Mu Chen was incredibly efficient; that very same day, he sent Ouyang Hao detailed information about Lin Yixun’s past. The information was extremely thorough, even covering events from Lin Yixun’s time in kindergarten and elementary school.
Lin Yixun’s childhood could be described as very happy, and this happiness continued until her first year of high school. That year, she encountered a major setback in her life—Leng Yixiu.
According to the information, Lin Yixun met Leng Yixiu at A University Affiliated Middle School’s school anniversary celebration and fell in love with him at first sight. That year, she was only sixteen and a high school freshman, while Leng Yixiu was twenty-two, about to graduate from university.
From then on, Lin Yixun became Leng Yixiu’s shadow. Wherever Leng Yixiu appeared, Lin Yixun could be seen. She even often skipped classes just to look for him.
Despite Leng Yixiu rejecting her countless times and stating he had a girlfriend, and never once giving Lin Yixun a second glance, she remained persistent, relentlessly chasing after him.
At that time, in A University Affiliated Middle School, even A University, everyone knew the story of the mayor’s daughter from A City and school belle of A University Affiliated Middle School madly pursuing Leng Yixiu.
But in the ensuing years, this school belle turned into a laughingstock.
Back then, aside from being pretty, Lin Yixun’s infatuation with Leng Yixiu led her grades to plummet disastrously. If not for her father being the mayor of A City, she would have been expelled from A University Affiliated Middle School long ago.
And everyone knew, Leng Yixiu’s girlfriend at the time, Cheng Ying, was not only beautiful and graceful but also excelled academically, winning national awards almost every year at A University.
In this stark contrast, anyone with some sense could see who was the better match. People often talked about Lin Yixun in their spare time, which undoubtedly was a huge slap in the face for her.
Furious, she boasted, "It’s just A University. If I put my mind to it, I can get in too."
To others, her bold claim seemed like a joke. Even her friends doubted she could get into A University. By the second semester of her sophomore year, her grades were consistently at the bottom of her class, even in the entire grade. Given her performance, it was considered a daydream to aim for a top-tier century-old institution like A University.
But Lin Yixun was resolute. Determined to pace herself with Leng Yixiu and to prove herself, she suddenly became exceptionally diligent in her junior year. Not only did she hire tutors with her parents’ help, but she also focused intensely in class and pestered her teachers even during breaks.
To everyone’s astonishment, a year later, she managed to get into A University on her own merits, enrolling in the university’s leading program—Computer Science—because Leng Yixiu was also pursuing his graduate studies in that department.
As the saying goes, proximity to water gets the moon first. Studying in the same university gave Lin Yixun more opportunities to see Leng Yixiu. With Leng Yixiu set to graduate in a year, Lin Yixun’s pursuit intensified.
To obtain reliable information, she didn’t hesitate to spend a fortune to bribe Leng Yixiu’s roommate, uncovering his class schedule, research lab, and even the cafeteria he frequented.
As a result, it was common to witness this phenomenon at that time: wherever Leng Yixiu appeared, there was a high probability of seeing the new school belle of A University—Lin Yixun.