"I've broken off with Zheng Ji!"
Seeing this message on his phone, Qin Tian couldn't help but smile, feeling a bit speechless.
It was still an unknown number without a saved contact, and the previous messages had been deleted.
However, after reading this message, Qin Tian naturally guessed it was from Lu Yaoyao.
"Whatever happens between you two has nothing to do with me. I've blocked this number, so don't bother me again."
Qin Tian directly typed out a reply and then added the number to his blacklist.
At the same time, in a luxurious bachelor apartment in Jiang City.
Upon seeing Qin Tian's reply, Lu Yaoyao immediately started typing a hasty message to dissuade him, but it was too late.
After waiting for a while and receiving no response, Lu Yaoyao directly called the number.
Unsurprisingly, the call wouldn't go through.
"Damn it!"
Lu Yaoyao, angered, threw her phone onto the sofa, her expression extremely displeased.
On the television, a Korean drama was playing, depicting a scheming female supporting character manipulating events to drive the male and female leads apart, in a melodramatic attempt to successfully ascend.
"What kind of rubbish writers and directors are these? What charm does this brainless male lead have? The female lead is also foolish, believing everything others say. Xia Nuannuan isn't that easy to deal with."
Lu Yaoyao complained furiously.
She was quite disdainful of the female supporting character's tactics in the drama.
She, Lu Yaoyao, would strive to obtain what she desired through her own upright efforts; she held significant contempt for such scheming and manipulative tactics.
More importantly, she, Lu Yaoyao, was not a supporting character in someone else's story.
Initially, she wasn't in a hurry, planning to proceed slowly and gradually build up Qin Tian's favorability, with the primary goal of becoming friends first.
After all, Qin Tian and Xia Nuannuan had just started university; they were still far from marriage, and she had plenty of time.
It was precisely because he wasn't an easily obtainable man that she felt her judgment was correct.
What she hadn't anticipated was that idiot Zheng Ji would impersonate her and orchestrate such a fiasco.
Now, not only Qin Tian but even his future mother-in-law might dislike her.
After receiving this news from a friend, she completely lost her temper. She drove over to find Zheng Ji, delivered a flying kick that sent him to the ground, and then unleashed a torrent of scolding.
Zheng Ji, knowing he was in the wrong and unwilling for Lu Yaoyao to despise him completely, endured her verbal and physical abuse without a word.
However, after the scolding and kicking, Lu Yaoyao still severed ties with him, declaring them strangers from then on, with no overlap in their lives. She warned that if there was a next time, she wouldn't be polite.
"If he doesn't like me, fine. We can take it slow. Blocking me directly is going too far!"
Lu Yaoyao rubbed her temples with her hand, a headache forming. She lay sideways on the sofa, propping her head with her elbow, and began to seriously consider her next course of action.
The immediate priority was to salvage the situation, at the very least, to raise Qin Tian's favorability from negative to zero.
This was not a simple task.
If it were any other guy, with her financial resources and capabilities, it would naturally be easy.
A guy like Qin Tian couldn't be won over with ordinary tactics.
Thinking this, she picked up her phone from the sofa and dialed a number.
It was the wife of her paternal uncle's eldest son, her sister-in-law.
Speaking of this cousin-in-law, she was quite a character.
She came from an ordinary background, and her appearance and figure weren't particularly outstanding, yet she successfully married into a wealthy family and was doted on by her cousin and her in-laws.
It was worth noting that her cousin, just two years prior, was still a philanderer who flirted with everyone, but now he was considered a good man and a good husband by others.
Her cousin's transformation began with this sister-in-law's appearance.
Recently, Lu Yaoyao had become much closer to this cousin-in-law, frequently seeking her advice and feeling greatly enriched by it.
At least in her opinion, her cousin-in-law's level was far superior to that of the female supporting characters in those melodramatic Korean dramas.
"Hello, Yaoyao?"
When the call was answered, a gentle, youthful female voice came from the other end.
"Sister-in-law, help! He's blocked me."
"What?"
"Qin Tian. He's blocked my phone number."
"Pfft!"
After a moment of silence, an suppressed chuckle escaped the woman on the other end.
"Sister-in-law, don't laugh! Quick, give me some advice!"
"Then tell me first, why did he block you."
"Um, it's like this..."
Lu Yaoyao began to narrate, pouring out the reason for her first experience of being blocked like a bamboo tube emptying its contents.
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First-year girls' Dormitory 306.
Xia Nuannuan was sitting with Shen Siqi, eating snacks and watching a drama on the computer.
"Nuannuan, has that Lu Yaoyao made any moves these past few days?"
Shen Siqi asked casually.
Xia Nuannuan glanced at her and shook her head, "I don't know. What's up?"
"Hey, hey, hey, can you pay a little more attention? That's a formidable opponent!"
Shen Siqi said, looking exasperated.
Xia Nuannuan took a chip from the bag Shen Siqi was holding and said with a smile, "It's okay. Whatever she does will be useless."
"Are you too confident in men's willpower? You're too carefree. Look at the male lead in this drama; he almost cheated."
"But it was only almost, wasn't it?"
Shen Siqi: "..."
Xia Nuannuan couldn't help but laugh and added, "Alright, I was just kidding. What I mean is, the male lead in this drama is too foolish. Tian Ge wouldn't be like that."
"I'm convinced."
Shen Siqi rolled her eyes, grabbed a handful of chips, and stuffed them into her mouth, crunching them vigorously.
"Enough about me. How are things between you and Chen Zhuang?" httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Xia Nuannuan shifted the topic to her.
"How are things?"
"Tomorrow is New Year's Day. Don't you have any plans for a date?"
"No. All he knows is playing games. He hasn't even invited me yet."
"No way. You've just started dating; you should want to be together every day!"
Xia Nuannuan expressed her confusion.
After the college entrance examination, the period when she and Qin Tian officially confirmed their relationship, they had wanted to be together almost every day.
"Who knows? I shouldn't have agreed to him so quickly. It seems like once he caught me, he completely lost interest."
Shen Siqi said in a muffled voice.
"No, it's probably just because the weather has been too cold these past few days. He'll probably invite you later."
Xia Nuannuan found an excuse for her.
"Whatever. If he doesn't invite me, I'll just stay in the dorm under the covers and sleep in. It's more comfortable!"
Shen Siqi said with feigned indifference, then asked, "What about you and Qin Tian?"
"We're planning to go to the Jiangtan area for New Year's Eve. I heard they have a light show there, and it'll be very lively."
Xia Nuannuan said with a smile.
"So resourceful!"
Shen Siqi's tone was tinged with envy. She suddenly realized something and her eyes widened as she asked, "From what you're saying, you're not coming back to the dorm tonight?"
"Yeah, I probably won't. After midnight during New Year's Eve, the dorms will be locked. What's wrong?"
Xia Nuannuan asked, surprised.
"Wow!"
Shen Siqi exclaimed, looking at her with shining eyes.
"Are you guys... finally ready to take the final step?"
"What are you talking about?"
Xia Nuannuan still didn't understand.
"You know, New Year's Eve, a man and a woman alone, a couple's hotel..."
Shen Siqi uttered a few keywords, a mischievous smile on her face.
Xia Nuannuan finally understood, a blush rapidly spreading from her neck upwards. She shyly reached out and pushed Shen Siqi.
"What are you saying? Your mind is so dirty. We haven't thought about that at all."
"That's what *you* haven't thought about. Whether Qin Tian has thought about it is another matter!"