He tricked the female lead into becoming his boyfriend, but then went on to criticize the male lead.

Tang Tongtong and Qin Ying exchanged a glance, but didn't try to persuade her further, so they left on their own.

Sang Jiuning wandered aimlessly around the campus, her mind in turmoil.

Before she knew it, she had climbed up Lover's Slope. Seeing that no one was around, she sat down in one of the pavilions on Lover's Slope.

She even began to doubt whether her "breakup cooling-off plan" was wrong from the start.

The male lead, Wen Zhaoci, seems to be quite different from what she imagined.

Unlike characters in novels who easily break up with their partners over trivial matters due to misunderstandings, he doesn't do that.

Just as Sang Jiuning was lost in thought, her phone finally rang.

Instead of the words "Wen Zhaoci" appearing on the screen, it was Tang Tongtong.

Sang Jiuning pressed the answer button.

"Feed?" Her voice was a little dry.

"Ningning, delete all the posts about you on the forum!"

Tang Tongtong's voice, brimming with barely suppressed excitement and surprise, almost burst through the receiver: "Did you see that? I just refreshed the forum and found that all those posts exposing your relationship with your friend, all those posts smearing you—whether they said you were vain or cheated on me—are gone! Even the comments have vanished completely, as if they never existed!"

Sang Jiuning suddenly stood up from the stone bench, her heart skipping a beat.

"What?" She opened the campus forum in disbelief.

Sure enough, all those glaring headlines that used to float on the homepage disappeared, replaced by some innocuous campus news and posts asking for help.

Undeterred, she entered her name and "Wen Zhaoci" into the search bar, but the result showed "No relevant content found".

Really... you deleted them all?

who did it?

The moment the thought crossed her mind, a name immediately came to mind—Wen Zhaoci.

Besides him, who else has such great ability to completely remove the negative posts that have caused such a stir on the campus forum in such a short period of time?

A complex mix of emotions welled up in Sang Jiuning's heart—surprise, doubt, and a touch of warmth that she herself couldn't quite explain.

Why did he do that?

According to her "script," shouldn't he see these posts, become disappointed in her, and break up with her?

"Ningning? Ningning, are you listening?" Tang Tongtong's voice rang out on the other end of the phone.

"Ah... I'm listening." Sang Jiuning composed herself and tried to make her voice sound calm. "If it's deleted, it's deleted. It was probably handled by the administrator." She subconsciously tried to remove Wen Zhaoci from the list.

"Impossible!" Tang Tongtong immediately retorted. "How could an administrator be that fast? Besides, for these kinds of gossip posts, as long as they're not too outrageous, the administrators usually turn a blind eye. Let me tell you, I just saw someone post a new thread asking why their previous posts were all gone, and then less than two minutes later, that thread was deleted too! Someone is definitely manipulating things behind the scenes!"

Tang Tongtong paused, lowered her voice, and said mysteriously, "Ningning, I'll make a bold guess... could it be your boyfriend who did it?"

Sang Jiuning's heart tightened again, and she gripped her phone slightly harder.

"How could that be... He doesn't care about this nonsense at all?" She tried to refute with facts, but her confidence was somewhat lacking.

"With his status, handling this little thing shouldn't be difficult for him," Tang Tongtong said matter-of-factly. "Think about it, who would least want to see you get smeared? It's definitely him! You're his girlfriend! This concerns his reputation, and it also concerns your relationship!"

girlfriend……

The word made Sang Jiuning's cheeks burn again, and the image of Wen Zhaoci's gentle kiss on her forehead under the camphor tree last night involuntarily surfaced in her mind.

"And what's more," Tang Tongtong's voice perked up again, "someone just leaked that they saw the Wen Group's legal department contact the forum's operators! I don't know if it's true or not, but considering the post was deleted so quickly, this is definitely related to Wen the School Heartthrob!"

The legal department of the Wen Group?

Sang Jiuning was completely stunned.

For such a small amount of gossip on the campus forum, he actually mobilized the legal department of his family's company?

Isn't this making a mountain out of a molehill?

No, perhaps for him, this is not making a mountain out of a molehill.

Was he... protecting her?

This realization caused Sang Jiuning's heart to race again. A feeling she had never experienced before quietly spread through her heart, like vines wrapping around it, making it hard for her to breathe, yet... she didn't dislike it.

She shook her head violently, wondering if Wen Zhaoci was planning a big breakup gift for her?

"Ningning, say something! Do you also think it was Wen, the school heartthrob, who did it?" Tang Tongtong pressed.

Sang Jiuning opened her mouth, but found that she didn't know what to say.

Admit it? Or deny it?

Just then, her phone screen lit up; a new WeChat message had arrived.

From: Little White Rabbit.

Sang Jiuning said to Tang Tongtong on the other end of the phone, "Tongtong, I have something to do here, I have to go now."

"Huh? Okay..."

Before Tang Tongtong could finish speaking, Sang Jiuning hurriedly hung up the phone and opened Su Qingyan's WeChat.

That's right, Su Qingyan's WeChat name is: Obedient Little White Rabbit.

Just a short sentence:

Sweet Little White Rabbit: [Lemon, do you want to do a part-time job?]

The ruffled-hair little Totoro: [What kind of part-time job?]

Little White Rabbit: [Someone introduced me to this job. It's as a car model, tonight from 8 PM to 11 PM, at Bo'ai Square in the city center, not far from the school. If you're interested, I can give you that person's business card.]

Sang Jiuning frowned involuntarily as she looked at the text on the screen.

Would Su Qingyan be so kind?

In her memory, Su Qingyan always appeared gentle and harmless, but the occasional glint of calculation in her eyes made Sang Jiuning feel uneasy.

Especially after what happened in the forum post, she became even more wary of Su Qingyan.

The little totoro with its fur standing on end: [Why did you suddenly think of me?] She asked the question that had been bothering her.

Little White Rabbit: [We're friends, right? I saw you were working too hard at the bubble tea shop, and since this opportunity with car models is here, I thought I'd tell you. It's a pretty easy job, just standing there and striking a pose.]

Friend? Sang Jiuning sneered inwardly.

In the original owner's memories, the original owner always fawned over Su Qingyan, but Su Qingyan always kept her at arm's length. She would even take advantage of the original owner's naivety and make her do errands and chores, but afterwards she would not even say a sincere thank you.