In this world, nothing is ever truly fair.
A rumor about a man is often treated as a triviality; even after much time has passed, people might mention it with a smirk, dismissing it as nothing more than a flirtatious escapade. But the very same rumor, if cast upon a woman, becomes a blade that shreds her reputation, a ticking time bomb that clings to her like flesh-eating bacteria, always threatening to detonate at any moment.
As Jiang Xiaojie pointed a finger at Ling Lu and shrieked that she had seduced someone else's fiancé, the hallway plunged into a dead silence. The eyes of the onlookers turned into knives, all leveled at Ling Lu. The sound of whispering spread through the air like the rising clamor of rain.
Chapter 258