How......how can it still be

Chapter 200

Due to the large number of sign-ups, the students participating in the extra training were extremely enthusiastic.

The instructors discussed it and decided to simply allow free time in the evening.

By evening, Qingda University's campus forum had exploded.

A post titled "Divine Beauty Appears in the Medical School! This is the True Goddess of Military Training!" was pushed to the very top, followed by a blazing red "Viral" tag.

The post was filled with high-definition photos of Ye Zhenzhen. A side profile of her resolute gaze while standing at attention.

A candid shot of her slightly tilted swan-like neck while drinking water, and those impossibly long legs while doing the goose-step.

No editing, no filters.

Breathtakingly beautiful.

"Holy crap! Is this a freshman? Her looks are out of this world!"

"Three minutes, I want all the information on this girl!"

"I'm a sophomore in the Medical School, and I can testify that she looks even better in person!"

"Her aura is absolutely stunning. She's the cool and aloof type, totally my type!"

Ye Zhenzhen went viral.

Absolutely viral.

Lin Yu sat in a corner of the cafeteria, finding the delicious food on her tray hard to swallow.

She stared fixedly at her phone screen, reading those words of lavish praise, so jealous that her eyes were turning red.

Why?

Why did she get everyone's affection without having to do anything?

"Goddess? I'll make you viral alright..."

Lin Yu sneered, her fingers trembling as she switched accounts.

She copied the rumor-mongering post that hadn't made any waves earlier.

Then she dug out the blurry photo from her album.

In the photo, Ye Zhenzhen was bending over to get into an Audi with a license plate ending in five 6s.

Because of the angle, it looked as if she was subserviently trying to please the person inside the car.

A vicious gleam flashed in Lin Yu's eyes.

Beneath that most popular post, she left a comment using an anonymous burner account.

[Heh, a bunch of simps. Do you even know who's backing her? What goddess? She's just a canary kept by an old sugar daddy.]

Immediately after, she switched to a few other burner accounts and began to orchestrate a fake conversation.

[Upstairs, care to elaborate? Got some tea to spill?]

[People saw it ages ago. On the first day of school, she arrived in an Audi with five 6s on the plate, and the owner didn't even show their face. Think about it, how old must a person who drives a car like that be?]

[I have pictures and the truth! [Image]]

[Tsk tsk tsk, you can know a person's face but not their heart. She looks pure, but she plays this dirty in private?]

Rumors often spread faster than the truth.

"Hating the rich" and "spreading sexual rumors" are the cheapest and most effective ways to destroy a girl.

No one noticed the strangeness of the posting accounts.

They just blindly forwarded, commented, and embellished the rumors.

Those who were just calling her "wifey" instantly switched sides.

"I knew it, how could someone this pretty be single."

"Disgusting. Escorts get out of Qingda!"

"And to think I treated her like a goddess. Turns out she's just a public bus."

Reading those vicious comments, Lin Yu's expression twisted, her eyes full of malicious glee.

Destroying a person was actually this simple.

All it took... was tapping on a keyboard.

...

Meanwhile, the person in question, Ye Zhenzhen, was completely oblivious to the bloodbath on the internet.

Looking at the text message from Gu Ran on her phone, saying he was going to take her to a great spot for a date later.

As soon as she heard the news of dismissal, Ye Zhenzhen sprinted back to the dorm to take a shower.

She changed into a clean floral dress, her long hair half-tied behind her head.

Lightly dabbing on some warm-toned lipstick, the young girl looked at herself in the mirror and left the room satisfied.

Zhao Xiaoxiao and the other roommate, who had been dragged back by Ye Zhenzhen, stared in shock at the various clothes hanging all over the bed rails.

Did this little girl just perform a quick-change fashion show right before their eyes in less than ten minutes?

Is this the sour stench of love?

The sun was setting, and the evening glow dyed half the sky red.

In the small woods of Qingda's famous "Lover's Slope."

Gu Ran found a perfect spot and laid out a checkered picnic blanket.

He sprayed a circle of mosquito repellent around them, leaving a faint, refreshing scent in the air.

"Ye Zhenzhen."

The girl sat on the picnic blanket, with the brilliant sunset and lush woods behind her.

She wore a simple floral dress, but it couldn't hide her stunning beauty.

Hearing Gu Ran's voice, she subconsciously turned her head.

A gentle breeze brushed by, lifting the loose strands of hair by her ear.

"Click."

The shutter was pressed.

In the photo, the girl's eyes were clear, a smile playing on her lips, set against a background of a crimson sky. She looked as beautiful as an oil painting.

"Perfect."

Gu Ran looked at the photo in the camera and nodded in satisfaction.

"?"

A candid shot?

Ye Zhenzhen was completely unprepared. When she realized what happened, she tried to snatch the camera from Gu Ran's hands.

"Let me see! You didn't make me look ugly, did you?"

Ye Zhenzhen leaned over, and seeing herself in the photo, she couldn't help but blush a little.

"It actually looks... pretty good."

"Of course."

Gu Ran put down the camera and smoothly wrapped his arm around her waist.

"With Master Gu taking the shot personally, it naturally won't be bad. However... my appearance fee is very expensive."

"H-how do I pay?"

Ye Zhenzhen's cheeks reddened, her attention entirely focused on the hand caressing her waist.

This...

This bad guy!

Where was his hand touching!

Gu Ran ignored the girl's protests and leaned in close to her ear, his warm breath fanning against her delicate, fair neck.

"Pay with your body."

"Hooligan!"

Ye Zhenzhen blushed deeply and reached out to pinch his waist.

Gu Ran chuckled softly.

He grabbed her wrists and smoothly pinned her down on the picnic blanket.

The afterglow of the sunset filtered through the gaps in the leaves, casting a mottled light over the two of them.

Their eyes met, and the air grew so thick and sweet you could pull strings from it.

"Zhenzhen."

Gu Ran's voice was deep.

"Hmm?"

"I brought mosquito repellent."

"And?"

Saying this, he took a small bottle from his pocket, sprayed it around them, and then said with a totally straight face.

"So... the mosquitoes won't bite us."

Before Ye Zhenzhen could react, Gu Ran's kiss had already landed.

Late at night, in girls' dormitory 302.

The lights had long been turned out, and only the faint glow of a phone screen illuminated Lin Yu's bed.

She huddled under her blanket, refreshing the forum over and over again.

Watching the abusive comments about Ye Zhenzhen multiply, watching the once lofty goddess being trampled into the mud.

The thrill of it made her tremble with excitement.

She didn't know why she hated Ye Zhenzhen so much. Perhaps it was because she had stolen the spotlight that should have belonged to her.

Regardless, she deserved it!

Who asked her to look pure on the outside but be so filthy and despicable behind closed doors?

She was doing a public service!

That's right, she was on the side of justice.

Soon, Lin Yu had completely brainwashed herself with this logic.

With a clear conscience, she watched this surging wave of public opinion drown an innocent girl.

The smile on her lips grew harder to suppress, completely out of control.

"Hehehe..."

In the silent dorm room, a suppressed, eerie laugh suddenly rang out.

It sounded like a rat grinding its teeth in a dark gutter.

Zhao Xiaoxiao, in the bed opposite hers, was awakened by the sound, breaking out in goosebumps.

She shrank her neck back and glanced at Lin Yu's bed curtains, which were glowing with a faint blue light, feeling an inexplicable chill in her heart.

This Lin Yu...

What kind of crazy fit is she having in the middle of the night?

...

...