Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 206 The Unspeakable Past

Yu Ru suddenly fainted and did not wake up until the next night.

She lay on the bed, opened her eyes and looked up at the sky, and found that the position she was in was a little strange and familiar. The bed was the same as the one she slept in Yugui Garden, a bunk bed, but the style and pattern were different. So she slowly turned her head to look to the side, observing other places. Through the gaps between the patterns, she saw the figure of Yunjixing, who was sitting in front of the desk typing on the computer, looking like he was working.

She understood that this was the Jiuxiao Pavilion of the old house. So, she was safe now, and she closed her eyes again. Perhaps it was because she had been lying down for too long, or because she hadn't eaten, her head was dizzy and her body didn't want to move at all.

Yun Jixing, who was sitting at the desk, was not working, but checking people. One of his work focuses was information technology in the high-tech industry, so he was familiar with computer languages, but not as good as Yu Ru. But checking people was not difficult for him.

Now, he is investigating Deng Huairou.

After Sister Shan came back, she played him the recordings from the ceremony. Deng Huairou's vicious words frightened him. He had currently listed Deng Huairou as a key target of attention, equivalent to Yun Xuezhongkai and Lan Youde, and had specially arranged people to investigate Deng Huairou's interpersonal relationships. He himself hacked into all her social accounts to check what she had posted in previous years.

Deng Huairou likes to post selfies, and 80% of the things she posts on her social media accounts are her own photos. These photos are often accompanied by a caption that gives people goosebumps. In simple terms, the content is just whining and complaining.

Yun Jixing felt visually fatigued after watching these things, and he couldn't help but frowning. Especially when he saw the photo of Deng Huairou smiling happily, he felt even more annoyed. He wanted to reach into the screen and slap her a few times.

After looking at hundreds of her selfies, he finally determined that Deng Huairou had been living a comfortable life all along, without posting anything special, and her image was that of a beautiful, rich and successful woman in life. She came from a wealthy family, had a successful career, married a wealthy and kind husband, and had a very smart son.

These things were meaningless, so he stopped reading them and instead wrote a few lines of data search code into the computer, directly digging out her things from seven or eight years ago, including the content she had deleted.

The first piece of data was a video. When he clicked on it and enlarged it, he saw Yu Ru in it. He subconsciously glanced at the bunk bed and vaguely saw the person still lying on the bed, so he retracted his gaze and continued watching the video.

The video was shot from the front, directly facing Yu Ru's face. Yu Ru was wearing a school uniform, carrying a schoolbag, wearing a mask on her face, and looking at the camera with cold eyes. A few seconds into the video, a voice was heard, a female voice with a smile on her face.

"Hey, good student, are you going to study again? Where are you going?"

Yu Ru immediately turned around and left, but suddenly four or five people who looked like young people from society rushed out in front of him. Three men and two women, all with colorfully dyed hair and tattoos on their arms, two of them were holding cigarettes between their fingers.

"Hey, hey, hey, drag her to the entrance of the alley over there." The female voice at the beginning spoke again. It should be Deng Huairou's voice.

The place where they were now was like an old residential street. There were not many pedestrians on the road, but there were still people. Those passers-by who passed by them just stopped for a while to look at their situation, without asking too many questions, and left after a few glances. Some people were sitting at the door of their own store, just watching, and did not say anything to stop them.

Yu Ru wanted to leave, but two men grabbed her arms and dragged her into a small alley with a puddle of stinky water. Yu Ru was like a piece of garbage, being dragged and thrown into the puddle.

"You, two of you hold her hands, two of you hold her legs, don't let her move." Deng Huairou spoke again.

Yu Ru was pinned down by them. At this point in the scene, the camera angle was lowered and the photographer squatted down. A hand wearing a ring roughly pulled off Yu Ru's mask, exposing Yu Ru's scarred face to everyone.

"Oh, so this is what you look like. No wonder you always wear a mask, you turn out to be ugly. Come on, let me take a few pictures of you, so that everyone can appreciate the true appearance of you, the top student in the grade. Hahahahaha..."

Deng Huairou took out a small camera, took a few pictures of Yu Ru, and then started slapping her face wildly.

"You ugly bastard, what are you pretending to be? Who will pay attention to you when you act so noble? Bitch! Speak up, why don't you speak?"

Deng Huairou slapped Yu Ru's face over and over again. The force was not too strong, but later on, she increased the force. Yu Ru's face became red and swollen.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot that you are a mute and can't speak. Oh, forget it, it's really boring..."

The camera slowly moves up, and the viewing angle becomes higher again.

"You guys, take off her clothes, so I can see if she has any scars on her body?"

Seeing this, Yun Jixing pressed the pause button. He was so angry that his hands were shaking. He couldn't bear to watch any more. He clenched his hands into fists, and the veins on his arms bulged. He raised his hands and wanted to smash them hard on the table to vent his anger, but he didn't do it. He raised his hands high and finally put them down gently.

He turned around to look at where Yu Ru was sleeping, staring at the figure vaguely visible through the gauze curtain for a while. Then he returned his gaze to the computer screen, calmed himself down, and continued to watch the video.

Yu Ru was held down by someone, and her outer clothes were taken off by force, leaving only her underwear. The perpetrators around her burst into amazement and laughter, and some took advantage of the opportunity to touch Yu Ru's body. Yun Jixing held his breath and stared at the screen, expecting a miracle to happen in the next moment.

However, it did not.

After Yu Ru was stripped of her clothes, the people laughed at her for a while, then started to punch and kick her. Four or five people surrounded her and beat her up. After about three minutes, Yu Ru found a stone with one hand, grabbed her and smashed it on one of the people's heads, causing the man's head to bleed. The beating ended.

"Oh my, a good student wants to kill someone! That doesn't mean he's that good, he's too violent. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

The video ends here.

……

After reading all the things Deng Huairou sent, Yun Jixing finally understood why Yu Ru became like this. Deng Huairou alone had caused her incalculable damage.

Deng Huairou hired people to beat up Yu Ru and spread the video of her being bullied. However, the copywriting described that Yu Ru was the first to bully others, and now she deserved to be beaten. In her account, Yu Ru was described as a girl who had no self-respect, insidious and cruel, cheated in exams, seduced other people's boyfriends, fought, bullied classmates, abused animals, worshipped money, was shameless, became a prostitute for money at a young age, and contracted a sexually transmitted disease. In order to confirm the rumors that she was not clean, she also hired someone to use AI face-changing technology to replace Yu Ru's face in obscene videos and spread them.

In short, she is the root of all evil.

These are just the contents presented on the account. There are definitely quite a few things in reality that he doesn't know. In one day, he read about Yu Ru's experiences in the past eight years, and that was only part of it. He was not sure if he had the courage to read the rest. In fact, he didn't need to read it, he understood it. No wonder Yu Ru told him that it was a pain that she could only get out of on her own.

He could understand it firsthand, because in his previous life, after his family died out, he had been bullied by others. That kind of hatred could not be resolved by others, and could only be resolved by oneself.