You all chase after the innocent school beauty, then I'll choose the rebellious female school b

Lu Yuan dialed the number, and the other party answered almost instantly.

"What's wrong, Lu Yuan? Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Is something urgent?" Xu Lingjing's voice was as sweet as ever, but her speech was noticeably faster than usual. In the background, one could faintly hear the clicking of a mouse and the indistinct conversations of other girls.

"Are you very busy?" Lu Yuan keenly noticed these details.

Normally, Xu Lingjing would have taken the opportunity to chat about random things.

"Hmm... I'm catching up on my homework." Xu Lingjing sighed, her tone tinged with frustration. "It's almost the end of the semester, and I just realized I still have two assignments to finish."

"I never thought that Xu Lingjing, who usually does her homework the most diligently, would end up having to do her homework again. How strange!" Lu Yuan couldn't help but tease.

"Lu Yuan!" Xu Lingjing's angry voice came through the receiver, "I'm happy that you took the initiative to contact me. But if you keep teasing me like this, I'll get angry."

"Alright, alright, let's get down to business." Lu Yuan dropped his joking tone. "I want to ask you about someone."

"Huh?" Xu Lingjing paused, her tone full of suspicion. "Who are you asking about? How did you find out about me? Could it be... some girl?"

"Male."

"A guy?" Xu Lingjing was even more confused. "I don't know as many guys as you do."

"The vice president of your psychology club."

"Our psychology club has several vice presidents, and several of them are men."

"Zhang Huan," Lu Yuan said directly.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

Lu Yuan frowned and pressed, "Do you know them or not? Say something!"

"Hahaha--"

After a long silence, Xu Lingjing suddenly burst into a clear laugh, as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world.

Lu Yuan was completely bewildered: "What's so funny?"

"You still say you don't care who I date!" Xu Lingjing's voice was filled with undisguised smugness. "Look, you couldn't help but secretly investigate him! Lu Yuan, just admit it, you do care about me. Be good, if you admit it, I won't tell Ye Yixian. Let's keep it as a little secret between us."

"No." Lu Yuan's brows furrowed even more. "You mean... the guy you went on a date with during the New Year's holiday was Zhang Huan, the vice president of the psychology club?"

"Yes," Xu Lingjing answered decisively. "What's wrong? Are you jealous?"

"no."

Lu Yuan looked up at Li Yitong sitting opposite him.

She couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the phone, but Lu Yuan's expression and snippets of conversation made her increasingly uneasy, and her eyes began to redden.

"Not what?" Xu Lingjing pressed.

Are you sure it's him?

"Of course I'm sure!" Xu Lingjing's tone was even more unquestionable. "You don't believe me? There's nothing I can do about it. No photos were taken that day, but the chat history is still there. Do you want to see it?"

"..."

Lu Yuan was speechless, and his gaze fell on Li Yitong again.

Li Yitong seemed to understand, and tears welled up instantly, silently sliding down her cheeks.

……

A dozen minutes later, Xu Lingjing arrived at the restaurant.

She immediately noticed Lu Yuan sitting in his seat with a cold face, while the girl opposite him was already crying her eyes out.

Lu Yuan briefly recounted the events. Xu Lingjing's face darkened completely upon hearing it.

In other words, that man contacted her even though he had a girlfriend? She almost became the other woman.

In this lifetime, she is only willing to condescend to be Lu Yuan's mistress; no one else should even think about it.

Xu Lingjing pulled out a chair and sat down next to Lu Yuan.

To avoid making a blunder, the three of them carefully checked the information they had one by one, and lo and behold, it really was the same Zhang Huan.

This person is indeed quite shrewd.

He added Xu Lingjing and Li Yitong's QQ accounts, which were not the same account at all, but both accounts looked like high-level accounts, with the same sun level.

In this day and age, not many people can reach the "sun" level on QQ.

The upgrade methods are limited, basically only requiring daily logins or a paid membership for faster upgrades. Who in their right mind would have the time to pay for memberships to upgrade two accounts simultaneously?

Therefore, when a high-level account adds you, everyone will assume that it is the other person's main account, which means that they value you, and they will not suspect that the other person is using a smurf account to farm fish.

But Zhang Huan clearly has more than two accounts; he probably keeps an entire fishpond.

Li Yitong is like that fish that's both beautiful and easy to raise.

Xu Lingjing was the target he hadn't yet lured into the pond.

"No... how could he be that kind of person..." Li Yitong shook her head, crying, her voice trembling. "He said he would only love me... I'm so beautiful, and I'm so good to him, how could he possibly cheat on me with someone else?"

"If he really loved you that much, he wouldn't have traded your body for his future." Xu Lingjing's voice wasn't loud, but it pierced Li Yitong's last illusions with the precision of a knife.

"..."

Li Yitong opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word. She could only cover her face and cry out in anguish.

Xu Lingjing didn't press her further, but turned to look at Lu Yuan: "What are your thoughts?"

"What thoughts could I possibly have?" Lu Yuan countered.

He originally thought that Li Yitong and her boyfriend had gone through a lot to get to where they are today, so he should help them if he could.

As a result, their beautiful love story shattered, leaving behind only a pitiful love-struck fool and a despicable scumbag.

"We can't tolerate this kind of person," Xu Lingjing said coldly, and then dialed Zhang Huan's number directly.

It was answered almost instantly.

"Zhang Huan, where are you? Come out and meet me." Xu Lingjing's voice was calm and undisturbed.

Zhang Huan, who had just been rejected after confessing his feelings, must be laughing in his dreams now that he has received an invitation from Xu Lingjing.

He probably thought Xu Lingjing had changed her mind.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Lingjing looked at Li Yitong, who was still wiping away tears: "I'm going to beat him up later, what about you?"

Li Yitong bit her lip and remained silent.

She probably still harbors a sliver of unrealistic fantasy about that man.

Xu Lingjing sighed and looked at Lu Yuan again: "If a fight breaks out later, you have to protect me."

Lu Yuan rolled his eyes, neither saying he would protect her nor that he wouldn't.

To be honest, he also wanted to teach this kind of scum a lesson.

……

The sky was overcast, with low-hanging dark clouds, and there were hardly any people on the playground.

Xu Lingjing arranged to meet Zhang Huan on the playground. In order to let Li Yitong see the true colors of this scumbag, Lu Yuan sat with her on an inconspicuous spectator stand by the playground and watched quietly.

Soon, a boy walked into the playground with a beaming smile. He walked briskly, his eyes eagerly searching the grass, and he secretly held a rose in his hand.

Li Yitong recognized Zhang Huan at a glance.

When she saw the ingratiating, eager smile on his face, her tears fell again.

"We've been dating for three months... and he's never given me a rose," she said, choking back tears.

Lu Yuan remained silent, unsure how to comfort him.

Li Yitong is indeed pitiful. She devoted herself wholeheartedly to that person, but she didn't know that she was just a fish in someone else's pond from beginning to end, a pawn being used.

The two of them just watched each other quietly.

Zhang Huan found Xu Lingjing and handed her the roses with a big smile.

Xu Lingjing raised her hand and slapped him cleanly and decisively.

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound was particularly jarring on the empty playground.

Zhang Huan's head was suddenly turned to one side by the blow, and he was completely stunned, unable to react for a long time.

"No... Xu Lingjing, what are you doing?" He covered his rapidly swollen face, looking completely bewildered.

Xu Lingjing didn't say anything, but simply tossed the rose on the ground and looked at him coldly.

Just then, Lu Yuan and Li Yitong walked over from the stands.

The moment Zhang Huan saw Li Yitong, his expression changed drastically.

He forced a smile that looked more like a grimace and stammered, "Yi... Yitong... what are you doing here?"

"Snapped!"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Yitong rushed forward and slapped him hard across the face again.

Whether intentionally or not, she slapped the other side of Zhang Huan's face. Now, both sides of Zhang Huan's face were red and swollen, which "balanced" things out.

"You bastard!" Li Yitong cried out, her voice filled with broken resentment. "I was so good to you! I could even sleep with other men for you! And you cheated on me with other girls? Do you really think I have no dignity at all?!"

She was about to raise her hand again as she spoke.

This time, Zhang Huan grabbed her wrist, his disguise completely shattered, revealing his true, ferocious nature.

"You bitch! Who do you think you are? How dare you lay a hand on me?" He glared at Li Yitong, his tone full of contempt. "In my eyes, you're nothing but a pawn. Since you've figured it out, I won't pretend anymore. To be honest, there's no woman easier to fool than you!"

"You...you deserve to die!"

Li Yitong struggled desperately, trying to hit him again.

Zhang Huan grew impatient and shoved her away abruptly.

Li Yitong staggered backward, about to fall, but bumped into a broad and warm chest.

She turned around and saw Lu Yuan steadily supporting her.

Zhang Huan then turned viciously to Xu Lingjing, cursing, "Xu Lingjing, you're a slut too! What are you pretending to be so reserved for? Are you short of men? It's an honor for you to have my eye on you, so what are you pretending for..."

"You'd better watch your mouth." Xu Lingjing didn't lose her composure because of his insults; she just stared at him coldly, her eyes like knives.

"Heh, so what if I cursed?" Zhang Huan sneered, his face completely indifferent. "What are you pretending for..."

He didn't finish his sentence.

Lu Yuan has already made his move.

A flying kick, accompanied by the whoosh of wind, struck Zhang Huan squarely in the chest.

Zhang Huan flew out like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily to the ground and unable to get up for a long time.