"Hafsat!" their teacher shouted at her. The entire class was startled by the outburst, but Hafsat remained unaffected. She didn't even look up at the teacher. The teacher approached her desk angrily and slammed his hand on her table. "How dare you! Are you stupid?" he yelled. Slowly, she stood up from her seat and, nonchalantly, replied, "No sir, I'm not." Furious, the teacher demanded, "What! Repeat what you just said now." Calmly and without any sign of fear, she said, "I just said I'm not, sir." The teacher, filled with anger, gave a malicious smile. "Hafsat, look into my eyes and repeat after me, okay?" She said nothing, so he continued, "Now, say that you are stupid." With a sly grin, she responded, "You! You are stupid!" His eyes widened in shock; he hadn't expected her to say that. "How dare you, are you in your senses?" he shouted. Mimicking him, she said, "How dare you? Are you in your senses?" In a fit of rage, he slapped her hard across the face, making her dizzy. She held her cheek and started crying loudly, like a spoiled child. She then walked straight out of the class and headed to the principal's office, still crying. Seeing her, the principal stood up, worried that another teacher might be in trouble. "Hafsat, what's wrong? Why are you crying? What happened?" he asked. Between sobs, she told him a mixture of truth and lies. The teacher was called in and forced to apologize to her, and she promised not to tell her father. Her father owned the school, and she was the only child, pampered and protected. No one dared to touch Hafsat; otherwise, there would be serious consequences. When she returned to the classroom, the boys started cheering, "Poojah! Poojah! Poojah!" One boy, clearly from a wealthy background and one of the school's notorious students, asked, "Poojah babe, I hope you made sure that teacher was dealt with?" His friend, who was just as mischievous, added, "I wish she had slapped him back. How can a teacher slap the owner's daughter?" Hafsat felt annoyed by their comments, especially because they seemed unimpressed with what she had done. She glared at the boy and then said...