Chapter 45 The Awakening of the NEET Generation 3

The envy of the villagers only made Father Ren and Mother Ren prouder. Especially after they took out the clothes, without exception, every person present felt nothing but envy, all saying that the Ren Family had truly raised a wonderful daughter.

They had never heard of anyone who, while at school, didn’t need her parents to send money for living expenses, and instead mailed things back home. In the neighboring village, there was a college student at a technical institute who needed over a thousand yuan in living expenses every month. That family had borrowed from all the relatives they could, but the child still complained it wasn’t enough and showed no understanding toward their parents.

If a technical college student needed so much money, it was all the more so for Ren Xin, who was a university student! No one could compare.

Father Ren and Mother Ren listened to the villagers’ chatter, and felt as if they could walk through the village with their backs straight and heads held high. All the frustration from those years of being called "childless" vanished in an instant.

Every day, Ren Xin was either attending class, working a part-time job, or giving private lessons. She kept herself so busy she was like a spinning top.

That day, she had just finished a tutoring session and returned to the dorm, planning to wash up and go to bed early. But as soon as she walked in, she was caught up in a dorm war.

The cause was a girl in the dorm named Feng Xue, whose family was quite well-off. Her older brother had bought her a D-brand bracelet for her birthday. Now, though, it had gone missing.

Everyone unanimously believed that Ren Xin had taken it, because among all the girls in the dorm, only Ren Xin looked the poorest.

Ren Xin’s face turned cold as she saw her cabinet ransacked into a total mess. She asked in a chilly voice, “Who gave you the right to go through my cabinet?”

The girls hadn’t found anything and were feeling somewhat guilty. They exchanged glances but said nothing.

Ren Xin wasn’t about to indulge them. She didn’t bother arguing and dialed the class advisor on the spot. The others still thought Ren Xin was making a fuss over nothing.

Ren Xin gave a cold laugh. “I guess you only start to realize how foul something is when it’s thrown onto you. You’re all university students now. Don’t tell me you’re so ignorant that you don’t know rummaging through someone else’s things without permission is a crime!”

Feng Xue protested unhappily, “We all live in the same dorm. I just got anxious when I lost my things. I wasn’t thinking straight, okay? I’m apologizing now, can’t you just drop it? Don’t take it so seriously!”

“So you think you’re still in the right?” Ren Xin retorted. “Let me guess—why did you suspect me? Is it because I look the poorest and my family doesn’t have much? So, in your eyes, that makes me most likely to steal? Honestly, I find it pretty sad. You’re all going to be teachers one day. I can’t imagine how awful it would be for your students if their teacher can’t even tell right from wrong.”

When the class advisor arrived and learned what had happened, she told everyone else in the dorm to apologize to Ren Xin. Seeing the advisor try to smooth things over, Ren Xin stood firm and said, “I want to call the police. I feel that my personal safety is threatened here at school.”

The advisor, clearly out of patience, said, “There’s no need for that. This is just girls arguing in their dorm. It’s not a big deal. They apologized, you apologize, just let it go.”

Ren Xin looked up, expressionless. “I’ll ask one last time—are you sure you want to handle this this way?”

“What else do you want? It’s really not a big deal. You didn’t lose anything, did you?” The advisor’s tone grew more annoyed.

Ren Xin nodded, said nothing more, and refused to accept the others’ half-hearted apologies. The advisor frowned at Ren Xin as if sensing she was about to explode in silence.

Ren Xin calmly tidied up her ransacked belongings, washed up, and went to bed as though nothing had happened.

The others in the dorm cast mocking looks at Ren Xin’s bunk.

A few days later, Ren Xin continued as usual: attending class, working her jobs.

Then a post started making the rounds on the campus forum. Those dormmates were outed—every nasty thing they’d ever done was put on display. Even Feng Xue, who looked so delicate and weak, had apparently abused cats.

The rest had bullied classmates in secondary school. Some had even cornered people for money. All the hideous aspects of their personalities were exposed for all to see.

What’s the point of a bunch of rotten people pretending otherwise?