Chapter 409: I Did Not Post That
“Maybe he feels that it’s the best treatment a ‘traitor’ would get. That is why you have to stay safe, not just Mom and Dad…”
“Me? He would have to be careful of the Shen family.” Mu Qiqi answered Sheng Xiao. “Still, it would only push him into an infinite hell if he continues like this.”
“Would he care heaven, hell or whatnot at his age? Hmm?”
***
The Sheng family were discussing Sheng Kai and Gu Ziling’s engagement ceremony.
Initially, the engagement was planned to be on the fifteenth of next month, but considering how the previous engagements had not ended well, Old Sheng suggested to the Gu family that they should get married directly.
After all, he was already set on having Gu Ziling as his daughter-in-law.
The Gu family were rather hesitant about impoliteness, but Old Sheng did not care for going through the motions and told Mama Gu over the phone, “Having Ziling in my house as a guest is already telling everyone else that she is a daughter-in-law of my family, and no different from getting engaged. That is why getting married directly is legitimate.”
Afraid of potential side issues as well, the Gu family agreed to the old man’s suggestion.
The two young people were hence toyed around by the elders like dolls.
Third Brother could only feel emotional when he saw what went on in the family. It was hard to blame Eighth Brother for being willing to cut ties with the Sheng family and willingly becoming a traitor.
Looking from how the old man was controlling his family, had he lost his mind?
Third Brother decided to make his move so as to avoid the old man from arranging his marriage too. He would go search for a rich daughter from the right family, and at least one whom he liked.
He felt panic and his scalp going numb even looking at Gu Ziling and his second brother.
Sheng Kai appeared to be letting things take its course, but it was not hard for Third Brother to tell that his heart had changed from his last few exchanges with him.
His reasoning for all that he was going through was because Sheng Xiao selfishly abandoned the Sheng family.
Sheng Xiao made him receive Huang Yao and Gu Ziling, pressures that left him suffocating.
He would eventually lose his mind too, wouldn’t he?
***
Mu Qiqi had believed that Old Sheng would be careful around the Shen family.
But would a person who dared to set fire to Jing Ting refrain from making a move at Sheng Ting University?
Since Mu Qiqi had been ‘loaned’ away to the forensics lab since the start of the semester, she had a nagging feeling that there was a different air in campus when she returned.
Of course, she had always been a lone wolf and did not make friends with any of her classmates. The boys who had been chasing him around were also nowhere to be seen, and there was no telling if Xiao Xiao had chased them off behind the scenes…
Moreover, she had gathered a lot of experience at the forensics labs, which was why her tutor would often let her come forward to demonstrate to everyone else during dissection sessions.
Still, Mu Qiqi was not the best student at the forensics science faculty.
On what grounds was she so valued?
Feng Shanshan was the one who ranked first in the general assessments. She had looks, a rich boyfriend and was multitalented, which gained her popularity on campus.
In the first semester, Mu Qiqi was swirling with rumors but never reached the top rankings even though she entered the university with good results. After all, there were too many talents in Sheng Ting University, although the scene in the forensic science faculty had changed since she started helping her instructor as an assistant with the field team.
Her instructor and her professor started to mention her more, whereas the girls in the faculty—especially those in Feng Shanshan’s clique started to grow in discontent.
“Really, why is Mu Qiqi so full of herself? We were careful around her because she was the Crown Prince’s woman, but does she really think this is her territory now?”
“Exactly. Her results or looks aren’t even as good as our Shanshan’s, and most importantly our girl is multitalented. Why are our teachers all treating that bitch with two fathers like treasure?”
“Shush, keep it down. Her uncle is the mayor of Jianchuan.”
“That’s her uncle, not her father. Isn’t her father a cripple?”
The girls were discussing Mu Qiqi in the washroom, seemingly finding her unpleasant in every way.
“Should we come up with something to fix her a bit?”
Soon, the girls came to an agreement—it was something the real Feng Shanshan could pride herself with, since she wouldn’t care for being a part of such a quarrel but she would always have someone to stand in her stead.
Mu Qiqi was smart and unapproachable, which was why the usual methods would fail against her.
That was why the girls thought of something vicious.
Didn’t Mu Qiqi have a good connection with their tutor?
Then they would pretend to be Mu Qiqi and expose their tutor’s private affairs on the school forums.
The trio worked as a group: one would create the content; one would proofread it while the last person was in charge of going to a secluded net café and post it to the school forums.
And she even went at midnight.
That was why Sheng Ting’s forums blew up on the next day, with a certain user named ‘July Longtang’ posting a dig about a tutor of the forensics science faculty.
And once the post showed up, several users commenting deliberately guided the theories on who the user was towards Mu Qiqi.
Word of it soon reached the tutor, who called her into her office with a flushed look. “Qiqi, haven’t I been kind to you? How could you be so ungrateful?”
Mu Qiqi was confused. “I don’t understand.”
“Don’t understand?” The tutor whipped out her phone and threw it at Mu Qiqi. “See for yourself.”
Mu Qiqi read through it and explained, “It’s not me.”
“You are the only girl who is going on field trips with the forensics team. Who else could it be?” The tutor had a horrible look on her face. “Don’t think you can be arrogant just because you are an assistant at the forensics lab. I can forgive you just this time if you go home and delete that post.”
Mu Qiqi did not try to argue because she knows that doing that now would have no effect, and merely garner more of the tutor’s hate.
That was why she turned and left the tutor’s office.
“Yo, isn’t that Mu Qiqi, the one who posted the dig at a tutor?”
“So She was called to the office. The tutor quite liked her… now she must feel like she had a fly dart inside her throat.”
Mu Qiqi said nothing even though he heard the whispers around campus.
Still, there was another round of awkwardness that lingered between her and her tutor when she returned to her classroom.
And the tutor who usually let Mu Qiqi come forward for demonstrations had changed to favor Feng Shanshan too.