CH 35

During afternoon self-study class, the originally quiet classroom somehow became noisy.

Lin Zhiwen’s phone kept vibrating, so she took it out to take a look when she became irritated.

As a result, she saw a scandalous post about herself on a forum.

After reading through the post, her mind was in chaos. Who could it be? They even recorded her conversation with Zheng Wantong!

It’s over, she had been set up.

Various communication apps on her phone kept receiving messages, all of which were incredulous inquiries. The interpersonal relationships she had built seemed to have completely collapsed at this moment.

Lin Zhiwen became agitated and turned off her phone, but she found that everyone’s eyes seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally focused on her, making her feel uncomfortable.

She couldn’t even wait until class was over, so she quickly grabbed her backpack and ran out!

Although Dongping Building had low customer traffic, almost all of its customers were upper-class people, and their conversations were very elegant.

In Wan Tong’s memory, the original owner had come here to eat with her parents.

In the afternoon, she went to the nightclub to find Gu Chenyue, but couldn’t find him. Later, Hu Tiankan saw that it was unsafe for her to wait there, so he told her about this address.

He said Gu Chenyue was having a date here.

Wan Tong sorted out the plot and then thought of a possibility.

One of the reasons why Gu Chenyue could work in the nightclub was because of the appreciation of the owner’s daughter.

The owner’s daughter had just graduated from college, five years older than Gu Chenyue, but because he had saved her once, she had some indescribable affection towards him and often asked him out to eat.

This time she was going to have dinner with Gu Chenyue, probably because she had suffered a double blow of a breakup and unemployment and wanted to find someone to talk to and vent her emotions.

If the plot hasn’t changed, the owner’s daughter proposed to date Gu Chenyue and even used his work and debts as a threat.

Gu Chenyue had previously advanced a sum of money for his mother’s surgery, and he really couldn’t pay it back at the moment.

However, he still refused, and this matter alarmed the nightclub boss, but he was not fired. Instead, the owner’s daughter was restrained by her family.

Afterwards, Gu Chenyue went to fight in the underground boxing matches, and after getting enough money to repay his debts, he left the nightclub.

Wan Tong stood at the entrance of Dongping Building for a long time, watching people coming in and out until she saw Gu Chenyue’s figure coming out at 8:30 pm.

He didn’t look too good, with a slight frown between his eyebrows.

As she was about to approach him, she noticed a young woman in a little white dress following him, and she stopped in her tracks.

Wasn’t this young woman Chen Jiajia, the daughter of the owner of Gu Chenyue’s night club?

“Gu Chenyue, don’t forget, you still owe my family money! And, isn’t your mother still going to have surgery? Don’t you need money?” Chen Jiajia shouted after Gu Chenyue’s back.

Gu Chenyue paused in his steps and turned to look at her. “I’ll repay the debt, but I won’t make any other transaction.”

Seemingly provoked by his indifferent expression, Chen Jiajia burst into tears and ran up to him from behind, hugging his waist!

“Ah!” Wan Tong exclaimed, covering her mouth in surprise.

Although her voice was soft, it was caught by the sensitive ears of Gu Chenyue. He tilted his head slightly and saw a petite figure standing in the corner’s shadow.

His black pupils slightly dilated. The next moment, Gu Chenyue almost forcefully shook off the hands around his waist!

Chen Jiajia was mercilessly thrown to the ground by this force, and then she saw Gu Chenyue striding in a direction and stopping in front of a soft and weak girl.

She seemed to have some impression on that girl.

Big eyes, long eyelashes, delicate and cute appearance… She seemed to have seen her ID photo at Gu Chenyue’s place.

“What are you doing here?” Gu Chenyue stood in front of Wan Tong and stopped, with a deep gaze that revealed a hint of pressure.

“I… I came to the nightclub to find you, they said you were here.” Wan Tong lowered her hand covering her mouth and replied softly.

Gu Chenyue looked at her quietly for a few seconds, seemingly unsure of what to say.

Wan Tong even noticed that his hands hanging at his sides were clenched tightly, and he seemed nervous.

“Is she your girlfriend?” Chen Jiajia had already stood up and came to their side, her eyes red and her tone carrying a hint of questioning.

Her scrutinizing gaze remained on Wan Tong’s face, so vibrant and tenderly beautiful. This girl standing next to Gu Chenyue seemed so harmonious with him.

Harmonious to the point that it felt dazzling to her.

When Wan Tong heard the words “girlfriend”, she was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head and said, “No.”

However, Chen Jiajia didn’t take her answer to heart and looked at Gu Chenyue instead.

But Gu Chenyue didn’t even glance at Chen Jiajia.

After Wan Tong answered, he suddenly reached out and put his arm around her shoulder, pulling her into his embrace, and left in front of Chen Jiajia like that.

Chen Jiajia watched the two of them leave intimately and was so angry that she squatted down and cried on the ground, feeling like the whole world had abandoned her.

Wantong’s shoulder was held captive by the boy’s hand, and she had to walk beside him, keeping up with his fast pace.

But he was tall with long legs, and she had to almost run to barely keep up with him.

Because she was rushed, she wasn’t paying attention to her feet and suddenly tripped over something, causing her to tilt forward!

Fortunately, Gu Chenyue had quick reflexes and reached out to catch her before she fell, then immediately picked her up horizontally in his arms.

Wan Tong came back to her senses from the shock, hunching her shoulders and looking up at him, then poking his chest with her finger, “I can walk by myself.”

At that moment, Gu Chenyue had already arrived at the intersection, and stopped at the red light.

Her slight touch seemed to deliberately tease him, calming his anxious and restless mood in a magical way, and even causing some heart palpitations.

He didn’t put her down, but lowered his head and asked, “Why did you come to find me?”

There were quite a few people at the intersection, and seeing two young people acting so intimately, many of the onlookers couldn’t help but glance over.

Perhaps because of the two’s good looks, most of the glances were accompanied by ambiguous smiles.

The original owner was timid and had a thin skin, and now, as for Wan Tong, she felt like her face was blushing so much that blood was about to seep out.

Gu Chenyue also noticed her nervousness and embarrassment. Because her finger had just poked his chest and now she was clinging tightly to his clothes with half her face buried in his chest, her voice as low as a mosquito, “Put me down first.”

Looking at her white and translucent skin, reddish earlobes, and the slightly exposed red-purple nail-sized marks on her collar, Gu Chenyue suddenly remembered the pitiful appearance of her silent tears on the rooftop at noon, which frightened her. He couldn’t help but take a bite on her neck. She trembled weakly in his arms but dared not scream out loud, just tremblingly calling out his name…

He didn’t mean to bully her, he just wanted to leave something on her, something in her heart.

This kind of thought was getting stronger and stronger.

The strong desire even made him a little scared.

“The light is green…” Wan Tong reminded.

Gu Chenyue snapped out of his thoughts and let go of her, but he still held her sweaty little hand tightly as they walked onto the sidewalk.

Wan Tong ran to catch up with his long strides.

Gu Chenyue walked forward without knowing for how long until he stopped at a food street.

Wan Tong gasped slightly and covered her chest, then she smelled the aroma of various snacks in the air. Her mouth began to water more and more.

The original owner loved these snacks, and Lin Zhiwen used to accompany her before the Raider took over Lin Zhiwen’s body and began to focus on health. The original owner thought that food tasted better when eaten with someone else, so she never came back again.

She didn’t expect that Gu Chenyue would suddenly bring her here.

“What do you want to eat?” Gu Chenyue glanced over.

“I’m good with anything,” Wan Tong said, pulling her hand back from his palm and wiping it with a clean white tissue.

Gu Chenyue pursed his lips and watched her earnestly wiping her hands, feeling a sense of suffocation in his chest.

Does she think he’s dirty?

But before he could accumulate that sense of suffocation, the girl glanced at him tentatively and then carefully held his right hand.

That hand, the one that was holding her hand just now.

She gently wiped his palm and slender fingers with a tissue, then apologized in a low voice, “I sweat easily on my palms, and I might have made your hand wet. I’m sorry…”

Upon hearing her soft apology, the mood of Gu Chenyue, which had just plummeted to the bottom, seemed to have been thrown back to the peak all of a sudden. His emotions were like riding a roller coaster, causing his heart to beat irregularly.

Only she could make him feel this way.

“Gu Chenyue, have you seen the school forum?” asked Wan Tong in a small voice. She also glanced at him, “I really didn’t say that sentence.”

However, she couldn’t tell anything from his expression.

She felt that the sentence in the recording had a great impact on Gu Chenyue, so she didn’t want him to continue to misunderstand.

“Did you come to find me just for this matter? Or…” He lowered his head, his dark eyes met hers, and he continued, “Or for what happened on the rooftop?”

As soon as she thought of the rooftop incident, a blush spread across her fair face, and her large eyes became moist and flustered. “I don’t want you to misunderstand,” she said.

Her reaction made it difficult for Gu Chenyue to control his heartbeat.

“In the future, when making friends, remember to keep your eyes open,” he said in a hoarse voice.

He lowered his gaze and glanced at her hands, which were tightly gripping his. Now that she dared to touch him directly, did this mean that her feelings for him had changed?

With the prickling sensation all over his body seemingly subsiding, and sensing the tension in Wan Tong’s heart easing up, Gu Chenyue nodded in satisfaction and said, “Okay.”

After she finished wiping their hands, she went to throw away the trash, and when she returned to Gu Chenyue, he placed his hand on top of her head and ruffled her soft hair, asking in a menacing tone, “Did you bring money?”

Wantu was stunned, “???” Wasn’t he treating her?

Soon, Wan Tong regretted coming to the food street with Gu Chenyue.

He had a really big appetite, they had already eaten at six different places, and it seemed like he could keep going!

But she felt distressed giving away her money.

In this world, she was really poor. Her family only gave her a monthly allowance of five hundred yuan, and she had to save every penny!

But in just half an hour earlier, she had already spent over a hundred yuan!

When they arrived at an ice cream shop, Wan Tong tightly held onto her small purse and resolutely shook her head, “I don’t want to eat ice cream!”

Gazing down at her, guarding her purse with a near-tearful expression, Gu Chenyue’s black eyes flashed with a hint of amusement, but his voice was lowered with a hint of coercion, “What did you just say?”

“…” All that was left for Wan Tong to do was to reluctantly pay for the ice cream and say, “Just buy one serving, I won’t eat.”

Only then was Gu Chenyue satisfied, and he reached out to pat her hair again, but this time he didn’t mess it up.

As they got their ice cream, Wan Tong looked a bit envious, but still handed it over to Gu Chenyue.

“I’m not eating anymore, I’m going home,” Wan Tong put her wallet back into her bag and walked ahead, feeling depressed.

Gu Chenyue followed behind her with his long legs, watching her drooping head and smiling to himself.

Walking out of the food street, there weren’t many people on the road, only the sound of two people’s footsteps, one in front and one behind, and occasional passing car noises.

As she stepped on the shadow of Gu Chenyue on the ground, gradually, Wan Tong also cheered up. The boss must have a tighter budget than her in life. Being squeezed by him today was also helping him. Next time, she should take him to a better place to eat, these snacks are not healthy.

Gu Chenyue saw the girl suddenly raise her head, her small white face lifted up with a smile, her mouth seemed to be mixed with honey, he felt a little itchy in his heart, so he suddenly stopped.

Wan Tong turned around in confusion and looked at him. “What’s wrong?”

After the scene on the rooftop at noon and the crazy stroll in the food street just now, her fear of him seemed to have been worn down, and now she no longer shrank in fear in front of him.

Gu Chenyue offered the ice cream that he had only taken one bite in front of her and sair, “It’s not good, you can have it.”

The ice cream had already melted a bit, giving off a faint aroma of honeydew.

After staring at the ice cream for a few seconds, Wan Tong leaned forward and took a bite of it from his hand.

Gu Chenyue had expected her to take the ice cream from his hand, but he was surprised by the way she bit into it. Despite his shock, he found her expression and the light in her eyes even more charming.

Wan Tong was too greedy and took a big bite of the ice cream.

As a result, the ice cream was too cold. She took a big bite and her lips and tongue were numb from the cold, but she didn’t want to spit it out and kept gasping for air with her mouth open.

As his gaze shifted from her misty eyes to her rosy and moist lips, he felt dry in his mouth and needed something to moisturize his throat.

He lowered his head and covered her slightly parted lips.

At that moment, Wan Tong was stunned, not knowing what to do as she saw the handsome face coming closer. After the coldness from the ice cream was taken away, she slowly pressed her lips together, feeling both the numbness from the coldness and the hot and tingling sensation from the touch.

She saw a sexy Adam’s apple in his throat move as if he had swallowed something.

As she was thinking about whether to say thank you, she met those deep and intense ink-black eyes.

He licked his lips, not satisfied, and placed one hand on her shoulder, pushing her against a nearby pole, and his thin lips pressed against hers that he just let go once again.

She didn’t know how long it lasted, but a deliberate car horn suddenly sounded, causing Gu Chenyue to pull away.

As she slowly regained her senses, before she could speak, Gu Chenyue placed the half-eaten ice cream in front of her and uttered two words from his thin lips, “Take it.”

Instinctively, she reached out and took it from him.

Afterward, Gu Chenyue took a step forward, walking ahead of her.

He walked a few steps and saw that Wan Tong was still dazed behind him. He turned around and looked at her, “Are you not going to catch up?”

His serious appearance made Wan Tong doubt whether everything she just experienced was her own illusion.

But her lips still felt a bit tingly and numb, the after-effects of being kissed and bitten unskillfully.

Wan Tong watched Gu Chenyue’s calm figure and ran after him. As she got closer, she noticed the red earlobes of the boy…

Oh, so this cold and aloof demeanor was just an act.

After seeing Wan Tong off, Gu Chenyue returned to the nightclub.

When Hu Tiankan saw him, he noticed that Gu Chenyue was lost in thought with a mysterious smile on his lips.

Ah, so sweet…

“Yueyue, it looks like something good happened today. Was it the rich girl, the little rabbit, or the little flower?” Hu Tiankan sat down opposite him and asked gossipingly.

Gu Chenyue’s face softened, but he furrowed his brows and looked at him. “Lin Zhiwen?”

“Ah, after Zheng Wantong left, Lin Zhiwen came. You didn’t see her? It doesn’t make sense. Wasn’t the young miss back already? She even threw a tantrum with the owner just now.”

Hu Tiankan began to envy the good luck that had come to Gu Chenyue. He thought he didn’t look too bad himself, so why couldn’t he find a girl who liked him?

“In the future, please don’t let her in. It’s bothersome,” Gu Chenyue said, his expression revealing a hint of disgust.

Hu Tiankan nodded repeatedly, “Okay, I understand. You only like your family’s little bunny.”

At this time, Lin Zhiwen returned home in anger, but suddenly received a notification that Gu Chenyue’s favorability towards her had dropped by 20 points, and now it was already -10!

She told herself to stay calm and thought that it must be because Gu Chenyue saw the forum and knew that she had schemed against Zheng Wantong, so he was so angry.

However, she had someone check the IP address of the post exposing herself, but couldn’t find any useful information. The other party was clearly well prepared!

She now strongly suspects Zheng Wantong. She must have intentionally talked to her, and she was too careless to be fooled by a young girl.

She didn’t expect Zheng Wantong to act like a little white rabbit on the surface, but be so cunning and sly in her heart. She had to expose her true face and let everyone see it.

But when Lin Zhiwen thought of herself being scolded mercilessly in the post, she felt a headache coming on.

She opened her phone album and looked through the photos she had just taken, her eyes filled with jealousy.

She really knows how to seduce people. She actually made Gu Chenyue kiss her!

At that moment, Lin Zhiwen had a plan in mind.

The next morning, when Wan Tong appeared in the classroom, she saw Lin Zhiwen sitting in her seat with red eyes, surrounded by several girls from other classes who were saying malicious things to her, just like they had mocked Wan Tong yesterday.

When Lin Zhiwen saw Wan Tong approaching, she quickly got up, grabbed her and walked out.

Wan Tong didn’t know what she was up to, but instinctively, she shook off her hand.

“Tongtong, won’t you talk to me?” Lin Zhiwen turned around and looked at her, her beautiful face covered in tears, evoking a sense of pity.

Wan Tong remained silent, turned around, and sat back in her seat. After placing her backpack, she spoke in a low voice, “There is nothing left for us to talk about.”

Who knows what she is planning now?

“Lin Zhiwen, you did all those things and you still have the nerve to talk to Zheng Wantong? Are you shameless? Is Gu Chenyue really yours? You talk big, why don’t you try to drive away all the girls in the school?” A short-haired girl sneered disdainfully.

The taller girl next to her came out and pulled on Lin Zhiwen’s shoulder. “I think we should talk first,” she said.

After that, several girls pushed and shoved Lin Zhiwen out.

Without even looking, Zheng Wantong’s classmates came up to comfort her and apologized for yesterday’s incident.

“Tongtong, I never expected Wenwen to be that kind of person. You shouldn’t associate with her in the future…”

“Yeah, she’s too malicious…”

“She didn’t know what Lin Zhiwen was up to, but instinctively, she shook off her hand.

“Chong Chong, won’t you talk to me?” Lin Zhiwen turned to look at her, her beautiful face covered in tears, making people feel sorry for her.

Silently, Wan Tong turned around and sat back in her seat. After putting away her backpack, she spoke softly, “We have nothing to talk about anymore.”

Who knows what she’s planning now?

“Lin Zhiwen, after all that you’ve done, you still have the nerve to talk to Zheng Wantong? Do you have no shame? Is Gu Chenyue yours? You really have a big mouth. If you have the guts, go ahead and drive away all the girls in the school!” A short-haired girl sneered.

Beside her, a tall girl walked out and tugged on Lin Zhiwen’s shoulder. “I think we should talk first.”

With that, the girls pushed and shoved Lin Zhiwen out.

Zheng Wantong didn’t even look at them, and her classmates came up to comfort her and apologize for yesterday’s incident.

“Chong Chong, I never thought that Wen Wen would be such a person. You shouldn’t associate with her in the future…”

“Yeah, she’s so malicious…”

“How did Gu Chenyue become hers? Shameless.”

Wan Tong listened expressionlessly, these were the same words that were aimed at her yesterday.

Before the morning reading class, Lin Zhiwen returned, her eyes still red, but nothing else was out of the ordinary. Several times, she looked at Wan Tong, as if wanting to say something.

Wan Tong always felt like she was planning something.

After the first class, Wan Tong saw that a lot of people had gathered outside the hallway and were peering downstairs.

“F*ck, isn’t that person in the same class as Gu Chenyue?”

“Recently, Gu Chenyue’s hostility seems to be getting stronger, don’t you feel that way?”

“Ah, why do I feel just the opposite?”

“Why isn’t Lin Zhiwen stopping him? This is her chance to show off, haha!”

…

However, this time Lin Zhiwen seemed to have heard nothing, still pretending to look pitifully at Wan Tong. “Tongtong, it seems like Gu Chenyue is fighting, why don’t you go take a look?”

Her voice was not small, and as soon as she finished speaking, everyone’s inexplicable gaze turned towards her.

Let Zheng Wantong go and stop the fight? Is she crazy?

Didn’t she just get scared badly yesterday?

Instead, it was Lin Zhiwen who was previously quite active in opposing Gu Chenyue. Why didn’t she go now? Because her true colors had been exposed?

Under the various suspicious gazes of the crowd, Wan Tong stood up and walked out.

Lin Zhiwen looked at her back for a while before following her. Because of their strange interaction, the classmates who noticed exchanged a glance and went to watch the show.

There were quite a few people gathered at the entrance of Class 16. The area behind the classroom was empty, with tables and chairs in disarray. Gu Chenyue grabbed a male student by the collar, wanting to throw him to the ground and step on him. But he suddenly remembered the soft words of the girl from last night as they parted ways.

“Gu Chenyue, can you please stop hitting people in the future? I’m afraid.”

So he restrained his impulse and only pinned the boy to a chair. Then he put a cellphone in front of him and said, “Unlock it.”

The boy trembled as he unlocked the phone. A picture of a beautiful pair of long legs in school uniform immediately appeared on the screen.

As soon as the handsome face of Gu Chenyue turned dark, he pinched the boy’s shoulder, unable to control himself and exerting some force.

“When did you take the photo?”

“It wasn’t me! I didn’t take it, I just received an email!” The boy shook his head repeatedly. “It was a packaged file, and I didn’t know who sent it! I just forwarded it to the group out of curiosity!”

“An email?”

“Yes, yes!”

While Gu Chenyue was questioning the boy, Wan Tong had already approached the classroom door and hesitated when she saw the vacant space around Gu Chenyue.

It was Gu Chenyue who seemed to sense her arrival and suddenly lifted his gaze to look at her, then released the boy from his grip.

His expression still exuded a faint hostility, and after taking the phone from the male student, he walked out a few steps.

When passing by Wan Tong. He grabbed her arm and, amid the terrified gazes of the onlookers, took her away.

Lin Zhiwen watched the scene and quietly clenched her fists, but couldn’t help feeling a bit pleased inside.