Chapter 100 The Beautiful, Gold-Digging School Beauty—Her Fate
The love triangle and its complicated relationships were the talk of the school.
Of the three main characters in the incident, one was at the police station, one was at the hospital, and only Xu Shuangshuang returned to school alone. The moment she appeared, all eyes were on her, filled with curiosity and disdain.
Xu Shuangshuang hated being stared at like that. She wanted to escape, but didn't know where to go. Her roommates were all around her, trying to find out what had happened.
Xu Shuangshuang ignored everyone and lay on the bed alone, trying to catch up on her sleep. She really didn't know what to say.
Xu Shuangshuang tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. She huddled under the covers with her eyes wide open, afraid to even close them, for the moment she did, the狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious/hideous) face of Wang Yuzhou would appear in her mind.
After a while, the phone rang in the quiet dormitory. Xu Shuangshuang realized it was her phone. She groggily turned on her phone and saw it was her father calling.
"Shuangshuang, where are you now? What happened?" Xu's father's kind voice rang out from the other end of the line.
Tears streamed down Xu Shuangshuang's face, and her voice trembled with sobs as she asked, "Dad, where are you now?"
Mr. Xu: "Don't cry, child, Dad is here. I'm at the gate of your school now."
Xu Shuangshuang quickly got out of bed, still wearing the same clothes, and rushed out of the dormitory amidst her roommates' astonished gazes.
"Dad! Mom!" Xu Shuangshuang ran all the way and rushed into her parents' arms, crying uncontrollably.
Seeing their daughter crying so sadly, Xu's parents comforted her repeatedly. Xu Shuangshuang recounted what had happened during this time in fits and starts. She didn't say that she liked Jiang Chen because her parents didn't know that she had chosen to repeat a year of high school because of Jiang Chen.
As Xu's parents listened to their daughter's words, they wiped away her tears.
Many students were coming and going at the school gate, and the three people's behavior attracted a lot of attention.
Xiao Yanzhi and Yao Yao walked out of the campus hand in hand, planning to take the subway to the amusement park.
"Ayan, did you hear about Wang Yuzhou last night?" Yaoyao looked up at Xiao Yanzhi with clear eyes.
Xiao Yanzhi nodded, rubbing his girlfriend's small hand with his large one, and said, "I saw it in the group chat. Why are you asking this? Are you scared after seeing the photo?"
Yao Yao shook her head, her brows furrowed slightly, and said hesitantly, "I'm hesitating. After what he did, should we still expose what he did online?"
Xiao Yanzhi said decisively, "It must be exposed. He is a person of bad character. Only by exposing him can more people recognize his true nature. Don't worry, I will do it discreetly. He won't find out."
Yao Yao smiled with relief.
Xiao Yanzhi and Yao Yao also saw Xu Shuangshuang at the school gate. Like other students passing by, they only glanced at her briefly before turning their attention away and walking towards the subway, paying no further attention to her.
Xu Shuangshuang cried bitterly in her mother's arms. After a long period of comforting, she slowly raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears. Even so, she recognized Yu Yao's back immediately.
The thought that Yu Yao would know about what had happened to her these past two days made Xu Shuangshuang wonder how Yu Yao viewed these events. Was she taking it as a joke?
Just thinking about this possibility made Xu Shuangshuang feel short of breath.
"Shuangshuang, what's wrong? What are you looking at?" Xu's mother asked in confusion. She was very worried as she watched her daughter staring into the distance as if lost in thought.
"Ah...no...it's nothing." Xu Shuangshuang realized what was happening and stammered as she answered her mother.
After understanding the general situation, the three decided to go to the homeroom teacher first and have her mediate. Although the responsibility for such a serious incident did not lie with their daughter, it was caused by her, so they could not shirk their responsibility.
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When Wang Yuzhou's parents learned that their bright son was facing imprisonment, they nearly fainted.
“My son has been sensible and obedient since he was a child. He would never do such a thing. He must have been provoked by that adulterous couple! If they hadn’t been having an affair, how could my son have done something like stabbing someone? He wouldn’t even dare to kill a chicken at home, let alone a person!” Wang’s mother shouted hoarsely in the police station to defend her son.
"Officers, you must investigate thoroughly!" Wang's father pleaded with the police.
Police: "Wang Yuzhou's behavior constitutes intentional injury. Since the victim has chosen not to forgive him, you should visit the victim first and try to gain her forgiveness. This might help Wang Yuzhou's situation."
"Why should I... I won't..." Wang's mother wanted to argue, but was stopped by Wang's father. After thanking the police for reminding her, he pulled his wife aside to talk.
In the end, Wang's father and mother went to the hospital together. When they found the ward, Xu Shuangshuang and her parents were also there. The three parties gathered together, glaring at each other, unaware that a big battle was about to begin.
The Queen Mother couldn't control her temper at all. She finally saw Xu Shuangshuang, the culprit, and wanted nothing more than to tear her apart.
"It's all your fault, you little bitch, that you've made my son suffer so much!" Wang's mother roared, throwing the fruit in her hand at Xu Shuangshuang, causing chaos in the ward.
In the end, the hospital called the police, which finally calmed the dispute down.
It was the same group of police officers, and the same familiar police station. This time, apart from Xu Shuangshuang's forehead being bruised, no one else was injured.
The police first educated the few people at the exit, and then gave Wang Mu a separate legal education session, explaining that gathering a crowd to cause trouble is a criminal offense.
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Wang Yuzhou's fabrication of rumors and malicious defamation of celebrities online was discovered by fans using special methods. Coupled with his murder with a knife, Wang Yuzhou, Jiang Chen, and Xu Shuangshuang's names quickly became the top trending topics on Weibo.
Thanks to the support of popular celebrities' fans, the hype exploded.
Photos of the three went viral online. At first, netizens sympathized with Xu Shuangshuang and Jiang Chen, but as various people revealed more information, netizens began to dig deeper into the three.
It was only then that netizens realized that these three people were completely cut from the same cloth and none of them deserved any sympathy!
Netizens offered a scathing summary of the three characters: the innocent female lead versus the selfish, illegitimate male lead and the possessive, neurotic male supporting character.
The three have become socially dead.
Not only that, Yu Yao and Xiao Yanzhi also gained some popularity. Netizens showered the two with blessings, jokingly calling them a "Beauty and the Beast" couple.
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Several months later, Wang Yuzhou was sentenced to one year in prison and was also expelled from Imperial University.
The school did not take any action against Xu Shuangshuang and Jiang Chen, but due to the online buzz, both of them suffered from varying degrees of cyberbullying. At the same time, many netizens came to Beijing University to wait for them and hurl insults at them whenever they saw them. Unable to bear the harassment, both of them eventually chose to suspend their studies.
Jiang Chen was taken back to Suzhou by his parents. He was so depressed that he stayed in his room every day and never went out. No one could persuade him to stay.
The whole country now knows that he is an illegitimate child, a secret he desperately wanted to hide. Now that it's been made public, he's extremely depressed, his body is getting thinner and thinner, and he can't muster any energy at all.
Xu Shuangshuang's condition was not much better than Jiang Chen's. She was even more mentally sensitive. Whenever a stranger looked at her, she felt that they were cursing her. She was even afraid to sleep alone at night. When she closed her eyes, all she could see were images of Wang Yuzhou taking revenge with a knife.
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