He's So Sweet After Class

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Translator: Rin     Editor: dedaign     Proofreader: Amber.es

Due to Yang Sheng’s words, Mo Lingqiu suddenly became interested in University A’s forum, but he didn’t know the URL. He thought about Fan Nian who always talked about the school forum, so he sent him a message.

Qiu: Send me the URL to the school forum.

My aim is 300 million: ???

My aim is 300 million: You wanna surf the school forum?

Qiu: En.

My aim is 300 million: [Link]

My aim is 300 million: It’s filled with posts about you and Jiang Chenming.

Qiu: .

Fan Nian saw the full stop and knew he couldn’t continue the conversation.

My aim is 300 million: Okay, okay. Take a look at it. Remember to sign up using your teacher’s work account.

My aim is 300 million: Oh it’s fine. There  are real name areas and anonymous areas. All kinds of posts are in the anonymous areas, but in the real name areas, they  only discuss studies.

Qiu: Okay.

After replying, Mo LIngqiu copied the link into the browser and opened it when he went into his car.

The user interface of University A’s forum was not bad; it used black and white tones, and users could change it to green, for eye protection, or to other colours. Users could easily differentiate between the separated columns for the real name areas and the anonymous areas.

Mo Lingqiu scrolled through the homepage for the real name areas. All of them were indeed posts about studies. He even saw someone asking questions related to Chinese. He tapped the link by reflex, but the system asked him to sign up first.

Mo Lingqiu only then remembered the registration that Fan Nian had mentioned.

He rarely used social media, so it took some time for him to register successfully. He refreshed the page and found out that the Chinese post had disappeared.

Mo Lingqiu turned dazed for a few seconds and moved to the anonymous area.

The top post in the area listed the rules and regulations. There were nine posts below that had the ‘hot’ sign and six of them were about him and Jiang Chenming. He really didn’t expect that so many people would be discussing them.

He tapped open the post that had the most activity with curiosity and astonishment. There were two photos in the original post. One of them was a specially taken photo of Jiang Chenming on the basketball court, and the other one was a photo of Mo Lingqiu giving a speech in the main hall.

The two photos were not related to each other at all, but, in the threads that followed, there were countless photoshopped pictures that edited them together. There were even pictures that changed the background. The edits shocked Mo Lingqiu since he hadn’t had any exposure to Photoshop before. 

He was surprised at first because of everyone’s talent and creativity and then  he couldn’t understand why everyone would think that the two of them were in that kind of relationship. His shock increased the more he scrolled down and saw that the post with the highest amount of likes was a kissing picture. Although it didn’t include the pictures provided in the original post, the photoshopped photo looked real enough.

If Mo Lingqiu wasn’t one of the people involved, he might have believed it.

Mo Lingqiu tapped the laptop’s touchpad and continued scrolling down. After seeing more edits, he chose to leave the post and decided to enter another trending post.