[Exposing the Sly Maneuvers of the Fake White Lotus Underclassman...]
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Ye Xiaohui stared at the data in the first two lines, dumbfounded as she peeled off the half-dried face mask from her skin.
"Let me tell you, Tang Shu, setting aside everything else, these popularity metrics are a bit scary, what kind of divine click and comment stats are these!"
Three hours, 5000 clicks, nearly 600 comments!
This must be what trending topic fame is made of, right?
"You do realize that our entire school doesn't even have ten thousand people."
Cheng Ranran slapped her childhood friend's head with a smack, "Is now really the time to talk about this? The point is, someone actually dared to start a post dissing our Shushu, utterly unforgivable!"
"Don't hit me, I'm looking at it now."
As Ye Xiaohui scrolled her hand downward, she came upon a post titled "A Detailed Guide to Lin Yiyi's Sly Maneuvers."
The article explained in detail how this character from "Love Tornado" behaved, her love for the male lead, her tender acts of pretended weakness and tears to win people's sympathy...
Thousands of words flowing eloquently, the lexicon sharp and bold, pointing directly at Lin Yiyi's frail exterior and malicious interior.
Cheng Ranran read the content and felt a strong sense of agreement, "Not to mention anything else, just looking at Lin Yiyi's character alone, the analysis is really spot-on."
Indeed, Lin Yiyi was exactly such a person.
If it hadn't been for the entertainment industry's Xiao Hua, who portrayed her, giving up on the role in the last few days of shooting due to the character attracting too much hate, Tang Shu wouldn't have been dragged in as a last-minute replacement to catch up on filming.
Now it was Ye Xiaohui's turn to smack back.
"What are you saying? Is this TV show that popular? I haven't even had time to catch up on it."
"That's not the point, the point is that this person is maliciously scheming! You guys need to check out the comments and the photos uploaded by classmates from our department, it's infuriating!"
Following the end of the main content, comment after comment appeared below, with almost all of them from TV show fans dissing.
[Finally, someone speaks the truth. After watching the TV show, I really wanted to strangle Lin Yiyi!]
[For this fake White Lotus, I'd slap her every time I see her, no reason needed!]
[After watching the show, I genuinely can't bring myself to like this underclassman, no thanks.]
[My reason tells me this has nothing to do with the underclassman, but I really f***ing want to slash that vulnerable-looking face.]
Because the author ambiguously mentioned in the article, "why did the female celebrity appear at Medical University, is it to construct a top student image or did she gain admission through her own abilities," it effectively steered the discussion off-topic.
[If you ask me, getting high scores in the college entrance exam while acting is definitely a mark of talent, just not sure if there's any water in this talent——]
[From the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, huh? Even the lowest score required must be around 650, right? Can our underclassman manage that?]
[If there's backing and a sponsor, then with her crying and acting, wouldn't that be enough?]
[The one above, spot-on summary, hhhhh~~~~]
This comment quickly received hundreds of likes in a short period, as if solidifying the rumors of Tang Shu gaining admission through backdoor channels.
Some students even directly commented, asking students from the Traditional Chinese Medicine department to testify to Tang Shu's actual college entrance exam scores.
The reason why Cheng Ranran was so angry was precisely this.
"If you ask me, this person posting must be jealous that Shushu is prettier than her, what kind of person does this, leading the rhythm like that?"
"It's indeed too much, not clear themselves yet leading everyone else astray, I smell a conspiracy——"
"Right, right? Look at the last sentence of the main text, [The campus photos from last time were obviously posed, she must be trying to leverage the popularity of the 'flower of Meng department' to hype up a top student image]. Who talks like this, with Shushu's looks, does she need to pose for photos?"
Hearing this, Ye Xiaohui felt that the conspiratorial scent of the post was even stronger.
"If before there was a fifty-fifty chance that the poster had ill intentions, that sentence is practically an outright admission. This poster is targeting Tang Shu."
"We're just freshmen, and we haven't offended anyone usually, so what's the deal with this poster, just purely for the sake of attracting traffic?"
"I'm afraid that's not the case, whether you offend someone or not isn't something you can always avoid by simply not doing anything or by being unintentional. Ran Bao, when will you mature a bit?"
Upon hearing this, Tang Shu looked at her with a hint of surprise in her cold gaze.
The latter shrugged helplessly as she met Tang Shu's gaze.
In this pair of childhood friends, Ye Xiaohui was completely the rational one, often seeing things with great clarity.
The other was led by emotions, and whenever irritated, would resort to cursing without saying a second word. Cheng Ranran, deserving of her Netizen title, had nimble fingers that flew over the keyboard, and it didn't take long for her to retort with seven or eight messages.
Tang Shu didn't even have time to stop her.
"Is this... important?"
She had seen the dissing comments online, which were clearly born out of a sour and jealous mentality.
In Damo, as the Young Sect Master of the Tang Sect and the youngest person in power, she had faced many doubts.
However, ever since she had ruthlessly dealt with the good-for-nothings within the clan, no one dared to utter another word. Those ladies from prestigious families would retreat three feet away from her, not daring to speak a single word.
From then on, Tang Shu's life motto became, "If you can use your hands, don't waste words," which practically turned into her only way of doing things.
Yet, to Cheng Ranran, these words seemed to suggest that she wanted to keep the peace.
"Shushu, hey, they're questioning your character, questioning your academic achievements! As the coolest girl in school, you can't swallow this insult!"
"Wait, when did I get the title of the coolest girl in school?"
Ye Xiaohui extended her finger, pointing at her childhood friend, "Her, she gave it to you, and now the title has spread throughout the entire department."
Of course, the speed at which it spread was largely thanks to Tang Shu's high beauty quotient and her delicate, mostly expressionless face.
She: "..."
"There! Let's post Shushu's college entrance examination scores, and see if that doesn't shut them up!"
Cheng Ranran clenched her little fists, growing increasingly convinced that this was a brilliant idea, "Right, Shushu, how much did you score in the college entrance exam?"
Ye Xiaohui rolled her eyes in an unladylike manner, "Are you dumb? You're making blind statements not knowing the score; have you been poisoned by Tang Shu? What if the scores slap you in the face?"
"But I believe in Shushu, don't you?"
"I do, but personal belief does not equate to objective facts. As a serious science student, your way of thinking is holding you back."
Yet the cute girl wore her ignorance as a badge of honor, "Then I'll just be an unserious science student~~"
After much insistence from Cheng Ranran, Tang Shu couldn't fuss any longer and logged onto the college entrance exam score system, revealing a score of 702.
"Holy shit! With that score, you could go to Imperial University!"
"Even at Imperial Capital Medical University, known for sheltering hidden dragons and crouching tigers, scores over 700 are few and far between."
At this point, even the "serious science student" Ye Xiaohui couldn't help but exclaim.
She took a screenshot and uploaded it to the campus forum in the form of a comment:
[Ye Zi's Leaf]: Image.JPG
[Ye Zi's Leaf]: Is this it? Getting in through the back door?
Comment posted.
Cheng Ranran was hopping mad, "Hey, hey, hey, you should have hit back directly, write her a few hundred words, make them doubt their existence!"
"What do you know, you fool? This is a case where silence is more powerful than words. Five words are enough to render them speechless."
Rationalist Ye Xiaohui deeply embodied what it meant to play it cool.
Cheng Ranran thought about it and agreed, posting a picture without saying anything—didn't it seem so much more classy?
However, though she was convinced, her mouth wasn't idle, and she muttered under her breath, "Silence is more powerful than words? Just admit it, you're just a closet dramatic."
"What are you mumbling about?"
"Nothing, nothing at all!"