99: Chapter 99 Expulsion from School

Li Runze had specifically instructed his secretary to keep an eye on Su Ming's movements whenever she had free time.

Consequently, the secretary often checked the campus forum to see if there was any recent news about Su Ming.

To her surprise, she saw such explosive news early this morning!

The secretary hurriedly knocked on the door of Li Runze's office.

Li Runze was inside, taking an important business call.

Seeing the secretary barge in so carelessly, he looked rather displeased.

Seeing this, the secretary bowed slightly and tactfully retreated.

It wasn't until twenty-something minutes later that Li Runze summoned her from inside the office.

"Little Shen, come in!"

Secretary Shen Yuanyuan tidied herself up and pushed open the door to Li Runze's office again.

"Mr. Li, I'm sorry for the interruption earlier."

Li Runze frowned and lectured her.

"How many times have I told you to be more steady in your work?"

"What is so important that it's worth you being in such a rush?"

Shen Yuanyuan opened her phone, pulled up the post on the campus forum, and handed it to Li Runze.

"Mr. Li... please take a look..."

"I also saw it this morning..."

"This post... is related to Miss Su..."

Upon hearing that it concerned Su Ming, Li Runze took the phone.

As he scrolled, Li Runze's face gradually turned livid.

"Rumors... these must be rumors!"

"Help me find out who posted this, and then contact the school to have this post deleted!"

"Otherwise, the legal department of our Li Group will pursue legal action against the responsible parties!"

Li Runze suppressed the fury in his heart.

For the sake of his own reputation, he had to treat this matter as a rumor.

Otherwise, if other people found out.

Where would he, Li Runze, put his face?

Before they were even engaged, his fiancée-to-be was engaging in illicit affairs with another man at school!

And there was even a recording!

Li Runze felt as if he had been cuckolded!

Shen Yuanyuan immediately understood.

"Very well, Mr. Li, I understand. I will contact the school administration right away!"

Having said that, Shen Yuanyuan turned, closed the door, and exited Li Runze's office.

"Crash!"

The moment the door closed, the sound of a cup smashing against the floor could be heard from inside the office.

Along with Li Runze's angry roar.

Shen Yuanyuan casually made another call to the cleaning department.

"Send someone over to clean up Mr. Li's office."

Having been Li Runze's secretary for six years, Shen Yuanyuan could fully guess Li Runze's current mood.

She also knew that just now, in front of her, Li Runze had been trying his best to suppress his inner rage.

After all, this post had pictures and evidence, and even a recording.

And there were no traces of editing at all.

This matter... was most likely true...

On the other end, Lin Yi was also very upset after reading these posts.

It was obvious that someone was targeting him.

And it must be someone he knew, otherwise they wouldn't have posted anonymously.

What angered Lin Yi the most was that the poster had dragged Su Ming into this.

As a man, Lin Yi didn't care; if they wanted to call him a playboy, so be it.

After all, he was indeed close with several girls right now.

But Su Ming was innocent in this matter.

A girl, and a very dazzling and eye-catching girl at that.

To be slandered like this for no reason.

To have her reputation tarnished.

How would Su Ming be able to interact with others in school in the future?

Su Ming had said before that she didn't usually have many friends.

Presumably, many people would be envious and jealous of the halo around her.

She was both the school beauty and the Student Union president.

Now, this post was tantamount to handing those people a weapon to attack Su Ming.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi hurriedly used his own account to reply under that post.

"I am Lin Yi, the above situation is malicious rumors."

"If this post is not deleted as soon as possible, I will take legal action to resolve it!"

Thinking that the Chen Yao in front of him was a lawyer, Lin Yi hurriedly consulted her about the situation.

After hearing the ins and outs of the matter, Chen Yao shook her head.

"These photos were taken in public places; from a legal perspective, this does not count as an invasion of personal privacy."

"However, you can request the other party to delete it on the grounds that they did not obtain your authorization."

"However... this won't help you prove your innocence..."

"On the contrary, it might make everyone think you are feeling guilty."

"Moreover, the last line of the post contains a small line of text: 'The above situation is all my personal speculation; fellow students, please judge for yourselves based on the pictures'."

"This sentence also indicates that these are merely the other party's subjective inferences."

"Therefore, it is also very difficult to define it as malicious rumors."

"It seems the other party did their homework in advance."

At school, when Zhou Zhengyi saw Lin Yi reply under his post, he was grinning from ear to ear.

In his view, Lin Yi was a cornered dog, just being stubborn before his impending doom.

Except for the title, he had deliberately avoided adding any subjective coloring to the entire post.

It was all direct screenshots and audio recordings, and then he asked the students to analyze it objectively and rationally.

But in the eyes of other students, these were no different from hard evidence.

In this way, Zhou Zhengyi had both distanced himself and successfully made Lin Yi's crimes public.

It was airtight!

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhengyi immediately felt smug.

"Hmph! Lin Dog, you have this day coming!"

"And Su Ming!"

"Always acting so high and mighty, I thought you were so pure and chaste."

"Did you lower your bottom line after finding out Lin Yi has money?"

"Birds of a feather! Neither of you are good people!"

Zhou Zhengyi was in no hurry to reply to Lin Yi; he intended to let public opinion ferment a little longer.

Sure enough, after a while, someone had already replied under Lin Yi's comment.

"Lin Yi, you aren't feeling guilty, are you!"

"Exactly, if you have any evidence to prove you were wronged, just say it. Stop trying to fool people with these platitudes!"

"And what about Su Ming, why doesn't she come out and explain?"

"Su Ming must know she's in the wrong. She's built up this pure, jade-like image for so many years, and now that she's only a year away from graduation, she's going to lose her reputation!"

"I really can't understand, what did the school beauty Su see in Lin Yi?"

"Why doesn't school beauty Su consider me instead? I can also do it in the infirmary... haha!"

"Alright everyone, let's not get off-topic. Let's wait for the original poster to reply!"

"If this post isn't deleted, it means all this gossip is guaranteed to be true!"

"Yeah, I think so too. Let's all gossip rationally for now and wait for the follow-up!"

Things seemed to be developing in the direction Zhou Zhengyi wanted.

Just as Zhou Zhengyi was humming a tune in triumph, his phone suddenly rang.

Zhou Zhengyi picked up his phone and saw it was a call from his counselor.

"Hello, counselor, what's up?"

Only to hear the counselor on the other end of the phone say in an angry, deep voice.

"Zhou Zhengyi! Isn't this all your doing? They've even called the principal to settle scores!"

"Don't think that just because you were anonymous, we can't find out that you were the one who posted it!"

"The principal is very angry about this matter and wants you to delete the post and apologize publicly immediately!"

"Otherwise, you will be expelled from school!"