Chapter 264: Why So Stern?
Li Hao sneered dismissively. “If it weren’t for those screenshots posted online at our school’s website, I wouldn’t believe a girl could actually mess with thirty-eight guys like a puppet master.”
“The screenshots are all mosaicked out, even if you have a grudge against Shen Meng Jie, you can’t possibly claim she’s messing with thirty-eight people, right?”
“Ha! You say I’m bluffing? Those mosaics are for all you folks who don’t understand a thing,” Li Hao retorted, then shot a glance at Dragon Brother.
Maybe it was because of Dragon Brother’s previous antics that Li Hao’s impression of him wasn’t as bad as he’d imagined.
He then warned, “I suggest you stay as far away from her as possible. Thirty-eight isn’t her limit. Give her some more time, and it’s not just thirty-eight, maybe fifty-eight, sixty-eight, a hundred and eight! You can’t beat a woman like that…”
For some reason.
Hearing Li Hao talk about himself this way, Shen Meng Jie immediately wanted to start rebutting.
Before she could open her mouth, Dragon Brother stopped her.
Watching Li Hao’s figure walking away, Shen Meng Jie, feeling a bit resentful, asked, “What do I do? He doesn’t want to help me at all.”
“It’s okay,” Dragon Brother’s voice lowered slightly. “I think I might have a clue.”
Hearing this, Shen Meng Jie was momentarily stunned, then her excitement started bubbling up.
But before she could get too happy, Dragon Brother bonked her on the head.
“Why?” she asked, rubbing her head.
Seeing his serious expression, Shen Meng Jie pouted with a bit of grievance, “Why so serious?”
Dragon Brother ignored her and turned his gaze to Han Xiao Jing and the others, smiling as he said, “Let’s head back first.”
Huang Fei came over to him. “Old Ao, so you’re just gonna have us come back? Fine, I’ll pay for some people to help. I don’t believe those computer geniuses can’t be bought with money.”
Dragon Brother patted Huang Fei’s shoulder. “Let’s go back first.”
Looking into his eyes, Huang Fei felt a twinge of unwillingness but nodded nonetheless.
He trusted his brothers, just like they trusted him.
Shen Meng Jie glared furiously at Dragon Brother, then shook her tiny fist at his back, vigorously pointing at him in the air.
It felt like if she could beat Dragon Brother, she’d definitely rush up and give him two good punches—bang bang!
But in reality, she couldn’t beat him. Even if she dared to rush, she’d probably end up the one getting double-punched.
Back in the dorm.
Huang Fei couldn’t hold back. “Old Ao, why did you bring us back?”
Dragon Brother gestured for them all to sit down.
Then he asked, “Do you remember what Li Hao said?”
The three looked at each other, clueless about what Dragon Brother was getting at.
“Come on, Old Ao, just tell us if you know something.”
“Yeah, if you want us to rush into something, we’re all pretty good at that. If you want us to think, then you’re obviously just trying to mess with us, right?”
Huang Fei stayed silent. He didn’t quite understand Dragon Brother’s point, but he knew once he asked, Dragon Brother would explain.
And he didn’t keep them waiting. “Li Hao said Shen Meng Jie was messing with thirty-eight men online, spinning them around like tops. You probably remember that, right?”
The three nodded, having some impression.
Seeing them nod, Dragon Brother continued, “Did you catch the main point from that?”
With that hint, the three suddenly got it at once, simultaneously saying, “Thirty-eight men spinning around!”
“So, the screenshots posted are made up of thirty-eight people. Because of the mosaics that hide the info, neither we nor Shen Meng Jie can tell who’s who…”
“I think I’m starting to understand,” Huang Fei looked at Dragon Brother. “The campus internet post?”
“Exactly,” Dragon Brother nodded. “All the chat logs of thirty-eight people were compiled and leaked. But that doesn’t match the part of the post saying ‘a cunning fox seducing someone’s boyfriend…’”
“It’s more like someone is deliberately trying to destroy Shen Meng Jie…”
“In other words, who exactly could precisely access Shen Meng Jie’s phone and get those chat logs, then compile them?”
Hearing this, the three looked at each other with shock.
After a long pause.
Xu Shuai slowly raised his hand. “I can guarantee it’s definitely not me or my Li Juan.”
He said this because, in Shen Meng Jie’s dorm, besides her, the most lively one was Wang Li Juan. Han Xiao Jing and Zhang Meng Meng—
One is calm and Zen-like, not fighting or fussing.
The other is shy—sometimes even blushing when talking to the opposite s*x.
“Or maybe there’s another possibility—that someone is pursuing Shen Meng Jie, and she actually agreed to meet up.”
“But Shen Meng Jie just wanted to play around, and the guy chasing her got serious,” Li Long Long guessed his own theory.
“I’ve thought of that too, but the conclusion is unrealistic,” Dragon Brother said, extending a finger.
“Shen Meng Jie isn’t stupid. Otherwise, she wouldn’t keep three dozen fishes alive. So, grabbing the chat logs of thirty-eight people all at once—that’s a huge workload.”
“Those thirty-eight could be from our department, or from others. Finding someone isn’t easy, not to mention ensuring they have the chat screenshots.”
“We already have a prime example right next to us,” Dragon Brother said, and the three’s eyes turned toward Huang Fei.
Li Long Long finally understood Dragon Brother’s reasoning. “So, if he’s trying to find someone one by one, he’d definitely come to Huang Fei, wanting him to provide chat screenshots. But in reality, no one’s asked Huang Fei for that.”
Huang Fei slouched in his chair. “So, it’s really someone out there—trying to deliberately ruin Shen Meng Jie. And that person must be in her dorm.”
“Because only in the same dorm can you access Shen Meng Jie’s phone, and control the chat screenshots of all thirty-seven of us—including me…”
“You’ve deduced this much, but you can’t just confront Shen Meng Jie directly with it, right? So that’s why you called us back?”
Dragon Brother took a deep breath. “I think you should tell Shen Meng Jie this. If she doesn’t believe it, you can teach her how to check herself…”
