Lu Wanwan looked at him suspiciously, "What is this?"
Gu Annan withdrew his hand, the phone still placed in front of her, his voice emotionless, "See for yourself."
The sternness of his expression prompted her to immediately pick up the phone, and the moment she saw the photo on it, her eyes widened in shock.
The photo showed her, drunken, leaning on a man—precisely, it was her at seventeen, her head resting on a male classmate’s shoulder.
"What is this... What is this?"
When had this photo been taken, and why didn’t she know about it herself?
The boy was her friend, and the others in the photo were also classmates with whom she had good relations at the time.
But... no matter how close their relationship was, she wasn’t someone who would casually drape herself over boys.
"Can’t you see for yourself what this is?" Gu Annan’s voice was cold.
"But I don’t remember it at all, I..."
She suddenly recognized, wasn’t this the day before Gu Annan left, when she went to see him?
How could Gu Annan have such a photo in his possession?
The screen suddenly went dark; she re-lit it, tapped on the screen, and realized it wasn’t stored in Gu Annan’s phone but appeared in a post.
The post anonymously exposed the chaotic relationships of this wealthy daughter and claimed that she had drunken nights out at seventeen, among other things.
"I didn’t spend the night drinking outside!" she suddenly raised her head, her eyes meeting his inscrutable gaze, "That day... I did drink some champagne, beer, but I... I did not, I’m sure I didn’t spend the night outside. My head was a bit dizzy at first, but then I sobered up."
Lu Wanwan gripped the phone tightly in her hand.
Xu Yuan wasn’t around that day either; if she had been, such a thing would never have happened.
But who took this photo?
And who is putting it out now?
Why use a photo of her at seventeen to slander her online at this time?
Could it be that someone among her friends back then felt resentful towards her and is now taking this opportunity to kick her while she’s down?
She couldn’t figure it out.
There wasn’t much contact with those people now, nor were they particularly close friends at the time; they just had a good relationship as classmates.
"So, the drinking part is true?" Gu Annan continued, his gaze fixated on her eyes, that calm uncertainty perhaps a prelude to anger, but it made her feel particularly uneasy.
She nodded, "I did drink a bit, I did it to..."
To muster courage, to go to his apartment, to have a perfect excuse to stay, ultimately making him take responsibility.
That day, she was desperate, unwilling to wait until his graduation for other girls in college to snatch him away.
Yet, she never even got the chance to enter his house.
"For what?" his dark pupils locked onto her face sternly.
The doors to the private room opened, and the dishes were brought in one by one.
After the waiter left, she let go of the phone, speaking softly, "To find you."
Hearing the silence across the table, Lu Wanwan looked up, "Gu Annan, there are some things that also require courage from me."
Gu Annan pondered for a moment, then took the phone back, "Eat."
"Eat, even if you don’t feel like it," he commanded.
This was just forwarded by Zhao Chen; he immediately replied with a message on his phone; they must find the person who posted this
They had to find out who took this photo and then passed it to him, now bringing it up again.
Upon seeing this post just now, he already had a suspect in mind, just needing confirmation.