MidReal Story
Digital Redemption: A Tale of Online Resilience
Scenario: After graduating from college, I was abandoned by my girlfriend who successfully took the postgraduate entrance exam. One late night, I was picked up by a female CEO dressed in a landmine department outfit and became the agent of a popular anchor named Wish, thus intervening to help Wish get rid of the shadow of online bullying
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Liang Chen
agent to Wish, protagonist's girlfriend, college graduate with a dream of becoming an agent, determined and resourceful.
Female CEO (name not specified)
mysterious CEO who rescues Liang Chen and offers him a job as an agent, appearance not detailed, powerful and secretive.
Wish
popular anchor and victim of online bullying, Liang Chen's girlfriend, glamorous appearance, resilient and kindhearted.
My girlfriend, Wish, has just been admitted to the postgraduate program of a key university.
She's going to study for a master's degree.
I'm so happy for her.
I'm going to take her out for a big meal tonight.
I can't wait to see her happy face when I tell her the good news.
I've been waiting for her at the school gate for half an hour, but she still hasn't come out.
I called her and she said she was still in the office of the college of arts and sciences.
She was busy with some procedures and asked me to go home first.
I didn't want to go home, so I went to the office of the college of arts and sciences to find her.
The office was on the third floor, and I took the stairs because I was in a hurry.
When I got to the second floor, I heard someone talking in a low voice.
I couldn't help but stop and listen carefully.
"Have you heard that Liang Chen's girlfriend has been admitted to a key university?"
I was so envious when I saw the list of admissions in the morning.
All the students from our college of arts and sciences have been admitted, but not a single one to a key university.
I heard that Liang Chen's girlfriend is very good at acting, and it's normal for her to be admitted to a key university.
But she's not going to that provincial university.
Instead, she's going to study at the local university.
I heard that her boyfriend has graduated and is still at school.
She went to that university just to be with her boyfriend.
It's so pathetic."
At this point, the topic of their conversation suddenly changed.
"Women are not reliable.
Liang Chen is still waiting for her at the school gate, but she's going to break up with him sooner or later."
I suddenly felt dizzy and my legs felt weak.
I held onto the handrail and listened carefully to their conversation.
"Didn't she say that she wanted to take the postgraduate entrance exam with him?
Why did she go to that university all of a sudden?
It's true that it's not easy for a girl to get into a key university.
She must have spent a lot of effort on it.
But it's also very difficult for a girl who is in love to choose between love and her studies.
Since she's going to break up with him anyway, why did she give up the key university?
What a fool!"
I took a few deep breaths and went upstairs to find out what was going on.
The people who were talking about me were all students from our college of arts and sciences.
When they saw me, they looked embarrassed and turned around to leave without saying anything.
I didn't stop them.
I took my phone out of my pocket and called Wish.
After a long time, someone answered the phone.
It was Wish's voice.
"Hello, what's wrong?"
Where are you, Wish?"
"I'm in the office of the college of arts and sciences."
"Wait for me.
I'll be right there."
After hanging up, I quickly went to the office of the college of arts and sciences.
The door was half open, so I pushed it open and walked in without knocking on the door.
Wish was talking to the teacher in charge of the office about some procedures.
When she saw me, she looked surprised and asked, "Why are you back again?"
"Didn't you say you were busy?"
"How could I be busy when you're here?" She smiled sweetly, but her smile seemed somewhat stiff.
"I just finished with the teacher in charge of the office, so I'll go home with you."
As we walked downstairs, I held Wish's hand tightly and asked her, "Is it true what they were talking about?"
Wish looked at me in confusion and asked, "What are you talking about?"
What were they talking about?"
I took a deep breath and said, "They said that you're going to break up with me."
Wish's face turned pale and she asked me with a trembling voice, "You heard it too?"
"I heard it as soon as I came in," I said, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Wish was silent, and I couldn't help but ask, "Is what they said true?"
Wish sighed and said, "It's true that I've been admitted to a key university, but I don't want to break up with you."
I was so excited that I didn't know what to say.
After a long time, I said, "Then why did you give up that key university?"
Wish bit her lip and said, "I can still take another exam next year, but if I don't go to this university this year, I'll miss this chance forever."
"But…But you're going to break up with me sooner or later," I said in a low voice, feeling sad all over again.
"Why do you have to give up such a good opportunity for me?"
Wish looked at me and said, "I've already made up my mind, so don't think too much about it."
I grabbed Wish's hand and asked anxiously, "You've already made up your mind?
"To break up with me?" I asked, feeling a little uncomfortable in my heart.
Wish looked at me and didn't say anything for a long time.
I walked Wish home, but we didn't talk much along the way.
When we were at the entrance of her house, she said to me, "Go back first, I have something to do later."
I nodded and watched her enter the residential area before turning around and leaving.
I sat in a corner of the stairway and took out my phone to send a message to Wish: "Why are you going to break up with me?
But she didn't answer for a long time.
I called her again, but no one answered the call!
The next day, when I went to school in the morning, there were many students talking in low voices around me as soon as I arrived at the school gate.
Some of them were talking about their own experiences of taking the exam, while others were talking about other things that had happened recently.
Just as I was about to pass by them, someone suddenly said loudly, "Did you hear about it?
Liang Chen's girlfriend was admitted to that key university, but she didn't want to go there because she wanted to be with Liang Chen.
Some people say that she's going to take a gap year and take the postgraduate entrance exam next year so that she can go to that university with Liang Chen.
I asked one of them in confusion, "Where did you hear this from?"
"We heard it from our seniors.It seems like they were classmates with Liang Chen's girlfriend," a student replied timidly, as if he was a little guilty about what he had just said.
My heart tightened as I asked him anxiously, "What did they say?"
"They said that they heard from other people that Liang Chen's girlfriend is very beautiful and has a good figure.Some people even said that this woman is not worthy of Liang Chen at all," the student replied in a hurry.
I stood there staring at him with cold eyes as he spoke, and he was so scared that his voice dropped to a whisper at the end of his sentence.
"Then… why did she break up with me?"I asked with a frown, my voice trembling a little as I spoke.
I don't know about this either," another student replied timidly.
"But if you ask me, Liang Chen, your girlfriend is really too beautiful and good-looking.I think you're really lucky to have this kind of woman fall in love with you," another girl said softly as she looked at me blankly.
I recognized this girl from my major; it was one of my classmates!
When I heard what she said, my heart suddenly tightened and an inexplicable sense of unease rose in my heart.
I asked her again, "Why did she want to break up with me?
Who is not worthy of me?"
She was taken aback when she heard what I said and spoke after a moment of silence, "Liang Chen… don't be angry… maybe… it's because… there is someone else… who is more suitable for her than you are…"
She seemed to be talking to herself, but I could hear it clearly.
It felt as if I had been struck by a heavy blow to my chest!
She thinks that there's someone who's more suitable for her than I am, so she wants to be with that person instead?
And she even wanted to keep it a secret from me?
All the events that happened last night suddenly flashed through my mind, and I felt as if my heart was being ripped apart by something.
I supported Wish as much as I could, but she didn't even tell me about her decision to go to that university or about her plans to break up with me!
Why did she have to hide it from me?
Didn't we say that we would share everything together and be together forever?
Why did she still choose to keep it a secret from me even though she knew that I would find out sooner or later?
My brain was in a mess, and it felt as if someone was pulling at my heartstrings, causing an indescribable pain to spread throughout my body.
Was everything we said before just a lie to her?
As I walked back to the dorm room, my heart felt heavy, and I didn't know how to face Wish anymore.
From the moment she told me about this decision, I knew that there would be no turning back from here.
It seemed like there was no other way for us other than to break up.
I couldn't believe that the strong woman who had been by my side all these years would choose to leave me.
When we were together in college, we used to joke that we would be together forever.
We had also chosen the same majors because we both loved the same subject and wanted to work together after graduation.
However, this dream of mine seemed to have become unattainable.
Perhaps it was because the goal we were pursuing was no longer the same.
I sat down on a chair in the dorm room, feeling a little absent-minded.
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I quickly wiped them away.
Why did she do this?
Did we not love each other anymore?
I was still trying to console myself, and I felt that this was just some kind of joke, but I knew that I would have to face the cruel reality sooner or later.
I don't know how long I sat there for, but when I finally came to my senses, I found that it was already noon.
I mustered up my courage and sent her a message: Are you free today?
I want to talk to you about something!
She replied very quickly: I have something to do today.I'll call you when I'm free.
I can tell that she was not in a good mood from her message, and she did not ask me what I wanted to talk to her about either.
After a while, my phone rang, and I answered it immediately, but she didn't say anything on the other end of the line.
Her silence made me feel a little uncomfortable, and I didn't know what to say either.
After a while, she finally spoke: "Liang Chen… I think… we should break up!"
I froze when I heard what she said, and I couldn't believe it.
Why did she want to break up with me?
We had been dating for more than three years now, and we had gone through a lot together over these years.
When we were in college, we were both from poor families, but we both worked hard to achieve our dreams.
She became an Internet celebrity, while I became an agent who worked behind the scenes.
All these years, I had been supporting her silently like this, and all my efforts were just so that I could give her a better life in the future.
I thought that we would be able to be together until we grew old, but now she suddenly wanted to break up with me?
At that moment, I felt like my whole world had come crashing down around me, and my heart felt like it had been torn into pieces!
The woman I loved so much had actually fallen out of love with me and wanted to break up!
I tried to keep my tears from falling as I summoned the courage to speak to her: “Did you suddenly feel that you don't love me anymore?”
Wish stared at me fiercely and shouted: “I've already told you that I want to break up! What else do you want to say?”
My heart felt like it was being squeezed when I heard what she said because I knew that she was really angry!
But I was really confused right now because we were so happy together recently!
So why did she suddenly fall out of love with me and wanted to break up?
"Is there something wrong with me?" I asked myself in my heart before I asked again in a low voice: “Wish… Did you agree to break up with me because of your friends?”
Wish stared at me fiercely when she heard what I said and her expression turned even colder as she said in a mocking tone: "So you have known about it all along?"
The anger in her eyes became even more intense as she glared at me and said: "Liang Chen, you are really good! You actually pretended not to know anything!"
"Do you think that I wouldn’t have known about it if you didn't tell me?"
"And do you think that you deserve to be my boyfriend if you did not tell me about it until now?"
Her cold words made me feel like my heart had been stabbed by thousands of knives when I heard them…
But the thing that made me feel the most frustrated right now was that I couldn’t even explain myself right now!
Because Wish was not willing to listen to me and did not give me a chance to explain things properly!
So no matter what I say right now, it would only make things worse!
As long as she wanted to break up with me then there was nothing else that I could do…
But it was really frustrating because we were both victims here…
And in the end… the person who was going to be hurt the most by all of this… would be me!
"Or did you think that I wouldn't be able to break up with you if you didn't tell me?" Wish said coldly when she saw that I wasn't saying anything, and she continued: "Do you think that I couldn't tell from the way you always get so jealous and controlling whenever we are together?"
"And you always have a suspicious look on your face whenever I talk to a boy!"
"You also always question me whenever I go out without you!"
"I just can't stand being around someone like you!"
"I've always hated people who are as insecure and untrustworthy as you!"
"And I've always only thought of you as a friend… So don't you think that we should break up already since I don't love you!"
Wish's words were so cold and heartless that they left me completely speechless!
It felt like someone had just poured a basin of ice-cold water all over me, and I felt like my heart was going to stop beating from the shock!
Because I never expected her to say something like this!