NOVEL NEXT 20: Rumors
Yuan Xiaoning was in the broadcasting department, while Bai Ling was a sports student. They were not in the same campus area, and although not far apart, they had to separate at the main gate.
As for Zhang Shanshan, she was majoring in Business Administration, even further away. However, before leaving, she spitefully threw out a sentence:
“I told you, you’ll regret it. Just you wait and see!”
With that, she got in the car and left.
Yuan Xiaoning blinked: “What does that mean? Is she going to bully us at school?”
Bai Ling completely ignored it, acting as if she hadn’t heard, and ordered a Didi ride to school on her phone.
However, upon arriving at school, she noticed something unusual.
“It’s her, the one surnamed Bai.”
“That’s right, from the news half a year ago. I still remember.”
“Is she really a sports student? She looks so weak, doesn’t seem like it at all.”
“And she looks so ordinary.”
Bai Ling frowned slightly.
During this year at university, due to family changes, her personality had become somewhat withdrawn. She had no close friends at school and hadn’t joined any social circles. So, receiving cold looks at school was normal.
But it wasn’t like today, where people were pointing and whispering wherever she went.
After entering the classroom, before the teacher arrived, Bai Ling casually found a classmate in the back row, her eyes flashing red:
“What happened?”
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Yuan Xiaoning encountered a similar situation, but being the most popular campus beauty and the goddess of the broadcasting department, she certainly didn’t lack “friends”. Someone came to report the news from afar.
“Someone posted on the school forum saying you’re in a lesbian relationship with a girl from the sports department,” asked a short-haired girl in front of her. “Is it true?”
[Gu Hui, your classmate.]
The system thoughtfully provided an introduction.
“What post?” Yuan Xiaoning took out her phone. “Let me see.”
Following Gu Hui’s guidance, she indeed found a hot post on the forum, with over two thousand comments.
[Help! Is it okay to do this while living in someone else’s home?]
The poster was Zhang Shanshan, and the content of the post—
[A distant relative of our family came to stay at our house during the holiday, coincidentally from the same school. As luck would have it, this May Day holiday she also brought another schoolmate to stay.
It’s fine that they came, I thought they were just friends, but I didn’t expect the two to have that kind of special relationship.
I mean, although I don’t discriminate against your preferences, but to be intimate in front of others without regard, even my parents felt embarrassed, thinking this is how everyone at our school behaves.
Sigh, it’s completely ridiculous.
See the pictures below.]
Yuan Xiaoning opened her mouth in surprise.
Seeing her reaction, Gu Hui knew the matter must be true.
“This sudden involvement, you didn’t even tell us… and you were so careless, how could you let someone take photos randomly.”
Hearing this, Yuan Xiaoning quickly looked down. There were several photos, all showing Bai Ling intimately embracing her.
There was one of them standing on the balcony, arm around waist, whispering; one sitting on the sofa, hugging and fondling breasts; and one with a head buried in the chest, motor-boating.
After carefully examining the high-resolution images several times, Yuan Xiaoning sighed in relief.
“Thank goodness, nothing’s exposed.”
In the last two photos, her collar had actually been pulled open, but Zhang Shanshan’s sneaky photo angle couldn’t capture it.
“It might be better if something was exposed,” Gu Hui said. “At least then you’d have some perverts defending you.”
Yuan Xiaoning frowned, looking at the over two thousand comments. Goodness, all kinds of condemnation.
Moral condemnation and insults towards homosexuals were one thing, but some male students, indifferent to the lesbianism, saw it as an opportunity to reasonably have two partners. However, they were somewhat disdainful of Bai Ling.
[How could Goddess Xiaoning find such an ordinary girl, and so skinny too.]
[Always glaring with those red eyes, like a horror movie character.]
[I support Goddess Xiaoning finding a girl, this way I’ll have two wives in the future, but couldn’t you find someone better-looking?]
Yuan Xiaoning broke out in a cold sweat reading this.
Goodness, they truly don’t fear death.
Actually, Bai Ling’s appearance was quite attractive, just not exceptionally outstanding, and her figure was too thin.
Moreover, in Yuan Xiaoning’s eyes, Bai Ling’s aura added many points. But her classmates didn’t know that she could control the life and death of everyone in this school with a single thought, so her cold aura actually detracted points.
After some time, when the old world order gradually collapses, they will understand what the beauty of strength means.
However, not all of the over two thousand comments were negative. For example, these few—
[Congratulations to Bai Ling from Sports Department Year 2 Class 2, for powerfully capturing Tianhai’s campus beauty and broadcasting department goddess, greatly boosting the morale of the Sports Department!]
[Warm congratulations to Bai Ling from the Sports Department for occupying the “top” position in this internal struggle. I hereby declare that from now on, “Arts and Sports students” shall be renamed “Sports and Arts students”.]
[Glorious Sports Department, may your reputation spread far and wide!]
Seeing these warm words, Yuan Xiaoning couldn’t help but sigh: “There are still more good people after all.”
“Where are there more? Just these few,” Gu Hui defended her. “Most of those two thousand plus commenters don’t know you… at most they’ve heard your name, seen your photo, yet they’re joining others in cursing.”
Yuan Xiaoning smiled helplessly: “Actually, I’m fine, they’re not really cursing me. The comments about me are mostly just dirty jokes. It’s mainly Bai Ling…”
[Ding dong~ Optional task detected: Kick them while they’re down.
The female protagonist has encountered some negative rumors at school for certain reasons. As the villain, how can you not take this opportunity to add fuel to the fire?
Task requirement: Add a few more negative rumors about the female protagonist who is caught in this public opinion storm.]
Yuan Xiaoning rolled her eyes.
With this happening, Bai Ling is probably already angry. If I stir up more trouble, wouldn’t I be offering myself up for her to vent on?
Fortunately, it’s an optional task, so it doesn’t matter if I don’t do it.
At this moment, several classmates gathered around.
“Yuan Xiaoning, why did you choose that girl from the sports department? Did you know each other before?”
“When did you get together? We didn’t know anything about it.”
“Do sports department students have good stamina?”
Yuan Xiaoning avoided discussing these gossip topics to prevent accidentally saying something wrong.
Until Gu Hui lowered her voice and asked her: “Yuan Xiaoning, are sports students particularly fierce in bed? Can you handle it?”
Hearing this, Yuan Xiaoning couldn’t resist.
“It’s so-so, nothing special. But for me, she’s no match at all.”
The surrounding classmates immediately perked up.
“Really?”
“Quick, tell us more.”
“Explain in detail how she’s no match.”
“You don’t know, after the first time, she slept for over ten hours,” Yuan Xiaoning said proudly. “It’s a good thing she’s a sports student. She was able to wake up after being unconscious all night, but her fingers hurt badly, taking a day or two to recover.”