Chapter 381 - The Gossips Accelerated

Once they arrived at the restaurant, Alex helped to pull a chair and the two ordered several choices of breakfast. Their food arrived and Hazel heard her stomach growled. After sampling the dumpling soup, Hazel had to admit that the food in the restaurant was indeed tasted good.

"Last time, you mentioned that as your boyfriend, I should treat your friends to a meal," Alex said. "Have you decide on the date yet?"

Hezel thought about her roommates' discussion a while ago. "Un. Will you be free next Wednesday?"

"I'm free." He did not have to check on his schedule to know that he would be free for Hazel. Anyway, his main purpose to stay in B City was to accompany Hazel.

"Then, I will tell the girls to get ready and pick a place to have a meal."

Alex smiled before he helped to pick up a steamed bun and placed it on Hazel's plate.

Unbeknownst to them, someone from Hazel's class saw them together and had snapped a few pictures of the couple together.

…

After her class ended, Hazel went to find her professor in his office. She spent almost half an hour discussing her assignment and finally looked up with a smile on her face when she finally figured out what she was going to do next. Just as Hazel was about to pick up her books and leave, the professor called her name and Hazel stopped in her tracks.

"Professor Jiang, what's the matter?" Hazel asked. She studied the old man's face and saw the hesitation on his face. 

The Professor let out a dry cough before he looked at Hazel again. "Nothing. It was just that… I heard a few students discussing some rumors previously."

Hazel frowned and wondered what was the Professor trying to tell her. "What rumor?"

A heavy sigh escaped him. "Recently, the were rumors that said that you are dating others for money. Are you… on short of money?"

Her expression turned darker. Hazel had not thought that the people in the school gossip forum would be talking about her in the open to the point that even her Professor would hear about it. "Professor Jiang, is that what you thought of me?"

"Of course not." The Professor's expression turned serious. "Hazel, you are a good student who is very consistent in your study. I am only mentioning this because I am worried about you. Whoever you choose to fate is your own personal matter. However, I just hope that this matter will not be affecting your studies. This is your final year after all."

Hearing his explanation, Hazel began to calm down. She was afraid that her Professor would misunderstand her after hearing those rumors. "Professor Jiang, don't worry. There are reasons why rumors are called rumors. I am indeed in a relationship, but it was not as what the others said and I am not going to jeopardize my future because of this. I know that my studies are my top priorities."

Professor Jiang heaved a breath of relief as he listened to Hazel's explanation of her situation. "If that's the case, then don't worry. I will ask the school to investigate this for you and hopefully, they can stop the rumors from spreading around. Since this is clearly a libel, I will ask someone to investigate the matter and bring that person who slandered you to authorities."

Hazel flashed him a grateful smile. "Thank you, Professor Jiang."

After she left the office, Hazel took out her phone and began to check on that forum again. It seemed that there were thousands of more posts since the last time she had visited the forum. 

Hazel go through a few of those posts and laughed. In the recent posting, there were pictures of her alighting from Alex's AUDI and pictures of her in a fancy restaurant with Alex a few days ago. Her face was clearly shown, but Alex's face was pixelated. Then, the poster had claimed that she was dating someone way older than her because she needed money.

Under the posts, the number of people who wanted to slander her was more than those who wanted to defend her.

Then… someone dared to say that the only reason she befriended Eira was because of money. One part of the reason that Eira did not want to stay in the dorm was that she wanted to avoid Hazel as she was tired of being used.

Her expression darkened when Hazel saw that the poster had even dragged her friends into this matter.

After thinking about it for a while, Hazel checked at the time and decided to find her Eira. At this time, she was sure that Eira should be at the basketball court with her team.

When she arrived at the basketball court, Hazel saw that both Crystal and Michelle were seated at their usual spot. The two of them seemed to be in a deep discussion that they did not even notice her presence. Hazel walked closer and saw that her roommates were browsing through the forum. Noticing that the two were posting on the forum to defend her, Hazel felt her heart warmed.

Crystal was the first to look up. She noticed a shadow looming and was surprised to see that Hazel was standing behind her. She poked at Michelle on her waist and soon, the two girls were staring at Hazel with their eyes widened in surprise.

"Hazel… When did you get here?" Michelle asked.

Hazel glanced at the phone in their hands and a soft sigh escaped her. "You don't have to post anything under that rumors."

Both Michelle and Crystal hid their phone behind their back at the same time. However, Hazel had already seen what they were doing. Knowing that it was useless to hide things from Hazel, the two decided not to hide again.

"What are you going to do about this?" Michelle asked.

"Hazel, you cannot let those people go," Crystal said. "The last time, we decided to ignore this matter and thought that sooner or later, they were going to stop. But look at it now. This matter is getting worst. The gossips have accelerated to this point."

Hazel lowered her head. She could not think of anyone that she had offended. She could not understand why would people wanted to harm her like this.

"I talked to Professor Jiang earlier. He said that he will help me to look into this."

At this time, Eira walked over to the girls as her team was taking a break from practice. Seeing that her roommates were discussing something with a serious look on their faces, Eira had wanted to surprise them. Her gaze stopped at Crystal's phone screen and was surprised at what she had seen. 

"What the?" Eira grabbed the phone in Crystal's hand and started to go through the forum.. Her expression changed a few seconds later and a cursing word escaped her.

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