Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 515: Appears Innocent But Is Secretly Cunning

Zhou Yuwen had drunk a little more than Jiang Xinyi, but she had certainly had her fair share as well. Furthermore, she had downed her glass of wine in one rapid gulp, feeling nothing as it went down.Later on, the alcohol hit her, and she immediately felt dizzy. In fact, most drunk people remain conscious; it's just that after drinking, the brain becomes braver. For example, their subconscious tells them: 'I've been drinking. So what if I do whatever I want just this once?'

As a result, Jiang Xinyi's fair face was flushed with a rosy hue. After confirming that Zhou Yuwen was inside this room, she boldly started pounding on the door.

She simply wanted to ask him clearly: what kind of man was Zhou Yuwen?

Even if she had said she wanted to break up with him, why hadn't Zhou Yuwen taken the initiative to contact her even once afterward?

So, what was she to him?

Was she nothing more than a passing fancy?

Did you ever even truly like me?

These were all words Jiang Xinyi had kept bottled up in her heart, and today she absolutely had to get them out!

The wealthy daughter completely lost her usual poise. She continuously hammered on the door, riding on her liquid courage as she dizzily demanded that Zhou Yuwen let her in.

After knocking for quite a while and seeing no reaction from inside, Jiang Xinyi even angrily declared that if Zhou Yuwen didn't open the door, she would have the hotel staff open it for her!

"Do you really think that just because you're not saying a word, I don't know you're in there?"

Jiang Xinyi spoke through gritted teeth. Just as she was genuinely about to go find the hotel staff...

At that moment, the door suddenly opened.

In that instant, Jiang Xinyi was ready to vent all the grievances she had been harboring.

But the person who stepped out from inside was a bewildered-looking Li Shiqi.

Li Shiqi stepped out of the room, casually pulling the door shut behind her. She smoothed out her clothes slightly and looked at the heavily intoxicated Jiang Xinyi with a bewildered expression, asking, "Can I help you with something?"

Jiang Xinyi froze. At this moment, Li Shiqi looked like an innocent little white lotus. When she came out, her clothes were somewhat disheveled, as if she had just been intimate with Zhou Yuwen inside and was now tidying herself up.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Xinyi, who was already full of anger, became even more furious. She asked with a heavy nasal tone, "And who are you!? Tell Zhou Yuwen to come out! I want to speak with Zhou Yuwen!"

Saying so, Jiang Xinyi prepared to force her way in, but she was stopped by Li Shiqi.

Li Shiqi said in deep confusion, "What are you doing?"

"Zhou Yuwen drank a lot of alcohol just now and has already fallen asleep inside. May I ask what the matter is? If you need something, I can pass the message along to him for you," Li Shiqi said.

"You'll pass the message along?"

Jiang Xinyi found this ridiculous upon hearing it. She asked Li Shiqi, "Do you even know who I am?"

Li Shiqi shook her head, indicating she did not know.

In fact, Li Shiqi and Jiang Xinyi attended the same school, and the two had met before. However, Li Shiqi was currently acting as if she had no idea who Jiang Xinyi was.

Jiang Xinyi likewise couldn't recall Li Shiqi. After all, she had grown up bathed in the spotlight; how could she possibly remember someone like Li Shiqi? She let out a cold scoff and demanded, "What exactly is your relationship with Zhou Yuwen?"

Li Shiqi remained silent.

"You're his new girlfriend, aren't you?"

Jiang Xinyi continued speaking. Actually, it wasn't hard to guess. After all, Li Shiqi was wearing a newly bought red dress and had exquisite makeup on, no longer appearing with a bare face like she did back at school.

Jiang Xinyi naturally assumed that Li Shiqi was Zhou Yuwen's girlfriend.

Not to mention, she had just walked out of a room with Zhou Yuwen, looking disheveled.

Hah! How hilarious, in broad daylight.

Were they really in such a rush?!

Zhou Yuwen, were you a dog in heat in your previous life? Going around getting girlfriends everywhere?

Jiang Xinyi didn't know if it was out of jealousy or something else, but regardless, seeing Li Shiqi made her even angrier at Zhou Yuwen.

She fired several questions at Li Shiqi in rapid succession, but Li Shiqi neither confirmed nor denied any of them.

Everyone who came today was a guest attending Liu Dongqiang and Zhang Tianze's engagement banquet.

The loud shouting at the room's door just now had already attracted quite a few people to come and watch the spectacle, especially since Jiang Xinyi's behavior made it look like she was here to catch the other woman.

Now that Li Shiqi had come out, it further confirmed this suspicion.

The main thing was that both of these girls were quite beautiful, making people inevitably curious.

Just what kind of man could make two such girls fight over him out of jealousy?

Seeing the crowd growing, Li Shiqi asked Jiang Xinyi if she really had business here.

If not, she should leave.

There were more and more people gathering now, and it would be best to avoid becoming a public joke.

Saying so, she turned around, preparing to head back inside.

However, Jiang Xinyi directly shouted, "Stop right there!"

"I'm asking you, do you know who I am?"

Li Shiqi shook her head and said she didn't know.

Emboldened by her intoxication, Jiang Xinyi proclaimed, "I am Zhou Yuwen's ex-girlfriend!"

Jiang Xinyi was full of hostility toward Li Shiqi. She declared, "I don't know what tricks Zhou Yuwen used to deceive you! But do you really understand him?"

"Let me tell you! He is an absolute scummy man!"

Jiang Xinyi directed this at Li Shiqi with a very loud voice, but it was more likely a complaint aimed at Zhou Yuwen. She was hoping that he would hear her from inside the room and come out.

Jiang Xinyi warned Li Shiqi not to assume that just because Zhou Yuwen was treating her well now, he actually liked her!

"He doesn't like anyone! He only loves himself!"

"Do you have any idea how many ex-girlfriends he has?"

"Su Qing, Zheng Yanyan, me... You're already the fourth!"

Jiang Xinyi counted on her fingers, recklessly throwing a drunken tantrum.

Yet Li Shiqi simply watched Jiang Xinyi with a placid expression.

It wasn't until Jiang Xinyi began laughing at her own words that Li Shiqi calmly remarked, "So what does that matter?"

"?" Jiang Xinyi froze, entirely unable to believe that Li Shiqi would say such a thing.

She looked at Li Shiqi with a strange expression.

Only to see that this girl had eyes as tranquil as a calm lake. She very quietly told Jiang Xinyi, "No matter how many ex-girlfriends he has, as long as I have a place in his heart, that's enough."

"You don't understand at all!"

Jiang Xinyi was absolutely infuriated by this response. She yelled that this wasn't a matter of whether she was in his heart or not!

"Do you even realize that even though he's dating you now, he's always maintaining an ambiguous relationship with his exes! Can you actually endure that?!"

Li Shiqi remained nonchalant. "Is he?"

"Of course he is!" Jiang Xinyi wanted to pour out all of her grievances.

However, Li Shiqi simply asked, "Then why are you here right now?"

"?"

"My relationship with Zhou Yuwen is very good, and I haven't seen him acting ambiguously with his ex-girlfriends. As for you, why do I feel like you're the one relentlessly harassing him?"

"Whoa—"

There were still quite a few bystanders watching the spectacle. Upon hearing this, they all immediately burst into laughter and started gossiping with great relish. Initially, they thought this was a scene of catching the other woman, but now the relationship dynamics were crystal clear.

How was this catching the other woman? This was obviously a bitter ex-girlfriend coming to pick a fight.

Who would have thought she'd get roasted by the current girlfriend!

That single sentence mercilessly pierced through Jiang Xinyi's true thoughts. Her face instantly flushed red as she immediately retorted, "I am not! I didn't say it was me! It's..."

"You didn't want Zhou Yuwen's ex-girlfriends pestering him, so do you think that the current me wants you meeting up with Zhou Yuwen?" Li Shiqi asked again.

Jiang Xinyi immediately fell silent, not saying a word.

Li Shiqi gazed at Jiang Xinyi. After a brief moment, she finally spoke. "Miss Jiang, things are already over between you and Zhou Yuwen. No matter what happened in the past, you should let it go. Just like how you disliked Zhou Yuwen maintaining ambiguous ties with his exes when you were together, I think you need to let go of him now. You can't just wish for everyone else to get drenched just because you've been caught in the rain, right?"

One sentence followed another.

Jiang Xinyi was instantly left speechless.

Seeing that Jiang Xinyi had nothing left to say, Li Shiqi didn't add anything further. She turned around and prepared to re-enter the room.

At this moment, Jiang Xinyi actually wanted to call Li Shiqi back, but for some reason, she just couldn't bring herself to open her mouth. "Wait a second!"

In the end, Jiang Xinyi couldn't hold back.

Li Shiqi asked Jiang Xinyi if there was anything else.

Jiang Xinyi asked, "Does it really not matter? If your boyfriend is still maintaining abnormal relationships with other women?"

Yet Li Shiqi's heart was filled with unwavering resolve. "I trust him!"

"As long as I don't see it, it doesn't exist!"

After dropping those words, Li Shiqi stepped into the room and shut the door behind her.

Leaving only Jiang Xinyi standing outside. For some reason, at this very moment, Jiang Xinyi's intoxication entirely evaporated, and her eyes instantly reddened as she thought back to how easily she used to pick fights with Zhou Yuwen over trivial things.

Complaining about Zhou Yuwen engaging in relentless harassment with other girls.

Now that she thought about it carefully, she suddenly realized that her true desires weren't about those things at all.

Back then, she just wanted Zhou Yuwen. She just wanted to be with him. But why had she been so hostile toward other girls?

It was as if all girls were her enemies.

Why couldn't she be like the girl she had just faced?

"Hah! Look at that, that's what you call true wisdom! If I don't see it, it doesn't exist!"

Those attending the engagement banquet, aside from relatives, were definitely all big bosses. These wealthy men in their forties and fifties, who had nothing but money, all had their fair share of romantic affairs.

Listening to the argument between these two girls here today.

They were genuinely full of admiration for Li Shiqi, and didn't even forget to use this as a teaching moment for their own female companions.

Now this is true wisdom!

In reality, all women understood this principle.

For instance, take Liu Dongqiang and Sister Milk Tea a few years later.

Brother Dong could play around wildly outside.

Yet Sister Milk Tea still firmly secured her position as the main wife.

It was only Jiang Xinyi who hadn't adjusted her mindset from the very beginning.

At this moment, having finally understood everything, Jiang Xinyi instantly burst into tears.

She suddenly remembered what her mother had told her before: there are no men who don't fool around outside. It was best to turn a blind eye; what mattered was the position he acknowledged you in.

Jiang Xinyi had always known this, but when it actually happened to her...

She had still hoped for just a little more.

Now that she finally understood, the person by Zhou Yuwen's side had long since changed.

That girl was clearly much younger than her, but why was it that during their confrontation just now, she had been completely suppressed by her?

From the moment Li Shiqi walked out to the moment she stepped back inside, her face showed hardly any expression.

It wasn't until the exact moment she entered the room and saw Zhou Yuwen, who had woken up at some unknown point and was now sitting on the bed playing on his phone with his head bowed.

Li Shiqi froze for a second.

Looking as though she had been caught doing something bad, she instantly became exceedingly cautious.

Yet from beginning to end, Zhou Yuwen didn't even lift his head. Keeping his eyes fixed on the fluctuations of the US stock market, he calmly requested, "Get me a bottle of water."

Li Shiqi immediately grabbed a bottled mineral water from the cabinet near the entrance and presented it to Zhou Yuwen with both hands.

"Open it," Zhou Yuwen continued, his head still lowered.

Li Shiqi paused for a moment, then obediently unscrewed the cap.

"Mhm."

Zhou Yuwen took it and drank a sip.

Not saying a word.

Meanwhile, Li Shiqi was observing Zhou Yuwen's expression. Unable to maintain a facade of true composure, she couldn't hold back and asked, "Did you hear everything?"

At this moment, Zhou Yuwen, whose fingers had been tapping out a message to Lu Wanting on his phone, paused his movements.

He looked up at Li Shiqi, only to find her looking like a child who had committed a wrong.

With her head bowed in guilt.

Zhou Yuwen asked, "What were you hoping I'd hear?"

"I'm sorry," Li Shiqi took the initiative to apologize.

At this moment, Li Shiqi's nose stung, and her tears flowed out uncontrollably.

Because the words she had spoken outside just now were highly presumptuous, especially pretending to be Zhou Yuwen's girlfriend while the man himself was listening. With what kind of mindset had she impersonated his girlfriend?

Zhou Yuwen gazed at Li Shiqi before him, maintaining a long silence.

In his impression, although this girl didn't speak much, she was a very obedient and sensible girl. Zhou Yuwen had always felt that Li Shiqi was the type of girl who needed protecting.

But looking at her now, that didn't seem to be the case.

Just as Zhou Yuwen was unsure of what to say, Liu Dongqiang called.

"Hello? Brother, what's going on? Didn't we agree to eat together tonight?"

Zhou Yuwen replied, "I won't be able to make it tonight, Brother Dong. Something really came up, so I can't attend. I'll properly visit you and Sister-in-Law another day."

Zhou Yuwen could hear how noisy it was on Liu Dongqiang's end. He figured that Liu Dongqiang must be extremely busy right now.

Zhou Yuwen had actually anticipated this, which was why he had simply sent Liu Dongqiang a message, thinking that would suffice.

Who would have thought that Liu Dongqiang would specifically call him back?

Zhou Yuwen exchanged a few casual words with Liu Dongqiang before hanging up the phone.

At this time, a knock came from the door.

At first, he ignored it.

Then Zhou Yuwen's phone rang again, and a voice echoed from outside the door, "Hey, bro, it's room 8016, right?"

Zhou Yuwen gestured for Li Shiqi to open the door.

Li Shiqi obediently went to get it.

As soon as Liu Shuo walked in and saw Li Shiqi, then spotted Zhou Yuwen on the bed, his eyes widened as his thoughts immediately went into the gutter.

"Bro, you've already booked this room, so what did you call me over for? Wouldn't it be better to just sleep here?"

"Cut the crap."

By this point, Zhou Yuwen had already gotten up and was getting dressed.

Zhou Yuwen had been drinking, and Li Shiqi didn't know how to drive.

Therefore, his only option was to call Liu Shuo over to drive.

Liu Shuo could tell that Zhou Yuwen had drunk quite a bit. Frowning instantly, he muttered, "Who the hell is so brave to dare force alcohol on my bro?"

Zhou Yuwen replied evenly, "Jiang Xinyi."

Upon hearing this, Liu Shuo flinched and ducked his head. "Oh, oh, it's Sister-in-Law. Well, that's a family matter then."

As Zhou Yuwen tied his shoes, he asked, "Didn't you see her when you arrived?"

"See who?" It was evident that Liu Shuo hadn't run into Jiang Xinyi.

This proved that the words Li Shiqi had spoken earlier had deeply impacted Jiang Xinyi.