Because the eldest son of the Feng family directly expressed his dissatisfaction with the results of the selection, the school dared not post promotional posters. After all, the money the Feng family donated to the school every year was far more important than this event.
Moreover—
The girl in the crowd was being watched from all sides. Taking off her glasses and lifting her bangs, she…
“This… Li Jing seems to be better looking than this year’s School Belle…”
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Those who said yesterday that Li Jing’s appearance was average were all embarrassed now, and the most embarrassed was Qi Yue, who was elected as this year’s School Belle.
While she was also considered a pretty girl, compared to Li Jing’s excessively exquisite features, where every inch of her face was flawless, the difference was significant. As a result, this year’s School Belle was awkwardly hanging in the air.
Qi Yue’s mental state completely collapsed—she had spent a lot of money on gifts to be elected as School Belle, and last night, she even impulsively spent a lot of money on Li Jing! Now that the results were invalidated, she was also being questioned, losing out on both ends!
Li Jing, with a kind and amiable expression, watched her little leek run away with her face covered, calmly accepting the gazes of others. She also heard whispers from the crowd.
“Do you think she looks familiar…”
“Yes, yes, I’ve been thinking about it for a long time but can’t remember.”
Li Jing thought to herself, “It’s good that you can’t remember.” After Ye Yan retired, three powerful forces helped her handle everything, and there was no information about her online. The three male leads all did their best to protect Ye Yan, allowing her to recuperate peacefully abroad, undisturbed by anyone.
The entertainment industry iterated too quickly. Except for people like the Triple Gold Award-winning actor Du Jinghuai, who could remain popular for a long time, other faces disappeared for too long, and they would soon be forgotten by the public.
To some extent, her image also seemed to become blurry in the minds of the male leads, otherwise, how could their affection for the substitute female lead keep increasing?
The students couldn’t figure it out, so they could only conclude that Li Jing had a strong star quality.
In Feng Ce’s eyes, Li Jing was a pitiful fool, easily bullied, and had to bear everything alone. She was certainly not comparable to his White Moonlight, but she gave him a strange feeling.
The moment Li Jing held him down, Feng Ce wanted to scoff and say that he didn’t care about her face being insulted.
But at that moment, her palm was warm and delicate, trembling slightly. For some reason, Feng Ce couldn’t say it.
Finally, the big Young Master frowned irritably, looked at her for a moment, threw the poster away, and left.
Li Jing touched her chin.
A 25% favorability, basically enough to unlock the next stage of the plot, which is that Feng Ce also starts using Li Jing as a substitute and gradually falls for her without realizing it.
It seems like she needed to increase the favorability progress with Fu Lingchu, so that the two male leads could start a fair competition.
After all, a love triangle was one of the major highlights of old-fashioned melodramatic novels.
-—–
Fu Lingchu indeed quickly sent someone to pick up Li Jing.
Although President Fu was busy managing his business empire, there were many wealthy children in Yinggui University, and the eldest son of the Feng family’s actions in school would inevitably reach Fu Lingchu’s ears.
After this campus selection, everyone knew Li Jing’s appearance, and many people from wealthy families had already begun to covet that face. Although it was just something Fu Lingchu bought with money, it still made him unhappy.
So when Li Jing was brought into the Western restaurant, she knew that Fu Lingchu wanted to show her off, reminding her who bought her.
The man was sitting elegantly in a corner of the Western restaurant, his black hair meticulously styled, and he was wearing a perfectly tailored suit. However, his eyes were cold and mocking, completely inconsistent with his outward demeanor.
Li Jing followed the waiter and walked over, carrying a reusable bag from the nursing home.
“I heard you’re quite popular at school?” Fu Lingchu raised his eyes, his eyelids slightly sharp, his tone sarcastic, “You’ve even made the eldest young master of the Feng family act for you. How come I didn’t know you were so capable.”
Li Jing lightly pursed her lips, her fingers clenching the reusable bag.
Then she thought about it for a moment: Feng Ce acted because he saw her being harassed, she was harassed because of Qiao Yuxin, and Qiao Yuxin was for Fu Lingchu.
Very good, the true culprit is clear—
This money, she must make Fu Lingchu pay for it √
Fu Lingchu looked at the hidden forbearance on that face. It was strange, it was completely unlike Ye Yan’s expression, yet he felt a strange sense of pleasure in his heart as his desire for control was satisfied.
“Sit down.” Fu Lingchu condescended to wave his hand.
The waiter walked over and pulled out a chair for Li Jing, pouring a little red wine into her glass.
Li Jing pretended to be uncomfortable, picked up the knife and fork, her slender white fingers tightened, and then she suddenly spoke, “Next time, don’t send anyone to pick me up.”
“What, were you seen by your classmates?”
Fu Lingchu looked at her indifferently, not empathizing with her situation, “It’s the truth, isn’t it? You got out of my car, didn’t you?”
“It’s the truth,” Li Jing raised her face, “But my classmates all said that the one who picked me up was a rich, short, ugly, bald old man.”
Fu Lingchu: “…”
Short. Ugly. Bald.
He didn’t fit any of those descriptions.
Li Jing said, “Next time you call me, I’ll just take the bus.”
Fu Lingchu sneered, “What if I ask you to go abroad, will you take the bus too?”
Li Jing raised an eyebrow: All-inclusive flight and hotel, you’re really a good leek.
She couldn’t help but raise her voice: “Do you have to use this kind of example? Okay! Then you can try it!”
System: Discovered a secret, the host only has emotional fluctuations when harvesting leeks.
However, the leek was completely unaware.
Fu Lingchu actually laughed.
Because of her foolishness, and the way she desperately guarded her dignity.
“Let’s eat,” Fu Lingchu acted gracefully, gesturing towards her, “Hold your knife and fork a little higher.”
This time, Li Jing didn’t retort, she focused on enjoying the expensive Western meal.
She didn’t know if Fu Lingchu realized.
Whether he was having dinner with her, or with the imagined Ye Yan.
Judging by his strangely rising 1% favorability, it was probably the former.
“What? Brother Fu is having dinner with that Li Jing?!”
Qiao Yuxin angrily sat up from the sofa.
She had also been a student at Yinggui University, so she directly found someone from the school to deal with Li Jing. She never expected that Feng Ce would come to her rescue? And it made Li Jing a celebrity on campus.
What did Li Jing have? Wasn’t it just that she had a face that looks like Ye Yan?
Ye Yan had been recuperating abroad for the past few years, it was uncertain if she could be cured. She was still the most likely person to marry Fu Lingchu. How could she tolerate another woman getting closer and closer to Brother Fu?!
Qiao Yuxin’s face became increasingly ugly. She thought about how recently people in their wealthy circles had been talking about Li Jing, and she felt even more annoyed.
It seemed she needs to take some drastic measures.
——Soon, Li Jing directly followed Qiao Yuxin’s latest actions from her backstage account.
“Well, that’s much more generous.” Li Jing was quite satisfied looking at the bank card.
This time, Qiao Yuxin spent 100,000 yuan on her, hiring professionals to do the job. She was very pleased.
The system asked: “Host, are you going to follow the original plot point?”
In the original plot, the original owner, a helpless person, was naturally severely beaten and warned not to dream of climbing on to the Fu family. The wealthy family would never accept someone of her status.
However, the original owner never thought of provoking Fu Lingchu. Everything was forced upon her. It was Fu Lingchu’s forceful seizure that made her have to endure all this, so her mentality collapsed, and she ran wildly in the rain, almost getting into a car accident, and was rescued by Fu Lingchu.
The female lead of a melodramatic novel, was always being hurt, being saved, and then repeating the cycle.
Then the male lead would realize his feelings.
“But why do I have to hurt myself,” Li Jing said, “Think of another way, we just need to get Fu Lingchu involved in the plot point to torture his feelings.
System: “What other way?”
I suspect you have a new way to make money, but I have no evidence.
-—–
Next, Li Jing was very careful when going back and forth between school and the cake shop. As soon as she saw suspicious people, she immediately plunged into the crowd, so the other side never had a chance.
It wasn’t until Fu Lingchu sent her another text message that Li Jing finally took action.
And she really stubbornly refused to get into the car sent by Fu Lingchu—nonsense, how could she follow the plot if she got in the car?
Li Jing scanned a shared bicycle herself.
Then, with Fu Lingchu’s car, Ye Yan’s detectives, and Qiao Yuxin’s thugs, three groups of people followed her, one after another.
Li Jing: “How’s my lineup?”
The system was amazed: “……Awesome!”
After leading them to the place where Fu Lingchu would appear, Li Jing pulled over and parked her bike, then she ducked into a small alley, and the thugs immediately followed.
The system excitedly asked: “Host, are you going to use force to suppress them, or wait for the male lead to save you and develop the emotional line?”
Li Jing shook her head, watching as several fierce-looking thugs cornered her, her tone was very calm: “We’re all working people, I can understand.”
The thugs, who were ready to fight, were confused: “?”
Li Jing: “I won’t make things difficult for you, let’s just stop here.”
After all, she still wanted to be chased by millions-yuans assassins in the future.
The leader sneered: “Little girl, you’re not very smart, don’t cry later, you shouldn’t have messed with the wrong people.”
Li Jing: “Hmm hmm.”
Her attitude completely angered them, and several people immediately surrounded her.
But they found out——they couldn’t catch Li Jing??
Her slender body was exceptionally agile, her reaction speed was extremely fast, she took advantage of their unpreparedness and suddenly kicked them, then she hid back as if she was injured.
——What does it mean to be a master, is that she hits you, and makes it look like you hit her.
Li Jing staggered backward, the more they attacked, the more furious they became——
“Stop right there!”
“I’ll beat you to death today!”
When the system prompted that Fu Lingchu was approaching, Li Jing happened to lose her balance and leaned back, then was caught steadily by someone.
The man’s voice came from above, sounding emotionless: “Are you hurt?”
But Li Jing immediately stood up straight and pushed him away: “Don’t pretend to be kind!”
Fu Lingchu stood in the backlight, his indifferent expression still had a hint of ferocity.
He had already stepped forward to subdue the thugs, Fu Lingchu didn’t need to move a finger, he just looked at Li Jing.
Li Jing covered her unharmed arm and forcefully output: “Fu Lingchu, if it weren’t for you, these things wouldn’t have happened in my life!”
Fu Lingchu looked at her indifferently for a moment, then reached out and lifted her chin.
Her pupils were too clear, clearly reflecting all the stubbornness, unwillingness, and anger, like a trapped beast.
And Fu Lingchu knew clearly that the reins were tightly held in his hands.
—Fu Lingchu’s favorability +2%
“There’s no way,” Fu Lingchu said cruelly, “If you want to blame, blame it on your face.”
Li Jing also glared back at him angrily: “If you have the ability, then protect this face well!”
Her tone was also very cruel: Spend money to protect me, you stinky scum.
System: So that’s what she was waiting for… ! She’s at it again, who understands me?
Fu Lingchu looked down at her coldly, considering the gains and losses within a few seconds.
Although it was just a fake, being moved around by people, he was also unhappy.
The Fu Group’s omnipotent special assistant appeared again.
“We have arranged three highly trained bodyguards for Miss Li from the Fu Group’s security system, two will protect you in the dark, and one you can ask for help at any time.”
Fu Lingchu arranged bodyguards for her, not only for protection, but also to monitor her. However, Li Jing didn’t care at all, she even thought that if the bodyguards Fu Lingchu arranged for her could meet the detectives sent by Ye Yan——
That would be exciting.
Fu Lingchu looked down at Li Jing, sneered and said: “Satisfied?”
Li Jing pretended to be tired and closed her eyes.
—Hiding the joy in her eyes.
The bodyguards Fu Lingchu hired for her, each earned 50,000 yuan a month, three people earned 150,000 yuan a month, totaling one million yuan a year.
Long-term valid expenses, all charged to her account^_^
Well… why wouldn’t she be satisfied.
All kinds of vicious male and female supporting characters, don’t hesitate to come and find trouble with her, thank you^_^
-—–
She didn’t know how the Qiao Yuxin’s side was dealt with specifically, but with the relationship between the Qiao family and the Fu family, Fu Lingchu couldn’t possibly cause trouble for the Qiao family’s daughter for a fake.
Li Jing didn’t care about this issue either.
With the bodyguards, she was very peaceful in class for the next few days, except that now there were students everywhere in the school secretly looking at her.
After the selection, the school forum dug up Li Jing’s background again, knowing that she was an adopted orphan, poor and pitiful. Some people said they had seen her in a certain nursing home in the city, and it seemed that she had relatives there. Also, Li Jing’s grades were always good, she could apply for the highest scholarship… and so on, there were many different opinions.
Some people still thought that Li Jing had improper transactions in private, but many people also thought that the selection that day was too much. Maybe Li Jing really had her own unavoidable reasons.
Of course, more people were concerned about whether Feng Ce really protected Li Jing? Did he like her?
“Impossible!”
“So many rich and beautiful women before, Feng Ce didn’t like any of them.”
“I don’t believe it anyway, at most it’s out of sympathy…”
This afternoon’s class was a public elective, the classroom was buzzing with noise. Suddenly, the classroom quieted down, a tall figure walked in from the back door, dressed very luxuriously.
Li Jing also turned her head, unexpectedly meeting Feng Ce’s gaze.
The big Young Master still looked irritable.
But Feng Ce had to admit that he could see Li Jing at first glance in the crowd, that figure and face, were too similar.
But the two only met eyes for a second before Feng Ce turned his face away with a cold expression.
Li Jing calculated the plot progress, Feng Ce’s love line still needed a push.
During class, Li Jing listened quite attentively, although she had finished all the university courses and even completed a God of Study task in a certain world, but after all, this was the last world, so she just treated it as an experience.
After class, Li Jing followed the crowd out.
At first, the girls all surrounded Feng Ce, but the big Young Master’s aura was so fierce that people dared not get too close.
Li Jing followed with her head down, and soon there were only Feng Ce and his friends left in front.
Li Jing: “Tsk tsk, I’d call this the magnetic field between the male and female leads.”
System: “This is the world pushing you through the plot!”
As both Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce interacted with Li Jing, the attention of the wealthy circle towards Li Jing also greatly increased. Following this, came the classic betting plot in melodramatic novels.
The tragic female lead treatment in old-fashioned melodramatic novels: being used as an object for betting.
There were already many wealthy young masters surrounding Feng Ce, and after Li Jing’s beauty was revealed, many people came to covet her - like the young master of the Jiang family, Jiang Ziming, who was beside Feng Ce at this time, looked at Li Jing with great interest for a long time.
“Young master Feng, she’s looking at you.” Jiang Ziming winked.
The big Young Master didn’t stop, he slightly turned his face, his eyes cold and irritable: “What?”
Li Jing borrowed a line from a little white flower script: “No matter what your reason is, thank you for the poster incident that day.”
Feng Ce frowned: “Who helped you?”
Li Jing pursed her lips: “Thank you, goodbye.”
Jiang Ziming’s greasy eyes stayed on Li Jing until she was far away before he retracted them. He asked Feng Ce in a rather condescending tone: “Young master Feng, do you like her?”
Feng Ce denied it without thinking, “Bullshit.”
He only had his sister in his heart, there was no doubt about it.
Jiang Ziming thought about Li Jing’s stunningly beautiful features, rubbed his hands, “Then how long do you think it will take for me to chase her?”
Feng Ce frowned fiercely, then sneered: “How the hell would I know.”
“Wanna bet?” Jiang Ziming said, “I bet within a week, I’ll buy her an Hermès and she’ll be mine?
Feng Ce looked completely indifferent.
He already knew that Fu Lingchu had asked Li Jing to stay by his side, but fake was fake, he couldn’t, like Fu Lingchu, use a fake to defile his sister, nor could he sink into it.
“If you really get her within a week, I’ll give you one.”
—After seeing the prize pool from the two wealthy young masters betting on her in the account details.
Li Jing: “Just one?”
The next day.
When she was stopped by Jiang Ziming at school, Li Jing showed an expression that could be described as friendly.
You’re here, my little Leekie~