In the boys' dormitory room 147.
Long Aotian's QQ video call notification suddenly rang out.
He glanced at it and promptly hung up.
But soon, a second video call came through.
Again, he chose to decline it.
Ding-dong~
A message alert sounded: ["If you don't come down, I won't leave."]
["If anyone asks, I’ll say I’m here to confront Long Aotian, the heartbreaker."]
Seeing these two messages, Long Aotian got up and walked to the balcony, where he spotted Shen Mengjie standing downstairs.
She stood out—she was the only one wearing a hoodie with the hood up...
As if sensing his gaze, Shen Mengjie suddenly looked up, locking eyes with Long Aotian on the balcony.
Her stubborn expression made it clear: if he didn’t come down, she’d stand there till doomsday.
Watching Long Aotian pull his head back inside, Shen Mengjie, who had just been wearing a look of defiance, suddenly smiled. "Your kindness is your biggest weakness!"
Sure enough, before long, Long Aotian appeared at the dormitory entrance.
Shen Mengjie stepped forward. "Come with me."
"Stop pulling at me."
Shen Mengjie let go but fixed her gaze on him seriously. "Tell me, what should I do?"
"Do about what?"
Without answering, Shen Mengjie tugged him along to a secluded corner, then took out her phone and played a recording.
After listening, Long Aotian sighed softly. "So?"
"Should I expose this recording or not?"
"That’s your choice to make."
"But... I don’t know..." Shen Mengjie was torn, which was why she’d instinctively sought out Long Aotian. For some reason, she felt only he could give her the right answer.
Amused by her dilemma, Long Aotian said, "Exposing your secret—you should hate Zhang Mengmeng, right? So what’s holding you back?"
Shen Mengjie turned her head away. She sensed a hint of mockery in his tone but had no proof.
"Honestly, when I first found out it was Zhang Mengmeng, I wanted to tear her face off. But strangely, I didn’t. Now, I can’t even bring myself to hate her. I just think she’s... pitiful."
She shook her head. "I must be going crazy."
"Hate comes from caring. Not hating means you’ve moved on," Long Aotian said slowly, admiring Shen Mengjie’s inner strength.
Maybe, as she’d said that night, she hadn’t cared much from the start...
Or if it had been someone else, the recording would already be all over the campus forum.
Call her kind? She’d juggled thirty-eight guys effortlessly.
Call her unkind? Here she was, hesitating over this.
Shen Mengjie was a walking contradiction...
Staring at her phone, she murmured, "If I expose this, it’ll clear my name..."
"That’s for you to decide. But let me remind you—you’re not exactly innocent. All the rumors about you were true..."
"I know, I know. You don’t have to keep reminding me I’m no saint..."
"Your words, not mine."
Shen Mengjie rolled her eyes. "Please. I know exactly what you think of me."
She laughed at herself. Someone like her...
"But... thank you anyway."
At first, Shen Mengjie hadn’t cared much because she’d believed she was exactly what people said.
But Long Aotian had told her: even if her actions weren’t honorable, the guy who’d hit on her while having a girlfriend deserved just as much blame. [The campus post had labeled her: "Homewrecking slut, a seductive fox who steals boyfriends."]
Though things hadn’t turned out as she’d imagined, Shen Mengjie had learned one thing: others might look down on her, but she didn’t have to look down on herself.
"Ah, finally getting to the point. You should thank me." Long Aotian felt fully deserving of gratitude—no question about it.
One sentence from her, one beer chugged by him. If he hadn’t been a good drinker, he’d have worried this lightweight might’ve toppled into the campus lake.
A "thank you" was the least she owed him.
"Has anyone ever told you you’re insufferably smug?" Shen Mengjie itched to punch him!
When serious, he’d down beers without blinking—so damn reassuring.
When not, he’d bicker, argue, and tease like a brat—utterly insufferable!
"Hey... Long Aotian, I..."
"Spit it out. This hesitation drives me nuts."
Shen Mengjie bit her lip and met his eyes. "Long Aotian, I want to know... how do you see me?"
"How do I see you?"
"Yeah."
"With my eyes, obviously. How else?"
"You—you’re impossible!" Shen Mengjie stormed off, flipping her hood down as she turned.
Her long, silky hair cascaded over her shoulders.
Lifting her delicate face, she took a deep breath of air.
In the sunlight, her profile looked striking as she tilted her head slightly. "I couldn’t care less what people think."
Whether that was her answer to Long Aotian or her stance on the matter, no one could say.
Watching her leave, Long Aotian stretched. "What a mess. Shen Mengjie plays around, Zhang Mengmeng stays silent—if they’d just talked sooner, none of this would’ve happened."
"If I opened a counseling service, I’d drag Zhang Mengmeng in first. How much should I charge...?"
"Tsk—better not dwell on it. I’m starting to sound like a life coach..."
Back in the dorm, he’d just lain down when the door opened.
Huang Fei walked in.
"Well?" Xu Shuai and Li Longlong, still in the dark, pressed for answers.
Huang Fei exhaled heavily. "It was Zhang Mengmeng."
"No way! Zhang Mengmeng?"
"Well, that’s a plot twist sharper than a knife..."
"But why? What was the reason?"
Facing their questions, Huang Fei stayed uncharacteristically quiet.
"Where’s Zhang Mengmeng now?" Long Aotian asked.
"She cried for a long time, then went back to her dorm to pack."
Long Aotian nodded, saying nothing more.
Right and wrong were hard to judge here.
Shen Mengjie had erred morally—even without Zhang Mengmeng’s exposure, the truth would’ve come out eventually.
Was Zhang Mengmeng wrong? If we set aside all other factors, if her boyfriend had truly been stolen by Shen Mengjie, Long Aotian could understand everything she did.
But driven purely by selfish desires, to resort to such extreme measures—betraying a roommate and friend she spent every day with—she was actually quite ruthless...
In the end, it was just mutual destruction...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
ither go to a cultivation world where a single sword strike can defeat ten thousand enemies. Or they travel back to historical dynasties to alter history and wield imperial power. At the very least, they'd go back a few decades to get rich using their future knowledge and build a harem. Who the hell would transmigrate here!
