Qiu Xi, who was far away in Chongxi City, saw several missed calls from Liang Yunfei as soon as she got home that evening.
The office had been extremely busy these past two days, and she hadn't had any free time to check her phone except during her lunch break.
Therefore, she had truly missed all the calls that Xiao Feifei had made over the past few afternoons.
Thinking there might be an urgent matter, Qiu Xi immediately called Liang Yunfei back after putting down her things.
“Xiao Feifei, why did you call me so many times this afternoon? Is there something urgent?”
“Xiao Xi! You finally saw it!”
Liang Yunfei had planned to call Qiu Xi as soon as she got home that afternoon, wanting to resolve the issue with Pei Wen sooner rather than later. Otherwise, she would constantly feel bothered.
If things weren't settled properly, she definitely wouldn't be motivated when she got busy later…
“Yes, is there something? I have time now, tell me about it.”
“Okay.”
Sitting down casually at home, Liang Yunfei began to speak, “It’s about that strange person I told you about before. I took my two younger cousins with me today and ran into him. Thinking of clearing things up early, we went up to him.”
“Mhm, and then?”
Qiu Xi thought for a moment, recalling that there was indeed such a matter.
“Then we went out to chat, and I didn’t expect this person to be somewhat famous, just a bit of a tragic figure.”
“His name is Pei Wen…”
Once Liang Yunfei started talking, she didn't stop until she had finished explaining the matter to Qiu Xi. Then, she started chugging water.
After drinking, “So I gave him your contact information, Xiao Xi. This was my oversight, and I apologize first.”
It was indeed not good to give out her number without prior notice.
However, Qiu Xi could understand, and she knew Liang Yunfei wasn't someone with ulterior motives.
They had been together for so long, and she still trusted her judgment of people.
“It’s alright, I understand this matter.”
Qiu Xi nodded on the other end, “I’ll go take a look in a moment. If this person is really as you described, then we’ve struck gold.”
Listening to Liang Yunfei’s words just now, Qiu Xi had a clear understanding of the entire situation. She would search online later to gather more information.
Since the matter had caused such a stir back then, there were bound to be many clues left behind.
“Okay, then it’s up to you, Xiao Xi.”
“But I’m not sure if he will call you, because when we watched him this afternoon, he didn’t seem like someone with much fighting spirit.”
Liang Yunfei was truly unsure about this point, after all, she had only recently met him.
Even the trust she expressed in her words was based on instinct, and the explanations given by Sister Yi back then.
“It’s fine, I’ll go find out. That’s my preparation for us. Whether he contacts me or not is his own choice.”
Either way, she wouldn't lose out. If he came, she might gain a powerful ally; if he didn’t, she wouldn't lose anything.
If, as Xiao Feifei said, this person wouldn’t come to them and they had to invite him, then even if he came, he might not be a great asset…
Liang Yunfei breathed a sigh of relief, “Okay, then you’ll have to trouble yourself with this, Xiao Xi?”
“Mhm, I’ve noted it down.”
“Alright, then I won’t bother you while you’re busy, Xiao Xi. I still have things to do.”
With this burden lifted from her shoulders, Liang Yunfei felt a lot more relaxed.
Even when she thought about the incredibly difficult proposal plan again, she felt energetic.
“Okay.”
As soon as Qiu Xi finished speaking, they ended the call.
Although it was getting late, there was no time to delay, and Qiu Xi hadn't had much free time recently.
Coincidentally, tomorrow was Sunday, the day they had invited everyone home for dinner, and Teacher Su had given them a day off. So Qiu Xi decided to pull an all-nighter to sort things out.
As soon as she decided, Qiu Xi took out her laptop and started typing furiously.
The internet indeed had memory. As soon as Qiu Xi typed in Pei Wen’s name, she saw a flood of information.
Clicking on a random post, Qiu Xi roughly understood the context of the situation that people wanted to show her.
The sequence of events was completely contrary to what Xiao Feifei had described.
Everyone’s comments were consistent.
“Disgraceful! Did you eat your books?”
“What books? He’s probably just an empty shell!”
“With such academic misconduct, how did he get into university?”
“He looks decent, does he live off his looks?”
“Someone like this even gets to go to school?”
“Brothers! Get him!”
…
A string of comments, like a noisy battlefield.
It wasn't to stop conflict with words, but rather the pile of text supported this great battle.
Seeing the end of it, Qiu Xi directly closed these posts and started looking for anything different.
Indeed, after scrolling for a long time, Qiu Xi found a few posts denouncing the situation.
They were probably from friends or people who were close to him, who had posted a few articles, trying their best to prove that it wasn’t Pei Wen’s fault.
Qiu Xi clicked on each one to see. One of them was quite interesting; it had several photos attached, along with some dates.
Unfortunately, they were all fragmented pieces of information. To be honest, they weren't even qualified to be compared with the materials posted online.
Who would believe something so fragile that it shattered at the slightest touch?
So, beneath the comments of a few people, there was also a pool of “blood.”
They were even accused of plagiarism, having a lack of academic integrity, and academic misconduct.
Qiu Xi flipped further back and found that they hadn’t posted anything since then.
After reading everything, Qiu Xi didn’t feel relieved.
Based on this alone, it was indeed impossible to discern anything, leading people to believe that Pei Wen was a scoundrel who deserved to live like this.
“Phew!”
Qiu Xi took a deep breath and began to sigh to Xiao Hua, “Xiao Hua, it’s really hard to live a good life!”
“Xiao Xi, living a good life isn’t difficult~”
“Aren’t you living quite well right now?”
Qiu Xi was taken aback, “…”
Was she discussing this topic with a system? Was she a bit out of her mind?
“Xiao Hua, you don’t understand!”
“…”
“Xiao Xi, I truly don’t understand, and I don’t want to. Anyway, I’m living quite well. If you work harder and give me a raise, so I can have a good retirement, then my entire life will be perfect!”
“…”
“You’re just a string of data, and you want to retire?”
“Xiao Xi! You can’t look down on us systems. Maintenance and learning all cost money!”
“Do you think we came out rich from the start?”
“All these learning classes and skills you have now were saved up by me for a long time…”
Qiu Xi didn’t understand, “…”
Why did this system have so many things to do every day?
“Okay, okay, I won’t say any more. Our Xiao Hua is the best~”
“I’ll definitely work hard in the future and give you a good raise, so you can enjoy your old age…”
With Qiu Xi’s promise, Xiao Hua instantly fell silent.
The world is big, but eating is the biggest!
Its fellow systems had all saved up their dowry and retirement funds, but it hadn’t made any progress. If the host didn’t work hard, wouldn’t it have to work its whole life?
That wouldn’t do!