Sweet Temptation: After Rebirth, The Campus Heartthrob Can’t Hide His Feelings Anymore - Chapter 6

“Bang, bang, bang!”

A tense burst of gunfire rang out.

Xu Zhizhi, as alert as a rabbit, obediently followed behind Zhou Xuci.

[Z eliminated “No Study, No Hair” with an assault rifle]

[Z eliminated “Director of Qingshan Mental Hospital” with an assault rifle]

[Z eliminated “Devouring 300 Pounds of Green Onions” with an assault rifle]

With a series of crisp maneuvers, Zhou Xuci dominated the battlefield, taking down fifteen opponents and securing the title of 【Elimination King】.

Xu Zhizhi stared wide-eyed, utterly dazzled.

Truly, the strong never look down on weaker teammates!

Suddenly, she began to understand Ling Shuang and Song Jia’s fanatical admiration for Zhou Xuci!

Gentle, powerful, handsome, noble; he embodied every wonderful adjective.

Xu Zhizhi didn’t fire a single shot the entire match. Clinging to the coattails of this invincible god of war, she effortlessly made it to the final circle.

Zhou Xuci suddenly called out to her, “Come here.”

“Huh?”

“Loot the box,” Zhou Xuci said.

Xu Zhizhi walked over to the glowing green crate and leisurely picked through the supplies. “Senior, I’m already stacked.”

She was certain that at this moment, she was the most loaded player on the entire battlefield, hoarding the best gear while contributing the least!

Her voice was soft and melodious, utterly captivating.

Zhou Xuci felt a little dazed listening to her, his eyes crinkling with a doting smile. Just as he was about to speak, a loud “Bang!” echoed.

Xu Zhizhi’s Level 3 helmet was blown off by a sniper shot, a headshot that left her character in a downed state, bleeding out and in need of rescue.

She had been knocked down.

“Hide behind the rock and wait for me,” Zhou Xuci said, his brow furrowing slightly as he glanced in the direction of the gunfire.

He swiftly leaped into a nearby house, climbed onto the roof, and set up his sniper rifle, aiming at the enemy’s position before pulling the trigger.

With a single shot, Zhou Xuci turned the enemy into a loot box. Seemingly unsatisfied, he then unloaded four more rounds into the already-dead crate.

This was definitely personal!

The one being “disrespected” was Fang Cheng!

Fang Cheng recognized Zhou Xuci’s ID immediately. Watching him mercilessly spray the corpse, he nearly had a heart attack from rage and immediately switched to all-chat, cursing loudly.

“Zhou Xuci, you absolute dog!”

“You’re humiliating me! A warrior would rather die than be disgraced!”

“Killing me wasn’t enough, you had to teabag me too?! No honor!!!”

Zhou Xuci didn’t bother pretending either. He switched to all-chat and replied, “Snipe me if you want, but snipe my teammate? You’re asking for death.”

Then, without hesitation, he muted the chat again!

The world fell silent for a full three seconds, as if to let Fang Cheng’s meltdown sink in.

Fang Cheng howled, “Damn it, Zhou Xuci! When we duo-queued last time, you weren’t like this! Just leave me to die next time!”

You hypocritical bastard!!!

Zhou Xuci quickly jumped down from the roof and ran behind the rock to revive the downed Xu Zhizhi.

Hearing Fang Cheng’s outburst, Xu Zhizhi couldn’t help but giggle.

“What’s so funny?” Zhou Xuci asked.

Xu Zhizhi had encountered Fang Cheng before and recognized his voice. She answered honestly, “Senior Fang is hilarious.”

Zhou Xuci: “Oh, is that so?”

His tone was laced with sarcasm!

“Bang!”

Zhou Xuci took out the last opponent with his sniper rifle, and the screen instantly lit up with the glow of victory.

Just like that, Xu Zhizhi had won by doing nothing.

“Junior, come here and lift the trophy,” Zhou Xuci said.

“Oh, oh, oh!”

Xu Zhizhi, who had contributed nothing, ended up holding the trophy of victory in the end.

The world was truly bizarre.

Just because she had a free ride to victory in the second round, Xu Zhizhi somehow managed to join the esports club without a hitch…

There was no doubt, she was definitely the weakest link in the club!

Somehow, news of Xu Zhizhi’s lucky match with Zhou Xuci during the Esports club’s recruitment had reached Shen Yu’s ears.

Shen Yu hadn’t expected Xu Zhizhi to actually endure the loneliness, five whole days without reaching out to him.

For some reason, he was starting to feel a little anxious.

After all, he had always seen Xu Zhizhi as a dog he kept by his side. If the dog went missing, the owner would naturally worry a little.

A post on the campus forum exposed Xu Zhizhi for coasting on Zhou Xuci’s performance, winning with zero kills.

Shen Yu felt inexplicably irritated. He quickly formed a team and sent Xu Zhizhi a WeChat message, demanding she log in and entertain him and his friends for their amusement.

When Xu Zhizhi received the message, she was in the middle of painting a landscape.

Glancing at the notification, she opened her chat history with Shen Yu. Scrolling up, she saw that nearly all the past messages were her greetings and concerns, Shen Yu had barely ever replied.

Xu Zhizhi stared at the screen for a long moment, her fingers trembling slightly before she tapped into Shen Yu’s profile and clicked “Delete Friend.”

If she no longer liked him, she might as well cut ties completely.

When Xu Zhizhi didn’t respond, Shen Yu sent another message only to be met with a red exclamation mark!

Xu Zhizhi had actually blocked him!

How dare she?!

Furious, Shen Yu immediately called her. Xu Zhizhi, holding a paintbrush and mixing colors, absentmindedly answered the phone.

“Xu Zhizhi, ignoring my message and blocking me, what the hell is that supposed to mean?!” Shen Yu barked, his voice laced with rage.

Xu Zhizhi’s grip on the phone tightened slightly, faint veins appearing on the back of her hand. She took a deep breath, mustering the courage to say, “Blocking you is my reply.”

With a soft beep, she hung up and tossed the phone onto the desk beside her.

Xu Zhizhi exhaled slowly. For someone accustomed to self-doubt, even uttering a single harsh word required a long buildup of mental preparation.

Her gaze returned to the unfinished landscape painting, a scene of the campus, its colors harmoniously blended, though the space beneath the large tree seemed oddly empty.

For years, she had used Shen Yu as her artistic muse.

Instinctively, Xu Zhizhi almost painted the silhouette of a young man into the scene.

But just as she was about to start, she paused. In the end, she added the figure of a girl sketching instead.

In the past, she had loved Shen Yu.

Now, she loved herself.

After being hung up on, Shen Yu angrily downed three glasses of alcohol in a row.

His troublemaking friend Hu Chen noticed his dark expression and asked, “Brother Yu, what’s wrong?”

Shen Yu threw his phone onto the couch. “Xu Zhizhi blocked me.”

“No way! That girl’s playing some deep game,” Hu Chen instantly concluded. “Isn’t this just some kind of ‘play hard to get’ tactic?”

Shen Yu’s face was cold, his chest tight with frustration. “She’d better be.”

It had been almost a month. Just how long did Xu Zhizhi plan to drag out this act?

But Shen Yu was confident, absolutely certain that Xu Zhizhi would never truly leave him.

…

Recently, Xu Zhizhi had been exposed on the campus forum.

And it was all because of Shen Yu.

Among the incoming freshmen, Shen Yu was the most flamboyant.

He was a hot-blooded, bad-boy jock with a rebellious charm, and also the wealthy, extravagant young master of a rich family. A single handsome slam dunk could make a crowd of fangirls swoon.

Shen Yu was a notorious playboy, his romantic history too numerous to count. Even though he was already a wreck, there were still countless admirers eager to conquer him.

The gossipers were all talking about Shen Yu when suddenly a passerby mentioned that during high school, Xu Zhizhi had been his ultimate simp. The rumor mill dug into every little clue about Xu Zhizhi, exposing her past to the bone.

The more they dug, the more outrageous it got!

The more they smeared, the worse it became!

Xu Zhizhi didn’t frequent forums, but she had once gone viral there.

Right after enrollment, Xu Zhizhi and Cheng Xiaoxin had topped the campus forum’s trending list due to their stunning looks. They were voted as the “Twin Flowers of the Art School”, one radiant and sexy, the other soft and sweet.

Because of Shen Yu, an anonymous post recently surfaced, digging up Xu Zhizhi’s past and claiming she had shamelessly simped for Shen Yu, the heartthrob of the sports school, for three years.

Soon after, someone snapped a photo of Xu Zhizhi stepping out of a luxury car, with a man in his fifties sitting inside. Rumors spread that she was being kept by a wealthy sugar daddy.

Then, someone posted pictures of Xu Zhizhi working part-time at a café, mocking her for pretending to be pure while secretly being “worn-out goods.”

Even one of Shen Yu’s close friends jumped in, claiming Xu Zhizhi had relentlessly pursued Shen Yu for three years, degrading herself to the point of being willing to do anything for him.

What started as a gossip thread spiraled out of control, and Xu Zhizhi inexplicably became the most hated person on the forum.

When she received the link to the hate thread, Xu Zhizhi was curled up in bed reading a book.

She opened the post and scrolled through the comments one by one.

“Pfft, still acting like a sweet little girl? Disgusting.”

“This girl is terrifying. Shen Yu, run for your life!”

“She must be desperate if she’s sleeping with a man in his sixties…”

After about five minutes of scrolling, the webpage suddenly flashed and displayed an “Unable to Access” message, the campus network seemed to have crashed.

Xu Zhizhi didn’t pay much attention to the sudden wave of slander. She tossed her phone aside and went back to practicing figure sketching.

That night at 10:30, a horrified scream echoed through the dormitory!

“Holy sht!”*

“404!”

“The campus forum’s server crashed!”

The campus forum’s server had always been maintained by professionals from the computer science department. Fang Cheng, burdened with the responsibility, was still fixing the bugs at midnight.

“A-Ci, save me, I can’t fix this,” Fang Cheng grumbled, frantically trying to restore the forum. “Who the hell hacked the campus forum?”

Zhou·The Hacker·Xuci: “Me.”

Fang Cheng: “Huh????????”

WTF!!!

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