"What exactly does Long Aotian mean by that?" Wang Lijuan couldn't understand at all.
Mentioning this made Shen Mengjie a little angry—she had even been smacked on the head.
Amid her anger, a wave of panic suddenly rose in her heart. Could it be that Long Aotian had listened to Li Hao's words and now thought she was shameless, no longer willing to help her?
"Why don't you give Xu Shuai a call?" Zhang Mengmeng suggested softly.
Hearing this, Wang Lijuan's eyes lit up. "You're right, Xu Shuai would definitely know something."
Shen Mengjie also looked at Wang Lijuan then. Though she didn't say it aloud, she too wanted to know what Long Aotian's current attitude toward her really was.
Just as Wang Lijuan was about to call Xu Shuai, Shen Mengjie's phone suddenly rang.
She glanced at her phone curiously, then frowned slightly. "It's Huang Fei."
As she spoke, she answered the call.
"Huang Fei, what is it?"
"I'm waiting for you in the woods by the sports field. There are some things I'd rather discuss in person."
Before Shen Mengjie could refuse, Huang Fei had already hung up.
Shen Mengjie blinked in confusion, then turned to Han Xiaojing and the others.
"Go. Maybe he really has something important to say," Han Xiaojing said gently.
Wang Lijuan nodded in agreement. "I think Huang Fei has actually been really good to you. That day when he found out you hadn't returned to the dorm and couldn't reach you by phone, he was practically going crazy with worry..."
"He's a good person," even Zhang Mengmeng added.
After hesitating for a moment, Shen Mengjie pulled up her hood and left the dorm.
As she walked, memories of her first meeting with Huang Fei surfaced in her mind.
Back then, Shen Mengjie could have sworn with absolute certainty about the look in Huang Fei's eyes—it was pure lust.
She had seen that look far too many times, so many that she'd lost count...
She hated that look, hated it even more when it was directed at her...
But now... no, not just now, his gaze seemed to have changed somehow...
It made Shen Mengjie reluctant to face him, because she sensed that Huang Fei might actually be serious about her...
......
In the small grove, Huang Fei heard footsteps and stubbed out his cigarette before turning around.
Seeing her, a faint smile appeared on his face. "You came."
Shen Mengjie glanced around before finally lowering her hood. "What did you want to talk about?"
Hearing the coldness in her voice, Huang Fei scratched his head. "Is being around me really that stressful for you?"
Shen Mengjie let out a light laugh and met his gaze firmly, shaking her head. "Maybe I never should have gotten involved with you in the first place."
"Pretty sure I was the one who got involved with you first," Huang Fei replied with a grin, his eyes locked on hers.
Shen Mengjie shrugged, amused. "Who knows?"
"Can I at least ask why?"
"The world doesn't owe us explanations. If it did, things would be so much easier."
"And do you realize how many people would point fingers if we were together now?"
"What if I said I don’t care at all?"
Huang Fei stepped closer, staring straight at her. "What if I said I truly, genuinely don’t care even a little?"
Under the intensity of his gaze, Shen Mengjie suddenly found it hard to look at him directly.
Seeing her avert her eyes, Huang Fei gave a bitter smile. "Liking you is my business. You don’t have to feel any pressure about it."
The old Shen Mengjie wouldn’t have felt any pressure at all. Even after being scolded outright by Long Aotian, she had remained unfazed, even calmly keeping her appointment with Senior Wang.
But after everything that had happened, she was genuinely hesitating now.
"All I’m asking for is a chance."
"You don’t have a boyfriend right now, and I don’t have a girlfriend. Give me this one opportunity. I won’t interfere with your life. If, after a year, you still haven’t been moved by me, then I’ll give up for good."
Huang Fei laid his heart bare.
Letting go now would be unbearable. He wanted to try, to put in the effort. Only then, if he truly gave it his all, could he walk away without regrets.
The determination and sincerity in Huang Fei’s eyes sent Shen Mengjie’s thoughts into turmoil.
"A year?" She was certain that her feelings for Huang Fei didn’t extend beyond friendship.
Yet, faced with his earnest gaze, his actions for her sake, and his words—"I don’t care at all what others think!"—she found herself unable to outright refuse.
If, after a year, she still felt nothing for him, he would let go, wouldn’t he?
This was so frustrating...
"If you don’t refuse, I’ll take it as a yes," Huang Fei said, smiling. "So you don’t have to avoid me or feel pressured anymore."
Shen Mengjie rolled her eyes. "Who’s avoiding you? Who’s feeling pressured?"
The eye roll didn’t upset Huang Fei—in fact, it made him laugh even harder. This was the Shen Mengjie he knew.
Hearing his laughter, Shen Mengjie couldn’t help but chuckle softly too.
"If you called me here just to say all this, then I’m going back."
"Of course not." Huang Fei’s expression turned serious again.
He then repeated Long Aotian’s theory word for word.
After hearing it, Shen Mengjie didn’t want to believe it.
The person who had nailed her to the pillar of shame was actually one of her own roommates?
How could that be?
And yet, Long Aotian’s theory was the closest to the truth.
To obtain the chat logs of thirty-eight people at once—the simplest way would have been to access her phone.
And who else could have done that but one of her roommates?
Seeing the disbelief and conflict on Shen Mengjie’s face, Huang Fei added, "Long Aotian said that after telling you this, you’d have a suspect in mind. Whether you believe it or not, you can always test it out."
It was true. Even if she didn’t want to believe it, a name had already surfaced in her mind.
After a long silence, Shen Mengjie looked at Huang Fei. "Can you leave for a moment?"
Hearing this, Huang Fei knew she had made her decision.
He nodded and walked out of the grove.
Once he was gone, Shen Mengjie took out her phone and dialed a number...
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
