Chapter 630 Saving People Only to Be Slandered
The young people looked at each other, and finally decided to hand the problem over to Ye Wanxi.
"Miss Ye, what do you think?"
Ye Wanxi directly passed the problem to Lu Zheyan: "The person involved is right here, why don't we just call him over and ask him?"
As soon as he said that, everyone's eyes immediately turned to Lu Zheyan.
Lu Zheyan seemed to notice everyone's gaze and slowly turned around, floating towards them.
That's right, it's floating!
In the previous few meetings, he seemed to appear out of nowhere, arriving but not moving, just standing there confronting them.
This was the first time anyone had ever seen him move like this, and everyone felt their scalps tingle and dared not utter a sound.
Ye Wanxi wasn't afraid and went straight to the point: "You remember now?"
"Um."
"I remember your name, your origins, and what happened back then?"
Lu Zheyan's expression changed slightly, and he nodded again.
"Would you mind telling me?"
"If I told you, would you be able to help?"
Ye Wanxi raised an eyebrow slightly, feeling that this person was trying to bargain with her.
She didn't make promises lightly, saying vaguely, "We need to tell you so we can be sure if we can help. But if you don't tell us, we definitely can't help."
Lu Zheyan stared at Ye Wanxi for a long time, so long that Feng Tianyu was starting to get restless, before he finally spoke slowly: "My name is Lu Zheyan. Before the incident, I was a sophomore in the Finance Department of University A."
Li Weiming and the others were stunned. After a long while, someone whispered, "University A, and the finance department at that!"
That's right. University A is a prestigious university in this province and a top-tier university in the country.
The finance department, in particular, is considered one of the top-tier programs in the country, with incredibly high admission scores.
Lu Zheyan's ability to get into this department proves he's an academic superstar!
In an instant, the way these young people looked at Lu Zheyan changed.
Lu Zheyan didn't feel anything about it. Once someone is dead, all their achievements in life are in vain.
“That’s not right.” A boy behind Wen Jue questioned at this moment, “I have a cousin who is also in the finance department of A University. He should be in the same year as you, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard him… mention you.”
University A's finance department not only has high admission scores, but also admits a small number of students each year, generally between twenty and thirty, so it can be said that it only recruits top talents.
The boy didn't have any bad intentions in raising this question; he was just simply a little confused.
If Lu Zheyan and his cousin were both students in the finance department of University A, and given the small number of students in that major, and if Lu Zheyan had experienced something like that...
Logically speaking, given his cousin's gossipy nature, he should have at least mentioned it.
What's your cousin's name?
The boy paused for a moment, hesitated for a second, and then gave his cousin's name.
Lu Zheyan was momentarily dazed upon hearing the name, a look of nostalgia on his face, but he quickly concealed it: "Perhaps it's because I've been expelled from the school and they don't want to mention me anymore."
"Expulsion?" The group exchanged glances. "Because of that incident? So, what is the truth? That night..."
"That night, I had just finished tutoring a high school student. Because it was a bit late, I missed the last bus. So I walked a little further along the road from their house, thinking that maybe there would be more buses if I walked a little further out."
Lu Zheyan paused, his face darkening. "The accident happened under a bridge about a kilometer from my student's home, and several kilometers from your previous neighborhood. I had just gotten to that area when I heard a girl calling for help. Looking down from the roadside, I saw two girls struggling in the water."
"It was late at night, and there was no one on the road. It had rained not long before, and the current was very strong. I didn't have time to think, so I dropped my bag and jumped in. One of the girls could swim and the other couldn't. The one who couldn't swim was probably scared, so she grabbed the one who could swim tightly, which made the one who could swim panic too."
"After I went down, it was too difficult to pull both of them at once, so it took a while longer, and my strength gradually ran out."
As Li Weiming listened to Lu Zheyan's words, he knew he shouldn't believe Lu's one-sided story, but he couldn't help but follow along, his heart tightening involuntarily.
"And what happened next?"
"Later..." Lu Zheyan seemed to remember something, his expression twisting slightly, "After finally managing to pull the two of them to the shore, the current became increasingly rapid. The girl who could swim got ashore first, and then hurriedly reached out to pull the other girl. I was helping to support her from below. Unexpectedly, just as the girl was about to be pulled ashore, a wave suddenly crashed over her. She was startled and kicked me hard from underwater."
At this, everyone's expression changed.
"You mean, she kicked you, so you ended up drowning because of her?"
"Yes, I was already exhausted at that point, and she kicked me again, just as that wave came crashing down on me. I was stunned by the impact, and by the time I realized what was happening, I had already been swept away by the wave."
As Lu Zheyan spoke, his expression suddenly turned ferocious: "I don't blame her. Given the circumstances, it's understandable that she was frightened. But she shouldn't have slandered my innocence after my death."
Upon hearing Lu Zheyan's words, everyone suddenly recalled what the two girls had said during the interview in the report.
If what the person in front of me is saying is true, then...
Everyone felt their hair stand on end and their bodies go cold.
Why would she do that? You saved their lives!
"Is that even a question? They're probably afraid that Mr. Lu's family will ask them for money. After all, Mr. Lu died saving them, so it's only right that they get some compensation. They probably just don't want to pay."
“I think it’s because she had a guilty conscience. That woman was afraid that the truth would be exposed and that Mr. Lu’s family would hold them accountable. Didn’t Mr. Lu just say that the woman kicked him when she got ashore?”
"How could this happen? We saved them, but in the end, we're being smeared. These people are so outrageous and malicious!"
Li Weiming's classmates were discussing it animatedly, while the black aura surrounding Lu Zheyan gradually surged.
Time seemed to have suddenly rewound to eight years ago. Lu Zheyan would never forget the helplessness and resentment his parents felt when they were cursed and accused because of his stigma.
Lu Zheyan was his parents' youngest child. Before that, he had an older sister who tragically died during childbirth, along with her unborn child.
His parents were devastated, but then they suddenly discovered that his mother was pregnant again.
If his sister were still alive, his parents, being so old, would definitely not want this child.
But his sister suddenly passed away, so Lu Zheyan's parents regarded this unexpected child as a gift from heaven to compensate them and kept him.
(End of this chapter)
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