Does anybody else think that her friend group acts kind of like... like a controlling boyfriend? They block her from making friends with other people, isolate her from her classmates, get angry and emotional when they see her with anybody other than them, and monitor her activity all of the time without her permission.
After this chapter, they have a legitimate reason to block Ru Da, but since he’s been introduced, they’ve been so jealous that it’s crazy. Remember when they chased her around the school for a day because they wanted to keep her from talking to Ru Da? They immediately decided they wanted to destroy him, even though they knew nothing about him except that he was her classmate. All they were doing was, what, holding hands in the hallway?