0127 Memories (Part 1)

Jiang Jifan's sophomore year was the most unbearable year of his life.

After the last class in the afternoon, everyone left the classroom, chatting and laughing.

Jiang Jifan was stopped by someone as soon as he stepped out of the classroom.

She was rushing to her part-time job when she glanced back at the person who had come, and immediately frowned.

"Ji Fan, are you free?"

The boy in front of her still had that gloomy and cowardly look. He stood in front of her nervously and stammered as he asked her questions.

Jiang Jifan suppressed his annoyance and said expressionlessly, "No, I have to go to my part-time job."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Seeing this, Lu Xuezhen hurriedly caught up with her and pleaded beside her, "Jifan, just this once, could you..."

Jiang Jifan suddenly stopped in her tracks, couldn't help but roll her eyes, turned around and interrupted him, raising her voice, "Classmate, I don't remember us being very close, right?"

She really dislikes people who aren't even that familiar with her calling her so affectionately, especially strangers of the opposite sex.

"Your long-term behavior has caused serious disruption to my life. Please don't bother me anymore, thank you." She was already trying hard to control her expression, trying not to look so fierce and cold.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xuezhen turned pale and froze on the spot, not even noticing that she had left.

After a long time, until the corridor of the teaching building was empty, he slowly raised his head, his eyes gleaming with an unusual light, and his face visibly distorted.

One evening later, he confessed his feelings to her again on WeChat. At that time, Jiang Jifan had just been verbally abused by the store manager in front of all the employees, losing all face. After seeing his message, she was even more annoyed. All the anger in her heart surged to her head, and she couldn't help but vent her anger by saying a bunch of extremely nasty things to him. Her language was vulgar and highly insulting.

After she finished yelling, a long while passed, and just when she thought he had backed down out of fear, he suddenly sent her a message:

"Would it stop bothering you if I just died?"

Jiang Jifan thought he was crazy and didn't take his words seriously. He just replied "crazy" and then blocked and deleted him.

That night, Lu Xuezhen attempted suicide by cutting her wrists in her dormitory room. She was discovered by her roommate in the early hours of the morning and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

It is said that the scene was so chaotic that night that even the principal was alarmed.

While everyone was still speculating about the reasons why he committed suicide by cutting his wrists, the next day, Lu Xuezhen's parents rushed into the classroom and verbally abused and beat Jiang Jifan, who was still attending class attentively, in front of all the students and teachers.

"It was you! You shameless little bitch, you ruined my son! If anything happens to him, I'll make sure you die..."

Jiang Jifan will never forget that day—when she was doubted and accused by everyone, no one stood up for her, she was isolated and helpless without any friends by her side, and even the teacher looked at her with shock and disappointment.

At that moment, her mind went blank; she only knew that she shouldn't, and shouldn't, take on this case.

Jiang Jifan remembered that she explained many times back then: "It wasn't me, I didn't!"

But no one heard them. Everyone seemed deaf at that moment, only whispering and looking at each other with disdain. The huge classroom was filled with their incessant slander and insults.

Her explanation was utterly weak and powerless in the face of Lu Xuezhen's suicide.

At that time, online software such as Weibo had not yet become popular. Nevertheless, in order to put pressure on the school, the other party's parents joined forces with a newspaper to publish the incident and criticize the school and related personnel.

Jiang Jifan never imagined that his first appearance in the newspaper would be for something like this.

Under strong pressure from the other parents, the school was forced to convene a "school violence committee," which is said to be the first time such a major scandal has occurred in the school's history.

The meeting required her parents to attend, but Jiang Jifan dared not let Yao Man know about her experiences at school. She couldn't imagine how Yao Man would bear such insults if she came.

Finally, she had no choice but to call Jiang Jiping.

At that time, their relationship had deteriorated to the point that they would not contact each other even once a year. However, when Jiang Jiping received her call, he still rushed from his hometown to City B without saying a word.

"...Look at her! She even dyed her hair like people outside, looking like a gaudy, seductive ghost. How can she be a proper student?! A student with such bad conduct and malicious intentions should be expelled!" The parent, dressed in a suit and tie, slammed his fist on the table while pointing at her and cursing her fiercely, as if Lu Xuezhen was already dead. He wished he could skin her alive, pull out her tendons, and immediately send her to the eighteenth level of hell to pray for Lu Xuezhen's atonement.

Because the other party's parents had some influence in City B, none of the school leaders present dared to speak up, allowing him to grab Jiang Jifan and verbally abuse him in a fit of anger.

Only Jiang Jiping, who was sitting steadily next to Jiang Jifan, could no longer bear to listen. He stood up and interrupted him, raising his voice: "Please get this straight, this whole thing started because your son kept harassing my sister! In today's society, love is free, and my sister has no obligation to accept your son's advances!"

He was tall and strong-willed, and although he was still young, he had an imposing presence.

Jiang Jiping stared at the other person with a sinister look in his eyes, and sneered: "If what you say is true, then my sister's studies and mental health have been severely affected by this, so who should we seek compensation from?!"

"Stand up!" He turned to Jiang Jifan and said firmly, "Since you haven't done anything wrong, why should you let others slander you?"

In Jiang Jiping's view, a cowardly and self-destructive good-for-nothing like Lu Xuezhen would not be worth dying even if he died a hundred times.

Jiang Jifan was startled. Her previously confused soul instantly returned to her body, making her mind clear in an instant.

Then, she gritted her teeth and stood up, suppressing her inner panic. Looking at the leaders at the table, she said tremblingly, "Please, leaders, be clear: during my time at school, I focused on my studies, abided by school rules, and never made any mistakes. Before this, I..."

Jiang Jifan paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "Lu Xuezhen has an unusual personality. He has been pursuing me relentlessly for two years, during which time he has come to bother me countless times, which has seriously affected my life..."

She suddenly regretted it. She shouldn't have let Lu Xuezhen pester her for two years for the sake of some superficial respect. She should have cut off his morbid obsession the moment she realized his feelings.

Lu Xuezhen's stalking and secretly photographing of her were common occurrences. What's more, he used various methods to spy on her private life through her friends, which has reached an outrageous level.

When Jiang Jifan first discovered this, she felt fear and anger. When she was about to resolve the matter in her own way, the people around her reminded her not to easily provoke these mentally unstable people. After weighing the pros and cons, she chose to deal with the matter in the dark.

But Lu Xuezhen did not stop there; instead, she escalated the situation until she finally couldn't hold back and exploded.

After hearing her account of Lu Xuezhen's pursuit of her, the school leaders couldn't help but feel a chill run down their spines. However, due to the domineering nature of the other party's parents, they couldn't easily handle the matter.

I heard that the school had already drafted a notice to expel her from the whole school, but in the end, because Jiang Jifan's counselor testified to her innocence from beginning to end, and Xing Yeye stood by her side without hesitation and persuaded her parents to help, Jiang Jifan was able to retain her student status.

She could only escape her fate once, and eventually the school recorded a major demerit for various offenses, forcing her to admit her mistakes in front of thousands of students.

Jiang Jifan stood on the stage she had stood on countless times, holding the microphone she had used countless times, but she never expected that this time she was not there to host a school program, but to read her own confession letter, which was several thousand words long.

Even though she hadn't done anything wrong.

However, she still didn't have the chance to tell everyone her "confession" that day. When she was halfway through reading, someone in the crowd started it. She vaguely remembered that it was a boy. He suddenly jumped up angrily, pointed at her, and cursed. The surrounding classmates were stirred up by his emotions and stood up one after another.

Water bottles, eggs, and countless other objects were thrown at her head, creating chaos at the scene.

This farcical confession was ultimately forced to end.

From that day on, many people inexplicably appeared on campus who claimed to be fighting for the weak, but in reality, they were petty people who bullied the innocent.

Later, many private photos that Jiang Jifan had never seen before appeared on the school forum. Most of them were photos of her taking off and putting on clothes in the dormitory. This incident caused her already dwindling reputation to plummet once again.

Author: Women have always been a vulnerable group in society. If they encounter such a situation, they must learn to use legal means to protect themselves and bring criminals to justice!

I'll add more chapters later.