Chapter 142: The Cafeteria Brawl

Yang Fan was dining with two women, drawing the attention of many onlookers. After all, Tang Xin and Liu Jingjing were two exceptionally striking beauties.

Yang Fan ate quietly, paying no heed to the surrounding gossip.

"Yang Fan, don't you feel quite flattered?" Liu Jingjing blinked at him, still chewing her food.

"How so?" Yang Fan asked calmly.

"Getting to eat with the two campus belles of Pearl High School—doesn't that give you a massive ego boost?" Liu Jingjing giggled. "Hehe, look around you, so many people are staring with eyes full of envy, jealousy, and hatred."

Liu Jingjing was quite confident in her own beauty.

"It's alright, I suppose," Yang Fan shrugged, continuing to eat.

Seeing that Yang Fan was completely devoid of romance or humor, Liu Jingjing curled her lips in disappointment and dropped the subject.

At that moment, six male students walked over toward Yang Fan and stopped right behind him.

"Hey punk, I heard you've been acting pretty arrogant," a tall, muscular male student said, looking down at Yang Fan with a provocative glare.

Tang Xin and Liu Jingjing exchanged glances, both catching the amusement in each other's eyes. A single thought popped into their heads simultaneously: someone was about to have a very bad day.

They knew perfectly well why these guys had come to make trouble for Yang Fan—it was purely because he had offended Wang Jianwei earlier.

Yang Fan didn't even bother to look at them, continuing to eat at his own pace as if the punks standing behind him were entirely transparent. He couldn't be bothered to deal with these hotheads, feeling it would beneath his dignity. In his mind, the behavior of these students was exceptionally childish and ridiculous. To put it bluntly, these guys were just a bunch of preening show-offs.

"Damn it, I'm talking to you! Are you deaf? Treating me, Li Hao, like air?!" Seeing that Yang Fan completely ignored him, Li Hao flew into a rage and began shouting abuses.

"Fuck, this prick really is arrogant as hell, completely ignoring us. Looks like he needs a lesson," another male student swore, glaring at Yang Fan with intense hostility and shouting taunts.

To their verbal assaults, Yang Fan still gave no response. He simply kept eating. His lack of reaction did not mean he was going to let it slide. He just needed to finish his meal first before teaching these punks a lesson.

The students watching in the cafeteria assumed Yang Fan was simply terrified into silence.

"Holy crap, Li Hao and those jocks are bullying people again. That guy's in for a bad time."

"Heh, these guys must think that kid is an eyesore and just want to show off and draw some attention to themselves."

"I saw it clearly earlier. That kid offended Wang Jianwei, so Li Hao must be trying to vent Wang Jianwei's frustrations."

"Tsk tsk, looks like we're in for a good show. Everyone in Pearl High School knows Wang Jianwei is Tang Xin's number-one suitor. For that guy to be sitting with Tang Xin, their relationship is clearly unusual."

The surrounding students who were eating watched the unfolding scene with keen interest. Everyone knew all about Li Hao and his clique of athletes, as they were notorious bullies. As for the guy targeted by Li Hao, the onlookers could only offer a silent prayer of mourning in their hearts.

"Li Hao, please leave. We're still eating and have no time to deal with you," Tang Xin glanced at him and said coldly.

"Exactly, stop bothering us. Your face is so hideous it's ruining my appetite," Liu Jingjing chimed in quickly, putting on a disgusted expression.

Saying such a thing was practically pouring oil on fire. Of course, she wasn't afraid at all, because she had a boyfriend right beside her—a boyfriend who could really fight.

"Liu Jingjing, watch your mouth!" Li Hao stared at her with an ugly expression, his tone dark.

If not for the fact that he knew Liu Jingjing was a woman targeted by *that person*, he would have really wanted to march over and slap her. His looks were already mediocre at best, making his appearance a lifelong scar on his ego. Being insulted to his face as ugly and repulsive felt nothing short of utter humiliation.

"What? Want to hit me?" Liu Jingjing looked at him with a provocative smirk. "Go on, let's see you try. My boyfriend is right here. If you dare lay a hand on me, you'd better consider the consequences."

Liu Jingjing had a boyfriend? And he was right here beside her?

In an instant, all eyes shifted to Yang Fan, every gaze filled with surprise.

"Is this your boyfriend? To me, he looks like nothing more than a coward, a spineless loser," Li Hao said with utter disdain.

The moment Li Hao finished speaking, the five guys behind him chimed in with a chorus of cold ridicule and mockery toward Yang Fan.

"Haha, Brother Hao is right, this guy is a total coward."

"Don't put it like that. At least give the guy a shred of face, right? What if his fragile little heart can't handle it?"

"Calling him a man? Aren't you giving him way too much credit? I don't think he's a man at all."

Having finished his last mouthful of food, Yang Fan slowly stood up, turned around to face the arrogant Li Hao, and cast a chilling gaze at him.

Meeting Yang Fan's eyes, Li Hao curled the corner of his lips into a provocative sneer.

"Do you have any idea how childish and ridiculous this behavior is?" Yang Fan stared at him with undisguised contempt. "Picking fights—don't you think this is profoundly low-class? Even your posturing is pathetically childish."

Hearing Yang Fan's harsh disdain, the expressions of Li Hao and his cronies darkened instantly.

"Motherfucker!" Li Hao cursed, winding up to kick Yang Fan squarely in the chest.

Yang Fan grabbed his meal tray with both hands and smashed it mercilessly down onto Li Hao's head.

With a deafening crash, the metal tray instantly warped and caved inward, bearing the distinct imprint of a skull. As for Li Hao, the devastating blow to his head caused him to lose his balance entirely. He toppled backward and crashed heavily onto the floor, landing squarely on his rear.

"Get him!" Seeing Yang Fan strike first, the other five thugs lunged forward simultaneously.

"Trash," Yang Fan sneered, not even bothering to look at them as his right leg lashed out like lightning.

Five screams rang out almost in unison, followed instantly by the sight of five bodies sent flying through the air. They slammed violently into the dining tables, shattering and overturning them in a chaotic crash.

The whole sequence happened so fast that nobody could even track how Yang Fan had thrown his kicks before all five of them were sent airborne.

Groaning in agony, Li Hao and his lacklings sprawled across the floor in a heap of wails.

Yang Fan couldn't even be bothered to spare them another glance. He turned to Tang Xin and Liu Jingjing and said, "Let's head back now that we're done eating."

"Yang Fan, you were utterly amazing!" Liu Jingjing rushed over, hugging his arm with a look of pure adoration.

Amidst the awe-struck gazes of the crowd, Yang Fan left the cafeteria accompanied by the two women.

Watching Yang Fan's retreating back, Wang Jianwei felt a lingering wave of terror. If Yang Fan had targeted him earlier, his fate would have been identical to Li Hao's, and it certainly wouldn't have felt pleasant. He never expected Yang Fan to be such a brutal fighter.

"To think this guy is Liu Jingjing's boyfriend. Looks like I need to have a word with *him*. He'll definitely find Yang Fan even more interesting," Wang Jianwei thought, a mixture of surprise and schadenfreude bubbling up inside him.

Liu Jingjing was the woman that person had set his sights on. In Pearl High School, aside from that person himself, absolutely no one dared to harbor any designs on her.

Thinking of that person's ruthless methods, a malicious, sinister grin involuntarily spread across Wang Jianwei's face.