510 Sky's anniversary arc (15)
It was Jin who said, “Just because Cai Guiying doesn’t have any enemies doesn’t mean that she cannot be used. Bro never said that anything happened because anybody hated her.”
“Then why?”
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Ai anxiously said as her brows strained, “To target Jun.”
“Say what?” ‘Guiying’ grimaced. “Target Liu Jun through me? And somehow Zixin got involved in this whole mess? Zhou Ai, try to make sense here.”
“No matter how nonsensical it seems, this is the truth,” Jun narrowed his eyes. “Otherwise there was no reason for Bro’s accident to happen and letting you misunderstand me as the MrPerfect talking to you the whole time.”
Ai nodded.
‘Guiying’ was exasperated. Out of all the possible reasons Jun could have given, ‘she’ never imagined he would bring this to the table.
Zixin pursed his lips watching ‘her’ troubled expression. Even to him, it still felt like everything was incredulous to believe. So he could understand Guiying’s situation.
“I…” Zixin intervened albeit with hesitation, “It’s true that I don’t remember anything, but I want to believe in Jun. Everything is confusing to me as well, but I trust that Jun wouldn’t lie about this. Plus, he sincerely loves Ai a lot…He wouldn’t play with Guiying’s feelings like that.”
‘Guiying’ angrily laughed. “Do you know why it’s difficult to trust your cousin? Because this whole situation solely depended on the fact that Guiying left Reading Point. She was harassed by an online stalker, so she left. She didn’t want to bring trouble to her writing career or to Dream High. If she hadn’t left Reading Point, this whole situation would have never happened! You are basing everything that started because of a coincidence.”
Jun tilted his head. “Coincidence? I don’t think so. Tell me. You are Warlord, right?”
‘She’ squinted her eyes.
“After CherryBlossom exited Reading Point, you created a male account by the name of Warlord.”
Did Han Shui tell him…?
“Yeah so what?”
“So why did Guiying not try to contact MrPerfect then?”
‘She’ blinked twice.
“There wasn’t a problem anymore, right? Guiying used a different ID and she could have just told Bro that she is CherryBlossom in reality. Then Bro wouldn’t have had to leave Reading Point. So why did she not tell him?”
That took ‘her’ a few moments to answer. ‘She’ then cautiously said, thinking back to the time when Guiying created Warlord account. “…Because she then realized that MrPerfect wouldn’t believe her. I mean contacting him with a male account and all…she thought MrPerfect would hate her for trying to deceive him which I thought was very stupid to be honest.
She could easily prove that Warlord was CherryBlossom if she just reiterated all the conversation she had with him. Obviously, only MrPerfect would really know that she was telling the truth. But she was afraid that MrPerfect would think somebody would have probably hacked CherryBlossom’s account to deceive him and all. That had really panicked her…”
Jin dryly said, “And why would anybody try to do that? Of all the million people on social media, would somebody bother deceiving two specific people? That too who belonged to Reading Point which is just a small community of some readers and writers. It’s not even Weibo.”
Jun shook his head. “You are not getting the point. Why did Guiying create another account if she wasn’t there as CherryBlossom? She couldn’t tell anybody online that she was CherryBlossom otherwise that defeated the whole purpose of leaving the forum in the first place. She joined despite the harassment because she still wanted to keep in touch with MrPerfect – Bro Zixin, right? Reading Point was the only way because other than an ID, she knew nothing about him.”
‘Guiying’ said nothing but ‘her’ silence was the answer.
“But she still didn’t tell him which makes me simply wonder why? Unless somebody fed that fear into her. With what you just said, I don’t think that Guiying didn’t want to tell MrPerfect that Warlord was CherryBlossom. It was that she was made NOT to tell the truth in the first place.”
‘Guiying’ snorted. “You have got to be kidding me if you think that somebody would be able to manipulate her-“
‘She’ suddenly went quiet mid-sentence.
Ai closely observed her and read ‘her’ gaze. “Your abrupt pause means that you realized something right?”
‘Guiying’ stared at Ai in silence but in the back of her mind, ‘she’ was remembering a certain event and conversation. It was only after then that all of Guiying’s excitement of sharing her identity as CherryBlossom to MrPerfect had deflated like a burst out balloon.
This doesn’t make sense…
Jun smiled, “It’s alright. You can tell if something doesn’t make sense to you at all. I am used to it at this point because somebody has been playing a really big game. It’s all spread out in so many ways that it’s impossible to decipher that everything was actually connected from the beginning.”
Silence.
“Your expression says that I might be right. Cai Guiying was somehow manipulated to stay silent and she didn’t realize it. So do you realize what this means? If her not telling MrPerfect was a part of the plan means that the online harassment she had faced was also a farce.”
‘Her’ eyes widened.
“What!?”
“That was just to force her to leave Reading Point. You are right. It all started when she left Reading Point. But that happened because she faced harassment which means even that was a lie. Such an elaborate plan cannot rely on a mere coincidence, so it wasn’t a coincidence at all.”
‘She’ stiffened.
Jun took a step forward and quietly asked, “That’s why I want to know the name. Directly or indirectly, Cai Guiying must have told somebody of what was going on in her life regarding her and MrPerfect. That’s why she could be manipulated. Who is that person?”