YM778.TV Chapter 44: Reputation
Chapter 44: Reputation
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Li Xianyu was woken up by his form teacher and disciplinary department’s phone calls. The people engaged in education work had a lot of persistence. After making dozens of calls, they finally gave up, and his form teacher sent him a text message. The summary was that they told Li Xianyu’s parents, but they were abroad so they hoped that Li Xianyu could go to school.
The school attached great importance to the matter. If Li Xianyu recognized his mistake and had a good attitude, the school would reduce his punishment accordingly.
Li Xianyu munched on his pancake as he read the text message. Great-Grandma, who was beside him, leaned over, her soft body leaning on him. “Do they want you to go back to school for a caning?”
She emitted a fragrance of soap and shampoo, and, of course, a smell of scallions. A combination of pancakes with scallions was Great-Grandma’s favorite way to eat it.
“They would be letting me off with just a caning. Great-Grandma, when you went to school in the past, was there such a thing as being expelled from school?”
“Nope. I studied in the clan’s school hall.” Great-Grandma’s cheeks were full as she garbled, “When I was ten years old, my elders didn’t let me go to school.”
“There seems to be regret in your tone?”
“Well, the elders attached so much importance to me that they didn’t give up on me until I was ten years old. Otherwise, I would have stopped studying at the age of eight. It was painful to study.”
“What’s my dad’s education level?”
“He finished high school.”
“My dad didn’t get into college?”
“His cultivation would be affected if he had studied, so I didn’t let him go to college after high school.”
“Great-Grandma, if only you had raised me from an early age. We can form a team of legendary immortals, why do we have to study?”
As they were bantering, the cell phone rang again.
Caller ID: Dad.
“What the heck is wrong with you, is your skin itching because I haven’t whacked you in so many years? I shouldn’t have let you go out and live alone, making you as out of control as a runaway dog. Just you wait. I’ll beat you to death when I get back. You’re not my own son anyway.” As soon as the call connected, his father roared loudly.
It was perfectly normal for a father to reprimand his son. Li Xianyu listened in silence.
“Just you wait, let me find a secluded place and call to scold you again,” his father’s voice rang. “Honey don’t persuade me. I must give him a piece of my mind.”
A moment later, his adoptive father’s voice rang, and his tone was relaxed. “Not bad, you could get up to hanky-panky with your girlfriend in the female toilet. Your thought determines your future indeed, you’re a bigger player than your dad when I was young.”
“Mum’s not there?” LI Xianyu asked exasperatedly.
“She was so mad with you, and of course I can only cooperate by giving you a harsh scolding. After all, you are still too young. People come and go in the dormitory toilet, you are asking for trouble. The teacher called me. Your mother means to return home tonight, but I don’t think it’s necessary at all. You can handle it yourself. It is very expensive to go abroad, and getting a holiday is even more rare. It is not cost-effective to give up our vacation for you, little red guy. There is the sun, the sea, the beach and cacti here, it’s awesome.”
Where did you go on holiday, Grandma’s Penghu Bay?
I’m not your biological son indeed.
But it was just in line with Li Xianyu’s wishes, he said, “Dad, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it myself.”
“Well, that would be the best.” His adoptive father said, “Ah, by the way, be prepared to get less allowance. Your mother is really angry this time. Anyway, I won’t secretly shove you money in the future.”
“I don’t need it, there’s no need.” Li Xianyu said sadly, “f there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up.”
After the phone call, Li Xianyu quickly gnawed at the pancake and opened the chat application, which had been spammed.
Yang Guangtai: “What the hell, we agreed to be single dogs together. When I realized my dream with my hands in bed, you and your female classmate were having sex in the toilet?”
Get out, they all say that single dogs and single aristocrats are not the same.
Huang Yicong: “Have you come to school yet?” Why aren’t you here yet? You’re getting expelled, you know? The whole school is talking about you.”
Come, so you can whip my corpse? I, Li Xianyu, am at least a respectable man.
Zhao Yi: “*looks at the sky* You can really play. I don’t even dare to go so wild with my girlfriend.’
In addition, there was a lot of gossip from friends who he was not familiar with. Li Xianyu didn’t bother to look at their messages, let alone answer. He deleted the list of messages.
In his social media, everyone was spamming about his feat in the ladies’ washroom last night.
The center of attention was the campus forum, and today’s top post was of course, his:
“# BREAKING, Finance student and his girlfriend were caught on the spot in the ladies’ dormitory’s public toilet, and hundreds of people watched#”
There were more than a dozen photos of Li Xianyu in short sleeves and something wrapped around his head, charging out of “army” in the girls’ dormitory, as well as a video.
Of course, there was a close-up photo of him wanting death. There was a picture, which represented the truth in many’s eyes. The number of responses to the post reached an astonishing more than two thousand.
“If I remember correctly, someone just died in that toilet the night before yesterday, right?”
“Respect, he truly knows how to play. How exciting.”
“Great men come out from every batch of students in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and all of them are in the Department of Finance.”
“How did he get into the female dormitory? It’s terrible. What if he targets us, I’ll call the police.”
“The school won’t let us call the police, they want to keep the news under wraps.”
“I know Li Xianyu, but I didn’t expect him to be such a person.”
“You don’t know, Li Xianyu is a pervert and very wild. He always brags about this conquests in private, an utter asshole.”
“Yes, he also said that all the girls in our school have no brains, but he might as well just sleep with us for the sake of it.”
“Bah, scum.”
“Am I the only one who thinks the girl is really beautiful?”
Li Xianyu silently put down his mobile phone, sadness deep in his heart. He had studied so hard for 10 years and no one asked. But now, he was notorious for this act and the whole school knows about him, Li Salted Fish’s brilliant deeds.
There were some extremely nasty comments and malicious slander. Boys who were jealous and envious were spreading rumors.
“I want to drop out of school, I don’t want to study anymore.” He grit his teeth and dialed Lightning King’s telephone number. “You must be responsible for me, Lightning King. The company must be responsible for me, boohoohoo..”
Li Xianyu sent the forum post to Lightning King’s mobile phone, where he was quiet for a moment. Lightning King said, “This incident happened because of the task. The company will be responsible for the aftermath. It’s okay. You just go to school normally.”
“Did you neglect something very important?” Li Xianyu asked seriously.
“What is that?” Lightning King asked.
“Reputation, what about my reputation?” Li Xianyu said, “Is my reputation worthless?”
Realization suddenly dawned on Lightning King, “Watching them send your memes in the group every day, I forgot that you actually have a reputation.”
Li Xianyu was speechless.
Lightning King said, “But there is nothing we can do about it. After all, freedom of speech. Think of it as making a little sacrifice for your work.”
Li Xianyu said, “Then I better drop out of school.”
Lightning King said, “Alright, how about this. You don’t have to go to school these days, even if you don’t go to school in the future. We’ll take care of the degree for you.”
Li Xianyu said, “If only you could compensate me with mental distress fees.”
Lightning King said, “I’m busy. I’m hanging up.”