Qin Xiangge lowered her head immediately after speaking and casually brushed her skirt.
A fleeting cold smile passed through her downcast eyes.
Every student at Lanya High School can register a forum ID using their student number. Each student number can only register one ID. When posting or replying, users can choose to be anonymous. If anonymity isn’t selected, clicking on the ID will show personal information. Alternatively, personal information can be hidden as well.
But after all, this is just a campus forum. Everyone usually chats, gossips, and exchanges study tips in groups. Anonymity is generally looked down upon, so unless someone is being outright insulting in posts, most people opt not to use it.
Even if you do use anonymity to do something bad, as long as someone reports you, the administrator can easily expose the culprit.
Qin Xiangge once spotted the user with the Shui Bingyue avatar in a forum post asking for study materials. Xiao Ling, being fairly well-known, had previously commented under that Shui Bingyue avatar.
Piecing together bits of evidence, Qin Xiangge discovered that the person behind the Shui Bingyue avatar was Luuo Yunqi herself.
Now that the truth has been revealed, pushing the blame onto Xiao Ling won’t be so easy.
After Qin Xiangge’s reminder, everyone quickly caught on.
Xiao Ling’s avatar is her own artistic photograph. She’s usually active on the forum as herself. How could someone using the Shui Bingyue avatar possibly be her? Did she really take everyone for fools?
Luuo Yunqi’s face turned increasingly pale as she hadn’t anticipated getting exposed so quickly.
Regret overwhelmed her. Looking back, she thought if only she had spent money to buy a throwaway account, she could have avoided all this trouble.
Now, the crowd’s complex stares all landed on Luuo Yunqi.
Everyone had thought of her as an immaculate goddess, but it turned out she was so phony and pretentious. Choosing not to admit her wrongdoings was bad enough, but pushing the blame onto someone else? That was downright disgusting.
Compared to her, Shen You’an was far more straightforward and honest.
At this point, people also realized that Shen You’an hadn’t even registered a forum ID. With her exceptional intelligence, there was never a need to beg for notes or study materials on the forum. She was low-key, never gossiping or talking behind someone’s back.
No forum ID meant Shen You’an was incapable of vote manipulation. From the beginning, it had been Xiao Ling and Luuo Yunqi misleading everyone.
Treating everyone like fools and duping them.
"Who would’ve thought she’d turn out to be . Guess my judgment was completely off."
"What ’Director Cen’s Girl’? Gao Yuyue was right. Director Cen’s judgment must have faltered with age. What kind of person did he pick?"
"She’s no ’Director Cen’s Girl.’ Those past ’Director Cen’s Girls’ always starred as main leads. She’s just a supporting role. By that logic, that rookie Qi Baotan is also ’Director Cen’s Girl.’ What’s next? Are ’Director Cen’s Girls’ being mass-produced? Ridiculous."
"Sounds like she just couldn’t handle losing. Always claiming she doesn’t care about being the school beauty, yet clearly obsessed with it. Even spent money to manipulate votes. Acting one way to your face and another behind your back – she’s so fake."
"Xiao Ling was so kind to her, but she betrayed her without hesitation. Who’d dare befriend someone like that anymore? Who knows when you’d get stabbed in the back."
Harsh words flooded in from all directions, almost drowning her.
Luuo Yunqi’s face was as white as a sheet, her body swaying as if she might collapse at any moment.
Instinctively, she glanced towards Liu Runxi’s direction. The boy stood detached, his expression indifferent. This content belongs to novelꜰire.net
Is that what he thought of her too?
Seeing the situation spiraling, Xiao Ling decided to dissociate herself while still looking to preserve her future. After thinking it through, she chose to create an escape route.
Luuo Yunqi was acquainted with Mrs. Liu and had connections with Director Cen. A tarnished reputation in high school meant little compared to her aspirations of breaking into the entertainment industry to become a major star.
With that in mind, Xiao Ling decided to take a gamble and stepped forward to shield Luuo Yunqi.
"Everyone misunderstood. Yunqi’s forum account is newly registered, and she’s not yet familiar with how it works. So, I’ve been helping her maintain her account. That day, wanting to assist her with vote manipulation, I heard from an upperclassman that there was a hacker with impressive skills. I took the initiative to contact them but later realized I forgot to switch accounts. I didn’t expect this misunderstanding to lead to Yunqi being wrongfully blamed. It’s all my fault, and I sincerely apologize to everyone."
Xiao Ling’s excuse was clumsy, but her sincerity made people hesitate about whom to trust.
Luuo Yunqi let out a bitter laugh. "Forget it. The innocent will remain innocent, and the guilty will expose themselves."
Her air of grievance and stoic resilience nearly made Gao Yuyue gag.
Dai Niantong finally understood the situation, and instinctively stepped back a few paces.
She wasn’t sure if Luuo Yunqi had changed or if she’d always been this way and had just hidden it well.
Luuo Yunqi quickly noticed Dai Niantong’s retreating gesture. A sharp glint flashed across her eyes, like the tip of a needle.