Chapter 45: You Dare Touch My Woman?

  The sudden shout immediately caught the attention of the whole class, and even Li Ruoshan on the podium frowned and looked over.

  Liu Shichao glared at Zhou Hao for a moment before smiling and saying to the people around him, "Nothing's wrong, everyone continue with class."

  Zhou Hao was furious, but his anger also had a component of guilt and embarrassment, because if the rumor was just a rumor, it would be fine. However, in reality, Zhou Hao did have an affair with Li Ruolan during their time together, so to some extent, the rumor actually spoke the truth.

  While others continued with their class, Zhou Hao grabbed Liu Shichao's hand and suppressed his anger, saying in a low voice: "Who spread this rumor?"

  Liu Shichao shook his head, "I don't know either, I just know that it started circulating in school after you came back yesterday."

  "Damn it, don't let him find that guy!" Zhou Hao clenched his fists. Apart from anger, he was more afraid that Li Ruolan would leave Yun Ning Middle School and even leave Xiangcheng City because of this rumor.

  "Hey, Zhou Hao, what exactly happened to you when you were trapped in that cave? How did you grow so tall?" Liu Shichao looked up at Zhou Hao, who was now a head taller than him, and said with some envy: "I should have fallen down with you back then, maybe I would be taller too."

  When he heard this, Zhou Hao couldn't help but smile wryly. At this time, he found that Gao Jingyi in front of him seemed to have slightly leaned back, obviously paying attention to the content of his conversation with Liu Shichao. So Zhou Hao simply raised his voice a little and said that he had encountered a strange person in the mountain cave who taught him martial arts, and asked Liu Shichao not to tell others.

  "Who would have thought that you'd benefit from misfortune?" Liu Shichao's eyes lit up, "What a pity it wasn't me who encountered the stranger."

  "Or would you like me to teach you some martial arts?" Zhou Hao said with a smile.

  Liu Shichao was initially very excited, but soon shook his head, "Forget it, my parents can't even get me to run two laps around the playground every day, let alone practice martial arts. It's definitely going to be tough and I'm not cut out for this stuff anyway."

  After class, Li Ruolan hastily left the teacher, and Luo Hui also took Liu Shichao to the small grocery store to buy snacks. At this time, Gao Jingyi also turned her head around and saw Zhou Hao's face, which had matured a lot, and she quietly stirred up a few ripples in her heart.

  "What's wrong, is there something on my face?" Zhou Hao saw Gao Jingyi staring blankly at him and touched his face.

  "Uh, no, nothing." Gao Jingyi suddenly came back to her senses, "I know who spread that rumor."

  Zhou Hao's spirit lifted, "Do you know? Who is it?"

  "It's our class math teacher, Meng Tingguang." Gao Jingyi said: "Yesterday when I went to the office, I happened to hear him talking about you and Teacher Li in the math teaching and research room. There were also student representatives from other classes present, apart from a few other math teachers. I guess that's how the rumor spread."

  "Meng Ting Guang." Zhou Hao narrowed his eyes, previously at Autumn Peace Mountain, Zhou Hao also encountered him entangling with Li Ruolan which led to his fall later on. Now he spoke out such rumors, obviously targeting Zhou Hao and Li Ruolan.

  Gao Jingyi continued, "This Meng Tingguang has already married and had children, but he relies on his uncle being the deputy director of the Municipal Education Bureau, often harassing other female teachers. Moreover, several female classmates in our class have also said that they have been harassed by him before." When she said this, Gao Jingyi's expression was full of disgust, it could be seen that she also hated Meng Tingguang very much.

  Seeing Gao Jingyi's expression, Zhou Hao's heart moved, "He shouldn't have harassed you, should he?"

  "How dare he?" Gao Jingyi snorted.

  Zhou Hao thought so too. As the mayor's daughter, Meng Tingguang wouldn't dare to mess with Gao Jingyi even if he had two guts. He smiled and said, "If he dares to harass you, I'll help you teach him a lesson."

  When Gao Jingyi heard Zhou Hao's words, her cheeks flushed slightly and she turned her face to say: "If he dares to harass me, I naturally have a way to deal with him, no need for you to interfere." After that, she turned back and ignored Zhou Hao again.

  Zhou Hao was stunned, then shrugged and sighed, thinking that this woman's heart was really as unpredictable as a needle at the bottom of the sea, leaving him at a loss for what to do.

  At noon, Zhou Hao went to find Li Ruolan, but when he arrived at the office, other teachers said she had already left, and Zhou Hao was disappointed. Originally, Zhou Hao wanted to go directly to the teacher's dormitory to find her, and be honest with each other about what happened between them, after all, this kind of relationship where the face and heart don't match can't continue. But Zhou Hao also thought that Li Ruolan might be taking a nap now, and he didn't want to disturb her, so he decided to go to the dormitory to find her in the evening.

  After barely getting through the afternoon classes, Zhou Hao went home for dinner and then came back to school.

  He had passed by earlier, and today's evening self-study was not Li Ruolan's turn on duty, but he still went to the classroom first to take a look, and only walked towards the teacher dormitory building after seeing that Li Ruolan was not there.

  It's already late November, so it gets dark very quickly. Under the cover of night, Zhou Hao walked through the mango grove on campus and arrived at the teacher dormitory of Yuning Middle School. The dormitory building was built by the school two years ago and has a flat structure with seven floors. Zhou Hao remembered that Li Ruoshan lived in room 408 on the fourth floor. He also saw that the window of room 408 was lit, indicating that Li Ruoshan was indeed at home. Since the dormitory can accommodate hundreds of households, many teachers who have the means to do so have bought houses outside, and some teachers are on duty for night shifts, so only room 408 is lit on the entire fourth floor.

  On his way up, Zhou Hao met several teachers and warmly greeted them one by one. Those teachers, even if they were not from Zhou Hao's class, also knew the celebrity Zhou Hao and responded with a smile.

  Arriving at the fourth floor, Zhou Hao took a deep breath and was about to press the doorbell when he suddenly heard a quarrel coming from inside.

  Zhou Hao had previously heard from Liu Shichao that Li Ruolan's parents had already returned, so Li Ruolan had resumed living alone. At this time, in the quarrelsome voices, apart from Li Ruolan's voice, there was also a man's voice, which sounded somewhat familiar, but he couldn't think of where he had heard it before.

  "How could there be a man in her house?" Zhou Hao furrowed his brow, and at the same time, he was also entangled in his heart, because logically speaking, those who can enter Li Ruolan's home should be people close to her. "Could it be that she already has a boyfriend?"

  Just as Zhou Hao was hesitating about whether or not to knock on the door, he suddenly heard Li Ruolan shouting "Save me".

  "Teacher Li is in danger!" Zhou Hao's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't even bother to knock on the door. He directly kicked it open with one foot, forcing the door wide open.

  The scene before him ignited Zhou Hao's anger, and he saw Li Ruolan being pressed to the ground by a man. Her dress was lifted up to her waist, exposing her long white legs and white underwear.

  Hearing the noise at the door, the man holding Li Ruolan also turned his head around, and to their surprise, it was Meng Tingguang.

  Zhou Hao was furious, his teeth clenched and veins bulging on his forehead. He strode forward, grabbed Meng Tingguang's collar with one hand, and lifted him up, "You dare to touch my woman?!" he roared, before punching him in the face, sending him flying out, heavily crashing into the wall beside, and then falling down, his face a bloody mess.

  Look at Li Ruolan again, who is still lying on the ground with tears streaming down her face, and her originally neat hair is also very disheveled.

  Zhou Hao rushed over to help her up, "Teacher Li, are you okay?" He carefully examined Li Ruolan's body and saw that her clothes were still intact. He couldn't help but feel relieved that he had arrived in time, otherwise Meng Tingguang would have succeeded.

  "Zhou Hao..." Li Ruolan looked at Zhou Hao with tearful eyes, not crying out loud, but tightly grasping his arm. However, the lingering fear and unease in her eyes made Zhou Hao feel extremely heartbroken.

  "It's okay, I'm here, I'll protect you." Zhou Hao tightly hugged Li Ruolan's frail shoulders.

  "You... you dare hit a teacher..." was followed by Meng Tingguang's indistinct voice.

  Upon hearing his voice, Zhou Hao's anger surged up again. This guy had repeatedly entangled Li Ruolan, not only targeting the rumors about him and Li Ruolan, but now he even wanted to violate Li Ruolan. Zhou Hao stood up abruptly, lifted his foot and kicked Meng Tingguang fiercely, "You dare to touch my woman! You dare to touch my woman!"

  This was Zhou Hao suppressing the anger in his body, otherwise with his strength, that one punch would have been enough to kill Meng Tingguang. However, even so, Meng Tingguang was kicked by Zhou Hao until he cried out in agony, "Save me! He's going to kill someone! The student is going to kill the teacher!"

  "How dare you still call yourself a teacher?" Zhou Hao kicked out with one foot, kicking Meng Tingguang's mouth, immediately knocking out more than a dozen of his teeth and also silencing his voice.

  Li Ruolan finally calmed down and pulled Zhou Hao away, "Stop fighting, if you hit him again, he'll really be dead."

  Under Li Ruolan's persuasion, Zhou Hao also stopped his hand, and Meng Tingguang was already on the verge of collapse. Zhou Hao said: "Teacher Li, let's call the police and report this bastard for rape!"

  Li Ruolan was not a timid person, so she immediately called the police to report the incident. At this time, some teachers from upstairs and downstairs who heard the commotion also rushed over. When they saw Meng Tingguang lying on the ground with his face disfigured and Li Ruolan's tear-stained face, they asked what had happened.

  Li Ruo Lan then told the whole story, it turned out that Meng Ting Guang had learned of Li Ruo Lan's safe return and had again harbored evil intentions towards her. He knew Li Ruo Lan was off duty today, so he came to her home.

  At first, Meng Tingguang tried to coerce and entice Li Ruolan into being his mistress. When he saw that Li Ruolan was resolute in her refusal, Meng Tingguang's intentions turned sinister and he attempted to rape Li Ruolan. Fortunately, Zhou Hao happened to arrive just in time to prevent the tragedy from occurring.

  Many teachers also heard rumors about Meng Tingguang's reputation. After hearing the whole story, they despised him even more.

  "Zhou Hao is really a hero of our school." The teachers highly praised Zhou Hao's bravery, and Li Ruolan also gave him a grateful look.