When I got home, it was already late at night.

The lights in the house were on, obviously no one had slept.

I pushed the door open and walked in, facing the gaze in the living room, changing my shoes without any expression, taking off my backpack.

"Xiao Kai, come here."

It was my mother who spoke first.

This time, only my parents were in the living room. That bastard Pei Qi was nowhere to be seen.

I walked over, stood in front of them, raised my head, without any expression.

"Don't you know that you did something wrong?"

It was my father who spoke this time.

His next sentence became excited: "You stayed outside until now, not answering calls, not replying to messages. Do you even know what you're doing?!"

"Xiao Kai," my mother pulled my father's sleeve, "tell Mom the truth, did you go out with that child in the photo from last time? Did you do anything bad?"

"Didn't Pei Qi tell you all?"

I raised my head and for the first time felt my inner calmness:

"I said it last time, she and I are just ordinary classmates. She got hurt, and I accompanied her to the infirmary, that's all."

"Why did she need you to accompany her when she got hurt?" my father retorted.

"Because she got hurt for me!"

I slammed my backpack on the ground. "Because the Pei Qi that you thought was obedient couldn't stand me, hated me, and threw the ball at me. If it wasn't for her blocking it, I would have been hit by the ball!"

The living room fell silent for a moment.

I took a deep breath and looked at the stunned expressions of my parents. I smiled, "Still don't believe me?"

I bent down and started rummaging through my backpack, trembling as I pulled out my phone. When I found that photo for them, my hands were shaking.

"Take a look."

I handed them the photo of Pei Qi forcefully kissing me.

"Since you don't believe what I said, then see for yourselves,"