Standing Next To You-Chapter 319: The pride of a lackey

Wang Jia tried to compose herself and smiled awkwardly. "...You guys got it all wrong. I am thankful for the things Lin Sunji gave me. But I didn’t ask for them. Lin Sunji gave them to me because she wanted to get rid of them. After all, she has plenty. She treated me like a garbage bag and gave me the things she didn’t want."

Everyone murmured among themselves.

Was it really like that?

Is this the reason why they fell out?

Lin Sunji suddenly stood up and glared coldly at Wang Jia. "I didn’t know you felt that way. If you consider the things I gave you as garbage, you can return those ’garbage’ to me."

Wang Jia paled. She had already grown attached to some of those items, and she had sold others when she needed money to pay Zhong Cheng.

"...I already gave them away. To people who needed them. I’m not like you, wasting everything by keeping things you don’t use."

Lin Sunji laughed with ridicule. Knowing Wang Jia well, she knew those things were still at her home. Wang Jia was too greedy and selfish to give anything away.

"Fine. Do whatever you want with them. I don’t care at all."

Wang Jia’s face darkened. This arrogant attitude was what she hated most about Lin Sunji!

’Let’s see if you can continue to be arrogant!’

Wang Jia teared up.

"Lin Sunji, I really want to be your friend in the past. But you can’t treat your friends like this. Just because you’re a Lin, you think you can treat others as slaves. Your brother is smarter than you, but he treats us nicely. The ty- Lin Sangyun is a bit bizarre, but she treats her underlings well. And you? I treated you better than my own mother, but all I got from you were insults!"

Lin Sunji bit her lip. "When did you treat me well? When did I insult you?"

"You really can’t see your surroundings because you’re too focused on yourself. Ask them then."

The classmates looked at each other and began to recount what they had witnessed between the two in the past.

"Wang Jia always saved Lin Sunji’s seat. She also helped with Lin Sunji’s homework sometimes."

"Yeah, Wang Jia always prioritized Lin Sunji. So why are they suddenly fighting?"

"Could it really be Lin Sunji’s fault? Is that why Wang Jia was badmouthing her?"

In the eyes of their classmates, Wang Jia had always been around Lin Sunji, serving her like a lackey. Sometimes they envied Wang Jia because she received many benefits thanks to Lin Sunji, but they also saw her working hard to support Lin Sunji and running around like an underling.

Besides, between Lin Sunji and Wang Jia, they interacted with Wang Jia more. Lin Sunji had a model student vibe and was kind to them, but they couldn’t really approach her and play with her like they did with their other classmates. There was still a bit of distance and hierarchy between them.

But with Wang Jia, they could complain and treat her like a normal close classmate.

Wang Jia sensed that everyone seemed to be siding with her. Her confidence soared. Today, she would ensure Lin Sunji was isolated by everyone!

Her tears slowly fall. "Whenever I think about how I curried favor with you, I feel bad for myself. Why did I suffer so much just to be your friend when, in fact, you never saw me as a friend? I was just an underling in your eyes. I was really foolish."

Everyone felt bad for Wang Jia and comforted her.

"Hey, don’t cry. It’s really hard to be friends with someone of high status. Can you imagine being friends with the tyrant?"

"At least you’ve woken up now. Don’t let yourself suffer anymore."

Although the classmates did not say anything bad to Lin Sunji, their gazes were filled with distance and a bit of blame.

Lin Sunji noticed everyone’s gaze had changed. They were colder, no longer full of admiration like in the past. She sensed isolation from everyone.

She bit her lip. It was hard to come up with words to reply to Wang Jia because what Wang Jia said was true.

Lin Sunji never treated Wang Jia as an equal. She indeed looked down on her and treated her as an underling. But Wang Jia already knew that.

There was no genuine friendship between them. Wang Jia got benefits from being the friend of a possible heiress of the great Lin family, and Lin Sunji used Wang Jia to satisfy her vanity. They were just using each other.

But it was infuriating that Wang Jia was acting as if she were the victim and she-Lin Sunji was the perpetrator.

She had done wrong, but Wang Jia had also done wrong!

So why...why was everyone siding with Wang Jia?!

Lin Sunji clenched her fist. Why was everyone against her? Her parents now favored her brother. She had lost her prestige at school, and her classmates were siding with Wang Jia. Nothing was going her way. She was continuously sinking and sinking.

It was as if she were left on an island alone, and that island was continuously sinking into darkness.

Lin Sunji’s eyes turned blurry. Was it really wrong to be prideful and exalt herself?

Why must everything be taken away from her? Why did everyone change the way they treated her just because of one thing or another?

Lin Sunji felt so wronged and tired. Right now, she had even lost the fire to defend herself or get angry. Her heart hurt, and she felt so suffocated...

"Bah! What a petty show. Are you guys filming or something?" Zhong Cheng kicked a chair away. "Whoever wrote this script should be fired. It is full of nonsense."

All eyes turned to the person who had made the ruckus amidst the drama.

The atmosphere suddenly changed.

Zhong Cheng stood up and then sat at his desk. "Hey, Wang Jia."

Wang Jia stiffened. She glared at Zhong Cheng. The person she hated the most, more than Lin Sunji, was this bastard! How could she forget about him? Did this bastard want to ruin this moment now?

As if she would let him!

"What? Are you going to say I am wrong?"

Zhong Cheng cleaned his ears. "I haven’t started, but you are already making assumptions."

"Then why are you interfering? This matter has nothing to do with you." Get lost, bastard.

"Nothing to do with me? What you said really offended me."

Wang Jia was stunned. "Offended you?" She recalled what she said. She had said nothing about Zhong Cheng. So what was this bastard talking about?

"You just insulted a third of the people here. Especially me."

Everyone: "...."

Wang Jia: "...."

Lin Sunji glanced at Zhong Cheng in confusion.

"When did I..." Wang Jia was confused as well. She did not remember insulting other people aside from Lin Sunji.

"You whine about how much you suffered. How you do this, how you do that. You feel bad for yourself because of how much you have done just to curry favor. This...are you insulting me?" Zhong Cheng crossed his arms like an arrogant prick.

Everyone: ?

Wang Jia: ?

"How does this insult you?" Lin Sunji asked what was on everyone’s mind.

Zhong Cheng patted his chest, his confidence soaring. "There is nothing bad about being an underling. I am proud to be a lackey! I am not good at studying or competing in stuff, but I am good at currying favor and running around for my boss. That’s a skill I am proud of! But you are saying as if being a lackey is the lowest of the low. How can I just sit back and do nothing while you insult my job?"

Wang Jia: "...."

Lin Sunji: "...."

Isn’t being a lackey the lowest of the low?