Yu He paused her typing, glancing sideways at her deskmate with surprise.
"You believe me?" she asked.
Even the Ye family members, who were related to her by blood, didn't believe her. Yet this deskmate, whom she had met for the first time, claimed to believe her.
Yun Xiao Yao's cheeks flushed under her gaze. Nervous, she stammered, "Y-yes. The books say that one's appearance reflects their heart. You're so beautiful, you surely wouldn't cheat. Is there perhaps some misunderstanding?"
Yu He: "..."
Such a pure child.
"Thank you," Yu He gave her a faint smile.
This made Yun Xiao Yao's cheeks even redder; she even felt a little dizzy.
Oh my god, the aloof goddess smiled at her!
So beautiful ah ah ah ah—
Yu He was unaware of Yun Xiao Yao's inner fan-girling but was reminded of the school forum.
She had just used code to search the entire internet and found no trace of the video leaking online today. Someone had handled it before her.
Was it him?
Yu He thought of Qin Bei Ting, as he had promised to help her conceal her return from the Qin family.
They had added each other on WeChat after dinner. She wondered if she should thank Qin Bei Ting.
She opened WeChat and saw a message from him.
Qin Bei Ting: [Leaving so quickly, are you jealous? It's really not what you think between her and me. /pleading face]
Yu He recalled Ye Zi Su's syrupy voice calling him Brother Bei Ting.
Who was jealous?!
She went back and closed the chat window.
...
The Kaiwei Academy forum could only be accessed with a student account.
Yu He logged in and saw that half of the posts on the homepage were slandering her, most of them anonymous hateful remarks that were unbearable to read.
Dare to scold but not to claim responsibility, hah, childish.
Yu He's fair and slender fingers flew across the keyboard, lines of code flashing on the screen.
One minute later, all the anonymously posted accounts turned into real names.
All the slanderous remarks were now attributed to real individuals, and the entire forum immediately erupted in excitement.
—
Class 2-1.
Ye Zi Su, still fuming, couldn't help but hide her hand under her desk, typing a post to curse Yu He on the forum.
Suddenly, her deskmate nudged her.
"Su Su, don't post anymore. The forum's anonymous function has been canceled, and all your posts have been revealed!"
"What!!"
Ye Zi Su looked and saw that under the avatars of all the posts she had made, it clearly read Ye Zi Su!!
Not only that, but half of the posts slandering Yu He on the homepage were also attributed to Ye Zi Su, with nowhere to hide!
How could this be?!
The forum's anonymous function was working perfectly fine, why did it suddenly become real-name only?!
Wouldn't her pure and innocent school beauty persona be ruined?!
Ye Zi Su panicked, but she held onto a sliver of hope, wanting to delete the posts before too many people noticed.
But she was still a step too slow. A classmate had already taken screenshots and posted them:
[OMG, am I blind? Half of the screen is filled with posts slandering Yu He, all posted by the school beauty herself?!]
[楼主, you're not blind, I saw it too. My worldview has shattered on the floor.]
[The white lotus is actually a black-hearted lotus, damn! Who have I been liking for the past two years?!]
[The adopted daughter cheats, the father pulls a silly stunt, and the daughter is black-hearted. They really are a family, not entering the same door, hahaha.]
[OMG, look what I found! The post about Yu He skipping the exam before was also posted by the school beauty, bah! Ye Zi Su!]
[Picture as proof.]
[This black-hearted lotus is indeed quite dark. Not only does she curse her adopted sister, but she also curses her father.]
[Is it just me who suddenly feels that Yu He is quite pitiful? Adopted by this bizarre family, maybe she was forced to cheat?]
[Conspiracy theory, Ye Zi Su might not be the Ye family's true daughter, but Yu He is, because she looks even more like Madam Ye than Ye Zi Su does.]
...
Ye Zi Su stared at the post slandering her at the very top, dumbfounded.
Especially seeing them speculate about the true daughter identity, Ye Zi Su panicked even more.
"No, I didn't post this! Who hacked my account? Why are you doing this to me?!" she screamed.
Her deskmate, seeing her act like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, began to question whether she was a genuinely pure or a black-hearted lotus.
"Don't yell. Go up and clarify!" her deskmate suggested.
Ye Zi Su immediately opened her phone, but quickly realized something was wrong. She looked up and met her deskmate's gaze.
Almost fell for it!
"My account was hacked, I can't log in..." she said with red eyes. "I'll go find the technical teacher from the publicity department after school..."
Though she said this, Ye Zi Su naturally wouldn't go to the teacher.
She believed that if she didn't participate in the public opinion on the forum, it would eventually die down.
She just hoped that her fiancé, Gu Ze, was busy with his competition abroad and wouldn't have time to browse the forum; as for her father, he didn't have a Kaiwei account, so he couldn't possibly see it.
Ye Zi Su held onto her hope and acted as if nothing had happened.
But she forgot that besides her and Yu He, there was one more person in the Ye family attending Kaiwei.
"Ding!" As soon as Ye Zi Su put her phone in her pocket, she received a text message.
Zheng Zheng: [Sis, are the screenshots on the forum real?]
Followed by a screenshot from the forum.
This brat, spoiled by Grandma, why is he butting in!
Ye Zi Su ignored him.
Just then, another message arrived.
Zheng Zheng: [Transfer fifty thousand yuan to me. I'll keep this a secret for you, otherwise, I'll tell Grandma and Dad.]
Ye Zi Su: "!"
The troublesome child was actually threatening her!
And asking for fifty thousand yuan right off the bat!
Her monthly allowance was only thirty thousand!
But when Ye Zi Su thought about the potential consequences if her father saw the forum screenshot compared to fifty thousand yuan...
She gritted her teeth, considering it a small loss to avoid a big disaster, and painfully transferred fifty thousand yuan to him.
Ye Zi Zheng saw the deposit notification and immediately went to his shopping cart to buy the latest game console he had added a few days ago.
Then he forwarded the screenshot to Yu He in the same manner.
[I have screenshots of Sister Su scolding you. Transfer fifty thousand to me, and I'll send these screenshots to Dad and have him teach her a lesson.]
Five minutes after sending the message, there was no reply.
Ye Zi Zheng began to wonder if he had asked for too much.
How could that country bumpkin have fifty thousand yuan on her?
He remembered the grudge from last night when Yu He had scared him into peeing himself with a snake, and sent her another message:
[Forget it, you're probably not even worth fifty thousand even if I sold you. Apologize to me, and give back my room, and I'll send it to Dad for you.]
Yu He: [Ten thousand for you, send the screenshots out.]
Ye Zi Zheng stared at the pending confirmation of a six-figure sum in red icons transferred by the other party, his mouth so wide it could fit an egg.
Ye Zi Zheng: [How do you have so much money?!]
Yu He: [Little child, do you have many questions?]
Ye Zi Zheng refused to believe that Yu He, a country bumpkin from the mountains, could have so much money. It must be that their mother was biased and secretly gave her so much pocket money!
Dad's monthly allowance to him was only thirty thousand, and with Grandma adding another twenty thousand each month, it was only fifty thousand!
Mom gave her ten thousand!!
Biased!