The Master's Mask Unveiled Again-Chapter 447 - 446 Do I Need Your Admiration
Chapter 447: Chapter 446: Do I Need Your Admiration?
Chapter 447 -446: Do I Need Your Admiration?
After looking at the list for a while, the person holding it began to tremble, and with a shaking voice, they said, “She didn’t just donate a total of fifty million…
She donates fifty million every year!
Look, here’s the detailed expense report for each year!”
Everyone’s breath was sharply held.
“She didn’t just donate to one Guangming School, but to more than twenty!”
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The expenses listed on the sheet were crystal clear, with each expenditure and each income neatly itemized and plainly visible.
The document even had the tax bureau’s stamp on it; it was simply impossible to forge, and there was nowhere to forge it.
The room was very quiet; more than twenty people didn’t make a single sound, as if they were dead.
Originally, they were there to find evidence of Lu Mian stealing things, but instead of finding any stolen goods, they found evidence of Lu Mian’s charitable donations.
Fifty million!
Fifty million a year, an amount that was truly enormous for them.
They had only heard of such large sums in novels or on TV dramas; this was the first time it had happened to a classmate of theirs, who wouldn’t be shocked?
So at this moment, one answer became very clear…
Lu Mian could easily donate fifty million for charity each year; how could someone like her possibly stoop to stealing ten thousand yuan worth of cosmetics?
Qiao Yaning was deeply furrowing her brow, feeling that something was not quite right.
Qu Weiwei had completely wilted this time.
She hadn’t known about Lu Mian’s identity before, but now that she did, she was starting to feel afraid.
The other party was so wealthy, and so familiar with the investors behind them.
Only now did she realize that she seemed to have made a mistake…
A very big mistake…
As for Fang Xilan, her expression was even more priceless.
She had always thought Lu Mian was from the same world as her.
After Fu Shuangshuang’s corroboration, she was even more convinced that Lu Mian came from a humble background, was poor, and liked to steal.
She originally thought Lu Mian was just like her, or even worse, but now, with these evidences laid out before her eyes, they were slapping her face.
Lu Mian wasn’t poor at all, but rather wealthy!
She bit her lip hard to keep from trembling, and then carefully said, “No wonder she wasn’t willing to be friends with us.
She must be looking down on us, right?
She’s so rich…”
Everyone was too shocked to pay attention to her words when they felt a cold breeze at the door.
They instinctively looked towards the entrance and saw two strong and resolute figures.
The girl was tall and aloof, like frost.
The man was tall and majestic, with the poise of a scholar.
Together, they looked like perfect figures who had stepped out of a painting.
However, at this moment, they had no inclination to appreciate this beautiful scene, only feeling the overwhelming and tyrannical pressure emanating from these two people.
After receiving the message from Tan Tong, Lu Mian hurried over with Xiao Qimo.
She was very reluctant to deal with these things, but she did not expect them to be so excessive; not only had they barged into her room, but they had even really opened up her package.
She walked step by step, and with a hard kick as she passed the door, a loud noise was made that shook everyone’s heart fiercely; everyone realized that Lu Mian was angry, Lu Mian had lost her temper, and it seemed they were in for trouble.
Yes, Lu Mian was indeed very angry, extremely angry.
In the past, she did not bother with these things, but her tolerance only lead these people to become more and more outrageous.
Step by step, she entered the room, looking at the various items in several people’s hands, taking them back one by one and tossing them into the package box again.
“Have you seen enough?” she asked coldly, her words almost bursting through the ceiling, stirring everyone’s heart fiercely.
“Speak up, how should we handle this matter?” Her voice was colder and more sinister.
She then walked over to the coffee table, casually picked up a glass, and had a sip of water.
Xiao Qimo frowned upon seeing this action.
The water was cold.
Tan Tong, after all, was a teacher and could not stand by and watch the situation escalate, so she took the initiative to come out and mediate, “Lu Mian, don’t be too angry.
The main reason is that Qiao Yaning’s things were lost, and they are of considerable value, so they thought…”
Lu Mian interrupted her, “They thought what?”
Lu Mian’s attitude towards the female teacher wasn’t particularly good; although she had sent her a message, that did not mean she approved of her own behavior.
Allowing these students into her room from the start was a mistake.
She ignored Tan Tong and walked straight past her to the group of people around Qiao Yaning.
The ones who voted to open the package were still huddled near her, seeming to band together.
Lu Mian’s gaze swept over them, barely lingering, as Qiao Yaning, the instigator of the incident, tried to explain.
“Lu Mian, you don’t need to be so angry.
Now that we have verified that you’re not a thief, and you also donated so much money, everyone admires you.
The outcome is a good one, isn’t it?”
Lu Mian sneered, and her usually calm demeanor suddenly changed as she threw the glass she was holding with force.
When the glass hit the wall, there was a loud “bang.”
The glass shattered, and the shards that burst out all fell at the feet of the group of girls.
The crowd trembled and huddled even closer together.
“Do I fucking need your admiration?
Do I fucking need this outcome?
Who gave you the right to just barge into other people’s rooms?
Who gave you the authority to open other people’s packages?
Who allowed you to pry into my privacy?”
Fang Xilan spoke up softly, “But this is a good thing, isn’t it?”
Lu Mian gave Fang Xilan a look that seemed to carve into her like a knife, and Fang Xilan instantly lowered her head, moving closer to Qiao Yaning.
Lu Mian shouted coldly, “The outcome of this matter is good because my conscience is clear, but that doesn’t mean what you did was right!”
Her gaze was so icy, when it fell upon someone, it couldn’t help but make their skin crawl.
Qiao Yaning took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said, “I was wrong about this matter, and I apologize to you, but I also lost makeup products worth ten thousand yuan on my side, and I couldn’t just do nothing; you have to understand me.”
Lu Mian did not understand, and even felt disgusted.
“Shouldn’t you report to the police if you lose something?
Shouldn’t you check the surveillance?
If you can solve the case by yourselves, then what’s the point of having police?” Her words were forceful and resonant.
“But…
I also lost something, what’s wrong with searching for my things?
Everyone was in class, only you were left here!”
Lu Mian listened to her words, nodded, and thought, she really wouldn’t admit she was wrong.
“Fine, searching for things, is it?
I’ll help you search.”
After saying that, she looked at Xiao Qimo at the door, her tone still cool but softer than before, “Could you please get the surveillance footage for me?”
The crowd was unclear about the relationship between these two, but from their tone of voice, they inferred that Lu Mian seemed to be an even bigger deal than that investor.
Tan Tong stepped forward, “Lu Mian, this is Yangfan Hotel; surveillance footage isn’t that easy to get your hands on.
Let’s calm down and discuss this, shall we?
We’re all classmates!”
Lu Mian’s smile grew more mocking, with a wild arrogance in her eyes and subtle bloodshot traces.
“Teacher, when they barged into my room, did they treat me like a classmate?
Besides, I am helping to find things,” she said.
As she said this.
“What’s the truth of the matter?
It’ll be clear very soon.”
When Lu Mian finished speaking, Fang Xilan couldn’t help trembling a bit.
Getting surveillance footage from Yangfan Hotel indeed was not easy.
But that was for others, for Xiao Qimo it was merely a phone call away.
Soon, someone from the surveillance room delivered the video, even bringing a laptop for them to watch it on.
Lu Mian took the laptop, and since the events had started today, she sped up the video by dozens of times.
While others had barely seen anything, she had already moved to the next scene.
The playback speed she chose was fast, and in very little time she found the key video.
She tapped the keyboard to reset to normal speed, her lips curled in a wicked smile, coldly commanding, “Watch it yourselves.”
Qiao Yaning and Qu Weiwei walked over, and the rest of the crowd gathered to see as well.
As soon as they saw it, their gaze quickly turned to Fang Xilan.
Fang Xilan took a few steps back.
Qu Weiwei suddenly stood with her hands on her hips and said fiercely, “Fang Xilan, it was you who stole the makeup!”
Fang Xilan waved her hands, “No, I didn’t, I’m not the thief.”
“The surveillance is crystal clear; look for yourself!”
Indeed, the video clearly showed Fang Xilan taking the delivery, then entering her own room, what happened inside was unknown, but everyone clearly saw her take away Qiao Yaning’s package.
Because the brand name was written on the box, the same brand that Qiao Yaning had purchased.
The facts spoke louder than words; Fang Xilan was left with no room to argue.
Qu Weiwei was furious, feeling like she had been played for a fool.
“You’re still acting innocent here.
It was you who told us Lu Mian used to be a thief, suggesting we search her room.
You’re really shameless; you’re the real thief yet crying ‘stop thief’!”
“Is your family so desperately poor that you even steal makeup products?”
Qu Weiwei’s rapid-fire accusations hit Fang Xilan’s sore spot dead on.
Fang Xilan stepped back several paces, still angry and her body shaking, “How can you all do this?
You…
Why are you all bullying me like this?
Just because my family is poor?
Do you look down on me, do you all deliberately bully me?”
Qiao Yaning rubbed her temples wearily, “It was you who took my things, and then you slung mud at Lu Mian; how did this become us bullying you?”
Fang Xilan wasn’t listening; she pointed at Qiao Yaning, trying to justify herself, “I didn’t steal your things.
You were the one who said before, once the products arrived, to let everyone try them out.
Did you forget your own words?
I just took them to my room wanting to try them out, what’s wrong with that?!”
She said this quite righteously.
In her eyes, everyone else was wrong, only she was right.
Even as she spoke, she started to cry.
“Call the police then, after you call the police, I will tell them about the campus violence you committed, how you look down on me!”
No one expected that at this point, Fang Xilan still refused to admit her wrongdoing.
I’m weak, therefore I’m right?
Lu Mian simply leaned against the desk, quietly watching all of this unfold.
Xiao Qimo took a few steps into the room, also tired of their bickering.
His gaze didn’t seem to settle on anyone in particular, but every individual felt the overwhelming and irresistible pressure, as if compelled to kneel from their very bones, just like in the presence of an emperor of old.
He walked to the center and said calmly, “Apologize.”
