Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 268: Su Qing and Zheng Yanyan Are Sworn Enemies, Irreconcilable

The exclusive interview lasted for a total of an hour and a half, starting at eight o'clock and ending at nine-thirty.During this time, almost all the girls in the class ran over to Su Qing's dormitory. Of course, they were not there to look for Su Qing, but for Zheng Yanyan.

They were incredibly excited, knowing exactly what they wanted to say even before entering the dormitory. "Yanyan! Your boyfriend is famous!"

"So your boyfriend is actually a great author!"

Unfortunately, Zheng Yanyan was not in the dormitory. Instead, Su Qing was there, declaring smugly, "Why are you looking for Zheng Yanyan?!"

"She is not the female lead of the novel!"

"I am the female lead, okay?!"

"Zhou Yuwen based the character on me!"

In reality, the yoga training had ended a long time ago. Zheng Yanyan and Lu Lin had basically just been sitting in the yoga studio holding their phones and watching the exclusive interview. During the interview, Zhou Yuwen spoke with confidence and composure, showing none of the immaturity expected of an eighteen-year-old boy. However, whenever he talked about his novel, the corners of his mouth would involuntarily turn up in a smile, a true display of his passion for the work.

Even the host remarked that when Zhou Yuwen talked about his novel, there was a light in his eyes.

Zhou Yuwen asked, "Is there?"

"Yes, there really is. People always say that a man is most handsome when he is serious! That saying is truly not false!" the host complimented.

Zhou Yuwen coughed awkwardly and replied, "Is that so? I think I am quite handsome to begin with."

The host could not help but cover her mouth and laugh.

Down in the comment section, a crowd of people were spamming praises like, "Boss is awesome!"

"Hubby, I want to have your babies! (Heart)"

"Hubby is so handsome!"

A bunch of girls were joining in the hype in the comment section, though of course, whether they were actually girls or not was anyone's guess.

Watching all this, Zheng Yanyan furrowed her brows. She could not help but mutter to Lu Lin, "Who are these people anyway? What gives them the right to call Zhou Yuwen their hubby?"

"They are just saying it for fun," Lu Lin replied.

"Zhou Yuwen is clearly my hubby!" Unconvinced and indignant, Zheng Yanyan simply registered an account and started commenting below. She tried to name the account "Zhou Yuwen's Girlfriend!"

Surprisingly, it was already taken!

She tried registering "Zhou Yuwen's Wife!"

The system showed that it was also taken.

This infuriated Zheng Yanyan to death. After struggling to register for a long time, she finally managed to find one that worked: "Zhou Yuwen's Number One Girlfriend and Wife!"

The registration finally went through.

Yet before she could even say a word, she noticed that an account named "Zhou Yuwen's First Lady" was commenting the most in the section, constantly spamming remarks like: "I am Zhou Yuwen's true girlfriend. The female lead in the book was written with me as the prototype."

Hearing this naturally left Zheng Yanyan deeply unsatisfied, and she directly fired back, "Stop talking bullshit! I am Zhou Yuwen's girlfriend!"

The two of them actually started arguing in the comment section over this matter.

Meanwhile, the other drama-loving onlookers naturally stood by happily watching the joke unfold, assuming it was just two male readers putting on a show for comedic effect.

Zheng Yanyan continued exchanging insults with "Zhou Yuwen's First Lady" like this until nine-thirty.

Only at the very end did she huffily head back to the dormitory with Lu Lin. On the way back, she could not help but complain to Lu Lin, saying that the moment Zhou Yuwen got popular, all sorts of cheap sluts came crawling out of the woodwork.

"Linlin, if I had known earlier, I would not have caused a fuss with Zhou Yuwen."

"He didn't say he was single during the interview just now, does that mean I still have a chance?"

Zheng Yanyan asked one question after another.

However, when she finally returned to the dormitory, she discovered that the place was currently surrounded so tightly that not even a drop of water could leak through.

There were even a few girls squeezed out in the hallway. Seeing Zheng Yanyan return, they looked extremely happy. "Yanyan, you are back?!"

"What are you all doing here?" Zheng Yanyan asked, her brows furrowing slightly.

One of the girls said excitedly, "We came to find you! Did you know your boyfriend is a great author?!"

'Of course I know,' Zheng Yanyan thought to herself. Yet before she could reply, she heard Su Qing's voice echoing from inside the dormitory: "He broke up with Zheng Yanyan a long time ago!"

At this moment, Su Qing had not yet noticed Zheng Yanyan's arrival.

It was just that some classmates were curiously asking Su Qing why she had broken up with Zhou Yuwen in the first place.

And wasn't Yanyan currently Zhou Yuwen's boyfriend?

It would have been better if they hadn't mentioned this, but bringing it up only made Su Qing furious.

She first addressed the classmates, "Who said I broke up with Zhou Yuwen?! Zhou Yuwen and I didn't break up at all! It was Zheng Yanyan who stole him away from me! If you don't believe me, ask Shen Yu!"

"Right at the start of the school year, she said clearly that she would help me win Zhou Yuwen back. In the end, as she was helping me pursue him, she pursued her way right into Zhou Yuwen's arms! Shen Yu knows all about it!"

Speaking up to this point, Su Qing's eyes reddened slightly. She hurriedly pulled Shen Yu forward and demanded, "Right?"

Shen Yu replied hesitantly, "Probably, maybe."

The classmates had all come over to listen to the gossip. Hearing this, they let out a collective "Oh" of realization, understanding everything completely.

But the problem was, if that were really the case, didn't that make Zhou Yuwen a scummy man too?!

As soon as Su Qing heard everyone calling Zhou Yuwen a scummy man, she became unhappy.

How could he be a scummy man?!

It was all Zheng Yanyan's fault, okay? It was Zheng Yanyan who seduced Zhou Yuwen.

My Zhou Yuwen is just too innocent and was deceived by her!

There wasn't a single good woman in Jingcheng.

"Now they have already broken up."

"Broken up? When did they break up? How did they break up?"

"Hmph, just a few days ago, when we went to Suzhou. Our whole dormitory was there. If you ask me, that woman Zheng Yanyan is insufferable for any man. Originally, Zhou Yuwen and I had some matters to discuss, so we were in the room together. What is wrong with that? Zhou Yuwen and I were high school classmates and each other's first loves. Isn't it perfectly normal for us to be in the same room? But she barged in and started hurling a bunch of wild insults!"

Su Qing stood there, heavily embellishing the story.

Fearful that others would not believe her, she kept repeating, "If you don't believe me, just ask Shen Yu!"

Zheng Yanyan hadn't even stepped through the door yet, and she was already standing there listening to Su Qing triumphantly spouting all of that.

She even said Zheng Yanyan deserved it!

What was this called? This was called a forced melon is not sweet!

Zhou Yuwen was my boyfriend, but she insisted on throwing herself at him.

Now look what happened. She got dumped!

"Bullshit! When did I ever break up with Zhou Yuwen?!" A voice laced with fury rang out from the doorway. Everyone fixed their gazes in that direction and, good heavens! It was none other than Zheng Yanyan.

Moreover, having just finished her yoga session, she hadn't even had the time to change out of her yoga outfit. Her long legs looked especially slender and elegant against the contrast of the yoga pants.

At this moment, Zheng Yanyan was glaring furiously at Su Qing.

Yet Su Qing was not afraid in the slightest. The corners of her mouth turned up slightly as she spoke with a hint of provocation, "What? Did I say something wrong? You haven't broken up with Zhou Yuwen?"

Zheng Yanyan felt somewhat guilty and defensive. "We! We obviously haven't broken up!"

"Haven't broken up? If you haven't broken up, then why were you crying in the middle of the night?" Su Qing asked with a beaming smile.

Crying?

The crowd instantly shifted their gazes to Zheng Yanyan. Yanyan had cried?

That couldn't be possible, could it? Yanyan was such a proud girl.

Zheng Yanyan also froze, her head snapping up to stare at Su Qing. The smirk on Su Qing's face was utterly undisguised. Zheng Yanyan had thought that as long as she didn't make a sound while crying, no one would know.

But a woman as sharp as Su Qing, how could she not know?

"That day on the high-speed rail, looking so pitiful, constantly tap-tapping away on your phone to send messages to Zhou Yuwen. 'Boohoo, Zhou Yuwen I was wrong,' 'Boohoo, Zhou Yuwen please forgive me,' wasn't that right?" Su Qing taunted with continuous, charming laughter.

Zheng Yanyan's face flushed crimson in an instant. "I did not! You are talking bullshit! I did not!"

"Did not? If you did not, then why were you hugging Linlin to sleep that night, even sleep-talking? You said, 'Zhou Yuwen I can't leave you,' 'Zhou Yuwen I won't break up with you,' hehehe! I heard everything!"

"Bullshit! I didn't even fall asleep that night!" Zheng Yanyan was genuinely enraged. She hadn't expected this bitch Su Qing to start spreading rumors!

She hadn't even slept at all that night!

"Wow!!!"

After she shouted those words, all the girls in the dormitory revealed looks of utter shock.

It was only then that Zheng Yanyan suddenly realized something was wrong. She looked back at Su Qing, only to see Su Qing flashing a victorious smirk.

Serves her right!

She brought it entirely upon herself!

Competing with me for my boyfriend!

On what grounds should I yield to her?!

She told me out of her own mouth that she was going to help me win back Zhou Yuwen!

Yet what did she do?!

Right in front of my face! She forcefully kissed my hubby!

If even this could be forgiven!

Then what kind of girlfriend was I to Zhou Yuwen?

"Didn't sleep? Then explain clearly, why didn't you sleep that night?" Su Qing stood there, smug and looking at her with eyes full of provocation.

At the end of the day, Zheng Yanyan was still just an eighteen-year-old little girl. How could she possibly out-argue Su Qing? In just a few sentences, Su Qing had pushed her to tears. Forcing them back, she retorted, "I, is it any of your business? Whether I want to sleep or not has nothing to do with you!"

"Tsk! It's simply that Zhou Yuwen doesn't want you anymore. Zhou Yuwen broke up with you. What isn't yours isn't yours, that's what you get for fighting over Zhou Yuwen with me! How does it feel? Karma caught up with you, didn't it! Serves you right! Zhou Yuwen doesn't want you anymore!" Su Qing currently resembled a happy little flower fairy, gleefully parading her triumph in front of Zheng Yanyan.

So what? Couldn't a thirty-year-old girl act a little childish?

No matter how old a woman gets, she is still a maiden at heart, hehehe!

In the beginning, Zheng Yanyan genuinely had no intention of getting physical, but this wretch Su Qing was going too far. Zheng Yanyan was already miserable, and Su Qing was just rubbing salt into her wounds.

So what if I stole your boyfriend?!

You two weren't even an actual couple back then!

Moreover, I pursued Zhou Yuwen openly and honestly.

What did I do wrong?!

Su Qing was giggling non-stop. She was so carried away by her triumph that she actually dared to turn her back to Zheng Yanyan, endlessly repeating that Zheng Yanyan was just the other woman who stole someone else's love.

If you don't believe me, ask Shen Yu!

Shen Yu knows all about it.

"Right, Shen Yu? You know everything."

"Uh." This question made Shen Yu extremely awkward.

Fortunately, Zheng Yanyan didn't let her stay awkward for long, because she had finally reached her limit. Taking advantage of Su Qing's inattention, she lunged forward and viciously yanked Su Qing's hair.

"Ah!" Caught completely off guard, Su Qing's entire head was jerked backward by Zheng Yanyan.

"What are you doing?!"

Luckily, Su Qing had quick reflexes. As she fell backward, she aggressively seized Zheng Yanyan's collar. When Zheng Yanyan refused to let go, Su Qing yanked back forcefully, tearing Zheng Yanyan's yoga top. "Let go of me right now!" But torn clothes obviously didn't hurt nearly as much as pulled hair.

With red, teary eyes, Zheng Yanyan glared at Su Qing and stated resolutely, "Zhou Yuwen and I have not broken up!"

Su Qing shot back, "If you haven't broken up, why were you up half the night?!"

"Zhou Yuwen and I have not broken up!!!" Zheng Yanyan raised her voice, her neck turning completely red as she kept yanking Su Qing's hair. Su Qing was pulled so hard she was leaning entirely backward, clinging tightly to Zheng Yanyan's clothes. Even Zheng Yanyan's top was torn open, exposing her fragrant shoulder and the strap of her bra.

A full-blown fight was certainly impossible between the two, considering they were surrounded by people.

As soon as the situation looked like it was escalating, the onlookers rushed forward to intervene. Someone shouted, "Oh my god, what are you two doing?!"

"Hurry, let go of each other!"

However, neither of them let go. At the core of it, it was Zheng Yanyan who was unwilling to release her grip.

And in a moment like this, there was no way Su Qing would back down either. Su Qing's face and neck were also red from Zheng Yanyan's pulling, but she stubbornly refused to concede. She spat, "You did break up! You broke up, you and Zhou Yuwen absolutely broke up!"

"We didn't break up!"

"You broke up!"

The two remained deadlocked like this. Unable to hold it in any longer, Zheng Yanyan cried out, "Zhou Yuwen and I are just having a disagreement, but he didn't break up with me!"

"Then call him right now and see if he picks up the phone!" Su Qing challenged.

Zheng Yanyan definitely didn't dare to make the call. She fell silent for a moment before saying, "Why should I listen to you?"

"Then you really did break up."

Zheng Yanyan remained silent.

Finally, she said, "At the time, I did want to help you pursue Zhou Yuwen, but it turned out that Zhou Yuwen liked me. We fell for each other mutually."

"Stop spitting bullshit. If you hadn't taken the initiative to act like a slut, would Zhou Yuwen have ever liked a slut like you?"

Hearing this, Zheng Yanyan flew into a rage and raised her hand to strike Su Qing. However, Su Qing had been waiting for exactly this moment. Taking advantage of Zheng Yanyan raising her hand, she violently yanked Zheng Yanyan's hair.

Both of them lost their balance and came crashing backward to the floor.

Luckily, their classmates were right beside them and immediately caught them. But these two girls were incredibly stubborn; neither was willing to let go, keeping a firm grip on one another.

Truthfully, Zheng Yanyan was truly miserable, with tears still pooling in her eyes. Furthermore, Su Qing was pulling her hair quite painfully. She asked Su Qing, saying that she had already apologized, so why did Su Qing still insist on targeting her?

"I just want things to be good between me and Zhou Yuwen. Can't you just let Zhou Yuwen and me off?"

Hearing this, Su Qing felt thoroughly disgusted. Let you off? On what grounds?

Zhou Yuwen and I have been together since high school, and we even promised to get married right after university graduation! And then you waltz in and just say, 'Sorry, I stole your boyfriend'?!

If I stole your boyfriend and said that to you, would you forgive me?!

And that nonsense about 'after finishing this glass of wine, we are friends again'?

"Zheng Yanyan! Let me tell you, as long as Zhou Yuwen doesn't break up with you for a single day, it is impossible for me to ever be friends with you!" Su Qing gritted her teeth.

"But Zhou Yuwen clearly likes me..." Zheng Yanyan sobbed through her tears.

Su Qing snapped, "Stop spouting bullshit."

"Just look at who he is writing about in his novel!"

"You aren't Zhou Yuwen's childhood sweetheart either!"

"Heh, if I am not, then are you?"

"Zhou Yuwen is clearly writing about his high school classmate, Li Shiqi!"

"???"

By this point, the onlookers were probably having the time of their lives. Not only did they get to watch Zheng Yanyan and Su Qing have a physical brawl, but they also got to hear the massive juicy gossip regarding a famous author's love life.

Wait, who was Li Shiqi?

Su Qing and Zheng Yanyan were basically sworn enemies at this point. As long as Zhou Yuwen was involved, they would never easily shake hands and make peace. Just as Su Qing had said, 'Wasn't it you who claimed you would help me win Zhou Yuwen back?'

How exactly did you pursue him?

Pursued him right into his bed?

Then Zheng Yanyan naturally felt wronged, retorting that in love, there was no such thing as first come, first served!

Hearing this, Su Qing directly slapped Zheng Yanyan across the face.

Screw your 'first come, first served'!

I'll give you 'first come, first served'!

I'll give you 'first come, first served'!

Slapped twice in the face, Zheng Yanyan obviously wasn't going to take it lying down and began to fight back.

The two of them started clawing at each other.

Su Qing's neck was even scratched raw.

The corner of her mouth was somewhat busted too.

But neither of them was willing to submit to the other.

Then there was the matter of Zhou Yuwen's novel. Su Qing insisted he wrote it for her, while Zheng Yanyan preferred to claim he wrote it for Li Shiqi rather than admit it was meant for Su Qing.

She even retorted, "A lot of the plot points regarding Xiao Chuchu were actually based on me."

Upon hearing this, Su Qing openly sneered, telling Zheng Yanyan to stop stuffing green onions up her pig nose to play the elephant!

You think you're Xiao Chuchu?!

I'd say you are a lot more like Shang Qianqian.

"You are just a cheap tramp!"

Hearing these words completely shattered Zheng Yanyan's defenses.

So they fought like this for a while longer, until their classmates finally had no choice but to forcibly pull them apart.

They both ended up injured. After showering, they completely ignored each other. It was the sort of situation where they saw each other every day in the same room, but refused to say a single word.

The entire dormitory was filled with a chilly indifference.

With a long, drooping face, Zheng Yanyan started calling Zhou Yuwen.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

She called repeatedly, but it was just a continuous busy signal.

Listening to the busy tone, Zheng Yanyan inexplicably felt a severe ache in her chest, along with a dull pain trailing down her left arm. At this moment, she really missed Zhou Yuwen so much. Even if Zhou Yuwen replied with a single-word message, Zheng Yanyan would be happy.

Yet, from start to finish, Zhou Yuwen never replied to her messages.

As a result, Zheng Yanyan humbled herself and began messaging Zhou Yuwen. "Hubby, where are you? I miss you so much."

"Hubby, Su Qing insulted me today. She hit me, and she called me shameless for stealing you away from her."

"I know the truth, hubby. You don't actually like her, right?"

"Hubby, the one you like is me, right?"

"Hubby, I miss you so much. I didn't expect you to be so amazing. You have even become a famous author now. Boohoo, if I had known, I wouldn't have argued with you. I just want to be with my hubby forever."

"Hubby, are you busy? Hubby, can you please talk to me?"

Zheng Yanyan sent message after message, but not a single reply came through.

She had finally managed to step out of the shadow of her heartbreak just a little bit.

Now look what happened.

She was violently dragged right back in.

And she was feeling even more depressed than before.

It wasn't that Zhou Yuwen was intentionally ignoring her messages.

It was simply that he couldn't keep up with responding.

A website's exclusive interview wasn't going to turn Zhou Yuwen into a viral phenomenon overnight, but the people who were familiar with Zhou Yuwen were bound to stumble across it sooner or later, and then they would start spreading the word everywhere.

From Zhou Yuwen's middle school classmates all the way to his high school classmates.

Holy shit! Isn't this Zhou Yuwen?

I'm still stuck in university, and Zhou Yuwen is already a famous novelist?!

"Why does this Shen Xiaoyu character seem so much like Li Shiqi..."

Everyone was enthusiastically discussing it in their chat groups, and then countless people started sending messages to Zhou Yuwen.

"Bro, is this you?"

"Damn, bro, you are killing it! You make a million a month!"

"Bro, I'm a bit tight on cash right now. Can you lend me twenty thousand?"

"You are making a million a month! What's twenty thousand to you?!"

"Fine, if you don't want to lend it, just say so. Why are you ignoring me?"

"I finally know what kind of person you are! Hmph, let's just delete each other. Consider it my mistake for misjudging you."

"If you don't have twenty thousand... two thousand is fine too... Brother Zhou."

A barrage of chaotic messages poured in. Zhou Yuwen's WeChat was chiming endlessly. How could Zhou Yuwen have the time to deal with all these people? He simply logged out of WeChat and even popped his SIM card out of his phone.

Needless to say, he never received Zheng Yanyan's messages.

Even Shen Yu had sent Zhou Yuwen a message: "Su Qing and Yanyan got into a fight in the dormitory again today because of you."

After a long while, seeing that Zhou Yuwen still hadn't replied.

Shen Yu couldn't hold back and asked another question: "I heard you and Yanyan broke up?"

At this moment, Zhou Yuwen had absolutely no time to pay attention to them.

When life is good, one should enjoy it to the fullest.

Today, Zhou Yuwen had practically drowned in flattery and compliments.

A single day's sales had reached one hundred thousand yuan.

Zhou Yuwen didn't say a word.

He directly scooped Qu Jing up, slinging her over his shoulder.

And then threw her roughly onto the sofa.

With a wicked smirk, he declared, "Today, I am going to thoroughly discipline my little bitch."

Hearing this, Qu Jing's face flushed with intense shyness. She covered her face and curled her legs up, lying on the sofa and allowing Zhou Yuwen to do entirely as he pleased.