Chapter 225: Chapter 224: Fake Love Letter Goes Viral Across the Campus?

The small grove behind the National Defense University.

The light is dim.

Liu Quan firmly pressed the cigarette butt he held against the trunk.

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

He looked at Sun Qian, hesitating slightly.

“Offending Gu Yanshen won’t end well for us.”

Sun Qian took out a piece of letter paper from her pocket.

She also took out the paper corner with half a sentence written on it, retrieved from the trash bin.

“What’s there to fear?”

Sun Qian’s voice was cold.

“As long as it’s flawlessly done, no one will find out.”

She spread the letter paper on her knee and took a pen out of her pocket.

Using the faint light from a distant street lamp, she began to write on the paper.

Liu Quan leaned in to look.

At just one glance, his breath caught.

The stroke, the force, the drawing habit.

Identical to the exemplary work sample Gu Yanshen had posted on the bulletin board.

“You… you can do this?”

“My dad works in archives, I’ve practiced this since I was a child.” Sun Qian’s face showed a hint of malicious pride.

“Now, even if he jumps into the Yellow River, he won’t be able to clear his name.”

Her pen didn’t stop, and she mouthed the words that were about to be written.

“Qianqian, since the day at the library, your image has been etched in my heart…”

“Your white dress, like a pure lily…”

“How I wish… to be with you…”

Liu Quan listened, his face turned red.

The words were too explicit.

“Enough, enough.”

He grabbed Sun Qian’s hand.

“If you continue, it’ll be too fake.”

“Someone like Gu Yanshen wouldn’t write such sappy things.”

Sun Qian stopped writing and blew on the ink.

“This is precisely the contrast needed.”

“Everyone thinks he’s a living Yama, but privately speaking to a female student like this, it’s even more disgusting.”

She folded the written “love letter”.

“Tomorrow, find someone to slip this letter into the Red and Black book that Sun Qian often reads.”

“Remember, let others discover it first.”

Liu Quan took the letter, as if handling a hot potato.

He swallowed.

“Alright.”

…

On the next day.

The National Defense University library exploded with commotion.

A female student found a letter slipped out while borrowing a book, Red and Black.

The letter circulated quickly.

“Oh my! This handwriting, it’s Mr. Gu’s, isn’t it?”

“I just saw his report on the bulletin board a few days ago, it’s exactly the same!”

“What does this say… so disgusting! ’Your breath intoxicates me’?”

“Who is this Sun Qian? That literature department student?”

“Who knew, Mr. Gu seems so indifferent but plays around like this privately?”

“What living Yama, I think he’s a hypocrite!”

“His poor beautiful wife is still in the dark.”

“Shh! Keep it down, even his wife isn’t easy to deal with, she made Sun Qian cry yesterday.”

“Now this is interesting, is this a war between the proper wife and the mistress?”

Rumors spread like wildfire.

Within a morning, it had circulated around the entire campus.

The narrative evolved from “Gu Yanshen secretly loves a female student” to “Gu Yanshen’s long-term harassment of a female student, making her intolerably distressed.”

Even Gu Yanshen’s backward step to dodge Zhang Lina at the library door yesterday was interpreted as “to show loyalty to new lover Sun Qian, he deliberately distanced himself.”

In the afternoon.

Gu Yanshen was summoned to Political Commissioner Zhou’s office.

When he entered.

Liu Quan and Sun Qian were already there.

Liu Quan stood aside, with a face of “heartbroken anguish”.

Sun Qian sat on the chair, shoulders twitching, crying pitifully.

On the table lay the forged love letter.

Political Commissioner Zhou’s expression was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

“Yanshen.”

Political Commissioner Zhou pointed at the letter.

“What’s going on here?”

Gu Yanshen glanced at it.

His gaze lingered for a second on the familiar handwriting.

Then he looked at the sobbing Sun Qian.

“I didn’t write it.”

He only said four words.

No explanations, no defense.

Sun Qian cried even louder.

“Political Commissioner Zhou… I… I am scared.”

She lifted her head, eyes red like a rabbit’s.

“I don’t know how this letter ended up in my book.”

“But… but Mr. Gu indeed often watched me at the library.”

“I thought he intended to guide my studies, unexpectedly…”

She didn’t finish her sentence and lowered her head to cry again.

Liu Quan immediately followed with righteous indignation.

“Commissioner! This incident is severely damaging!”

“Mr. Gu… Gu Yanshen as an outstanding student and being married, doing such things, it tarnishes our military reputation!”

“I suggest immediately suspending all his duties and thoroughly investigating!”

Political Commissioner Zhou tapped his fingers on the table.

He looked at Gu Yanshen.

“Yanshen, do you have anything else to say?”

Gu Yanshen stood as straight as a spear.

“Reporting, sir.”

“No, I don’t.”

Political Commissioner Zhou’s brows furrowed into a knot.

He picked up the letter and looked at it again.

The handwriting, almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

The witness, Sun Qian, was crying so heartbreakingly.

If Gu Yanshen didn’t admit it, things would only escalate.

He sighed.

“Gu Yanshen.”

“From now on, you are temporarily suspended from classes.”

“Move out of the excellent student dormitory and stay home.”

“Await the organization’s investigation.”

Liu Quan couldn’t hide his glee.

Sun Qian’s sobbing also quietly subsided, her shoulders stopped shaking.

Gu Yanshen gave a military salute.

“Yes, sir.”

He turned and walked out of the office with large strides.

From beginning to end, he didn’t glance at those two again.

…

In the small building of the family quarters.

The aroma of meals wafted out.

Lin Wan Yi was holding a small spoon, feeding Gu Ning pumpkin puree, spoon by spoon.

The little girl was eating with a mouth full of gold, giggling.

Gu An sat next to them, intently fiddling with a detached radio speaker.

The door opened.

Gu Yanshen walked in.

He had taken off his crisp military uniform, wearing only the white shirt inside.

Lin Wan Yi looked up at him.

“You’re back?”

Her tone was no different from usual.

Gu Yanshen grunted in response.

He walked to the dining table and looked at the two children.

“Wife.”

He spoke, his voice somewhat hoarse.

Lin Wan Yi fed the last spoonful of pumpkin puree to Gu Ning, then took out a handkerchief to clean her little mouth.

After doing all this, she looked at Gu Yanshen.

“Go wash your hands.”

“Dinner will be ready soon.”

She didn’t ask what happened at school.

She didn’t ask why he came back at this time.

Nor did she ask about the rumors that were spreading wildly.

Gu Yanshen stood still.

He looked at her.

Lin Wan Yi stood up and walked up to him.

She reached out her hand and gently smoothed the wrinkles on his shirt.

“I believe you.”

She said.

“No matter what happens.”

Gu Yanshen extended his arms, pulling her tightly into his embrace.

He buried his head in the crook of her neck.

This man, who was invulnerable outside, at this moment, looked like a wronged child.

Lin Wan Yi gently patted his back.

“Alright, go wash your hands.”

“I saved you some braised pork.”

…

It was late at night.

Gu Yanshen was sleeping soundly.

Lin Wan Yi quietly got up and walked into the adjacent nursery.

The two little ones were already fast asleep.

Gu Ning’s small mouth was still moving, as if she was having a sweet dream.

Gu An, however, was not on his little bed.

Lin Wan Yi walked over to the desk in the corner.

A small figure was sitting on the chair, back facing her.

In front of him was Professor Wang’s old radio.

The radio wasn’t making any sound.

But several thin copper wires were connected to it, the other ends leading to a strange device resembling headphones.

Gu An was wearing the device.

Lin Wan Yi walked over and gently took off the “headphones” from his head.

A faint, clear conversation with electrical noise came through.

It was Sun Qian’s voice, proud and sharp.

“…He got suspended! Liu Quan, did you hear? He got suspended!”

Then Liu Quan’s excited, hushed voice followed.

“I saw him. When he came out, his face was so dark. This time, he won’t recover!”

“What about that Lin Wan Yi? How did she react?”

“Who knows, probably crying her eyes out! Serves her right! Let’s see how arrogant she can be now!”

“Hahahahaha…”

The radio emitted their harsh laughter.

It was their full conversation from last night in the small grove.

Lin Wan Yi placed the “headphones” back on the table.

She looked down at her son, still absorbed in adjusting the radio’s knobs.

The little boy, sensing her gaze, lifted his head.

His face, much like Gu Yanshen’s, was calm.

Lin Wan Yi reached out and patted his head.

She didn’t smile.

The expression on her face was colder than the night outside the window.

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