After finishing her last exam of the afternoon, Shen Wanwan officially began her winter vacation.
She walked out of the academic building with light, cheerful steps, looking forward to seeing what Qi Luozhou would take her to eat that evening.
One of the bodyguards beside her smiled and asked, “Miss Shen, are you happy because winter break has finally started?”
She raised an eyebrow.
“Is it that obvious?”
The two bodyguards beside her both nodded.
“It is. Miss Shen, you have a beautiful smile.”
Shen Wanwan got along well with all of her bodyguards, and she paid them far above the industry average.
These two had been with her for more than five years and had a very comfortable relationship with her.
Whenever Shen Wanwan was in a bad mood, she’d imitate the Evil Queen from <Snow White> and ask them, “Who is the fairest of them all?”
She is proud young heiress who knew perfectly well how beautiful she was.
But recently, Miss Shen hadn’t asked that question in a long time.
Somehow, that made her seem even more breathtakingly beautiful.
From somewhere in the distance came an anxious voice calling out.
“Ningning!
“Ningning!
“Shao Ning—!”
Caught completely off guard by the name that had long been buried deep in her memories, Shen Wanwan’s light footsteps faltered for a moment.
She assumed it was just someone with the same name and didn’t turn around. The smile at the corner of her lips vanished in an instant.
But the voice drew closer and closer, accompanied by hurried footsteps that rapidly closed the distance.
“Ningning! Ningning! You’re my Ningning, aren’t you?!”
Shen Wanwan turned around and was caught completely off guard by the sight of Shao Hongyuan’s bloated, haggard face. Her good mood instantly sprouted wings and disappeared without a trace.
—What rotten luck.
Quite a few students nearby stopped to watch the sudden commotion.
Shao Hongyuan’s unexpected appearance threw the scene into chaos.
The once-proud president of Hongyuan Group now looked even more worn-out than the average middle-aged man. He wore a black down jacket left unzipped, revealing the large belly wrapped in a red-and-black striped sweater underneath.
His mansion and all the properties under his name had long since been sold off. The tens of millions that had once meant nothing to him had now become the heaviest burden on his shoulders.
Shao Hongyuan had also seen the livestream.
To be honest, he hadn’t recognized Shen Wanwan as his biological daughter at all.
Because she had become…
…far too beautiful.
The kind of beauty that came from being lovingly raised in a good family.
The moment he learned that Shen Wanwan’s current father was Shen Rong, a thought immediately sprang into his mind.
—She’s so rich. Wouldn’t paying off my tens of millions in debt be effortless for her?
With an ingratiating smile, Shao Hongyuan tried to approach her, only to be blocked by Shen Wanwan’s two bodyguards.
Shen Wanwan stood still, her icy gaze sweeping over him as though she were looking at a pile of rotting garbage.
“Shao Hongyuan.
“My surname is Shen.”
Held firmly by the two bodyguards, Shao Hongyuan struggled in vain and cried anxiously,
“Ningning, blood ties can’t be severed!
“I’m your real father!”
Shen Wanwan had only come to campus to take her exams, and since she was at school, she had brought only two bodyguards. Before long, curious students surrounded the area until it was packed shoulder to shoulder.
Whispers immediately spread through the crowd.
“How does Shao Hongyuan have the nerve to call himself Wanwan’s father?”
“He’s Brother Ye’s deadbeat father too, isn’t he? A guy like this is absolutely despicable.”
“How can he possibly have the face to come looking for Wanwan now?!”
“It feels like this was planned. He deliberately came while Brother Ye wasn’t here. Tsk.”
“No, but Shen Wanwan and Shao Yuye are going too far, aren’t they? No matter what, he’s still their biological father!”
The larger the crowd grew, the more energized Shao Hongyuan became.
Before coming here, he had signed a contract with a media company.
As long as he made the incident big enough to attract attention, they would pay him 500,000 yuan.
Back in his glory days, five hundred thousand yuan wasn’t even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
But now…
…it was a fortune.
At this point, he’d already sunk so low that his pride was the least important thing he had left.
And if he somehow managed to fool Shen Wanwan into paying off all his debts, that would be even better.
They had even rehearsed the entire script beforehand, waiting only for the moment to set everything ablaze.
Once public opinion exploded, it would surely be on his side.
—Shen Wanwan and Shao Yuye, these two unfilial children, had allowed their own father to fall into such misery.
By then, the spit of countless netizens alone would be enough to drown them.
“Ningning… help Dad pay off the debts, okay? Buy our villa back…
“Your brother even kept your room just the way it was…”
“Shao Hongyuan.”
Her voice was soft.
Yet it carried the effortless authority of someone accustomed to standing above others.
Shao Hongyuan’s struggling paused for a moment.
Shen Wanwan stepped forward.
Her little leather shoes clicked sharply against the concrete road.
*Tap. Tap.*
With both arms restrained by the bodyguards, Shao Hongyuan’s back was forced into a stoop. He had to tilt his head upward just to meet Shen Wanwan’s eyes.
A fawning smile spread across his face.
“Ningning—”
Before he could finish—
*Smack!*
The crisp slap echoed across the entire campus.
Startled birds shrieked as they flew from the treetops.
The surroundings seemed as though someone had pressed a mute button.
For a moment, absolute silence.
Only Shao Hongyuan’s head had been knocked violently to one side, a fresh, bright-red handprint blooming across his cheek.
It was obvious Shen Wanwan hadn’t held back at all.
Looking down at him as though he were a lifeless corpse, her eyes were filled with nothing but disgust and icy contempt.
“This slap…
“…is for my mother.”
The ingratiating expression Shao Hongyuan had been wearing vanished instantly.
He roared angrily, “Shao Ning!”
*Smack!*
Another slap.
Raising an eyebrow, Shen Wanwan said,
“This slap…
“…is for the Shao Ning I used to be.”
…The father she had respected, the father who had worked tirelessly for their family—
had died the year she was six.
“I’ll say this one last time.
“My name is Shen Wanwan.
“As for who you are…
“Whether you live or die…
“It has absolutely nothing to do with me.”
Not a single person in the crowd dared to speak.
After several seconds of silence, a voice suddenly shouted,
“Shen Wanwan has no conscience at all!”
“Having a daughter like her is the greatest disgrace imaginable!!”
At that exact moment—
a banana peel traced a graceful arc through the air, flying straight toward Shen Wanwan.
Someone with sharp eyes in the crowd was the first to cry out,
“Ahhh—!”
Shen Wanwan’s two bodyguards were still restraining Shao Hongyuan. Just as everyone was convinced that the banana peel was about to smack directly into Shen Wanwan’s face, it was suddenly knocked away.
The man who was usually calm, gentle, and seemingly detached from worldly affairs—whose eyes were almost always filled with a faint smile—now stared coldly toward the direction from which the banana peel had been thrown.
The crowd erupted into screams.
“Ahhh!”
“It’s God Zhou!!!”
“Why is God Zhou here too?!”
“God Zhou is way too handsome! Ahhh, if I were Wanwan, I’d totally fall for him right now!!”
No one had seen how he got there.
All they felt was as though a gust of wind had swept past them.
One of the university administrators who had been walking alongside Qi Luozhou shouted at the top of his lungs,
“Where’s campus security?! How did someone like this get onto campus?! Head of Security, get over here immediately!!”
Only then did Shen Wanwan recover from her brief shock.
If Shao Hongyuan’s appearance had merely been an accident, then the appearance of this banana peel meant today’s incident had clearly been carefully planned.
The one who had thrown it was a student from the university.
Under the school’s stern questioning, he quickly admitted that someone had paid him to do it.
If he succeeded, he would receive 2,000 yuan.
Money could tempt even the reckless, and he had taken the bait.
Shen Wanwan let out a contemptuous laugh.
“You know… if you’d told me about this beforehand, I would’ve paid you three times as much.”
Three times?
The student’s eyes immediately lit up.
Having regained control of the situation, Shen Wanwan sighed regretfully.
“Too bad. It’s too late now.”
She took the banana peel from Qi Luozhou’s hand and, with perfect aim and force, threw it straight into the student’s face.
Miss Shen, who had been pampered all her life, had no intention of swallowing even the slightest grievance.
Afterward, she went to a nearby sink and carefully washed her hands clean in obvious disgust.
Only then did she leisurely walk out of the university.
Shao Hongyuan’s appearance had caused exactly zero emotional damage to her.
What she couldn’t stand, however, was people discussing that she was Shao Hongyuan’s daughter and digging up her former name.
Qi Luozhou’s appearance immediately shifted everyone’s attention elsewhere.
Compared to Shao Ning’s past, what everyone wanted to know was why God Zhou had appeared at precisely the perfect moment.
After getting into the car, she opened Weibo.
Just as expected, #Qi Luozhou Heroically Protects Shen Wanwan# had already shot to the top of the trending list.
Meanwhile, topics such as #Shao Ning#, at Shen Wanwan’s request, disappeared without a trace almost instantly.
A student had recorded the entire incident and uploaded it online. Netizens overwhelmingly praised Qi Luozhou’s actions.
[God Zhou’s character is seriously beyond reproach.]
[Ahhh! The moment God Zhou appeared was unbelievably cool!!!]
[The ‘WanZhou’ shippers are winning again! Wanwan, final exams, God Zhou, C University!]
[God Zhou probably wasn’t at C University because of Wanwan. From the video, he was chatting with the school administrators and just happened to witness the incident.]
[As expected of God Zhou. Even though she’s his rival’s younger sister, he still stepped in to help. What a real man!]
[They filmed a variety show together before, so it’s only natural he’d help Shen Wanwan.]
[Sigh… I really feel sorry for Wanwan and Brother Ye. Having such a scumbag father must be exhausting.]
Soon, Qi Luozhou also got into the car.
Shen Wanwan immediately put away her phone and held out her right hand in front of him, acting spoiled.
“My hand hurts.
“Massage it for me.”
“You knew it would hurt, yet you insisted on throwing it yourself?”
Shen Wanwan’s skin was delicate. She had thrown the banana peel with so much force that her palm had turned bright red.
Qi Luozhou gently massaged her hand.
Shen Wanwan narrowed her eyes comfortably before saying proudly,
“I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time.”
Just as her brother had always planned that, if he ever met their mother again, he would finally say all the painful words he had kept bottled up…
She, too, had imagined countless times over the years that if she ever met Shao Hongyuan again, she would definitely slap him twice.
Of course, she felt nothing for Shao Hongyuan except hatred.
Now that she had vented her anger, she felt completely refreshed.
Her mood instantly changed from gloomy to cheerful.
She looked at him approvingly.
“Qi Luozhou, your timing was really perfect.”
The best way to bury one scandal…
…was for an even bigger, more attention-grabbing topic to appear.
At this moment, the internet was filled with emotional reactions. The ‘Yu Yu’s and the ‘Wan Feng’s in particular were both relieved and grateful.
[The situation was genuinely dangerous back then. If God Zhou hadn’t been there… I honestly don’t even want to imagine what could’ve happened…]
[*Sob*… even though they’re supposed to be rivals, on behalf of the ‘Yu Yu’s, thank you so much, God Zhou!]
[The ‘Wan Feng’s feel the same. God Zhou is really such a good person. Thank you, God Zhou!]