Chapter 201
6:00 AM, Dormitory 302.
A piercing scream, even more explosive than an emergency assembly whistle, nearly blew the roof off.
"Ah—! Damn it! Are these people's brains filled with crap?!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao sprang up from her bed, the eerie glow of her phone screen illuminating a face twisted with rage.
The damp, creepy giggles from the dorm last night hadn't quite faded away yet.
This sudden, furious roar made the hearts of Chen Jing and Ye Zhenzhen, who were still fast asleep, skip a beat.
Chen Jing groggily pulled back her bed curtain, her voice hoarse.
"Xiaoxiao, it's early in the morning. Did you see a ghost?"
"This is even more disgusting than a ghost!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao's hands were trembling. She pointed at her phone screen, her eyes bloodshot, and looked at Ye Zhenzhen, who had just poked her head out from the opposite bunk.
"Zhenzhen, something terrible has happened! Hurry, check the school forum!"
Rubbing her sleepy eyes, Ye Zhenzhen opened the campus forum with a bewildered look on her face.
The sections that should have been discussing military training and the cafeteria were completely overrun by several red-highlighted, bolded posts.
"Deep Dive! The Sugar Daddy Behind Our Pure Goddess!"
"Picked Up by Luxury Cars, Staying Out All Night? A Certain Medical Freshman is Actually a High-End Escort!"
"Is This Your Military Training Goddess? She's Clearly a Kept Canary!"
Every headline was like a poisoned dart, viciously stabbing at their eyes.
Ye Zhenzhen's fingers froze.
She clicked on the most popular post.
The pinned image was a photograph.
The lighting was dim, the pixels blurry.
But one could clearly make out a young woman bending over to get into the passenger seat of an Audi A6.
The person taking the photo must have been standing quite far away, unable to capture the driver.
They only managed to photograph the girl's somewhat submissive bending posture and that eye-catching license plate with five consecutive 6s.
Besides this picture, the comments section was littered with many other secretly taken photos from various angles.
In the comments, the same users that had been calling her "wifey" just last night had now completely changed their tune.
[I knew it. How could someone who looks like that not have a background? Turns out she has a powerful sugar daddy.]
[A license plate with five 6s. The owner of this car must be at least fifty, right? Tsk tsk, what a heavy taste.]
[She looks pure, but who knew she played so wild in private. How much for a night?]
[Does this kind of person even deserve to be the department beauty? She's completely ruining the moral atmosphere of our university!]
Filthy words and insults flooded in like a tidal wave.
Chen Jing also read clearly through the content, her face turning ashen.
They were all freshmen, and the three of them had always gotten along very well.
The only person they didn't get along with was...
Soon, they all had an answer in their minds, their gazes shooting in unison toward the tightly drawn bed curtain in the corner.
"Swish—!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao couldn't hold back for even a second.
She rushed to Lin Yu's bed in three strides and violently tore open that hypocritical curtain.
"Stop playing dead, Lin Yu!"
Pointing at the person still sleeping peacefully in bed, Zhao Xiaoxiao shouted furiously.
"You took these pictures, didn't you? You posted this thread, right?"
"We're all roommates. How can your heart be so black? Just because you're jealous that Zhenzhen is better than you, you use such despicable methods to spread dirty rumors?!"
The bed curtain was violently yanked open, letting in the glaring morning light.
Feigning being woken up, Lin Yu slowly rolled over.
She rubbed her eyes, wearing the lazy expression of someone who had just woken up, mixed with a trace of impatience at being disturbed.
"What are you going crazy about so early in the morning?"
She sat up, her gaze lightly sweeping over the trembling, furious Zhao Xiaoxiao.
Then, she glanced at the slightly pale Ye Zhenzhen and gave a mocking smile.
"What photos? What rumors? Zhao Xiaoxiao, are you still half-asleep and talking in your dreams?"
"Keep pretending!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao was so angry she wanted to shove her phone right into Lin Yu's face.
"You're the only one who targets Zhenzhen every day, and you're always sneaking out of the dorm. Who else could it be but you?!"
Lin Yu pushed the phone away with a look of disgust, her tone casual.
"Do you have evidence? Don't bite people randomly without proof. Can't I go out for a walk? Besides..."
She got out of bed, pushed past them, and walked to the mirror.
Slowly brushing her hair, she looked at the three girls behind her through the mirror's reflection with a provocative gaze.
"Flies don't bite a seamless egg. If some people were truly upright, why would they be afraid of what others say? If you dare to do it, you should dare to own up to it."
"You—!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao really wanted to lunge forward and tear her mouth apart.
Chen Jing grabbed Zhao Xiaoxiao and took a step forward.
Usually mild-mannered, her eyes now turned serious.
"Lin Yu, we have to live under the same roof for four years."
"The internet has a memory. If they track the IP and find out it's you, the school will penalize you. It's not too late to delete the post and clear things up now."
Lin Yu's movements paused, a brief flutter of panic in her heart.
But she quickly calmed down.
Heh!
Check the IP?
Who does Ye Zhenzhen think she is to have the school step in and check IPs for her?
Who did she think she was?
Besides, she didn't create all those burner accounts for nothing.
Having figured this out, Lin Yu let out a sneer.
"Who are you trying to scare?"
She turned around, holding her facial cleanser, her eyes haughty.
Her gaze bypassed Chen Jing and fell straight onto Ye Zhenzhen, who had remained silent the whole time.
"I don't have time to play these low-level palace drama games with you. I need to hurry up and get ready for training."
Lin Yu deliberately paused, her tone carrying an inexplicable sense of superiority.
"After all, the selection for the formation leader is very important. Unlike some people who only rely on their faces and men."
"A position like formation leader, which represents the honor of the college, isn't something just any random cat or dog can take."
With that, she grabbed her washbasin and stormed out with her head held high, slamming the door behind her.
"Bang!"
The sound of the door shutting echoed in the cramped dormitory.
"Fuck! I'm going to kill her!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao's eyes were red with anger. She grabbed the water cup from her desk and was about to chase after her.
"Xiaoxiao!"
Ye Zhenzhen, who had been keeping her head down, suddenly spoke up. Her voice wasn't loud, but it stopped Zhao Xiaoxiao in her tracks.
Ye Zhenzhen sat on the edge of the bed, gripping her phone tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.
Growing up, she had always been raised under Ye Shulian's care and the praise of those around her.
Although her family wasn't wealthy, she had never suffered such a grievance.
This was her first time directly facing such bottomless, naked malice.
That sourness and grievance rushed up her nose like a tide, but she stubbornly refused to let it show.
"Zhenzhen, don't listen to her bullshit!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao ran back and hugged her.
"We all know you're innocent! She's just jealous of you!"
"Right, Zhenzhen."
Chen Jing also leaned in, her tone urgent.
"We can't just swallow this. How about... we tell Gu Ran? Gu Ran is so capable, he can definitely find out that she did it!"
Hearing the name Gu Ran, Ye Zhenzhen's body slightly paused.
Yes, all she had to do was give Gu Ran a call.
She wouldn't even need to call; just sending a sad emoji would be enough.
That omnipotent boy would help her solve every problem.
But...
Ye Zhenzhen looked up at herself in the mirror.
Her eyes were slightly red.
She didn't want to just hide behind Gu Ran and cry whenever she encountered a problem, waiting for him to clean up the mess.
She liked Gu Ran because he was outstanding.
She didn't want to become his burden.
Ye Zhenzhen took a deep breath, her tone resolute.
"No need to tell him."
Ye Zhenzhen stood up.
"Xiaoxiao, Jingjing, thank you."
She walked over to the wardrobe and briskly began to change her clothes.
"But..."
Zhao Xiaoxiao was getting anxious.
"Are we really just going to let this go? Look at how nasty the insults on the forum are!"
"Of course we're not letting it go."
Ye Zhenzhen fastened her belt, cinching it around her slender yet resilient waist.
She turned around and looked at her two worried roommates, a reassuring smile suddenly curling on her lips.
That smile carried a hint of the roguish confidence that Gu Ran usually displayed.
"Since she claims I'm just a pretty vase who relies on men, I'll show her that if a vase falls, it can still smash someone's head wide open."
Ye Zhenzhen picked up her military training cap, placed it squarely on her head, and adjusted the brim.
"Doesn't she care about that squad leader position more than anything? Doesn't she think I'm unworthy?"
"Then I'll just take it from her, fair and square. I'll let her see who the real nobody is."
With that, Ye Zhenzhen turned and strode out of the dorm room.
Zhao Xiaoxiao and Chen Jing stood frozen in place, unable to snap out of their daze for a long moment.
"Oh my god..."
Zhao Xiaoxiao swallowed hard.
"Why do I feel like Zhenzhen has suddenly changed? That look in her eyes just now was kind of badass."
Chen Jing pushed up her glasses and nodded thoughtfully.
"True, she looked a bit like... a female version of Gu Ran."
The two girls quickly grabbed their things and chased after her.
Walking at the back, Chen Jing suddenly slowed her pace.
Recipient: [Gu Ran]
Content: [Someone is spreading rumors about Zhenzhen on the forum, and the insults are really nasty. Zhenzhen wouldn't let us tell you, saying she wants to handle it herself. But I'm worried she'll be at a disadvantage, so I figured I should still let you know. Link below...]
Message sent successfully.
Chen Jing put away her phone and pushed up her glasses, hiding her silent contribution.
It was a good thing that Zhenzhen wanted to spread her wings and fly on her own.
But as the "inside woman" planted by Gu Ran...
The radar still needed to be kept on!
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
