Prince charming, your persona has collapsed!

Fortunately, over the past month, Su Qing had matured a lot. She knew she had no particular strengths, so for now, the best choice seemed to be to earnestly finish her freshman year and get a scholarship to study abroad.

In her past life, because she didn’t have the experience of studying abroad, Su Qing missed out on many opportunities. If she could go abroad this time, she thought that by the age of 29, she would have come much further.

As for Zhou Yuwen.

Watching Zhou Yuwen, who was continuously being teased by Zheng Yanyan right before her eyes, Su Qing naturally hoped to rekindle their past relationship. If it couldn’t be continued immediately, that was okay; as the saying goes, "If you bloom, the fragrance will come naturally."

Su Qing believed that as long as she was outstanding enough, Zhou Yuwen would still be hers.

Zheng Yanyan was currently asking Zhou Yuwen what song he was going to sing as a duet with Shen Yu.

But Zhou Yuwen was being coy, saying, "You’ll find out in a bit."

Zheng Yanyan pouted and called Zhou Yuwen stingy.

"Shen Yu is sly, too. We all agreed in the dorm to chase after you together and see who you liked best. But what does she say? ’It’s enough for me to compete with Su Qing; I’ll give up.’ Now look at her, talking about giving up but actually arranging to sing with you behind our backs.

If I had known, I would have made a duet arrangement with you, too," Zheng Yanyan grumbled, trying to drop hints to Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen was speechless, "You girls talk about this in the dorm?"

As he said this, Zhou Yuwen turned to glance at Su Qing. Unexpectedly, Su Qing began to blush, "I never said that I’d given up on you."

"Really?" Zhou Yuwen asked Su Qing.

Su Qing avoided looking at Zhou Yuwen.

Zheng Yanyan, on the other hand, was thrilled, "Great, if you all give up, then does that mean Zhou Yuwen is left to me?"

While they were chatting, Zhou Yuwen’s phone rang; it was Shen Yu calling.

Shen Yu said, "Zhou Yuwen, we’re going up on stage soon."

"Oh alright, I’m on my way."

Zhou Yuwen stood up.

After Zhou Yuwen had left, Zheng Yanyan sat down with Su Qing, asking her what song Zhou Yuwen and Shen Yu would be performing as a duet.

"I don’t know," replied Su Qing.

"You don’t know? How could you not know? Aren’t you the host?" n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"This isn’t any formal performance, and since Shen Yu kept it to herself, how could I possibly know?" said Su Qing.

Zheng Yanyan pursed her lips, letting out a coquettish huff, and gazed toward the stage, where some class’s act was underway with two boys doing a comedy skit. She said, "Shen Yu is cunning indeed, pretending to give up on the surface, yet she’s more active than anyone else in private. Su Qing, we shouldn’t let our guard down."

Su Qing looked at Zheng Yanyan with disdain, "If you’re going to be cautious, you be cautious. Why drag me into this? I might as well give up too."

"Ha! You can’t fool me now. Each one of you is talking about giving up, but are you all trying to have a secret romance with Zhou Yuwen?" Zheng Yanyan said with a look of apparent insight.

"You must be talking about yourself, right?" Su Qing responded, looking incredulous.

To be honest, Su Qing was really taken aback when Shen Yu first said she liked Zhou Yuwen. However, Su Qing wasn’t worried about Zheng Yanyan in the least. In her previous life, Chang Hao pursued Zheng Yanyan for four years, and there were no shortage of suitors around Zheng Yanyan, but she never agreed because she set her sights too high.

She never accepted.

Furthermore, when she was with Zhou Yuwen in her previous life, he clearly didn’t have much of a liking for Zheng Yanyan, criticizing her for how she treated Chang Hao.

So Su Qing wasn’t at all concerned about Zheng Yanyan. She felt like Zheng Yanyan’s pursuit of Zhou Yuwen was like a spur-of-the-moment joke and believed it wouldn’t be long before she gave up on her own.

"If you really like Zhou Yuwen, you should clear things up with Chang Hao, to avoid causing unpleasantness between the two roommates," Su Qing advised.

"Oh, I’ve been thinking, you know? What troubles me most right now, Su Qing, is that I really do like Zhou Yuwen, but it seems he doesn’t feel the same about me. I’m afraid..."

"Afraid of what?"

"I’m afraid everyone will know I like Zhou Yuwen, but then he rejects me. Wouldn’t I lose face?" Zheng Yanyan said.

Su Qing couldn’t help but snort with laughter, "And since when do you care about saving face?"

"How could I possibly not care about face?"

"When you truly love someone, you don’t care about face," said Su Qing.

"Oh, please!"

Su Qing knew Zheng Yanyan too well; she cared too much about her image. With so many guys after her and her own belief that she was good-looking, she always wanted to pick the best one. So, in the end, even after Su Qing had divorced Zhou Yuwen, Zheng Yanyan was still single in the capital city.

Remembering their four years as classmates, Su Qing couldn’t help but warn, "Sometimes you shouldn’t take face so seriously. It would be a shame if both Zhou Yuwen and I got married, and you’re still without a boyfriend." Find your next read at empire

"Pfff!" Hearing Su Qing’s words, Zheng Yanyan couldn’t help but burst into laughter, mocking her, "Hey, Su Qing, I never noticed before but boy, do you have a thick skin?"

While saying this, she even reached out to pinch Su Qing’s cheek, which made Su Qing a bit angry, "What are you doing!"

As they laughed and joked, the comedy skit on the stage finally ended to cheers from the audience.

At this point, several acts had passed since Zheng Yanyan and Lu Lin’s dance performance, and their moment in the spotlight had faded. Subsequently, being that the following few acts hadn’t stirred much excitement, the military training performance became somewhat lackluster.

"Is the next act Zhou Yuwen and Shen Yu?"

"What song will they sing?"

Hearing that Zhou Yuwen and Shen Yu were about to go on stage, both Zheng Yanyan and Su Qing were quite curious.