Chapter 56: The circle of friends is most likely people from our dormitory...
When Zhuang He found Fang Qingzhuo, he was sitting dejectedly on the flower bed at the door.
As I approached, he showed no reaction at all, his elbows resting on his knees, his back bent into an arc. The strong wind blew his messy hair back and forth, but he didn't move at all, staring blankly at the concrete floor, like a dog that had lost its home.
The words of offense were instantly stuck in his throat. Zhuang He thought about it and decided to forget it. Why should a man make things difficult for another man? He swallowed back the unprovoked misfortune he had suffered from Xia Yimo, handed over a cigarette and a lighter, and then joined the homeless camp to accompany his brothers to relax.
Fang Qingzhuo stroked the cigarette, hesitated for three or four seconds, and then put it between his teeth. He didn't know if it was because everything was going wrong today, the passing wind was determined to go against him, causing him to fail to light the cigarette several times, and Luo Shu's words "I care" kept circling in his mind.
He admitted that at first he did not understand her true face and doubted her sincerity, but later on this uncertainty was thrown out of his mind, and his mind was trapped in a big dye vat that was like a prison, and was constantly eroded and softened.
When he was a child, his family had great disagreements about his educational philosophy. Fang Jueshan trained him strictly according to the standards of an heir, hoping that he would take over the family business and shoulder the heavy burden in the future. Zhu Jie hoped that he would pursue his own goals. The two often quarreled behind his back, but stopped quarreling in front of him, creating a false impression of family harmony. He was unable to refute or accuse them, and could only accompany them and pretend nothing happened.
During that period, the teacher assigned him to write a diary, and he hid in the study and wrote furiously. Even though he was the only one who could read this diary in his lifetime, he lied, and the person in the diary was the same as what the outside world saw. Over time, because he relied too much on the lies he made up, he took them all seriously.
He was a rotten man with a bright and beautiful upper body but a rotten lower body stuck in the mud. To him, he could not bear his own distortion so he could turn a blind eye and accept all the stains of Luo Shu.
There is no perfect person in this world. Some are just hypocrites who try to show off their virtues in front of others.
But only today did he realize that he was wrong. His mistake was that he ignored a very important thing, which was Luo Shu's thoughts. The love she wanted was the other party's unconditional trust and support, not the collusion in his eyes.
He seemed to understand her sadness a little.
A bold idea popped up, perhaps Luo Shu really had nothing to do with this matter.
The wind died down temporarily, and flames finally came out of the ignition hole. The next second, the lid closed with a click.
An extinguished fire can reignite on its own, but what about the human heart?
After taking down the cigarette, Fang Qingzhuo hurriedly took out his cell phone and started studying it.
"Did you find out who posted the message on the forum?"
"Small account." Zhuang He retracted his crossed legs, raised his eyelids, and looked serious. "The IP address is not at the school, nor is it the location you provided. It's a membership-based hotel."
"Yifang Resort Hotel?"
"How do you know?"
Fang Qingzhuo looked into the distance. At first, he thought that one of the nine people had violated the spirit of the contract and exposed it. It seemed that things were not as simple as he thought.
Zhuang He was confused and wanted to continue asking him what was wrong with him, but he was fed a question in return.
"I think I did something stupid, what should I do?"
The distance was too close, and it was hard for Zhuang He to not see the slap mark on his cheek. Even Fang Qingzhuo, who was always at ease, was helpless one day.
"Let's shut down the forum and at least minimize the damage to Luo Shu. Every bit counts."
Is it really possible? Fang Qingzhuo couldn't help but let out a faint bitter smile.
"Now is not the time. Shutting down the forum at this critical juncture would only prove our guilt and expose our guilt."
She had a plan, and although he couldn't understand the specifics at this stage, he couldn't interfere and mess it up this time.
A star-rated hotel in the city. After escaping from school, Luo Shu hid in this pure land on the 79th floor.
At seven o'clock, the setting sun, the fleeting light and shadows, and the overwhelming heat gradually faded into silence.
The air conditioning in the house makes people feel cold from the inside out.
She hugged her knees, leaning against the bay window shrouded in a quiet deep blue, listening to the incessant messages on her phone reminding her of her wandering thoughts.
She thought of the comments on the forums about her, the malicious spit that drowned her every moment. She thought of the school, this palace of teaching and learning, filled with people who hated her, leaving her with no place to stand. She thought of everyone leaving in a sudden mass exodus, wondering who she could trust. She thought of the aching wound on her lip, the person who had caused it, and her love that had ended in vain...
She hid all those vulgar labels engraved on her forehead in her heart and chewed them over again and again. Various scenes and unpredictable futures played out passionately in her mind one after another.
The increasingly scattered emotions in recent days were quietly released in this closed room.
"I said I was going out to relax. Can you please stop controlling me like my parents?"
Tong Menglin, a childhood friend, approached her boyfriend on the phone. When her gaze met that thin figure, her impatience faded slightly. "No more, hanging up."
Luo Shu turned around slowly when she heard the voice: "You came here alone this time without saying hello to Jiang Xun?"
"Of course not." Tong Menglin opened the hotel's refrigerator and took out two bottles of yogurt. While lamenting the stuffiness of Shenzhen, she inserted a straw and gave it to Luo Shu.
"You know he's a bitch, I won't let him disturb our time alone."
Tong Menglin's original purpose of this trip was to meet her best friend's boyfriend, whom she had been bragging about all holiday. After she finally got there, she was informed that they had broken up. Not only did they break up, but she was also told the unfortunate thing that someone had stolen her information.
"Okay, let's not talk about Jiang Xun and me anymore." He took Luo Shu's cold little hand and said seriously, "Shu Shu, your guess was right. As soon as I posted the message, the person pretending to be you immediately agreed to add WeChat. How did you calculate that?"
I hadn't eaten much all day, and the sudden yogurt poured into my stomach made me feel a little uncomfortable.
Luo Shu naturally tilted her head to look down at the beautiful building that was still brightly lit in the deepening night, hiding her brows that were furrowed with pain: "I'm also taking a gamble, betting on what that person's real purpose is."
"Then what is her actual purpose?" Tong Menglin asked.
"money."
Apart from cases like Fang Qingzhuo's where revenge is premeditated, the rest are just for money.
"Do you remember the doubts we found when we were reviewing the timeline?"
Tong Menglin's thoughts were drawn back to the day she first landed in Shenzhen. She made countless phone calls and sent countless messages with joy, but Luo Shu seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She was so anxious that she almost called the police to look for her. When they met in the evening of the same day, she was in a depressed state of mind. She hugged her without saying a word and just kept crying.
He nodded and said, "Remember, you said there was a full two months between the first and second victim."
Luo Shu stood up and poured herself a glass of warm water. "It's been two months. Something irreversible must have happened during this time for her to choose to return to her old job. This is what I'm most puzzled about. What exactly is her intention?"
"Later, I actually found some clues. According to the chat logs, our breakup happened to happen the day after I announced I had a boyfriend. So I tentatively posted a breakup message to the world, and sure enough, things took a turn. She impersonated my account and couldn't wait to be active on social media, busy selecting new prey. But this time, she was very cautious and hesitated to agree to add WeChat. So I came up with a plan. I wanted to put the fire on her butt and expose the scandal to cut off her financial support. As long as my gold mine collapsed, she would definitely be anxious. Now she must be planning how to use me to make a final big profit."
"Oh, this is called luring the snake out of its hole and luring the enemy into a trap." Tong Menglin seemed to understand, but then she thought of Luo Shu's current predicament and worry rose in her eyes. "Even though the fish has taken the bait, what will you do? There will definitely be a lot of criticism about you at school. Can't we just call the police for help?"
"We can't alert the enemy." Luo Shu clenched her glass and said, "It was done by someone close to me. If the police come to investigate, it will give them an opportunity to defend themselves. Besides, I have to find the truth on my own and clear my name."
“那我们下一步该怎么做？”童梦琳摸出另一部专门钓鱼手机，点开那顶着骆姝头像账号，咬牙切齿，“真想爬进屏幕里把她揪出来狠狠揍一顿。”
"Well, you send a message now, and then pretend to withdraw it."
Tong Menglin did as she was told, but what was unusual was that the other party ignored her. After about ten minutes, it showed that she had posted a message on WeChat Moments.
"Shushu, look, that person ignored us but posted a message on WeChat Moments."
"What circle of friends?" Luo Shu took the phone and looked at it carefully, thinking it was a very clever trick.
A blank photo, paired with text that sparks endless imagination.
[I took a photo that only you can see. Want to see it? ]
Tong Menglin shook her head and exclaimed, "Wow, this green tea girl is really good at flirting. No wonder those brainless idiots were so blinded by their own desires that they jumped into the trap she set."
"She wants to catch the fish willingly." Luo Shu switched to the dialog box. "Then let's use her own trick against her."
After saying that, as the other party wished, he typed on the keyboard and took the initiative to contact them.
While the message was being sent, Tong Menglin couldn't help but interrupt with gossip: "Shushu, you just said that you were testing the waters with that breakup post on your Moments, so was the breakup genuine? And what did your ex-boyfriend do wrong? Wasn't everything going well during winter break?"
The other party replied instantly, and a ding-dong sound brought Luo Shu back to her stagnant thoughts. Tong Menglin still didn't know about the grudge between her and Fang Qingzhuo, and she didn't want to humiliate herself again by bringing these unbearable past events to light, so she tried to divert her attention: "Hey, didn't you try to hook her up with several accounts without any success? Which one did you succeed with in the end?"
"If you hadn't told me, I would have almost forgotten to complain. This imposter has very high standards. He didn't like the photo of Jiang Xun I brought. Fortunately, I was smart and looked through all the handsome guys on my list. In the end, I found out that he actually liked Qian Shu's type."
Luo Shu was so focused on how to deal with the man's imminent hint of a transfer that she thought it was from an internet celebrity that she couldn't help but feel uneasy: "Will this infringe on his portrait rights?"
"We are old classmates, so what are you afraid of?" Tong Menglin didn't take it seriously. She kept muttering to herself about her old classmate's recent situation, but she had to stop her muttering because of Luo Shu's long still picture.
"What's wrong?" She stretched her neck to look at the screen. It was a photo of the other party receiving the transferred money as alms.
"Ever since I found out someone was impersonating me, I've never lent my phone out to anyone else. Every photo I post on WeChat Moments is carefully categorized and grouped. There's a group of boys from the same school, a group of girls from the same school, a group of boys from the same class, and a group of girls from the same class."
A sudden wave of despair washed over Luo Shu, pouring down from her head to her feet. She had never expected this outcome. Following the clues, she unexpectedly found herself on one of her own. "The photo she posted happened to be one I posted to my class's WeChat Moments two days ago. To be on the safe side, I also made a subtle mark in the lower right corner of the photo."
Tong Menglin looked at the magnified mark and said, "Since the scope has been narrowed down to the girls in your class, and since they often come into contact with you and have an opportunity to take advantage of you, then it is very likely..."
When I got to the end, I couldn’t go on.
"It's most likely someone from our dormitory..."
Luo Shu bit her pale lips and added this fact, unwilling to accept it.
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