1120 Perplexed and Smitten 180 (2/2)
Her adoptive parents detested her.
The other children in the village refused to play with her, and many accused her of being the reincarnation of a demon.
The event that stuck with her the most took place when a family of three from the city arrived at her village to visit some of their relatives. The daughter of that family was about the same age as An Xiaoning and had approached her to play with her when she noticed that An Xiaoning was sitting alone on the wooden bench.
The little girl was extremely obedient and adorable, and she spoke in a gentle voice. Even until today, An Xiaoning could still vaguely remember the girl's appearance.
The two of them headed to the riverside and began playing with the mud. An Xiaoning was overjoyed, for there was finally another child who was willing to play with her. They had a whale of a time.
However, not long after they began playing, a bunch of children from the village approached them together with the girl's parents.
The girl's mother shot An Xiaoning a dirty look while reprimanding her daughter for playing with her, as if An Xiaoning was the greatest outcast.
After hearing her mother say that An Xiaoning was a jinx and a troublemaker, the girl stared at An Xiaoning in fear and no longer smiled at her.
The girl's parents then brought her away while the bunch of children began grimacing and sneering at her.
That incident was no different from the one she was facing now. Aren't these ignorant netizens just like those children from the village?
When An Xiaoning refreshed the page again, all of the comments and posts had all been erased from Weibo.
Needless to say, Hu Xin was not the one who had deleted them.
An Xiaoning began searching for her name and her initials on Weibo, only to discover that the matter had died down.
Due to the fact that any posts and comments that contained An Xiaoning's name would automatically be detected and erased, all of the netizens decided to replace her name with some alphabets.
”I'm done!” Henry exclaimed.
An Xiaoning put her mobile phone down and helped the temporarily-crippled Henry out of the washroom.
”Hu Xin is trying to save you right now.”
”How did you know? Did she call you again?”
An Xiaoning took out his mobile phone and registered an anonymous account for him on Weibo. She then input her initials into the search bar and handed it back to him. ”She had a backup plan and recorded a video secretly. Have a look yourself.”
Henry opened the video clip.
Just like she had expected, he guffawed loudly after watching the video.
Truth be told, An Xiaoning wished she could give him a tight slap for how insensitive he was.
”Is it really that funny?”
”I'm laughing at her, not you.”
An Xiaoning asked in puzzlement, ”Why… she's upholding justice for you. Why do you find that funny?”
”She's not doing me any justice, she's merely ruining Jin Qingyan. To be exact, she's ruining me too. What she had done simply made Jin Qingyan look like a cowardly and incompetent man. She had completely destroyed my pride and dignity. How is that doing me any justice? I already told her to stay out of it.”
”Since you're the one who caused this, you ought to clean up the mess.”
Henry answered, ”It was the words you said that gave her a hold over us, right?”
”Are you completely faultless, then? You're still the main cause of it. You're well aware that I detest her and yet you still let her stay. Wouldn't everything have been fine if you made her leave when I entered?”
”Hold it, let's stop arguing over that. How do you plan to resolve this issue now?”
She glanced at him from the corner of her eye and gibed, ”Are you concerned about how I'm planning to solve the problem, or are you actually worried about how I'll deal with your precious gem?”
”…”