Xu Jinglan tossed a can of drink to her, and Lin Fu opened it and took a sip, "Is this alcohol?"
"Yeah! What’s the matter?"
Though Lin Fu said this, she didn’t refuse, even clinking cans with Xu Jinglan, "Hey! Why haven’t I seen He Shu? Where is she? It seems like I haven’t seen her since we went to training."
"She didn’t go to training."
Lin Fu really hadn’t noticed, after all, she and He Shu weren’t in the same major, and during joint training, there were so many people, the formations weren’t even together.
It was quite normal not to see her.
"Her major is Star Map Survey, not part of the combat sequence, so there are special circumstances where she can apply not to go," Xu Jinglan shrugged, downed the drink in her hand, and got up to grab another bottle from the refrigerator.
"Oh! Then why isn’t she in the dorm?"
"You..." Xu Jinglan was almost rendered speechless by Lin Fu’s slow reaction, "If she’s not in the dormitory, obviously it’s because she doesn’t want to hang out with us anymore, isn’t that obvious? She must be angry with us."
"Angry? Is she here to make jokes?" Lin Fu was perplexed, "How did we wrong her? What right does she have to be angry?"
"Uh... Okay! He Shu would probably be furious if she heard what you said."
"Hmph!" Lin Fu felt utterly disinterested. She herself was constantly being hunted, fighting for her life, her mind filled with troubles and complications. Where would she find the energy to consider He Shu’s petty thoughts?
"Being angry is a privilege you reserve for people you care about. What does it matter to someone who doesn’t care about you if you are furious with them?" Lin Fu, imitating Xu Jinglan’s action, downed her drink in one go and signaled for Jinglan to get her another can.
"Can’t you move yourself?"
"I don’t feel like moving, hurry up."
"Fine, fine, fine." Xu Jinglan simply carried over a dozen cans and dumped them on the coffee table before saying, "You’re making a lot of sense. I’m glad you haven’t become friends with He Shu. She would turn to embrace your enemies."
"Hmm? Embrace of enemies?"
Lin Fu paused as she was opening another can, then raising an eyebrow, "Xia Youyou or Tang Xuefei?"
"Tang Xuefei. They didn’t participate in the joint training, and now they’ve become good friends. I heard they’re very close. Look, see for yourself. He Shu has become famous on the campus network, and she’s got plenty of admirers!"
Xu Jinglan turned on her personal terminal, and the holographic screen hovered between them for Lin Fu to see, while she herself half-lounged on the sofa, sipping her drink one mouthful after another.
[I’m sorry that I chose to be silent before.]
[Now I have bravely come forward. I can’t stay silent anymore; I must speak the truth.]
When she clicked on the post, it was a video of He Shu crying pitifully in front of the camera, lamenting how brutal, domineering, and unreasonable "I" was. From the first day they met, "I" forced her to be a servant, to do hard labor.
"I" not only bullied her but also dared to bully Xia Youyou and Tang Xuefei.
She also tearfully accused Xu Jinglan of using coercion and mental abuse on her, tormenting and destroying her spirit, and bullying her and Xia Youyou, and that it was only because she always conceded that she avoided an even more tragic fate.
And it was Xia Youyou’s death-defying resistance that led to the brutal beating.
Tang Xuefei was merely trying to do the right thing, not wanting her friend to get hurt, and she also endured cruel torture.
He Shu’s cries, grievances, and heartbroken lamentations were so sincere and moving to the utmost degree that no one who watched would doubt her, and would feel sympathy and shed tears, almost as if feeling her pain.
If Lin Fu weren’t the person involved, she might have believed He Shu’s story was true.