Chapter 126: Chapter 126: Cyberbullying

Wu Jiaquan held his face, shocked as he looked at her, “You… you hit me.”

Mu Ran lifted the basket of toys in her hand, and without a word, aimed to smash it over his head.

Wu Jiaquan’s bodyguards hurried to protect him.

Surrounded by bodyguards, Wu Jiaquan’s eyes were red, “Don’t go too far!”

Mu Ran remained expressionless from beginning to end.

“Get lost!”

“Why should I get lost? Who are you to tell me to get lost? You’re the one dating, didn’t you say you wanted to focus on your career? Why are you dating!” Wu Jiaquan accused her word by word, having previously tentatively asked if Mu Ran would consider dating.

She said she wanted to focus on her career.

Is it that now she’s not focused on her career anymore?

Mu Ran’s face was cold, “What does me dating and focusing on my career have to do with you? Get lost!”

Originally, the toy store wasn’t crowded, but because of their argument, a circle of people quickly gathered to watch.

Mu Ran bought the toys she liked and then led Xiao Jin away.

Wu Jiaquan gritted his teeth and followed as well.

Upon reaching an empty lawn, Wu Jiaquan jogged a few steps to block Mu Ran’s path, “Mu Ran, don’t provoke me.”

Slap—

Another solid slap.

Chu Xijin almost laughed out loud, suspecting that this person was seeking abuse by repeatedly provoking his aunt.

Wu Jiaquan was totally bewildered by the slap and pointed at her, “Before, I could tolerate you because I wanted to play with you. Don’t be ungrateful.”

Slap—

The third slap.

Wu Jiaquan staggered from the hit, and if not for the timely protection by the bodyguards, he would have fallen headfirst to the ground.

“Mu Ran!!!”

He yelled loudly.

Mu Ran’s expression was cold and indifferent, her brows and eyes filled with irritation, like a wild horse about to break free, ready to obliterate him at any moment!

“What I do has nothing to do with you. If you want to use power to oppress others, ask first if your parents dare!”

Leading Xiao Jin, Mu Ran was about to bypass Wu Jiaquan.

Wu Jiaquan once again blocked her, “Tell me clearly, why are you dating someone else? Can’t you see that I like you?”

Mu Ran raised her hand.

Wu Jiaquan instinctively stepped back.

Upon hearing his confession, Mu Ran felt so nauseated she wanted to vomit, “If your so-called love means making me someone everyone can easily insult on the internet, then I really thank you.”

“But you don’t care, right? I’ve even helped increase your fame!”

Originally, Wu Jiaquan intended to use internet bullying to make Mu Ran yield. Who knew, despite being insulted like that, she neither sought her brother’s help nor succumbed to him.

Later, someone said.

That kind of internet bullying was actually helping her.

It was increasing her fame; Wu Jiaquan firmly believed so.

Even now, he felt he had given a lot for Mu Ran.

Seeing his righteousness, Mu Ran laughed in anger, “Some people can withstand cyberbullying, some can’t. After winning a director’s award, I was repeatedly cyberbullied, told I deserved to die, with various diseases attributed to me – cancer, heart disease, often appearing in my comment section, along with curses for me to be hit by a car, for a plane crash, cursed to die a terrible death, aplenty.

Using my photos for explicit edits, for funeral pictures, for pictures with all sorts of messed-up people and things, I can not care because I naturally have a strong heart, I know my life is better than 99% of people in the world, so I don’t argue with lunatics.

But cyberbullying is essentially violence. A single comment can endlessly loop in your mind. Those who have experienced cyberbullying perhaps know the taste of it.

You tell family and friends, and they console you with “It’s okay, it’s just the internet, don’t take it to heart”. They don’t not love you, they just can’t empathize, among which you may even feel some friends being perfunctory.

So you have nowhere to vent.

You want to curse back but find there are too many of them, and even start doubting if you did something wrong, leading your life to become a mess. With every action, you doubt yourself, with every word you say, you nervously question yourself, until eventually, you doubt yourself enough to consider dying.

To those being cyberbullied, it’s not solved by simply dismissing it. I don’t care because that’s a god-given talent.

You’ve done countless things wanting me dead, and now you say you like me, only making me feel disgusted, utterly disgusted!”

Mu Ran is clear about how terrifying it was to be cyberbullied.

Even if she doesn’t care, she won’t choose to forgive the instigator.

No one likes being insulted, and she is no exception.

According to studies, among netizens who like to comment, 60% have encountered varying degrees of cyberbullying, with many suffering from depression and dying because of it.

Many even blame the victims for their lack of resilience. Is it their fault for not being resilient? Not blaming the perpetrators but blaming the victims for a lack of resilience? Victim-blaming continues even after they die, and they remain loftily above.

Mu Ran would have to be crazy to love a man who cyberbullied her and hoped to get her that way.

Chu Xijin silently took out a gun, overflowing with uncontrolled anger, ready to shoot him, realizing it was him causing his aunt to be scolded by so many.

He deserves to die!!!

Mu Ran, sharp-eyed, saw it and blocked him.

Then coldly glanced at the shocked Wu Jiaquan, finding it somewhat ironic; there’s always someone in the world extremely narcissistic, believing everything they do is right.

Undoubtedly.

Wu Jiaquan is one of them.

Since childhood, he was the center of attention; spending money to have her cyberbullied wouldn’t trouble his conscience. If anything truly bad happened, his parents would cover for him, leaving him without guilt.

Mu Ran led Xiao Jin away.

Wu Jiaquan stood in disbelief, frozen in place – did he do such terrible things to Mu Ran?

No.

All this time, he’s been helping her.

All his closest friends know how much he loves Mu Ran; for her, he hasn’t touched another woman in all these years, for her, he spent all his allowance on her.

But in the end, all he got was disgust?

How could she be so ungrateful? When she drove a sports car to his house to threaten him, he spent a long time living abroad to avoid breaking off completely – did Mu Ran take all his restraint and concessions for granted?

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Chu Xijin was furious.

How could there be such a disgusting person in the world?

The person he most wanted to kill now was Wu Jiaquan!

This person should be cut into pieces, never have a good death, and even after death, fall to the Eighteen Layers of Hell.

Mu Ran, on the other hand, brought him back to the hotel, and after closing the door, she asked him sternly, “Where did the gun come from? What were you about to do? Do you know we live in a society governed by law? Didn’t I tell you before that you can do whatever you want, but you’re not allowed to break the law? If you’d fired that gun just now, do you know what consequences you’d face? I won’t shield you in committing murder, do you understand!”

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