Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 467: Insult

Chang Hao's words deeply stung Li Qiang's pride. Li Qiang froze for a moment before cursing angrily, "What the fuck are you saying!"Fortunately, he also knew it was class time, so he did not dare say this loudly. He merely muttered a complaint under his breath, then glared at Chang Hao.

Li Qiang thought to himself, 'You have the nerve to lecture me?'

'Weren't you acting just like a dog last semester, barking away at Zheng Yanyan?'

'And what was the result? Zheng Yanyan would rather be Old Zhou's the other woman than give you a single glance!'

'At least I actually got to sleep with her!'

Chang Hao simply despised Li Qiang's social-climbing nature. He merely gave Li Qiang a brief piece of his mind and said nothing more after that.

"Ahem, Li Qiang, pay attention to the class."

They thought their voices were low enough that You Changjin could not hear them.

In reality, You Changjin had already taken in everything happening below from the podium.

But what could he do about it?

A class was always like this; every student had their own unique personality.

The time for one class period passed quickly. When Zhou Yuwen was messaging Jiang Xinyi, it was already approaching noon, right around the start of the final class of the morning.

Wearing jeans, Jiang Xinyi tried to blend in and sneak inside along with female students returning from the restroom, hoping to experience the youthful feeling of attending university again.

Unfortunately, she stood out far too much. If it had been any other girl, she might have succeeded, as the class would not be familiar with a stranger. But when it came to Jiang Xinyi, the students in this class were absolutely, one hundred percent familiar with her.

This was their counselor's ex-girlfriend, after all.

And rumor had it that she was currently dating Zhou Yuwen.

Even though Jiang Xinyi kept her head down as much as possible, planning to give Zhou Yuwen a surprise...

She was still spotted the moment she walked in by the female students sitting in the front two rows. Li Jing gently nudged her roommate Ma Tian with her elbow, gesturing for Ma Tian to look up.

Ma Tian did not care at first, but when she realized Jiang Xinyi had come in, she was genuinely stunned. Her shocked expression seemed to ask Li Jing, 'Why is she here?'

Meanwhile, Li Jing's expression clearly replied, 'How should I know?'

By the time Jiang Xinyi stood in front of Zhou Yuwen, nearly everyone in the class had noticed her.

At this point, Zhou Yuwen sensed the strange atmosphere in the room and finally glanced up.

Only then did he notice the naturally beautiful and unadorned Jiang Xinyi.

Jiang Xinyi's style had always been clean and natural. For example, right now she was wearing a simple shirt paired with jeans. However, it seemed she had drawn her eyebrows; overall, her facial features looked very striking as she flashed Zhou Yuwen a playful smile.

It was as if she was saying, 'You did not expect me to be here, did you?'

Zhou Yuwen truly had not expected it, and a hint of surprise showed in his eyes.

Just then, the class bell rang, and Jiang Xinyi naturally took the seat right next to Zhou Yuwen.

Li Qiang, who came in from outside right behind her, paused when he saw Jiang Xinyi, but he tactfully found another seat nearby.

Chang Hao had noticed Jiang Xinyi approaching long before.

Sometimes, Chang Hao genuinely admired Zhou Yuwen, who seemed to change girlfriends one after another.

He even managed to swap in the counselor's girlfriend.

At this moment, however, Chang Hao felt a bit worried about Zheng Yanyan.

Chang Hao could not help but wonder to himself, 'I wonder if Zheng Yanyan is feeling even the slightest bit of regret right now.'

He then looked back at You Changjin standing on the podium.

Between classes, You Changjin had been focused solely on reviewing his lesson plans. When he looked up and swept his gaze across the room, he actually failed to spot Jiang Xinyi. He simply announced, "Alright, let's continue with the lecture."

Seeing that You Changjin surprisingly hadn't noticed her, Jiang Xinyi actually felt a bit bashful and instinctively leaned a bit closer to Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen felt slightly uncomfortable and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

"I missed you. Am I not allowed to come?" Jiang Xinyi remained as carefree and unrestrained as ever. Because of what happened last night, she assumed Zhou Yuwen had already gotten back together with her.

She reached out, wanting to hug Zhou Yuwen's arm.

But just as she reached out, Zhou Yuwen awkwardly pulled his arm away from her and could not help but say, "Stop messing around, we are in class."

Seeing Zhou Yuwen pretend to be serious, Jiang Xinyi could not help but let out a soft giggle.

'Fine, have it your casual way,' she thought.

And so, Jiang Xinyi kept Zhou Yuwen company for a while during the lecture. In the blink of an eye, she had been a postgraduate student for a year now. To be honest, since starting her postgraduate studies, she rarely attended large classes like this anymore. Sitting in the classroom now, keeping Zhou Yuwen company during class, truly gave her a warm, familiar sense of returning to her youth.

The only difference from before was that during her bachelor's degree, Jiang Xinyi had almost always sat in the front two rows of the classroom to listen attentively. But right now, she was simply accompanying her boyfriend.

Actually, before Jiang Xinyi arrived, Zhou Yuwen had also been keeping his head down playing on his phone. It was only after Jiang Xinyi showed up that Zhou Yuwen felt a bit uncomfortable and started paying serious attention to the lecture.

Seeing Zhou Yuwen listening so earnestly, Jiang Xinyi felt the urge to tease him. Under the desk, her hand began tracing circles on Zhou Yuwen's thighs.

Zhou Yuwen told her to stop messing around.

Jiang Xinyi burst into laughter, asking when he had become so proper.

"Hey, have you ever heard this joke?" Jiang Xinyi asked Zhou Yuwen in a low voice.

Zhou Yuwen asked what it was.

So Jiang Xinyi quietly told Zhou Yuwen about a girl who went to take a shower and told a boy that if he peeked, he would be a beast.

In the end, the boy did not peek.

The girl came out very angry and told the boy that he was worse than a beast!

Jiang Xinyi's threshold for amusement seemed very low. In reality, it was probably just that when a person is happy, everything they say brings them joy. Before she even finished the story, Jiang Xinyi was already covering her mouth and giggling.

Chang Hao, listening from nearby, did not understand what was so funny about it.

Actually, Chang Hao had seriously reflected on the matter with Zheng Yanyan.

His final conclusion was that he simply was not interesting enough.

But looking closely at the way Zhou Yuwen and Jiang Xinyi interacted...

Chang Hao felt that Zhou Yuwen was not all that interesting either, so why was Jiang Xinyi so overwhelmingly overjoyed?

Then he heard Jiang Xinyi say, "So last night, were you a beast, or worse than a beast?"

Chang Hao froze.

Only to hear Zhou Yuwen ask her, "Why did you drink so much alcohol last night?"

Jiang Xinyi told him not to change the topic. She asked Zhou Yuwen in a hushed voice why he had not touched her last night.

"Hmph, let me ask you: who changed my clothes last night?"

At this moment, Jiang Xinyi must have been feeling joyful inside, because she believed that even though Zhou Yuwen had not touched her, he had at least seen her body.

Human beings are truly contradictory creatures. She both hoped Zhou Yuwen had acted like a beast last night, and simultaneously hoped he hadn't.

Yet when Zhou Yuwen genuinely refrained from being a beast, Jiang Xinyi felt deeply troubled in her heart.

She maintained a bashful appearance, believing Zhou Yuwen had seen her body.

At twenty-five years of age, she possessed the delicate bashfulness of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young girl.

Hearing Jiang Xinyi's words, Zhou Yuwen felt a bit awkward. He looked around and realized that the closest person to him was Chang Hao, though Chang Hao was sitting two seats away.

He currently looked like he was listening to the lecture attentively, as if he was not eavesdropping on their conversation.

So Zhou Yuwen quietly told Jiang Xinyi, "I wasn't the one who changed your clothes last night."

"?" Jiang Xinyi blanked, a little confused.

She asked, "Then who helped change my clothes last night?"

Before she could even voice the question, Zhou Yuwen said, "Yan Yan changed them for you."

"Zheng Yanyan?"

Jiang Xinyi furrowed her brows.

To be honest, from Chang Hao's position, he could only hear their conversation in broken fragments, but he heard the name "Zheng Yanyan" perfectly clearly. By now, Jiang Xinyi's expression carried a stubborn sort of interrogation—a mix of confusion and curiosity.

'Why would Zheng Yanyan be at your place?'

Zhou Yuwen did not look at Jiang Xinyi, maintaining his posture of attentively listening to the class.

But one had to remember, the person lecturing up front was You Changjin.

What was so interesting about that?

Instead, Zhou Yuwen's intense concentration actually made You Changjin a bit nervous. It was only at this moment that You Changjin finally noticed Jiang Xinyi sitting next to Zhou Yuwen.

'Ah?'

'Jiang Xinyi?'

You Changjin froze, thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him.

After double-checking repeatedly, he realized that it really was Jiang Xinyi.

'Wait, when did she come in?'

He saw that Jiang Xinyi currently wore a somewhat stubborn expression, looking at Zhou Yuwen as if feeling wronged.

Zhou Yuwen noticed Jiang Xinyi's expression. He lowered his head in thought for a moment before saying, "You were drunk last night. I figured it would be inappropriate for a lone man and a lone woman to be together, so I called Yan Yan and Linlin over to take care of you."

"After you fell asleep, I went over to the villa."

Zhou Yuwen seemed to be deliberately maintaining his distance from Jiang Xinyi.

It was exactly this kind of deliberate distancing that hurt Jiang Xinyi's pride.

Jiang Xinyi's nose instantly tingled, and without knowing how, two teardrops swiftly fell from her eyes.

She quickly lowered her head and wiped away her tears, saying, "That's not what I am asking. I am asking you, why was Zheng Yanyan at your place so late at night?!"

Although Jiang Xinyi tried to keep her voice down, it was noticeably louder this time, and Chang Hao could definitely hear it from his seat.

Zhou Yuwen caught the tearful waver in Jiang Xinyi's voice. He looked down at her and said, "Xinyi, two weeks ago, I believe we made things very clear, didn't we?"

At this, Jiang Xinyi could no longer control her tears.

She kept her head bowed.

Actually, the most decent thing to do at a moment like this would be leaving without a trace, but unfortunately, this was also the hardest moment for anyone to make such a decision.

After keeping her head down for a long time, Jiang Xinyi finally looked up and weakly asked the question she could not hold back: "You want to break up with me?"

This question was truly foolish; things had clearly been settled beforehand, yet she had to ask it all over again now.

Under the table, Zhou Yuwen grasped Jiang Xinyi's wrist. Her hand was very pale and her wrist very slender. He held her wrist in hopes of helping her calm down a bit.

Zhou Yuwen's voice was very low as he said, "Xinyi, two weeks ago, we already made things very clear."

"And recently, I have also thought over a few things."

"We really aren't suitable for each other."

"Fortunately, we haven't been seeing each other for too long."

"And I didn't touch you or anything." Zhou Yuwen's words carried a tone of relief.

However, it was this exact sentence that thoroughly infuriated Jiang Xinyi.

'What does he mean, he didn't touch me?'

'Thinking back to last night, she had literally delivered herself to his doorstep.'

'And Zhou Yuwen simply refused to touch her.'

'Doesn't that mean he was just waiting for this exact moment?'

"You kept refusing to touch me—were you terrified that if you did, I'd cling to you?" This was far too insulting for a girl to bear, so Jiang Xinyi completely lost control of her volume.

By the time she finished speaking, Jiang Xinyi's eyes had instantly gone red.

"?"

The students in the class were listening to the lecture when this sudden outburst echoed through the room.

Caught completely off guard, they all turned their heads to look at Jiang Xinyi.

Only then did some students realize—their counselor's ex-girlfriend was actually in the classroom?

'Wait, when did she even get here?'

Only then did Jiang Xinyi realize she had disrupted the normal order of the class.

She glanced at Zhou Yuwen.

But she saw that Zhou Yuwen had no intention of responding to her.

The students in the class were already whispering in fervent discussion.

Jiang Xinyi realized she had lost her composure.

Without saying another word, she covered her face, turned around, and sprinted out of the room.

And the moment Jiang Xinyi ran out, the discussions in the classroom grew even louder.

"What massive news—Zhou Yuwen actually had not touched Jiang Xinyi this entire time!"

"That means Zhou Yuwen actually has some conscience after all."

"I heard about this! Zhou Yuwen was actually forced into dating her in the first place."

"Huh?"

"Apparently, Jiang Xinyi's mom took a liking to Zhou Yuwen's talent and specifically arranged it. Just look at the news reports and you'll know." The students in the class were relatively familiar with Zhou Yuwen, so they knew that his current success was entirely earned through his own hard work, bit by bit.

Yet the media claimed it was all thanks to Jiang Xinyi.

How could that be possible? Anyone could see there was something fishy going on.

Now that it was mentioned, it really did make sense.

"Heavens, is this woman really that manipulative?"

"Of course she is. What kind of good woman dumps our counselor like that? Zhou Yuwen is the real victim here."

"Everyone, settle down!"

Hearing everyone gossiping like this, You Changjin felt an immediate surge of displeasure. He hurriedly ordered the class to stop discussing the matter. Feeling somewhat helpless, he looked over at Zhou Yuwen and said, "Yuwen, why don't you go out and check on her."

Zhou Yuwen thought for a moment before finally getting up and walking out.

After Zhou Yuwen stepped out, a few hushed murmurs continued throughout the class.

You Changjin slammed his hand on the desk. "Do my words mean nothing to you!?"

At this, the noise vanished instantly.

Originally, You Changjin had intended to properly finish his lecture.

But he had never seen Jiang Xinyi make an expression like the one she had just shown. Seeing her in tears left him entirely restless, and finally, he could not help himself. "Read your books on your own for a moment, I need to step out!"

After saying this, he hastily tossed his textbook aside and hurried out.

Once You Changjin was gone, the class's discussion erupted even louder than before.

Li Qiang's voice pierced through the noise as he exclaimed, "Badass, Old Zhou still hasn't touched that woman?"

Chang Hao was the class monitor, after all, and his relationship with You Changjin had always been quite good. Hearing Li Qiang's words filled him with disgust, and he could not hold back his retort. "What does it matter to you whether he touches her or not?"

Li Qiang still held a grudge over how Chang Hao had insulted him earlier. Hearing Chang Hao's reprimand, he immediately shot back, "What's it to you? Does it have anything to do with you either?"

"Speaking of which, Ah Hao, you and Teacher You are truly suffering from the same disease!" Li Qiang said, grinning.

Chang Hao narrowed his eyes and glared at Li Qiang with evident displeasure. "What is that supposed to mean?"