Chapter 336: Chapter 336

Many people around witnessed this scene, and Skylar Hughes put her attitude very low.

"Paige, I’ve never lowered my head to anyone. To reconcile with you, I’ve already lowered all my stances. Can you forgive me?"

Paige Sterling, "..."

Skylar Hughes, "If you’re still unwilling to forgive me, then I’ll keep bowing and apologizing until you’re willing to forgive me."

After speaking, Skylar really started bowing and saying sorry, looking as sincere as could be.

In contrast, Paige Sterling, standing there with a cold expression, appeared extremely unapproachable and unsympathetic, making people involuntarily feel sorry for Skylar Hughes.

Especially since Skylar Hughes was particularly good at using her delicate appearance to stir the atmosphere.

So, not long after, the students watching the scene, along with some teachers, couldn’t help but feel sympathetic, thinking Paige Sterling was being too harsh.

Someone began to advise Paige Sterling.

"Teacher Sterling, you’re all family, since she knows she’s wrong, just forgive her..."

"Exactly, Teacher Sterling, you’re a teacher, you should be more magnanimous. She’s apologizing so sincerely now, it shows she’s truly ready to correct her mistakes. Forgive her, wouldn’t it be nice for the family to be harmonious..."

"What deep-seated grudge could exist between sisters? Maybe there’s still some misunderstandings between you two? Sitting down for a calm talk wouldn’t be bad either..."

"Her attitude is really sincere now, Teacher Sterling, just let it go, otherwise everyone will also speak ill of you..."

"Yeah, forgive her, forgive her..."

Upon hearing the voices around starting to lean towards her, Skylar Hughes showed a triumphant smile.

People are like that, easy to talk while standing tall; they only believe what they see, and the true feelings of the involved parties aren’t their concern.

Now they only know that Skylar Hughes sincerely regrets, whether she deserves forgiveness doesn’t matter; they just need to know Paige Sterling must magnanimously forgive Skylar Hughes.

If Paige Sterling doesn’t forgive, then she’s at fault.

Being a teacher, in front of so many students, how can you not set a good example?

Paige Sterling hadn’t expected that such a high academic institution as the University of Technology would also nurture a group of people with bugged minds.

"Since you think you’ve wronged me, hurt me," Paige Sterling finally spoke, "shouldn’t you make some appropriate compensation instead of a light and casual sorry and inciting public moral coercion to force me to forgive you?"

"Paige, I’m not forcing you, I’m just trying to let everyone know I really understand my mistake, I am sincerely asking for your forgiveness..."

"Is this to gain my forgiveness? You’re only trying to make a gesture for everyone to see, to gain sympathy, and indirectly creating more trouble for me, just to satisfy your own discomfort at seeing others better off..."

"No, I’ve never thought that way.", Skylar Hughes denied, "I’ve already bowed and apologized, isn’t my sincerity enough? Why do you have to misinterpret my intentions?"

Paige Sterling walked up to Skylar Hughes, then, in front of everyone, slapped Skylar Hughes’s delicate face.

Instantly, the whole place fell silent.

Paige Sterling said, "Sorry..." The source of this content ɪs 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽

Skylar Hughes held her face, cried, "Paige, how could you hit me?"

Paige Sterling, "Why can’t I hit you? I’ve apologized in front of so many people, what more do you want?"

Using one’s spear to attack one’s shield.

Skylar Hughes was at a loss for words.

The onlookers, "...", That remark seems quite reasonable.

Skylar Hughes clenched her teeth, she came today to trouble Paige Sterling, not to humiliate herself.

She sobbed and asked, "Paige, then what exactly must I do to compensate you for you to forgive me? You know, I have nothing..."

Well, having nothing means you can just say sorry verbally, is that it?

Even in front of so many people, Paige Sterling made no effort to conceal her disgust for Skylar Hughes.

"Stay away from me, don’t appear in front of me to disgust me, my time is precious, and I have none to waste on loathing you."

Paige Sterling, "See, your attitude isn’t sincere at all, I detest you the most, yet you insist on showing up before me, is this your apology stance? Or are you completely oblivious to the disgust you bring to others?"

Paige Sterling then turned to the spectating crowd, "And you, It seems like whenever I taught you academic knowledge, I forgot about shaping your values, making you all feel so righteous, equipped to advise others to be magnanimous, promote positive societal values. Starting tomorrow, all my classes stop, and you should stay in your dormitories and take a good look in the mirror, inspect whether your soul is sordid or magnificent, to avoid disgracing yourselves."

A group of students felt extremely awkward, realizing that the words they used to advise Paige Sterling earlier made them feel foolish now.

What Skylar Hughes did was already widely recognized; Paige Sterling is the one qualified to choose whether to forgive or not; others haven’t endured those calculations and harms on her behalf, on what grounds can they ask her to forgive?

And after speaking, Paige Sterling drove away, leaving Skylar Hughes awkwardly standing there.

Skylar Hughes thought that at school, Paige Sterling would shakily protect her image and then forgive her publicly after all.

But unexpectedly, Paige Sterling was still so tough in front of the students, and capricious enough to stop classes as she said.

Skylar Hughes felt as if the students who finally came to their senses started to criticize her, quickly covering her face and ran away.

And Paige Sterling said she’d stop classes, and for several days afterward, she didn’t go to school, worrying the school’s leaders.

Will Paige Sterling never attend school again?

Those with true capabilities are all capricious, and Paige Sterling indeed had the capital to be reckless.

Therefore, with her stopping classes, no one dared to say anything against her, just afraid she really wouldn’t come back.

The students regretted immensely, yet some also felt Paige Sterling was making a mountain out of a molehill.

As a teacher, to get so upset with a student over such a small matter, not coming to class and joking with students’ futures, she’s really unqualified to be a role model.

The matter even stirred debates online.

Some believed Paige Sterling’s anger was understandable; after all, people have tempers.

But don’t forget Paige Sterling’s other identity as a teacher, how can you act as a teacher?

Thus, more people online chastised Paige Sterling for being capricious, thinking she was too outrageous.

This turned out to be an unexpected joy for Skylar Hughes; she wanted to see how Paige Sterling would wrap things up.

As the matter escalated, Paige Sterling only had two paths to choose from.

First, bow down and apologize, but that wasn’t Paige Sterling’s style; she wasn’t someone who’d willingly suffer grievances.

Second, face the accusations defiantly and not relent, isn’t it said she isn’t qualified to be a teacher? Then might as well not be a teacher.

Of course, choosing the second option would make Paige Sterling receive more severe criticism since it would confirm her image as capricious and reckless.

So no matter how Paige Sterling chose, she wouldn’t benefit.