The traffic light turned from red to green, like a silent command.
Gu Luo seemed not to hear Big-eyed Girl’s words, his steps never pausing as he strode straight across the street.
Big-eyed Girl stood frozen in place for a few seconds, bewildered.
She couldn’t understand how two people who had been chatting happily just moments ago could suddenly end up like this.
Then, as if unwilling to be brushed off so coldly, she quickly jogged after him.
"Gu Luo, what’s wrong?"
"We were just having a great conversation, weren’t we?"
"Say something, please."
"......."
All the way, Big-eyed Girl’s voice buzzed around Gu Luo’s ears like an incessant fly.
But Gu Luo simply ignored her, walking forward as if she didn’t exist.
Only when they reached a small park did he finally slow his steps and speak: "Please stop following me."
"Then at least give me a reason," Big-eyed Girl blocked his path, her expression serious.
"Give me one, and I’ll leave right away."
"You... you..."
Gu Luo opened his mouth, then hesitated, his face twisting with conflict—as if there was something he couldn’t bring himself to say.
Seeing this, Big-eyed Girl seemed to realize something. A flicker of nervousness flashed in her eyes as she cautiously asked, "Did... did Qu Meimei say something to you?"
"N-no, it’s not..." Gu Luo immediately waved his hands in flustered denial, his gaze darting away, unable to meet hers.
His slightly panicked demeanor only made his lie more obvious.
Big-eyed Girl’s vision darkened.
So it was Qu Meimei!
She must have spilled the beans!
If nothing else, Qu Meimei was the only one who knew about her abusing cats.
"Gu Luo... please just hear me out, okay?" Big-eyed Girl’s face paled as she struggled to speak.
"Did Qu Meimei tell you I abused cats? Or that I bullied people before? Or something else?"
"None of it’s true. The so-called ‘abusing cats’ was just me lightly tossing things at them sometimes, and the ‘bullying’ was just misunderstandings and arguments."
"Really, please believe me."
Yeah, right. Gu Luo internally scoffed, but on the surface, he maintained a conflicted expression.
He lowered his head slightly, as if deep in thought, then finally nodded slowly.
"I believe you."
"Really?" Big-eyed Girl asked excitedly.
No.
"Really."
Gu Luo flashed an innocent, angelic smile.
The fading sunlight spilled across his face, outlining his flawless features, making him look serene and beautiful.
How can someone be this unfairly handsome?
Big-eyed Girl was mesmerized, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it might leap out of her throat.
It took her a moment to snap out of it, her face flushing as she coughed lightly to mask her daze.
"So... Gu Luo, what exactly did Qu Meimei tell you?"
"It’s... it’s not Qu Meimei, really, it’s not." Gu Luo stammered like a terrible liar, his eyes avoiding hers.
But his clumsy act was instantly seen through.
That Qu Meimei is really something...
A chill ran down Big-eyed Girl’s spine. Thank goodness she ran into Gu Luo today—who knew what other outrageous secrets Qu Meimei might have spread otherwise?
The thought ignited a surge of anger in her.
If you play dirty, don’t blame me for doing the same.
"Gu Luo, can I tell you something? But you have to promise not to tell anyone, okay?" she ventured cautiously.
"What is it?"
Gu Luo tilted his head slightly, feigning curiosity.
Inside, he was thrilled—the big fish is biting.
"You have to swear not to tell a soul." Her voice dropped to a whisper, as if sharing a world-shattering secret.
"Okay, I promise." Gu Luo nodded solemnly, his expression grave and earnest.
Big-eyed Girl leaned in closer. "Gu Luo, the truth is, you’ve been fooled by Qu Meimei. She’s the type who loves spreading rumors."
"Like about me. And like about Vice President Luo Shuning."
"She’s always gossiping in the club—saying Luo Shuning steals boyfriends, sells herself in secret, even that she’s sleeping with the principal."
"Can you believe how awful that is?"
"Plenty of people only dislike Vice President Luo because they fell for Qu Meimei’s lies."
As she spoke, she watched Gu Luo’s reaction, a glint of triumph in her eyes.
Qu Meimei, you brought this on yourself.
"Enough." Gu Luo suddenly cut her off.
Big-eyed Girl blinked in surprise as he continued, "I believe Qu Meimei isn’t that kind of person—just like I believe you wouldn’t abuse cats or bully others."
"........"
Big-eyed Girl fell silent, just staring at Gu Luo, her emotions in turmoil.
She found his naivety almost endearing.
How can someone trust others so easily?
At the same time, she despised Qu Meimei even more—how dare she deceive such a sweet guy?
Well, if she won’t appreciate him, I might as well take him for myself.
"We shouldn’t gossip about others behind their backs. It’s wrong. Let’s just go to the supermarket." Gu Luo turned and walked ahead, slipping his hand into his pocket to grip his phone.
............
Evening.
A simple, well-lit bedroom bathed in soft lamplight—yet none of its warmth could soothe the resentment festering in its occupant’s heart.
Qu Meimei sat at her desk, pulling an A4 sheet from the drawer.
She wrote "Luo Shuning" in bold characters across the top.
Then, slowly, she picked up a red marker and began slashing X’s over the name.
"It’s all your fault!"
"It’s all your fault!"
"Everything is because of you!"
"......"
Each stroke was an outlet for her rage.
If not for Luo Shuning, why would the guy she liked have left her?
If not for Luo Shuning, why would she have suffered such humiliation?
Of course it was Luo Shuning’s fault.
She must have been secretly seducing guys behind the scenes.
That had to be it.
The truth didn’t matter to Qu Meimei.
All she knew was that those three guys had gone and confessed to Luo Shuning.
And after the last one got rejected, he came back, slept with her, then dumped her at lightning speed.
His reason? "I still like Luo Shuning more."
Just thinking about it made Qu Meimei tremble with fury.
She’d never admit she was inferior to Luo Shuning.
So the only explanation was that Luo Shuning was a man-stealing slut.
That made perfect sense.
Suddenly, Qu Meimei smiled at the red-slashed paper and murmured to herself:
"Luo Shuning, this time, you lose."
"Gu Luo is completely charmed by me now."
After a pause, she added, "But what happened before isn’t over yet."
"On school festival day, you’ll humiliate yourself with me."
"We’ll go down together."
"Haha..."
I can’t wait to see the look on Luo Shuning’s face then.
At that moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang.
It was a voice call.
Qu Meimei’s smile faded as she glanced at the caller’s name, her brow furrowing with visible irritation.
Still, she pressed the answer button.
“Qu Meimei, go f your mother!”
A sharp, ear-piercing curse exploded from the other end of the line.
Qu Meimei froze, her mind momentarily blank.
“You’re such a b, talking sh behind my back.”
The voice grew louder, as if trying to burst through the phone screen.
“Is your mother fing dead?”
“Answer me—is your mother dead?”
A barrage of obscenities detonated in Qu Meimei’s ears like a string of grenades.
Zero to a hundred in seconds.
Mother-related insults at maximum density.
Finally snapping out of her daze, Qu Meimei fired back.
“Your mother’s the real fing wh!”
“Qu Meimei, I’ll f your entire—”
“You worthless piece of—your whole fing family—”
“.....”
Their curses tangled together like a vicious battlefield, neither willing to back down.
By the time both were too exhausted to continue, Qu Meimei barely managed to choke out through her rage, “Did Gu Luo tell you all this?”
“As if!”
The other end scoffed in disdain.
“I figured it out myself. It’s ironic—someone as kind and innocent as Gu Luo still defends a snake like you.”
Then, the caller recounted what had happened earlier.
Hearing this, Qu Meimei fell silent.
“Qu Meimei, listen up—this isn’t over.”
“If you ever dare expose my past—the cat abuse, the bullying—I’ll tear you apart.”
“Motherless trash.”
With that, the call ended abruptly.
“.......”
Qu Meimei took several deep breaths, slowly steadying herself.
Just another fake friend. Good riddance.
As long as she had Gu Luo, nothing else mattered.
She’d have to act even sweeter, even more considerate around him.
Secure him soon—no room for complications.
As for Luo Shuning… she’d let her off the hook—for now.
Come the school festival, they’d both be humiliated together.
And then, she could always turn to Gu Luo for comfort.
............
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he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
