Chapter 8 The Dark Cloud Behind Happiness 3
As night fell, neon lights around the community lit up, and the night wind passed between Wen Yuzheng and Qian Mengmeng. The air was quiet for only a second before Qian Mengmeng jumped up and snatched her phone from Wen Yuzheng's hand.
Her heart was pounding like thunder. She grabbed the phone and ran towards her home without looking back.
"Brother Yuzheng, let's do that upgrade next time! Bye! And thank you!"
Until the last time, with a "bang", Qian Mengmeng closed the door of her house.
Wen Yu was standing downstairs, looking up at the direction where Qian Mengmeng left. His handsome face seemed to be engraved with some unspeakable sadness. He stretched out his hand and looked at his palm, smiling bitterly. It turned out that he never had a chance...
Qian Mengmeng closed the door and took several deep breaths before she took out her phone with trembling hands. On the screen were still the words "Qian Mengmeng, I love you". In the dark room, neon lights were shining through the window. Qian Mengmeng held the phone with her back against the door. She couldn't tell whether she was surprised or touched. She just felt a shudder running through her body. A honey-like smile climbed up the corners of her mouth, and even the corners of her eyes were curved. Qian Mengmeng pushed open the window and couldn't help but sigh -
"The moonlight tonight is so beautiful!"
The next day, Qian Mengmeng went to school in a good mood, but as soon as she arrived at school, she found that everyone seemed to be a little abnormal, especially the girls, who gathered in twos and threes, discussing something in front of the mobile phone screen. Before the suspicious Qian Mengmeng even walked into the classroom, her mobile phone rang sharply!
"Meng Meng! My Narita gossip public account! I just posted the first piece of content and it has been followed by girls from all over the school! The number of fans has increased dramatically, and now even people outside the school are following it!"
Yuan Xinyi's excited voice came from the phone. Qian Mengmeng didn't have time to congratulate her. She hung up the phone and clicked on the official account of Chengtian Gossip. "National Male God Pei Haochuan's Big Reveal, Here is a Male God You Can't Think of!" The direct and eye-catching title came into view. Qian Mengmeng held her breath and opened the article, and then saw all the revelations between her and Yuan Xinyi. Yuan Xinyi is usually very good at attracting readers' attention. The revelations and gossips are written with ups and downs, and the content, whether true or false, almost makes people think that the author is actually roommates with the male god!
Qian Mengmeng's face became paler and paler as she read on. The article also included many photos that she had sent to Yuan Xinyi. Yuan Xinyi used almost every one of them. In addition, with her shocking writing style, there was a story behind almost every photo, which whetted the readers' appetite even more.
Although the contents revealed were just some trivial matters, it was enough to satisfy the curiosity of the people in the school. Pei Haochuan was the iceberg male god in the school. He didn't even have close friends of the same sex. Outsiders didn't know anything about his family background, hobbies, likes, and dislikes. The more he was like this, the more mysterious he seemed to everyone. Now that Yuan Xinyi's article came out, it captured everyone's hearts almost instantly.
Thinking of the confidentiality agreement that Pei Haochuan signed with her when she first met him, after getting to know him for such a long time, she also knew that Pei Haochuan was actually a person who attached great importance to privacy. But now, because of her, she has become the target of everyone's hot discussion. Thinking of the sweet confession she received from Pei Haochuan yesterday, Qian Mengmeng's guilt became even worse.
Just at this moment, Pei Haochuan's WeChat came.
"Are you free at noon?"
Qian Mengmeng quickly pretended to know nothing and replied, "Yes, I'm free."
"Let's go eat together. I'm having some troubles and I want to see you."
Qian Mengmeng stared at the line of words sent by the boy for a long time, then slowly sent an "OK" emoticon.
Qian Mengmeng was restless the whole morning. She stared at the time on her phone. When the get out of class was over, she immediately rushed to the campus cafeteria with her bag. She and Pei Haochuan had agreed to have lunch there. When Qian Mengmeng arrived, Pei Haochuan was already waiting for her outside. The classmates around him were pointing at him and whispering. He was in a bad mood because of these gossipy or curious eyes. He frowned and put his hands in his pockets, looking more and more difficult to approach.
"Haochuan..." Qian Mengmeng walked closer to Pei Haochuan and called him hesitantly.
"Come in," Pei Haochuan saw that her frown had relaxed a little, so he came over and took her hand and walked into the restaurant, "What do you want to eat? It's my treat."
The place where Pei Haochuan invited Qian Mengmeng to dinner was the school's aristocratic restaurant. As the name suggests, this is a place that only students from well-off families with some spare money can afford to eat. The food here is delicious, and occasionally students who want to hold a celebration party will choose this place.
Pei Haochuan took Qian Mengmeng and found a seat by the window. People around him cast curious glances at him from the moment he held Qian Mengmeng's hand, but Pei Haochuan didn't care at all. He just coldly pulled Qian Mengmeng to sit down.
“Hao, Haochuan…this isn’t a good idea, right? Everyone…” Qian Mengmeng looked around and said in a low voice.
She hadn't expected that being under everyone's scrutiny would be such a feeling, as if she had completely lost herself and nothing she did was right, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.
Thinking of this, she felt even more guilty towards Pei Haochuan.
"You've also read that Narita gossip, right?" the boy sitting opposite her raised his eyebrows while helping her set the dishes.
"I saw it," Qian Mengmeng looked at Pei Haochuan guiltily and said carefully, "Did you see it too? Are you okay?"
"not good."
Pei Haochuan knocked his chopsticks heavily on the dining table, his handsome eyebrows knitted tightly, and he said unkindly: "If it were just a few photos, it would be fine. The report is too much. If it had been approved by me, it would be fine, but they just wrote nonsense based on some things they saw on hearsay. I feel that my life has been seriously disturbed!"
"Haochuan..." Qian Mengmeng looked at him apologetically. She opened her mouth and wanted to tell him everything, but seeing that Pei Haochuan was angry, she didn't know how to start.
Pei Haochuan pinched his brows in annoyance and sighed: "I don't know who told my story. If I know, I will definitely not let him go."
Qian Mengmeng's heart tightened, and she couldn't help asking, "Do you hate the person who leaked the information?"
"Of course," Pei Haochuan answered as a matter of course, "revealing other people's privacy is very uncultured."
"But," Qian Mengmeng tried to defend herself, "It didn't say anything. It just said something about your hobbies and that you might have a good family background..."
"If it were you, would you like everyone to know your family background, hobbies, and what you like to do? Would you feel comfortable if people even knew what kind of pet you had at home and what breed it was?"
Qian Mengmeng was speechless after hearing what Pei Haochuan said. She silently put away her hands and lowered her head: "I'm sorry..."
"What are you apologizing for?" Pei Haochuan asked curiously.
"Ah..." Qian Mengmeng looked up and denied it immediately, "No, I just thought that you must be feeling bad, and I asked you this, you would be unhappy, so..."
"Silly girl." Pei Haochuan rubbed her head across the dining table and asked, "Did you scan the QR code yesterday?"
When asked about this, the usually indifferent Pei Haochuan lowered his head slightly, as if a little embarrassed.
Seeing the boy like this, Qian Mengmeng felt that she was about to be overwhelmed by guilt. She nodded and replied, "Yeah... I saw it."
"Hmm?" Pei Haochuan couldn't help but feel confused when he saw Qian Mengmeng didn't seem to react. Just when he was about to ask a question, a clear voice suddenly interrupted him.
"Haochuan, I've been looking for you for a long time, and finally found you."
It was Mi Su, who had not appeared since the last incident in the hotel. At this moment, she appeared in front of Qian Mengmeng and Pei Haochuan with complacency and pride. Qian Mengmeng clearly felt that Mi Su looked at her with pleasure, and an ominous premonition spread in Qian Mengmeng's heart.
"What do you want from me?" Pei Haochuan frowned and looked at Mi Su. It was obvious that he didn't like this domineering girl.
Mi Su choked for a moment, but recovered quickly. She took out her phone from her bag and placed it in front of Pei Haochuan, staring at Qian Mengmeng and said, "Someone broke the news all of a sudden, in front of the whole school. You must be wondering who is so bored, right? Coincidentally, I know who this person is."
Misu said, pressing the play button of the recording file.
"I, I understand. I'll only do it this time, next time..."
"Pei Haochuan seems to come from a well-off family. He's a science student and loves experiments, but I don't quite understand what his experiments are about. He has a strong personality and doesn't admit defeat... but he can be quite gentle sometimes. It's just that sometimes he looks..."
Qian Mengmeng turned pale the moment she heard her own voice, and Pei Haochuan looked at her in surprise. When Mi Su finished playing all the recordings, Qian Mengmeng saw the girl's revengeful pleasure on her face.
"How is it? Now you know why Qian Mengmeng appeared in front of you, right? She deliberately approached you just to expose your secrets!"
"Impossible," just as Qian Mengmeng looked at Pei Haochuan in panic, he said this with a sullen face. He pursed his thin lips and looked at Mi Su with cold eyes, "I don't believe Mengmeng would do this."
"Haochuan..." Qian Mengmeng looked at Pei Haochuan with a complicated expression. She didn't expect that he would trust her so much.
"It's okay." Pei Haochuan gave her a trusting look, raised his head and looked at Mi Su, and said expressionlessly, "I admit that I was wrong to hurt you last time, but you shouldn't have slandered Meng Meng in this way and alienated our relationship. I don't know how you did this recording, but I still choose to believe Meng Meng. Mi Su, please don't do such meaningless things again in the future."
"I knew you wouldn't believe it." After listening to Pei Haochuan's words, Mi Su sneered. She opened the video on her phone, pushed the phone in front of Pei Haochuan, raised her eyebrows and said, "Hearing is not believing, seeing is believing. I think you are more familiar with Qian Mengmeng than I am. Even if I have great skills, I can't make such a realistic effect."
In the video, Yuan Xinyi and Qian Mengmeng were talking in a remote and empty classroom. The sound in the video came out clearly.
"Of course it's intelligence, Pei Haochuan's intelligence. It's been so long, you must have some new information."
"But Mengmeng, I know you need money. Just say something about Pei Haochuan and you can earn 20,000..."
Qian Mengmeng was desperate. She looked at Pei Haochuan helplessly. After watching the video, Pei Haochuan slowly raised his head with an indescribable gloom on his face. He stared at Qian Mengmeng for a long time before he said, "Is it you?"
"Pei Haochuan..."
Qian Mengmeng wanted to speak, but Mi Su interrupted her faster. She heard the girl laugh and said, "Of course it's her. Who else could it be if not her? Now that I think about it, many things make sense. Why didn't anyone else sit next to you in the classroom, but only her? Everyone in the school knows that you, Pei Haochuan, automatically exude an aura that keeps people away. Could she not know that? And her friend, you probably don't know yet, right? The founder of this Narita Gossip Public Account is her good friend Yuan Xinyi," Qian Mengmeng saw the pleasure and madness of revenge in Mi Su's eyes, "By the way, there is also a reward of 20,000. Although the money is a little less, it should be of great use right?"
As if stimulated by Mi Su's words, Pei Haochuan's eyes turned sharper when he looked at Qian Mengmeng.
"Are you really for 20,000 yuan..."
Pei Haochuan didn't say the rest. He turned his eyes away and stopped looking at Qian Mengmeng.
“Haochuan…” Seeing him like this, Qian Mengmeng felt a pain in her heart. She said sadly, “I’m sorry…Haochuan, I’m sorry, I did all this, the leaks…and the Narita gossip…Misu is right, I did use you…”
Qian Mengmeng closed her eyes in pain, and she said softly: "But, I didn't mean to get close to you on purpose, believe me, I..."
"So you approached me with this purpose."
Pei Haochuan's light words interrupted Qian Mengmeng's narration. Qian Mengmeng opened her eyes and saw him standing up weakly and looking at her deeply.
"Twenty thousand, right?"
"Pei Haochuan..." Qian Mengmeng looked at him at a loss.
A mocking smile suddenly appeared on Pei Haochuan's handsome mouth, his eyes were lonely and sad: "So you apologized to me just now, not because you made me unhappy, but because you were the one who told all this. You knew it a long time ago, right?" Pei Haochuan chuckled, "Are you waiting to see me make a fool of myself?"
"I didn't!" Qian Mengmeng stood up and denied it.
"It doesn't matter whether it exists or not," Pei Haochuan said nonchalantly, "Just forget about that QR code. I already... don't like you anymore."
It was like a sharp sword piercing her chest. Qian Mengmeng was in so much pain that she couldn't breathe. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but before she could say anything, her eyes turned red.
“No, that’s not it…”
She wanted to explain, but Pei Haochuan didn't even look at her, turned around and walked straight out.
