Chapter 749: Rural Absurd Tales Chapter 749: Absurd on the Surface, Actually Driven by Interests

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Li Jianjia felt Lan Xiaomeng was frightening, yet she had to admit that what she said made some sense.

At least from her and Liang Lina's perspective, everything they did was merely to avoid anything unfavorable happening to themselves.

"Heh, I don't care about you anymore; do whatever you want."

Li Jianjia dragged her heavy luggage out of the dormitory door; from then on, she would live alone.

Although the school assigned her a dormitory every year, the university atmosphere was loose back then, so even if she moved out, no one would stop her.

Not long after Li Jianjia moved out, she rarely had any interaction with Lin Yuan, Lan Xiaomeng, Liang Lina, and the other two.

Because the university used a class-based system with no fixed seats for each class, not living together naturally made it hard to have any interaction.

However, Li Jianjia didn't feel anything uncomfortable about it; on the contrary, she enjoyed this solitude. Besides studying every day, she just chatted with Xiao Hua, keeping to herself, which made her seem colder and harder to approach in others' eyes.

It was more than a month later when she heard news of Lin Yuan again.

During a major class, the deskmate beside her discussed Lin Yuan in a low voice, saying she had jumped from a building but didn't die, only severely injured.

Hearing this news, Li Jianjia's heart trembled slightly, but only slightly; then she buried herself in studying again and showed no excessive emotion.

After class, Lan Xiaomeng and Liang Lina, sitting in the back row, suddenly came to the front row to find Li Jianjia and asked if she wanted to go to the hospital to see Lin Yuan together.

Li Jianjia immediately and decisively refused:

"No, I'm very busy."

Liang Lina said instead:

"Lin Yuan is in a tough spot now. Her family isn't well-off, and it's probably hard to cure her. We're contacting the class monitor and counselor to see if we can mobilize the whole class to donate money for her."

Li Jianjia, expressionless:

"Then you go do it. Tell me when it's done, and I'll donate one hundred yuan to her then."

Liang Lina was stunned, somewhat displeased:

"Jianjia, how can you be so cold-hearted? Lin Yuan is at least your roommate."

Li Jianjia didn't refute anything.

Instead, Lan Xiaomeng advised Liang Lina:

"Lina, don't put it so harshly. Jianjia lent Lin Yuan three thousand five hundred yuan before, and Lin Yuan probably hasn't paid it back yet."

Lan Xiaomeng then asked Li Jianjia:

"Jianjia, don't you want to know why Lin Yuan jumped from the building?"

"No." Li Jianjia answered curtly, "I'm not interested in these things."

Actually, even without Lan Xiaomeng saying so, Li Jianjia could guess a bit, so she had no interest in listening to these gossip at all.

But Lan Xiaomeng still had to say:

"Lin Yuan was deceived by her boyfriend again. He's a big liar, a total scumbag! Didn't Lin Yuan use the money you lent her to pay off online loans before? Later, her boyfriend coaxed her into borrowing other online loans, and she was overdue and couldn't pay them back. As a result, interest rolled over interest—she borrowed a few thousand yuan, which snowballed into tens of thousands. She was harassed by debt collectors every day, her contact list was exposed, and when her parents found out, they not only didn't understand her but also called to scold her. She couldn't figure it out for a moment and jumped from the building."

Li Jianjia felt no surprise at all. Lin Yuan deserved it. She had reminded her early on; if she didn't believe it, fine, but she even turned her back on people.

Lan Xiaomeng added:

"Now the police have intervened and found that scumbag. They discovered he wasn't a student of Sun Yat-sen University at all—just a scammer who often hung around University Town! However, that scumbag refuses to admit he's a scammer. He insists he and Lin Yuan were in a romantic relationship and admits borrowing money from Lin Yuan, but he didn't say he wouldn't pay it back. He also said Lin Yuan borrowing online loans was her own decision and had nothing to do with him. He only just paid Lin Yuan those few thousand yuan today, but those few thousand yuan aren't even enough for medical expenses. What good is that?"

Li Jianjia suddenly looked up and said:

"This is an organized, premeditated scammer who, in the name of dating, induces female university students to take out campus loans. You should have the police investigate past nude loan cases; surely they can find traces of him using romance as a means to induce other female university students to borrow online loans."

Liang Lina was surprised:

"How do you know?"

Li Jianjia said:

"I guessed. Not guaranteed to be true, but check it out—maybe they can really catch the other party's criminal evidence, and then Lin Yuan's medical expenses might be compensated by the other party."

Lan Xiaomeng hurriedly said:

"Then I'll go tell the police later."

Li Jianjia asked at this time:

"By the way, didn't the police pursue the responsibility of that campus loan platform?"

Lan Xiaomeng laughed dryly:

"How could they pursue it? They're an internet finance innovation platform. The law currently doesn't stipulate that they're not allowed to do this. This online loan platform is different from the last one—this one didn't make her take out a nude loan, just made her take a photo holding her ID card. They're very legitimate, and they're backed by a big platform, a subsidiary of a domestic leading internet company."

"Oh, heh."

Li Jianjia smiled and said nothing more.

That evening, Li Jianjia returned to the rental house and talked about this with Xiao Hua, sighing with emotion:

"Xiao Hua, these online loans, especially the so-called campus loans, anyone with eyes can see they're usury that harms the country and the people. I don't know how many female university students have been ruined by these things. Why is there no law to sanction them? Isn't this too absurd!"

Xiao Hua also sighed with emotion:

"These are indeed harmful things, but money comes too fast. Plus, internet finance is just starting to develop, and domestic laws are still imperfect. Under wild growth, there will definitely be people who will do anything for money. In the end, it's still a lack of regulation."

【55】 That period was the craziest time for online loans, and also an absurd time when usury, aided by internet platforms, openly appeared in public view. I don't know how many families were ruined because of this.

Xiao Hua thought that if he became an official in the future and happened to be in charge of this area, he would definitely not allow these usury platforms under the banner of financial innovation to appear!

But after a surge of hot-blooded enthusiasm, he thought again: if he were really placed in that position, could he really do that? He was no longer sure.

Some things look absurd on the surface; even a fool would know they're wrong, yet they can still survive unscathed. There's only one reason: the interests involved behind them are too complex.

All the absurd people and absurd things in this world—if you can't see the reason or understand the principle behind them, just think in terms of interests, and you'll easily find the truth.

All the absurd people and absurd things in this world—if you can't see the reason or understand the principle behind them, just think in terms of interests, and you'll easily find the truth.

And the truth is often what makes people feel the most Despair.

Because as an individual, one is too insignificant; even Knowing, one cannot change anything.