Office.
The gentle Mrs. Zhou had finally coaxed the heartbroken Teacher Xiao Tao out of her funk. Xiao Tao ate cake, and the tears stopped falling.
"Sweet or not?" Mrs. Zhou asked kindly.
Teacher Xiao Tao was very moved. "Sweet."
Mrs. Zhou smiled. "Xiao Tao, I know you put on a movie for the students out of kindness. However you treat the students, that's how they'll treat you."
"As teachers, we each have to walk our own path. I'm one kind of path, and Mr. Gao is another kind of path."
Thinking of the smug look on Gao Heshuai's face when he left, Xiao Tao suddenly asked, "So was Mr. Gao also tricked over there by the students with some 'surprise'?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Gao Heshuai came back to the office with a dark face, dragging along two boys—one was the pale and skinny Shen Xinli, the other the stocky Lu Zhenxin.
Gao Heshuai snapped, "The second I walked into the classroom, I saw the two of them fighting."
Mrs. Zhou said, "Well, that's very true-to-life."
