The Truth Comes Out, Tears of Grievance

Xue Hongyun had thought the matter would simply pass like this.

All the secrets would drift away with the wind, buried forever in the depths of her heart.

But she had never expected Lin Yuan to bring up the past again and point out that she was behind what happened to Wang Yan.

How did he know?!

No one besides her knew about this at all!

"Bullshit! Are you trying to frame me?" Xue Hongyun forced herself to remain calm.

As long as there was no evidence, it was slander.

Then Lin Yuan's reputation would be utterly ruined.

"Heh."

Lin Yuan laughed.

"You want evidence, don't you? I'll show it to you right now!"

As he spoke, he took out his phone and found the evidence of Xue Hongyun poisoning someone.

It was a video. The system had somehow recorded what happened that day.

Lin Yuan tapped play and held it up for the whole class to see.

The video showed an empty classroom. Then Xue Hongyun sneaked inside furtively, holding a small bottle in her hand.

She walked straight to Wang Yan's seat, took Wang Yan's water bottle out of the drawer, and poured the unknown liquid from the small bottle into it.

After the video ended, every student wore a shocked, disbelieving expression.

Then they all stared at Xue Hongyun.

"No... impossible! This is fake!"

Xue Hongyun completely panicked.

Before there was evidence, she could still twist the truth with sophistry. But in the face of irrefutable proof, any explanation was pale and powerless.

"This is the evidence you wanted. Satisfied now?"

Lin Yuan looked coldly at Xue Hongyun.

"Oh, right. I have other evidence too. I might as well show you that as well."

As he spoke, he opened another video.

"Remember this: spread the news that Lin Yuan and Gu Lianyin are dating to the whole class!"

"And let the entire school know that the girl he's dating is hideously ugly! Once it's done, each of you gets a hundred yuan!"

In the video, Xue Hongyun said this to several troublesome boys in the class.

At once, those delinquent students panicked too.

"This has nothing to do with me! Xue Hongyun told me to do it!"

"Yeah! She even said that if we didn't do it, she'd have thugs outside school beat us up!"

"Lin Yuan, we're sorry! Please forgive us! We were wrong, and we'll never dare do it again!"

They were terrified.

If the school found out about this, their parents would definitely be called in.

Getting beaten would be the least of it. If they were expelled, that would be serious.

Lin Yuan ignored them, his gaze still fixed on Xue Hongyun.

Seeing her face grow increasingly pale, he felt utterly satisfied.

"Lin Yuan, I was wrong! I'm sorry, I was wrong! Please don't give the videos to the teacher! I don't want to go to prison!"

With a smack, Xue Hongyun dropped to her knees and kept begging for mercy.

She was already eighteen, old enough to be sentenced.

If what she had done by poisoning someone was exposed, she would definitely go to prison!

By the time she got out, her youth would already have faded away behind prison bars.

Lin Yuan sneered.

If there had been no evidence, the one whose reputation would have been ruined would have been him.

If he had knelt before Xue Hongyun like this and begged her to spare him, how would she have responded?

Mockery, ridicule, and even worse humiliation?

So.

Lin Yuan refused to forgive her.

"Xue Hongyun, be a good person from now on."

Lin Yuan sent the videos directly to the class group chat.

Very soon, the homeroom teacher immediately replied after seeing the videos.

Homeroom Teacher: "Class monitor, come to my office immediately!"

"Forget it, I'm coming to the classroom now!"

Soon, the homeroom teacher hurried into the classroom.

After briefly asking what had happened, she took away the class monitor, Xue Hongyun, who could barely even walk.

The entire classroom fell silent again.

You could hear a pin drop.

Gu Lianyin, who had watched everything from her seat, was still dazed.

A crisis she had not known how to resolve had been so easily defused.

She looked at Lin Yuan's back. It felt as though, as long as he was there, she no longer needed to worry or be afraid.

"It's okay now."

Lin Yuan returned to sit beside her. With a gentle smile, he raised his hand and softly wiped away the tears on her face.

But rather than wiping them dry, that gesture only made even more tears fall.

Gu Lianyin could no longer suppress the grievance in her heart. She desperately wanted someone to vent it to.

She buried her head in Lin Yuan's chest and cried loudly.

The other students pretended not to see anything.

After crying for a while, Gu Lianyin finally pulled away from Lin Yuan.

Her ugly makeup had run, making her look even uglier.

Lin Yuan wanted to laugh but did not dare to. He nearly gave himself internal injuries from holding it in.

Gu Lianyin noticed something strange about his expression and hurriedly took out the small mirror she carried with her to look at her face.

"Ah!"

She cried out and quickly ran out of the classroom.

Her makeup had run, and several freckles had been washed away by her tears.