Supremely Talented Tyrant

"You... you don't come any closer!"

Noticing the commotion, Xiang Chenpeng lifted his head and saw Hao Jian walking towards him. His face suddenly turned even paler.

"Stop! Stop right now!"

Suddenly, a voice rang out, coming from a distance, causing Hao Jian to halt. He quickly glanced in the direction of the voice and saw a bald, corpulent man rushing towards them with urgency.

Behind him was Xu Zelin, walking leisurely. When he saw Hao Jian, a trace of respect flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. Instead, he followed the man over to Xiang Chenpeng.

"Principal... Principal, why are you here?!"

In despair, Xiang Chenpeng was overjoyed to see the principal arrive. He quickly ran to the principal's side, hiding behind him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

From his point of view, with the principal's help, perhaps he was safe today. In the school, nobody's authority surpassed the principal's.

Moreover, he was quite familiar with the principal, having frequent exchanges. He had great confidence in such matters and didn't believe Hao Jian would go against the principal. Unless he didn't want to graduate!

"This Fatty is the principal?"

Seeing the principal's appearance, along with Xiang Chenpeng's shouting, Hao Jian stroked his chin and suddenly smiled. He wasn't a student at this school, so the principal wasn't qualified to stand above him.

Even if Hao Jian were a student at this school, facing this principal, he still wouldn't change his carefree ways.

"You're the principal?"

Hao Jian looked at the principal, a sneer on his lips. Just this kind of person wants to be the principal?

"Yes, that's right, I am the principal!"

The principal's face was quite unsightly. This Xiang Chenpeng was someone he was protecting. He was just a few minutes late, and things turned out so badly?!

Especially when he saw the strong men lying on the ground, either unconscious or groaning, his face looked even worse. Even though these people had nothing to do with the school, it was clear they were from outside. Still, there was a connection; they were Xiang Chenpeng's subordinates!

Since they were Xiang Chenpeng's subordinates, they were Xiang Chenpeng's people and, by extension, the school's people too! After all, over the years, Xiang Chenpeng's father had given them many benefits.

Having received these benefits, if he didn't act, how would that work? This way, he wouldn't receive any more investments from Xiang Chenpeng's father in the future. And he still had the matter of Big Head Xu Zelin unresolved. If he settled that, the subsequent things would be easier, but the problem was unresolved.

Without a good supporting investor, he had to protect Xiang Chenpeng. With no prospects for research funding and now such an incident, he was quite troubled as a principal.

Thus, in his anger, even his words were full of rage, especially when facing Hao Jian, the main culprit, he was even angrier.

Regardless of Hao Jian's identity or background, he had, in this instance, harmed Xiang Chenpeng, which meant he had acted against him.

Someone who showed him no respect, did he have to show them respect? That was evidently impossible!

"Weren't your actions a bit too harsh?"

Looking at Hao Jian, the principal snorted coldly, "I don't know whether you're a student at our school, but behaving like this by hitting someone publicly on school grounds is not something commendable. Plus, you've scared this student, how do you intend to explain this to me?"

On hearing this, Hao Jian's expression turned peculiar. This matter was clearly instigated by Xiang Chenpeng, yet now it had become his fault? And this principal was pinning all the blame on him, while portraying Xiang Chenpeng as a powerless, ordinary student?

Who are they trying to fool?!

But from the principal's tone, Hao Jian understood his intent, that he clearly wanted to protect Xiang Chenpeng, meaning he was covering for him.

Hao Jian didn't know what kind of deal existed between these two, but just this sentence from the principal was enough to prove everything.

"Oh... I remember now!"

The principal looked at Hao Jian, "You're the student who just won the championship on the basketball court, right?"

"Having won the championship, do you think it's appropriate to do something like this? Isn't that somewhat improper?!"

Upon hearing the principal's words, the coldness on Hao Jian's face grew more pronounced. This principal was now step by step justifying Xiang Chenpeng! But did he really think it would be that easy to see it through?

"Haha? A bit improper?"

Hao Jian let out a cold laugh, "I think in your eyes, it's not just somewhat improper, but very improper, right?!"

"Well, let me ask you a few questions. If you can answer them, I'll let you handle this, but if you can't, you'll know the consequences..."

With his gaze turning slightly cold, Hao Jian sneered at the principal, "I remember during the match just now, you were in the venue, watching our match the whole time..."

"That's right!"

"Since you were watching, why did you, as the principal, not step in when this guy blatantly broke the rules?!"

"And when he called people over to surround us, why didn't you call someone to intervene? Since you knew the situation here, you should have known that the urgent task was to stop this guy!"

"And now? Not only did you not stop them, but you personally came over and publicly shielded this guy?!"

"What's the point of stepping in now?!"

Hao Jian's words were pointedly directed, making the principal's face extremely unpleasant. This guy clearly does not understand the situation. If he admitted his mistake, it could have been smoothed over privately with some money.

But now, forget about it...

There wasn't a trace of guilt on the principal's face, instead he argued with twisted logic, "I didn't see any of what you're talking about. How could I know that such exceptional students would do the things you claim?!"

"I absolutely don't believe it! Besides, I didn't see it. All of this is imagined by you. Do you think I, who study materialistic theories, would believe such things?!"

"But..."

Saying this, the principal sneered, looking at the unconscious and groaning people on the floor, "You've hit these innocent classmates, and there are more than twenty of them. You want to argue with me about these things?!"

"Student, hitting people is wrong!"

"If you don't admit your mistake, I'll have no choice but to call the police and let them resolve this matter. I believe going through the normal judicial process will be beneficial for you!"

With his words, the principal shifted all the responsibility onto Hao Jian, while Xiang Chenpeng's responsibility was completely deflected as if he hadn't seen the calling over of people and the fouls on the field at all.

What was originally the biggest mistake was brushed aside by the principal as a minor issue, and now he even wanted to threaten Hao Jian with calling the police, which made Hao Jian furious.

"Principal, let's not bother, calling the police isn't going to help now."

A voice suddenly sounded, making the principal's face look grim, but when he turned around and saw the owner of the voice was Xu Zelin, his originally angry face immediately turned respectful.

"You can't do anything to this gentleman..."

Xu Zelin said as he walked towards the principal, his face expressionless.

"President Xu, look how you're speaking. This person is a student at my school; if a student makes a mistake, how can I not deal with them? President Xu, let me handle this matter!"

Towards Xu Zelin, the principal was extremely respectful, his demeanor flattering, because right now, Xu Zelin was his financial backer!

As long as he could secure this financial backer, his research funding would be settled, and he wouldn't have to keep begging Xiang Chenpeng and those so-called second-generation rich people and their backer forces.

After all, the combined assets of these people probably aren't as much as Xu Zelin's, meaning securing Xu Zelin is equivalent to securing multiple wealthy individuals.

Only, in the face of his respectful words, Xu Zelin showed no reaction, or rather he was not one to be swayed by flattery.

He merely extended his hand to dismissively signal to the principal, then immediately said, "Principal, I guess you better not do this..."

"President Xu... You?"

For Xu Zelin's words, the principal was puzzled. Didn't they have a good conversation just now? Why wasn't he accepting his flattery anymore?

However, the principal didn't mind. Since Xu Zelin didn't like this type of interaction, so be it; he was happy to be spared the effort, as long as he secured the research funding in the end.

"Regarding your school's research project, I think I better not." Xu Zelin's words made the principal's face suddenly stiff.

"President Xu, you... what do you mean?"

The principal couldn't believe his ears; he heard those words?! Originally, he had been talking nicely with Xu Zelin, and now how could he suddenly change his mind, not wanting to invest in their school's research project?!

Seeing the principal's situation, Xu Zelin wasn't surprised; instead, he calmly gave the principal a clear answer, "Principal, I've said it, regarding your research project, I don't intend to invest, and even if I wanted to invest again, I definitely wouldn't."

"Moreover, in my eyes, your research project isn't a worthwhile investment, at least it doesn't appeal to me."

Speaking these words, Xu Zelin's tone was flat, without the slightest ripple, as if talking about something exceedingly ordinary, yet falling on the principal's ears, it was a monumental declaration.