The news of He Li's return to school spread quickly.
"Tian Ling, did you hear? He Li is back!" Chen Baozhu brought it up casually during the break.
Sun Shumin gave Chen Baozhu a sidelong glance, as if waiting for the drama.
Tian Ling's face turned ugly. "Oh. Is that so... That's good for him."
"Heh. Why don't you go see him?" Sun Shumin said with a sweet smile.
"Why would I go see him..." Tian Ling muttered. "Baozhu, didn't you just buy a new endorsement? Send me the payment screenshot."
"Sure, if you sell me that bracelet you got recently." Chen Baozhu twirled a strand of hair around her finger, her bright, delicate face looking haughty.
"That bracelet, I bought it secondhand. It wouldn't be fun to resell it. Besides, Baozhu, you never liked secondhand things. Why don't you wait for the store to restock?" Tian Ling pulled down her school uniform sleeve, hiding the beaded star bracelet on her wrist.
Ever since she got the bracelet and couldn't resist showing it off, the atmosphere in their trio had become a bit awkward.
"It's been out of stock for half a year. You're so lucky to have gotten your hands on a sold-out item. I'm really curious where you bought that secondhand bracelet..." Chen Baozhu said jealously, glancing at Tian Ling's wrist.
Suddenly, a female classmate nearby gasped while holding her phone.
"Oh my god, everyone look! The top trending topic on Weibo! Wei Yun's relationship has been exposed!"
Tian Ling was stunned. "What are you talking about? That's impossible!"
"I'm not lying. Tian Ling, see for yourself." The classmate wailed. "Oh my god, how can this be!"
Tian Ling quickly looked down to check the trending topic.
Chen Baozhu was also shocked and hurriedly took out her phone.
Weibo had broken a scandal about Wei Yun's love life in the entertainment industry: #WeiYun'sRelationshipWithMysteryWomanExposed# A netizen revealed a photo of @WeiYun intimately linking arms with a mysterious woman, suspected to be a relationship. The woman is rumored to be the daughter of a famous wealthy businessman. XX Entertainment tried to verify with Wei Yun's staff, but they hung up. No response yet!
This incident was like a thunderbolt, shocking many of Wei Yun's fans at A City High School. Wherever Su Baixue went, she heard people talking about Wei Yun at school, which inevitably reminded her of the night she saved Wei Yun on Christmas Eve.
The most heated discussions came from the small group behind Su Baixue's seat—Tian Ling's group.
"No wonder my brother's schedule has been a bit off lately..." Chen Baozhu said unhappily.
Tian Ling was furious, her voice several pitches higher than usual. "I bet these photos are Photoshopped. I believe in my brother. As for this woman in the photo, the internet says she's a wealthy businessman's daughter, probably about to debut. Who knows what backwater nobody she is, trying to latch onto my brother and suck his traffic dry!"
"What are the girls talking about? What's the riddle?" Qi Ji had been quiet when he left the classroom, but when he returned and heard the cries of shock and wailing all around, he asked his deskmate blankly.
His deskmate shrugged and rolled his eyes.
"What else? A handsome guy. None of our business."
Qi Ji glanced at Su Baixue.
Seeing her sitting upright, seemingly studying intently, not chattering like the other girls, he lost interest. He settled down and took out a practice workbook to summarize.
However, Su Baixue, though appearing to write problems, was actually eavesdropping on the discussion behind her.
She was curious!
She was really curious!
Because of saving Wei Yun, her grandma and she had signed a confidentiality agreement with his agent. Although Su Baixue didn't know that her grandma had also asked for an additional confidentiality fee on her behalf, after that night, her curiosity about Wei Yun was far greater than before.
Even though an inexplicable sense of disgust lingered, she couldn't suppress her curiosity.
What had happened on Christmas Day shattered many of Su Baixue's preconceptions about celebrities. The seemingly untouchable star could be so helpless and pathetic—no security guards surrounding him, even lying by a stinking trash can.
So glamorous, with such status and position—what had happened to make him injured?
Injuries like Wei Yun's should still be in recovery, but Su Baixue noticed that even Tian Ling hadn't found out about his injury. And during those days at the hospital at Christmas, no media had reported it.
Logically, while recovering, his originally tight schedule should have stopped, shouldn't it?
But it hadn't stopped at all.
Su Baixue vaguely thought that Wei Yun was rushing through his schedule and events with a sense of helplessness, as if urgently making money.
And then this scandal.
Su Baixue had also seen the photos on Weibo. Some media blurred the woman holding Wei Yun's arm, while others showed her profile. The female lead in the photos looked particularly pleased, with a nice face and expensive-looking clothes. Although Wei Yun seemed a bit displeased, he didn't refuse.
Most online media almost blatantly reported this as a relationship. The injury had been suppressed, but why would a relationship be so brazenly exposed during the rising period of his career? The internet said she was a wealthy businessman's daughter, but which businessman? Who? After digging for days, no one knew. The woman beside Wei Yun seemed like a mystery. As the incident fermented, a few days later, photos emerged online of Wei Yun and the female lead vacationing abroad, with Wei Yun holding an umbrella for her.
"No way?"
With successive revelations, the campus of A City High School was filled with girls' wails and lamentations.
"Is it true? Is my oppa really dating?"
"Why doesn't his studio deny it?"
"That woman is so ugly!"
"No, she's actually quite pretty..."
"She's ugly, okay! Doesn't deserve Wei Yun at all!"
"Photos surfaced online. That woman was hugging Wei Yun, looking very intimate. No wonder Wei Yun has been doing events near C City lately. I heard that woman lives near C City," Chen Baozhu said gloomily. Since Wei Yun's relationship was exposed, she had begun to drift away from being a fan.
"C City is close to our A City too. Can you believe that kind of talk?" Tian Ling had become a firecracker due to the recent spate of revelations, easily ignited but quickly deflated.
Su Baixue often heard Tian Ling softly sobbing behind her during class.