As the rumors on the campus website became more and more intense, with more and more people hearing about it, the few people in Dorm 506 were also trying to figure out a way to resolve the situation.
Although it felt satisfying to see Wang Haotian and his group get into trouble, it was better to clear up this misunderstanding sooner rather than later. In the past couple of days, they had been treated like exhibit animals, with people staring at them and talking about them. Whenever they approached, the conversations would suddenly stop.
This feeling of becoming famous wasn’t pleasant at all; they all felt very awkward. Besides, they knew the truth of their own situation—it wasn’t like what people were saying.
They had originally planned to contact the campus network administrators, but none of them knew those people or knew where to start.
After discussing it, they decided it would be best to directly post a response under this thread to clarify things.
As for why they didn’t create a new thread to explain, that was because they were afraid no one would see it, and the post would sink into oblivion without serving its purpose.
With this in mind, the few of them stayed in the dorm to begin working on it.
After some discussion, they decided that Xiao Qi would write the main post, while the study genius, Lao Si, would help refine it. The other two would handle comments and lead the discussion once it was posted.
Without wasting time, Xiao Qi opened his smart brain device and started editing the text.
[Dorm 506: Hello, fellow students. I am the so-called “mysterious wealthy person” who has been spreading like wildfire across the school. I never expected to be associated with these four words. All I want to say is that I truly, truly, truly cannot bear the weight of this.
In the past few days, because of this post, both I and my roommates have received a lot of attention, and we are truly flattered. However, I also took a look at this post—it’s well-structured, clearly organized, and the analysis is “quite reasonable.” If I weren’t the person involved, I might have almost believed it myself.
And as for the truth of this matter, I need to clarify it here as well. First of all, I want to emphasize that I am really not some “mysterious rich person.” My family is just an ordinary one—my father is a senior technician at a large factory, and my mother runs a small shop. We’re not the so-called big company bosses or political figures.
Now, at this point, some of you might be asking, if we don’t have any special background and we’re not wealthy, then where did all the products from Lin Jia Store come from? After all, as you all probably know, or have personally experienced, Lin Jia Store’s products are hard to come by. If my family had nothing, I wouldn’t have a box of these products.
But have you considered another possibility? That maybe I have a tiny (really tiny) connection to Lin Jia Store?
We all know that many companies offer employee benefits, allowing them to purchase items at an internal price. So why wouldn’t Lin Jia Store do the same?
Now, you’ve probably guessed it, right? Yes, one of my very good uncles works at Wanwu Sheng Interstellar Ecological Company. You might not be familiar with the name, but if you look it up, you’ll see that Lin Jia Store is part of this company, or more accurately, Lin Jia Store is their online selling platform.
That explains everything—this box of goods was purchased through my uncle’s employee benefits and then given to me.
And that’s the whole story, so really, please don’t misunderstand me. I feel quite awkward with all these assumptions!]
Xiao Qi finished writing in one go and looked at Lao Si. “How’s it? Is there anything that needs to be changed?”
Lao Si, who had been watching him write, didn’t even need to look again and replied directly, “It’s good, done in one breath, and the explanation is clear. I can’t find anything to change. Just post it.”
“Okay, I’ll post it then.”
So, under the hot post on the campus network, a long comment appeared, quickly catching the attention of the students who were refreshing the page.
Li Kai was one of them. He always prided himself on being a surfing master, claiming there wasn’t a hot topic on the internet that he didn’t know about.
So, of course, he had been following this post that was going viral on the campus network. After all, it wasn’t every day that there was news in the school.
Since the post hadn’t received any responses from the person involved, he decided to check the post again in the afternoon to see if there was any new development.
From his surfing experience, he knew that this kind of post usually has one of two outcomes: either the person really is a rich person, or someone is trying to create a persona. The persona may succeed for a while, but based on past examples, it’s more likely to be exposed. It just depends on how long it lasts.
But those kinds of cases were mostly related to entertainment industry rumors, where celebrities create personas to make money. Honestly, he didn’t see much benefit in staging something like this on the school’s small network.
Still, he was curious to see how it would end.
By coincidence, as he was finishing the latest round of comments and preparing to leave the forum, a new long comment appeared.
Because of the settings he had, the latest posts would show up at the top, making this new comment very noticeable.
“Looks like I won’t be sleeping yet,” Li Kai immediately perked up. From his extensive gossip experience, he knew that such a long comment must contain valuable information.
He checked the nickname—oh, it was from the 506 dormitory, and it specifically emphasized that it was from the person involved.
That was a bit unexpected, but not a big deal. He continued reading.
After finishing, Li Kai could only say it was unexpected, but also somewhat logical.
The schoolmates were still too naïve. Here, the person had already come forward with a clear and thorough explanation, leaving no room for doubt.
But student, don’t you know, if this were in the entertainment industry, they wouldn’t give you such a straightforward answer. It would be vague, unclear, and full of twists and turns, leaving you totally confused.
This… is that it? It’s just over this simply?
Although Li Kai was a bit disappointed that his gossip curiosity wasn’t fully satisfied, he quickly realized that this student was just trying to live a peaceful life. As seen from the comments below, the roommate mentioned that they had been so scared by all this that they hadn’t dared to leave their room.
If the person wanted a peaceful life, it was indeed better to clarify things quickly.
But the student was lucky to have an uncle working in a company that was somehow related to Lin Jia Store. In the future, wouldn’t he be able to easily get their products? Li Kai thought about the sweet and refreshing watermelon, the delicious roasted potatoes, and the tomatoes that looked tasty even though he hadn’t tried them yet. He felt a little jealous, and tears of envy started to fall from the corner of his mouth.
After thinking for a moment, he shared the post link in the gossip group he had joined on the campus network.
This was a group he had joined to easily keep up with the gossip. The members of the group shared his interest in celebrity gossip, and they often scoured the web for the latest juicy stories.
Right now, they had been complaining about not having any good topics to discuss, and this post from their school, though not as exciting as the various celebrity drama in the entertainment industry, was still good enough to pass the time.
In Dorm 506, Xiao Qi, after posting his long comment, anxiously waited without knowing what his classmates would say.
The older brother and the third roommate were busy trying to control the comments section, but their expressions didn’t look promising, so Xiao Qi remained on edge.
To be honest, he never expected to be in such a situation, suddenly becoming the center of attention in the whole school. Not only was he being talked about whenever he went out, but he was also being discussed online.
The worst part was that he was given a high label, and many people actually believed it. He could already imagine how much backlash his comment would attract.
Some people just thought he was wrong and naïve, but he didn’t blame himself; instead, he blamed others.
Actually, his thinking wasn’t entirely wrong. Once his comment was posted, it quickly received many replies.
[The Handsomest Guy in the Universe:] “So this is the truth.”
[Star Falling:] “I can’t believe I actually believed it with such sincerity. Turns out it was fake. He’s not a rich guy at all.”
[Starlight Brilliant:] “Who wrote this post? It’s really misleading. If it weren’t for comparing it with the actual comments from the person involved, I wouldn’t have believed it’s fake.”
[Disobedient:] “The person involved should have cleared this up sooner. I even told my friends that our school has a mysterious rich guy. Now it turns out to be fake. What am I supposed to say?”
[Less Than 20,000 Miles:] “What’s going on? I think the person involved just wanted fame so badly, pulling off such a stunt.”
[Hahahahaha:] “Just saying, am I the only one who still envies this person? Having an uncle working at a company affiliated with Linjia Shop is too awesome.”
[Hehe Haha:] “I second that. It’s not just you. I envy that too. A cry from a lowly kid who can never grab such opportunities.”
The comments section gradually started to improve and was no longer one-sided. The older brother and the third roommate finally had some energy to pay attention to the situation in the dorm.
However, they didn’t expect that Xiao Qi and the fourth roommate had already fallen asleep. Were they really this carefree?
It wasn’t that Xiao Qi was carefree. He knew from the expressions of the older brother and the third roommate that the comments section was not looking good, and he was quite worried at first.
But later, he kept reassuring himself, slowly convincing himself, and he actually started to feel much better.
Anyway, the clarification comment had already been posted, and he had said everything that needed to be said. He couldn’t control how others thought; as for the students in school, he didn’t know them, and most of his classmates from his major had eaten his food at some point, so they couldn’t say much more.
With this in mind, he felt a sense of relief and relaxation, unknowingly falling asleep.
As for the fourth roommate, he was always carefree and didn’t care about anything other than studying. He just went to bed on time.
With a helpless shrug, the older brother and the third roommate exchanged looks, checked that the comments section was stable, and went to sleep as well.
Little did they know, a group of star-net users had quietly arrived in the comments section. They came without a trace, left many marks, and quickly moved on to the next place.
That night, Dorm 506 was very quiet, but the star-net was buzzing with activity.
The next morning, Xiao Qi wasn’t woken up by his alarm but by the loud voice of the third roommate.
“Xiao Qi! Xiao Qi! It’s bad! You’re famous again! No, not just you, our entire dorm is famous!”
Xiao Qi, still half-asleep, could only hear “famous, famous” and saw the third roommate hopping around the dorm like his butt was on fire.
“Third roommate, what are you talking about? What’s this about being famous?”
“It’s about the post on the school forum, the one you replied to and clarified yesterday. It got reposted to Star-Net, and the discussion has skyrocketed. It’s now on the trending list and is already in the middle ranks.”
Goodness, that was the moment Xiao Qi fully woke up. He immediately opened his smart device and checked the trending list.
After clicking in, he saw topics like “XX University’s Dorm 506,” “The Best Employee Benefits,” “Do You Want to Be an Employee of Linjia Shop?” and “Everything in the Star Intergalactic Ecological Company”…
These topics, either directly or indirectly related to him, caught Xiao Qi completely off guard. He never imagined things would develop to this point.
He thought everything would end after the clarification yesterday, at most he’d get a few insults, but no, it didn’t end. In fact, it became even more popular and reached the trending list.
Now, it wasn’t just the people from his school paying attention. The trending list was the most famous news platform in the galaxy, with hundreds of billions, even thousands of billions, of people watching.
Thinking about this, Xiao Qi fell back on the bed with a “thud.” He now wished he could just be scolded by the whole school instead of being on the trending list.
He also worried if this would affect Uncle Gan. Sigh, it was all his fault.
Xiao Qi immediately grabbed the smart device that he had thrown aside earlier, opened the trending list, and casually clicked on one of the topics to check it out.
[Heartthrob:] “The employee benefits are indeed enviable. I’ve been trying to get tomatoes for so long, but only got them once. They get them internally without having to fight for them.”
[Stars Fall into My Pocket:] “What’s that? I have a relative working at this company. She posted about the accommodation conditions, let me show you guys.”
Below were several pictures, and Xiao Qi clicked to see them. It was the same four-person dorm, but the beds, cabinets, and blankets were all high-end products. The bathroom and toilet were also equipped with automated new products, much better than their school dorm, which still had the old-fashioned manual ones.
The comment section is full of talent, and someone has already listed the prices for each item. As expected, it’s another set of shocking numbers for many.
But there were also some doubts.
[Robot 1314:] With such good accommodation and benefits, the salary must not be high, right?
[Xingxingluodouli:] You’re actually wrong about this. From what I know, their salary is at least this amount.
[Abandon Darkness, Seek the Light:] Ah, what kind of company is this? I want to go!
[Xingxingluodouli:] It’s not all perfect though. The company is located in a more remote area, so you can’t go back often. You can only go back once in a while.
[Misi Xixi:] What do you mean by “disadvantage”? With such good accommodation, if it were me, I wouldn’t even want to leave.
[Troublemaker:] Wait, how did your relative get hired? I’ve been looking for jobs for a long time, checked all the major job websites, but I haven’t heard of any company hiring.
[Xingxingluodouli:] From what I know, they didn’t post any job openings on the major websites. It’s a partnership with the government, recruiting directly from poor planets. My relative comes from a famous working planet, which was very poor before, but after getting hired, her family situation improved drastically.
[Troublemaker:] Oh, now it makes sense. No wonder I didn’t know about it.
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translation works:
ARTTEDSBGT (After Rebirth The True Eldest Daughter Starts Brewing Green Tea):
main story – completed translating
extras/side stories – i still dont have money and account to access this
ATISIUP:
ongoing
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