CHAPTER 68: CHAPTER 68: NOT QUITE THE SAME

The post is from the Braden University forum, with the theme being "I have a crush on a second-year grad student senior, planning to confess, please send your blessings!" The poster directly states in the main post that they are a third-year law student and the person they like is a second-year grad student senior named Sienna Thornton.

Simon Forrester glanced at the time the post was made, four years ago, just when Sienna Thornton was in grad school at Braden University. Although the post didn’t have any photos and the main post didn’t describe Sienna much, Simon was sure it was indeed her.

Scrolling down the post—

Second floor: I don’t know who this senior is, but I still wish you the best!

Third floor: Same here, best of luck!

Fourth floor: Hope your confession is successful!

A few more floors down, all were just people sending blessings to the original poster.

Simon patiently flipped through the pages and finally found some valuable content—

Fifteenth floor: OP, is the person you’re talking about tall, slender, with very fair skin, and has dimples when smiling, that Sienna Thornton?

Sixteenth floor: OP, I know who you’re talking about, suggest you catch her at the library, she’s there self-studying every night till it closes, then goes back in the early morning!

Seventeenth floor: OP, you might be late! Heard she’s already with that Professor Reed from her department!

Eighteenth floor: Don’t spread false rumors! I’m Sienna Thornton’s high school classmate; she got together with another male classmate of ours right after graduation, a guy who was the second in the province’s science exam that year, heard he went abroad to study medicine!

From the nineteenth floor onwards, it was again a wave of blessings.

Not until the thirties, another person left a remark—

"Sienna Thornton got direct admission to Z City No. 1 High School with full marks in junior high math and physics. Three years later during the college entrance exam, she got the highest provincial science score, full marks in math, and first prize in the Mathematical Olympiad, she got offers from both HKU and Braden University, but she chose HKU. Her family seemed to have financial difficulties and couldn’t support her college studies. If it wasn’t for the full scholarship from HKU, she wouldn’t have gone that far; she would have preferred to stay at Braden University."

Simon Forrester thought this person’s information seemed credible, clicked to view their profile, and saw they listed their hometown as Z City, currently living in Brimfield.

This person must be a high school classmate or schoolmate of Sienna Thornton, now also active in Brimfield. Simon even suspected this person might be Maeve, but the tone didn’t quite match...

He continued to flip through a few more pages, intending to close the webpage, when he suddenly saw a highly commented reply way back—The senior the OP was talking about looked a lot like Mina Thorne, who just graduated from the Law School last year. At first, they thought it was Mina returning to her alma mater for grad school, they really look so alike!

"Mina Thorne?" Simon Forrester muttered this name, then proceeded to search for her information.

A girl named Mina Thorne is currently a prosecutor at the Brimfield Prosecutor’s Office. Looking at the photo, she indeed resembles Sienna Thornton somewhat.

Simon mused: Maybe people just look alike sometimes.

He closed his phone, rubbed his swollen eye sockets, and chuckled at his own boredom. Passing by the study to get water, he happened to meet Sienna Thornton coming out.

"Still not asleep this late?" Sienna Thornton asked.

He glanced at the time, two in the morning, realizing he’d spent the whole night catching up on this woman’s gossip, he cleared his throat slightly in embarrassment: "It’s the weekend tomorrow, can sleep in a bit."

"True," Sienna waved at him, "Good night, then."

They parted ways, Sienna went to fetch water, and upon returning to the study, before she could sit down, she heard Rochelle Linwood say: "Partner Reed’s cousin, seems a bit different from before."