Finally, Yu Qiu, who had been silent all this time, spoke up.
If he didn't step in, Nian Nian and Shen Weixun would think he had already come to his senses and turned back.
"You can't get through! Yu Qiu, I just don't understand. In terms of family background, looks, and IQ, which aspect of me is worse than hers? Why do you always choose to stand by her side every time? What on earth attracts you to her? Is it just because she knows how to act pitiful and weak, just because she's poor, that others have to forgive her mistakes without a bottom line? You should have told me earlier that you like this kind of green tea. If you had made it clear to me, I would never have liked you when we were in school!"
Facing Yu Qiu, Wu Siqi's attitude wasn't as tough. Instead, it was filled with grievances.
"I don't like people who are too domineering. You're overly bossy."
"Nuan Nuan has never pretended to be pitiful or innocent. You've been openly and secretly excluding and bullying her since school. I've seen all of this. Then may I ask, what did she do wrong when you were targeting her? Just because the teacher arranged for her to be my deskmate? But we're all students. It was the teacher who arranged the seats. What could Nuan Nuan do? You just had to take all your anger out on her."
Since the conversation had reached this point, no one was going to hide anything anymore.
Yu Qiu didn't care about his face either.
When they were in school, out of consideration for his face, he had never openly criticized Wu Siqi.
He had only privately talked to her a few times, asking her to stop bullying Xu Nuan Nuan.
But all he got in return was even more intensified bullying, making Xu Nuan Nuan's situation even more difficult.
So he had no choice but to stay away from Xu Nuan Nuan. Even though the distance between them was less than thirty centimeters every day, he tried his best not to say a single word to her.
Only in this way could Xu Nuan Nuan have a relatively safe and quiet life later on.
Once the past events were suddenly brought up, the superficial peace was completely torn apart, leaving only those memories of youth filled with either guilt or resentment.
Wu Siqi slowly clenched the hands hanging by her sides. Her fingernails dug into her flesh, and she bit her lips without saying a word.
It took her a while until the anger welling up in her heart gradually subsided a little before she slowly spoke.
"It's her own fault. I find her annoying. Can't I stop my friends from playing with her? Is it considered exclusion if we ignore her, and bullying if we don't talk to her?"
"I never hit her or scolded her. I don't think this is bullying."
Hearing Wu Siqi's words from the walkie - talkie.
Nian Nian frowned slightly and suddenly felt a bit confused.
She looked up at Shen Weixun and asked, "Third Senior Brother, is ignoring someone considered bullying?"
The little girl always felt that this beautiful big sister was right.
If you don't like someone, why must you talk to them?
Just like she didn't like her second brother before, so she didn't want to pay attention to him or argue with him. Was this bullying?
Did she bully her second brother before?
"No, if you don't like someone, you really don't have to talk to them. This isn't bullying. It just represents personal opinion. However, even if you don't like someone, you can't talk about them behind their backs and guide public opinion to bias others' views. If the other person hasn't made a principled mistake, no one has the right to judge them. Do you understand?"
Shen Weixun patiently explained it to Nian Nian.
The little girl roughly understood what Shen Weixun meant.
You can not like someone and choose to ignore them.
But you can't make unfounded remarks behind their backs.
Unless this person or thing has a principled problem.
"Understood! So, if this beautiful big sister didn't make unfounded remarks behind others' backs, would it mean she didn't bully the fairy sister? But why does the information you gave me say that the big sister bullied the fairy sister?"
"Sometimes, what you see isn't necessarily the truth, and what people say isn't necessarily reliable either. The information is just what has been investigated. Most of it is just personal opinions passed on from mouth to mouth. It can only be used as a reference. But what the truth really is, since we're not the parties involved, we'll never be able to completely restore it. So you have to make your own judgment."
"Remember, don't judge unless you know the whole story."
Shen Weixun patted Nian Nian's little head.
He didn't want to raise Nian Nian to be a puppet, blindly following instructions.
He wanted her to be good at thinking, able to analyze problems objectively, rationally and calmly eliminate wrong clues, and finally choose the correct answer.
This was what he considered to be the right way of education.
"Okay."
The little girl nodded as if she understood but also didn't fully understand.
She still couldn't tell the difference now, and Third Senior Brother refused to give her a definite answer.
So she'd just keep watching.
"You really didn't hit or scold her. But you threw her schoolbag into the water, forced her to do cleaning on the playground in the cold winter, and deliberately found people to ruin her part - time job when you knew Nuan Nuan was short of money at that time. Aren't all these things considered bullying?"
Yu Qiu sneered. In his eyes, Wu Siqi's arguments were pale and powerless.
There was no logic to them at all.
The expression on Wu Siqi's face changed several times.
They were all adults now. At their age, they could tell right from wrong.
Wu Siqi knew clearly in her heart whether the things she had done before were excessive or not.
But she just didn't want to admit it at all.
In her opinion, a person like Xu Nuan Nuan mixing in their class was a mistake in itself.
"Yu Qiu, I advise you to think carefully before you talk to me. Your family's latest project is going to have financing negotiations with my family's company. If you have a disagreement with me because of her today and it affects the business of our two families, the loss will be more than just 200,000 yuan."
"This is the first project you've taken over, right? If this project fails, I'm afraid no one will dare to cooperate with you in the future. All your titles as a prodigy will be questioned by everyone after the project fails. Is it worth gambling your future for a woman? All your years of hard work will go down the drain because of her, is that what you want?"
Yu Qiu squinted slightly, and his look towards Wu Siqi became increasingly unfriendly.
He was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "Are you threatening me?"
"Yes, I'm threatening you. If your Yu family was still in the same position as it was five years ago, I wouldn't be able to threaten you. But now your family has declined. If it weren't for the sudden death of the competitor for the key project last month, which allowed your family to get a lucky break and make a comeback, you wouldn't even have the qualification to enter this venue now."
"Yu Qiu, what do you have to be so high - and - mighty about? What right do you have to lecture me here?"
Wu Siqi's family background was her greatest confidence.
Five years ago, the Yu family had ranked among the top five on the city's wealth list.
At that time, the Wu family was in the fourth place.
The two families were evenly matched with little difference.
But now, the Yu family had dropped out of the top ten.
It had been rumored that the Yu family was on the decline and was expected to go bankrupt soon. However, they suddenly got a big order last month and inexplicably made a comeback.
Even so, the Yu family was still out of the top ten.
They still didn't have the strength to compete with the Wu family, which had been firmly ranked fourth.
Wu Siqi was an only child, and she really did have the capital to talk to Yu Qiu like this.