The dinner was supposed to be a harmonious affair tonight, but it ultimately ended in an unmanageable ss. Even though Lu Lin stayed behind in the luxury apartnt, neither of them was in the mood for any romance.
After taking a quick shower and changing into her pajamas, Lu Lin consciously snuggled into Zhou Yuwen's embrace, closing her eyes as he held her close.
Zhou Yuwen picked up his phone and sent a ssage to Shen Yu, asking, "How is Yan Yan doing?"
At that mont, Zheng Yanyan had just fallen asleep in Shen Yu's arms. Her eyes were still swollen, clearly showing that she had cried quite a bit.
Looking at the ssage from Zhou Yuwen, Shen Yu felt a complex mix of emotions. To be honest, she really did not want to talk to him right now. After a long mont of hesitation, she finally replied, "She is doing fine."
Zhou Yuwen replied, "Thanks for your hard work tonight."
"Mhm," Shen Yu's response was incredibly brief.
Zhou Yuwen could easily guess that Shen Yu probably did not have a very good impression of him at this mont.
Co to think of it, no girl would have a good impression of a man after encountering such a situation.
The fact that she even bothered to reply was already pretty good.
Lying prone in Zhou Yuwen's arms, Lu Lin saw the chat history with Shen Yu. She whispered, "Shen Yu should not have been dragged into this."
Zhou Yuwen put his phone down and said, "Do not overthink it. Let us just get so rest."
With that said, he wrapped his arms around Lu Lin and drifted off to sleep.
Lu Lin had actually wanted to be intimate with Zhou Yuwen that night, but he was simply not in the mood. Thus, the night passed quietly. When morning ca and his interest finally peaked, he had Lu Lin straddle him, and they shared an intimate mont.
Wearing a loose pajama top with her bare, beautiful slender legs exposed beneath it, Lu Lin looked remarkably alluring.
Logically speaking, this was not Zheng Yanyan's first ti going through a breakup, but her reaction this ti seed far more intense than before. The last ti, she had constantly felt that she was the one in the wrong, weeping endlessly and even abandoning her pride to beg Zhou Yuwen for forgiveness.
But this ti, Zhou Yuwen was the one who had made a mistake.
Zheng Yanyan was furious, but despite her anger, she still could not bear to leave him. The very first thing she did upon waking up was check her phone, wondering if Zhou Yuwen had sent a ssage to apologize.
Unfortunately, her screen was completely empty. There were no ssages at all.
Zheng Yanyan felt deeply disappointed.
Seeing that Zheng Yanyan was awake, Shen Yu asked, "Are you alright?"
"I am fine."
Suffering from a broken heart, Zheng Yanyan had lost all of her usual radiance, appearing entirely listless and depressed. Leaving her to rest alone in the dormitory was out of the question, as being by herself would only lead to overthinking, so she followed Shen Yu to attend classes.
She had barely spoken a word since getting up early that morning. However, right after entering the classroom, Zheng Yanyan could not help but ask, "When it cos down to it, this whole thing is Zhou Yuwen and Lu Lin's fault, right?"
Shen Yu nodded in affirmation, stating that it was definitely their fault.
Zheng Yanyan pressed, "Then since it is their fault, why have they not co over to apologize?"
"Well..."
This question stumped Shen Yu. She thought about it seriously, feeling that if Zheng Yanyan was still stuck in the middle of them, they might still have so reservations. But now that Zheng Yanyan had left of her own accord, did that not just pave the way for them to be together?
However, Shen Yu could not bring herself to say those words out loud.
Clearly, the mont Zheng Yanyan asked the question, she suddenly realized this point as well.
All of a sudden, she felt like she was the one who had lost out.
During class, a few female classmates whom she had made promises to a few days prior walked over with bright smiles to greet her.
"Hey, Yan Yan, tell us, are the girls attending the party all going to be wearing haute couture gowns worth tens of thousands?"
"Exactly! If that is the case, should we be wearing gowns too? We only have ordinary clothes that cost a few hundred. Will you feel embarrassed to be seen with us?"
It was only after the girls chattered on for a bit that Zheng Yanyan suddenly rembered she had promised a few of her classmates that she would bring them to Zhou Yuwen's party.
Now that these girls had co looking for her, Zheng Yanyan imdiately panicked. Let alone whether these girls could still attend the party...
She did not even have the face to attend the party herself anymore!
It had originally been agreed that she would make an appearance alongside Zhou Yuwen. Now, had she not just handed that opportunity right over to Lu Lin?
All of a sudden, Zheng Yanyan grew incredibly anxious.
"Huh? Yan Yan, you do not look so good. Did you not sleep well last night?"
"You did not get into another argunt with Zhou Yuwen, did you?"
These female classmates were quite observant. The mont they noticed sothing slightly off with Zheng Yanyan, they imdiately assud it had sothing to do with Zhou Yuwen.
Soone even chid in, "If you argued with Zhou Yuwen, does that an we can no longer go to the party?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!?"
Already anxious in her heart, Zheng Yanyan instantly flared up upon hearing this. She snapped back, "Zhou Yuwen and I are doing perfectly fine! How could we have argued? Do you even know how to speak properly?"
The girl who had spoken offered an awkward smile and replied, "I was just joking around with you, that is all."
Zheng Yanyan was in no mood to joke around with those girls, and she quickly dismissed them with a few terse words. Seeing her in this state, Shen Yu felt that sothing was seriously wrong.
They had clearly already fallen out with Zhou Yuwen, so how could she still claim they were doing perfectly fine?
"Yan Yan, you are not... still thinking about going to that party, are you?" Shen Yu asked while gently rubbing Zheng Yanyan's back to comfort her.
"I..."
For a mont, Zheng Yanyan was at a loss for words. Finally, she looked at Shen Yu with a pleading gaze and asked, "Shen Yu, if you were , what would you do?"
She looked at Shen Yu very earnestly. Shen Yu had not considered this question before, but putting herself in Zheng Yanyan's shoes, she actually felt a mont of hesitation. However, she eventually said with firm resolve, "I would not go."
"It is already over. Zhou Yuwen is the one at fault here. To cheat on a partner is unforgivable. He betrayed you, so what else is there for the two of you to say? Besides, even if there is sothing to say, he should be the one apologizing. Are you really going to go looking for him? And what would you even say? Do you actually want to share him with Lu Lin?" Having seriously placed herself in that position, Shen Yu truly felt that Zheng Yanyan and Zhou Yuwen were finished for good.
To cheat on a partner was unforgivable.
Yet, Zheng Yanyan anxiously burst out, "But I do not want things to end with Zhou Yuwen! Besides, it does not really count as cheating, does it? We are not officially boyfriend and girlfriend, so I cannot control who he gets together with. Plus, maybe Lu Lin was the one who seduced him!"
"What?"
Shen Yu was rendered completely speechless upon hearing this. "No, Yan Yan, what are you even saying? It takes two to tango in situations like this!"
"Furthermore, Su Qing already said that Lu Lin was with Zhou Yuwen back when you two were together. No matter how you look at it, this is their problem."
"Stop torturing yourself over this. You did nothing wrong."
Shen Yu genuinely wanted to comfort her, but the more Zheng Yanyan thought about it, the more she felt sothing was amiss. She argued, "If I did nothing wrong, then how could Zhou Yuwen not co looking for ?"
"It must be my fault. If I had never suggested introducing Lu Lin to Liu Shuo, she never would have tried to anger like this." Zheng Yanyan finally figured it out.
Hearing this logic, Shen Yu was completely dumbfounded, entirely unsure of how to comfort Zheng Yanyan anymore.
anwhile, Zheng Yanyan seed to have finally found a reason to convince herself. She quickly added, "That must be it. It is all my fault. I left way too early last night. I should have stayed longer and made Zhou Yuwen and Lu Lin explain everything clearly. Sigh... Shen Yu, will you go find Lu Lin with in a bit?"
"I..."
Shen Yu felt that Zheng Yanyan had completely lost her mind and did not know what to say.
At this point, Zheng Yanyan truly had no one else to turn to for help, so she tightly held onto Shen Yu's hand, begging her for assistance.
Shen Yu hesitated for a mont before finally agreeing.
And so, later that morning, Zheng Yanyan made a phone call to Lu Lin.
At that very mont, Lu Lin was pinned underneath Zhou Yuwen as they kissed. With her slender arms and legs, she was completely swallowed up beneath his fra, with only her delicate arms visible as she wrapped them around his back.
The two of them were intimately entangled beneath the covers.
Lu Lin's small, delicate face was flushed crimson from Zhou Yuwen's teasing.
The phone rang for quite a while, but no one answered.
Refusing to give up, Zheng Yanyan persistently called again and again.
It continued until Zhou Yuwen finished up and headed to the shower.
Only then did Lu Lin pick up her silenced phone to check the caller ID.
Eight missed calls. All from Zheng Yanyan.
Even without answering the phone, Lu Lin knew exactly why Zheng Yanyan was calling.
So, without a second thought, Lu Lin rejected the call.
"She actually dared to reject my call?"
On the other end, Zheng Yanyan spoke to Shen Yu, feeling incredibly wronged.
"On what grounds does she have the right to reject my call? What right does she have!" Zheng Yanyan's eyes grew red as she cried, "She is clearly the one who wronged , yet she does not feel the slightest bit of guilt!"
Aside from Shen Yu and Zheng Yanyan, Su Qing was actually present in the classroom as well. However, Su Qing rarely participated in their conversations—there was no need to. She simply watched the spectacle unfold from the sidelines with cold amusent.
Occasionally, she would throw out a sharp jab to provoke Zheng Yanyan. For instance, right as Shen Yu was trying to comfort her, Su Qing casually threw in, "She and Zhou Yuwen probably have not even woken up yet." That single sentence instantly caused Zheng Yanyan to get emotional, and she shot a vicious glare at Su Qing.
Shen Yu also shot Su Qing a displeased look.
With teary eyes, Zheng Yanyan asked Su Qing, "Are you not angry at all?"
"Why would I be angry? I am just the ex-ex-girlfriend at this point," Su Qing replied nonchalantly.
"Hmph!"
Both weeping and furious, Zheng Yanyan did not know what else to say. She simply lowered her head and sent a ssage to Lu Lin: "When do you have ti! Let us et up and talk!"
Just a mont ago, Shen Yu had been comforting Zheng Yanyan, suggesting that Lu Lin might just still be asleep.
But the very second Zheng Yanyan's ssage was sent...
Lu Lin imdiately replied: "No ti."
Zheng Yanyan was enraged once again. Shoving her phone toward Shen Yu, she cried, "She actually said she has no ti!"
"Just look at her attitude towards ! All her previous kindness was completely faked. She must be feeling so smug right now!"
Not only did she show the phone to Shen Yu, but she also thrust it in front of Su Qing.
Finding it rather amusing, Su Qing looked at the screen and comnted, "Of course she feels smug. She used to only get your leftovers. Zhou Yuwen would only keep her company after he was finished spending ti with you."
"But now things are great for her. You voluntarily backed out, so now Zhou Yuwen only has to spend ti with her alone. If I were in her shoes, I would be overjoyed too!"
"What nonsense are you spewing!"
The more she listened to Su Qing, the angrier Zheng Yanyan beca. Finally unable to endure it any longer, she stood up with an infuriated huff and stord off.
"Yan Yan!" Shen Yu tried to stop her, but it was completely futile.
Zheng Yanyan completely regretted acting so impulsively and running away last night.
She had to rush back right now and drag Lu Lin out of Zhou Yuwen's bed! That bitch!
She must have been planning this for a long ti!
'I fell right into her trap!'
Realizing she could no longer stop her, Shen Yu could only turn to complain to Su Qing, "Could you not just hold your tongue for a second?"
Su Qing rely shrugged, gesturing that she had not said anything factually incorrect.
Shen Yu was rendered speechless, thinking to herself, 'Is this really about whether you were right or wrong?'
Speaking of which, Shen Yu actually felt a bit curious. She sat down next to Su Qing and asked in bewildernt, "But on that note, you like Zhou Yuwen too, do you not? Does it not hurt you to see him parading around with other won so openly?"
"Hmph."
Hearing this, Su Qing only let out a charming, delicate huff.
She could not help but tilt her head to gaze out the window.
A fleeting trace of imperceptible sorrow flashed through her eyes, but she ultimately replied, "A man as excellent as Zhou Yuwen deserves to have a few girlfriends."
Shen Yu was utterly shocked.
Driven by pure willpower, Zheng Yanyan walked all the way from the school to Zhou Yuwen's luxury apartnt. It was about a thirty-minute journey. Right as she stepped into the elevator...
Zhou Yuwen took another elevator directly down to the underground parking garage.
The entire ordeal with Zheng Yanyan had not actually affected Zhou Yuwen all that much. It was just his woman throwing a tantrum. He figured that he would have to clear things up with Zheng Yanyan sooner or later. If she decided to stay, that would naturally be for the best. But if she truly wanted them to go their separate ways, Zhou Yuwen felt that would not be such a bad ending either.
Thus, after finishing his shower, he cuddled affectionately with Lu Lin for a while longer, asking who she was ssaging.
"No one," Lu Lin replied.
"Just reading so gossip."
"Oh." Zhou Yuwen did not pay it any mind. He leaned down and kissed Lu Lin twice, then noticed a missed call from Liu Shuo, so he called him back.
Once connected, he realized Liu Shuo was speaking with palpable anger. "Bro, that bastard Li Qiang is working at your villa!"
Zhou Yuwen asked what was going on.
As it turned out, a group of student part-tirs had been hired to help set up the scenery at Zhou Yuwen's villa, and Li Qiang happened to be among them.
Zhou Yuwen had no idea about this. Su Qing had been the one to find this group for him, and she had undoubtedly delegated the task to her subordinates.
Li Qiang was currently taking odd jobs left and right. The manual labor at the villa paid well and was close to the school, so it was perfectly normal for him to have taken the job.
But by the sounds of it, Liu Shuo was extrely pissed off. He had called primarily because he was worried that Zhou Yuwen was the one who had arranged for Li Qiang to work there. Now that he knew Zhou Yuwen was unaware, things were much easier to handle.
Liu Shuo told Zhou Yuwen that he could not swallow his anger over this.
"Damn it! He actually dared to ss with my woman!"
Zhou Yuwen found this rather amusing. He pondered for a mont before replying that the bla could not entirely be placed on Li Qiang.
"He is technically a victim as well."
"I still cannot stand it!" Liu Shuo had always been reckless and aggressive. Even knowing that Li Qiang was not the main one at fault, Liu Shuo still found his very existence annoying.
Catching onto Liu Shuo's intentions, Zhou Yuwen said, "Alright then. Just chase Li Qiang away, but do not go too far."
"Got it."
Having obtained Zhou Yuwen's tacit approval, Liu Shuo hung up the phone.
Zhou Yuwen told Lu Lin, who was still lying in bed, to get so more sleep.
He had other matters to attend to at the company and had to leave first.
Lu Lin nodded.
After Zhou Yuwen left, Lu Lin stretched lazily. Having just engaged in an intense workout with Zhou Yuwen, she was indeed feeling a bit tired. Lying there all alone on the massive bed, she closed her eyes, and sleepiness quickly washed over her.
Thinking about it, it had been a long ti since Lu Lin had slept in this large bed. Ever since Zheng Yanyan moved in, she had been relegated to the second bedroom.
The master bedroom was still much more comfortable.
With this in mind, Lu Lin did not regret exposing the truth yesterday in the slightest. Sotis, Zheng Yanyan just could not recognize who the real winner was. Driving her out now was for the best.
Su Qing would probably still co around to cause trouble.
But after giving it so serious thought, Lu Lin figured that Su Qing would be much easier to deal with than Zheng Yanyan.
At the very least, both she and Su Qing were not opposed to sharing a man.
Just as Lu Lin was on the verge of falling asleep...
Zheng Yanyan stepped out of the elevator, alone and entirely expressionless. She punched in the passcode and pushed the door open.
Making a beeline for the bedroom, she had not even crossed the threshold when she spotted Lu Lin lying right there in her master bedroom. The re sight of it caused a raging inferno to violently flare up within Zheng Yanyan's chest!
What gave her the right!
That was the bed she shared with Zhou Yuwen! On what grounds could she sleep there with such peace of mind?
And she dared to say she had no ti?
She had been planning for this very day all along! She just wanted to make her angry so she would separate from Zhou Yuwen!
And then she could swoop in like the cuckoo usurping the magpie's nest!
At this exact mont, the concept of the cuckoo usurping the magpie's nest completely materialized in Zheng Yanyan's mind. The longer she stared at Lu Lin lying on that bed, the more her fury surged, and she abruptly charged into the room.
Zheng Yanyan's entrance into the room was absolutely not quiet by any ans, and she lunged directly onto Lu Lin's body. Still deeply dazed with sleep, Lu Lin only felt soone straddling her. Assuming that Zhou Yuwen had returned, she asked in a lazy drawl, "Why are you back so soon?"
As she said this, she opened her eyes.
The mont her eyes fluttered open, she saw Zheng Yanyan, eyes completely bloodshot, bringing down a vicious, heavy slap straight toward her face.
"You slut!"
Lu Lin had absolutely no ti to react. The slap landed squarely across her face, completely ssing up her hair.
"Did you plan this all along!?"
"I am asking you, did you plan this all along!"
Without giving Lu Lin a chance to process what was happening, Zheng Yanyan grabbed her forcefully by the neck. Her eyes were blazing red, looking as though she was ready to strangle Lu Lin to death right then and there.
At this mont, Zheng Yanyan had truly gone a little insane. After all, she felt that everything unraveling before her was entirely a trap set by Lu Lin. This forr good sister of hers had done all of this simply to drive her away from this massive bed.
Just so she could sleep on it herself.
Who could possibly endure such a thing?
Zheng Yanyan even caught herself thinking: 'You might as well just die right here!'
Fortunately, Lu Lin was not an easy target. Her initial daze only lasted for a brief mont.
Recovering rapidly, she retaliated by delivering a harsh backhand slap straight across Zheng Yanyan's face.
The force of the blow knocked her off.
"Are you out of your damn mind!" Scrambling up from the bed, clad only in a black camisole, Lu Lin panted heavily as she shot a look of absolute disbelief at Zheng Yanyan.
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