"I had no idea what was happening. One day, I was just suddenly being judged by everyone."

The male who had confessed his feelings to her had made a post right before he died.

In the post, he detailed all the ways he had been bullied recently, like being cornered and beaten in places with no surveillance cameras, and having trash dumped at the foot of his dorm bed.

Finally, he mentioned his failed confession, stating that he never thought he would be driven to a dead end just for liking someone.

He also added that he had never pestered her, so he couldn’t understand why he had earned her hatred.

The entire post was less of a complaint and more of a suicide note, filled with accusations against Xiong Yuanyuan.

He didn’t think confessing to her was a case of a toad lusting after a swan. He wasn’t exactly a prize, but Xiong Yuanyuan wasn’t some exceptional female herself.

They were both stuck in the same mud, so he truly didn’t understand why Xiong Yuanyuan would be so angry—angry enough to want him dead.

And then, he really did die.

When Xiong Yuanyuan was faced with everyone’s accusations, she was completely stunned.

She was genuinely busy and wasn’t close to anyone, often seen hurrying alone across campus.

So when the incident occurred, everyone naturally believed the victim.

The biggest factor was that the males who did the bullying actually claimed they were doing it to get revenge for her.

In the end, because Xiong Yuanyuan was not a direct bully and the male had died by suicide, she received no punishment.

As for the bullies, they were only considered accomplices and were only guilty of assault. The one with the harshest sentence was only given three years in prison.

Naturally, the deceased’s family could not accept this outcome.

No matter how little males were favored, he was still their child. Furthermore, the male’s family had no daughters.

His mother had given birth to three males, and he was the only Beastman among them.

The entire family had been waiting for him to support them, and now he was gone.

One could only imagine how devastating the blow was.

Thus, the family grew to hate Xiong Yuanyuan. The male’s mother began to stalk her like a vengeful spirit.

It forced the Xiong family to move away secretly one night, and they only had peace for two or three years.

Then, someone suddenly sent them a message, telling them that Xiong Yuanyuan was on this show and would very likely debut as a singer.

How could they let that happen? Their child was a pile of ashes, while the murderer was about to become a star? How could they accept that?

So, with the help of certain interested parties, they came forward and exposed the whole affair.

「...」

After she finished speaking, Xiong Yuanyuan was already weeping into her hands.

Emotionally, Jiang Qin believed her, but reason reminded her that one must always look at the evidence.

So, after offering a few words of comfort, she had her go back to her room to rest.

Half an hour later, she received messages from both Yuan Ling and Long Hao at the same time.

She breathed a sigh of relief after reading them.

Then, she sent all the information to Xie Lili, asking her to have someone organize it and issue a statement.

Soon, the statement was released.

Besides the audio and video recordings Yuan Ling had obtained through hacking, there was also an interrogation video from Long Hao.

The five males who had been sentenced back then had long since served their time and been released, so he had simply found people to bring them back in.

He laid out the evidence and re-interrogated them.

Finally, the men admitted that they hadn’t bullied that male on Xiong Yuanyuan’s orders.

It was just that after the male had first misunderstood the situation, they figured that if they bullied people under a female’s name, they would largely avoid repercussions as long as they didn’t cause a major incident.

That was why they latched onto Xiong Yuanyuan. They also knew she was a recluse and wouldn’t come forward to expose them.

They just never expected the male to be so pathetic that he would kill himself after only a month of being bullied.

Once a death was involved, they knew they were in deep trouble, so they decided to stick to the story that they were following orders.

With the male’s final post as evidence, it was perfect for pinning the blame on Xiong Yuanyuan.

After all, no one would doubt a victim’s suicide note.

And Xiong Yuanyuan’s family was poor, and she herself was just a low-Level female. Even if she cried injustice, no one would stand up for her.

Besides, as a female who wasn’t directly involved, she was highly unlikely to be punished, so she had no reason to drag them down with her in a mutually destructive fight.

In the video, the male who was the ringleader could be seen looking quite pleased with his own cleverness.

"It’s not like this affected her anyway. We just wanted to use her status as a female to get a lighter sentence, that’s all.

And so what if I hadn’t said that? We didn’t kill him. He killed himself. What does that have to do with us?

Fights like that happen every day on a Garbage Star like ours, don’t they?

If you have to blame someone, blame him for being so pathetic!"

When asked why they bullied that particular male, the ringleader was even more nonchalant. "We bullied him because we didn’t like the look of him. Do you need a reason?"

"Did you ever think about the kind of reputation the female you framed would have to bear?"

"Getting cursed at won’t make her lose a limb. Besides, she’s a female. Who would dare hurt her?

If she’s afraid her reputation will keep her from finding a partner, what’s the big deal? We’ll just do her the favor of taking her in."

When Xiong Yuanyuan saw this, she began to tremble with rage.

She never could have imagined that her years of suffering were treated as casually as a child’s game in their eyes.

What did they mean she was a female, so she wouldn’t be harmed?

Are females born with shields?

Setting aside the pain of being forced to transfer schools and move, were the days of endless insults and the agony of being wrongly accused so easy to bear?

Xiong Yuanyuan knew she hadn’t done it, but no one believed her.

Just as those males had said, her family couldn’t help her, and neither could her Spiritual Power Level.

And on their backwater planet, there wasn’t even a single branch of the Female Protection Association.

Her only recourse was to request help from the main center of the Female Protection Association on the Star Network. She waited in a queue for three whole months to be heard.

But after she had said just a few words, the person in charge said impatiently, "Since you weren’t punished for this, let’s just leave it at that.

A male from a low-level star died, what’s so great about that to investigate?

Besides, you have no evidence, no way to prove your innocence, and no witnesses. You have nothing. How do you expect us to investigate?"

He even said the victim was dead, so what would he gain by framing her with his own life?

He suggested that perhaps she really had done something inappropriate.

If they investigated further, they might just confirm her guilt, and then her life record would be stained, preventing her from getting into a good university.

In short, the receptionist at the Female Protection Association kept advising her not to stir up trouble.

As long as she was fine, that’s what mattered. The other person had lost his life over this, after all. If she kept making a fuss, it wouldn’t be good for her.

It could easily incite public outrage.

Xiong Yuanyuan was not very old at the time, and in the end, she listened to them and chose to run away from it all.