kingnovel Chapter 1245 Yun Rui's sincerity: The more you explain, the more it seems like a cover-up
Chapter 1245 Yun Rui's sincerity: The more you explain, the more it seems like a cover-up
It was drizzling, and Qi Ruixiang's black car had been parked in front of the gate of Hunan University for three whole days.
The wipers swung mechanically, wiping away the mottled rain marks again and again, but they could never wipe away the anxiety in his heart.
On the phone screen, messages from the assistant kept popping up: "Mr. Qi, today's meeting..."
"Mr. Qi, the board of directors..." He threw his phone to the passenger seat in annoyance and let the screen light up and go out.
Ever since he heard the rumors about Gu Yunxi and a certain student, his world seemed to have been paused.
As a veteran media person, he should have seen through the exaggerated gossip at a glance, but when the words "teacher-student love" and "new love" stung his eyes, he found that he couldn't stay calm at all. "How is it possible?"
He muttered to himself, his fingers unconsciously stroking the steering wheel, thinking of Gu Yunxi's stubborn eyes, "She is not that kind of person..."
However, those vivid descriptions lingered in his mind like a poisonous snake: "I heard that the boy brought breakfast to Professor Gu every day."
"The two of them often stayed alone in the laboratory until late at night."
These half-true and half-false rumors gradually fermented into sharp thorns as he chewed them over and over again.
He tried to contact Gu Yunxi, but was met with a cold response: "The number you dialed has been blocked."
On the morning of the fifth day, Qi Ruixiang finally opened the car door.
The wrinkled hem of his shirt hung outside his trousers, his chin was covered with stubble, and he looked depressed.
He wandered aimlessly around the campus, his eyes scanning every figure in a white coat, trying to piece together Gu Yunxi's life trajectory here.
The sycamore leaves rustled under his feet and the autumn wind lifted the corners of his clothes, forming a sharp contrast with the youthful students coming and going.
As he passed by the basketball court, a burst of laughter caught his attention.
Several boys in vests surrounded a slender young man. The yellow-haired guy in the lead was shaking his phone, and on the screen was a picture of Gu Yunxi: "Lin Toad, what does swan meat taste like?"
"Don't make a fuss. The swan has long been turned into a domestic goose. It's no different from being stewed in an iron pot!"
Qi Ruixiang paused.
The young man in front of him was the "protagonist" in the rumors - Lin Xu. He was wearing a simple sweatshirt, but his eyes were like ice, and his tightly pursed lips revealed his stubbornness.
Huang Mao continued to provoke: "I heard that Professor Zhou thinks highly of you. Are you a spy sent by him? I heard that you are going to attend some provincial academic seminar!"
"Oh, I can have such an opportunity in my sophomore year..."
"What was this called in the past? Forget it, I'm just being harsh..."
"What other benefits did Lao Zhou promise you? Tell us about it, maybe we can benefit from it too!"
Everyone was talking one after another, and Lin Xu's hands were clenched tighter and tighter. He let the spit of those people drown him but never uttered a word.
He closed his eyes tightly and forced himself to use his mind to ignore the sounds in his ears. His body was shaking because he had reached the limit of his endurance.
In the end, only the high-quality and sharp noise pierced his eardrums...
"Enough!" Lin Xu suddenly exploded and swung his fist at the yellow-haired man.
The crowd instantly fell into chaos, with shouting, cursing and pushing sounds one after another. It seemed like they had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
Qi Ruixiang instinctively rushed forward, trying to separate the people who were fighting. The security guards blew their whistles from far away and quickly controlled the two groups of people.
Lin Xu's face was bruised and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, but he still stood straight and scanned the surroundings with cold eyes. The school leaders rushed over after hearing the news, their faces terribly gloomy: "Lin Xu, you've just been quiet for a few days and you're causing trouble again?"
Qi Ruixiang looked at the boy's stubborn appearance, and took a step forward as if possessed by a spirit. He then turned the screen of his mobile phone outward and said, "Things are not what you think."
He called up the video he had just recorded, which clearly recorded the provocation of Huangmao and others.
The school leader's expression softened a little. He just said a few symbolic words and waved his hand to let others leave.
Only Qi Ruixiang and Lin Xu were left on the field. Qi Ruixiang looked at the boy in front of him. He was thinner than he had imagined, but his eyes were calm and steady, which was inconsistent with his age.
Lin Xu bent down and bowed: "Thank you." Then he was about to leave.
"Why don't you explain?" Qi Ruixiang couldn't help but speak.
Lin Xu paused, his voice frighteningly calm: "Because my explanation is not what they want to hear." He raised his head and looked towards the Chemistry Building in the distance, "Some misunderstandings seem more like a cover-up the more I explain."
For some misunderstandings, the more you explain them, the more they seem like a cover-up?
The sound of ice cubes colliding at the bottom of the whiskey glass was crisp, but it couldn't cover up the noise in his heart.
The amber wine in front of him swayed, reflecting the dark circles under his eyes and the wrinkled collar of his shirt, making him look like a trapped beast beaten by life.
The door of the box was pushed open, and Gu Yunqian walked in with a cold look. He glanced at Qi Ruixiang's messy hair and bloodshot eyes, and couldn't help but sneered: "Mr. Qi, are you planning to transform into a wandering poet?"
He casually threw his suit jacket on the sofa and unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt. "I saw you staying up all night following the news before and you weren't so disheveled. Now you look so untidy with your beard."
Qi Ruixiang tilted his head back and took a gulp of wine. The spicy liquid burned his throat: "Stop teasing me." He turned the wine glass, and the water droplets on the wall of the glass slid down through his fingers. "If it wasn't for your sister..." He swallowed the words back before he finished speaking, and then slammed the wine glass heavily on the table, causing the ice cubes to clink.
Gu Yunqian raised his eyebrows and slowly poured himself a glass of wine: "Tell me, you didn't call me here just to listen to your complaints."
He picked up the wine glass and took a sip, looking at the other person through the mist of alcohol, "What do you want to ask about Yunxi?"
"Why not suppress those rumors?" Qi Ruixiang's fingers unconsciously rubbed the rim of the cup. "With the influence of the Gu family, it's just a matter of words to get the school to come forward and clarify." There was suppressed anger in his voice, thinking of the disgusting slogans he had seen at the school gate in the past few days.
Gu Yunqian put down his wine glass and sneered, "You ask me why?" He crossed his legs, with a playful look in his eyes, "President Qi, the leader of the media industry, asks me why I don't suppress the news? You have so many media resources in your hands, why don't you take action first?"
Qi Ruixiang's pupils shrank slightly, and then he sneered: "If you want me to, I won't have the chance to perform before you!"
He grabbed the bottle and poured himself another glass, the wine overflowing the glass and winding in a small stream on the bar.
"I'm not a fool. If I speak too quickly on such a sensitive topic, I'll be caught by others."
Gu Yunqian stared at his red eyes, and after a moment of silence, he reached out and patted his shoulder: "My sister is just like her father. She just wants to live as an ordinary person!" His voice suddenly became low, "She's just short of telling us that the surname Gu is a burden!"
The box fell into a brief silence, with only the low hum of the central air conditioner.
Qi Ruixiang stared at the ice in the cup gradually melting, and thought of Gu Yunxi's focused profile in the laboratory. She had always been stubborn and never bowed her head.
"How is she... now?" Qi Ruixiang broke the silence, his voice unconsciously lowered.
Gu Yunqian sighed, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass. "On the surface, he seems fine. He spends every night in the study looking through the shelved research materials."
His fingers tapped the tabletop, making a regular sound.
"The suspension of the project was a big blow to her."
Qi Ruixiang tightened his grip on the wine glass, hesitated for a while, and finally said, "I have been in Xiangtan University these days." He looked at the neon lights outside the window, his eyes a little vague, "Today I saw with my own eyes a group of people bullying the student named Lin Xu."
Gu Yunqian paused and frowned: "Then what?"
"Then he beat someone up." Qi Ruixiang chuckled, but there was no smile in his voice. "He was clearly outnumbered and his face was covered with bruises, but he just stood there and refused to explain." He remembered Lin Xu's words that made his heart tremble. "He said that some misunderstandings, the more you explain, the more it seems like a cover-up."