Xia Wen's Bitter Heart

To temper her own courage, Mu Qiansè could carry a Movie Ticket into a theater late at night to watch a Horror Movie, so she was undoubtedly a decisive woman of action.

After returning to campus from her hospital visit, she headed straight for the dormitory of a certain Campus Belle.

It was around four or five in the afternoon, and her luck was decent enough that she happened to run into Lin Xiaoyi and Xia Wen just as they were heading out together for dinner; the two parties collided right at the entrance.

Although the two did not belong to the same department, they had spent some time together during club activities, so it was a pleasant meeting.

"I heard that you and Bai Zhi are dating, is that true?"

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Mu Qiansè went straight to the point, hoping to save someone from a sea of misery.

The photos of Lin Xiaoyi in a white dress walking with Bai Zhi to get a meal had been snapped by busybodies and posted on the school BBS. Bai Zhi had been busy preparing for his Novice Quest and was unaware, but the matter had actually become the talk of the school.

Busybodies on the BBS had already placed bets on when the Campus Belle and that scumbag Bai Zhi would break up. It was reported that the total number of participants in this wager had already exceeded 1,000, and even the incident involving the 15 unlucky students sent to the hospital had been overshadowed by the heat of this gossip... This was an age of entertainment to death.

"...That's right."

With a slightly flushed face, Lin Xiaoyi nodded generously, adding an extra remark.

"But I was the one who pursued him."

"But you should know that guy's reputation... Wait, you pursued him?"

Mu Qiansè was stunned.

"Mm, actually, you might not know this, but Bai Zhi has quite a lot of merits. For example, regarding..."

Before Lin Xiaoyi could finish her sentence, Xia Wen coughed a few times and surreptitiously reached out to tug at her.

When the other girl cast a puzzled look her way, she shot back a fierce glare that clearly meant, If you want to pursue him, don't go around increasing your own competition and making things harder for yourself.

Lin Xiaoyi: "..."

"Merits? Aside from being slightly handsome, that guy is clearly nothing but flaws... Fine, I understand."

Covering her forehead with one hand, Mu Qiansè sighed helplessly.

"A Young Girl in the throes of love always finds it hard to listen to sound advice from others. I was just like you back then, bewitched by that peerless face, only to realize after we spent time together that the guy was completely useless."

"He's not..."

Lin Xiaoyi wanted to speak up in dissatisfaction, but she was stopped by Xia Wen again.

So, in the time that followed, in order to prevent her friend from falling into a mud pit and having her feelings toyed with, Mu Qiansè recounted every one of Bai Zhi's flaws from start to finish.

For instance, they could barely meet a few times after becoming a couple, and whenever they finally managed to go out for a meal, she had to pay for everything herself. He would spend long periods holed up in an Internet Cafe pulling all-nighters, ignoring the world, and whenever he ran out of money or food, he would find all sorts of excuses to swindle cash out of her... and so on and so forth.

However, what left Mu Qiansè feeling quite depressed was that the more she spoke, the more determined the other girl seemed to become.

Halfway through, the Campus Belle even went out of her way to find a Notebook, and as if she had discovered a treasure, she began diligently recording the daily behavioral habits Mu Qiansè described—even noting down what he liked to eat and what he hated in meticulous detail... This script was clearly wrong, wasn't it!?

She was obviously talking about that jerk's shortcomings, so why was the other girl completely unmoved? Was the IQ of a Young Girl in love really capable of dropping to rock bottom?

When the girl started holding the Notebook and humbly asking for that jerk's phone number, as well as his QQ and WeChat contact information, Mu Qiansè finally couldn't hold back anymore.

She had originally intended to save a shred of face for that jerk, but now, in order to wake Lin Xiaoyi up, she couldn't care less and blurted out everything she had seen at the hospital today, finishing with a summary.

"No one knows that jerk better than I do!! It's obvious—he just came out of an all-nighter at the Internet Cafe, looking pale and broke, which is why he was shameless enough to steal the get-well gifts meant for the hospitalized students. That guy is just a selfish, petty person!! Believe me, it won't be long before he contacts you on his own, finding all sorts of excuses and methods to borrow money from you!! He is nothing but a complete and utter scumbag who swindles both money and affection!!"

After rattling off that long speech in one breath, Mu Qiansè took a short pause. Seeing Lin Xiaoyi suddenly stop her pen and fall silent, she felt a slight sense of relief.

Surely, now that she had been so blunt, the girl would be able to take it to heart, right?

What she had just said wasn't some baseless, malicious speculation, but a conclusion drawn from her own past experiences.

Back when that guy was her Boyfriend, he had used this exact routine to swindle several hundred yuan from her. And just when she thought he had finally turned over a new leaf and wanted to take him to the Movie Theater to watch a film and cultivate their relationship, he had, having already swindled enough money to keep surfing the web, stood her up without a second thought...

However, what she never expected was that her words not only failed to have an effect, but actually backfired.

"He is not as pathetic as you imagine!! You don't understand him at all!!"

Lifting her head abruptly, Lin Xiaoyi's eyes burned with obvious anger.

"Anyway, no matter what, I absolutely cannot stand this!! Everything you said before is just your own subjective opinion!! He is a Hero who protects everything from the shadows; you don't know anything at all!!"

"A Hero...? You're talking about him?"

Looking at the suddenly enraged Campus Belle, Mu Qiansè was left completely dumbfounded, almost suspecting she had suffered an auditory hallucination.

"..."

Rolling her eyes, Xia Wen, standing to the side, pressed her hand to her forehead in a "I knew it" gesture of utter helplessness.