At this moment, William Carter was filling a basin with tap water. Wearing only a pair of shorts, he was leisurely scrubbing his plump body with a towel!

After thoroughly washing himself, William Carter gave his shorts a rough scrub in the basin, slung the towel over his shoulder, and went back to the dormitory to rest.

Before entering the dorm, William Carter looked down at his own layers of fat. In his heart, he silently vowed:

“Starting tomorrow, I’m going to say goodbye to all of you!”

Chapter 006: Infuriating the School Belle

The next day, from early morning, all sorts of gossip and rumors about William Carter exploded and spread sensationally throughout Qingshui No.1 High School!

“Did you hear? I heard that last night, the loser William Carter from Class 6, Grade 12, came back to the dorm really late, and when he got back, he went crazy and stomped on their roommate Edward Grant!”

“I heard about that already, and that’s not all. You know Mark Harris, right? William Carter slapped him right out of the dorm, knocked out two of his teeth…”

“How could I not know? I saw him holding his cheek on the way to school, probably going to the hospital to get his teeth fixed! Man, his cheek was so swollen…”

“I just can’t believe it. That useless fat pig, what could possibly have provoked him to that extent? Don’t forget, it’s been almost three years, and no matter who bullied him, he’s never fought back…”

“Heh, do you even need to ask? Obviously that idiot confessed to our school’s number one beauty, Grace Brooks, last night. And listen, don’t spread this around, but William Carter came back to the dorm shirtless!”

“No way, that’s wild! My dream girl, could she really have been ruined by that fat pig…”

“Well, you never know. Maybe William Carter felt guilty for bullying Grace Brooks, figured he was doomed anyway, so he just snapped in the dorm…”

“When someone’s truly desperate, they really are capable of anything…”

…

The news from last night spread like wildfire, reaching every corner of the campus by early morning. With the students’ vivid imaginations, the rumors got more and more distorted, until the truth of last night was completely unrecognizable!

“The loser William Carter confessed his love to the school belle Grace Brooks last night and got rejected, then went wild and tried to force himself on Grace Brooks. No one knows what happened after that, but when he got back to the dorm, he beat up all the roommates who used to bully him!”

In short, a toad trying to eat swan meat!

Maybe this conclusion best satisfied the students’ imaginations and curiosity. In any case, this was the version most widely accepted among them.

Class 6, Grade 12.

Edward Grant was holding an English textbook. Although his eyes were fixed on the book, they were unfocused. A sly, triumphant grin played on his lips, occasionally flashing a hint of malice.

“William Carter, I don’t know why you suddenly got so strong, and even though I can’t beat you now, two of the school’s four notorious bullies are openly into Grace Brooks. Now that this news is out, let’s see how you survive!”

Thinking of this, Edward Grant actually felt a twisted sense of satisfaction, as if he could already see William Carter being beaten to the ground by those rich brats, rolling around, crying for his parents, and begging for mercy.

“Hmph, so what if you can fight? With your dead-last grades, you can’t even get into a vocational college. You’ll just end up doing hard labor anyway…”

Edward Grant’s “Ah Q spirit” was strong. Soon, he regained his sense of superiority and started fantasizing again.

To say that Grace Brooks was the most outstanding school belle in the history of Qingshui No.1 High was no exaggeration. Whether it was her family background, looks and figure, or academic performance, she was top of the class!

But at this moment, Grace Brooks’s beautiful face was frosted over, her expression dark and stormy. Her ample chest heaved violently, and her delicate nose flared with each rapid breath. She looked like a furious little lioness, unsure if she could hold back for even another second!

Meanwhile, the class gossip and “fast-talker” deskmate Emily Bolton was still stirring things up, refusing to rest until she’d shocked everyone.

Emily Bolton was actually quite pretty herself. Among ordinary people, she’d be considered a little beauty, but standing next to Grace Brooks, she was just the green leaf to the red flower.

“I’m telling you, Shanshan, you didn’t really get done in by William Carter, did you?”

“I didn’t even see that idiot last night! I don’t want to answer this for the Nth time!” Grace Brooks glared at Emily Bolton in shame and anger, on the verge of exploding!

“But I really did see William Carter following behind you out of the school last night… You two couldn’t have been more than thirty meters apart…”

Emily Bolton blinked, as if trying to find some clue in Grace Brooks’s words.

“You’re still going on! Fine, I admit he was not far behind me last night, but he only followed me for a few hundred meters before turning off in the opposite direction! Then I went straight home. If you don’t believe me, you can go ask my parents right now! Is that good enough for you?” Grace Brooks was about to lose her mind!

After evening self-study yesterday, she had indeed caught a glimpse of William Carter not far behind her. But after nearly three years of sharing a classroom, she knew William Carter’s cowardly nature all too well and figured he wouldn’t dare do anything, so she hadn’t paid much attention.