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Chapter 533: If one had known it would come to this, why act that way in the beginning?

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Just at this moment, An Yinan looked around and nodded to the classmates beside her, who then one after another cleared a path for her.

She held her spine straight, looking directly at the person on the podium, observing the encouraging gazes of those seated, as well as the unyielding expression of Zhao Chunzhi.

"A rural student? Are you worthy?" This was the first sentence she said after walking onto the podium!

It was full of provocation, her gaze like a torch, like an iron-faced judge.

"You..." Zhao Chunzhi extended her finger, pointing at An Yinan.

An Yinan gave a cold smile, "Classmate Zhao, did your upbringing not teach you that pointing at others with your finger is a very impolite thing?"

Arrogant!

This was everyone's evaluation of An Yinan.

Regardless of whether they knew the inside story or not, they all saw An Yinan's attitude: better to break than to bend!

"You are bullying people too much! An Yinan, this is not your home, this is a school; do not bring that set of yours from home into the school." Zhao Chunzhi dodged the important points and dwelled on the trivial, crying as she spoke.

"This is a school, the final pure land; why must you defile it?"

An Yinan frowned, watching her put on a performance there.

To tell the truth, it was a pity she did not apply to the Beijing University Film Academy.

"Are you finished?" An Yinan looked at her and asked.

That consultative tone was just like asking, "Have you eaten?"

"Since you have finished crying, let us talk about the matter of slandering a military spouse." An Yinan smiled, then nodded to Zhao Qiu Hua.

Zhao Qiu Hua took out the investigation materials gathered among the classmates and distributed them one by one into the hands of the various Leaders, and even gave one to every class, to save them from saying again that Nan Nan used her background to settle things.

"The materials in the hands of those seated, the first thirty pages, are an investigation into the source of the rumors among classmates; they contain everyone's signature, as well as the reason for spreading them and the time and place of the spreading." An Yinan smiled faintly, her face unhurried, one hand stroking her belly, her whole being radiating a kind of maternal glow.

Someone once said, when is a woman at her softest?

It must be when she is pregnant, looking forward to new life, and feeling a sense of connection linked by blood.

"Page 31 is my marriage certificate." An Yinan stated calmly, though on the marriage certificate page, she had hidden Chen Xun's information; he was a soldier, and his information could not be exposed to the public.

However, the marriage date above was clearly visible.

"Page 32 is my proof of military dependent status."

In an instant, everyone suddenly realized that the truth of the information that had been spreading more and more outrageously through the school was actually like this.

"As for those who spread the rumors, I choose to forgive." An Yinan scanned the room; all those who had spread the rumors, as long as they met her gaze, lowered their heads one after another.

Only now did they realize that they had only opened their mouths, but what kind of harm had others suffered?

"But!"

Just one firm word, and everyone's gaze converged upon her.

"The person who fabricated the rumors..."

An Yinan paused and looked at Zhao Chunzhi, "I will never show leniency!"

Four words, resonant and powerful, falling into everyone's ears, making them feel a chill down their backs.

"What right do you have to say it was me?" Zhao Chunzhi did not have these materials, nor did she know what was on them; at this moment, her only path was to deny it to the end.

An Yinan smiled and just shook her head faintly.

Then she said, "Please bring them up."

An Yinan looked calmly at Li Xiue; Li Xiue smiled gently, then brought a man from behind, and the man was holding a child by the hand.

Seeing so many people, the child hid behind the man, and the man picked the child up.

"Do you recognize them?" An Yinan looked at Zhao Chunzhi.

If she said she recognized them, she might think a little higher of her; it was fine to be bad, one could be clearly and openly bad.

To be so timid even in being bad, she really would look down on her.

"I don't recognize them." Zhao Chunzhi's face turned somewhat pale, but thinking that the man would not dare to defy her wishes, she immediately shook her head in denial.

The child was in his father's arms, looking at the person opposite; that person glared fiercely at him, and the child immediately shrank back into his father's arms.

And all the hope in the man's eyes slowly shattered just like that.

When the university opened, she had told him that she wanted to get into university so she could educate their child well in the future and give the child a good life.

She had taken all the money in the house and left.

Now she said she did not recognize him, nor did she recognize the child.

Was such a person still that person who was as gentle as water?

"Zhao Chunzhi, from Pingyang Village, Xishan County, Wen City, Dong Province; in 1974, as an Educated Youth, she married a villager of Pingyang Village named Wang Dali, and in 1976 gave birth to a son, nicknamed Zhuangzhuang."

"In 1977, she signed up for the College Entrance Examination, and in 1978, she took all the money in the house and came to Beijing University, subsequently sending a letter home demanding a divorce."

An Yinan smiled and spoke calmly of her life story; her smile was so gentle, yet it made people feel so cold.

"Abandoning husband and child, who exactly is it?" An Yinan took a step forward, and Zhao Chunzhi took a step back.

An Yinan smiled and leaned into Zhao Chunzhi's ear, "Has that person not come yet? If he knew about your past, would he still want you?"

"Will he run away? All the criminal charges are on you, after all!"

"Will you be sentenced?"

"Engaging in illicit relations, I wonder if you will have to eat a peanut?"

An Yinan said one sentence after another; Zhao Chunzhi kept searching for the figure in the crowd below, but the person she was waiting for never appeared.

Did he not want her anymore?

He had promised her that as long as she took the blame, he would marry her.

Only he did not mind that she had no money; he said her plain and simple appearance was the most beautiful and pure appearance.

Only he did not mind whether she had been married; he said she had just taken a wrong step, that she had been young and did not understand feelings, and only now did she truly understand.

But, where is he?

At a time when she was surrounded by enemies, where had the man who said he would always protect her gone?

An Yinan smiled; she hadn't expected that harming others would ultimately harm oneself.

And she hadn't expected that someone who could heartlessly abandon her husband and child would actually be a lovesick fool.

"Regret?" An Yinan used only these two words to break through the final line of defense in her heart.

"It's all because of you, An Yinan; from the first day I entered the dormitory, you never let me have a good life."

"I could have been living the high life with Liu Mingxia, so why did you have to go and meddle?"

"I am also a person from the countryside, I am also very pitiful, why do you only pity Ruo Ran?"

Zhao Chunzhi's tears now had no concealment, nor did they have any effect of acting.

It had reached this point, and that person still hadn't come; she already knew the final outcome.

"He isn't coming, are you anxious?" An Yinan pursed her lips and smiled, as if watching a farce.

"He won't not come! Teacher Wei won't not come, he promised me!" Zhao Chunzhi roared, collapsing directly onto the ground, covering her face with her hands, sobbing uncontrollably.

If one had known it would come to this, why act as one did in the beginning?

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