Chapter 4 — My Imaginary Boyfriend

“Do you like the person Wen Shu Fei, or do you like the shadow in your imagination, a person who must be possessed by you and must always revolve around you to explain?” After this sentence rang out, the whole hall was silent. I stood on the stage looking at Van Canh. In his previous life, he also said he liked me. But what is his love? It is arbitrarily binding without permission. It is a voluntary declaration of relationship. It's checking their whereabouts, peeping and questioning. As long as I appear in the same frame with any person of the opposite sex, I am subject to his judgment. Even my family members were dragged into the dirty puddle by him. I picked up the microphone and said, "People say I have a lot of fish." "But every single person that everyone calls 'fish' is my family member." "I don't need to prove to the whole school in advance that I have a brother and sister just to avoid spreading rumors." "I don't even need to erase normal social relationships and explain normal friendships just to make a male student feel secure." "From beginning to end, there are people spreading rumors, people peeping, and people wearing dark disguises." "I've made it clear today." "Next, anyone who needs an explanation can step up."6The first group of evidence began to be distributed. That's the hallway recording. Van Canh's voice rang out clearly: "Who is the man who likes your friend circle every day?" Then came the second brother's voice: "You are not my friend, nor her friend, on what basis do you see the person liking your friend circle?" After the recording ended, the atmosphere in the hall completely changed. Trinh Tu Bach looked down at the stage. "According to the normal rules of social platforms, people who are not friends will not be able to see the user's friend circle, nor can they see the like information of people who are not mutual friends." "Wen Shu Fei and Wen Canh are not friends on the platform." "But Van Canh can accurately say who liked, the time of liking, and the content of many posts in her friend circle." Wen Shu Tuyet stepped onto the stage. She opened another technical report. “I did a preliminary check of Thu Phi's account login history.” “On the night of the system adjustment for the art festival, her account had an unusual login.” “The login device showed signs of camouflage, but the device environment, network address, and time period all matched to a high degree with the commonly used device and activity schedule of her classmate Van.” She paused, her voice cold. "I won't directly draw conclusions here." "But this report has been handed over to the school's cybersecurity department for review. We will also decide whether to pursue further responsibility or not based on the feedback from the platform." Everyone's eyes immediately fell on Van Canh. Finally, he couldn't sit still and suddenly stood up. "You guys are slandering!" Trinh Tu Bach calmly said: "If you don't do it, the school's test results will return your innocence." Van Canh opened his mouth. But no sound came out. The hall was dead silent for a few seconds. After that, the gossip rose like a tidal wave. "So he's always peeping?" "That's too scary." "The image of the school idol is shattered." "This is not a deep love, this is more like a pervert..." Van Canh's face turned pale, he stared at me. I faced his eyes, only feeling funny. The second set of evidence is the first post that spread the news that we love each other. Posting time, content photos and image sources are all consistent

clearly marked. Trinh Tu Bach's tone was still calm: "These so-called ambiguous photos were all cut from school-level public activities." "Adjusting the behind-the-scenes equipment of the school celebration, inter-faculty project meeting and the end of the financial discussion." "In the original photo, there were other staff or students, but the poster deliberately cut out the people in the background, keeping only the two people appearing in the same frame." Image converted. Each original photo appears. Behind the scenes, next to me were four people from the propaganda department. During the project meeting, an entire row was made up of student representatives. In the photo taken at the end of the discussion, Van Canh and I are at least five meters apart. The audience started to stir. Trinh Tu Bach continued: "The school forum management department has coordinated to preserve the original data." "The account that posted the first news and many subsequent public opinion-oriented accounts have logged in multiple times on the same device and the same network environment." On the big screen, a number of anonymous accounts were listed. In the last column, the relevant device information has been hidden, revealing only the academy and part of the student ID. Academy of Communication. The last two numbers are 17. Tham Tri Huynh suddenly raised his head.