So What If the Beautiful Campus Belle Loves Money? (18)

Meanwhile, inside the meeting room's partitioned alcove.

Shi Zheng held her breath and concentrated.

The conversation outside came clearly through the door.

A cold glint flashed in Shi Zheng's eyes.

She had already suspected that the heroine was the one pulling the strings behind the forum exposé.

And now her suspicion had been confirmed.

The conversation outside was drawing to a close.

Su Qingqing's voice was a little dry. "President Gu, I was too full of myself. Sorry for bothering you."

Gu Yanshen's attitude had already said it all.

He had no intention of explaining himself to her and disdained to do so.

"Mm." Gu Yanshen merely gave her an indifferent glance, unconcerned.

Su Qingqing practically fled the meeting room.

Silence returned to the meeting room.

Shi Zheng waited a few more minutes. Only after making sure no one else was outside did she gently push open the alcove door and walk out.

Gu Yanshen heard the sound and turned around.

He suddenly spoke, repeating what he had said earlier. "Shi Zheng, break up with him."

Shi Zheng continued toward the door without breaking stride, as though she hadn't heard him.

"If it's money you want... whatever Hua Jinchen can give you, I can give you too, and even more." Gu Yanshen's voice rang out behind her.

Shi Zheng had already placed her hand on the doorknob.

She stopped, but didn't turn around. She merely let out a scoff.

"President, your interest in me is nothing more than a man's ridiculous possessiveness at work. You think that because you've touched me, I'm your property? And when you see someone else touch me, you feel offended?"

"I'm not your trophy, much less yours. Who I'm with is my choice."

"You have no right to order me around."

With that, Shi Zheng walked out without looking back.

System: [Host, the heroine hasn't left. She's hiding in a corner.]

Shi Zheng: [I know. Let her see it with her own eyes.]

Shi Zheng didn't break stride.

She could feel a gaze clinging to her back as if it were solid, almost piercing right through her.

But she didn't care.

Her figure soon disappeared around the stairwell corner. From beginning to end, she never noticed Su Qingqing's presence.

Su Qingqing covered her mouth and sucked in a sharp breath.

A terrible possibility struck her in an instant.

The answer was on the tip of her tongue, and there was only one.

It wasn't Hua Jinchen. It could only have been Shi Zheng, who had just left.

Shi Zheng had hit Gu Yanshen?!

Why?

What conflict had erupted between them, so intense that Shi Zheng had actually dared to hit Gu Yanshen?

And even more unbelievable, Gu Yanshen had actually... let it go?

He had openly worn the slap mark, even though someone might see it, without making the slightest move to cover it.

The impact of that realization was a hundred times stronger than any explanation.

The terrible possibility she least wanted to believe, yet couldn't ignore.

—Gu Yanshen had tacitly permitted this transgression.

He even... didn't care that she saw it.

Perhaps he didn't care whether anyone else saw it, either.

A sharp pang of resentment surged in Su Qingqing's chest, choking her until she could scarcely breathe.

Gu Yanshen had always been the person she admired deep in her heart.

She had never imagined that the perfect Student Council president would one day show a crack because of Shi Zheng!

It felt... as though something that belonged to her had been forcibly snatched away.

Even though Gu Yanshen had never truly belonged to her.

Su Qingqing didn't know why she had that thought, but the feeling made her deeply uncomfortable.

And that wasn't all. Shi Zheng had also heard her conversation with Gu Yanshen...

While she herself had been kept in the dark, putting on a show like a fool in front of Gu Yanshen.

Shi Zheng had been just a door away, and might even have been laughing at her inwardly!

Su Qingqing bit down hard on her lower lip, almost tasting blood.

She raised her hand and looked at the deep, bloody marks her nails had dug into her palm. The last trace of hesitation vanished from her eyes, leaving only malice.

Shi Zheng...

Why is President Gu different with you alone?

I'll make sure you're driven out of school!