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At the time, Lu Ren had explained that someone in his family must have accidentally put it in his schoolbag. Only now did Jiang Wen realize the truth. It hadn't been an accident, and Lu Ren had been doing this for a long time!

Jiang Wen held up the pillow. "This is Lu Ren's pillow. The evidence that he stole girls' underwear is inside!" As he spoke, he reached for the zipper.

"No!" Lu Ren, who had been so smug moments ago, tried to snatch the pillow. But with his leg freshly broken, he couldn't even stand. He fell at Jiang Wen's feet with a thud. "Jiang Wen, I'm begging you. Don't open it! Please!"

"I admit it! I'll tell you everything! I didn't hurt myself setting up a confession like I said. I fell while sneaking into the girls' dorm to steal underwear! I'm a pervert! I have to smell girls' underwear every night before I can sleep. That's why I stole it!"

"I've been stealing underwear since my first year of high school, and nobody ever caught me, so I kept doing it! I've told you everything, Jiang Wen. I'm begging you, don't open the pillow!" Lu Ren blurted it all out in one breath, confessing to everything he had done.

"You little brat, what are you saying?" Lu Ren's mother stared at him in disbelief. She stepped forward, hauled him off the floor, and slapped him. "Shut up! Do you even know what you're saying?"

"Mom, it's all true! I'm a pervert. Just stay out of it, okay? I admit I was wrong. I stole girls' underwear. Please, stay out of it!" Lu Ren trembled all over, his words tumbling out incoherently.

Everyone stared at the scene in astonishment. None of it seemed believable.

"What's in that pillow? Why's he so afraid of them opening it?"

"I bet it's the underwear he stole!"

"I think so too. There must be loads of it for him to be that scared!"

[It's not just panties.]

Qin Shiyue: Huh?

If it isn't just underwear, what else is in there?

Lu Ren's mother soon gave her the answer.

"Why can't I get involved? You're my son, and I'm your mother. Why can't I?" The woman shoved Lu Ren aside and snatched the pillow from Jiang Wen, still muttering, "Don't think you can frame my son just because you have his pillow! Girls' underwear inside, is that it? You stuffed the underwear into my son's—"

With a zzzip, she opened it. Everything inside spilled onto the floor.

There were girls' underwear in all sorts of colors, along with some very explicit photographs.

The angles were strange, as though the photos had been taken secretly. Some showed faces; others showed only certain parts of the body. Though a few were blurry, it was still possible to tell who was in them.

Curious, Qin Shiyue bent down and picked one up. The moment she saw it, she dropped it.

The naked person in the photograph was Lu Ren's mother.

"This..."

"Those photos..."

Stealing girls' underwear was bad enough. He had secretly photographed his own mother, too!

Everyone was stunned beyond words. Some had already covered their eyes. At last, they understood what Shen Luoluo had meant by a "big surprise"!

Lu Ren sank to the floor in despair.

"No, that's not me. It's not me." Lu Ren's mother shook her head frantically, looking dazed.

She knelt and swept the photographs on the floor into her arms. "It's not me. Don't look! Don't look! None of you are allowed to look!"

Qin Shiyue noticed that two pairs of the underwear that had fallen from the pillow were clearly not the size or style girls their age would wear.

Who they belonged to went without saying.

The room fell silent for a moment. Then someone spoke up.

"Nothing to say now, is there? There are even photos of you!"

"This is the honest, obedient boy you were talking about? He even took secret photos of you! You said there was no evidence. Well, it's right in front of you!"

"Serves you right! Your son turned out like this because of how you raised him!"

No one there felt sorry for the mother and son.

The woman could no longer hold it together. She knelt on the floor and broke down sobbing.

The police arrived just then.

Word spread quickly through the school. Almost everyone heard that someone had stolen girls' underwear and secretly photographed his own mother.

Posts about it flooded the School Forum.

Everyone was shaken.

Floor 5: So scary! Lu Ren barely talked and always seemed like a loner. Who knew he was doing something so perverted in secret?

Floor 6: Just look at his mom. With a mother like that, how could he turn out okay? I bet she controlled him so much that he got all repressed and ended up like this!

Floor 7: I think so too. I was there, and his mom was completely out of control. There was no reasoning with her!

Floor 21: Expel him already. The thought of being at the same school as someone like that makes my skin crawl!

Floor 22: It's terrifying. Thank goodness he got caught. I don't even want to imagine him staying at this school if he hadn't!

Floor 76: I heard he's already withdrawn! His dad brought him in the next day to fill out the paperwork!

Floor 77: Holy crap! Really? Good riddance!

Floor 78: He got what he deserved! If he'd admitted it sooner, people would only have found out he was a pervert with a weird fetish. Those photos of his mom wouldn't have come out! Now they've both been humiliated in front of everyone!

That made a lot of sense. Shen Luoluo couldn't resist tapping the screen to like the comment on Floor 78.

Just after she did, Zhao Huizhen messaged her. The driver wouldn't be picking them up after school that afternoon; Shen Xiche would.

She even sent Shen Luoluo a picture of Shen Xiche's Lamborghini and its license plate number, as if she were afraid Shen Luoluo wouldn't find the car.

Shen Luoluo remembered Shen Xiche picking them up from school in the novel, too.

In the original plot, Shen Xiche had driven his Lamborghini to pick them up, just as he was doing now.