Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 246: The Beginning of Love is Always the Most Beautiful Moment

"She even told me she accidentally tore it riding a bicycle when she was a kid. Does she think I've never watched those kinds of videos?"Truth be told, this was Liu Shuo's first time as well. He was certainly thrilled, but he still could not help complaining a little.

Looking at the message Liu Shuo sent, Zhou Yuwen found it rather amusing. He replied that Lu Hui was not ugly and was already twenty-five years old; it would be far stranger if she had never been in a relationship before.

"I know, and honestly, I don't really care about that. I just hate that she treats me like an idiot, acting as if I don't know anything. (Grinning)" Liu Shuo continued.

Zhou Yuwen replied, "Is it possible that it really was an accident from her childhood?"

"That's impossible."

"Why?"

"The color isn't right. (Grinning)"

Seeing Liu Shuo say this, Zhou Yuwen was somewhat speechless. He sat on the living room sofa and chatted with Liu Shuo for a while longer. Close to midnight, Li Qiang gave Zhou Yuwen a call.

"Hello? Old Zhou, do you want to play Werewolf?" Li Qiang asked boisterously.

"Now?" Zhou Yuwen checked the time and said, "Forget it, it's already so late. Besides, didn't Teacher Sun just say we aren't allowed to play anymore?"

"Ah, we can just play online!"

"Online?"

"Yeah, Chang Hao found a Werewolf app online. We can play as soon as we download it. Let's play a few more rounds!"

Zhou Yuwen did not really want to play. However, when he returned earlier, he had seen Shen Yu and Lu Lin all dressed up and ready to head downstairs. When they were told the game was canceled, the disappointed expression on Shen Yu's face had been quite evident.

Considering it was a rare outing for them, they definitely wanted to have a good time.

Zhou Yuwen agreed.

"Is it just you over there?"

"No, Brother Hao is playing too. How many do you have on your end?"

In truth, the idea had been Chang Hao's all along. But Chang Hao was too embarrassed to call Zhou Yuwen himself, so he made Li Qiang call to ask.

Li Qiang had told Chang Hao, "If you want to play with Zheng Yanyan, just say so!"

Chang Hao quickly denied it. "Stop talking nonsense. It's because I saw Su Qing and the other girls were interested in Werewolf earlier, and it's a rare chance for us to be out like this."

"Sigh, alright, alright, don't explain. I'll just give him a call and ask, okay?"

Thus, Li Qiang ended up calling Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen said fine, he would ask the girls.

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Yuwen went to knock on Su Qing's door. The voice inside told him to just come in.

Zhou Yuwen pushed the door open and saw all four girls gathered in one room.

Zheng Yanyan was by far the most beautifully dressed among them. The other girls had already showered and changed into their pajamas, ready for bed since they did not have boyfriends to keep company tonight.

Zheng Yanyan, however, had come prepared. She even had her white camisole stockings on, displaying her long legs on the bed.

Shen Yu genuinely thought Zheng Yanyan's outfit was gorgeous. In fact, she quite envied the carefree, uninhibited youthfulness that radiated from her.

For instance, her dyed long pink hair.

Or the way her fragrant shoulders were half-exposed, revealing the lace innerwear underneath.

Zheng Yanyan was undeniably a stunner. Her attire was so alluring that even other girls would find their hearts fluttering.

Faced with Shen Yu's sincere praise, Zheng Yanyan just giggled and asked what there was to be envious of.

"If you want, you can dye your hair too."

"Me?" Shen Yu thought about it for a moment, then decided to pass.

Growing up, Shen Yu had always been a rather obedient girl. She simply could not be as bold as Zheng Yanyan.

As soon as Zhou Yuwen walked in, he saw Zheng Yanyan with her beautiful body sprawled gracefully on the bed. She propped her temple up with one hand, striking a charming and seductive pose.

Zhou Yuwen asked, "Are you planning to sleep in this room tonight?"

Seeing Zhou Yuwen enter, Zheng Yanyan immediately jumped up with a beaming smile.

"Oh, how could that be? I have to keep my hubby company tonight. Hubby, am I pretty?" Zheng Yanyan kneeled on the mattress, shimmying toward the edge of the bed. She wrapped her arms around Zhou Yuwen, grinning as she fished for compliments.

Admittedly, with her new "skin," she felt much nicer to hold. Zheng Yanyan carried a scent of body wash he had not smelled before. It was quite fragrant, likely provided by the hotel.

Zhou Yuwen asked the girls if they wanted to play Werewolf.

Shen Yu was clearly more interested. She asked, "Didn't we already call it off?"

"Oh, Li Qiang and the others said we can play online. If you're willing, we just need to download an app. But we might have to separate while playing."

"Separate?"

Zhou Yuwen explained that they could not all stay in the same room.

"That's so much trouble?" Shen Yu felt it was quite a hassle. Mainly, she did not know how to play. She felt that if she went through all this effort only to look foolish during the game, it would be embarrassing.

Zhou Yuwen said it was fine, and there should be enough rooms.

"Do you want to give it a try?"

"Let's play! Why wouldn't we? It's not like we have anything else to do tonight!" Zheng Yanyan wanted to play. She had just been ready to change her clothes and head downstairs, completely unexpected that Zhou Yuwen and the others would come up.

The night was long and no one was in the mood for sleep. While Zhou Yuwen and the others were here for classes, Zheng Yanyan was here on vacation. Who went on vacation just to sleep early and wake up early? Staying up late was practically mandatory.

With Zheng Yanyan taking the lead, the other girls half-heartedly agreed. Zhou Yuwen said alright, they would play a couple of rounds.

A standard game of Werewolf usually started with twelve players, but it could also be played with nine. Right now, Zhou Yuwen's group had scraped together seven people, leaving them two short.

At that moment, Liu Shuo was still chatting with Zhou Yuwen. He mentioned he planned to move out and live with Lu Hui.

"The place she's renting is too awful. It's just a single room partitioned out of a private house, without even an en-suite restroom. I feel like whenever we do the deed, everyone else can hear us loud and clear."

Zhou Yuwen replied that wasn't it great? Everyone would get to hear how tall, mighty, and fierce he was.

"The problem is, I'm neither tall, mighty, nor fierce. (Sweating)" This was probably Liu Shuo's main reason for wanting to move. Lu Hui would moan and groan over there for five minutes, and then Liu Shuo would end up surrendering his weapon.

And the room was not soundproof.

Damn it, how embarrassing was that?

Therefore, first thing the next morning, Liu Shuo had taken Lu Hui to stay in a hotel.

"You mean you're still at the hotel?" Zhou Yuwen asked.

"Yeah, I'm taking a halftime break in the toilet. I figure this sort of thing just requires practice. Five minutes the first time, but by the second and third time, I'll last longer."

"What round are you on now?"

"Hehe."

Liu Shuo had spent a night at Lu Hui's place, and then dragged her to the hotel for a day. If asked exactly how many times it had been, Liu Shuo honestly could not remember clearly.

But as he squatted on the toilet chatting with Zhou Yuwen, his breathing was exceptionally heavy.

Zhou Yuwen advised, "You should exercise a little restraint."

"No matter how good your stamina is, you can't play around like that."

"Exactly, that's why I'm hiding in the toilet."

"..."

After chatting with Liu Shuo for a bit, Zhou Yuwen figured he could not let the guy keep obsessing over that activity, so he asked if he wanted to play Werewolf.

"How do you play Werewolf?"

Zhou Yuwen went over the rules of Werewolf once, then mentioned they were currently two players short.

"Can you ask if Lu Hui knows how to play?"

Liu Shuo actually did not understand how to play Werewolf at all. However, hearing that his brother and a few sisters-in-law were all playing, he felt it was only right to bring his girl along to make up the numbers.

So Liu Shuo emerged from the restroom and asked Lu Hui, who was playing on her phone on the bed, if she knew how to play Werewolf.

At that moment, Lu Hui was wearing nothing but a camisole. Truth be told, looking at her like this, she really was quite pretty.

In reality, she was quite disappointed with Liu Shuo. The young man looked sturdy enough.

Yet, she never expected him to be all flash and no substance.

Lu Hui was twenty-five years old, after all—an age of strong desires. Plus, she had not had a boyfriend for a while, so she figured dating Liu Shuo for a time would not be too bad.

At the very least, he knew how to care for her; he had just promised to rent a nicer apartment for her. She had already resigned herself to it in her heart, though her attitude toward Liu Shuo remained lukewarm at best.

She made it feel as though Liu Shuo owed her something.

Hearing Liu Shuo's question, Lu Hui did not answer directly but instead asked, "Why?"

"My brother and his girls are playing Werewolf, and he asked if we want to join in."

"I do! I was amazing at Werewolf back when I was in school!" As soon as Lu Hui heard that Zhou Yuwen was playing, her eyes lit up. In an instant, she felt that aligning herself with Zhou Yuwen hadn't been in vain.

'Did this mean Zhou Yuwen was willing to accept me into his core circle?' she wondered.

For a junior college girl like Lu Hui, who lacked much ambition in her daily life, games like Werewolf were actually right up her alley.

She would just casually upload some lifestyle pictures and photos of her legs onto these types of apps.

Then, a horde of online perverts would come swarming like sharks to blood.

Don't be fooled by the plain appearance and ordinary logos of these apps; the in-game skins and cosmetics were far from cheap. Yet, there was always a group of girls on these apps dripping in virtual jewels, boasting a charm value well over 999+.

And Lu Hui was exactly that kind of girl.

Once Lu Hui knew Zhou Yuwen was going to play Werewolf, she asked which app he was using.

Zhou Yuwen said he didn't know yet.

"Do you have any recommendations?" Since she was technically his buddy's girl now, Zhou Yuwen treated her with a slightly better attitude.

Lu Hui then recommended a Werewolf app to Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen agreed, "Alright, we'll download it now."

"You go ahead and create a room first."

"Okay!"

Lu Hui had been having a rather dull couple of days. Aside from doing that particular deed with Liu Shuo, the two barely shared any common language—that is, until Zhou Yuwen mentioned playing Werewolf.

Experiencing a rare burst of excitement, Lu Hui hurriedly created a game room.

Soon, all nine of them coordinated and entered the room.

Zhou Yuwen and his friends all had blank default avatars, whereas Lu Hui's avatar was a max-level big shot draped in a wedding dress, sporting sunglasses, wearing high heels, and boasting a massive charm value of 999+.

This contrast really allowed Lu Hui to subtly show off.

By this time, Zhou Yuwen and Zheng Yanyan had returned to his room, and Lu Lin was also playing from Zhou Yuwen's room.

Lying on the bed with her beautiful body sprawled out, Zheng Yanyan stared at the character with 999 charm and grew curious. "Hey hubby, who is this?"

"Lu Hui, you've met her," Zhou Yuwen replied.

"Oh, her." Hearing it was Lu Hui, Zheng Yanyan instantly lost interest. She tapped into Lu Hui's profile for a quick look. The charm value was indeed high, but her outfit was merely piled with expensive items; it did not actually look good at all.

So Zheng Yanyan crawled onto Zhou Yuwen's lap and whined, "Hubby, they all have skins."

"I want one too."

"We don't even know how many rounds we're going to play, and you already want to buy a skin?" Zhou Yuwen asked.

"I just want it! I want to form a couple's set with you!" Zheng Yanyan pouted.

Zhou Yuwen lowered his head, gave her a couple of pecks, and said, "Alright, buy whatever you want."

"Really!?" Zheng Yanyan immediately beamed with joy.

Zhou Yuwen assured her it was absolutely true.

"Hehe, thank you, hubby."

In voice-chat game rooms like this, everyone's microphones were generally left open. As a result, Lu Hui heard Zheng Yanyan acting coquettishly with Zhou Yuwen loud and clear, and she felt incredibly displeased.

She had played Werewolf for two years just to grind out a 999 charm value. Meanwhile, this Zheng Yanyan was only playing casually for once, yet she was about to drop a few hundred dollars on a skin? They were both women, so why was it so unfair?

Chang Hao and Li Qiang entered the room shortly after.

Zheng Yanyan was still lying on Zhou Yuwen's lap, browsing the in-game store and deciding which skin to buy.

Suddenly, Lu Hui's voice broke the air with a cold, aloof tone: "Alright, everyone ready up. I'm starting the game."

Lu Hui's online voice and her real-life voice were two completely different timbres. Her real voice was nothing special, but when she spoke online, she deliberately pinched her throat. In common terms, she was using a cool, aloof, mature older sister voice.

It was the kind of voice that sounded incredibly sultry.

She had only said one sentence at the start, so nobody really paid it much mind.

That was until Lu Hui spoke first in the game. Mainly, she didn't know what kind of dynamic this match had. She assumed that since they were Zhou Yuwen's friends, they must all be wealthy second-generation heirs. Feeling that this was a rare opportunity to mingle in their circle, Lu Hui felt she had to put on a bit of a performance. Parting her lips and clearing her throat, she said, "Player One, mic test. I drew the Witch card. Player Nine was killed last night, and I used my antidote."

That voice instantly gave Zheng Yanyan and the other girls goosebumps. Shen Yu could not help but laugh as she turned to Su Qing beside her. "Why is this woman talking so weirdly? Is she also Zhou Yuwen's friend?"

"I don't know, I think she's an accountant at Zhou Yuwen's company. Why did Zhou Yuwen invite her?" Su Qing also felt the voice was cringeworthy.

The voice was just too fake.

However, the moment Li Qiang heard that voice, it went straight to his head.

Good heavens, Old Zhou really lived up to his reputation. He was entirely surrounded by beautiful girls.

"Brother Hao, who is this woman? Did Old Zhou drag her in too?" Everyone wore earphones when playing this game to prevent their Wolf identities from being exposed.

But Lu Hui's voice was simply too alluring.

It was basically the ultimate online simp trap.

Intoxicated by the sound, Li Qiang couldn't resist clicking on Lu Hui's profile.

And once he did, Li Qiang became even more infatuated!

Lu Hui used her profile like a social media feed, though she had been most active back during her school days.

For example, there was a post about going for a night run on the track.

She was wearing a tiny camisole, baring her toned midriff for a selfie to check in!

Then there was another post from June of a certain year, where Lu Hui took a photo in her dormitory. She was wearing a gray office lady suit skirt, flesh-colored pantyhose, and a pair of high heels.

"My first job! Keep it up!"

In the photo, Lu Hui's beautiful legs wrapped in flesh-colored pantyhose instantly made Li Qiang's eyes glaze over. He could not help but swallow hard.

He absolutely loved flesh-colored pantyhose. When he went out for part-time jobs, he often saw women who weren't particularly pretty but wore tight skirts and pantyhose.

To Li Qiang, that kind of woman was immensely seductive.

And Lu Hui's profile was filled with exactly this kind of content.

There were even photos where she would cross one pantyhose-clad leg for the camera, with the caption reading:

[Wuwu, my stockings tore. I wonder if a kindhearted soul would sponsor me a new pair.]

The comments under that post were full of things like: Shove them in my mouth!

"I'll buy you new ones, but you have to give me the old ones (Drool)"

There were more than a dozen comments along those lines.

In reality, Li Qiang had met Lu Hui once before. However, due to the heavy beauty filters on her profile pictures, he did not recognize her right away.

Chang Hao also opened her feed, stared at it for a long time, and finally said uncertainly, "I don't know, maybe she's someone from Old Zhou's company."

"Impressive. Isn't she Old Zhou's employee then? She's even a mature babe." Over his few months at school, Li Qiang had managed to learn a couple of new slang terms. Tapping on his screen, he said, "I'll add her as a friend first."

"?" Chang Hao paused for a moment. "Why are you adding her as a friend?"

"Hehe, just to chat! As Old Zhou's friend, there's nothing wrong with me helping to comfort his subordinate a little, right?" Li Qiang grinned widely.

Chang Hao was utterly speechless at this and told Li Qiang that he was seriously sick in the head.

However, Li Qiang didn't care. He thought to himself, 'I'm not a Jingcheng Native. If my skin isn't thick enough, how will I ever get a girlfriend?'

After Lu Hui finished speaking, it was Player Two's turn.

At that moment, an in-game notification flashed on the right side of the screen: [Your Qiang] has requested to add you as a friend.

"?"

Lu Hui had imagined that her profile feed and her mature sister voice would attract Zhou Yuwen and his friends, but she hadn't expected it to happen this fast.

She clicked to take a look.

Yet she saw absolutely nothing on the other profile. It was just a Level 1 burner account that had not even changed its default avatar.

However, the location displayed: The Capital.

'A Beijing local?'