In Lu Zhou's original plan, everything from the engagement to the wedding would be kept low-key. Aside from the people they knew, it would be best if no unrelated outsiders found out or disturbed them.
The two of them would quietly walk into the wedding venue, exchange rings and vows of love amid the blessings of family and friends, then embrace and kiss sweetly before living happily ever after.
Yet somehow, something had gone wrong, and the news had leaked.
News of their engagement swept through the entire school like a passing hurricane, spreading at an unbelievable speed before expanding throughout the academic world.
And then, just as he had seen—
He had gone viral again for no apparent reason...
Not only were his Weibo private messages and comments flooded with endless 99+ notifications, but even his never-used Bihu alt account had been dug up and tagged by gossiping netizens until it was practically exploding.
All kinds of anonymous and non-anonymous "insiders" emerged, adopting the tone of storytellers and recounting gossip about the two of them from both first-person and third-person perspectives.
He had to admire the intelligence-gathering skills of those damn fans. From the time the two had studied together in the library, to later studying abroad together and attending the Nobel Prize banquet together, they had unearthed nearly everything. They even enthusiastically embellished it with all sorts of bizarre stories.
Sometimes, after reading too much of that baseless gossip, even Lu Zhou, one of the people involved, could not help wondering whether he had actually done those things.
Driven by this wave of gossip, the topic "Professor Lu Is Taken" quickly seized the top spot on the trending searches, even surpassing the Manned Mars Landing Plan for a time.
By the time the relevant authorities began suppressing the