Chapter 99 Finding Fault
Bai Xiaolian's face turned red and white, and she felt upset at Gu Qiuyue's soft rejection.
She took a deep breath and decided to use her "trump card." Her voice was filled with deliberate pity and a hint of malicious pride: "Okay, Gu Qiuyue, you are noble! You are capable! But no matter how capable you are, can you control your man from having affairs outside? You and your man are separated now, how would you know..."
She paused deliberately to observe Gu Qiuyue's reaction, expecting to see her collapse, anger, or at least a loss of composure.
However, Gu Qiuyue just looked at her quietly, without even a ripple in her eyes, only a kind of pity that saw through everything. That look made Bai Xiaolian more uncomfortable than any fierce rebuttal.
It was as if her carefully planned slander was nothing more than a clumsy monkey show in the eyes of the other party.
"Are you done?" Gu Qiuyue's voice remained steady, even tinged with a subtle hint of sarcasm. "Comrade Bai Xiaolian, do you know that slandering soldiers and sabotaging military marriages will result in court-martial? Besides, my wife and I are not the only couple in the military who are separated. We are all contributing to the development of our country. You have no right to criticize us in front of me."
She took a step forward. Although she was not as tall as Bai Xiaolian in high heels, her calm and imposing aura made Bai Xiaolian subconsciously take half a step back.
"But you," Gu Qiuyue's eyes sharpened, dissecting Bai Xiaolian's pretense with the precision of a scalpel. "You went to great lengths to dress up, ran to a university campus, and said these specious words to a military wife, intended to sow discord between the couple. What exactly was your intention? Is your life so boring that you need to rely on making up stories about others to feel a sense of existence? Or... do you think that fabricating rumors is free, even rumors about soldiers can be easily fabricated? I'm afraid you've been living too comfortably out there."
Every word she said was piercing, without a single curse word, but every word hit Bai Xiaolian's most hidden pain. The "fashionable" and "superior" appearance that Bai Xiaolian carefully maintained instantly became ridiculous under Gu Qiuyue's calm questioning and the contemptuous gazes of the students around her.
"You... what nonsense are you talking about!" Bai Xiaolian was so angry that she was shaking all over, and her carefully drawn eyeliner was a little smudged. "Gu Qiuyue! Don't slander me. I'm just reminding you with good intentions..."
"I can't afford your 'good intentions,'" Gu Qiuyue interrupted her coldly, her tone firm, "Please take them back. This is an institution of higher learning, a place for learning and enlightenment, not a stage for you to play tricks and spread rumors. If you don't have other important matters, please leave immediately."
Otherwise, I wouldn't mind asking the dormitory administrator or the school security department to 'assist' you in leaving."
She deliberately emphasized the word "assist", and the threat was self-evident. In this era, being invited by the school security department to "have tea" was absolutely a great shame and humiliation for someone like Bai Xiaolian who attached great importance to face.
Bai Xiaolian's face turned completely pale. She didn't expect Gu Qiuyue to be so tough and ruthless.
Her looks, fashionable dress, and carefully planned provocations, which she was proud of, were completely defeated by the other party's calm gaze and clear-cut counterattack that occupied the moral high ground. The college students around her looked at her as if she were a jumping clown, full of contempt and disgust.
She wanted to say something else, but her lips trembled, but she couldn't squeeze out a word. All her harsh words seemed so pale and powerless in the face of Gu Qiuyue's open and upright demeanor.
"Looks like there's nothing important to do." Gu Qiuyue stopped looking at her, as if even a glance would be too much of a nuisance. She waved the letter to Xie Shiyu in her hand and said, "I still have to mail a letter. Excuse me." With that, she turned around and walked calmly towards the mailbox next to the dormitory building, leaving Bai Xiaolian, who was shaking with anger and frozen in place, completely exposed to the icy wind.
His back was straight and his steps were firm, without a trace of hesitation or pause.
Bai Xiaolian stared at Gu Qiuyue's back, her carefully manicured nails digging deep into her palms, her chest heaving violently, a strong sense of unwillingness and resentment almost bursting through her crown.
Gu Qiuyue! This bitch! Why does she always act so high and mighty, so untainted by the dust? Why do people believe everything she says now? Why did she manage to marry such a good man after being dumped by Brother Song?
"What are you looking at! What's so good about it!" She screamed angrily at the students watching nearby. Her voice was sharp and piercing, attracting more dissatisfied glances.
She couldn't stay there any longer, so she stamped her feet, wrapped her coat tightly around her, turned around awkwardly like a defeated but unwilling peacock, staggered out of the school gate in her high heels, and disappeared into the dark night.
Gu Qiuyue dropped the letter steadily into the mailbox, and the cold touch of the metal made her fingertips feel slightly cold.
She did not look back to see Bai Xiaolian's embarrassment, but her heart was not without ripples. Bai Xiaolian's malice was so direct and stupid, like a stone thrown into a deep pool. Although it could not change the nature of the pool, it also stirred the water surface and brought a hint of chill.
She straightened her clothes and looked up at the deep night sky.
The winter night sky in Beijing was far less clear than that in the mountains, and was tinged red by the city lights. Bai Xiaolian's appearance was like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing the slight sense of relief she had felt when she returned to campus.
Back in the dormitory, Zhou Li immediately came up to him with concern: "Qiuyue, are you okay? Who was that person? He doesn't look like a good person."
Gu Qiuyue rubbed her brows tiredly and gave Zhou Li a soothing smile: "It's okay, he's just an insignificant person, a clown, you don't have to pay attention to him." She didn't want these dirty things to affect Zhou Li's mood.
Sitting at her desk, she forced herself to calm down, opened her notebook, and her eyes fell on the words "Family Childbirth Mutual Aid Group." This was what she should focus her energy on, something that could truly help women like Lin Xiaohua who longed to change their lives. She picked up her pen and prepared to organize her thoughts.
At this moment, Zhou Li suddenly exclaimed, "The woman who came to see you is not from our school. How did she get into the school without registering?"
Gu Qiuyue paused slightly as she gripped the pen. Zhou Li's careless words were like a stone dropped into her heart, stirring up the doubts she had been suppressing. She raised her head, her gaze sharp. "What did you say?"
"Really!" Zhou Li walked to the window and pointed in the direction of the school gate in the distance downstairs. "I just saw Old Wang in the message room. He's usually very strict. Strangers can't get in without a letter of introduction. But just now... that female comrade seemed to have said a few words to someone in the guard room, and then he let her in without even asking her to register.
And how can someone who just arrived on campus find your dormitory accurately? "
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