Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

177. The Candid Photos

Translator: timmy

“Girlfriend!” Girlfriend! Girlfriend!

Yan Chuyang watched numbly while the audience was clamouring. After a long time, he just realised to face the microphone and said jokingly, “Please be quiet. Thank you for your curiosity about me, but I’m still young. My mother said that I can’t have puppy love, so I don’t have a girlfriend and I can’t let her go on stage.”

“Hahaha…” The audience burst into laughter and everyone laughed at his words.

“If you are not talking about a girlfriend, then it should be a family member, right?” Lu Haolin suddenly raised his voice, “I heard that the father of Yan Chuyang passed away when he was five years old and his mother was also remarried!”

The noisy hall fell silent suddenly.

The boy’s smile instantly froze on his face and lips were pale.

Wei Yuan was also sitting in the audience. Hearing this, he stood up immediately and said to Lu Haolin, “Think before you speak! Don’t you understand what to say and what not to say?”

Wei Qing stared blankly at the boy standing stiff with pale face, not saying a word.

“I’m just stating the facts,” Lu Haolin shrugged his shoulders and smiled indifferently at Yan Chuyang. “What’s wrong? I can’t even tell the truth just because he won an award?”

“Of course,” Yan Chuyang snapped back from his daze and chuckled, “I have nothing to say if it is your habit to expose someone’s scars in public. I just think that your temperament is that of a shrew on the street.”

The tit-for-tat words made the entire hall quiet.

Wei Qing originally wanted to stand up, but when he heard Yan Chuyang’s retaliation, his tensed shoulders loosened, then sat back to lean in his chair.

After a moment of silence, Lu Haolin sneered, “Not family or girlfriend, then who is he? Is it a boyfriend?!”

“Lu Haolin!” Yan Chuyang interrupted him and yelled, “Be careful when you speak! You will be responsible for spreading rumors!”

Looking at the boy’s veins on the forehead, Lu Haolin was not in a hurry and said, “Why are you so excited? I just said a boyfriend. Who doesn’t have a male friend yet? What? Are you afraid of being found out you have a boyfriend?”

“You!”

“Alright,” the principal stood up and said with a frown, “This is the award ceremony, not a debate. If there’s something to fight between the two of you, do it when the ceremony is over. But now, don’t mention anything else that has nothing to do with the ceremony!”

“Principal,” Lu Haolin turned to him said loudly, “I’m going to say something about the award now. I don’t think Yan Chuyang is qualified to get this award today.”

There was an uproar in the audience, even greater than before.

“Quiet, quiet!” The principal personally went to the stage in order to control the scene, then the venue gradually quieted down.

“Lu Haolin,” the principal rumbled and frowned, “It’s already a frame-up if you don’t have any evidence. You’re legally responsible for your words.”

Lu Haolin raised eyebrows and said, “I certainly wouldn’t do it if I didn’t have proof!”

The principal’s face was ghastly pale as he was willing to believe Yan Chuyang. He had to let Lu Haolin bring out his so-called evidence in this situation, otherwise it couldn’t let public feel convinced that Yan Chuyang deserved the award. It would also made more students question about the fairness of the award.

Therefore, the principal finally said after thinking twice, “Alright, since you say you have proof, then show it and let everyone here judge this.”

Lu Haolin’s expression changed and smiled with satisfaction, “Okay.”

Yan Chuyang was scratched by that smile, but he was not very nervous. This prize was earned by his own efforts, so he took it with confidence and didn’t need to be guilty.

He wanted to see what evidence Lu Haolin could bring out.

Lu Haolin came down from his seat and walked to the podium.

“Mr. Yan,” Lu Haolin said to Yan Chuyang with a USB in his hand, “I have something to display on the screen. Can you please let me use the podium for a while?”

Yan Chuyang nodded and walked away from the podium.

Lu Haolin inserted the USB into laptop which was hidden under the speech table, then turned on the projector.

The projector flashed twice and a computer desktop was appeared.

Lu Haolin opened an encrypted folder in the USB. There were three or four photos in the folder. The photos could not be seen clearly because they hadn’t been enlarged yet.

Lu Haolin operated the mouse and looked at the audience. “Let me introduce them to everyone. These three or four photos were taken by me in mid-May, which is to say that they were taken more than ten days before the competition. I took these photos secretly after school. They are picutures of Yan Chuyang and an unknown male businessman.”

Then Lu Haolin sneered and clicked to enlarge the first picture.

Yan Chuyang was shocked and the whole body frozen.

The photo was taken when Wei Qing picked him up after school.

Yan Chuyang was carrying a schoolbag and opened the car door to get in. Wei Qing bowed his head and kissed Yan Chuyang. Yan Chuyang could be seen clearly because he was facing the camera, but Wei Qing was wearing sunglasses and it was still just a side view, so his appearance couldn’t be seen clearly.

“Wow—” Suddenly, everyone was shocked.

This was big news. No matter how the society developed, homosexuality was always a minority. It could not be accepted by most of the people.

It was a sensation undoubtedly to see a man kissing another man in a peaceful campus life.

Lu Haolin continued to flip down.

There were four photos, each of which was the same scene, and they should be taken in the same day.

In the first photo, Yan Chuyang opened the door and Wei Qing kissed his forehead.

The second one, Yan Chuyang entered the car and Wei Qing fastened seat belt for him.