Sweetie, don't look at him, kiss me.

Upon arriving at the fresh produce market, Lin Qingmian did not contact Bai Cheng as she had done last time to try and guess Ji Linzhou's preferences.

She bought a whole bunch of her favorite ingredients.

After arriving home, she spent almost two hours in the kitchen making three dishes and a soup.

After setting the food on the table, it was already 7 p.m.

At this time, Ji Linzhou should have already left work.

The apartment building's main entrance and the elevator outside were both quiet, with no sign of anyone coming back.

She opened Ji Linzhou's message, her finger lingered on the screen for a long time, but finally chose to put her phone down.

Just then, Jiang Yao called.

"Mianmian."

The woman's voice on the other end of the phone sounded anxious: "I came to the hospital to take care of my mother after get off work, and I only just had time to pick up my phone."

"Have you seen the news online? You... seem to be being cyberbullied."

"Cyberbullying?"

Lin Qingmian paused for a moment, then picked up the tablet from the coffee table, frowning as she asked, "What's going on?"

After returning from the Lin family's house at noon, I received a message from Fang Shiyang. She had been busy drawing drafts for the collaboration with Chenhunxian. After finishing the drawings, she went to the mall to buy groceries and then cooked dinner...

I was so busy that I had no idea what was happening online.

Jiang Yao sighed: "This afternoon... your mother came to the school and beat you, right?"

Lin Qingmian's breathing paused slightly for a moment: "Mmm."

"The video of her hitting you was filmed and posted online."

Jiang Yao paused, a hint of helplessness in her voice: "In those videos uploaded online, the person filming was very far away from you and Ms. Zhang, and it was impossible to hear what you were saying in the videos, so many people started to speculate and make connections..."

"Some people have even speculated, based on your genders and ages, that Ms. Zhang is the legal wife and you are the mistress..."

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The vein on Lin Qingmian's forehead throbbed.

She put her phone on speakerphone, leaned back on the sofa, and scrolled through the barrage of insults directed at her on her tablet. She couldn't help but smile bitterly: "If only Ms. Zhang had been as tough on me when dealing with Lin Jianzhong's mistress."

Two years ago, the Lin family went bankrupt because Lin Jianzhong's mistress ran away with confidential documents from the Lin Group.

At that time, Zhang Yuzhu did not blame Lin Jianzhong at all, but instead directed her anger at her good-for-nothing daughter, Lin Qingmian.

"If you had stayed with Ji Xingye and earned his acceptance as your daughter-in-law, would our Lin family have ended up like this?"

"I raised you all these years, treating you like a princess, hoping you would become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ji family. And what happened?"

"You good-for-nothing, you can't even control a man!"

That day, Zhang Yuzhu slapped her more than a dozen times.

Lin Qingmian, dizzy from the beating, looked at her with a wry smile: "I can't control my man, have you managed to control yours?"

Zhang Yuzhu's face turned even uglier.

Teacups, ashtrays, even trash cans in the living room... everything she could pick up, she smashed onto Lin Qingmian.

Blood flowing from her forehead obscured half of her eyelids. Through the bright red blood, Lin Qingmian could clearly see Lin Qingqing sitting on the opposite sofa, legs crossed, eating ice cream, and Lin Jianzhong smoking with his back to her in the distance.

That was also the first time Lin Qingmian clearly saw just how hypocritical and cold-blooded these family members who always claimed to "love her" really were.

"besides."

Jiang Yao's voice continued: "Many of your classmates have dug up stories about how you live a frugal life but are occasionally picked up in luxury cars, which indirectly proves that you are being kept by a rich man..."

Lin Qingmian frowned and opened the campus forum.

Opening the campus forum, all the popular posts were about her—

The mistress deserves to die!

This kind of person is completely ruining the school's atmosphere.

[One person wrote a petition in blood urging the school to expel her!]

……

"They used really nasty language."

Jiang Yao sighed: "Especially the people at your school, they said they thought you were a cool and aloof beauty and a top student because you usually seemed cold to them, but they never expected you to be a kept woman by a rich man..."

At this point, Jiang Yao paused for a moment: "Mianmian, are you planning to clarify?"

"How do we clarify this?"

Lin Qingmian clicked on the posts, looking at everyone's malicious speculations and slander against her, her face expressionless: "Tell everyone, this rude woman who beat me up at school is my biological mother?"

How many people would be willing to believe that?

"Moreover, these people probably won't let me off the hook after they find out about my family situation."

"They might try to find out why I fell out with my family and cut ties, and dig up my past experiences..."

She paused for a moment, then gave a bitter smile: "In the end, all my wounds will be laid bare and exposed to the public online."

Jiang Yao remained silent on the other end of the phone.

After a long while, she lowered her voice and said, "But Mianmian, I'm afraid they'll really cause trouble at the school and affect your studies."

"If that day ever comes, I will explain it clearly to the school leaders."

Lin Qingmian let out a long sigh of relief, frowned, and was about to close the forum when she saw the posts on the forum that were making malicious speculations about her disappearing one by one at a visible speed.

Meanwhile, a post from the school's official account was pinned to the top of the forum.

The content is: [Reject false rumors and build a harmonious campus!]

The post was strongly worded and included a stamped statement.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated that it was related to Lin Qingmian, everyone understood the implication.

"Mianmian!"

Just then, Jiang Yao's excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "It seems someone has taken action against those defamatory comments about you online!"

"I saw on Weibo that many messages disappeared in an instant!"

"Is it Ji Linzhou?"

Lin Qingmian pursed her lips, her heart inexplicably skipping a beat: "It should be him."

The person who could mobilize such a large amount of resources for her, dealing with online rumors while also getting the school to speak out on her behalf...

The only person she could think of was Ji Linzhou.

"Then he's quite a responsible husband!"

Jiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief: "I won't bother you anymore. You should quickly call your husband and thank him properly!"

Lin Qingmian also felt that she should thank him properly.

She found Ji Linzhou's number and was about to dial it when her phone vibrated.

It was a notification that Su Tingwan had sent just one second ago.

Lin Qingmian clicked on it casually.

Su Tingwan posted a photo.

The photo shows a table in a high-end restaurant, with red wine and steak on the table, and candlesticks to create an atmosphere.

The camera captured the hand of the man sitting opposite her.

A black bespoke suit, cuffs adorned with diamond cufflinks, a well-defined wrist, and a globally limited edition luxury watch on the wrist.

Last night, that hand was still holding her, so tightly that it almost imprinted its palm print on her waist.

The edge of the watch was digging into her skin, so she had to take it off for him herself.

Su Tingwan captioned the photo with a playful emoji: [After queuing for three hours, I finally got to eat! Thank you, Mr. Ji, for accompanying me!]