Since the law class was boring, why not gossip about the drama from her previous life?
Back then, when this scandal broke out, Shi Li was in her most stressful year of high school. It wasn't until the dust had settled that she got to fully indulge in the juicy details.
She didn't get the whole story though. The uncensored video on that adult website had already been deleted, and the clips circulating online were censored for explicit content.
Not getting the full scoop left Shi Li feeling disappointed.
Now that the boring law class reminded her of this incident, thanks to the Principal, it was time to dig in.
[Oh right, I remember now!]
Shi Li lowered her head and typed a website address into her phone. [Aha, I'm in!]
Everyone else: Don't go in by yourself! Let us see too. Hoarding gossip all to yourself is unethical!
The Principal... To avoid giving the impression he had dementia, the Principal had placed his water cup on the desk, but that didn't stop his hand from shaking.
It was hard to tell if he was trembling from anger or embarrassment.
In her past life, the affair between the Principal's wife and Shuizhi was exposed because that scoundrel Shuizhi was despicable enough to upload their uncensored sex tape to an adult website.
Some hormonal students at the school stumbled upon it while browsing forbidden sites, and recognized a familiar face.
They screen-recorded the video and shared it in the class group chat, asking if it was indeed who they thought it was.
Even though they usually only saw Shuizhi fully clothed at school, it didn't stop everyone from recognizing him.
The fact that one of their own teachers was starring in adult films was shocking enough to make jaws drop.
Once the students saw the video, it was only natural that the teachers at the school would see it too.
Some teachers who had met the Principal's wife recognized not only the male lead in the video, but the female lead as well.
At this point, it was no longer just a case of a teacher moonlighting in the adult film industry.
It turned out that Mr. Mo XX from their school was actually having an affair with the Principal's wife, and the two of them had started a side hustle making adult videos together.
When the Principal's arch-nemesis heard about this, of course he had to go rub it in his face. And that's how the Principal, the victim in all this, found out about the whole sordid affair.
The shock value of this scandal easily ranked it among the top gossip stories in Qianpu Middle School's history.
These adult websites, with servers located abroad, were excruciatingly slow.
The video had only played for two seconds before it started buffering. Shi Li was about to lose her mind. It wasn't that she absolutely had to watch the video right now - watching this kind of content in public didn't seem appropriate. But seeing the screen frozen on a certain position was incredibly frustrating. [Why is it so slow?!]
Everyone else: Are you really not going to share the website with us?
The Principal's hand was still shaking, but he also wanted to know the website address.
Just that afternoon, he had hired a private investigator to look into his wife. Then during class, he overheard that female voice from last week saying his wife's sex tape with Shuizhi was already online.
Although this was an infuriating and humiliating situation, he desperately needed that video as evidence.
Catch them red-handed, as they say.
The private investigator, barely on the job for a few hours, was about to be gloriously unemployed.
The classmates sitting on either side of Shi Li were facing forward, but their eyes kept darting towards her phone screen.
This contorted position was nearly enough to give them a squint.
What was even more frustrating was how effective Shi Li's privacy screen protector was. They couldn't see anything, just a black screen.
Curse those privacy screen protectors! They should all be smashed to pieces!
The video's loading speed was comparable to an old ox pulling a broken cart. Shi Li's patience wore thin. [This crappy XX site is supposed to be one of the most famous in the world. They make billions every year, how can their site be so slow? Can't they hire someone to fix their servers?]
Human joys and sorrows are not always in sync. While Shi Li was losing it over the slow website, others were elated to hear the name of a certain website.
Talk about a silver lining!
What a good person Shi Li is!
You keep your classmates in your heart, and your classmates will put you on a pedestal!
We may not know who you are, but we know who you're doing this for!
The students from the other two classes didn't know who the voice belonged to. Last week, when they heard the female voice talking about someone seducing the Principal's wife, no one took it seriously.
This week, same time, same place, same topic, that female voice spoke up again.
If anyone ignored it this time, they'd have to be a fool.
Publicly discussing the Principal's wife making adult videos with Mr. Shui was inappropriate even if it were true. It was even worse to say it in front of the Principal and Mr. Shui.
This behavior went beyond just being socially inept - it was social intelligence in the negative.
Although everyone wanted to see the Principal and Mr. Shui tear into each other over this, it would be even better if they started fighting right in front of everyone.
The students' gazes bounced between the Principal and Mr. Shui, the two parties involved. The Principal's hand was shaking like he had Parkinson's - clearly, he was furious.
The students were worried he might have a heart attack or a spike in blood pressure from the shock.
Mr. Shui, on the other hand, acted as if nothing was wrong, taking notes with pen and paper. Anyone who saw him couldn't help but think he was a real brown-noser.
The students had to admire his composure. Putting themselves in his shoes - if they were having an affair with their boss's wife and someone announced in front of the boss that they'd made an adult video with his wife and put it online...
The scene was too intense to even imagine.
It was fine when it happened to others, but if it happened to them? No way.
The students from Class 1 knew that Shuizhi couldn't hear Shi Li's thoughts.
Some of the smarter students from other classes, judging by his reaction and the strange disembodied female voice, suspected something supernatural was going on, and that Shuizhi probably couldn't hear this voice.
After hearing the website address, some students, drawing on years of experience browsing such content, managed to smoothly access the site through certain channels. They had to scroll through dozens of pages in the Asian section before finding the familiar face.
While Shi Li had given up on watching the video due to slow loading, many others had already opened the video and started recording.
The video wasn't very long, just seven minutes. The more experienced viewers from other classes endured their discomfort and watched it all the way through, recording the entire video.
As the class-ending bell rang, the Principal hurriedly gathered his notes and water cup, then swiftly left the podium and headed for the door.
The Principal's sparse hair fluttered with his movements. He had always cared about his image and had never walked so quickly in public before.
The Principal's actions stunned both his secretary Shuizhi and Shi Li.
The secretary went up to the podium to collect the USB drive and shut down the computer...
With the Principal gone, Shuizhi no longer needed to act subservient. He watched the secretary's actions but didn't offer to help.
When the Principal was around, Shuizhi certainly didn't behave this way.
The secretary was used to this and silently carried out his duties.
Shi Li: [Does the Principal have a meeting to attend? Why is he leaving in such a hurry?]
Classmates: Why is the Principal rushing off? You should know best.
Thanks to you, the Principal now knows he's been cuckolded, and he's aware that the sex tape of his wife and her lover has been uploaded overseas.
Why is the Principal leaving in such a hurry? Obviously, he's rushing home to catch his wife in the act and find that video!
