?Chapter 35: Episode 35: Getting Rid of the Jerk Boyfriend Plan 3 Chapter 35: Episode 35: Getting Rid of the Jerk Boyfriend Plan 3 When Li Ranxu unexpectedly confessed, Li Jixiang almost sprayed cola all over his face.


    Zhou Xueyin initially wanted to clap and tease them into getting together, but seeing that Kang Siyin and Yao Shanshan showed no intention of joining her, she silently lowered her hands and continued to eat her meal with chopsticks.


    “Cough cough…” Li Jixiang swallowed the cola in her mouth and looked seriously at Li Ranxu, “First of all, thank you for appreciating my appearance.”


    “No, not just the appearance…” Li Ranxu hurriedly explained.


    “Let me speak…” Li Jixiang interrupted him, “You are very handsome! Receiving your appreciation makes me very happy!”


    Li Jixiang smiled, “Honestly, I find you quite appealing too. Though I am a bit concerned about your dark past, all of that is history now. As long as you don’t act like before, I might consider it.”


    Li Jixiang spoke with ease.


    “Rest assured, ever since the surgery, I’ve felt much more serene and calm… I won’t be as impulsive as before!” Li Ranxu said, smiling sheepishly.


    “Eh? Serene and detached?” Li Jixiang looked at him curiously, “You won’t lose interest in ‘that’ in the future, right?”


    “Ah! You misunderstood… What I meant was…” Li Ranxu looked panicked, unsure of how to explain himself.


    “Hahaha, just teasing you… It’s fine as long as you are only into me!” Li Jixiang said with a secretive smile.


    “So, what do you mean?” Li Ranxu thought his confession had succeeded and felt excited.


    “I’ll tell you the answer in two days! Hehe…” Li Jixiang didn’t immediately accept Li Ranxu but intentionally delayed a few days.


    “Alright, I respect you!” Li Ranxu nodded, although just a moment ago he was very confident she’d agree to be his girlfriend, now he was somewhat worried whether she truly liked him or it was just a simple crush.


    After dinner, Li Jixiang saw off Li Ranxu and returned home, glancing sideways at Zhou Xueyin: “Yinyin, earlier, didn’t you want to join the teasing?”


    “Eh? Me? I didn’t…” Zhou Xueyin said guiltily, “Besides, I really do think you two are well-matched, why didn’t you accept him?”


    “Are you silly? You know, if a guy gets what he wants too quickly, he won’t cherish it!” Li Jixiang said, speaking from experience.


    “Jixiang is right! Look at me and He Tong; it wasn’t long before we got together that all the excitement was gone. Did he cherish it? No!” Yao Shanshan added bitterly.


    “Uh, ah… I see… It really is like that…” Zhou Xueyin thought about her past few boyfriends, realizing that they were all very attentive at the beginning of the relationship but casual afterward.


    “Yinyin, come look at the computer!” Kang Siyin beckoned Zhou Xueyin over to her computer. S~ea??h the N?velFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    “What now?” Zhou Xueyin felt uneasy whenever Kang Siyin called her over.


    She returned to her computer and saw a QQ message from Curly Cat: Dear, someone posted a provocative thread in the forum’s chat area, I deleted it. But I kept the screenshots, take a look.


    Zhou Xueyin clicked on the screenshot, and sure enough, it was a provocative post: Let’s gossip about one of the forum’s administrators, who happens to be a well-known coser, and apparently all their photos are heavily Photoshopped!


    Without having to look further, she knew it was all about humiliating stage photos of Yao Shanshan at awkward angles compared to her finely edited portrait photos.


    “FML! He Tong, that bastard, even dared to harass me at my home!” Zhou Xueyin fumed, “Watch me completely expose him online!”


    “Yinyin, even if you’re angry, it’s useless. It’s peak internet usage time, and we should be grateful we can even access QQ…” Kang Siyin said helplessly.


    Didn’t she want to immediately seek revenge on Yao Shanshan? Of course, she did! But regrettably, the broadband speed in the neighborhood was even slower than a snail, not to mention not as fast as the old ADSL dial-up.


    Who knows when the internet speed in this neighborhood will improve.


    “Hey, just let him talk…” Yao Shanshan seemed quite unconcerned, “Everyone in the cosplay circle knows stage blurred photos don’t prove anything. Besides, our forum isn’t that popular. And that post has been deleted anyway…”


    “Shanbao… you’re too optimistic.” Li Jixiang looked at her with worry.


    “Huh? What is it?” Yao Shanshan asked, puzzled.


    “I have some unfortunate news for you… He Tong didn’t just post on our forum. He also posted in the highly popular Little Pink and Little Sky Blue communities…” Li Jixiang said, her feelings mixed as she checked the gossip messages from her friends.


    “No way… Does he have a screw loose? Little Pink and Little Sky Blue? Damn… Do I even want to be part of this circle anymore?” Yao Shanshan’s face fell when she heard about these two communities, “He’s really kicking me when I’m down! No, I have to confront him myself!”


    “Come, come, come… let’s have a meeting…” Zhou Xueyin thought for a moment and summoned the other three, “Should we fight back against him?”


    “Of course! I thought if the deal doesn’t work, there’s still dignity. But now, just because I wanted to break up, he pulls this on me?” Yao Shanshan was so angry she was almost crying, “The key is, I’m not afraid wherever he posts! Why did he have to post on Little Pink and Little Sky Blue? How am I supposed to face anyone?”


    “Actually, if you ask me, he made a mistake by choosing those two communities!” Kang Siyin murmured.


    “Oh?” The three of them listened attentively.


    “He’s digging his own grave!” Kang Siyin smiled mysteriously, “Don’t forget, we have something on him!”


    “Something?” Zhou Xueyin and Li Jixiang were both momentarily stunned, then realization dawned, “Oh!! Right! We do have those intimate photos of him and Mi Lu!”


    “Huh? What’s going on? How come I don’t know about this?” Yao Shanshan crossed her arms, squinting her eyes at the three.


    “Uh… Well… It was like this!” Zhou Xueyin explained how she and Li Jixiang had coincidentally encountered the situation and told Yao Shanshan before she could erupt, adding quickly, “At that time, we were afraid it would distract you and affect your cosplay, so we thought to tell you after the competition. Right…?”


    “Forget it, it’s not the first time this has happened… Remember how I said I kept getting these weird threatening messages? They were probably all sent by his new flames…” Yao Shanshan said despondently.


    She really blamed herself for being na?ve. When she received the messages, she thought it was just because He Tong was too popular, and she was imagined as their rival and didn’t take it to heart. Later, she simply ignored these messages…


    Although she had a vague feeling that He Tong might be cheating on her with someone, back then, He Tong was very caring toward her, and she didn’t notice anyone in particular come forward to publicly embarrass her, so she turned a blind eye.


    But this time, it was different with Mi Lu, who had undermined her in front of so many people.


    No matter how weak her pride was, she couldn’t let go of something that touched the bottom line, and breaking up became inevitable.


    Yet, Yao Shanshan never expected that He Tong would engage in a scorched-earth tactic if he couldn’t have her, proving that breaking up was indeed the right decision!