Chapter 749: Chapter 750: Ah Bin, I miss you
Sometimes, fate can be so cruel.
It gives you the most brilliant and best things.
But in the end, it destroys them with its own hands.
Watching a once sincere and flawless friendship shatter, suspicions arise, hatred nursed, the process is enough to change the trajectory of two people’s lives.
When did things start to change between them?
Gu Mingzhu tried hard to remember.
It was a Sunday, two months after the school year had begun.
Tan Zhen was beautiful and gentle.
She was very popular with the boys at the school.
Among them, a young man from a wealthy family fell in love with Tan Zhen at the first new student performance.
Then he pursued her relentlessly for two months.
He tried every trick, but Tan Zhen always claimed that she already had a boyfriend.
No one had ever seen her boyfriend, so everyone assumed she was using him as an excuse to reject this rich second generation boy.
That spoiled rich boy wasn’t exactly of good character either.
Seeing that there were no results in pursuing Tan Zhen, he began to slander her reputation.
He claimed that he had already had her, and even used technology to create explicit pictures and paste them on the school bulletin board.
For a time, Tan Zhen’s reputation was tarnished.
But Tan Zhen never provided an explanation, she would always say to anyone who asked that the innocent fear nothing.
Gu Mingzhu had always felt that Tan Zhen was a woman who was soft on the outside but strong on the inside.
She also had her father secretly push the principal to handle the matter.
However, one time, she saw Tan Zhen using a payphone.
It was a snowy day, late at night, no one was around.
And Tan Zhen was crying on the other end of the line.
Gu Mingzhu stood behind her and watched for a long time, assuming she was calling her family.
But then Tan Zhen said, “Ah Bin, I miss you so much.”
Could it be the boyfriend she always spoke of?
But the next day, Gu Mingzhu found out who Ah Bin was.
He had stormed into the film school and made a big scene that caused a stir throughout the school.
He had stripped the rich boy who had been humiliating Tan Zhen naked, took him to the rooftop, and forced him to admit to the deeds he had done. He somehow managed to get ahold of movie equipment, projecting the (streamed) event onto the giant television screen that had been set up for the film school’s anniversary celebration but had not yet been taken down.
The incident had a huge impact.
The police were called in eventually.
Gu Mingzhu had Gu Shengyuan apply pressure from above, and in the end, the truth was revealed.
The spoiled rich boy was the one who had damaged someone else’s reputation first.
He was eventually expelled from the school.
But that time, Tan Zhen was truly vindicated, and the truth was finally exposed.
But because of this, everyone knew that Tan Zhen had a boyfriend who loved her and would fight for her.
Initially, Gu Mingzhu did not particularly care for Gao Wenbin.
She just thought he was a reckless man who, in trying to protect Tan Zhen, nearly landed himself in jail.
But he didn’t seem to care.
After that incident, he would often visit the film school without any regard for maintaining appearances.
There was no one in the film school who did not know him.
Although Gao Wenbin had a rugged demeanor, his appearance was actually very attractive.
He had a laugh that made it impossible for people to stay mad at him.
The director of the acting department even took a liking to him, intending to subsidize his tuition for him to study at the film school and eventually become an actor.
At that time, the film school was the only fee-charging school, and the tuition was steep, only students with a wealthy background or who were from rich families could afford to attend.
But Gao Wenbin rejected the offer without hesitation, “I don’t need to study, I want to make money for my wife to become a star.”
This statement immediately spread throughout the campus.