If Xu Jiaying had a powerful backer like Fu Yunchen, she could walk sideways like a crab.
"How do you want to handle this?" Fu Yunchen finally gave the choice to Yi Tianran.
He came not to sabotage her plans, but to fuel them.
"I hope that the student who took the photos and defamed my reputation on the forum will come forward." Yi Tianran crossed her arms and lazily glanced at the students below. "If you are willing to turn yourself in, I may consider letting you off the hook."
After he finished speaking, the students looked at each other in surprise: "What does this mean? Could it be that the person who slandered Qin is in our class?"
"I told you it was Cheng Lu and her group who did it!"
"I already said I didn't!" Cheng Lu was so anxious that she swore a solemn oath. "If I did it, may I be struck by lightning when I go out, or hit by a car when I cross the street!"
"Who on earth is so vicious?"
In the crowd, one person held his breath in nervousness, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead, but he didn't care about dealing with it.
Yi Tianran's expression turned slightly cold: "I'll say it one last time, as long as you admit your mistake to me, I can forgive you."
The room fell silent. After about a minute, no one stepped forward.
Yi Tianran let out a disappointed sigh, her gaze sweeping coldly in a certain direction—
"Xia Qi, don't you have anything to say to me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, all eyes turned to Xia Qi.
Xia Qi felt a chill run down her spine and tilted her head back, feigning confusion. "Yao Yao, are you asking me something?"
"Stop pretending." Yi Tianran didn't want to play along with her anymore and bluntly said, "You took those photos."
The entire audience was shocked!
In everyone's eyes, Xia Qi had always been a well-behaved girl; who could have imagined that she would harm people behind their backs?
Xia Qi herself seemed even more incredulous, standing up with a look of astonishment: "Yao Yao, how could you doubt me like that? We're friends!"
"Are friends meant to be betrayed?" Yi Tianran sneered. "From the very beginning, it was you who leaked information to Chu Yinyin and the others, which is why they've been causing me trouble..."
She initially only told Xia Qi about the investigation into Su Mo, partly to test whether Xia Qi knew any information.
Not long after, the bullies found out and harassed her by locking her in the toilet and stuffing a dead rat and a warning note into her desk.
They felt they had driven Su Mo to her death and were afraid of being held responsible for a murder.
Later, Yi Tianran deliberately revealed to Xia Qi that she was looking for Su Mo's dormitory.
That same night, photos of her "secret rendezvous" with Fu Yunchen were taken again.
In order to shift the blame onto the bullying faction, Xia Qi took the photos and held back for a few days until the bullying faction returned before spreading the photos, hoping to make them suspect that the bullying faction was behind it.
Xia Qi still wanted to argue.
Yi Tianran immediately produced evidence: chat logs showing that she had hired an overseas hacker to post on a forum.
Xia Qi's face turned pale, and she collapsed into a chair.
"how so……"
She had cleared all those records, and wasn't that hacker supposed to be an international expert? How come he was found out so easily?
Yi Tianran glanced at her coldly: "If you do something bad, you should expect to be exposed one day. Never take chances."
When it comes to hacking skills, who can compare to her three little ones!
Xia Qi's eyes reddened with despair, and she burst into laughter, her smile gradually twisting into a distorted expression. "I'm considered bad? Then why do the truly evil people get away with it? Why can Chu Yinyin and the others bully others all day long and still live well? I just wanted to use you to deal with them, to watch you dogs fight each other, what did I do wrong?"
From the day Yi Tianran arrived in Linghua and triumphantly defeated the bullies, she had a secret plan in mind: to see them tear each other apart and, ideally, to drive them away.
She remembered all the times these three bullies had bullied and humiliated her, but she managed to escape by pretending to be obedient and becoming their lackey.
But the feeling of being controlled by others is just too painful.
Later, Su Mo's arrival gave the bullies a new outlet for their anger.
And she became an accomplice in this evildoing.
She was afraid of being bullied, so she could only help the villains get close to Su Mo, find out her secrets, and then pass them on to the bullies so that they could use them as leverage to humiliate, attack, and ridicule Su Mo.
At first, she felt guilty, but later she gradually became numb. Kindness is often taken advantage of, and Su Mo can only blame herself for being too weak.
But Yi Tianran actually wanted to investigate Su Mo's suicide. She was afraid of exposing the truth and that the bullies would shift all the blame onto her, so she changed her mind.
Let them fight like dogs; it won't hurt her whoever gets driven away.
Yi Tianran's eyes were cold. "And what about me? What did I do wrong? Is it a reason for you to use and trample on me just because I genuinely considered you a friend?"
Xia Qi's face twisted into a grimace: "What sincerity? You're just using me to gather information. If we were true friends, would you expose me in public?"
“I gave you a chance.” Yi Tianran’s expression turned cold. “I had evidence but didn’t produce it. As long as you took the initiative to admit your mistake, I could let bygones be bygones. You gave up that chance yourself.”
Xia Qi: "..."
Yes, she was clinging to a sliver of hope, thinking that Yi Tianran couldn't possibly guess it was her, but now...
"I never expected Xia Qi to be such a hypocrite, saying one thing to your face and another behind your back. It's disgusting."
“This kind of trash should be expelled. Linghua will never tolerate her. She should be given a demerit so that she will carry this stain wherever she goes and never be able to hold her head up high for the rest of her life.”
"I feel like I'm disgusted if I even look at her now."
The unbridled criticism filled Xia Qi's ears, making her feel both embarrassed and humiliated. Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Yi Tianran. "Is this what you wanted? If I had admitted my mistake earlier, I would have been met with such disdain. You never intended to let me off the hook."
When her heart is clouded by shadows, she feels that everyone harbors malice towards her.
Yi Tianran didn't want to explain any further, and turned to Teacher Meng, saying, "Let her leave Linghua."
Instructor Meng was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "Huh? No need for expulsion or demerit, we're just letting her go like this?"
"Hmm." Yi Tianran didn't want to elaborate, so she reached out and put her arm around Fu Yunchen's arm, and said seriously, "Also, I'm a rather low-key person, so I hope everyone will keep this a secret after the clarification and not reveal my identity as my uncle-in-law, okay?"
Fu Yunchen: "..."
Everyone nodded in unison and said, "Yes!"
Please, they're not stupid. Anyone who dares to provoke the Fu family is just asking for death.
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