CH 33

Chapter 33 – Retribution

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NJU’s BBS is very popular and the number of users is not low. This time someone reported news about Li Chuan and the gossipy female students were attracted to it. Even the teachers and heads of the university paid great attention to this explosive allegation post.

[T/N: BBS here should be the school or uni’s Bulletin Board Forum]

A post titled ‘Genius Doctoral Student Li Chuan’s Harassment of Minors’ had appeared on the NJU BBS homepage.

This post quickly attracted the attention of the students and someone named ‘Anonymous’ alleged it.

This anonymous person posted:

“Let’s break the news for everyone today. The 22-year-old Genius doctoral student of our school, Li Chuan, has a sordid personality and is known to often insult female students in public. Moreover, Li Chuan also has a peculiar obsession. He met a female student during the support teaching program and then used the pretext of tutoring the underage girl to harass her, duping and luring her into having a relationship with him, and even brainwashed the underage girl. Originally I didn’t want to report this, since it’s everyone’s freedom to fall in love but this girl is only in the first year of high school and Li Chuan could really put his hand on her. Li Chuan is also very conspicuous to have brought this year-one-high-school girl in and out of our school, to the cafeteria and get-a-room in the backstreet which is a common occurrence too.”

This post quickly drew attention. There were even many photos of Li Chuan and Su Qin having meals together in the cafeteria, and Su Qin’s face was clearly photographed.

It doesn’t matter if Li Chuan’s love object is an adult, at most, those girls who liked him would just cry privately and the matter would be over. But his lady love is actually a minor? Still a year-one-high-school student? Even took the little girl to get-a-room? Isn’t this too much? ? ?

The discussion on BBS was very lively. In less than an hour, there were already hundreds of threads. There were a jumble of good and bad in this forum. This was supposed to be the campus forum, but in actuality there were also people of the community.

“If I were a senior-high-school student, I would actually feel very happy to have such a big brother boyfriend. But looking from the adult’s point of view, I feel that Li Chuan has gone too far in this matter. As an adult, he took advantage of the senior-high-school girl’s naivety and the little girl’s ignorance of yearning for beautiful things; this is too terrifying.”

“Yes ah, even if the girl is interested in him, as an adult, shouldn’t he have a sense of propriety? He actually took the girl to get-a-room? My God, I instantly felt that this ‘Genius’ is very scary, somewhat with the potential of being a perverted murderer.”

“En … aside from ethics, he’s indeed a little perverted. Is it possible to satisfy his vanity by looking for a senior-high-school girlfriend? If that’s the case, it’s fine. But taking a child to get-a-room is really too much. I always thought Li Chuan doesn’t care about mundane affairs, but only now that I know he is a pervert. A year-one-high-school student is only 15 years old? The above thread-writer, please tell me which school this girl is from, and save this girl!”

“Looking at this gossip, I think Li Chuan is so perverted. Our dormitory still regards him as Mr. Perfect. He has a really gilded exterior but foul within and totally rotten inside. 555555 … “

[T/N: 55555 – internet slang represents ‘wuwuwu’ the sound of tearful crying]

“He is a genius and handsome enough, except where in this world is the perfect person? Okay, okay, everybody disperse. The Genius likes underage girls and he has a peculiar obsession, what’s that have to do with you all? Why are you all making a fuss here? I think you group of girls are simply unbearable and too busy gossiping all day long, and I think this post is also made up, saw people go get-a-room? Where is the evidence? Which room did he get?”

“Hey, thread-writer above, are you Li Chuan himself? Otherwise it’s his schoolmate.”

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In the post, the squabbles were overwhelming.

After staying up all night working, Li Chuan was lying in the office resting. While he was sleeping soundly, Panda rushed through the door and yelled, “Boss, it’s not good.”

Li Chuan’s mind was slightly muddled as he rubbed his glabella and opened his eyes. Sizing Panda who rushed into his office sluggishly, “Huh?”

Panda came in with his laptop and placed it on the table in front of him, then pointed at the screen and said, “Someone scolded you, saying you are a pervert who go get-a-room with a minor.”

Li Chuan took the laptop and roughly scanned over it. The vicious speculations and malicious discourses on it were disgusting.

“Should we hack this post?” Panda asked him.

Li Chuan waved his hand, “Do something for me.”

He behaved very calmly without ripples on his expression at all. But the calmer he was, the more terrifying Panda felt and thought this person was going to plan a big move.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Panda asked, “Bo … Boss, what do you intend to let me do?”

After coming out of the backstreet, Su Qin asked Li Xian to help find out what happened in order to figure out the situation.

Li Xian pulled a schoolmate to inquire and told her when he came back, “The students of our school posted on BBS. Do you know Li Chuan?”

“Huh?”

“There’s an internet cafe right in front. Let’s go. I’ll go take a look with you.”

Su Qin nodded and followed the man into the internet cafe. Li Xian logged into BBS and as soon as he entered the page, he saw the slanderous post on the top.

Li Xian browsed through one by one and then looked at Su Qin to compare the photos.

The girl in the photo had a long ponytail and very fair skin. While Su Qin’s hair is ear-length short with tanned skin and looks more mature than the girl in the photo too.

Other than that, they were really identical.

Li Xian asked her, “Is this … your twin sister?”

It can’t be the same person, right? Otherwise, how to explain one with long hair while the other’s short hair, one looks young and the other is mature, while one with fair skin and the other is tanned?

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Su Qin rotated the mouse without uttering a word and just scrolled down to browse page after page. Her brows creased more intensely and she could even guess who posted this.

The mention of ‘female student met during support teaching program’, besides Lin Xiaoyin, who else would it be?

She originally thought after being insulted by Li Chuan last time, this girl could completely stop having ideas about him, but she didn’t expect she (LXY) would actually use this method to attack a doctoral student out of hatred for unrequited love. Not to mention whether this post will reach her school, but it has already caused a sensation merely in NJU campus and also a big impact on Li Chuan.

Su Qin asked Li Xian, “This post, besides affecting his reputation, will it impact his graduation?”

Li Xian, after all, is a graduate of NJU and still knows the school regulations quite well. He nodded and said, “Yes. Their doctoral students do research and projects every day. If this is true, the doctoral supervisor will certainly consider handing important projects over to others. The impact is still quite huge. But the year-one-high-school student … get-a-room this sort of thing … depends on how old she is. If she is under 14 years old, it’s against the law and he will go to jail.”

“ ….. The first photo and the content are all made up. Do you all really believe this kind of nonsense allegation? Are you really a top student?” Su Qin was almost retarded with anger by this group of NJU students.

Su Qin got the contact details of the NJU’s heads from Li Xian and sent an email to them with a parental tone.

“Hello, I’m the mother of the girl in your school’s BBS post ‘Genius Doctoral Student Li Chuan’s Harassment of Minors’. The explosive allegations of the anonymous person in your prestigious school are not true and have seriously harmed my daughter. Teacher Li was a volunteer teacher in Dashan, who saved my daughter and sympathized with my daughter’s circumstances after returning to Yunyang City. He helped her make up for her missed lessons and assisted her to get into Yunyang High School.

There is, after all, merely a six-year age gap between Teacher Li and my daughter. During the tutoring period, he is very careful about the sense of propriety. Worrying about the neighbors’ gossip, he tutors in public places, such as your school’s library, laboratory etc. You and your prestigious students will know about these after a little inquiry.

Teacher Li tutoring my daughter despite his busy schedule was an act of public service and out of kindness, yet was distorted as such by the students of your school which really saddened me. I hope you will handle this incident appropriately and minimize the damage done to my daughter, and to thoroughly investigate and severely punish the anonymous person who posted this.”

After sending this email, Su Qin roughly told her mother what had happened and asked her to go to NJU tomorrow to exert pressure on the university heads.

Seeing those rumor posts on the internet, Wang Lin slammed the table with anger, “These people are too much. They actually slandered Teacher Li. Teacher Li is such a good person ah? This person is really black-hearted.”

“Oh right.” Su Qin took a hundred yuan from under the pillow and stuffed it to her mother, “I will call the newspaper reporter tomorrow. When you go to NJU, stop by the advertising company across the street to make a banner to send to Teacher Li. A commendation to praise Teacher Li’s act of public service and also to thank Teacher Li for rescuing us from Dashan, so that all the NJU students know that Teacher Li saved a few of our girls. Also, my name can be mentioned, but not Sisi and Wen Mei’s name. If the reporter interviews you, you just bring up again that Lin Xiaoyin was also one of the rescued girls.”

Wang Lin was puzzled, “Why mention Lin … what Yin?”

“Lin Xiaoyin, a student of NJU, one of the support teachers.”

Although she didn’t understand why it was important to mention ‘Lin Xiaoyin’, in Wang Lin’s mind, Su Qin is already a big girl and has her own resolution. Even if she asked something clearly, she might not be able to understand, so she simply didn’t ask.

Early the next morning, Wang Lin took the banner to NJU and stormed into the university head’s office. When she arrived, the reporter of [Southern Weekly] had arrived too and the two of them walked into the head’s office together.

The director who received them was surnamed Zhao.

Director Zhao asked the reporter and Wang Lin to sit down then respectively made them cups of tea.

The reporter had done his homework before he came. He had learned that the ‘Heroic Support Teacher’ had been deliberately slandered on the campus’ BBS. Moreover, this heroic support teacher was even the top high-school student who made headlines in Yunyang and a genius. Feeling there was sensational news, he came to NJU for an interview.

Director Zhao has also paid attention to the post these days and instructed the teachers to check the matter. He had indeed found out that Li Chuan often brought the little girl in and out of campus.

Director Zhao was about to ‘warn’ Li Chuan to restrain his behavior when he received Su Qin’s email.

After reading the email, Director Zhao fell into silence. He was thinking about how to deal with this matter when the reporter and the girl’s mother came looking for him.

This matter has obviously become a big deal.

The reporter asked Wang Lin, “Mdm. Wang, have you read the BBS posts? As such, have you ever suspected the relationship between your daughter and Li Chuan?”

Wang Lin herself is not good with words. She, after all, has been a housewife for many years. Su Qin had taught her a lot last night and she took them all to heart. Facing the reporter at this moment, she sat upright and said:

“My daughter has a pure relationship with Teacher Li at present. The two of them are just a teacher-student relationship. Teacher Li is a good person and my daughter is already 16 years old. Even if she worships Teacher Li, it is a normal matter too. But what those people said on the internet are just beyond reasonable. They said Teacher Li took her to a hotel for the night, that he is a pervert? This sort of thing is purely non-existent. I know my daughter and I also know that my daughter has never spent the night out.”

The reporter also added, “Then if your daughter is really in love with Li Chuan, will you oppose?”

Wang Lin, “My daughter is already 16 years old and has her own mind, she will also tell me if she has any opinions. If she really has that idea about Teacher Li, I will guide her to study hard first and if she really likes him, then it’s not too late to go steady after getting into the university. I am here now merely to ask the school to do justice to Teacher Li. As a parent, I really can’t bear to see such a good child being slandered like this. When Teacher Li rescued four girls from Dashan at that time, my daughter is one of them and another is also a student from your school, called …. Lin Xiaoyin, right Lin Xiaoyin. It’s okay even if your school doesn’t praise this kind of hero, but to actually let others start such a rumor and be slandered.”

The more Wang Lin spoke, the angrier she became and the reporter felt infuriated too listening to her.

Director Zhao frowned severely and spoke comfortingly to Wang Lin, “Mdm Wang, you can be rest assured that our school will investigate this matter thoroughly. The post will be deleted as soon as possible to give justice to Student Li Chuan. The banner you delivered will be handed over to Student Li Chuan.”

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After sending the reporter and Wang Lin away, Director Zhao was considering how to investigate this matter when a teacher knocked on the office door.

Looking at the teacher who knocked on the door, Director Zhao asked, “Teacher Zhang, what’s the matter?”

Teacher Zhang, who still had his laptop in his hand, pointed to the computer and said, “The anonymous person who started and posted the rumor has been found. Director Zhao, you must take a look at this matter, it’s simply a disgrace to our school’s reputation!”

Director Zhao beckoned to Teacher Zhang to bring the laptop over and frowned more severely as he browsed through one after another explosive post.

Teacher Zhang punched the palm of his hand and said, “This ‘Plastic Surgery Toad Girl’ is our school post graduate student. She has bad influential behavior and must be expelled!”

The campus’ BBS had been hacked and a sentence hovered at the top ads banner: Panda Warrior slay and eliminate the evil, reporting two to three despicable matters of the Female Toad Monster.

The top post [Genius Doctoral Student Li Chuan’s Harassment of Minors] became [Plastic Surgery Toad Girl Requited Kindness with Enmity].

The content was very simple. It roughly talked about Lin Xiaoyin being ‘abducted’ in Dashan and then saved by Li Chuan. Then this ‘Panda Warrior’ hacked into Lin Xiaoyin’s computer, exposing the evidence of her allegations and found many secretly photographs of Li Chuan from her computer, which amounted to thousands and comparable to a perverted stalker.

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Below were a few forum threads:

[Plastic Surgery Toad Girl’s high-profile pursuit of the school grass, yet get-a-room with 4 different men in a week]

It’s normal for adults to have needs, but it’s outrageous for her to still pursue Li Chuan in a high-profile manner while get-a-room with others and even posted slanders and requited kindness with enmity.

Panda Warrior hacked Lin Xiaoyin’s computer and exposed all the evidence he could find.

The school forum was hacked and one stone stirred up a thousand waves. Those students who had previously scolded ‘Li Chuan as pervert’ were now getting slaps in the face. They looked at the evidence exposed online and couldn’t react for a long time.