Plan A
Running with the Ball 18
In the Year Two, Class 7 classroom, the class president was still speaking inside.
Class President: Which two students were the ones who exposed this? Hurry up and stand out. Even if you’re too embarrassed to face us with your real identity, if you’re afraid of being targeted, then just be anonymous and post the photo one more time.
No one ever responded to her. Some people followed up and continued talking, but the two students who had initially exposed the matter seemed to have evaporated from the human world1, not showing their heads.
Could it really be a rumor?
【Anonymous】Lu Ban No. 7: I’m afraid someone is really trying to stir up trouble. In fact, that wasn’t the homeroom teacher at all, and besides, I never participated in this gossip in the first place. Anyway, the teacher teaches us knowledge, why do you all care what his life is like.
【Anonymous】Zhen Ji: Hehe, I just knew someone would come out to fire a cannon behind the horse2. Although I don’t know who exposed it, I don’t think they would frame him for no reason. Even though that photo was very blurry, we could all tell it was the homeroom teacher, right? Your brain must have been kicked by a donkey3. If you were caught in a puppy love, you should have just admitted your mistake. Why did you have to drag in the matter of the homeroom teacher cheating? He’s usually so easy to talk to. If you had taken the initiative to admit your mistake and then broken up, wouldn’t everything have been fine?
【Anonymous】Liu Bei: Yo, going anonymous again. I think being anonymous is really a good thing. Usually, every one of you speaks like a decent human being, but once you put on a vest4 so others don’t know who you are, the way you talk is so f#cking unpleasant.
【Anonymous】Xiang Yu: Isn’t that just it? Anyway, I believe he probably did cheat. I estimate someone’s conscience is uneasy right now, feeling that they misunderstood the homeroom teacher, and they even cursed him before. Maybe some loyal running dog5 even went to report this matter to the old homeroom teacher.
【Anonymous】Zhuang Zhou: Stupid c#nt.
【Anonymous】Liu Bei: Oh yo, how awesome6, oh, you’re even cursing at people, oh. You idiot, if you have the guts, don’t be anonymous. If you have the guts, curse in class. If you dare to fall off a horse7 now, I’ll go to the class and argue with you tomorrow.
【Anonymous】Zhuang Zhou: I wasn’t talking about you, what are you getting so worked up for.
【Anonymous】Xiang Yu: So you were talking about me, then?
Administrator has disabled anonymous posting
Class President: Curse, go on and curse. How about I turn off anonymous posting right now? If you have the guts, don’t be anonymous, speak up. So annoying. If you have evidence, then speak. If you don’t have evidence, then shut up.
The class group chat instantly fell silent.
Class President: Putting on an anonymous vest and you all think you’re a big deal. Anyway, regarding this matter with the homeroom teacher, I’m holding a spectator’s attitude. To put it simply, whether he cheats or not is none of my damn business. It has nothing to do with me anyway. I just feel that he’s a pretty good math teacher, and a pretty good homeroom teacher. As for his private life, I don’t care, so I won’t go and curse him, but I also won’t like him as much as I did before.
Class President: I think what that anonymous person said before was wrong. What do you mean he’s a teacher, and all that matters is that he teaches us well? Anyway, I don’t like having a scumbag who cheats as my teacher. Therefore, I am now in a wait-and-see mode. If it’s set in stone, then I absolutely have a reason to hate him. But if the situation is still uncertain, I won’t make any judgments. So, those of you who have evidence now, hurry up and show it. If you don’t, then just forget it.
Class President: I’m turning off anonymous posting now, and I won’t turn it on again in the future. If you have any evidence, you can send it to me in a private message.
Gugu: Who knows if it was you, class president, who had the evidence, and then directed and acted in this whole show yourself.
Class President: If you have the guts, change your screen name to your real name and let me know who you are.
Class President: Alright, no need. I know who you are now. Act my ass8, if you want to argue, let’s argue in class tomorrow.
Su Xin watched the group of little kids argue for a bit and felt that their drama9 was quite interesting. This kind of collective life was rather interesting.
Master Fourteen, help me synthesize another photo. Just randomly choose a coffee shop that exists in this city as the background, then make the two of them a bit more intimate. Have He Qin’s half-face showing, but make it a little blurry.
【No problem.】
Su Xin sat on the sofa at her leisure. Just then, Bai Jianglan walked out of the bathroom.
“You go take a shower.”
“Okay.”
It seemed like Wen Linlang was planning to stay at her friend’s place for these few days.
Bai Jianglan felt that her decision to take Su Xin to the office during the day was indeed the right choice.
Because the person was right by her side, her heart would feel particularly at ease. And then, just thinking that if her work efficiency could be a little higher, she wouldn’t have to go back to work overtime at night and could have more time to accompany her, so she now handled her work very quickly every day.
Bai Jianglan lay on the bed. She didn’t like to use a hairdryer to dry her hair. Usually, she would just blow-dry it until it was half-dry, and then let the rest air-dry naturally.
The TV in the room was on, and she was watching the financial express.
The sound of the door opening immediately attracted her attention.
Su Xin walked in wearing pajamas. Because it was summer, the pajamas were all relatively thin. Su Xin’s pajamas were a little slip dress. Her arms and thighs were exposed. Right now, her belly was only slightly rounded and hadn’t become exaggeratedly prominent, so her figure was still slender and graceful. The small blue and white dress made her look like she had a bit of a girlish feeling, rather than exuding a mature charm like she usually did.
Bai Jianglan seemed to still be watching the financial news on TV, but her mind was already completely focused on Su Xin.
“I’ll go outside to blow-dry my hair, to avoid disturbing you from watching TV.”
Su Xin picked up the hairdryer, preparing to walk outside.
“No need, you can blow-dry it here. I’ve already finished watching what I wanted to see.”
Bai Jianglan shook her head and changed the channel on the TV.
At this time of day, it was either TV dramas or variety shows. Bai Jianglan switched to a singing program.
“Alright then.”
Su Xin plugged the hairdryer in by the bedside, and a buzzing sound filled the room.
Bai Jianglan found that she particularly liked this feeling, as if the two of them had already been living like this for a long time. She sat in the room watching TV, while she blow-dried her hair beside her, filled with the atmosphere of life.
The sound of someone singing came from the TV, making Bai Jianglan’s whole heart soar along with it.
“In the old days, the sun grew slow,
Carts, horses, and mail were all slow,
A lifetime was only enough to love one person,
The locks in the old days were also beautiful,
The keys were exquisite and had style,
Once you locked it,
People would understand,
…”10
The moving singing voice, accompanied by the sound of the hairdryer, Su Xin was facing Bai Jianglan. Seeing that Bai Jianglan was looking at her, she gave her a smile.
Bai Jianglan blinked, lowered her head, and picked up her phone. Breaking the primordial wilderness11, she posted a status update to record her joyful mood at this very moment.
Bai Jiangxi12 was sitting on the sofa playing with her phone when she suddenly scrolled to a status update, her eyes widening.
“Dad! Mom! Come and look! My sister actually posted a status update!”
In the eyes of their family, Bai Jianglan basically had zero social interaction. In her social media apps, apart from some business partners, there were only them, her relatives, and a circle of people she grew up playing with.
But she basically never posted any status updates, nor would she chat with others, unless it was for necessary business communication.
She actually posted a status update, it was simply not what barbarians would think13.
“What is this thing she posted?”
Mother Bai had a look of confusion on her face.
“I don’t know, I’ll search it up.”
“Hey… What the hell is this?”
Bai Jiangxi held her phone and thought for a moment, not knowing what her sister, who had an extremely high level of style14, was thinking in her mind.
“Mom, I think something might be up with my little sister.”
“Wow, it’s more unlikely for something to be up with her than with you. You’re old enough and not young anymore15, a 30-year-old woman, and you still don’t have a partner. You and your sister both make people worry.”
“Alright, alright, I surrender. Weren’t we talking about my sister? How did it get dragged onto me.”
“Do you know what your sister is doing?”
“Not very clear. I’ll go to her company the day after tomorrow for a surprise visit to scout out the situation.”
“Why not go tomorrow?”
“She posted the status update tonight. If I go tomorrow, isn’t the intention a little too obvious?”
“Fine, if there’s any situation, you must tell me.”
Father Bai sat on the side and did not participate in the discussion, with a look of having already seen through everything.
Anyway, the eldest had long since established a family and a career16, and had children. As for the two daughters, one liked to play and the other was a workaholic. Let them do whatever they want, as long as they are happy.
Su Xin let it sit for a day, waiting for the matter to ferment for a day before making her next move.
During this day, when the students saw Feng Linhan, they would feel a little embarrassed, no longer staring at him like before.
Feng Linhan felt that the situation should be improving. He would definitely find out who said those words. If that person had the guts, they could just keep holding it in.
Feng Linhan found some people to tap on the side and hit from the flank17, but they all said the same thing very uniformly.
It was anonymous, no one knew who it was.
Feng Linhan did not ask the class president to pull him into that group. He knew that the person had posted his news anonymously. If he joined that group, it would be too obvious. The students in the class would no longer send messages at home, and the person who saw his actions would also silence their voice and hide their tracks.
The class president was a day student, so generally, when she got home from evening self-study, she could play on her phone. When she opened her social media app, her eyes widened.
She had received a private message.
【Private Message】TA: Follow-up on the exposé. Although it was shot a bit blurry, this time it should be very clear, right?
It was a photo from a time when the sun was bright and beautiful. Not far from a coffee shop, Feng Linhan was acting intimately with a woman. Feng Linhan’s face was perfectly clear, but the woman only revealed half of hers.
Holy sh#t!!!
The class president immediately took a screenshot, sent it to the class group chat, and also sent that photo over. At the same time, she also sent that photo to Feng Linhan.
Feng Linhan was sitting at home contacting He Qin when he suddenly saw the message the class president sent him.
He looked at the photo carefully, his brows tightly furrowed. This was definitely not a recent photo of them. How could he have possibly gone to that place in the last two days? But the clothes he was wearing in this photo were indeed the set he was wearing today. He didn’t just have two sets of clothes; he would wear this particular outfit every few days.
Feng Linhan sent the photo to He Qin. On the other side, He Qin’s heart also sank.
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