At the same time, at school.
Yu Jinmo dialed Lin Bai’s phone number for the umpteenth time.
Just like before, the phone rang for a long time, but no one picked up.
Yu Jinmo felt a little uneasy.
She sent a message to Lin Bai: “What are you doing? Why aren’t you replying?”
After the message was sent, there was no response.
The chat window was filled with messages sent by Yu Jinmo, but there was no reply from Lin Bai.
Yu Jinmo swiped the screen and looked at the message she sent.
The first one was a link to the news that was being forwarded.
The rest were all text messages sent by Yu Jinmo.
“Have you seen the trending searches today?”
“The backs of the two people in the news seem to be you and Luo Yang!”
“Are you busy?”
“Lin Bai?”
…
The rest of the messages were basically her asking Lin Bai what he was doing.
However without exception, none of them were replied to.
In the beginning, Yu Jinmo even comforted herself, thinking that Lin Bai was probably busy and didn’t see her texts.
However, a few hours had passed, and there was still no reply, which made Yu Jinmo uneasy.
Lin Bai had never gone without replying her text messages for such a long time in the past.
No matter how busy he was, he wouldn’t ignore her like this.
Could something have happened?
As soon as this thought popped up, Yu Jinmo couldn’t sit still anymore.
She tried to call Luo Yang to ask about Lin Bai’s whereabouts.
After all, Lin Bai had been the closest to Luo Yang during this period of time.
Hence, when she couldn’t contact Lin Bai, Yu Jinmo naturally wanted to ask Luo Yang.
In the end, Luo Yang didn’t answer her calls or reply to her messages.
That made Yu Jinmo even more uneasy.
Her intuition told her that something must have happened.
Moreover, it was Lin Bai and Luo Yang who were both in trouble.
This kind of intuition made Yu Jinmo unable to sit still.
She ran to Lin Bai’s dormitory building and waited for her classmates.
She waited left and right, but she did not see any familiar faces.
Yu Jinmo had no choice but to pull a long face and beg the dormitory manager to let her in.
“Auntie, can I go in and look for my classmates? I’ll come out after saying a few words. I promise I won’t stay, okay?”
Yu Jinmo put her hands together and her attitude was very sincere.
However, the manager of the dormitory building where Lin Bai was staying was a middle-aged woman.
Usually, the middle-aged woman’s attitude was especially friendly when faced with handsome male students.
However, when faced with female students, especially beautiful ones, the middle-aged woman’s attitude was always abnormally hostile.
It was probably because she was old so she was especially jealous of young and beautiful girls.
Yu Jinmo’s appearance was definitely worthy of being the school belle.
Usually, all the teachers and classmates were very friendly to Yu Jinmo.
However, when facing this manager, her youth and beauty became a sin.
The middle-aged woman scanned Yu Jinmo from head to toe several times with a disdainful gaze.
Her gaze made Yu Jinmo feel extremely awkward.
However, in order to find Lin Bai, Yu Jinmo endured it and continued to plead with her.
“Can I really just say a few words and come out in five minutes? Just five minutes?”
If it was any other dormitory manager, they would have already made an exception.
However, the middle-aged woman stared at Yu Jinmo’s flawless face and the jealousy in her heart burned even more fiercely.
“Why can’t you go somewhere else to talk? Why do you have to go to the boys’ dormitory?”
The middle-aged lady in charge of the dormitory questioned in a sarcastic and scornful tone.
“Don’t think that I don’t know what you want to do. I’ve seen a lot of young girls like you! Don’t you just want to be intimate with your boyfriend? If you want to do that, go out and get a room. Why do you have to mess around in the dormitory? What kind of place do you think the school is!?!”
“You’re so young and don’t have any self-respect. I really don’t know what your parents taught you!”
Yu Jinmo had been clenching her teeth and enduring, but when she heard the last sentence, she finally couldn’t take it anymore.
“What right do you have to make such wild guesses?!”
“It’s fine if you slander me, but what right do you have to talk about my parents?!”
Yu Jinmo was furious and humiliated, and her entire body couldn’t help but tremble.
She had been pampered by Yu Jianhao since she was young. When had she ever suffered such injustice?
The manager sneered, “If you’re afraid that others will talk, don’t do such a shameful thing!”
Yu Jinmo was so furious that her entire body turned cold. However, she was too cultured and did not know how to scold others. She could not vent her anger.
“This is slander! Slander!” Yu Jinmo retorted angrily.
The manager scoffed. No matter what she said, she was sure that she was that kind of shameless woman.
Just then, Lin Bai’s other roommate, Sun Xiaogang, happened to pass by and saw the manager imitating Yu Jinmo’s words.
“You are quibbling! Quibbling!!”
Yu Jinmo was so angry that tears were rolling in her eyes. However, she bit her lips and held back her tears.
Sun Xiaogang immediately understood what was going on when he saw this situation.
Who in this dormitory building didn’t know what kind of person the manager was?
Yu Jinmo wasn’t the first girl to be insulted by the manager, and she wouldn’t be the last.
Sun Xiaogang didn’t know those girls from before, so he couldn’t be bothered to meddle in other people’s business.
However, Yu Jinmo was his roommate’s girlfriend, so he couldn’t just stand by and watch.
Sun Xiaogang immediately went forward and blocked Yu Jinmo behind him. He shouted at the housemother,
“What nonsense are you talking about!”
“The school clearly stipulates that girls can enter the boys dormitory after registering, as long as they give a valid reason. It’s the same in other dormitory buildings, but you just won’t allow it.”
“As long as it’s a good-looking girl, you’ll humiliate her in a disasteful manner. You’ll bully a young girl who’s too shy to scold others, right?!”
“You’re just jealous because you’re old and left on the shelves. People like you are really disgusting!”
The manager was used to shouting and bossing others around so her mind had long been twisted.
Now that she was being scolded by Sun Xiaogang, how could she bear it?
“Little bastard! I will teach you a lesson on behalf of your parents today!”
The manager rolled up her sleeves and was about to hit him.
Sun Xiaogang said sternly, “Don’t you dare touch me!”
The manager felt guilty after being yelled at. She did not dare to let go of her raised hand in the end.
After all, she was just a small manager who did not have the right to hit others.
Moreover, Sun Xiaogang looked like someone who was not to be trifled with. If he really insisted on holding her accountable, she would be the one who would suffer in the end.
In the blink of an eye, the manager had already weighed the pros and cons in her heart.
She gave up the idea of making a move on them but she felt very embarrassed. She stood on the moral high ground and accused Sun Xiaogang and Yu Jinmo of not knowing how to respect themselves.
“Do you think your parents spent a ton of money to send you to school, just so that you could have a romantic partner?”