41: Chapter 41 Spreading rumors takes only a mouth, but debunking them takes a lot of legwork.

"Huh? You're not feeling well... I'll go buy you some water."

Lin Xiao really didn't want to stay here any longer.

He had even noticed a few people walking aggressively toward them from the intersection ahead.

But just as he reached the entrance of the convenience store, he heard a girlish voice call out from behind him.

"Don't you think about running!"

Immediately after, his arm was grabbed by someone.

Looking back, it was indeed The male doctor.

Since most of the others from the Hospital had already left, The male doctor simply stopped pretending.

While pulling on him, he waved to the people not far away, "Sisters, come quickly! It's him!"

When the group approached, Lin Xiao realized that they were a mix of men and women.

The men were all similar to The male doctor—wearing makeup and acting quite effeminate.

The women were more normal.

However, the looks they gave Lin Xiao were filled with anger and hostility.

"Hey, hey, I don't even know you people, don't go looking for trouble!"

Lin Xiao quickly retreated, really not wanting to get entangled with these people.

He had long since learned of their intentions through the gossip system.

Spending even a second longer with them made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"You brat, you seduce other people's boyfriends, yet you still act innocent?" one of the sissies shouted loudly.

Seeing the suspicious gazes of passersby, Lin Xiao's face turned from blue to red.

He couldn't help but curse, "I seduce your grandpa!"

"You, you, you, you actually want to seduce my grandpa?" The sissy became even more furious.

"..."

Lin Xiao was speechless for a moment and quickly tried to signal to Lin Baixuan, who was not far away.

But Lin Baixuan was just standing there with one hand supporting her head, not looking in this direction at all.

Logically, with such a big commotion here, she shouldn't have missed it.

Was she really drunk?

However, what Lin Xiao didn't know was that Lin Baixuan was holding her forehead not because of a headache from the alcohol, but because she was trying to cover her face to hide her snickering.

This was the first time she had seen Lin Xiao get played, and it was truly amusing.

Lin Xiao was about to go crazy.

If it were anyone else causing him trouble, he could just beat them all up to solve the problem.

But now, facing these fragile women and effeminate men...

He was terrified that if he threw a punch, they would start crying!

In the scuffle, Lin Xiao used a little force and finally managed to break free briefly.

He immediately pointed in the other direction and shouted, "Look! There's a handsome guy over there!"

The group froze and looked over subconsciously.

But the area was empty; where was anyone?

When they turned their heads back, they found that Lin Xiao was already gone.

"Second Sister, run!"

Lin Xiao grabbed Lin Baixuan's arm and ran.

Fortunately, a taxi happened to stop by the side of the road, and Lin Xiao didn't hesitate to pull Lin Baixuan into the car.

As the car started, Lin Xiao finally began to relax.

"Crazy, this is just crazy!"

Smelling the heavy perfume that had been rubbed onto his clothes, images of those sissies pulling and tugging at him automatically surfaced in Lin Xiao's mind.

It seemed like someone had even touched him a few times in the chaos.

It was over.

He was no longer clean.

...

Lin Xiao had thought this was just a short farce.

But unexpectedly, someone had filmed what happened that night and posted it online.

Although the faces of the people involved were blurred, those who knew him recognized Lin Xiao at a glance.

Word spread like wildfire, and it soon reached the school.

"Lin Xiao, is your orientation really men?"

"The way you're acting makes us feel very insecure!"

"..."

His roommates couldn't help but tease him, pretending to look panicked as they pulled their collars tight, acting as if they were worried about being targeted.

Lin Xiao was usually kind and generous, so he was quite popular in the dormitory.

This allowed them to joke around with him without much restraint.

Lin Xiao was tearing his hair out.

After seeing the video online, he immediately contacted the person who posted it to have it deleted.

But the video was spreading too fast; even if that person deleted it, many others had saved it and reposted it.

It was one thing for his roommates to joke around.

But outsiders who didn't know the situation seemed to take the rumors seriously.

Now, when he walked around school, he always encountered complicated gazes.

There was disgust and contempt; these people looked at him as if he were a monster.

Most importantly, some people had an ambiguous look in their eyes that made Lin Xiao's back crawl.

He even received anonymous confession texts.

Qiu Xiaoyan naturally heard the rumors too.

To help Lin Xiao, she looked for him to eat together almost every day, deliberately acting intimate.

But this behavior not only failed to clear Lin Xiao's name, but even led to posts denouncing him on the School Forum.

The titles were very sensational, mostly saying that Lin Xiao was clearly into men but was still deceiving a beautiful woman.

Even Qiu Xiaoyan's friends came to persuade her to stay away from Lin Xiao, telling her not to be fooled by the scumbag's appearance.

Lin Xiao had originally thought that since it was a rumor, it would collapse on its own one day.

Instead of making it worse by trying to explain, he might as well just lie flat and accept it.

But when he returned home on the weekend and saw his parents looking like they had something to say but were holding back, he knew this matter wouldn't just blow over.

"Ahem, A-Xiao, it's not that we believe the rumors, it's just that we're worried you've gone down the wrong path..."

At the dinner table, Lin Qingshan hesitated repeatedly before awkwardly bringing up the topic.

"That's right, after all, we only have one son. If you've gone astray, what are we supposed to do!"

Su Xiumei also chimed in earnestly from the side.

"Dad, Mom, how come you guys also..."

Lin Xiao's headache worsened, and he looked at Lin Baixuan for help once again.

But Lin Baixuan just kept her head down eating, showing no intention of helping him explain.

Lin Xiao held his forehead, at a complete loss for what to do.

At this moment, Lin Qingshan suddenly said, "By the way, your eldest sister will be back in two days. There's a banquet next weekend; you go with your eldest sister, and that should clear up the rumors."

Lin Xiao was a bit confused.

What did attending a banquet have to do with clearing up rumors?

But when his eldest sister, Lin Chuge, returned to the country two days later and he saw the banquet attire she had prepared for him, he was dumbfounded.

"Eldest Sister, are you sure you want me to wear this to the banquet?"

Lin Xiao held up a pair of oversized shorts, his eyes full of astonishment.