Chapter 174 Zhang Shuiyu
Mengyu secretly detested Jiang Huaiyu, feeling she was like an unkillable cockroach.
Even though she had already suggested to the education authorities at the university to cancel Huaiyu’s college entrance eligibility for three years, to her dismay, that girl had still managed to enter high school.
Not only did she manage to continue her studies in high school, but she even had the audacity to start rumors and slander her, while also posing as the victim herself!
How should she deal with her?
However, Mengyu did have some doubts about the gossip that claimed she wasn’t Lin Hai’s biological daughter. She didn’t share any resemblance with Lin Hai, and she felt no blood connection or parental affection toward him.
Could it be that her biological father really wasn’t Lin Hai?
Mengyu thought to herself not to rush things, to find Shuiyu first, put the wooden box in the dormitory, and arrange the bedding before anything else.
Without anyone mentioning it in her presence, she couldn’t even discern the truth. She needed to wait for the right opportunity.
Just then, a tall and slender female classmate with a melon seed-shaped face, long braids, and large eyes rushed over excitedly, "Mengyu, I knew it was you who came back."
This beautiful classmate was none other than her good friend, Zhang Shuiyu.
During junior high, they weren’t boarders but commuted to school, returning home in the evenings. The Jiang Family sent Huaiyu with lunch, but never included Mengyu’s share, leaving her without a meal at noon.
She survived thanks to Shuiyu sharing her own lunch so that Mengyu wouldn’t be too hungry to focus on her afternoon classes.
Zhang Shuiyu’s family was originally quite well-off, part of that small segment that grew wealthy first. But in the previous life, her father became a gambling addict, gambling away the family fortune.
Mrs. Zhang tried in vain to persuade him, eventually divorcing him.
After racking up huge debts, he set his sights on Shuiyu.
In her previous life, Shuiyu started working after high school graduation. Her parents had divorced, and she was living with her mom, preparing to marry her boyfriend, when Father Zhang mortgaged her to a loan shark.
Moreover, Father Zhang duped Shuiyu into working at a nightclub, where she could not endure the mistreatment and eventually committed suicide by jumping from a building.
Shuiyu’s boyfriend, consumed by grief and rage, killed Father Zhang in a moment of impulsive anger and then followed her by jumping off a building.
And the mastermind behind all these tragedies was Jiang Huaiyu.
After becoming Ah Piao, Mengyu accidentally heard Jiang Huaiyu mentioning Shuiyu to her own mother and realized Shuiyu’s death was connected to her.
Because Shuiyu and Mengyu were close, after Huaiyu sold Mengyu away, impersonated Mengyu’s mother, and became part of the elite, she lured Shuiyu’s father into gambling, causing him to accrue a massive debt, and eventually leveraged Shuiyu, indirectly leading to Shuiyu’s death.
In this life, she would never let such events transpire: She was determined to save Shuiyu and also assist her by ensuring she would attend university!
As soon as Zhang Shuiyu saw Mengyu, she ran over and grabbed her hand, "Mengyu, didn’t you—weren’t you accepted into university? Why have you come back to high school? And also—"
"And what else?" Mengyu asked calmly.
"And all these rumors going around."
Mengyu looked at Shuiyu, "Are you sure that they are just rumors?"
Shuiyu seemed angry, "Mengyu, we grew up together, don’t I know what kind of person you are? How could you possibly be the ungrateful wretch they’re talking about?"
Mengyu grabbed her hand in return, "They’re just rumors, I’ll make those who spread them pay. Come, let’s go to the dorm. I don’t have the key."
Mengyu finally let out a sigh of relief.
Throughout the entire campus, everyone looked at her with prejudiced eyes, but Shuiyu believed in her unconditionally.
This is what a friend truly is!
How does the saying go? One true friend is all you need.