Chapter 981: Beautiful Girl (26)

 After the holidays began, Tang Guo spent only a week finishing all of her vacation assignments.

With the rest of her time, she took on part-time work.

In truth, she was no longer short of money.

The several hundred thousand she had previously invested in the stock market had already multiplied into several million. She was confident that before school started again, that number would definitely surpass ten million.

But that still wasn't enough. Her target was fifty million.

According to her calculations, fifty million should be just about right. It would certainly be enough to help her accomplish all those things.

The system was secretly anxious. Just what kind of trump card was his host holding back? He desperately wanted to know.

Clearly, he was the one closest to Host, the one who spent the most time with her, yet he still couldn't guess what she was planning.

It was the first time he had seen Host so enthusiastic about making money, and through stock trading no less, earning it openly and aboveboard.

But he didn't ask, because even if he did, Host wouldn't tell him.

After lending Tang Guo the money, Xu Meihui noticed that her daughter remained the same as before, with no obvious changes, and finally felt relieved.

She didn't believe that the daughter she had raised would go astray.

Her work kept her extremely busy, and she often had to travel on business.

Every semester, the report card her daughter brought home left her very satisfied.

And in front of her, Tang Guo behaved as usual without showing anything abnormal. Because of that, she still had no idea that the personal attacks directed at Tang Guo at school had already reached their peak.

After all, even an adult subjected to such vicious verbal abuse would more or less reveal something.

Of course, Tang Guo showed no signs of it. Even the original owner had been able to endure everything before Zuo Ran and Wei Liang uttered those words.

What truly hurt her was that the friends she trusted, the two people she believed were the only ones who believed in her, had stabbed her in the back.

And when she learned that everything had been a scheme orchestrated by those two, the thick walls protecting her heart collapsed like a city struck by a raging flood. Her spirit shattered in an instant, and only then did she make such an extreme choice.

Moreover, the rumors hadn't only affected her. They had also harmed the mother who loved her.

In order to help her, her mother had given up her job, only to be criticized, pointed at, and harassed by others.

Unable to bear it any longer, her mind broken and her heart consumed by guilt, she ultimately chose that road with no return.

She couldn't understand it.

She had clearly done nothing wrong.

She had only come to this prestigious high school to study, diligently and earnestly focusing on her own affairs.

Her goal had always been simple—to absorb knowledge and get into a good university.

She had never stood in anyone's way.

So how had she become the target of so many people's attacks?

Why did those people maliciously force things she had never done onto her?

When she stood on the rooftop, looking down at the crowd below, what she heard was—

"So what if the thing about being kept by men got exposed? What's the big deal? Why can't she get over it?"

"Wei Liang and Zuo Ran must've given you plenty of money. You've already been compensated."

"I bet they didn't pay enough. She's threatening to jump so Wei Liang and Zuo Ran will come and give her more money."

"She's way too greedy."

Perhaps it was because she had always appeared so normal.

She had never shown anyone her weak side.

Whatever happened, she buried it deep in her heart. She always believed that everything would eventually pass, that one day she would finally welcome warm sunlight and live a beautiful life.