Chapter 56: Turning the Knife Around

Spreading sexual rumors seems to always be the easiest way to attack a woman.

In the last world, even Zhongli Miaomiao, the beloved little princess of the wealthy Zhongli family, had suffered greatly from it.

And in this world, Shi Qiongqiong was just an ordinary person, making it even harder for her to escape the vortex of these rumors.

Sang Zhiyi pulled open the tightly drawn curtains of the rental room, letting the sunlight outside pour in and illuminate the space around her.

Her first impression of this rental room was its small size, with furniture all crammed together, leaving very limited space for movement.

This was a room Shi Qiongqiong had rented specifically a few months ago.

Because she had to work at the bar every night until early morning, she moved out alone to avoid disturbing her roommates.

After much searching, Shi Qiongqiong finally chose this small room with poor decoration, average lighting, and mediocre soundproofing, simply because the rent was cheap enough to save more money to send to Chen Junze.

Sang Zhiyi stood with her arms crossed in front of the window, letting out a heavy sigh.

…What a silly girl.

Taking out the original owner’s phone, Sang Zhiyi found that Shi Qiongqiong had deleted every app she could.

The entire phone was cleaner than a factory reset.

With no other options, Shi Qiongqiong could only use this simplest, crudest method to avoid suffering from the pervasive online violence again.

Nevertheless, with memories and fingerprints, Sang Zhiyi still retrieved the software she needed and logged into Shi Qiongqiong’s accounts.

Unsurprisingly, even though a full two months had passed since the incident, the notification badges on various apps still showed bright red 99+ and 999+ symbols, like hands reaching out from the mud, waving and clawing to assert their presence.

Sang Zhiyi ignored these.

She remembered that the system store had a functional service for restoring data records, and she purchased it directly.

Since this situation had already been buried by rumors, she would personally excavate it.

The price for this service was a full 50 mission points, which was quite expensive.

Without the dozen or so mission points Ren Xiaoqian had gifted her, the mission points she had earned through an entire world’s hard work wouldn’t have been enough to buy it.

Fortunately, its quality was worth the price.

Not only were all of Shi Qiongqiong’s transfer records to Chen Junze restored, but the chat records between them also proved that Shi Qiongqiong’s work was completely legitimate, done specifically to support Chen Junze’s painting.

Even phone call and video call records between Shi Qiongqiong and Chen Junze were recovered.

They could fully serve as substantive evidence to shatter the rumors.

It had to be said that having the system store indeed made many things much more convenient.

Otherwise, to obtain this data and information, she would have had to find someone with the relevant technical skills, which would have been quite difficult given Shi Qiongqiong’s current situation.

Sang Zhiyi herself didn’t have skill points in this area.

In the real world, she did know a top-level hacker, but that was several years ago.

Over several hours, Sang Zhiyi organized and compiled these restored records and made backups.

As for whether she could get her voice out there for more people to hear, Sang Zhiyi had ways.

Right now, the rumors about Shi Qiongqiong online were raging.

While they caused pervasive harm to the person involved, they also had an exploitable side.

For example, at this moment, if she revealed her identity as Shi Qiongqiong and announced she would livestream on a certain platform to clear her name, it would naturally attract attention, and surely many people would come to watch.

Whether they wanted the pleasure of cursing the person involved in real time, to hear what was really going on, or just to watch the drama, as long as enough people knew about it, the same channels that spread the rumors could also spread the refutation.

With the evidence in Sang Zhiyi’s hands, turning the tables wouldn’t be difficult.

Even though it was foreseeable that there would be many people who didn’t care about the facts, only wanted their own satisfaction, and were convinced of their own righteousness without regard for how much pain others suffered, she could still reverse the current unfavorable situation.

But how would that be enough?

First of all, such an operation would be too simple and likely wouldn’t achieve a high main mission rating.

Moreover, letting Chen Junze, that scumbag, off so lightly was something Sang Zhiyi was unwilling to do.

At the very least, shouldn’t Chen Junze taste what it feels like to be unable to defend himself?

Smiling, Sang Zhiyi walked out of that small rental room.

Z City XX University Art Studio.

Finally applying the final stroke to the canvas, Chen Junze focused and critically examined his freshly completed painting, ultimately revealing a satisfied smile.

It seemed he had improved again.

Recently, perhaps even heaven pitied him for being cuckolded so many times by his girlfriend, which was why he had made such significant progress in his painting skills in just two months.

Yes, even without any evidence, Chen Junze was still deeply convinced that Shi Qiongqiong must have sold her body to many people at the bar.

This was not only because spreading sexual rumors about Shi Qiongqiong had made him increasingly believe them himself, but also because Chen Junze felt that his girlfriend going to a bar every night was simply unclean.

If his girlfriend was unclean, didn’t that mean he had been cuckolded?

Thinking this, Chen Junze couldn’t help but click his tongue several times.

He and Shi Qiongqiong had only known each other for a few months and had been together for an even shorter time.

So far, the two had not yet had a physical relationship.

He had initially thought Shi Qiongqiong was a very conservative girl.

If he had known she was so shameless, he should have had s*x with her while she wasn’t yet so dirty.

After all, Shi Qiongqiong was truly beautiful, and he had observed her figure before.

She had what she needed, and the experience would certainly be good.

Chen Junze put down his paintbrush, packed up his painting tools, and prepared to leave the studio.

It was already dark outside; time for dinner.

Emerging from the highly focused creative process, some sensations his body had not registered before gradually appeared.

Thinking about going to eat, Chen Junze realized he was already very hungry.

Patting his famished stomach, Chen Junze felt even more regretful.

After Shi Qiongqiong’s incident was exposed, amid the voices online from people feeling indignant for him, the cuckolded boyfriend, and the strange looks from many around him in reality, Chen Junze quickly jumped out to publicly declare that he had finally come to his senses.

He would no longer wait faithfully for a woman who had betrayed him, and he cut ties with Shi Qiongqiong.

To demonstrate his resolve, Chen Junze deleted and blocked all of Shi Qiongqiong’s contact information, and consequently lost her comprehensive financial support.

At the time, Chen Junze made the break very cleanly, feeling he was being decisive and cool, but he forgot that he had been living off Shi Qiongqiong for the past few months.

With Shi Qiongqiong’s wholehearted dedication, Chen Junze had been living the high life, much better than his previous tight existence, and had started spending freely.

Without Shi Qiongqiong, a day or two was fine, but as time went on, Chen Junze hadn’t changed his spending habits and soon found himself strapped for cash, with little money to use.

These past two days, Chen Junze couldn’t even afford to eat three full meals a day.

Food is the staff of life, and Chen Junze was truly hungry.

He even missed Shi Qiongqiong a little.

If Shi Qiongqiong were still by his side, she would have already packed his favorite dishes and brought them to him at the studio, along with washed fruit and homemade snacks, ensuring he ate comfortably.

Chen Junze took out his phone and checked the balances on his various payment apps, feeling increasingly that life was hard.

This phone was a birthday gift Shi Qiongqiong had given him.

Speaking of which, Shi Qiongqiong had been quite good to him.

Chen Junze couldn’t help but think again about what it would be like if Shi Qiongqiong were still by his side…

The phone rang suddenly, interrupting Chen Junze’s thoughts.

The incoming call was from an unfamiliar number, but it had no spam or scam markers, and the area code was local to Z City.

It rang for over ten seconds and continued.

Chen Junze’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Could this be another beautiful woman coming to comfort him?!

Ever since he had shared online the story of his girlfriend working a special job at a bar, gaining a lot of attention, Chen Junze had often received messages of sympathy and comfort from various girls.

He had specifically gone through their personal pages and found that these girls were basically young and pretty, many from well-off families, and particularly naive, basically believing whatever he said.

After Shi Qiongqiong was massively cursed online, there were even more such girls.

Some had even found Chen Junze’s contact information left online and actively added him as a friend, sending him warm greetings.

A few had even called him directly.

Chen Junze could recall how sweet and pleasant those beautiful women’s voices were.

He immediately pressed the answer button.

“Hello?”

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