Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 523: A Fight Breaks Out

Minmin had been living here for a while now. It was safe to say that in the entire house, Qu Jing's room was the only place Minmin had never been.Even the bedroom where Zhou Yuwen and Tao Tian used to stay, Tao Tian had nonchalantly let Minmin go in to tidy up.

However, on that particular day, Minmin had originally wanted to curry favor with Qu Jing and volunteered to help tidy her room.

But who could have known that the moment Minmin made this request, Qu Jing sternly rejected her, angrily declaring that if she wanted to stay here, she had better stay away from her room!

Normally, Qu Jing's room was always locked.

Today, however, it was unlocked.

Minmin wondered, 'Could the reason for Qu Jing receiving Zhou Yuwen's affection be inside this room?'

Harboring such thoughts, Minmin carefully pushed open Qu Jing's room door.

The moment she saw the things inside, Minmin completely froze.

She could not believe her eyes.

A collar?

A whip?

And a unique chair...

This...

Just looking at everything before her, Minmin could imagine just how wild Qu Jing and Zhou Yuwen played.

At that moment, Minmin's legs trembled slightly. She never dreamed that Qu Jing, who was usually so arrogant and overbearing in front of her, actually had such a contrasting side.

And the usually gentle and refined Zhou Yuwen, it turned out...

Like someone peeking into another person's secret, Minmin felt a surge of excitement and found it thrilling.

Minmin discovered that inside Qu Jing's wardrobe, there were all sorts of bizarre clothes. They shouldn't even be called clothes; it was entirely provocative clothing! There was also a one-piece leather suit that, from head to toe, only had an opening at the crotch.

God.

The collars were even more varied. There were black ones.

Pink ones.

And even ones attached to leashes.

Minmin noticed text written on one of the collars.

It read "Zhou Yuwen's dog"...

At that moment, Minmin felt the world spinning around her. She could vividly picture Qu Jing wearing this collar, wagging her tail and begging for mercy in front of Zhou Yuwen.

She finally understood why Qu Jing, whose looks and appearance were on par with her own, had managed to earn Zhou Yuwen's favor.

Minmin felt she could never do these things...

Yes, she simply could not do these things.

Minmin continuously tried to brainwash herself.

However, the things she saw in Qu Jing's room lingered in her mind, impossible to shake off.

She even found it hard to fall sleeping that night.

Tonight was also somewhat of a sleepless night for Zhou Yuwen and the others.

Actually, it wasn't entirely a sleepless night. After traveling around Xi'an City, they were quite exhausted. By four in the early morning, everyone was snoring away in their beds.

When the next day arrived, Zhou Yuwen had matters to attend to and left early.

It wasn't until noon that Tao Tian and Qu Jing finally washed up and returned to their own rooms.

They had a change of clothes over at the villa.

Even after sleeping in until noon, the two girls still felt a bit sluggish when they got home.

Qu Jing was tall, wearing a sky-blue half-length T-shirt that exposed her slender waist, and a pair of pencil pants tightly hugging her legs.

The first thing she did upon arriving home was to stretch lazily, complaining, "Finally home. I'm exhausted to death."

"Playing cards all night, that Zheng Yanyan sure has a lot of energy," she added.

"What do you expect? She is a year younger than us, after all," Tao Tian replied.

"Hardly a year, just a few months," Qu Jing pouted.

"Ugh, I'm not talking to you anymore. I need to catch up on my sleep. I'm not going to work today." Qu Jing waved at Tao Tian.

Tao Tian smiled and told her to go ahead.

Qu Jing was about to enter her room, but when she pushed the door, it swung open effortlessly.

Qu Jing was stunned, and immediately a bad premonition washed over her.

Having a cold face, she didn't say a word and marched straight over to knock on Minmin's room door.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The pounding grew louder and louder.

Curious, Tao Tian went over and asked Qu Jing what was wrong.

Qu Jing, having a cold face, said, "Stay out of this."

Saying that, she slapped the door twice more. "Open the door!"

Soon, Minmin, wearing her pajamas and looking bleary-eyed, opened the door.

She was yawning incessantly and rubbing her eyes. Once she got a clear look at Qu Jing, Minmin asked in confusion, "Jingjing, is something the matter?"

Qu Jing's gaze was like lightning. Having a cold face, she glared at her. "Let me ask you, did you go into my room yesterday?"

"Huh?"

Minmin was startled. Originally, she still looked half-asleep.

But now, she was fully awake. She replied, "Didn't you tell me not to enter your room? No, Jingjing, what do you mean by this?"

Tao Tian was also completely baffled by her words.

Tao Tian knew about the things inside Qu Jing's room, so when she heard Qu Jing bring it up, she quickly interjected, "Jingjing, could this be a misunderstanding?"

"A misunderstanding?"

Qu Jing coldly scoffed and directly interrogated, "If you didn't go into my room, why is my room door open?"

Minmin cried foul, claiming that she had gone straight to sleeping after mopping the floor last night.

"I have no idea whether your room door is open or not."

"You already forbade me from entering your room, so why would I go in? Jingjing, you can't falsely accuse me like this." At this point, Minmin was feeling wronged to the point of tears.

Seeing this, Tao Tian thought for a moment and suggested, "Jingjing, think about it. Is it possible you forgot to lock the door when you left last night?"

Qu Jing's face turned ashen. In truth, she had forgotten whether she locked the door last night.

Because the secrets inside that room were far too important to her, the very first thing she thought of when she realized the door was unlocked was to interrogate Minmin. Now, with Tao Tian's reminder...

Coupled with the sight of Minmin standing there looking incredibly wronged.

Qu Jing recalled that she might actually have forgotten to lock it.

But her temper had already flared up. Was she supposed to apologize to her now?

That was clearly impossible.

Qu Jing stubbornly insisted, "I didn't lock the door last night, but that doesn't mean she didn't enter my room. I'm asking you, did you go in last night or not?! You better tell me the truth."

Seeing Qu Jing hounding her relentlessly, Minmin also lost her temper. "I said I didn't, so I didn't! It's your own fault for not locking the door. Am I really that untrustworthy in your eyes?!"

"I might be living in your house, but I'm not living here for free! What right do you have to boss me around like a servant?!"

"I know exactly why you're angry! You just think I sneaked into your room and stole your things, don't you?"

"Fine! Since you don't trust me at all, I'll just leave!"

"Damn it, I'm not taking this crap anymore! Fuck!"

At this moment, Minmin had acted her part so well that even she almost believed it herself. A couple of tears actually rolled down her cheeks. In any case, she didn't want to stay here anymore, so she might as well act tough and leave right now.

She had been tired of enduring this for a long time!

After throwing out those words, Minmin turned around, intending to head back to her room.

However, this caught Qu Jing completely off guard.

Because all this time, Minmin had always been submissive towards Qu Jing. Qu Jing had gotten used to it and genuinely thought Minmin was weak and easily bullied. Who could have expected Minmin to suddenly show such a spine?

It left Qu Jing at a loss for how to react.

But seeing Minmin turning her back to leave, Qu Jing immediately became unhappy. She lunged forward and grabbed Minmin by her hair.

"Ah!" Minmin's hair was yanked backward, forcing her head to tilt back sharply. Upside down, she saw Qu Jing's mean-spirited face. Then, she heard Qu Jing say coldly, "Who gave you permission to speak to me like that!?"

"Did I say you could leave!?"

With that, Qu Jing tightened her grip.

As everyone knew, Qu Jing's personality was exactly like this: completely submissive to her superiors, yet arrogant and overbearing towards her subordinates.

She had a very strict hierarchical system ingrained in her mind. In other words, Zhou Yuwen was at the very top. She obeyed him entirely; no matter how he treated her, she accepted it gladly.

Similarly, she had always felt that Minmin was beneath her.

That Minmin deserved to be bullied by her.

But who would have thought that Minmin would actually dare to resist?

This practically shattered her hierarchical worldview. Having grown accustomed to living in her own little world, she didn't even think twice before resorting to hitting Minmin.

And Minmin certainly wasn't going to hold back either.

She screamed, "Are you crazy?!"

Throwing her hand back, she grabbed Qu Jing's hair in return and shoved her backward.

Just like that, the two girls proceeded to fall down in a heap on the floor and started brawling.

When girls fought, it usually boiled down to just two moves.

Hair-pulling and clothes-tearing.

Qu Jing was wearing a tight-fitting half-length T-shirt, and in a matter of seconds, it was scrunched up and misshapen by Minmin. As for Minmin's pajamas, Qu Jing had clawed at them so fiercely that the buttons had completely popped off.

Neither of them was willing to give an inch.

What was ridiculous was that Qu Jing actually went straight for slapping Minmin across the mouth, looking furious as she demanded to know if Minmin admitted her mistake.

Minmin was left speechless by the question and cursed back, "Mistake my ass!"

She retaliated with two hard slaps right across Qu Jing's face.

Tao Tian stood by the sidelines watching, looking distressed as she urged, "Ah, please stop fighting."

"We are all good sisters, why do we have to fight?"

Saying that, Tao Tian made a phone call to Zhou Yuwen.

Feigning panic, she cried out, "Hubby, this is terrible! Qu Jing and Minmin are fighting! I don't know what happened, they just suddenly started brawling."

Why would Zhou Yuwen ever bother with something like this? He even found it baffling or without rhyme or reason that Tao Tian would call him about it.

However, since Tao Tian was calling, Zhou Yuwen couldn't exactly ignore it.

He simply replied that he still had business to take care of on his end.

He told her to handle it herself.

"I... I don't know how to handle this! They just started fighting out of nowhere," Tao Tian said, acting thoroughly panicked.

Zhou Yuwen casually replied, "Then let them fight. They'll stop once they get tired."

With that, Zhou Yuwen hung up the phone call.

Tao Tian had wanted to say more, but seeing that Zhou Yuwen had already hung up, she swallowed her words and could only glance back at the two girls still wrestling on the floor.

Zhou Yuwen was right; what was there for two girls to fight over anyway?

They would stop once they tired themselves out.

Qu Jing remained furious, screaming that Minmin was rebelling against the heavens!

"Don't you forget whose house this is!"

Minmin showed clear disdain, retorting, "What the hell do you think you are?!"

"At best, you're just a dog kept by Zhou Yuwen! Do you seriously think you count as one of Zhou Yuwen's women!?"

Hearing the word 'dog', Qu Jing became even more incensed. "What did you just call me?! What did you just call me?!"

"Screw this! I'm not staying here anymore! I'll go wherever the hell I want!"

Minmin meant every word. She hadn't spent that much time with Tao Tian and Qu Jing, nor had she been assimilated by their lifestyle, so she could pack up and leave at any time.

Qu Jing, on the other hand, had completely adapted to Zhou Yuwen's social circle. She took everything as a matter of course and had never even considered the possibility that Minmin might actually leave.

When she saw Minmin actually packing up her things to leave, Qu Jing froze. At that moment, a sudden thought struck her: Minmin knew far too many secrets about her and Zhou Yuwen. What if she went out and decided to talk nonsense?

However, making her swallow her pride and back down to Minmin was absolutely out of the question. She could only look toward Tao Tian for help.

But at this moment, Tao Tian impatiently rolled her eyes at Qu Jing and said, "Are you satisfied now?"

Qu Jing opened her mouth but didn't say a word.

Tao Tian told Qu Jing, "There's obviously a misunderstanding between the two of you."

"I believe Minmin when she says she didn't go into your room. Even if your room door was left open, since Minmin promised you she wouldn't go in, she wouldn't."

These words were actually meant for Minmin to hear, but Minmin just kept packing up her things in her room, completely unbothered by what was being said.

Qu Jing still remained silent.

Seeing this, Tao Tian felt helpless. She could only pull Qu Jing aside and whisper, "You go back to your room first. I'll talk to her."

Qu Jing glanced at Tao Tian, remained quiet, but was surprisingly honest as she returned to her room.

After Qu Jing left, Tao Tian looked at Minmin, who was tidying up the room. She walked in softly and asked, "Are you really leaving?"

Minmin was extremely resolute. "Since someone here doesn't welcome me, what's the point of me staying?"

Tao Tian sighed and asked, "Have you found a place to live yet?"

"I'll take my time looking. Jinling is huge; how could there not be a place for me to stay?" Minmin continued packing her luggage.

"Do you even have any money on you?" Tao Tian pressed further.

Minmin's hands paused in their packing.

She really didn't have any money.

She was never the type to save up money in the first place. A few days ago, in an attempt to win Zhou Yuwen's favor, she had made quite a large investment in herself. At this point, Minmin's wallet was already stretched incredibly thin.

But after getting into a full-blown physical fight, how could she possibly stay?

Minmin gritted her teeth. "Then I'll just go back to my hometown! I'm not staying here!"

Tao Tian pulled Minmin back and said, "Come here first. I have something to tell you."

Tao Tian guided Minmin to sit down on the edge of the bed.

She admitted that Qu Jing was in the wrong this time.

"You know how her personality is. You should get used to it."

"Why should I get used to it? I've been sick of her for a long time!" Minmin was still seething.

But Tao Tian told her not to be in such a hurry to get angry.

Tao Tian explained that she had been observing Minmin's recent behavior around the house. Tao Tian understood that what Minmin truly wanted was a secure and stable job.

"That's why last night, I specifically brought this matter up with Zhou Yuwen."

"Zhou Yuwen said that as long as you are willing, you can join our company at any time. The position is an administrative specialist. The monthly salary is four thousand yuan, with regular payments for the Five Social Insurances and One Housing Fund."

Originally, Minmin's resolve to leave had been incredibly firm.

But after hearing Tao Tian's words, her gaze wavered, becoming less determined.

She even began to show signs of hesitation.

Finally, after a long hesitation, she couldn't help but ask, "Really?"

Nodding to confirm, Tao Tian replied, "Of course it's true."

"Why would I lie to you? Otherwise, why do you think Qu Jing was so furious with you this morning?"

Saying this, Tao Tian even winked at Minmin.

Looking at Tao Tian's expression, Minmin fell completely silent for a moment.

This...

Of all the times she could have mentioned this...

Why did she have to say it right when she was on the verge of giving up?