Chapter 582: Reversal
"Ha, she’s too scared to come out now, right!"
Li Mei left the student union office and checked her phone as she walked, constantly monitoring the updates online.
Since her exposé, Chi Youyou hasn’t been seen. Although some of her fan friends did help online, they had no solid evidence, and netizens weren’t buying it.
From start to finish, she was just being scolded by netizens.
The more Li Mei looked, the happier she became. She used quite a few alternate accounts to stir things up, but her strength alone wasn’t enough. Fortunately, there were many netizens who were on the same side as her.
It’s like heaven’s helping me!
The logic of this world is that the weak always have a point!
So she began her exposé by targeting Chi Youyou as a rich person, claiming the ’farm girl’ persona was just an act, a common tactic used by the wealthy to make more money. Then she gradually led people to believe that she was pretending to be poor to snatch scholarships away from the poor.
"Have you heard about Chi Youyou’s situation?"
"Obviously, it’s all over the internet. If it’s true, it’s really too much!"
"Yeah, I used to like her so much! Didn’t expect there was capital backing her in secret."
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As she walked along, listening to the discussions among her classmates, she felt even better and greeted them along the way.
"I’m not talking about that, but about the statement just released on the school’s official website!"
"What statement?"
"Chi Youyou didn’t take anyone else’s scholarship slot at all!"
"Haha, I bet the school has been bought off! Heard her family is really rich!"
"No, Chi Youyou didn’t take any scholarship slots, nor was the school bought off. Instead, the funds Chi Youyou received from attending the international conference last time were donated to the school by her, to be distributed as scholarships to other students!"
Li Mei smiled brightly amid the various insults. The harsher the scolding Chi Youyou received, the happier she became.
However, as she continued listening, the conversation suddenly shifted.
"Really? Could it be just a performance?"
"I watched that livestream last time! One million dollars!"
"Damn! Donated it all to the school? No way!"
"Seems like it was 500,000 dollars, with the other half kept at the research institute as a reserve for research projects. The official website has already made a statement and even mentioned punishing those who spread rumors!"
Donating money to the school for scholarships?
And planning to punish those spreading rumors?
Listening to the discussions around her, Li Mei couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She quickly took out her phone to check the news, but she was so nervous she couldn’t open it after several tries and almost dropped her phone.
Imperial City University V: Below is the result of a one-week meeting focused on the establishment of the Agricultural College’s incentivized research scholarships. Please, all students, take note! Regarding the current false statements online, the school will handle the situation fairly, justly, and openly, providing an explanation to the wide student and netizen community.
The school’s official website issued a straightforward announcement.
The attached image was an open announcement about the new scholarship set up by the Agricultural College, clearly stating it was jointly established by Chi Youyou and the International Agricultural Research Institute, with the funding provided personally by Chi Youyou.
Impossible!
This is impossible!
What she heard was that the scholarship was supposed to be given to Chi Youyou, how did it turn into Chi Youyou providing the scholarship to the school!
She took out her phone, logged into her account, and was about to edit the content and post a comment when Ji Changqing suddenly approached her with two other people.
"Hello, Officer, this is Li Mei."