She continued: "I was really mean to you before, because Wen Siheng..."
"Because I'm actually a little jealous. Of course it's not the kind of jealousy between a man and a woman in a heterosexual relationship," Xiangyi began to try to explain, "I'm very jealous of someone who is willing to treat you well unconditionally."
"It's not unconditional, right?" Jian Anran thought carefully.
"Growing up, no one I like likes me." Xiangyi said this and immediately turned around and left.
It was already a week later when she received another call from Zhang Xiaoxian. The interval was so long that Jian Anran was worried that Xiangyi was not planning to sue.
"An Ran, it turns out that the last time you called me, you were asking about something about your classmates," Zhang Xiaoxian said, "I thought it was about you, and I was really shocked."
"At that time, I specifically told Beibei to pay more attention to you. Today, when your classmates came, I realized that you were really asking questions for others."
I don’t know why Zhang Xiaoxian thinks this way, and Jian Anran is confused, “Didn’t I just say ‘I have a friend’?”
"Yes," Zhang Xiaoxian immediately explained, "Generally speaking, in this opening statement, isn't it the friend's own intention?"
From Zhang Xiaoxian, Jian Anran roughly understood the current progress of this case.
However, due to the lawyer's principles, the other party could not disclose more details. Thinking that there was nothing she could do to help with the subsequent process, Jian Anran exchanged a few pleasantries and hung up the phone.
As soon as I hung up the phone, I saw Ning Beibei walking out of the toilet, "Who is it? With such a solemn expression?"
"Your cousin."
"Zhang Xiaoxian?" Ning Beibei asked in surprise at first, then took a deep breath before speaking again, "What does she want from you?"
"You're still pretending!" Jian Anran stood up and hooked the tip of Ning Beibei's nose with her index finger, "Zhang Xiaoxian said she told you everything and asked you to pay attention to me."
"Huh——" Ning Beibei finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the chair.
"She finally opened the skylight to talk openly with you. It's been suffocating me to death these days."
"Hey!" As if something suddenly occurred to her, Ning Beibei sat up straight, "So who exactly threatened you? Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?"
"But you still know how to talk to the lawyer, which is quite right, but I have been with you for so many years..."
"Stop, stop!" Seeing Ning Beibei's mouth like a machine gun, Jian Anran immediately stopped her, "It's not my business."
"I asked this for a friend."
"What other friends do you have?" Ning Beibei immediately asked, "You have been lying in the dormitory for four years in college. When did you go out with your friends?"
"Friends at work." She tried to quibble.
"How many friends do you have at work? That Mi Yingying?" Ning Beibei asked.
After seeing Jian Anran shaking her head, Ning Beibei asked again: "Song Qi?"
After Jian Anran shook her head again, Ning Beibei frowned with a look of disbelief on her face, "It can't be that Wen Siheng was threatened, right?"
"If someone as big as him is threatened and still comes to you for help, I will really look down on him."
Jian Anran pursed her lips, sighed, and shook her head again.
"Then there's no one in your office!" As soon as he finished speaking, Ning Beibei suddenly realized it, with a look on his face as if he had been struck by lightning.
"Isn't it?"
"Isn't it Xiangyi?"
This time I finally saw Jian Anran nodding and answering in the affirmative.
"She...she's not...?" Ning Beibei jumped up from the chair, her tongue seemed to be tied up, "Isn't she...?"
Finally, she managed to squeeze out: "Didn't she betray your studio?"
"Aren't you going to tell me that she was so bad in the past because of her own reasons? Are you going to clean her up now?"
Jian Anran's head immediately shook like a rattle, "That's absolutely not the case!"
"Although the plagiarism happened for a reason, she is really mean, and it has nothing to do with some of her behaviors or orientations."
"Why did everything happen for a reason?" Ning Beibei asked.
After explaining Shi Licheng's complicated character background and the intertwined character relationships to Ning Beibei, Jian Anran explained that Xiangyi's plagiarism incident was all due to Shi Licheng's threat. p>
"So what was she threatened about?" Ning Beibei's head turned quickly, and she immediately smelled a hint of gossip in the conversation.
Jian Anran shook her head again, "I can't say this."
"You're not her lawyer. You said it's not illegal." Ning Beibei, whose gossip radar sounded, was like a devil holding a steel fork, blowing wind in Jian Anran's ears.
"Besides, I won't tell anyone. If you don't tell me, it will be easier for me to think wildly."
"..."
After hesitating for a long time, she finally failed to withstand Ning Beibei's verbal attack.
"Xiangyi likes girls, but Shi Licheng threatened to post the incident on the confession wall to make her lose face."
The moment she heard the news, Ning Beibei was indeed a little surprised.
But it didn't take too long to digest the information, and she quickly figured out the ins and outs.
"Harm! I thought it was something serious, is this it?"
Nodding, Jian Anran immediately agreed, "That's what I told her at the time. I said that today's classmates and friends are very open-minded, and this is not something worthy of being coerced."
"It seems that her family is relatively conservative, so she has always been very concerned about this matter."
"What are you being conservative about? It's not that her mother and stepfather are abroad." Ning Beibei asked immediately.
Shrugging, Jian Anran looked helpless, "Who knows? Don't forget that their family also has a deputy prime minister. He is the true conservative."
After thinking about the serious face of the Chancellor and the striped polo shirt he always wore, Ning Beibei felt a chill.
I often hear seniors in the department mention how old-fashioned he is. I heard that a senior was scolded for wearing slippers to the office when it rained.
"Ring ring ring——"
When she received Zhang Xiaoxian's call again, Jian Anran happened to go downstairs to get takeout.
"Cousin, it's me. An Ran went downstairs to get takeout. I happened to see your call and picked it up." Ning Beibei said to the other end of the phone.
"She'll be back soon. I'll ask her to call you back then."
……
The court session between Shi Licheng and Xiangyi ended quickly. The evidence was conclusive, but because it did not cause any serious impact, Shi Licheng was just like Zhang Xiaoxian said at the beginning——
Detained for five days and fined 500 yuan.
"Aren't you going to leave a record?" Jian Anran called back specifically and asked just this question.
"Unfortunately," Zhang Xiaoxian on the other end of the phone replied, "This can only be considered an administrative penalty and does not leave a record."
"But have you used foreign social media? I saved a few screenshots during my investigation, and Xiangyi agreed that I would send them to you for a look."