Rebirth: She is Ready for a Counterattack!-Chapter 474 - 473: Defying the Winds to Break the Law
Ye Mingyue complained, "No wonder you’re still an old maid, you’re just too conservative. If you like someone, you like them; if you don’t, you don’t. If he doesn’t like me, I’ll start my new love journey soon enough."
Lang: "..."
Gu Xiaoqing: "..."
Fang Shaonan: "..."
"By the way, Xiaoqing, is that arrogant guy really going to war with us?" Ye Mingyue asked curiously.
"Though that guy is quite handsome." Ye Mingyue added casually.
"You’re hopeless, truly hopeless." Guo Donghua rested a hand on the car door, shaking his head in despair.
She indicated that this infatuated woman was beyond saving.
Fang Shaonan nodded and said seriously, "I can tell he’s serious this time. You’d better be prepared. He’s a man who will do anything to achieve his goals. As my brother puts it, there’s a madness to him when he acts."
"I know."
Gu Xiaoqing replied, having never seen the serious side of Feng Qingyang, but this time he certainly was.
"However, I’m serious too."
Gu Xiaoqing squinted as she looked out the car window.
She wasn’t joking; if Feng Qingyang dared to act, she would make sure he and the Nalan Family suffer terrible losses in the end.
"Then be careful, my sister-in-law just said this ripper is very tricky, you all need to be cautious. It’s best to arrange 24-hour protection for yourselves."
Fang Shaonan reminded Gu Xiaoqing.
Gu Xiaoqing nodded and asked the driver, Lang, "Do you know this ripper? The white guy we saw in the private room earlier."
"Boss, I’ve only heard of him; he’s very skilled in assassinations. He often uses scissors to cut open the victim’s chest and abdomen, but I’m not familiar with the details of his profile. Anyways, the incomplete statistics suggest that he’s possibly killed over a thousand people."
Lang said gravely.
"Over a thousand people?"
Gu Xiaoqing frowned.
Even killing one person a day would take over two years, nearly three years, yet this guy looks like he’s in his thirties and already has over a thousand lives on his hands?
Gu Xiaoqing returned home with Lang, saw her father, mother, and younger brother, and decided to have her people protect her family around the clock.
She herself spoke to Gu Ruhai, telling him she would be working with Ye Mingyue and the others and wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon.
Ye Mingyue was someone she brought to the country; no matter what, she couldn’t let anything happen to her, and the same went for Guo Donghua.
Thus, she essentially served as an unconventional bodyguard.
Some time passed without incident regarding Feng Qingyang, and Ye Mingyue wondered if that arrogant handsome guy was just bluffing.
Suddenly, Guo Donghua rushed in, frantic, and said to Gu Xiaoqing and Ye Mingyue, "Look at the news, suddenly they’re advocating for reduced burdens."
Indeed, although the topic of reducing burdens came early, it has been consistently promoted.
Gu Xiaoqing opened the newspaper, finding an entire half-page dedicated to how overwhelming student study pressure is, with mentions of students fainting from exhaustion at school, and calls for parents to alleviate their children’s stress by reducing burdens.
"Isn’t this implicitly criticizing our extracurricular classes?"
Guo Donghua said discontentedly, clearly upset.
"It’s okay, Donghua, don’t take it to heart. We’ll keep our style, conduct classes as usual, and maintain rigorous teacher evaluations and assessments."
Gu Xiaoqing set the newspaper down and spoke to Guo Donghua.
"But this could impact us."
Guo Donghua said.
"Haha, you’re mistaken, reducing burdens is merely a slogan. As long as the domestic education system doesn’t change and remains exam-oriented, our foundation remains unshaken."
Gu Xiaoqing said with a smile.
Indeed, despite reducing burdens, faced with entrance exams and college exams, what can parents ultimately reduce?
"Moreover, perhaps this could be a great opportunity for us."
Gu Xiaoqing said with a smile.
Ye Mingyue looked puzzled and asked, "Xiaoqing, haven’t you gone crazy? They’re talking about extracurricular classes, how can this be good for us?"
"Now, our people should come in handy."
Gu Xiaoqing told Guo Donghua, "Immediately contact people from all over the education sector to discuss the issue of reducing burdens, and state my position—whether it’s classroom workload or extracurricular workload that’s heavier? Immediately contact local TV stations and have them conduct a special investigation."
Soon enough, there was a nationwide uproar and intense discussion about reducing burdens.
Feng Qingyang sat in his office, opposite Nalan Yuanshu from their previous meal together.
Nalan Yuanshu held a newspaper and smiled at Feng Qingyang, "How about it, with just one word, ’reduce burden,’ we can cause New Horizon to suffer losses? This should put pressure on Gu Xiaoqing, right?"
Feng Qingyang nodded and asked Nalan Yuanshu, "How’s the interview on CCTV going?"
"It’s already aired and has had a strong impact. After all, who doesn’t worry about their children—having to spend money on private classes, while their kids suffer."
"Good."
Feng Qingyang turned his head, watching the hustle and bustle outside the office building, quietly waiting for the repercussions of this matter.
At this time, the burden reduction reached various places, it transformed into another meaning.
In just a month...
Various local stations started broadcasting, schools having evening classes until late, teaching or going over tests, and then students having tons of homework when they got home.
Various interviews and investigations mostly complained that students had too much homework, school hours ran too late, and they still had to do homework at home.
Places responded one after another, urging schools not to have evening classes past seven o’clock, insisting students be back home by seven, and controlling the amount of student homework.
New Horizon didn’t speak out at all, yet lots of parents reported their children for weekend classes, almost collapsing New Horizon’s enrollment site.
Ye Mingyue and Guo Donghua were dumbfounded!
What the hell is going on?
"Xiaoqing, explain this, I don’t understand, why are we suddenly so popular? Lots of parents who never enrolled before are now coming to sign up?"
Gu Xiaoqing replied with a smile, "It’s simple, with less school time, students have less time to acquire knowledge, and less to gain. The advantages of our classes become clearer; with just the test a month later, students who only study in school will see a slight drop in grades, while those enrolled with us will see improved scores. Seeing the reduced gap with other kids, parents will naturally start worrying. Remember, as long as the exam-oriented system in the country doesn’t change, New Horizon will always have a market."
Ye Mingyue and Guo Donghua were puzzled, as were Feng Qingyang and Nalan Yuanshu.
They were dumbfounded too.
How could there be a national policy in place, yet parents were still defying it?
