To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Xie Wei eventually went to the student affairs office.

There are already many people inside.

Lin Qingping, Lin Qingyun, Liang Jiaqi, and Yun Qi, the president of the Economics Department Student Union.

In addition, the head of the student affairs office and two people in police uniforms were also present.

But Lu Xiaoxue was nowhere to be seen.

Xie Wei looked around and made up her mind not to say a word, no matter what they asked her.

Did you spread the rumors about Lin Qingping's conduct?

"Did you have someone follow Lin Qingping and take photos of her with other people?"

"Why are you doing this?"

She didn't answer any of these questions, just sat there with a pale face.

It wasn't until the head of the student affairs office turned on a tape recorder on the table that Lu Xiaoxue's tearful voice came through.

Although her voice was trembling with tears, every word was clear.

"It wasn't me... I was just... just helping someone else. It was Xie Wei from our dorm. She told me everything. She said Lin Qingping's husband is a soldier, that Lin Qingping used a man's money to open her shop, that Lin Qingping had an improper relationship with Liang Jiaqi from the Economics Department, and that Lin Qingping and Liang Jiaqi would take the train together every weekend. She said, 'What decent woman would elope so far with a man?' Also, she said Lin Qingping has a house in the capital, and the house belongs to Liang Jiaqi... She told me all this, and I just relayed it..."

Xie Wei's face turned deathly pale at this moment.

Lu Xiaoxue's voice continued from the tape recorder, "Today, Xie Wei gave me the camera and asked me to follow Lin Qingping tonight to take pictures of her date with Liang Jiaqi. The Economics Department Student Union said that things without evidence are just rumors and shouldn't be believed."

"I didn't." Xie Wei's face turned pale, and she trembled all over, but she still denied it. "I didn't instruct her! She framed me! I've always been so good to her, and she actually framed me!"

Lin Qingping looked at her and calmly told her, "When Lu Xiaoxue followed me yesterday, she was secretly taking pictures with a camera. Such a valuable thing as a camera is not something that ordinary people can have."

This isn't the smartphone era where everyone can take pictures with their phones. We don't even have digital cameras anymore; most people still use old-fashioned film cameras, which are still a luxury item that most people don't own.

Xie Wei was determined not to admit it, and she wouldn't admit the camera was hers either. "So what? That doesn't prove it's mine! What? Just because I'm close to Lu Xiaoxue doesn't mean it's mine? What's wrong with you being close to Liang Jiaqi and having an ambiguous relationship with him?"

Lin Qingping laughed, "I asked Lu Xiaoxue the same question yesterday. She said the camera was yours, and I said I didn't believe her. Guess what she said?"

Xie Wei's face tightened. "How should I know?"

"She said that many of the films on this roll of film in the camera were taken at your own home, and that once they're developed, we can tell who the camera belongs to." Lin Qingping smiled. "It's your personal property, so we can't handle it ourselves. That's why I called the police. Now, can we develop it and take a look in the presence of the police?"

Xie Wei's legs went weak and her lips trembled.

"Xie Wei, why are you doing this to me? I haven't offended you." Lin Qingping didn't understand.

After a brief moment of shortness of breath, Xie Wei sat up straight, her expression becoming even more fierce. "So what? You're a married woman, a soldier's wife, shamelessly flirting around at school. What's wrong with me reporting you? I'm just speaking up for soldiers! I followed you only to gather evidence and expose your ugly face to the world!"

She's even become righteous...

"Is that so?" Lin Qingping asked with a smile.

Everyone looked at Xie Wei with strange eyes.

Xie Wei was furious. "Isn't that right? You and your lover ride your bikes around the school every night, who hasn't seen it? You want to develop the photos? Then go ahead and develop them! See what kind of ugly state you and Liang Jiaqi are in the photos taken last night!"

The student affairs office was extremely quiet, and everyone's gaze towards her still held a strange quality.

Yunqi draped a piece of clothing over her second sister, who then put her hair up and wore a hat. Thanks to the good nutrition she received from Lin Qingping that year, she had grown a lot taller. Although she wasn't as tall as Liang Jiaqi, she could still fool people from a distance.

Xie Wei gasped, slumping into her chair. "Wh...what do you mean?"

Ever since Lin Qingping learned about the rumors a few days ago, she has been wondering who started spreading them.

Liang Jiaqi wanted to explain to the college teachers, but he couldn't explain to everyone. He wanted to post in tabloids to clarify, but the effect would only be that those who believed would believe, and those who didn't believe would still not believe, as seen in the lawyer's letters issued by celebrities later.

We need to address the problem at its source.

Therefore, it is necessary to investigate who would spread such rumors.

First and foremost, it's certain that it's someone they know.

It's either someone close to Lin Qingping or someone close to Liang Jiaqi.

The person around Lin Qingping who seemed unusual was Lu Xiaoxue.

Lu Xiaoxue suddenly got together with the aloof and proud Xie Wei, and she suddenly started spending money more lavishly, with her clothes and food becoming noticeably more expensive.

Lin Qingping and the others first targeted Lu Xiaoxue, but actually, they targeted Xie Wei. Only Xie Wei and Lin Qingping didn't get along.

Of course, it's possible that it's not these two people, but that doesn't matter, the method is the same.

The purpose of this person who spread the rumors is very clear: to smear Lin Qingping or Liang Jiaqi!

They went to Yunqi and spread the word that someone had reported Liang Jiaqi's matter to the Economics Department Student Union, but Yunqi replied that it was just a baseless rumor and not credible.

Then, Lin Qingping had her second sister impersonate Liang Jiaqi every night to pick her up from the study room. The two of them would ride bicycles around the campus intimately, all to lure out the person behind the scenes.

Sure enough, Lu Xiaoxue brought a camera to secretly take evidence on the night she went to the movies.

Like the mantis stalking the cicada unaware of the oriole behind, Liang Jiaqi and Yun Qi, hiding in the shadows, caught Lu Xiaoxue red-handed.

After recording Lu Xiaoxue's words with a tape recorder, Lin Qingping and others went directly to the school's student affairs office today and called the police on the grounds that someone was defaming military marriages.

Lin Qingping was very sincere and even admitted her mistake. She said that her method of having her sister impersonate Liang Jiaqi to lure out the person behind the scenes might not have been appropriate. However, as a woman and a soldier's wife, she was really suffering from such rumors.

To express her pain, she cried bitterly, recounting her hardships. She even said that such rumors would have been punishable by drowning in the pond in the old society. Now it's a new era, but gossip can still be terrifying. If it weren't for her sister and friends comforting her, and if she hadn't been determined to prove her innocence, she would have jumped off the building.

Her tearful account won sympathy, and since she was in the right in this matter, the student affairs office asked the counselor to call Xie Wei over.

At this point, what didn't Xie Wei understand? She'd been tricked!

However, she couldn't just admit her mistake like that.

She insisted that her actions stemmed from morality. She was very agitated and argued shrilly, "I'm speaking up for the soldiers! Soldiers protect our country and give everything for our peace. Their wives should be dutiful and help them guard the rear! Everything I'm doing is for Lin Qingping's good! To put Lin Qingping's husband at ease!"

"Whether I'm at ease or not is none of your business," a deep male voice rang out from outside the student affairs office.