Chapter 1438: Refusing to be Balanced (13)
Zhou Zhanjun's face rarely showed a trace of confusion, and he looked at Tang Shichu in confusion: "The fruit of love? Whose?"
He and Tang Shichu were both from an orphanage and had no relatives. Why would Tang Shichu be happy for the fruit of someone else's love?
"My roommate and her boyfriend Lan Jigao." Tang Shichu said with a smile, "They have a child, so I guess they can finally have a happy ending, right?"
Zhou Zhan frowned and looked at Tang Shichu with a "how can you be so naive" expression: "The Lan family is not easy to deal with. It is not easy for your roommate to gain their approval. Even if you have a child, it will be difficult."
"It is indeed difficult...but no matter how difficult it is, it is other people's business and has nothing to do with us. Forget it, let's not mention it..." Tang Shichu quickly changed the subject.
"I'm going to be very busy recently and may not have time to come and see you." Zhou Zhan suddenly said.
Tang Shichu nodded in understanding. After all, Zhou Zhan had been very busy before, and he only took some time out to help her because he knew she was taking the postgraduate entrance examination. Now that she had passed the preliminary exam, there would be basically no problem with the re-examination, so Zhou Zhan was naturally not worried anymore.
The two stayed in the library for a day, and then Zhou Zhan seemed to have really disappeared, disappearing from Tang Shichu's life.
Time passed quickly. After Tang Shichu passed the re-examination and was successfully admitted as a graduate student in botany at the school, Zhou Zhan never showed up again. He only called Tang Shichu occasionally to prove that he was not missing.
Tang Shichu suspected that he was so busy and secretive because he had entered some research project that needed to be kept secret. However, she herself was not idle either. In addition to doing some part-time jobs online, she also raised a few pots of rare plants, intending to sell them at a high price. After all, once she officially entered the graduate program, she would not be able to be so idle to earn a living.
Compared to Tang Shichu's ordinary life, Li Manyan's life was... well, in dire straits. After all, Lan Jigao was a well-known young talent and entrepreneur locally and even in the country. Matters concerning him attracted a lot of attention, so his love affair soon became known to the public.
It is said that the relationship between him and Li Manyan was discovered in a rather strange way. In fact, no one paid special attention to it. After all, he is an entrepreneur, not a celebrity.
He was implicated because his home was close to that of a famous star, and they were both in the same villa complex. When an entertainment reporter was staking out the famous star, one day he suddenly discovered a familiar-looking man arguing with a pregnant woman with a big belly. The entertainment reporter thought that the man had a bad character, for arguing with a pregnant woman... However, when he took a closer look, he recognized the person. Wasn't this Lan Jigao, the heir of the Lan Group?
So the reporters were immediately excited. If they couldn't find a scandal about a big star, they could find one about an entrepreneur! Especially in the Internet age, information is flowing freely, and many CEOs of big companies are quite famous. If the CEO is young, handsome and talented, it would be even more amazing. Both men and women would call him "husband" online. Once something happened, the popularity would be comparable to that of second- and third-tier stars.
Lan Jigao is a typical example. He is handsome, has a good family background, has business talent, and is quite admired. Therefore, the video of him arguing with a pregnant woman went viral as soon as it was released. Most people said that he had no manners and was arguing with a pregnant woman, while a few people flattered her for her looks and money, saying that whatever her "husband" did was right and that he must have been angry because the pregnant woman had provoked him...
Of course, more people were curious about the relationship between the pregnant woman and him, and whether the baby in her belly was his...
The speed of netizens who like to watch the drama was faster than the speed at which the Lan Group suppressed the news. Before Lan Jigao could react, everyone had already dug up everything about him and Li Manyan. They knew that they were in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, that they were pregnant before marriage, and even that Mrs. Lan did not approve of them and had always wanted them to break up.
A netizen who may be from the same upper class circle also posted a secretly filmed video of Mrs. Lan complaining that her son was bewitched by a little wild chick and would not marry anyone else, which directly pushed Lan Jigao's love affair to an even more explosive level.
Now everyone who uses the Internet knows that Lan Jigao found an ordinary woman with a humble background, no talent and no looks, and gave up marrying a wealthy daughter who was a good match for him.
Because they were not a perfect match, nor were they a man of talent and a woman of beauty, on the contrary, their status, appearance and talent were very different, so the maliciousness on the Internet began to pounce on them. Lan Jigao was ridiculed for being short-sighted and brainless, and for giving up peonies for weeds; Li Manyan was called ugly and speculated to be scheming, using her pregnancy to get to the top, and her methods were amazing...
In this information age, Li Manyan quickly learned from her mobile phone that she was being cyberbullied online. Looking at all the comments and vicious sarcasm about her in the news comment section, her face turned pale instantly. She was not a person with strong psychological endurance. When she saw so much malice from strangers at first glance, she was frightened and painful. She didn't understand why everyone looked at her like this. It was obvious that she and Lan Jigao were in love and had not hurt anyone else. Why did those people on the Internet scold her?
She didn't understand that people's psychology is so complicated. If she was the daughter of a wealthy family with a similar status to Lan Jigao, even if she was in love with Lan Jigao, no one would have such a big reaction. They would just think that wealthy people only look for partners of equal status, and rich people only marry rich people. Everyone would just sigh and then do what they should do.
But she is not a rich girl, she is just a Cinderella from a humble background, her status is very different from Lan Jigao, she is as ordinary as can be, even worse than some netizens, but she can date a rich man... How can people not be jealous? They will think: Why is it you, Li Manyan? Why not me?
This resentment and jealousy would greatly spread their malice towards Li Manyan, so they cursed Li Manyan and even Lan Jigao on the Internet.
Li Manyan was crying so hard that she couldn't breathe, but Lan Jigao was not by her side. She was at a loss and called Tang Shichu.
Tang Shichu naturally knew about the big fuss about their relationship, and when he saw Li Manyan's call, he knew that she came to him to cry.
As expected, as soon as the call was connected, Li Manyan's crying voice was heard: "Shi Chu! What should I do? There are many people scolding me online..."
Tang Shichu comforted her: "Don't read the comments online anymore. Those people scold you because they can't bear to see you do well. If you are not envied, you are mediocre. You don't have to care about what they say."
"But I can't help but care. What they said was too much. What does my relationship with Ji Gao have to do with them? Why do they scold us like this..." Li Manyan couldn't stop crying.
(End of this chapter)
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