Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Successful Vindication

He trembled as he crawled toward his parents, shouting helplessly, “Dad! Mom! Wake up! Don’t scare me! I’m still so young, I can’t live without you! Wake up… please, I’m begging you, just wake up! Wake up!”

Tears and snot covered his face. Han Lijie wiped his eyes and tried to help his mother up from the floor.

Just then, Zhou Lan passed by the doorway and shrieked, “Help! Murder! Help! Murder! Han Lijie killed his parents!”

Hearing the screams, Han Lijie didn’t hesitate for a second and bolted.

But it was too late. By the time he tried to escape, the area around the residential complex was already filled with people.

The police also concluded that he was fleeing to escape punishment.

While on the run, he saw a female student from his school with her arm around her homeroom teacher, a man in his fifties, as they headed somewhere they shouldn’t be going.

The classmate was a top student from the honors class. She was cute, pretty, and had always kept to herself. Han Lijie immediately thought the girl was being taken advantage of and rushed in without a second thought.

He didn’t care one bit that, given his current status as a fugitive, he shouldn’t be there at all.

He quickly asked the front desk for their room number and found them in Room 903.

Han Lijie knocked for a long time before the door finally opened a crack.

Han Lijie shoved the door open and punched the homeroom teacher in the face.

“Who are you?!” the homeroom teacher asked angrily, clutching his bleeding nose.

Han Lijie ignored him and walked straight toward the girl.

The classmate was acting as if nothing was wrong, but she clearly panicked when she saw a familiar face. “Han Lijie, what are you doing here?”

The homeroom teacher walked over, pointed at Han Lijie, and asked furiously, “Who the fuck are you? What’s it to you what I do?”

The girl froze for a moment, then said without hesitation, “He’s just a nosy busybody. I don’t know him!”

Her words left Han Lijie stunned.

He had always thought this girl had upstanding character and proper values, that she would never get involved in an inappropriate relationship.

But now, the classmate he was trying to help was claiming not to know him?

Han Lijie refused to accept it. “You don’t know me? I didn’t realize you’d gotten amnesia.”

The classmate lowered her head and said nothing.

Han Lijie, stubbornly believing she wasn’t there willingly, grabbed the homeroom teacher’s wrist and threw him to the ground with a shoulder toss.

“What do you think you’re doing?” the homeroom teacher demanded.

“I’ll show you what you are!” Han Lijie roared, raining down punches on his head.

At first, the man was cursing loudly, but he quickly cowered.

Han Lijie roared, “Do you have any idea what you’re doing? You’re a teacher, yet you bring a student out to do something like this! Are you even a teacher? Do you deserve to be one?!”

After beating up the homeroom teacher, Han Lijie left the hotel with the girl.

Later, the teacher decided he couldn’t let the beating go unpunished and resolved to teach the reckless punk a lesson.

He gave the girl a necklace worth 100,000 yuan and told her to frame Han Lijie. She was to claim that Han Lijie had fled to her house and then forced himself on her.

The girl took the necklace and nodded.

Shen Zhiyao said sarcastically, “And you all know what happened next!”

The viewers all knew what happened next: those were all malicious slanders piled onto Han Lijie.

[Damn, that girl is a real piece of shit! Han Lijie was trying to help her, and she sold him out for a necklace worth 100,000 yuan!]

[How can women like that even exist in this world? It makes me sick!]

[Believe it or not, it’s always the gold-digging women like her who end up living the best lives.]

[After listening for so long, I feel like Han Lijie himself has some major issues. For example, the incident with the top student earlier. If he hadn’t been so nosy, nothing would have happened. It’s not like the top student was stealing from him. And later, with the classmate and the teacher… if I saw that in a hotel, I’d just turn around and walk away. A woman like that isn’t worth saving. There was no need to beat someone up over it.]

[That’s not being nosy, that’s standing up for justice. As for the classmate and teacher at the hotel, any decent person would have felt compelled to beat up that teacher. Unless there’s something wrong with *your* way of thinking.]

[So now look what happened. A perfectly good student with excellent character is now a murderer and rapist despised by everyone. What kind of world is this?!]

[Who are you trying to be, some kind of saint? When Han Lijie was being framed, I bet you were right there cursing him out with everyone else!]

Watching the ceaseless arguments in the comments, Shen Zhiyao spoke calmly, “There is nothing wrong with standing up for what’s right. The problem lies with the people who were helped; they lack the most basic human conscience. The ones who should be condemned are that top student, the three bad students, Zhou Lan, and that female classmate—not Han Lijie.”

[The host is right! What’s wrong with this world? Wouldn’t it be better to have more people like Han Lijie?]

[If everyone becomes that apathetic, then when something happens to us in the future, no one will be there to help.]

[You’re right! The wicked should get their retribution. Good people shouldn’t be unrewarded and end up covered in filth for their efforts.]

[If the law can’t punish them, let the netizens do it. This is the internet age; it should be easy to find those people!]

[I just found it. Han Lijie went to Lide High School. That girl and the teacher live in the same residential complex as him.]

[666! Bro upstairs, can you give us more details?]

[These two are the classmate’s and the teacher’s accounts! Comrades, charge!]

[@Mianmian, I found the teacher’s Douyin account.]

Within just half an hour, the Douyin accounts of the top student, the homeroom teacher, and the female classmate were all found by the viewers.

The personal information of the three male students who had beaten up Han Lijie in the dorm back then was also doxxed.

Shen Zhiyao glanced at the comments and said calmly, “My part in this matter is now finished. Next, let’s do the next reading.”

The ID of the second viewer to connect tonight was: “Tu Yue.”

Tu Yue had long, wavy hair and elegantly applied makeup, giving her the air of a sophisticated and mature woman.

[Holy shit, this is the first time I’ve seen such a gorgeous woman in the stream! She’s totally my type!]

[Hey, how old are you? Married? Why don’t you check me out?]

[Guy above me, get lost! This beauty is already taken, got it? My lady, it was love at first sight. I already DMed you. I’m willing to be your backup boyfriend.]

[To be honest, the host is way prettier than Tu Yue, but unfortunately, she’s out of the league for poor losers like us.]

Tu Yue saw the viewers’ comments and said, a little embarrassed, “Thank you all for the flattery, but I already have a boyfriend. We love each other very much, and we’ve been together for nine years.”

Shen Zhiyao asked, “Are you here to ask about your romantic fortune?”

Tu Yue’s eyes lit up, and she nodded honestly. “You truly live up to your reputation, Host. Nothing escapes your notice.”

Shen Zhiyao said bluntly, “It’s not hard to see. Your romance line is dim, which means there’s a problem with your relationship.”

Tu Yue instantly panicked. “No, no, no, that’s not… I mean, my boyfriend and I have had some problems, but we haven’t broken up.”

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