Chapter 91: Unable to Lift His Head

No need to guess.

Shen Zhaoxi could tell at a glance that it was her.

She knew all too well who Mu Ting was.

Yet Mu Ting still believed she had hidden herself perfectly.

She thought no one would know she had posted it on the forum.

"Captain, something's wrong!"

On the training grounds, Lu Yunzhou suddenly heard Lu Fifteen's anxious voice.

Lu Fifteen hurried over, his face grim, worry written all over it.

"Miss Shen she..."

Lu Yunzhou's expression turned cold.

"What happened to her?"

Only then did Lu Yunzhou learn of what had happened on the university student forum.

Within the military base, many people had begun gossiping about Shen Zhaoxi.

They were saying that a female student from Capital University led a promiscuous, indecent private life, and that she had tangled affairs with different men, relationships that were murky and improper.

When Lu Yunzhou saw the post on the Capital University student forum, his eyes darkened.

"When did this happen?"

he asked in a low voice.

"Captain, I don't know. It seems it started last night, and the post quickly spread through the forum!"

Lu Fifteen was worried this would leave Miss Shen with a bad reputation.

After all, he had seen every move she made here.

Other than interacting with their captain, it was almost impossible for her to have any improper relationship with anyone else.

More importantly, he was the one who had brought Miss Shen here.

"Take the post down."

Lu Yunzhou ordered coldly.

"Yes, Captain!"

Lu Fifteen used some black technology.

He directly hacked the Capital University student forum post.

No trace of the post remained.

And those female students, worn out by the intensive training and looking for gossip to amuse themselves with on the forum, swiped their fingers several times but still could not find the post that had exploded in popularity.

"Huh? It was clearly still there last night."

"Exactly, I even commented on it. How did it just disappear?"

When they checked the account that had posted it,

the page showed it had been muted.

Violation suspected.

"What the hell? A violation?"

"Could the things said in the post be fake?"

"No idea."

More of them were just itching for gossip.

They did not know the full story.

They simply followed the crowd, drifting with the tide.

But the post disappearing, and the account that posted it being flagged for a violation, was something none of them had expected.

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Perhaps others did not know the forum post had been made by Mu Ting.

She had recently built up a very good relationship with that group of female students from Capital University.

So when some gossip about Shen Zhaoxi had accidentally reached her ears a few days earlier, Mu Ting seized the opportunity.

Pretending to be a new student in the Capital University training program, she used an anonymous account to post it on the forum.

She even attached that photo showing half of Shen Zhaoxi's face in profile.

She simply wanted someone to recognize the girl.

Then destroy Shen Zhaoxi's reputation.

One had to know that for a young female student, in an environment like a school, no matter how resolute her heart was, she would still be affected, condemned until she could not lift her head.

Because rumors were enough to erase humanity. Everyone would stand on the highest moral ground, and without seeing the whole truth, would follow the crowd and condemn a person.

By then, the one being condemned would have no face left to meet anyone.

She would be drowned out by the spittle of those around her.

She would die amid endless gossip, ceaseless slander, and a sea of abuse.

What Mu Ting wanted was exactly that: to make Shen Zhaoxi unable to lift her head.

To make her ashamed to show her face.

Hah, so she liked seducing men?

Then she would teach this girl something.

Some things could not be done at her age.

But in the afternoon, when Mu Ting was resting in the dormitory,

she suddenly opened her own post.

It was gone.

"What happened?"

Mu Ting's expression changed.

She suddenly grew anxious.

"Where is my post?"

It had been hacked.

A post that had only yesterday had over ten thousand likes had simply vanished from the forum.

And her account had also been restricted and punished for a violation.

Just as Mu Ting was staring at her tablet, increasingly flustered,

someone knocked on the dormitory door.

Then two young men in military uniforms appeared.

Their faces were stern as they looked at her.

It turned out Lu Yunzhou had found Mu Ting.

When she was brought before Lu Yunzhou, Mu Ting curved her lips, as if a faint thrill of revenge had already risen in her heart.

She looked at Lu Yunzhou with a cold laugh and said in a mocking tone,

"Well? Can't hold back so soon?"

"Mu Ting."

Lu Yunzhou's voice was icy.

"Don't forget that you are a soldier."

His face was frigid, as though he had no patience at all to indulge her in this verbal battle.

Mu Ting, as a member of the Tenth Military Region, even as a cultural soldier, still fell within the scope of a soldier.

"Lu Yunzhou."

With his cold gaze fixed on her, Mu Ting's eyes reddened, and she was deeply displeased.

"Don't you forget who saved you back then!"

She looked at him with a smile and said tearfully, "What right do you have to accuse me?"

"My brother was injured, and you caused me to lose my only family. What happened to my brother has everything to do with you."

"You think that because you've supported me through university all these years, and because even after graduation I wanted to join the army and you gave me a letter of recommendation, you can wash your hands of me, of my brother, and call it even?"

"I'll tell you now, that's impossible!"

Lu Yunzhou ought to live in pain forever.

Why should he get what he wanted?

Ha.

Lu Fifteen stood nearby, tense. After hearing Mu Ting say all this, he had no choice but to speak up.

"Miss Mu, you're hating the wrong person."

Mu Ting frowned and looked toward Lu Fifteen beside her, her tone mocking.

"What do you mean by that?"

Lu Fifteen's expression was grave. Looking at the girl who had lost all reason before him, he explained,

"Our captain is not your brother's comrade."

In other words, Mu Ting's brother had never saved Lu Yunzhou.

And from the moment Mu Ting learned that her brother had died during a mission,

until she graduated from university, it had always been Lu Yunzhou paying for her support, her studies, her books, and even her later work.

Mu Ting had believed that it was truly as she had guessed.

That Lu Yunzhou owed her brother.

That Lu Yunzhou had harmed him.

So Lu Yunzhou felt guilty, and wanted to make it up to her.

She had hated him for so many years.

All these years she had been working step by step within the military district, just to keep watch over him. She wanted him to be as unhappy as she was.

But now they were actually telling her that she had hated the wrong person?

Ha, Mu Ting gave a bitter laugh and shook her head.

"I don't believe it."

"You're lying to me!"

"You're definitely lying to me."

Lu Fifteen only felt that Mu Ting had gone mad.

Who would receive help and then still make such wild assumptions about others?

He said seriously, "Miss Mu, no one is lying to you. From beginning to end, all of this was just your own baseless speculation."

"And our captain's relationship with your brother was not just that of comrades. It crossed the hierarchy. He was your brother's superior officer."

It was precisely because of this that Lu Yunzhou had always treated everyone under him well.

Mu Feng had been injured during a mission, and the captain had even paid to look after his family.

But there had never been such a thing as the captain having harmed her brother.

"What did you say?"

After hearing this, Mu Ting smiled as she looked at Lu Yunzhou.

Lu Yunzhou and her brother were not comrades?

They were not in the same unit.

He was her brother's superior officer?

Lu Yunzhou wasn't part of the special forces?

He was the same as her brother.

He should have been his comrade.

Lu Yunzhou and her family were of the same background.

How could he be a superior officer?

No, impossible.

With reddened eyes, Mu Ting's tears burst forth.

She stared at Lu Fifteen, then turned to Lu Yunzhou.

It was as if she were standing in the midst of a tremendous shock, unable to bring herself to accept it.