Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

In the evening, they approached the nurse, who had indeed changed her statement and accused Gu Jiujiu to bribe her to become her witness when she was not. Unfortunately, they had to give up on saving Gu Jiujiu. There was a huge gathering and results were presented to everyone. The witnesses came, cross questioning happened. Bai Yuchen also gave his statement much to chagrin of Gu Layue and Wang Hao who were praying that this whole thing would get called off.

Gu Jiujiu was pronounced as the culprit and motive became framing Mei Qingyang. Gu Layue shed a bunch of tears, part scolding Gu Jiujiu and part appreciating her efforts for her sake. The punishment was to be given by Mei Qingyang per the rules book of the school. It was to be decided later, after consulting with Yu Rong. Gu Jiujiu had just become a listless person after the nurse had backed out of her earlier statement. She already knew she was doomed, so she didn't even listen to anything.

Later, when Mei Qingyang went to meet an already isolated Gu Jiujiu, she was met with a few weak punches from the girl and a lot of sobs and tears.

"I trusted you, and this is what I get? I should have stuck with my cousin only then.", Gu Jiujiu cried.

"I am sorry Ms. Gu. I tried my best. Even I did not know things will turn out this way. Nonetheless, I do have a proposal for you.", Mei Qingyang spoke in a very serious tone.

"What! What more do you want? Should I die now?", Gu Jiujiu yelled at her in anguish.

"Uhh… Kinda yeah", Mei Qingyang explained her the plan. Gu Jiujiu started crying more loudly as she went into details.

"You mean to say I won't be able to even use my servant? How am I going to survive?", she cried.

"Isn't it better than me punishing and humiliating you in front of the whole school and then you being outcasted and perhaps bullied by everyone?", Mei Qingyang painted the whole bleak picture in front of the girl. It was true though. Once she was announced at the murderer, everyone would become her hater although they themselves might be involved in such activities regularly. More than anything, they would trouble her for being caught after her deed, that too by a poor person.

"Oh God. This wouldn't have happened if you had done your investigation properly.", Gu Jiujiu gave a hate glare to Mei Qingyang.

"See. I do admit I was careless. But you should be clearer than anyone who has the power here to prove you the criminal when you had a perfect alibi. At this point of time, it would be even pointless to explain them that you could not really have done that in that much time. Unfortunately, according to the postmortem report, it happened in the window when you and I were away.", Mei Qingyang explained. It was a pity that popular opinion swayed against Gu Jiujiu so much that no one wanted to listen about how Gu Layue and Wang Hao and that guy were without any explanation of their whereabouts. Gu Jiujiu understood this very well too. She just needed to vent her frustration. She was basically throwing her life away for her cousin. Was this the debt she owed her?

"Okay. I will do as you say. Just one condition. Please take care of my family too.", Gu Jiujiu pleaded.

"You think you have liberty to negotiate at this point?", Mei Qingyang put her hand on her waist and turned around to leave. Gu Jiujiu wanted to catch her but stopped. Now she did not have any rights.

She was as good as a servant now. "Don't worry, they are being taken care of as well.", Mei Qingyang spoke over her shoulder and flashed a big smile. Gu Jiujiu felt like a heavy weight had been lifted off her c.h.e.s.t. She sat down in relief and smiled.

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"Hey sister Qingyang. Are you leaving?", the servant girl looked up when she saw Mei Qingyang entering her room and flashed a cute smile.

"Yeah. I am leaving. But I am really disappointed with what you did.", Mei Qingyang said with her eyes full of sadness.

"Wha… what are you talking about?", her eyes darted around as if she was hiding something.

"I know you were behind the killing. The case is over and an innocent soul got convicted because of you. Her whole career, her whole life is ruined now.", Mei Qingyang informed her with a straight face, without any emotions whatsoever.

"And what about my life? Am I not important? What wrong did I do? That abominable creature.", the girl's face was full of rage but she had no remorse.

"And? Are you happy after your meaningless revenge? What was the use of killing a guy who was already in a vegetative state?", Mei Qingyang crossed her arms. She was still standing in the room facing the girl.

The girl lowered her head. She had no answer to the question. Was she happy? She did not know.

"When did you know?", she asked.

"Since the beginning. I know the servants at the school are trained in some medical knowledge. I observed a few inconsistencies in the guy's room. I was late in meeting you since I was helping Mr. Bai. That also means, you do not have any alibi either.", Mei Qingyang answered.

"I understand, you do not need to say anymore. Will you tell it to the mistress?", she looked up again and inquired with a concern.

"I am not going to tell on you. But know this, I have no plans to associate with you from now on. A person who is so selfish that they would not think about the consequences to their benefactor is just a useless person. You should have thought earlier how it was going to affect Fan Ruyi. Unfortunately, you failed to do so. You are still a life she saved, so I don't want her to be too disappointed.", She started walking towards the door.

The girl stood up from her bed and bowed towards Mei Qingyang, "Thank you very much for saving my life." Mei Qingyang left the room without looking back.

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Mei Qingyang visited the mortuary to visit the dead body.

"I am sorry, I cannot reveal the truth behind your death. In your last moments too, you were ultimately just a tool for people. I pity you and all others in the school. I do promise you though, one day, I will crush this system.", she bowed to the cadaver in respect.

Yu Tian was standing outside, listening to the girl. A small smile floated on his face as he left the place.