While Lü Yan kept refreshing, she noticed that many other people had also noticed that the most talked-about thread had been deleted, and therefore, they opened another thread to discuss it.

  The strange thing was that once the thread had been opened, it would be deleted at the speed of light in the next second.

  Not only that, the person who started the new thread had been muted. He had to register for a new sockpuppet to post a comment, asking what exactly was going on.

  This thread of his had not been blocked though.

  Every new thread that commented about Lü Yan’s original thread was deleted instantly and the owner would be muted. Thereafter, the system would notify them of the reason for the actions.

  While the new threads were being deleted, the school sent a public thread. It stated that the contents of the previous thread were fabricated and untrue. The thread not only caused inconvenience for the people in the photo, but it also shamed the school.

  The school also criticized all the students who left comments in the thread. These people were ignorant and followed the herd despite not knowing the truth. The school could not believe that students of Peking University would have such bad behavior.

  The school stated briefly that one of the people in the photo was the elder of the other person in the photo. It then went on to lecture the students on their uncalled for behavior. Everyone who commented on the post felt ashamed and embarrassed that they had let the country down and wasted the country’s effort to nurture them.

  All of the accounts that were muted received notifications that it was only a temporary measure.

  If the account holder continued to engage in such discussions and had behavior that was not befitting of students of Peking University, the account would be blocked permanently.

  The official thread lectured the students for their morally wrong behavior and it sent a strong signal that the school was serious about this matter. This was to intimidate those who had gone way overboard.

  This was Peking University after all. There were students who followed the crowd and there were students who were rational and calm.

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  The ‘kept woman scandal’ died down in no time.

  To others, the scandal was finally over, but to certain students, the real storm had yet to come.

  After verifying with the principal of Peking University, the teachers in the discussion group knew about Zhai Yaohui.

  Qiao Nan also told the teachers on that day that Zhai Yaohui was her elder. He came to the capital with his wife, but his wife was sick, so she was asked to take care of her.

  No man would ask his kept woman to take care of his wife. It was ridiculous.

  When the teachers found out that Qiao Nan got into the car on Chief Zhai’s request to take care of Madam Zhai, they felt like putting an end to the student who posted the thread.

  The lady was the wife of the chief. They had just arrived in the capital. Now that Madam Zhai was sick, it was easy to hire someone to take care of her.

  Chief Zhai must have asked Qiao Nan to take care of his wife as the two families were close. Given that Qiao Nan had connections with such an influential family, there was no need for her to be someone’s kept woman.

  Qiao Nan needed to work while she studied at Peking University. But given her relationship with the Zhai family, as long as she worked harder in her studies, she would be able to gain so much more in the future.

  Regardless of how foolish someone was, they would not do such self-destructing and stupid behavior of being someone’s kept woman. Students from Peking University would not do such things.

  “Qiao Nan, you have good writing skills. Why did you go to the foreign languages faculty instead of our Chinese faculty?” Actually, it was Qiao Nan who posted the public thread online.

  Qiao Nan felt angry at her situation and she typed furiously on the keyboard.

  “I am more interested in foreign languages.” Qiao Nan took a breath. “Did we manage to trace the ID of the person who posted the thread?” Qiao Nan wanted to know who uploaded the photo and made such harsh comments.

  Several teachers with relevant expertise were busy finding out the identity of the sender. “The ID has been traced. It was sent using a computer in the internet café near our school. We should be able to determine which internet café it was. Anyway, everyone who goes online must use their identity card. It will not be difficult to check.” There was a record of everything. There was no way to escape.

  Since Zhai Yaohui was an important figure, the principal of Peking University was very serious about getting to the bottom of the matter.

  The principal of Peking University was occupied with matters regarding National Day. If not, he would have made a trip to the school and made sure that the teachers did a thorough investigation. The school could not allow any of the people who were behind the scandal to get away with it.

  It was terrible of their students to malign their fellow peers. They had bad morals.

  What was worse was that it involved the country’s important government official. This was no longer an issue of whether it was serious or not. Instead, it was a sensitive issue. More importantly, the principal of Peking University not only had to answer to Qiao Nan but also to Zhai Yaohui.

  After Qiao Nan managed to delete the forum thread, she made a report to Zhai Yaohui straightaway, lest he was caught off guard by unforeseen circumstances.

  Miao Jing, who had recovered from her cold, sat beside Zhai Yaohui. She heard the conversation and was boiling with anger.

  Her husband fetched her daughter-in-law to take care of her who was sick. A student of Peking University was so wicked to fabricate lies and cause harm to Qiao Nan. The college students nowadays were terrible.

  Miao Jing was already in the capital. But even so, the principal of Peking University took a while before he figured out Zhai Yaohui’s relationship to Qiao Nan.

  The freshman of Peking University was already engaged and her fiancé was an important figure. The most ridiculous thing was that Qiao Nan’s future father-in-law was the subject of the first scandal surrounding Qiao Nan since she went to the school.

  The principal of Peking University felt like tearing apart the culprit after finding out Qiao Nan’s relationship to the Zhai family.

  Qiao Nan was being filial by meeting her in-laws and taking care of her mother-in-law who was sick. But why did the thread make it sound so indecent and immoral?

  Since the principal of Peking University was bent on finding out the culprit, the teachers worked extra hard to think of ways to find out who the culprit was.

  The principal had issued strict orders. People who affected the unity of the students and defamed and framed one’s fellow classmates were unworthy to be a student of Peking University. They had to find out who the culprit was and remove the bad apple from the whole bunch!

  After tracing the ID, the teachers made a booking and rushed to the internet café at their fastest speed.