"If you want to gossip, do it in private. Don't let me hear you, and more importantly, don't look at me with those strange stares. I'm not missing any arms or legs compared to you. We're all human, and we're all classmates. It's better for everyone to be a little kinder."
Many of the students in the crowd of onlookers avoided her gaze when she looked over.
Suddenly, a round of applause came from the classroom doorway. Teacher Wu was standing outside the wall of people, apparently having heard everything Xu Su said.
"Xu has a good point. A school is a place for teaching and nurturing character. It's not enough for you to just learn from textbooks. If your morals are corrupt, you're a lost cause."
He had a stack of exam papers tucked under his arm, and after freeing both hands to clap, he delivered this speech.
His words made many of them blush with shame.
Even Fu Zichen and her friends, who had originally thought they'd done nothing wrong, lowered their heads and said nothing.
