In the original story, Zhu Mingyue was "led into isolation" by the fake heiress as soon as she arrived at Imperial Capital University.
Zhu Xingye came to the school quite by chance and discovered that the fake heiress was surrounded by friends everywhere she went, and could command a large following. As for Zhu Mingyue, she went to class alone, ate alone, and was always alone, without even a deskmate.
With such a stark contrast before him, coupled with the fake heiress's various "targeting" behaviors towards Zhu Mingyue at home, Zhu Xingye naturally assumed that Zhu Mingyue was being ostracized by the fake heiress and quickly convicted the fake heiress.
Because when he privately inquired about the specifics of the situation, this was the answer Zhu Mingyue gave.
"Big brother, you can't really blame Chaochao entirely. Chaochao has known them for three years, while I've only been in this class for three months. Naturally, they'd rather play with Chaochao. I'm used to being alone, so it doesn't matter to me whether I have friends or not..."
"Maybe it's because my personality is too boring that Chaochao doesn't like being with me..."
"It's okay, it must have been Chaochao who accidentally messed it up. I can just redo the group assignment, there's still time. Please don't tell anyone about her..."
"It shouldn't be Chaochao. Although she's a bit willful, she's not the type to tattle. My sudden absence from class was wrong to begin with, and I wouldn't complain even if the teacher deducted my participation points..."
With just a few simple words, the accusation that the fake heiress had deliberately targeted was completely confirmed. Zhu Xingye was furious and immediately dragged the fake heiress back to the Zhu family home from school, confining her for three days.
While he was in solitary confinement, he also had someone investigate the classmates in the fake heiress's class, and heard something from some of them—
Their ostracism and targeting of Zhu Mingyue were all instigated by the fake heiress.
The fake heiress was firmly framed and kept in the dark; no matter how much she talked, Zhu Xingye didn't believe her.
This part of the plot is one of the few that Zhu Jinzhao remembers relatively clearly. She understands perfectly well how the fake heiress fell into Zhu Mingyue's trap step by step.
Zhu Mingyue is a cunning and calculating woman. From the moment she stepped into Imperial Capital University, she began her scheming.
And those classmates who belittled Zhu Jinzhao will all become Zhu Mingyue's allies in the future.
To avoid following in the footsteps of the fake heiress, Zhu Jinzhao decided that no matter how harsh their insults were now or how sincere their apologies were later, she would ignore them and not fall for their tricks!
"Damn it! Are you guys ever going to stop?" Jiang Jingwen couldn't take it anymore and turned around again to yell at the two chattering boys behind her.
The classmate who lost the bet shook his head smugly: "What's wrong? Did we say something wrong? Zhu Jinzhao is an imposter, after all."
Jiang Jingwen: "You—"
"Jiang Jiang!" Zhu Jinzhao reached out and put his arm around her, preventing her from arguing with these people. "Let him say whatever he wants, let's ignore him."
Jiang Jingwen: "Why ignore him? He's so shameless!"
Zhu Jinzhao turned to look at him, and the part of the story about him unconsciously surfaced in her mind.
His name is Zhao Haizhou, a promiscuous and shameless man who had the idea of living off Zhu Mingyue the moment he saw her.
Using the pretext of getting to know a new classmate, he successfully added Zhu Mingyue on WeChat and confessed his feelings to her a week later.
Zhu Mingyue rejected him, citing her busy studies, but gave him just the right amount of hope.
He was so completely lured that he didn't even know his own name, and was completely following Zhu Mingyue's lead.
Zhu Mingyue asked him to apologize for disparaging the fake heiress, and he did so immediately the next day; Zhu Mingyue told him to continue playing with the fake heiress and not to pay attention to her, and he did so without hesitation; Zhu Mingyue asked him to lie to the people who came to investigate, and he immediately shifted the blame onto the fake heiress.
They're even more obedient than dogs.
Zhu Jinzhao was deeply impressed by him and was determined not to have any interaction with him.
"Jiang Jiang, it's precisely because he's despicable that we shouldn't stoop to his level. The best way to deal with a scoundrel like him is to ignore him. Let him run around like a clown, just leave him alone."
"Hmm..." Jiang Jingwen agreed very reluctantly. She glared at Zhao Haizhou, turned around and sat down in her seat. After a moment, she suddenly turned her head to look at Zhu Jinzhao with a strange look in her eyes.
"Chaochao, how come you've become so cowardly after just one weekend? You're usually quite brave when dealing with these kinds of people, always ready to fight if you're unhappy... Hey, is it because Zhu Mingyue is back, and your three older brothers said something to you that you're no longer as arrogant as before?"
"They didn't bully you, did they?"
"No, no." Zhu Jinzhao felt a little guilty about the question. "No one bullied me. I just suddenly felt that it was pointless to argue with people like them. Jiang Jiang, don't overthink it, I'm fine."
“…Okay.” Jiang Jingwen was skeptical, but seeing that Zhu Jinzhao didn’t seem very willing to talk about it, she didn’t ask any further.
"It's great to be classmates with everyone, thank you."
On the podium, Zhu Mingyue finally finished her self-introduction. The counselor looked at the empty seats in the classroom, pointed to the seat behind and to the right of Zhu Jinzhao, and said with a smile, "Mingyue, go sit there. It's closer to Zhu Jinzhao. Zhu Jinzhao is your sister. You can ask her for help if you feel uncomfortable."
Zhu Mingyue nodded and gave Zhu Jinzhao a meaningful look: "Okay."
"..." Zhu Jinzhao's body suddenly stiffened.
What's so good about it... I suggest we just take this self-righteous counselor out and shoot him.
Zhu Mingyue walked down from the podium and greeted Zhu Jinzhao as she passed by.
"Every morning."
Zhu Jinzhao paused, then looked up at Zhu Mingyue with a mechanical smile: "Eh..."
Zhu Mingyue didn't say anything else, and sat down in the seat designated by the counselor with her backpack on.
"As expected of the genuine heiress of the Zhu family, her vision is far superior to some imposters!"
Zhao Haizhou had been insulted earlier but hadn't had a chance to retaliate. Now that Zhu Mingyue had sat down a few steps away from him, he finally had another reason to criticize her and began to launch a furious attack on Zhu Jinzhao.
"The Zhu family belongs to Mingyue. Now that Mingyue has returned home, some people still want to stay at the Zhu family's house. They are shameless. It's only because Mingyue is magnanimous and doesn't bother with them. If it were me, I would have kicked them out long ago!"
"A counterfeit, a fake, does she think she's still the eldest daughter of the Zhu family? What's with the act of being relaxed in front of me?"
"Damn it, I can't take it anymore—" Jiang Jingwen had a bad temper. Zhu Jinzhao could make her endure it for a while, but he couldn't make her endure it forever. She clenched her fists tightly, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and had already entered battle mode.
"Jiang Jiang, please don't..."
"Zhao Haizhou! Are you never going to stop chattering?!"
Before Zhu Jinzhao could finish his words of comfort, the counselor suddenly pointed at Zhao Haizhou and shouted sternly.
Zhao Haizhou instantly deflated.
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