Chapter 79

This morning, a major event occurred at Beiyi University, causing an uproar in the group chats of both the School of Economics and Management and the School of Business.

The first class had just ended, and students from both colleges were on their way to the classroom for the next class after finishing their 8 a.m. class when they discovered a love letter posted on the bulletin board downstairs in Building 10.

The love letter was written by Li Xiaohua to Chen Yan. A student took a picture of the love letter and posted it in the group chat. In just one morning, the news spread throughout both colleges.

Whether they had class or not, whether they were in class or skipping class, everyone saw this love letter.

Furthermore, the fact that this love letter was written to the most popular guy on the finance campus easily piqued everyone's curiosity.

By noon, everyone knew that Li Xiaohua from the School of Economics and Management was pursuing Chen Yan, the campus heartthrob from the Department of Finance.

Aside from the four-person group and the two people in room 615, almost no one knew that Chen Yan and Xiang Wan were dating. Therefore, everyone naturally assumed that Li Xiaohua and Chen Yan were having an affair.

Even the counselors from both colleges thought so.

When things started to escalate, the counselors from both colleges intervened and even sent people to tear down the love letters on the bulletin board. However, they clearly underestimated how quickly the word would spread among the students from both colleges.

Not only the two colleges, but all the students in the school knew about it, even the aunties downstairs in the girls' dormitory knew about it.

The love letter incident not only caused a huge uproar on campus, but also spread rumors about it outside of school.

When the business school counselor realized something was wrong, she immediately called Chen Yan for a talk. However, she made more than a dozen calls that morning, but no one answered.

The counselor left him a message, asking him to come to the administration building to find her after he woke up.

Chen Yan saw the counselor's message and replied "okay". He then glanced at the text messages, but apart from the trio asking him what was going on, Xiang Wan didn't send him a single message.

He opened Xiang Wan's chat window and typed a long message to explain to her, but ultimately deleted it all.

He sat on the stool, his phone face down on the table, feeling somewhat agitated. More than the love letter, what kept getting on his mind was the relationship between Jiang Juncang and Xiang Wan.

After a quick wash, the three of them began discussing their strategy.

Apart from the sound of the air conditioner, the dormitory was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

After a long pause, Ni Zhen frowned and looked at Zhao Luyu: "If Chen Yan didn't post the love letter, who else could have done something so despicable?"

"Could it be someone who dislikes Li Xiaohua who posted this?" Zhao Luyu also found the whole thing very strange. "Or is it a prank?"

The two were still arguing when Chen Yan, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "Li Xiaohua put it up herself."

"What???"

Why did she post the love letter she wrote to you on the school bulletin board?

Chen Yan replied indifferently, as if the topic of conversation wasn't his: "I don't know."

"..."

He finished speaking and then stood there in a daze, while Ni Zhen and Zhao Luyu next to him were browsing the comments under the popular posts one by one.

As the two looked at the letter, their brows furrowed more and more. The comments overwhelmingly expressed sympathy for Li Xiaohua, whose love letter had been exposed. Some comments even began to suspect that Chen Yan had posted the love letter on the bulletin board to show off.

The love letter was posted during the 8 AM break. The three of them had been sleeping soundly in their dorm room since then, and Chen Yan hadn't even left the room during that time. How could he have done it?

Ni Zhen disagreed and posted a comment as Chen Yan's roommate to prove that it wasn't Chen Yan who posted it. However, there were too many people discussing it, and his comment was quickly swallowed up to the bottom.

Moreover, many of their classmates in the same major were also influenced by the post and asked them if the love letter was posted by Chen Yan.

Chen Yan didn't respond to any of these questions. As for Zhao Luyu and Ni Zhen, they tried to explain until their lips were practically worn out, but it was all to no avail.

There were too many people making fun of the situation, and there were even malicious posts smearing Chen Yan, claiming that he personally witnessed Chen Yan posting the love letter.

Their explanations were buried, while the defamatory post went viral in just twenty minutes.

[I can testify that I personally saw Chen Yan walk downstairs to Building 10 and post the love letter someone had written to him on the bulletin board. Oh, and he was wearing a black hat at the time, and he even made eye contact with me.]

Seeing the poster's "confident" words, Zhao Luyu was so angry he laughed. Still not satisfied, he replied:

[Chen Yan was sleeping in the dorm the whole time, and you were staring at each other in your dream? ???]

Unlike his previous explanation which had sunk to the bottom, his comment quickly went viral, but the comments below were all criticizing him.

[Chen Yan himself has arrived. Watching the show.jpg]

[Did you plant a camera on Chen Yan? How did you know he was sleeping?]

Oh~ the scumbag's die-hard fan has arrived...

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Seeing these comments, Zhao Luyu was so angry that he stood up from his chair, while Ni Zhen next to him was still sending voice messages to his classmates to explain and ask them to help spread the word.

Both of them were extremely busy, while Chen Yan got up, put on a coat, and was about to leave.

Seeing him walk out, the two of them simultaneously looked up at him and asked, "Where are you going?"

"My counselor is looking for me," Chen Yan said in a calm tone.

"Then be careful on the road."

"Um."

On his way to the administration building, Chen Yan was still preoccupied with the matter of the red bean and lotus seed soup. However, as soon as he arrived outside the administration building, he received a call from Zhao Luyu.

"Chen Ruilin, where are you?"

Noticing that his roommate's voice sounded a bit rushed on the other end of the phone, Chen Yan frowned and suddenly had a bad feeling: "Just arrived at the administration building."

Ni Zhen's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Li Xiaohua is attempting suicide; she's on the rooftop of the teaching building."

Chen Yan remained silent for a while until the next second when his counselor called. He said into the phone, "My counselor called me. I'll hang up now."

"Okay, we'll come find you now..."

Before the two could finish speaking, Chen Yan hung up. He then called his counselor, and listening to the counselor's anxious voice on the other end, he became more and more convinced that his guess was correct—Li Xiaohua had posted the love letter herself.

Although in the eyes of the people of Lijia Village, Li Xiaohua is different from her brother Li Yaozu, being both intelligent and kind.

But Chen Yan knew that it was all an illusion. Compared to Li Yaozu, who liked to bully the weak, Li Xiaohua was actually even worse. But what made her smarter than Li Yaozu was that she was better at pretending.

If I had to describe her in one sentence, it would be like a barking dog that bites. Moreover, Li Xiaohua is someone who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

One of the most memorable things for Chen Yan was when he was 8 or 9 years old, a girl from the next village came to attend class at his school.

At the time, because her family had all gone to the county to sell vegetables, the girl brought her family's dog to the school.

That dog was different from the country dogs; it was a city pet, and it seemed to be a gift from the girl's aunt who lived in the city.

The girls in the school had never seen such a pet dog before, and they rushed to pet it after class.

When it was Li Xiaohua's turn, perhaps she used too much force, or perhaps she touched the dog's belly, the dog barked at her twice.

The girls in the school said it was because she smelled too bad, and Li Xiaohua didn't say anything about it. But when the school was empty during lunch break, she secretly let the dog that was tied up at the door go.

Chen Yan was lying in the field not far away, sunbathing, when he happened to see this scene.

That dog was originally a city dog, unlike the local dogs in the countryside. If it got lost, it wouldn't survive long in the wild.

When the girl returned after dinner and found the dog gone, she cried for a long time. Everyone accompanied her to search for a long time, but they couldn't find it.

Li Xiaohua was the first to offer to help her find her dog.

Chen Yan knew everything, but he wasn't one to meddle in other people's business, so he didn't get involved.

However, even if he exposed Li Xiaohua at that time, no one would believe what a 'bastard' said, and he would offend the village chief Li Shengde because of it.

Li Yaozu had led a group of children to throw stones at him since he was a child, but he found Li Xiaohua, a vicious person, more disgusting than the despicable villain.

A true villain is better than a hypocrite. Chen Yan even felt that Li Xiaohua should be Li Taohua's daughter.

Li Shengde named Li Xiaohua Xiaohua in memory of his beloved Li Taohua, but the daughter born turned out to be just like Li Taohua.

Although everything is just his deduction, Chen Yan is absolutely certain that this whole thing was directed and acted by Li Xiaohua herself, and that the love letter and suicide were all for some purpose.

As for her purpose, considering her harassment over the past month, she knows he has a girlfriend, yet she shamelessly pesters him, revealing her true intentions.

But he didn't think Li Xiaohua liked him that much. Besides wanting to get her, Chen Yan couldn't think of any other purpose for her.

On the other end of the phone, you could hear the counselor's anxiety just by looking at his voice: "Chen Yan? Are you listening?"

Chen Yan snapped out of his reverie and focused his gaze on the highest point of the teaching building not far away—

A girl was standing on the wall, while the area below the teaching building was crowded with students.

The teaching building is right across from the administration building. Chen Yan looked at Li Xiaohua, who was putting on a show at Tiantai Mountain, with a cold look in his eyes: "Counselor, I'm listening. I've already heard about her suicide attempt. I'm downstairs in the teaching building right now."

The counselor visibly relaxed: "Don't move, I'm coming to find you now."

"good."

The counselor arrived quickly. She jogged over and comforted him, saying, "Don't be nervous. The teacher will take you to the rooftop later. You can try to persuade the girl who jumped."

Chen Yan sneered inwardly, knowing that Li Xiaohua's charade wasn't really about suicide, but he knew no one would believe him if he said that, so he didn't show his sarcasm: "Fine."

When they got to the rooftop, the police had already cordoned off the classroom and the rooftop area. Only after the counselor explained the reason did she take Chen Yan inside.

After they took the elevator to the rooftop, the student counselor from the School of Economics and Management was also there. When she saw Chen Yan arrive, she visibly breathed a sigh of relief and advised Li Xiaohua, who was standing on the other side of the railing, "Li Xiaohua, calm down, Chen Yan is here too."

"Trust your teacher, these are all minor things. When you grow up, people will forget about them after a while. The most important thing is to live..."

However, Li Xiaohua wouldn't listen to a word: "Where is Chen Yan?"

Only after seeing Chen Yan in person did Li Xiaohua seem to finally 'stabilize' her emotions. She shouted at everyone, "You all step back, I need to speak with Chen Yan alone—"