Chapter 80
"Okay, okay, calm down first." The counselor from the School of Economics and Management said "okay" three times in a row. She had only been working for less than two years and this was the first time she had encountered something like this. She was almost in tears.
She looked at Chen Yan and said, "Are you Chen Yan? You should try to persuade her to come down first, and then we can talk properly."
Chen Yan nodded and walked alone in the opposite direction of the crowd. He stopped when he was about a meter away from Li Xiaohua: "I'm here. What do you want to say to me?"
Li Xiaohua deliberately squeezed out two tears in front of him: "Chen Yan, why did you post the love letter I wrote to you on the bulletin board?"
She screamed until she was hoarse, but Chen Yan remained calm: "Didn't you put it up? Why are you deliberately trying to smear me?"
He spoke with great certainty, but Li Xiaohua across from him raised an eyebrow in surprise.
But the plan was already more than half successful, so she decided to stop pretending and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand: "How did you know it was me?"
"I guessed." Chen Yan was too lazy to waste words with her and laid it all out directly, "I know about the time you let XXX's dog run away when you were a kid."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaohua was initially surprised, but then her eyes gradually became excited as she looked at him: "No wonder you've never liked me."
"I thought you didn't like me because of Xiang Wan."
Oh.
Chen Yan sneered inwardly. Even without Xiang Shuhan, he wouldn't like someone like Li Xiaohua.
But he couldn't be bothered to argue with her, and his gaze was filled with indifference: "So what exactly do you want?"
Seeing that her disguise had been seen through from the start, Li Xiaohua got straight to the point: "I want you."
Chen Yan's refusal was equally decisive: "Impossible."
Seeing that the other party wasn't buying it, Li Xiaohua tried to use moral blackmail on him: "If you don't stay with me, I'll jump."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yan laughed, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes: "Then jump."
This answer surprised Li Xiaohua: "What?"
Because she had just asked everyone to step back, everyone retreated several meters, and no one could hear what they were saying.
Therefore, Chen Yan stopped pretending. He knew that Li Xiaohua was not the type to commit suicide, and even if she really wanted to, he didn't care at all.
He knew from a very young age that he was a cold person, and that he didn't care about anyone in the world except his mother.
When he was ten years old, Xiang Wan entered his world like the moon, and from then on, there was one more person he cared about in his world.
After meeting Xiang Wan, he became like a living being, but his inherent indifference was innate.
The reason he came here was because he was afraid that Xiang Shuhan would find out that he was a cold person, so he came here to insincerely persuade Li Xiaohua.
In fact, he didn't care about her life or death at all.
Li Xiaohua didn't really want to commit suicide. When she heard Chen Yan tell her to die, she wasn't very sad. But she still pretended to be innocent and pure: "I've been chasing you for so long, why does my brother never even look at me?"
Chen Yan scoffed: "Li Xiaohua, if I remember correctly, I'm a year younger than you."
"..." Li Xiaohua looked a little embarrassed, as if she was thinking about the 'good show' to come, and a calculating look flashed in her eyes.
Chen Yan saw the glint in her eyes and cautiously took a step back, but it was too late; she had already staged a collision with him…
To the students watching from below the teaching building, she looked like she was falling forward unsteadily, but the two people involved knew that she had been holding back her strength.
Li Xiaohua deliberately lunged towards Chen Yan from the rooftop, landing on him. She used all her strength, but to onlookers, it appeared as if she had simply fallen into his arms.
The firefighters and two counselors were already far away and couldn't see clearly, but when they saw Li Xiaohua fall into Chen Yan's arms, they thought he had taken the opportunity to rescue her.
As for Chen Yan, he had already taken a half step back, and when she pounced on him, he took another step back, but she still managed to catch him and hold him tightly.
Seeing that the two were safe and sound, everyone rushed over, especially the counselors from the two colleges, who looked much more relaxed.
Chen Yan was being held by Li Xiaohua. He tried to push her away, but she held him tightly.
"Let go."
"No."
She held onto Chen Yan tightly until she saw a flash of white light in the corner, at which point she finally let go.
Two counselors rushed to their side and surrounded them. Li Xiaohua looked at Chen Yan and said, "Thank you for saving me. If you hadn't persuaded me, I might have really done something drastic."
She seemed incredibly sincere, completely different from her despicable behavior just now. Chen Yan knew she was faking it, but he didn't know what her purpose was today.
He ignored her, but the student counselor took Li Xiaohua away and thanked Chen Yan before leaving.
As for the counselors in the business school, their job seemed much easier. They had saved a student who had attempted suicide, even though the student was from another department. They didn't have much to do; at most, they had to write a report and do some ideological work with the students.
Thinking of this, she looked at Chen Yan: "Chen Yan, tell the class representative to come down to the administration building later. There's a class meeting tomorrow morning."
"good."
After they took the elevator to the first floor, Ni Zhen and Zhao Luyu arrived and quickly came to greet Chen Yan and the others: "Are you alright?"
In fact, they had just seen Li Xiaohua come out with the counselor and guessed that she should be fine, but they were still a little worried about Chen Yan.
"fine."
The three walked side by side toward the dormitory. On the way back, they still couldn't guess what Li Xiaohua's purpose was in going to such lengths.
An hour later, a new post suddenly appeared online...
The three of them didn't see the post at first; it was only when a friend in the same major forwarded it to them that they found out.
After they returned to their dorm, they actually discussed it for a while, but they couldn't come to a conclusion. In the end, they concluded that this was an undeserved disaster.
Zhao Luyu and Ni Zhen have been explaining since they opened their eyes today. Later, when Chen Yan went to the rooftop, they were worried that something might happen. When they learned that Li Xiaohua was going to commit suicide, they went there as well.
Because there were police officers guarding the first floor, they couldn't go up, so they waited for him downstairs.
They had been running around all morning and were exhausted. After taking off their coats, they collapsed onto the bed.
Even though she had already turned on Do Not Disturb, her phone screen kept turning on. Ni Zhen couldn't stand it any longer and picked it up to take a look. But what she saw made her sit up abruptly.
When they returned to their dorm, there were only two trending posts, but now another trending post has suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and its popularity seems to be steadily increasing.
A cross-department romance between the finance major's heartthrob and the economics major's beauty queen: A misunderstanding leads to a fight, but it turns out they were already together?! There were signs all along—
[Attached image 1: The two figures walking along the sycamore-lined avenue from behind.]
[Attached image 2: A photo of a young couple attending class together in a lecture hall.]
[Attached image 3: The finance major's heartthrob went to the rooftop to save his beloved.]
…
"What the hell is all this??" Ni Zhen looked at the two of them, her eyes showing a hint of helplessness. "Something's happened again."
"..."
"..."
Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Ni Zhen said again, "Chen Yan, there's a post online... saying that you and Li Xiaohua are dating..."
Chen Yan didn't speak, while Zhao Luyu, sitting opposite him, was lying down, propping his chin up with a cushion: "This morning they said Chen Yan posted Li Xiaohua's love letter on the bulletin board, and this afternoon they said the two of them are dating. What idiot would believe that?"
Ni Zhen glanced at the comments section and blinked: "...Quite a few people believe it."
"And it seems to have even gone viral..."
Zhao Luyu, having reached his limit, could no longer contain his temper: "No way, who's been spreading rumors all day long!"
"And is it really that easy to get on the trending list? How come any trivial matter, no matter how trivial, can make it to the trending list?"
Ni Zhen glanced at the high-resolution images attached to the post and noticed that the first image, "Attached Image 1: The backs of two people walking on the sycamore avenue," seemed to be the day Li Xiaohua came to chat up Chen Yan.
He remembered that it was the day they were going to eat Hainanese chicken rice. All three of them were there, but only Li Xiaohua and Chen Yan were in the photo, and they really looked like a couple in the throes of a flirtatious relationship taking a walk.
If they hadn't been there that day, Ni Zhen would have believed it too.
He looked at Chen Yan and began to believe his story. Chen Yan wasn't a celebrity. If it wasn't Li Xiaohua who did it, who else could have taken such accurate photos of the two of them?
They barely spoke for five minutes that day, yet it was still captured on camera.
Moreover, the photo of the lecture hall is also from that time. Li Xiaohua came to audit the class and asked him if she could sit between him and Chen Yan.
He had even egged the two of them on at the time, but now he finds it a bit creepy to think about it.
Looking at Chen Yan and Zhao Luyu, Ni Zhen realized that this matter might really need to be taken seriously, and he was even a little worried about Chen Yan's personal safety.
Chen Yan is not only their partner, but also their friend. Ni Zhen felt that he and Zhao Luyu could not stand idly by when Chen Yan encountered this situation.
But Ni Zhen wasn't directly involved, so there was only so much she could do. She could only offer advice: "Chen Yan, why don't you talk to Xiang Wan about this and ask for her opinion?"
Chen Yan didn't speak. Normally, he might have actually gone to find Xiang Shuhan, but after seeing Jiang Juncang's text message, he seemed to be subtly competing with the other party, waiting for Xiang Wan to take the initiative to contact him.
"No, thank you."
He got out of bed, picked up his coat, and was about to leave. Ni Zhen and Zhao Luyu exchanged a glance, both wondering where he was going at this critical moment.
"Chen Ruilin, where are you going?"
Chen Yan's face showed little emotion other than exhaustion: "I'm going to see my mother-in-law. The counselor has a class meeting tomorrow morning, so I don't have time to go to the hospital."
"..."
Visiting his mother-in-law at the hospital every Saturday morning has been an unwavering habit for Chen Yan over the years. Unless he has an exam on Saturday, he will definitely be at the hospital on Saturdays.
That sounds reasonable, but is now the time to visit my mother-in-law?
But considering that Chen Yan might indeed need to go out for a walk to relieve his emotions, they didn't stop him anymore.
Go early and come back early.
"I'm staying at the villa tonight, and I'll come back tomorrow."
"..."
*
Upon arriving at the hospital, Chen Yan handed the cash to the driver and then got out of the car.
Since his grandmother was transferred to this hospital when he was ten years old, he has been here countless times, and it's almost become his second home.
In fact, he came to the hospital to see his mother-in-law today not because he had a class meeting tomorrow and didn't have time, but because of the phone call the attending physician made to him last night.
Dr. Shan didn't say what it was about on the phone, but just asked Chen Yan to come to the hospital today to discuss it further.
Although he didn't say it, when he came to the hospital to see his mother-in-law last Saturday, he could already tell that her condition wasn't as good as before.
Chen Yan stood in Dr. Shan's office for a long time but did not knock on the door. It was only when Dr. Shan came out to make rounds that he saw him standing outside the door.
"Chen Yan, why didn't you knock?" Dr. Shan, accompanied by two interns, looked at him and instructed, "Chen Yan, wait for me inside. I'll go do my rounds and then tell you about your mother-in-law's condition."
"Um."
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