Huo Xian was looking at her study notes in her room. She always enjoyed the feeling of enriching herself through learning.
Just as she was studying diligently, her phone rang. "Huh? Why is my brother calling me now?"
Huo Xian answered the phone, "Hello?"
"Ah Xian, can you please not look at your phone tonight?"
"Why?"
Huo Qi opened his mouth, but after thinking for a moment, he told Huo Xian the truth: "Someone wants to use your adoptive parents to slander you, but don't worry, we've already made arrangements."
"So just get a good night's sleep tonight, and things will be resolved before 11 a.m. tomorrow."
"Okay, no problem." Huo Xian nodded.
Huo Qi gave Huo Xian a few more instructions and then hung up the phone. Huo Xian heard that it was very noisy on Huo Qi's end, so he must have been very busy.
Huo Xian stared blankly at her phone with the screen off. She pursed her lips, sat on the bed, and hugged her legs.
Why, why do the adoptive parents' spirits linger?
"Should we tell Ruanruan?" Huo Xian hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not open the chat interface with Lin Ruanruan.
"I'm just one of Ruan Ruan's many friends. Why do I think I'm so special?" Huo Xian muttered to herself, looking at the sky outside. "They must be asleep by now, it's so late."
Thinking of Fang Lan, who often joked and laughed with Ruan Ruan; the round-faced girl who shared gossip with Ruan Ruan; the beauty blogger that Ruan Ruan always praised; and the girls in the top class...
Huo Xian placed her phone directly on the bedside table and lay down on the bed.
Besides, her brother said it would be over by 11 a.m. tomorrow, so she shouldn't disturb Ruan Ruan's sleep.
Thinking of her adoptive parents whom she hadn't seen in a long time, Huo Xian felt a dull ache in the scars on her back.
She wrapped herself directly in the blanket, slowly closed her eyes, and a faint glimmer of tears appeared at the corner of her eyes.
Unaware that Lin Ruanruan was currently engrossed in playing on her phone in revenge mode, Huo Xian, who had spent a long time studying at the Huo residence on the weekend, was fast asleep.
After Fang Lan asked her to play games with him, Lin Ruanruan readily agreed, and she immediately led Fang Lan to dominate the game.
Meanwhile, Huo Qi, Fang Si, and Xuan Yuan Aochen were together, with many staff members checking the surveillance footage around them.
Huo Qi glanced at Fang Si and said, "Having connections makes all the difference; they can even request to check the surveillance footage so quickly."
Fang Si raised an eyebrow. "In the end, it's the other party who has taken the initiative to deliver themselves to our doorstep."
"I never expected that they would not only be involved in drugs, but also suspected of human trafficking."
Xuan Yuan Ao Chen hadn't even realized how things had turned out this way. "So their ultimate goal is to smear the Xuan Yuan family?"
Does the Xu family have to be this disgusting?
Huo Qi rolled his eyes at Xuan Yuan Aochen. He usually seemed so clever, but he always seemed to lose his mind at crucial moments like this.
“This is no longer just smearing; someone in your family actually did this. Even if it was your maternal grandfather, a member of the Liang family, who did it, it still has a connection to your Xuanyuan family.”
"If we hadn't discovered it beforehand, you would still be in the dark!"
“As soon as our Huo family starts to fight back against these online trolls, they will have already prepared an escape route and simply leave everything to the Xuanyuan family.”
Fang Si rested his chin on his hand, wondering who was behind the Liang and Xu families. He had to admit, the Xu family was really playing a big game this time.
...
Lin Ruanruan and Fang Lan won another game. Looking at the time, she realized it was well past her bedtime and couldn't help but yawn.
I was just about to message Fang Lan to say I was going to sleep when I found out that Sister Xue'er had messaged me.
"Ruanruan, look at the trending videos! There's also Big Eyes! Your friend Huo Xian has been reported by her adoptive parents!"
Lin Ruanruan was instantly wide awake. She immediately quit the game to watch what was going on with the trending video.
Her mind was buzzing. How could she have been reported by those unscrupulous parents? This incident was also mentioned in the original story, but it happened when the female lead, Huo Xian, graduated and received her award!
In the original story, Xu Yelu, in order to sow discord between Xuan Yuan Haocheng and Huo Xian, directly approached Huo Xian's adoptive parents and asked them to report Huo Xian for being heartless.
They even sent people to make a bunch of fake certificates for Huo Xian's adoptive parents, such as disability certificates and poverty certificates.
The adoptive parents dressed themselves in tattered clothes and directly showed their ID cards in the video, saying that they wanted to report Huo Xian, the award-winning master's student, by their real names.
They said that as Huo Xian's adoptive parents, they kindly adopted Huo Xian, who had been living away from home, and raised her by selling everything they owned, even donating blood to raise tuition fees for her.
However, since returning to the wealthy family, Huo Xian has ignored her adoptive parents. They refused to see their adopted daughter, and Huo Xian even told them to their faces that they were poor and not worthy to stand in front of her.
They are truly heartbroken by Huo Xian and hope the country will not award the prize to such a treacherous person.
This move immediately went viral and became a trending topic online. Netizens really fall for people playing the victim card, and Huo Xian suddenly became the target of public criticism.
They were doxxed, and just when the Huo family was starting to see some improvement, they were exposed online again...
Although this incident ultimately deepened the relationship between the male and female protagonists, the damage was real.
In a short while, Lin Ruanruan found the trending video. She clicked to play it and her pupils contracted. Sure enough, it was just as described in the original text.
The adoptive parents deliberately dressed themselves in tattered clothes and held up their ID cards in front of the camera with bitter faces.
The dialogue differs greatly from the original text, after all, Huo Xian is just a high school student now.
The adoptive parents were seen weeping and lamenting how difficult it was to raise Huo Xian, only to find that Huo Xian had returned to her wealthy family and never came back to see them, and the Huo family had not provided any compensation.
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