If you want to provide evidence that it wasn’t you, then tell me—why were the IP address involved in the rumor about me traced to someone in Shandong this time? Let me tell you something: I get along really well with people from Shandong. Shandong people are warm and hospitable. I sent them specialty products from Shanxi, and they sent me fried pots pancakes, purple millet cakes, and Dezhou braised chicken from Shandong. When I went to university, the boys and girls from Shandong had strong learning abilities, and their majors were all quite good. In our class, they were always ranked in the top five. I don’t have any enemies in Shandong—you’re the only one.

After my friend managed to find out from the person who was spreading bad things about me and got that person’s account details, he sent me the account. The first thing I did was to match it to the IP address—I immediately, without hesitation, thought of you, because the only people I have enemies with are from Heilongjiang and Hunan—those two places. No one else tries to harm me, because I also never think about harming other people.

Even if sometimes other people say sarcastic things or joke around with me, I know they don’t have bad intentions—you understand, right? Among people from Shandong, there are very few bad people. Even those kinds of things—there are very few, too. So don’t let just one person drag the whole of Shandong down, and don’t say things like “someone just can’t stand you.” There isn’t a single person from Shandong that I don’t know. Would they really go around sending private messages to my friends to smear me and spread rumors? You don’t need to give yourself excuses. The character of the people from Shandong—everyone I’ve met is truly decent, except you.