Su Xiaoyan smiled awkwardly and waved her hands repeatedly:
"Thank you, but I don't need it. I have work to do later."
This was, of course, a polite refusal. If she had urgent work commitments later, Hua Changle wouldn't have contacted her at this time.
Hua Changle didn't insist, but changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, Xiaoyan, you're two years ahead of me, so I should call you senior."
Su Xiaoyan sat up very straight: "Haha, I don't deserve it. I'm just coasting through my time in the School of Industrial Management. How could I possibly be worthy of being called 'senior'?"
"Sister Xiaoyan, that's not right. You've been at the academy for two years longer than me... no, I spent most of the semester recuperating from illness, so you've been there for more than two years longer than me!"
"A long time doesn't prove anything."
Su Xiaoyan smiled.
Seeing that Hua Changle was actually chatting, the stiffness in her back from nervousness lessened somewhat.
"How could that be? You've been here for so long, you must know the place in the academy better than I do, right?"
Hua Changle asked with a smile.
Su Xiaoyan said, "That's possible. There might be places that you, Miss, aren't interested in and haven't been to."
"Oh~"
Hua Changle looked at her with a half-smile: "So, even though I don't know about this, you might know, senior?"
Su Xiaoyan's smile froze: "W-What do you mean?"
"Come."
Hua Changle approached her and brought up the screen, which displayed a video:
"Xiaoyan, let's watch something interesting together."
Su Xiaoyan's eyes were filled with terror. She gritted her teeth but dared not refuse.
The video begins with Meng Ke committing violence.
Hua Changle showed her a video that She Jiameng had edited.
The video playback volume was very low, and the background noise made the sounds of the violence even less clear.
But when the person in the video screamed, Su Xiaoyan's face paled a little.
When the video reached the scene where Chen Yuxin witnessed the escape and Yue Ningchu committed suicide by hitting her head against a wall, Hua Changle paused the video.
She pointed to the person standing next to Yue Ningchu in the video who did not stop her:
"Su Xiaoyan, this is you."
Su Xiaoyan's body trembled slightly: "How could you have..."
"That's none of your business."
Hua Changle put away the light screen and returned to the person opposite her: "Tell me about it, senior. I'm very interested in this story."
Su Xiaoyan bit her lower lip until it turned pale, but remained silent.
"I assure you first that no third person will know about our conversation."
Hua Changle thought to himself: 422 is not human.
422: ?
I suspect you're insulting me, but I can't refute it and I have to say, "You're right!"
After making the promise, Hua Changle wasn't in a hurry. He calmly sipped his warm water, looking just like a crow holding his precious thermos.
In the quiet room, the calm slurping sound, like a pick, scraped against Su Xiaoyan's heart.
“I said.”
Su Xiaoyan squeezed out two words through gritted teeth, as if relieved: "I'll tell you what happened."
"But you can't tell She Jiameng that I said it, otherwise I'll tell her that you have this video!"
Su Xiaoyan pretended to be calm and said.
After Hua Changle nodded, Su Xiaoyan took a deep breath and explained the situation.
The story is simple.
Originally, Yue Ningchu, who was a year ahead of her and the most beautiful girl in the Fine Arts Department of the Art Academy, had no connection with She Jiameng, who was newly enrolled.
However, as expected, She Jiameng lost to Hua Changle in the freshman competition.
She Jiameng has a very strong personality, and she was already angry because she lost face this time.
At this moment, She Jiameng overheard people talking like this:
"She Jiameng, relying on being the eldest daughter of the She family, looks down on everyone and is incredibly annoying!"
"I don't know what she has to be so proud of! She can't compare to Hua Changle in terms of strength, and she can't compare to Hua Changle in terms of looks either."
"Pshaw, she's not even as good as that art major senior who recently won the title of 'most beautiful girl in the department'!"
"That's right, that's right..."
She Jiameng was furious.
She immediately had her girlfriends find out who the most beautiful girl in the college was.
Upon inquiry, it was discovered that Yue Ningchu had a face as beautiful as a white moonlight, a captivating temperament, and outstanding artistic talent, but apart from that, she had neither a good background nor any support.
The pent-up resentment and jealousy then vented on Yue Ningchu.
She Jiameng began to bribe Yue Ningchu's classmates and other people around her to ostracize Yue Ningchu and to fabricate rumors to slander her.
In just over ten days, Yue Ningchu fell from grace and faded from people's sight.
And this is just the beginning.
Afterwards, She Jiameng led several people to commit violence against Yue Ningchu, venting her inner resentment on Yue Ningchu.
The most capable helper among them was Meng Ke from a collateral branch of the Meng family. She curried favor with She Jiameng for the sake of her family's business, and in this way, she integrated herself into She Jiameng's circle.
Meng Ke had no idea that She Jiameng was not only ruthless towards Yue Ningchu, but also wary of them, as she held dirt on all of them.
Even Su Xiaoyan herself has videos in She Jiameng's hands.
Unlike Meng Ke, Su Xiaoyan would rather die than kill him; in all the videos, she was acting as a lookout or preventing the victims from escaping.
Su Xiaoyan herself said that she knew She Jiameng even earlier than Meng Ke.
Her mother was an employee of the She family. She was She Jiameng's elementary school classmate and knew what kind of person She Jiameng was from a very young age, and was also kept by her side from an early age.
Because they had known each other for a long time, She Jiameng did not force her to do it.
Hua Changle already knew the outcome of the Yue Ningchu incident.
Yue Ningchu died, and her body went missing; Chen Yuxin, who witnessed the incident, was forced to change her appearance and dared not show her face to anyone.
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