Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 365: Going Home with Su Qing

Xu Wei kicked Jin Kai to the side.Even a fool could understand the meaning behind those words.

Especially after Liu Shuo called him "Bro".

No way.

At that moment, Zhao Rui felt as if her entire world had collapsed.

However, the girl knew when to be sensible. As a delinquent girl mixing in the streets, she was certainly arrogant, but she was no idiot. During the meal earlier, she had heard plenty of ridiculous stories about how badass the Xuhuai Association was.

In reality, the Xuhuai Association was simply an organization that helped out-of-town students find part-time jobs in Jinling. The problem was that these students would never admit that during a meal. Men loved to brag, especially when talking to girls.

So, after listening to all that nonsense earlier, Zhao Rui already thought the Xuhuai Association was incredibly badass. And now, she found out that the person she had offended was actually the boss of the Xuhuai Association!

Who could possibly handle that!

Most importantly, thinking about how she had constantly bullied Liu Yilin just moments ago...

Without a second thought, Zhao Rui slapped herself directly across the face, and she did not hold back at all.

After all, someone who ran in the streets knew how to be truly ruthless to themselves.

Zhou Yuwen had not even said a word, but Zhao Rui's legs had already given way. "Bro, Bro, I... I'm sorry! I'm a little bastard!"

Seeing this scene, the classmates standing behind Zhou Yuwen fell completely silent.

Beside her, Jin Kai, having just been kicked, finally realized the situation as well.

'Fuck!'

'Who the hell was I cursing at just now?'

Jin Kai scrambled over, crawling on his hands and knees. His words were no less pathetic than Zhao Rui's. He even groveled, "Bro, Bro, I... I didn't offend you!"

"It was all her, she made me do it! She told me to bring people to the school gate to block your sister! And him! And him too!" Terrified of taking the brunt of the blame, Jin Kai began pointing fingers wildly, throwing Sun Bo and Xie Lei right under the bus.

Sun Bo and Xie Lei turned pale with fright. They immediately stepped forward and pleaded, "Bro, we didn't know anything!"

"Honestly, we had no idea about any of this! She was the one who told us to do it!"

"Yeah, it was all her idea!"

Seeing them point fingers at her one by one, Zhao Rui burst into terrified tears. She bawled loudly, crying, "I didn't know! I didn't know!"

"Bro, I really didn't know!"

'How could you possibly not know,' Zhou Yuwen thought to himself.

However, seeing them crying all over the floor made Zhou Yuwen feel the whole situation was quite dull. "What are you all doing?" he asked.

"I'm not a bad guy, so why are you kneeling on the ground? Anyone who didn't know better would think I was bullying you. Liu Shuo," Zhou Yuwen called out.

"Yes! Bro."

Liu Shuo's expression was a bit grim at the moment. He was usually very obedient, but today, after having a little to drink, his brain had short-circuited enough to actually think about going against Zhou Yuwen.

He was genuinely panicking inside right now.

But Zhou Yuwen did not seem to care. He simply glanced at the terrified faces of Zhao Rui and the others.

After a moment of thought, he said, "Handle this yourself."

"Got it!"

Hearing this, Zhao Rui and the others assumed Zhou Yuwen meant he was going to settle them permanently, and they began to cry even louder.

In reality, Zhou Yuwen just meant that a small punishment to serve as a warning would be enough.

With that, he turned to the silent crowd behind him and said, "Let's go. We'll head out first."

The way the classmates looked at Zhou Yuwen had completely changed.

It was only today that they realized they truly lived in an ivory tower.

The outside world was actually this frightening.

"Why are you all just standing there? Let's head out,"

Zhou Yuwen told them.

Only then did they snap out of it. They quickly skirted around the crowd filling the corridor to walk out. Even Luo Jialiang didn't dare lift his head to look Zhou Yuwen in the eye.

Jiang Jiao, on the other hand, was quite bold and kept staring directly at Zhou Yuwen.

She was even subtly making eyes at him.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yuwen had no interest in Jiang Jiao. He and Su Qing were the last ones to leave.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhou Yuwen suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right."

He looked over at Zhao Rui, causing her to flinch in terror.

Zhou Yuwen simply said, "Stop bullying Liu Yilin from now on. She is my cousin."

"U-understood."

Zhao Rui stammered.

Then, Zhou Yuwen walked out.

As he was leaving, Zhou Yuwen also shot a glance at Xu Wei.

Xu Wei was quite scared himself. As Liu Shuo's trusted subordinate, he had worked hard to gain some status within the Xuhuai Association. He had originally hoped for a chance to show his face and impress Zhou Yuwen in the future, but instead, he had thoroughly humiliated himself before even getting the chance.

Catching Zhou Yuwen's gaze, he quickly lowered his head in nervousness and called out, "Take care, Boss!"

Hearing this, Jiang Jiao, who had been lingering at the end of the corridor to watch the drama unfold, couldn't help but burst into a fit of giggles.

Zhou Yuwen had only glanced over casually, and Xu Wei's dramatic reaction left him quite speechless.

Still, Zhou Yuwen did not dwell on it. He merely told Liu Shuo to wrap things up quickly and come over. Weren't they supposed to be attending a class reunion?

Liu Shuo indicated that he understood.

The classmates were waiting for Zhou Yuwen downstairs outside the restaurant.

After witnessing that incident, the way everyone looked at Zhou Yuwen had clearly shifted. They had originally agreed to go sing karaoke together, but now they were implicitly waiting for his cue, seeking his opinion.

Zhou Yuwen said, "Why are you looking at me? Didn't Jialiang organize this reunion? We should all follow Jialiang's arrangements. Right, Jialiang?"

Zhou Yuwen patted Luo Jialiang's shoulder as he spoke.

"No, n-not at all," Luo Jialiang replied awkwardly. Then, looking at Zhou Yuwen with an inquiring gaze, he asked, "Then should we... go singing?"

"Yeah, let's go. Just tell me the location. Su Qing and I will drive over."

Afterward, Zhou Yuwen drove the BMW X7 with Su Qing sitting in the passenger seat. The others seemed to be taking taxis, which was out of Zhou Yuwen's hands. Zhou Yuwen said, "We'll head over first. Did you book a room? If not, I'll just go ahead and book one."

"No need, no need! I've already booked it!"

Luo Jialiang now had to carefully weigh every word he spoke to Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen said that was fine.

And so, Zhou Yuwen drove the X7 away, leaving them in the dust.

He left behind a group of classmates who finally dared to speak loudly again.

"What exactly does Zhou Yuwen's family do? How did he end up becoming a gang boss?"

"Exactly! That's not a company, he's clearly an underworld boss."

"We should interact with him less in the future."

"What are you talking about? I think he's pretty handsome! Speaking of which, Zhou Yuwen had a crush on me in high school. If I had known he would be this incredible, I would have accepted him!"

"That car of his costs over a million!"

"That's so expensive."

During these few days at home for the New Year, he figured he would be going to KTV quite a bit. On the way home yesterday, Lu Wanting had been humming a tune and mentioning how much she loved singing, hoping to go again another day.

Having been to KTV so many times, Zhou Yuwen naturally had little interest left.

He simply sat to the side with his arm around Su Qing. Whenever others urged him to sing, Zhou Yuwen just told them to go ahead first.

When he really couldn't push it away anymore, he eventually sang one song.

After the incident at the hotel, everyone clearly kept their distance from Zhou Yuwen. However, this distance wasn't out of fear, but rather because they wanted to curry favor with him yet didn't know how.

For instance, some boys would take the initiative to come over and offer Zhou Yuwen a cigarette.

Zhou Yuwen waved his hand, saying he didn't smoke.

The girls were a bit more shy, with the boldest being Jiang Jiao, who actively asked to sing a duet with Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen waved her off, saying, "Let the classmates sing. My singing isn't that great anyway."

"Shiqi hasn't sung a song yet, has she? Let her sing one."

At this class reunion, Li Shiqi had remained practically invisible.

But Zhou Yuwen had remembered her. With just that one sentence, the classmates immediately recalled her presence and all crowded around to urge her to sing.

A while later, Liu Shuo pushed the door open and walked in.

The expressions on everyone's faces when they looked at Liu Shuo were different now too.

Liu Shuo ignored them, walking straight up to Zhou Yuwen and saying, "Bro, everything is settled."

Zhou Yuwen asked how it was settled. Although the KTV was noisy, the moment Liu Shuo walked in, the singing classmates immediately fell silent.

Zhou Yuwen said, "Keep singing. Don't mind us."

Everyone offered awkward smiles but didn't resume singing.

They were actually quite curious to know exactly how Zhou Yuwen and Liu Shuo had settled things.

Left with no choice, Zhou Yuwen had to take Liu Shuo outside.

This sparked endless speculation. Someone couldn't resist whispering to a close friend, "When they say 'settled,' they don't mean they settled the people, right?"

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

Outside the private room, Liu Shuo explained what had happened.

He had just scared them a bit and then let them go.

"They couldn't even handle a little scare. Before I even said anything, that brat collapsed on the floor and started crying. The other guys were spineless too, just constantly insisting it had nothing to do with them."

Zhou Yuwen was speechless upon hearing this. "Fine. As long as no one got hurt."

Liu Shuo asked, "Should I find a few guys to beat them up?"

Zhou Yuwen replied, "How about I beat you up instead?"

"Uh!"

Liu Shuo immediately looked incredibly embarrassed.

Zhou Yuwen gave him a symbolic kick and said, "I told you earlier not to get involved in all this messy nonsense, but you just wouldn't listen!"

"Let me ask you, if it hadn't been me this time, would you really have brought people over to start a turf war?"

"How could I, Bro!" Liu Shuo immediately denied it with a sheepish grin.

Zhou Yuwen retorted, "Give me a break. Like I don't know you."

"Let me tell you right now, if I catch you throwing your weight around like this again, don't blame me for not holding back."

"I won't, Bro. Especially after what just happened, how could I!" Liu Shuo promised.

Zhou Yuwen said that would be for the best.

"Go on inside and sing."

"Oh, okay!"

And so, the class reunion continued. Compared to Zhou Yuwen, Liu Shuo was indeed much easier to get along with. A group of boys gathered around him, and he was more than happy to boast and shoot the breeze with his classmates.

They had started at noon and spent another three hours singing in the afternoon.

By the time they finished, it was already six o'clock in the evening, and the sky had completely darkened.

When the karaoke first began, everyone was a little afraid of Zhou Yuwen. But after spending three hours in the private room, they realized he wasn't actually that hard to approach, and their fear gradually faded.

When it was finally time to part ways, everyone was chatting and laughing.

Jiang Jiao even gathered the courage to climb right into Zhou Yuwen's car. "Zhou Yuwen, drive me home!"

Zhou Yuwen glanced at Su Qing in the passenger seat.

Su Qing asked, "Where is your house?"

Surprisingly, Jiang Jiao paid absolutely no attention to Zhou Yuwen.

Jiang Jiao had a rather good figure. Standing at about five foot seven, she sat in the back seat, leaning her arms against the driver's seat. "Zhou Yuwen, can you take me home or not?"

"Didn't Su Qing just ask you where your house is?"

"I didn't want her to ask. I'm asking you. Can you take me home?"

Zhou Yuwen replied, "Well, I have to listen to my girlfriend."

"Pfft, you're a gang boss, and you're afraid of your girlfriend?" Jiang Jiao said with a laugh.

"Don't talk nonsense. What kind of gang boss am I?"

The way Jiang Jiao looked at Zhou Yuwen was practically oozing with undisguised lust.

Only after receiving Su Qing's tacit approval did Zhou Yuwen ask Jiang Jiao where she lived.

Unexpectedly, it was located in the wealthy district of the small county town.

Zhou Yuwen remarked, "Not bad. I couldn't tell that the rich young lady Jiang actually lived in a villa."

"What? You didn't know?"

"Know what?"

"My dad is the boss of a steel mill!" Jiang Jiao was quite straightforward, immediately bringing up her prominent family background.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yuwen did not hold her in high regard because of this. He merely let out an "Oh."

Finding him boring, Jiang Jiao glanced at Su Qing in the passenger seat and asked, "Hey, pretty lady, what do your parents do?"

Su Qing replied, "My mom is a teacher."

"Just a teacher, huh~" Disdain dripped from Jiang Jiao's voice. She turned back to Zhou Yuwen and said, "Hey, Zhou Yuwen, are you planning to stay in Jinling in the future? I have a house in Jinling, you know."

Zhou Yuwen replied, "We're going to buy a house too, you know?"

"Is it 'we,' or just 'you'?" Jiang Jiao was rather clever, constantly trying to draw a line between Zhou Yuwen and Su Qing.

It was just that this girl's level of scheming was far too low.

Primarily, Zhou Yuwen had no interest in her whatsoever, so he didn't fall for her tricks. Instead, he simply used her to coax and please Su Qing.

Afterward, he dropped Jiang Jiao off at her front door.

Jiang Jiao clearly didn't want to get out of the car. After a moment of thought, she asked, "Zhou Yuwen, can I come find you in Jinling to hang out?"

"What's so fun about hanging out with me?"

"Whatever, it can be casual!"

Zhou Yuwen told her they could talk about it later.

While sitting in the back seat, Jiang Jiao had been clinging to the front seat and chatting with Zhou Yuwen the entire time. Even now, she didn't want to leave, and it took a good while before she finally stepped out of the car with great reluctance.

Only after Jiang Jiao had exited the vehicle did Zhou Yuwen drive away with Su Qing.

On the way, Su Qing didn't say a single word.

Zhou Yuwen controlled the steering wheel with one hand and stroked Su Qing's beautiful legs, which were clad in pantyhose, with the other.

Su Qing was wearing a bit too little today. Even through the pantyhose, her legs felt icy cold to the touch.

Zhou Yuwen chided, saying she wasn't even afraid of getting cold-weather rheumatism in her old age.

"What is there to be afraid of? As long as you like it, that's enough," Su Qing replied, reaching out to hold Zhou Yuwen's hand.

Zhou Yuwen chuckled softly and said, "It was quite a rare sight today. You actually didn't start a fight with Jiang Jiao."

Su Qing gave a faint smile and replied, "With her pathetic little tricks, is she even worth me getting angry over?"

"Oh? It seems you've had some new realizations?"

Zhou Yuwen said as his hand caressed Su Qing's leg.

"I wouldn't call them new realizations. But well, since I am the boss's woman, I need to have at least some big-picture perspective," Su Qing said, giving a playful wink.

"Uh."

Zhou Yuwen suddenly felt embarrassed and said, "Stop messing around. Others might not know the truth, but don't you?"

The corners of Su Qing's mouth lifted as she smiled radiantly. "I actually think it's quite nice."

Zhou Yuwen parked the car downstairs at Su Qing's apartment building.

Su Qing lived in an older residential area where the parking spaces had been planned out much later. The neighborhood as a whole was rather quiet, and the streetlights were quite sparse.

After Zhou Yuwen parked, the car was enveloped in the surrounding darkness.

Su Qing was quite clever. Knowing that Zhou Yuwen had no intention of leaving just yet, she simply slipped off her shoes. With her small, beautiful legs clad in flesh-colored stockings, she climbed from the passenger seat right onto Zhou Yuwen's lap.

Zhou Yuwen teased, saying look how much effort she was making.

Su Qing let out a soft whine. "What, you don't like it?"

"How could I not, honey."

Zhou Yuwen chuckled lightly, his hand gripping Su Qing's heel through the flesh-colored stockings.

Honestly, compared to her future self, Su Qing's body lacked a bit of voluptuousness right now.

However, the sight of a young girl wearing flesh-colored stockings was incredibly adorable in its own way.

Zhou Yuwen's hand trailed upward along Su Qing's beautiful legs.

Moving all the way up to squeeze her buttocks beneath her tight skirt.