So What If the Beautiful Campus Belle Loves Money? (32)

Su Qingqing fought back the urge to strangle Shi Zheng and tried to keep her voice calm. "Shi Zheng, are you sure it's that... Hua Jinchen who changes girlfriends all the time?"

"Stay away from him. He's not a good man. If you fall for him, it's usually us girls who end up getting hurt."

She deliberately brought up Hua Jinchen's "romantic history," trying to warn Shi Zheng not to be taken in by his sweet talk.

Shi Zheng seemed not to notice the barb in Su Qingqing's words. Instead, she smiled even more openly. "Yes, it's him. Thanks for the kind warning. But..."

"But what?"

She changed tack. "But he's my boyfriend now."

"Next time, I don't want to hear any of you bad-mouthing my boyfriend. It'll make me unhappy."

The word "boyfriend" drew another round of quiet gasps.

Li Wei and Wang Luning exchanged a glance, each seeing the same shock and jealousy in the other's eyes.

If Shi Zheng really had become Hua Jinchen's official girlfriend, her status and standing would be completely different!

What if she settled accounts with them later for mocking and ostracizing her before?

Su Qingqing felt dizzy, her rage and jealousy burning until her very insides ached.

Boyfriend?

She hasn't even sorted things out with Gu Yanshen, and now she's become Hua Jinchen's official girlfriend too?

What kind of magic does this bitch have?

Why does everyone fall for this gold digger?!

"Oh... really? Congratulations, then."

Su Qingqing practically squeezed the words out through her teeth, the smile on her face uglier than a grimace. "I just wonder how long Hua Jinchen will stay serious this time."

She was openly saying she didn't think things would work out for Shi Zheng.

But Shi Zheng seemed not to care in the slightest and even nodded. "Who knows what'll happen in the future? At least he treats me very well now."

But the atmosphere in the dorm room had completely changed because of those few bombshell remarks.

Su Qingqing stared fixedly at Shi Zheng's back, the malice in her eyes almost taking solid form.

She had to act as soon as possible!

She couldn't wait any longer!

She would make this bitch, so carried away with herself, fall from the clouds at once!

Shi Zheng lay back down on her bed and sent Hua Jinchen a text to let him know she was safe.

Before she could put down her phone, it suddenly rang, sounding especially jarring in the dorm room that had quieted down.

Shi Zheng seemed not to notice the gazes on her. She put on her earphones and answered the call.

"Hello, baby? We've been apart for less than a few minutes and you already miss me? You're so clingy!"

Her voice instantly switched to a sickeningly sweet tone, with a coquettish lilt at the end.

There was a brief silence on the other end of the line.

After a while, Gu Yanshen said, "...It's me."

The smile on Shi Zheng's face didn't change in the slightest. She chuckled softly into the phone. "I know. I know it's you, baby."

On the other end, Gu Yanshen's breathing hitched almost imperceptibly.

She knows?

She knows it's me, but she's still calling me by the pet name she uses for Hua Jinchen?

A strange feeling seized him in an instant.

Gu Yanshen's fingers tightened slightly around his phone, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

"Why aren't you saying anything? Are you shy?"

Shi Zheng's voice was full of amusement, as if she could picture his expression at that moment. "Just talking on the phone is so boring. Let's have a video call, shall we? I want to... watch you fall asleep."

She deliberately slowed down on the last two words, giving them a suggestive undertone.

Li Wei and Wang Luning both rolled their eyes dramatically, but their hands moved noticeably more quietly, their ears pricked up high for fear of missing a word of the conversation.

Su Qingqing clenched her fists, her fingertips turning white.

Is she video calling Hua Jinchen?

She was seething with jealousy, yet she couldn't resist listening in for more. Perhaps she could catch Shi Zheng saying something she could use against her.

As soon as Shi Zheng finished speaking, she gave Gu Yanshen no time to refuse. She hung up and immediately started a video call.

A few seconds later, just before the video call was about to end automatically, the screen flashed and the connection went through.

But what appeared on the screen was not Gu Yanshen's face, but a corner of the ceiling.

He didn't show his face.

Shi Zheng adjusted her phone to a more comfortable angle, pointing the camera at herself.

Then she relaxed back against her pillow and said softly, "Can you see me, baby?"

She was wearing a burgundy spaghetti-strap nightgown. The smooth fabric clung to the curves of her body, shimmering with a sexy sheen in the warm yellow light of the bedside lamp.

Two thin straps rested on her fair, rounded shoulders, leaving large expanses of skin exposed to the air.

Lower down, the neckline of her nightgown traced soft curves just right, glimpses of them appearing and disappearing in the light.

She reclined against her fluffy pillow, her black hair spilling down like a waterfall, a few strands falling across her collarbones and chest.

There was a long silence on Gu Yanshen's end.

Only the sound of his breathing through the earphones betrayed that he was not unmoved.

"...I can see you."

After a while, Gu Yanshen's voice came through the earphones, softer than usual, as if he had deliberately lowered it.

"It's not fair if you're the only one looking."

Shi Zheng softened her voice further, adding a coquettish note. "Turn your camera around too. Let me see you."