The moment the two stepped out of the elevator, a shrill female voice pierced the silence of the corridor.
"A few hundred thousand! It's just a drop in the ocean for your family!"
Ji Chen and the dormitory supervisor stopped in their tracks at the same time.
After exchanging a glance, he made a shushing gesture and tiptoed toward the source of the sound.
Five or six girls had already gathered at the dormitory entrance.
Someone peeked out wearing a face mask, and a girl in pajamas was furtively holding up her phone, the camera pointed at the half-open door.
"Go back and put your clothes on before you come out!"
The dormitory supervisor stepped forward to stop the girl dressed in revealing clothing and tried to knock on the door.
"Wait a minute, Auntie, I want to confirm first..."
Ji Chen lowered his voice and looked at the somewhat familiar bag peeking through the crack in the door, confirming that Su Yao was inside.
But before he could finish speaking, a loud bang came from inside, as if something heavy had hit the door.
"Su Yao! Stop pretending to be a good person! Your family is so rich, what's wrong with lending me some money?!"
Inside the door, a gentle voice broke into hysteria.
“Wen Wan, I’ll say it again: it’s such a large sum of money. If you really need help, we can contact the school or the police, but you lied and cheated out of money…”
Su Yao's voice was calm but tinged with disappointment. She wanted to go out, but Wen Wan blocked the door.
"Who's lying?! You just don't want to lend it! Stop pretending to be so high and mighty!"
"You rich people have no idea about the suffering of us ordinary people!!"
Wen Wan was practically screaming.
Outside the door, more and more students gathered to watch, and some whispered among themselves.
"My God, what is Wen Wan doing? Borrowing money and acting so self-righteous?"
"Is she crazy? Six or seven hundred thousand is considered a little money??"
"Record it! Record it! This will definitely trend on campus..."
Ji Chen's expression grew increasingly grim. Finally, unable to hold back any longer, he raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Yao Yao, it's me. Have you packed your luggage?"
"Splash..."
The sound of shattering glass came from the dormitory, followed by the dull thud of a heavy object falling to the ground.
The door was suddenly yanked open, and Su Yao staggered out, her disheveled hair clinging to her tear-streaked cheeks.
The moment she saw Ji Chen, a hint of grievance flashed in her red eyes.
Inside the wide-open dormitory door, Wen Wan sat disheveled amidst the mess on the floor, with a shattered photo frame beside her.
Her distorted reflection was mirrored in the shards of glass, and the countless cell phones held up outside the door resembled a multitude of prying eyes.
"Wen Wan!"
"We're about to graduate, can't we talk things out properly?"
The dormitory supervisor squeezed through the crowd and almost lost her balance when she stepped on a lipstick that was rolling on the ground.
Her gentle lips trembled.
She suddenly realized that those cameras might be recording her social death scene.
Her false eyelashes were now half-fallen off and hanging on her eyelids, her smudged foundation revealed her dark complexion underneath, and her carefully crafted rich girl outfit was wrinkled like pickled vegetables.
Ironically, the shattered photo frame contained a picture of her and Su Yao from their freshman year of college.
Wenwan's lips trembled. Suddenly, she grabbed her bag and rushed out of the crowd, only to be deliberately tripped by a girl holding a phone, almost falling over.
"Oh, weren't you pretty arrogant when you were borrowing money?"
The girl holding the phone sneered.
With a scream, Wen Wan scrambled to her feet again and ran away without looking back.
That evening, the entire process of Wen Wan borrowing money was posted on the campus forum with the title: [Shocking! A female student brazenly borrowed 600,000 yuan, claiming: "Isn't this pocket money for your family?"]
The video quickly went viral, and the comment section was full of mockery.
Does she have some misunderstanding about pocket money?
"His skin is thicker than a city wall."
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