TFSRITA Chapter 134

Chu Yang replied instantly: 【???】

Yan Qing was about to explain when she saw him type: 【Do you think I’m short on money?】

Yan Qing: …

She was a bit flustered, but quickly searched for the Weibo post, forwarded it to him, and said: 【This is my matter, but I don’t have time, so I’ll let my lawyer handle it. Go as hard as you need to. The person who submitted this is over sixteen, so they can be held criminally responsible.】

【Okay.】 Chu Yang replied with a single word, then immediately picked up the landline and dialed an extension. “Bring Zhou Min from the legal department to me.”

“Got it,” the secretary immediately responded, going to make the call.

As he was on the phone, a new message appeared on Chu Yang’s phone: 【What’s your card number?】 — from Yan Qing.

Chu Yang deleted the message right away. His family wasn’t short on money, especially since his mother had already started treating Yan Qing like her daughter. He wasn’t about to ask for money.

Yan Qing had always felt it was foolish to take shortcuts. If she had more time, she could have hired a lawyer herself, but right now, her main focus was on her studies, so she passed the responsibility to Chu Yang.

Spending a million to hire a few lawyers for a defamation lawsuit shouldn’t be a problem.

Yan Qing shrugged, put her phone away, and decided to deal with paying back once the break started.

She regained her calm, but even though the class bell hadn’t rung yet and the classroom was still bustling, she seemed unaffected. She was looking at her phone for a moment before starting her homework, seeming very serious, but her complete lack of anger made others start to suspect something.

One boy whispered to his friend, “Do you think it’s real?”

“I don’t know, but judging by her reaction, I can’t deny it. Could it be that she really… backed down?”

The boy nodded disappointment and a hint of mockery in his eyes. “These girls today… I just found a fresh little cabbage, and now some rich old guy has already taken it!”

“Haha…” Those who overheard seemed to share an unspoken understanding and laughed.

Occasionally, someone who didn’t get it asked, “What are you guys talking about?”

One of them winked and said, “Look at this, we didn’t notice before. No wonder she’s always hanging around the back after school…”

The boy showed the Weibo post to the others. After being briefed, they quickly understood, exchanged looks, and snickered.

However, despite their private gossip, the boys didn’t bring it up openly, and the girls, especially those who were more modest, weren’t bold enough to challenge her. The few who might have, like Dong Meng, had been scared off by Yan Qing’s previous actions and dared not act up in front of her.

Thus, at school, things remained relatively peaceful.

After school in the afternoon, most people had already left. Yan Qing asked Xu Dongfeng to sit in the middle of the classroom, a bit toward the back, holding his phone at the right angle, hoping to match the one in the blogger’s photo.

It didn’t take long to find the spot. The coordinates were exactly at Diao Xinyi’s seat!

Xu Dongfeng suddenly understood: “You’re so smart! So it was Diao Xinyi!”

Yan Qing winked at him and made a shushing gesture. “Wait, we’ll give her a surprise tomorrow.”

Xu Dongfeng nodded eagerly, pushing his glasses back up, and gave her a thumbs-up. “Got it, I’ll go now.”

“Okay.” Yan Qing nodded, watching him leave. The classroom was empty now, so she sent the identified suspect to Chu Yang’s legal department to take care of it.

After all, she was still a student, and her methods weren’t cautious enough.

The Weibo rumor didn’t make it to the top trending list at first, but as more and more people noticed, it finally reached the top twenty the next day.

As a result, Yan Qing’s personal information was thoroughly exposed. The official Weibo account of her school, 17th High, was tagged countless times.

In the morning, Teacher Chen, who managed the official account, opened her phone, only to see it freeze.

She was stunned for a long moment, waiting for the phone to unfreeze before she could enter Weibo. Once inside, she saw countless mentions and private messages in her inbox.

This official account usually posted about school events, and had only about two hundred followers, with several dozen zombie accounts. Most of the followers were parents who occasionally used Weibo.

Managing it had always been effortless, but now, she was completely at a loss.

“Bought by a sugar daddy?”

“Which class is this from?”

Teacher Chen read a few of the messages, then looked at the original post, which had included a group photo—somewhat blurry, and the blogger hadn’t blurred out the faces of others in the photo.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed one of the teachers in the photo—Teacher Zhang, who taught Class 24.

After figuring that out, Teacher Chen stormed to the senior teachers’ office.

“Teacher Zhang, look at this.” She handed him the Weibo post, preparing to lecture him as soon as he was done.

To her surprise, after just a few seconds, Teacher Zhang finished reading, his face turning red with anger. He slammed the desk and shouted, “This is nonsense! This child hasn’t been kept by a sugar daddy!”

Teacher Chen was stunned. “But the earlier photos…”

The clothes in the earlier photos were drastically cheaper compared to the ones in the later pictures. What other reason could there be? Plus, the netizens were so confident!

Teacher Chen instinctively followed the logic of the blogger and the commenters, but she didn’t say anything, seeing how furious Teacher Zhang was.

Teacher Zhang gritted his teeth. “These netizens have no conscience. Chen, I’m not covering for her, but the truth is this: this girl’s had a tough life. Back when her parents were alive, she was the daughter of a rising business family here, the daughter of the founder of Yan Enterprises.”

“But her parents passed away when she was only eight. I didn’t know about this until one day in sophomore year when she collapsed in class. That’s when I learned that she had been malnourished for a long time. After asking around, I found out that the company was now in the hands of her uncle, and the whole family was living well, while she was getting thinner and weaker. I thought she might not even come to school anymore. Then, this semester, I found out she was adopted by the Chu family.”