Free Web NovelChapter 129: Chapter 129: The Atmosphere is a Bit Strange
When Yun Zijin and Qin Sitong returned to campus, they heard that something sensational had happened while they were out shopping.
Huang Xueyang, who had always branded himself as an innocent young man, was suddenly exposed by three different people who posted his flirtatious chat logs with three different girls.
The evidence of his cheating was irrefutable. It didn’t take long for people to dox the man from the chat logs and expose his real identity.
Huang Xueyang was instantly plunged into a state of social death; he got a lot more stares whenever he walked around campus.
Back in their dorm room, Qin Sitong found the original post exposing Huang Xueyang’s cheating on the campus forum and immediately shared the gossip with Yun Zijin.
"Zijin, look! Someone got exposed on the campus forum for cheating!"
Qin Sitong was a master of gossip. It wasn’t long before she tracked down the three accounts that had posted the exposé, and she excitedly showed them to Yun Zijin.
Yun Zijin glanced at the screenshots and knew right away that these were exposé posts published by the three girls Huang Xueyang had been cheating on, all using their real names.
’They have some sense, at least. They aren’t so lovesick that they’d stay devoted even after being cheated on.’
"That’s good. It helps the girls at our school see a scumbag for who he really is and prevents more of them from getting tricked."
However, in Yun Zijin’s opinion, the most important thing was for the girls to report him to the police and get back the money Huang Xueyang had swindled from them.
A scumbag like that wasn’t worth even a single cent of their money.
"Exactly! A scumbag like him needs to be exposed so he doesn’t get the chance to prey on anyone else!"
Qin Sitong pulled out her phone, found one of the threads, and left a fiery comment bashing the scumbag.
Yun Zijin found Qin Sitong’s actions a little amusing.
Just as she was about to say something, she heard the dorm door open. Ren Hui and Li Cui were back.
Qin Sitong pursed her lips, turned off her phone screen, and fell silent.
She made no effort to hide her disdain.
Ren Hui and Li Cui didn’t say anything either. The relationships in their dorm were like oil and water.
"I’m feeling a little tired. I’m going to go shower first."
Qin Sitong really didn’t want to be in the same room with Ren Hui and Li Cui, so she found an excuse to escape.
Yun Zijin glanced at Ren Hui and Li Cui’s expressions. She felt something was off, but they weren’t close enough for her to ask what was wrong, so she didn’t plan on saying anything.
"Um..."
Yun Zijin hadn’t planned on speaking, but Ren Hui and Li Cui looked like they had something to say.
But after they started, they just hemmed and hawed. Several minutes passed, and they still couldn’t get a word out.
"If you have something to say, just say it. Stop dawdling." fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Clearly, Yun Zijin didn’t have the same patience for Ren Hui and Li Cui as she did for Qin Sitong.
But considering their past relationship, Ren Hui and Li Cui completely understood.
"It’s just... we... our attitude toward you before wasn’t very good. I wanted to apologize!
I hope you can be the bigger person and not hold it against us."
’Hearing Ren Hui’s apology, Yun Zijin was a bit surprised. ’Hasn’t she always been arrogant, acting like she was the best in the dorm because of her family’s wealth and looking down on people from ordinary backgrounds like us?’
’For her to come and apologize today is completely unprecedented. Could it be because of that incident at Hermes today, about being a VIC?’
’But that doesn’t seem quite right. Just being a Hermes VIC shouldn’t be enough to make her take the initiative to apologize, right?’
Yun Zijin glanced in Li Cui’s direction, and Li Cui guiltily avoided her gaze.
’Thinking about how Li Cui usually acts as Ren Hui’s lackey, always digging up information for her... what did she find out about me?’
"Hey! I already apologized, why aren’t you saying anything?"
Seeing that Yun Zijin still hadn’t responded, Ren Hui asked again, a little impatiently.
"As long as you don’t bother me, we can all get along just fine."
’But if you do bother me, that’s another story.’
Of course, Yun Zijin didn’t say that last part out loud. She believed that someone as pragmatic as Ren Hui could grasp the hidden meaning.
"How could I possibly bother you..."
Ren Hui trailed off mid-sentence. When she saw the look Yun Zijin gave her, the words died on her lips.
’Fine,’ she admitted to herself, ’my attitude toward Yun Zijin really was terrible before. I’ll just have to change from now on.’
Their conversation ended just as Qin Sitong came out of the shower. She immediately sensed that the atmosphere in the room was a little off and shot Yun Zijin a questioning look.
Yun Zijin gave her a reassuring look. "I’m going to take a shower."
For the first time, Ren Hui didn’t try to fight Yun Zijin for the bathroom, which Qin Sitong found incredibly odd.
However, she and Ren Hui couldn’t exchange three words without arguing, so she couldn’t be bothered to make a sarcastic comment about it. If she brought it up and Ren Hui went back to fighting Yun Zijin for the bathroom, it just wouldn’t be worth it.
"I’m going to do my laundry."
After making sure all her things were put away, Qin Sitong came out of the bathroom, carrying her dirty clothes to the sink on the balcony to wash them.
The dorm passed a rare, peaceful evening. Only Qin Sitong, who was out of the loop, felt that something was strange, but she was happy for the quiet.
*
At the crack of dawn, a phone in Yun Zijin’s dorm room rang. It was so loud that it woke everyone up.
"Five-thirty... Who set an alarm? Don’t we have class this morning? Even if we did, we wouldn’t need to get up this early!"
Qin Sitong’s resentful voice came from under her blankets, showing no intention of getting up.
Ren Hui shot up in bed and quickly turned off the alarm.
"Oh... I’m so sorry, I forgot to turn off my alarm..."
’God knows,’ she thought. ’Back home, the elders in my family dragged me up for morning exercises every single day. I had to wake up earlier during summer break than I do for school. Who even understands that kind of pain!’
Yun Zijin blinked a few times, and once she was sure she was awake, she sat up and ran a hand through her hair.
"Um... did I wake you?"
Ren Hui felt a little guilty. It really was her fault today.
"You did."
Once Yun Zijin was awake, she couldn’t get back to sleep, so she just decided to get up.
Ren Hui didn’t expect Yun Zijin to be so blunt, and her expression stiffened for a moment.
Jarred by Yun Zijin’s response, she couldn’t get back to sleep either. She picked up the phone beside her pillow and started scrolling through short videos.
With both Ren Hui and Yun Zijin awake, Qin Sitong and Li Cui gradually became fully conscious as well.
The sun had just risen, and the rest of the campus was still asleep, making their dorm’s activity stand out.
They managed to endure the awkward atmosphere in the dorm until seven o’clock. By then, Qin Sitong couldn’t take it for another second and dragged Yun Zijin out of the room.
"Zijin, what’s gotten into Ren Hui? I feel like she’s a completely different person."
The atmosphere in the dorm was usually so tense you could cut it with a knife. But from the moment they got back last night until now, Ren Hui had been so friendly that Qin Sitong felt like she was in some kind of fantasy world.
"Don’t worry about it so much. Isn’t it nice that she’s not causing trouble? Or would you rather go back to how things were before?
If you really prefer that, I suppose we could arrange it..."
"No, no, no... Never mind! This is much better." ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Now that they could finally have some peace and quiet, Qin Sitong had no desire to go back to the way things were.
