama.

Xiao Yun’s lips curled slightly. He rarely made such sarcastic expressions, so it looked oddly unnatural on him.

But what had just happened had shaken him deeply.

He said to Shen Ying, “Thanks for overestimating me. You actually thought I could walk away after seeing something like that.”

Shen Ying smiled. “Either way, thanks for the concern.”

Xiao Yun frowned. “What concern?”

Shen Ying replied, “For planning to rescue me.”

Xiao Yun was taken aback by her bluntness, his feelings toward her growing impossibly complicated. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

Her earlier resistance—even her physical altercation with Zhong Chen—had earned his admiration.

But tonight, some idiots had clearly crossed a line, and Shen Ying’s retaliation had been far more ruthless than he expected.

What he had just witnessed shattered all his assumptions about her over the past few days.

She ​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‍wasn’t just a clever, ordinary girl. There was something far more enigmatic and shadowy beneath the surface.

Even if she wasn’t entirely a bad person, Xiao Yun didn’t want the simple-minded Zhong Chen getting tangled up with her.

That fool was already too obsessed with winning.

As Shen Ying turned to leave, Xiao Yun stopped her. “What are you planning to do with that video?”

Shen Ying didn’t bother hiding it. “Sell it to Zhong Chen, of course. Since this mess started because of him, he should be the one footing the bill.”

“Once that video gets out, no matter how well you all manipulate public opinion, the damage will be severe enough. I doubt the Zhong family would want their controlled school associated with such a scandal.”

Xiao Yun’s voice darkened. “I’ll buy it. You don’t need to go to him.”

He expected negotiations, but Shen Ying agreed instantly.

“Five million.”

Xiao Yun didn’t hesitate. “Deal.”

Shen Ying almost regretted lowballing the price. She had halved her usual rate, assuming these guys were just students.

Turns out, she had worried for nothing.

After leaving campus, Shen Ying hailed a taxi. Having been broke for the past 24 hours, she was now free from financial strain, and her mood was noticeably lighter.

She transferred 100,000 to Xia Meng as repayment, then headed to the mall to buy a full set of her preferred electronics.

When she told her parents it was a reward from the school, they were overjoyed and didn’t question it at all.

After dinner and a shower, she settled in her room to binge-watch shows online.

Just as Shen Ying was about to fall asleep, the Zhong family estate was still brightly lit.

Zhong Chen, gripping a pool cue, turned around, his expression terrifying. “What did you say they did?”

Xing Jiale threw the two guys—who had fled from Shen Ying hours earlier—at Zhong Chen’s feet. “My people saw these two leaving campus right after Shen Ying.”

“So I had someone look into it. Didn’t expect them to pull something like this.”

He then scolded Zhong Chen, “No matter what, this is going too far, don’t you think?”

Zhong Chen stared at Xing Jiale in disbelief. “You think I ordered this?”

Xing Jiale didn’t actually believe Zhong Chen would resort to something so vile, but he shrugged, still insisting Zhong Chen bore some responsibility.

Zhong Chen, furious yet unable to shake off a creeping sense of shame, glared at the two cowering figures before him. His anger flared.

He hurled a pool ball at them, making them curl up in pain.

The smaller guy, already suffering from earlier, could barely straighten up.

Zhong Chen grabbed him by the collar and growled, “Where is she? What the hell did you do?”

Having already lost everything today, the two could only stammer incoherently.

Just as Zhong Chen, impatient as ever, was about to resort to violence, Xiao Yun walked in—

“Enough. She’s fine.”

Xing Jiale, seeing Xiao Yun—who had been missing all night—asked, “How do you know? These two clammed up when I questioned them earlier.”

Xiao Yun replied, “I was there.”

Then, realizing how that sounded, he clarified, “Outside.”

“These two originally planned to assault her, but something went wrong, and they ended up turning on each other.”

“In the end, the taller one here forced himself on the shorter one.”

He tossed his phone over. “There’s video proof.”

Zhong Chen, catching it reflexively, immediately recoiled as if it were burning coal and flung it away.

Staring at the two disgraced figures, his expression shifted from rage to indescribable disgust.

He kicked them both. “Get out! Drop out of school yourselves, and don’t ever let me see you again.”

The two scrambled away, leaving Zhong Chen and the others still struggling to process the absurdity of the situation.

Xing Jiale sighed. “It’s good that Shen Ying’s unharmed, but still—”

“How did things suddenly escalate like that?”

Gong Zhaoxi shrugged. “Maybe they already had some unresolved tension between them. During the fight, jealousy took over, and they ended up ditching their original target and getting together instead.”

Xing Jiale patted his shoulder. “Only you could make sense of a twisted mindset so easily.”

Gong Zhaoxi nudged him back. “I wonder how Shen Ying is holding up after all this. Even if she escaped unscathed, dealing with those lunatics must’ve shaken her.”

Xiao Yun hesitated before saying, “…She seemed fine when she left.”

At least she walked away with five million—her smile never once faltered.

But he kept that detail to himself and instead turned to Zhong Chen with a stern warning. “You need to stop this.”

Zhong Chen scowled. “No way. Have you seen how that woman’s been provoking me these past few days?”

“I’ll make her admit defeat in front of everyone.”

Before, Xiao Yun might have found some amusement in watching Shen Ying get under Zhong Chen’s skin. But now? Things had gone too far.

“You saw what happened,” he said. “The moment you show hostility, people will keep trying to attack her just to win your favor.”

“This time, someone resorted to kidnapping. What’s next?”

“If this keeps going, it’ll spiral out of control. Just drop it.”

Zhong Chen clearly wasn’t ready to let Shen Ying off the hook, but the memory of those two idiots’ disastrous stunt still lingered.

He stood up, about to snap back, when Xing Jiale suddenly remembered something. “Oh, right. Didn’t Shen Ying say before that whatever anyone does to her, she’ll return it to Zhong Chen—twice as bad?”

“So after tonight’s mess, tomorrow she’ll—”

All three turned to Zhong Chen, watching as his usual arrogant, brooding expression was abruptly overtaken by an uncharacteristic flush of red.