Chapter 117 - The Fake Joy

Shen Youlin was in a daze as she watched You Youxin stepping away and going back to sit on the couch. She could hear You Youxin humming some song that made her mind more messed up.

'I promise that I'll never go back there.' She had said to Mo Roulan.

A single tear rolled down from her eye. She had already broken one promise.

Did it matter if she broke another one?

She thought while looking at the powder that You Youxin was lining on the round table.

Her thoughts were interrupted when You Youxin raised her head to look at her again said 

"What are you still doing here? Just leave…tsk…I pity that poor girl now. She didn't do anything wrong this time but still, she will be suspended from the college.. You know, why Youlin?"

She asked Shen Youlin with raised eyebrows.

Shen Youlin was so distracted by everything that she could hear You Youxin but couldn't think of anything herself. 

How could she think when she was fighting with her own self? When she was torn about what side she should choose…

However, You Youixn's next words ended this fight.

"She is suffering so much because she has you on her side, Youlin."

You Youxin's words hit hard Shen Youlin.

Her mouth was parted as she shook her head and her eyes become teary.

"No…"

She whispered trying to reason with herself but You Youxin insisted in a loud voice.

"Yes, you are the reason."

Tears fell down from Shen Youlin and You Youxin stood up from the couch again. She walked to Shen Youlin hurriedly and held her shoulders tightly looking into her eyes.

"Youlin…people like us …we don't belong with them."

As she continued, tears from You Youxin's own eyes fell down.

They have aspirations, hope …. a reason for a smile, a reason to wake up the next day….we ….we have nothing."

Her every word was hitting Shen  Youlin' sore spot.

Shen Youlin suddenly wished to close her ears so that she wouldn't hear anything else.

But You Youxin hugged Shen Youlin's shoulder and made her walk to the couch.

"Youlin…you and me…we are same. I'll never leave you. We will go back to where we were."

Saying this, she handed a straw in Shen Youlin's hand and made her sit down on the couch.

"Just do it once with me and I will give you the evidence. Then you can go and save her."

Shen Youlin was so brainwashed until this moment that she looked at You Youxin in a daze and asked like a child

"Really?"

You Youxin nodded her head with a bright smile and said firmly

"Yes."

Somehow her bright smile made Shen Youlin remember Mo Roulan and the hand holding the straw pipe trembled, for a moment.

But when her gaze fell on the white powder on the table she gulped and her trembling stopped.

In a daze, she leaned down and then snorted the whole line of powder into her nasal cavity.

"Ah…"

Finished, she leaned back on the couch.

Everything around her seemed blur but it felt good. A silly smile lingered on her lips.

"Youlin…"

In front of her blurry eyes, she suddenly saw a gentle but strong figure.

"Roulan."

"Youlin…I like you."

Shen Youlin smiled widely and whispered

"I like you too."

With that, she leaned down again only to pick up the straw pipe and inhaled another line of powder spread on the table.

Lost in her fake joy, she didn't notice You Youxin making her videos and clicking her photos as she drugged with a vicious smile on her lips.

You Youxin had just finished clicking a new photo. She took Shen Youlin's phone. Since she already knew the password she easily unlocked it and found Mo Roulan's number.

A few moments later, she threw Shen Youlin's phone aside and then chuckled to herself.

The phone in her hand started to vibrate and an unknown number flashed on the screen of the phone.

She seemed to have recognized the number and frowned with displeasure.

She glanced at Shen Youlin who didn't seem to look in the state of running away and exited the room.

Outside the room, she slid the screen and answered the call. A soon as the call connected, she started rather very harshly

"What the hell is your problem? When I have already told you that my man will tamper the surveillance video tomorrow then why are you calling me again and again… I have already paid you so just go your way and leave me alone."

Saying this, she was about to end the call when the person on the other side of the call said suddenly.

"Stop please don't hang up.…I called you to tell you something important."

You Youxin was still frowning but she didn't hang up, instead of waiting for what the other side had to tell.

"They …they are going to check the surveillance video right now. Professor Dong called me. Principal Lin has called the whole staff. You said your man will delete the video tomorrow…can you ask him to do it right now?"

There was desperateness in the voice on the other side of the phone.

However, the person's question remained unanswered because You Youxin mercilessly hung up the phone.

Standing outside the room, You Youxin wiped her sweaty face with her hands.

"What should I do now?"

She opened the door lightly and sighed when she saw that Shen Youlin was still sitting on the couch while laughing madly.

She sighed and thought something for a few moments.

A minute later, she threw her phone on the floor and jumped on it. Taking the card out, she broke it many pieces. 

'Hmph…since she was already done with her work, what is the need of taking care of few fools now?'

Thinking this, You Youxin was about to open the door and get inside when she saw a waiter running towards her.

"Miss You, Mr. You is coming to check the bar in a few minutes."

You Youxin's face paled and she shouted

"What?"

She looked here and there and then ran inside her room.

Shen Youlin was doing something silly but she ignored her. She just picked her purse and exited the room. After that, she locked the door and instructed the waiter to not open the door for anyone and tell her father that this room was reserved by someone for tonight.

In the next two minutes, You Youxin left the bar leaving Shen Youlin locked inside the room.

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At the same time in the college, Professor Dong was pacing here from there inside the room.

He took out his phone and called the number again, he had already called many times. When the call connected, he asked very harshly

"What are you doing? You have told me that everything would be the same. Listen to me carefully, if I was trapped then I will put all the blame on you. I should not have trusted you in the first place. All the students studying on scholarship are like this. I just don't understand why the colleges even provide scholarships."

The girl on the other side of the phone has red eyes because of the anger. Her hands were balled in a fist.

From the first day, since she has involved Professor Dong in her plan, she has only heard this kind of torturous comments from Professor Dong.

Although she was poor, she didn't deserve to hear it.

But she heard everything silently.

However, today she was already in a bad mood.

Now Professor Dong was just fueling her anger by threatening her.

If Mo Roulan had seen her, then she would have recognized this girl. Because she was the same student who had said that she had seen Mo Roulan cheating.

After finishing his words, Professor Dong hung up the call and sat down on the bed while clutching his head. 

The next moment, the door of the room opened suddenly and a peon stepped inside.

"Sir, Principal Sir is calling you in his office."

Professor Dong looked scared as he wiped his red face and stood up from the bed.

"Alright, you leave. I'll come in a moment."

"Okay, Sir."

The peon left and Professor Dong bit his lips for a few moments.

Five minutes later, he finally stepped out of the room and went inside Principal Lin's office.

Everyone was sitting around the long round table. A member of the working staff was standing in the front ready to play the surveillance video any moment.

Professor Dong stepped forward and then suddenly looked back at the peon.

"Bring a glass of water for me."

"Yes, Sir."

The peon came in a minute with a glass of water in his hands. Everyone patiently waited for Professor Dong taking into account his bad health.

As professor Dong walked forward around the round table towards the teachers' seats, his body suddenly tilted and the glass of water fell down from his hands on his left side …where the setup for the surveillance video was kept.