Gu Zi resisted the urge to hurl expletives and forced herself to read on.
The article painted her as a rural nobody who had clawed her way into city life, a peasant girl masquerading as a phoenix.
It claimed she had exploited the generosity of her adoptive parents, using their resources to secure a first-rate education, only to repay their kindness with heartless ingratitude—even going so far as to sever ties with them at her own university admission banquet. Cold. Calculating. Unforgivable.
Then came the real character assassination: according to this scandalous piece, she had shamelessly married some middle-aged man from the countryside just for money, stepping into the role of a stepmother to three children before she was even out of her twenties. "Such a disgraceful woman," the article insisted, "had no business being admitted into one of the nation's top universities."
Every word dripped with contempt, turning Gu Zi into a caricature of social-climbing opportunism.
