"Let's go! Let's follow and see."
As the two girls left, Tang Mo Bai, who had been watching them, also departed.
Off-campus cafe.
When Jiao Yu Tong ran over, Meng Xi Yao was leisurely sipping coffee, with a girl she didn't recognize but found familiar sitting beside her.
"I'll wait for you outside," Yu Jie said with a smile, putting down her cup and leaving.
Only after she had completely disappeared from sight did Jiao Yu Tong anxiously ask, "What do you know?"
She didn't have many secrets, only one.
But she wasn't sure if Meng Xi Yao was bluffing.
"Why the rush?" Meng Xi Yao gestured, "Sit down."
Jiao Yu Tong had no interest in playing mind games with her, but she had no choice but to comply.
"Speak," she said, sitting down, a rare look of anxiety on her usually indifferent face.
Meng Xi Yao pushed her phone towards her. "Have you checked the Tieba and forums?"
With a hint of annoyance, Jiao Yu Tong frowned. "No, why?"
"You dare say you didn't post this?!" Her voice suddenly rose.
Outside the window.
"What is she saying?" Wen Ting Xue nudged Tang Mo Bai, the only one who could read lips.
Since it wasn't convenient to go inside, they could only find a suitable spot to observe.
Before long, Tang Mo Bai squeezed in as well. To avoid being kicked away by the two girls, he revealed that he could read lips.
Tang Mo Bai looked at her strangely. "You don't know?"
Wen Ting Xue blinked. "Know what?"
"That the posts on Tieba and forums weren't posted by you guys?" Tang Mo Bai was surprised.
Lu You Ran rolled her eyes at them. "Even if we wanted to post, we wouldn't have the time!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the two understood and immediately grabbed their phones to check the forums and Tieba.
Meng Xi Yao's affairs had indeed been anonymously exposed.
And it was very detailed.
The timeline was also quite clear.
Starting from Meng Xi Yao seducing Jing Xiao, such as slipping her contact information into his pocket, and actively standing on tiptoe to kiss him at the Academy of Fine Arts.
To Meng Xi Yao's constant lies, insisting that Bian Wei was pursuing her and then pocketing the gifts Bian Wei had given her.
She had even used Wen Ting Xue's name to have Bian Wei buy her several bags.
Then came Meng Xi Yao hiring a senior student to pretend to be her boyfriend, and finally, Meng Xi Yao seducing Jing Xiao during the National Day holiday and instigating Jing Xiao to emotionally abuse his girlfriend, Lu You Ran.
Even more detailed was the money for the hand cream, with screenshots between Lu You Ran and Jing Xiao as proof.
The almost simultaneous receipt and transfer of money was enough to prove that Meng Xi Yao was using Jing Xiao's money to pay for the hand cream.
The comments below were uniformly condemnatory.
1L: I heard Meng Xi Yao's family background is quite ordinary, and her parents sacrificed everything to send her to school, and this is how she repays them? If I were her parents, I'd consider it bad luck!
111L: That hand cream is truly disgusting!! Can't she afford even a few dozen yuan? She has to pester her boyfriend for money?! As expected, when people become disgusting, there's no limit.
555L: I think the emotional abuse part is even more disgusting. Emotional abuse! Lu must have been so hurt back then! The scumbag and the slut were being lovey-dovey, I'd be furious just imagining it! Meng Xi Yao, go die!
666L: If Meng Xi Yao can sleep well tonight, everyone here is responsible!
888L: From the chat records of both parties, it's confirmed that the scumbag and the slut were together while the scumbag hadn't broken up yet, so Meng was knowingly a homewrecker. There's no excuse for this!
999L: Scumbag and slut, stay together forever, thank you! Don't harm good girls!
1314L: I think Lu and Fu are quite a match. Have you seen the video of Fu hitting someone? So cool!
10086L: I don't understand, why did Meng Xi Yao hire someone to pretend to be her boyfriend? Was she afraid Lu would find out? If she was afraid, why did she become a homewrecker? Isn't that pure insanity?
After reading everything, the two asked each other in unison: "Are you sure you didn't post this?"
As soon as they spoke, they denied it in unison, "No, I didn't post it!"
Tang Mo Bai: "?"
"It really wasn't you guys?" He couldn't be blamed for being suspicious, the evidence was right there!
Screenshots of Lu You Ran's own WeChat chats, and Jing Xiao's own WeChat chats.
If it wasn't them, who else could have easily obtained it?
In other words, Jing Xiao wouldn't rat on himself, so it had to be Lu You Ran, or Wen Ting Xue from her dorm.
But—
Tang Mo Bai felt that they weren't lying, so who was the poster?
Why did he have more evidence than Lu You Ran, the main party involved?
"This..." Lu You Ran was dumbfounded. "My WeChat didn't prompt me about remote login or abnormal login.
"How did the poster get my account password, and more importantly, how did they get all my chat records?!
"This is too terrifying, truly terrifying, more terrifying than Jing Xiao's infidelity."
Lu You Ran looked up with a horrified expression, her eyes wide as she stared at them.
Wen Ting Xue and Tang Mo Bai felt a chill run down their spines.
If the poster wasn't Lu You Ran, then who was it?
Who could be so powerful to steal a WeChat account without the owner's consent?
And dare to post it so brazenly!
"You..." Wen Ting Xue frowned and thought, "Did you scan any QR codes recently?"
"Yes," Tang Mo Bai chimed in, "Some QR codes can hack into your phone, and more advanced ones are undetectable."
Wen Ting Xue gave him a look. It wasn't necessary to be so detailed.
"I, I, I," Lu You Ran thought for a moment in confusion, "I think I scanned a QR code before National Day. It was from a little flower seller, and that was it."
"A little flower seller?" Tang Mo Bai was suspicious. "Did she only sell to you?"
"Uh..." Lu You Ran was stumped, and then she recalled carefully.
"It seems so. There were so many people on the street, and she only approached me, saying she had to sell a certain number of flowers that day or she'd be beaten.
"I felt so sorry for her, so I bought some, but the QR code she provided wasn't for payment, it looked like it was for a public account.
"I remember asking her about it at the time, and she said it was for saving money. After scanning it, I did save five yuan. I didn't think much of it then, but recalling it now, it does seem quite strange."
Wen Ting Xue felt a chill in her heart. She had a strange feeling of being trapped.
What was even more terrifying was that she couldn't even guess who had set the trap.
In the cafe, Jiao Yu Tong had also finished reading.
"They didn't post this," she pushed the phone back, her expression serious. "I can guarantee that they went to bed very early last night, they had no time or opportunity to compile this.
"Moreover, this post, whether it's the writing style or the choice of pictures, is very cunning. It doesn't seem like something they could have done..."
Before Jiao Yu Tong could finish her analysis, Meng Xi Yao collapsed and shouted, "I don't care!"
Jiao Yu Tong was startled.
Meng Xi Yao cried, "Did you see the comments below? I'm telling you, the private messages are even more venomous and vulgar than this! I can't take it anymore! Do you understand?!
"From morning till now, do you know how many calls I've received? All of them are scolding me, telling me to die, and insulting my parents. I really can't take it anymore!
"I don't care who posted this, I just need you to help me, and you must help me!"
She stared intently at Jiao Yu Tong, as if threatening to drag her down with her if she refused.
Jiao Yu Tong asked, her palms slightly clenched, "What exactly do you know?"
Meng Xi Yao said, "I know your father killed someone. You are the daughter of a murderer. How do you think people at school will see you if this comes out? Can you imagine those looks?"
Jiao Yu Tong closed her eyes in despair.
Before she spoke, she had still held onto a sliver of hope, a fantasy that Meng Xi Yao was bluffing and knew nothing.
But it turned out she really did know...
That's right.
She was the daughter of a murderer. She had the blood of a madman flowing through her veins.
Everyone avoided her like the plague, or treated her with hostility, wishing to get rid of her, this hidden disaster.
—Can you imagine those looks?
How could she not know those looks?
Rejection, disdain, fear, all lurking in the shadows.
Everyone seemed to be ignoring her, yet also watching her.
This feeling of being half-transparent and half-central, she had tasted for six full years, from middle school to high school.
She studied desperately, not only because she truly liked it, but more importantly, to escape the mire and completely break free from the past shadows and environment.
So, when she entered university, she was happier than all her peers.
Because here, she was Jiao Yu Tong, not the daughter of a murderer.
But—
Everything was about to start again...
Her nightmare was about to repeat itself.
Jiao Yu Tong suddenly felt exhausted, both mentally and physically.
Meng Xi Yao carefully observed her expression. To be honest, when Yu Jie told her about this, she didn't believe it.
She thought that with Jiao Yu Tong's personality, she couldn't possibly be the daughter of a madman.
But judging by her appearance, Yu Jie hadn't lied to her.
"It's very simple for me to shut up. This matter..."
Before she could finish, her phone rang.
"Yao Yao! Did you get into trouble at school? Why did someone call home and call you a homewrecker? Tell Mom the truth, have you done such a shameless thing?!"
As she spoke, Meng's mother, who was usually gentle, started to yell.
Because she had her daughter late in life, they cherished her dearly.
Meng Xi Yao had never been hit or spoken harshly to in her life.
This was the first time.
Meng Xi Yao held the phone, stunned for over ten seconds, then tears streamed down her face.
"Mom! How can you believe outsiders and not your daughter?! I didn't do such a thing!
"They are slandering me! Don't believe them, your daughter is pure and innocent, how could she be a homewrecker?!
"It's those girls who are jealous that I have someone pursuing me, and they deliberately hired someone to frame me. You must not believe them!"
Meng's mother naturally believed her daughter, but—
"The neighbors all know about this, even your father's construction site knows. Someone just called me to ask.
"Yao Yao, if you really didn't do it, then quickly come forward and explain, otherwise, where will your parents' old faces go?"
Meng Xi Yao trembled with anger as she hung up the phone, her eyes fixed venomously on Jiao Yu Tong.
"Look at what you've done! Scolding me is one thing, but why call my parents?!
"They're not young anymore. If anything were to happen to them, could you bear the responsibility?!"
Jiao Yu Tong frowned. "Can't you understand that this has nothing to do with us? You brought this upon yourself..."
"I don't need you to lecture me!" Meng Xi Yao said stubbornly. "If you don't want your secret exposed, you'd better obey my arrangements, otherwise..."
She clicked on the school forum and pointed to the post, threatening, "Otherwise, I'll expose everything about you. It's the internet age now.
"With a word from me, who knows if it's true or false? Anyway, you'll be the one hurt in the end! What I've experienced, you'll experience it all over again!"
Meng Xi Yao leaned forward, resting her hands on the table, her tear-reddened eyes filled with madness.
Jiao Yu Tong fiddled with her hands, her breathing tightening, and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
Meng Xi Yao withdrew slightly, appearing somewhat satisfied. "It's simple. You just need to persuade Wen Ting Xue and Lu You Ran to speak up for me and help me change my reputation."
Jiao Yu Tong looked at her incredulously. "You truly have no remorse. The simplest way to resolve this is for you to apologize..."
"Why should I apologize?" Meng Xi Yao said dismissively. "I just stole her boyfriend, and she had to do this to me?!
"I could have apologized at the beginning, but now, don't even think about it!"
Apologizing would be like nailing herself to the pillar of shame. Was she stupid?
She was going to marry into a wealthy family. Her reputation could be controversial, but she absolutely couldn't have concrete scandals.
Jiao Yu Tong shook her head, unable to bear it. "I won't help you. You're not worthy of any sympathy, and you deserve to be cursed!"
The only lifeline was about to break. Meng Xi Yao's face contorted as she blocked her. "Aren't you afraid I..."
"Do whatever you want," Jiao Yu Tong looked down at her. "I can't do anything against my conscience. Whether Xiao Xue and You Ran are willing to forgive you and help you is their business, I won't force them."
As for those looks and curses.
She didn't care.
She had already experienced them, she was numb.
At worst, she would be numb once more.
But she couldn't lose her true self and her bottom line.
Wrong is wrong, right is right.
"You!"
Seeing that she couldn't stop her, Meng Xi Yao could only stomp her feet in fury.
Outside the window, Wen Ting Xue and Lu You Ran went to meet her.
Although they couldn't hear the specific conversation, they could tell from Jiao Yu Tong's emotional fluctuations that it must have been something difficult to accept.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have made that expression.
It was hateful that Tang Mo Bai didn't translate at the crucial moment!
After watching the three girls leave, laughing and crying, Tang Mo Bai turned his gaze to Meng Xi Yao, who was pushing open the door to leave.
"Don't move."
The young man moved with lightning speed, appearing behind Meng Xi Yao, and a cold blade was pressed firmly against her waist. Soon, a conspicuous red seeped through her clothes.
Meng Xi Yao's legs went weak with fear, and she stammered, "I don't have any money, you..."
"Shut up." The knife pressed in a fraction deeper, and Meng Xi Yao immediately bit her lip shut.
After being dragged into a nearby alley, Meng Xi Yao finally saw the young man's face clearly. It was handsome and delicate, like a fine ink painting.
"Tang Mo Bai?!" she blurted out his name.
Tang Mo Bai cast a cold glance at her, his deep eyes filled with ice shards. "Since you know me, I'll get straight to the point."
He forcefully jammed the knife into the wall next to her face, startling her into a scream, which he immediately covered with his hand.
Feeling no pain, Meng Xi Yao trembling opened her eyes and met the young man's bloodthirsty gaze.
Fear surged through her like a tide.
She had no doubt that he would kill her.
"You..."
The pressure on her mouth eased, and Meng Xi Yao hurriedly asked, "What exactly are you..."
"Regarding Jiao Yu Tong's matter, if you dare to say a single word, I will not let you or your parents go."
The young man was extremely tall, standing before her, casting a vast shadow.
"I mean what I say."
With those icy words, Meng Xi Yao nodded fearfully, "I, I, I will definitely keep my mouth shut. Please rest assured!"
At the same time, the three girls who had just arrived at the school gate encountered Fu Ran driving out.
Fu Ran didn't see them at first. When he noticed them, he reversed his car and stopped in front of the three, rolling down his window to inform them, "There's been progress on the drugging incident."
Lu You Ran immediately asked, "Do you know who it was?!"
Fu Ran nodded. "Yes."
Lu You Ran ground her teeth. "Can you just say it all at once?! Stop telling me one sentence at a time like squeezing toothpaste, alright?!"
"Okay." He deliberately teased her. Lu You Ran took a deep breath and asked, "Who is it?"
Hahaha, today's typing speed was beyond expectation. There's one more chapter, which should be available in the morning.