Under the cold, piercing gaze of Lu Jingming and Yang Bin, a cold sweat broke out across Gu Ruo’s back. Her lips trembled involuntarily as she spoke in a strained voice, “I… when my sister first returned from the countryside, she didn’t really dress up. She certainly wasn’t as pretty as she is now.”
“Besides, when people in the group chat asked me about her, I just said she was average. As for those people calling her ugly, that was just their own wild speculation. I never said those things, so how can you blame me?”
Gu Ruo considered her words reasonable and well-founded, attempting to cast herself as an innocent victim. Yet, deep down, she felt guilty.
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