Lu Qinan didn't expect that I would find out so quickly.

Just after school, Zhou Chiruo was "asked" to go to the restroom.

The sound of slaps on her face kept resounding inside the innermost stall of the restroom. After both sides of Zhou Chiruo's face swelled up like a pig's head, Li Qingyao finally had Feng Yuan stop.

She grabbed Zhou Chiruo's hair, her eyes filled with cruelty: "Didn't I tell you to stay away from Meng Yanzhi? How dare you not listen? What kind of person are you, daring to seduce Meng Yanzhi?"

Zhou Chiruo, battered and on the brink of collapse, struggled to speak: "I didn't..."

Li Qingyao forcefully pushed her away and kicked her in the stomach.

"Ah!" Zhou Chiruo paled in pain.

"Feng Yuan saw the two of you in the school clinic! What, you went to tell Meng Yanzhi that you have severe menstrual cramps and wanted to gain sympathy, right? You despicable person!"

"No, I..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Qingyao slapped her hard.

"You stay here tonight and reflect on your actions! If there's a next time, I will make sure you suffer!"

Li Qingyao instructed Lin Tian to lock the restroom door from the outside, then ordered Feng Yuan to bring a bucket of water and pour it into the stall. Zhou Chiruo inside the stall was immediately drenched.

After finishing everything, Li Qingyao and her group left.

I, who had been listening outside since the incident started, entered the restroom after confirming that Li Qingyao and her group had left.

"Lu Qinan, do you want me to open the door for you?"

"Ruo Ruo, hurry, help me open the door. I'm all wet, and my stomach hurts!" Lu Qinan anxiously shouted.

I smiled slightly, but my words were exceptionally cold: "No, you can't. We agreed to empathize with each other, remember?"

"Ruo Ruo..."

"Do you know? In the three years of high school, every time Li Qingyao locked me in the restroom, no one ever opened the door for me, never. So, I won't open the door for you either. Don't worry, wait until tomorrow morning when the janitor comes to the restroom to get her tools, then you can call out, and you'll be able to come out. Look at how good I am, I even told you how to get out."

I chuckled lightly, then turned to leave.

"Ruo Ruo, does Yao Yao like Meng Yanzhi?"

I stopped in my tracks.

"Yes, Li Qingyao likes Meng Yanzhi, likes him to the point where she can't tolerate any other opposite sex around him."

"Then what about you and Meng Yanzhi..."

"I'm not close to Meng Yanzhi. It's just that one time, I dropped my book in the hallway, and Meng Yanzhi kindly picked it up for me." I paused and continued, "Li Qingyao saw it and treated me as a rival ever since, constantly finding ways to bully me.

"She said why did my book have to drop, why did I let Meng Yanzhi see it, she said it was all my fault, that I shouldn't attract Meng Yanzhi's attention. Ironically, Meng Yanzhi himself doesn't even remember me.

"Lu Qinan, tell me, is it my fault?"

Breathing in the stall became heavy, and after a while, Lu Qinan's voice came through: "I'm sorry, Ruo Ruo. I didn't know you've been through so much...

"When we go back in time, can I make it up to you?"

I burst into laughter and then spoke coldly, "Make it up to me? How will you make it up to me? Will you do to Li Qingyao everything you've done to me?

"Like that time when you gave Li Qingyao the plan I worked on for a month, or that time at the dinner where you made me block Li Qingyao from drinking and caused me to have a stomach bleed? Or maybe the time before the car accident when you left me alone at the party and subjected me to aseries of humiliations?

"Lu Qinan, do you think you can make up for all of that? Even if you go back in time, can you change the fact that you hurt me? Can you change the fact that you were a bystander while Li Qingyao bullied me?"

There was silence on the other side of the door.

I turned around and walked away, leaving the drenched and bruised Lu Qinan locked in the stall.

It was time for me to move on and leave behind the pain and suffering of the past. I wouldn't let anyone hurt me again.