Chapter 16: Dog Blood Again

Huo Sining felt extremely fortunate that she had chosen S City when she reapplied for her college entrance exam.

S City is a prosperous international metropolis, situated at the junction of the Yangtze River Delta and the East Sea in Huaxia.

Compared to the Imperial Capital, this place is rich in aquatic products and is also one of the largest consumer cities for aquatic products in the country.

This made it even more convenient for Huo Sining to use her cheating device.

With less than thirty thousand yuan in her hands, that amount was certainly not enough to live in this dazzling center of fashion and finance.

Fortunately, Huo Sining was not worried about her survival here. Upon reaching S City, she found a chain hotel to stay in.

Although she had been on the train for forty hours, Huo Sining felt very energetic.

She could vaguely sense a cool aura slowly permeating from her forehead into the meridians throughout her body. After being purified by that spiritual energy, Huo Sining felt exceptionally comfortable.

She had a feeling that the spiritual energy emitted by the Water-Repelling Pearl was not only beneficial to aquatic species but also greatly advantageous to her own health.

After resting in her room for a while, Huo Sining went out to find a restaurant to eat.

It was her first time in S City, and her heart was a little excited. She had heard in her previous life about the extreme prosperity of S City, especially the beautiful night view of the Huangjiang Bund. Huo Sining decided to go see for herself.

The lights were brilliant, and the buildings on The Bund shone under the night sky and the lights like numerous palaces made of crystal, a sight too beautiful for words.

The summer breeze was gentle as Huo Sining stood by the banks of the Yellow River, but her mind was already elsewhere.

As the river slapped against the splashing waves on the stone steps of the bank, she unconsciously recited the incantation, and the pearl in her mind emerged in an instant. Vaguely, she felt the urge to jump into the water again.

"Ye Zixin, don't go too far!"

Just as Huo Sining was struggling with whether to take the opportunity to dive into the river unnoticed, a woman's suddenly heightened voice reached her ears.

Huo Sining turned her head at the sound and saw a woman standing there, looking very alive.

The woman was biting her lips, her face flushed, her clear eyes faintly misted, presenting a pitiable and moving demeanor. Any man who saw her would likely be stirred.

However, it was a pity that the person she was arguing with was not a man.

The woman who raised her voice was sitting with her back to Huo Sining but now stood up, looking somewhat agitated:

"Who are you putting on that act for? I treated you as a friend, but how did you treat me? Zhou Zhen and I are engaged, and yet you flirt with your best friend's fiancé. Do you have no shame?"

"Qingqing, you've misunderstood. I had too much to drink that night, and A Zhen just kindly wanted to take me home. It's not what you think..."

Ye Zixin spoke with a delicate and soft language, her voice full of an indescribable coquettishness. If it weren't for the fleeting look of disdain that flashed through her eyes, Huo Sining would have almost been fooled.

Another white lotus with the same tricks as Wu Jingyi, Huo Sining thought with a deepening smile in her eyes. She simply sat down along the column behind her and quietly watched the drama unfold.

"Still saying it's nothing, you know best what's in your mind. Why didn't you call me when you went to the bar, but called Zhou Zhen instead? Why refuse others but let my fiancé take you home when you were drunk? Also, stop calling him 'A Zhen' so intimately; it's disgusting!"

The girl named Qingqing was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She stood up and reached out as if she was about to slap the other woman.

At that moment, Ye Zixin's expression suddenly changed, and she hastily retreated several steps, huddled up, and covered her face with a look of surprise and fear:

"Qingqing, there's really nothing between A Zhen and me. It's okay for you to hit me, I've wronged you. Please, don't blame Zhou..."

"What are you doing?!" Before Qingqing could react, a man hurried over from not far away.

Seeing Qingqing reaching out her hand, while Ye Zixin was covering her face, the man thought Qingqing had hit Ye Zixin. Anger surged within him as he hurried over and took Ye Zixin's hand, asking in a comforting tone, "Are you alright? Does it hurt?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man turned around and glared angrily at Qingqing, "Su Qingqing, you shrew! What does Ye Zixin have to do with this? Why did you hit her?"

Upon hearing this, Su Qingqing felt her eyes burning red with anger. She stared at Zhou Zhen in disbelief:

"My best friend seduced my fiancé. She had the nerve to do such shameless things, so why can't I hit her? She's asking for it by being so cheap; hitting her is what she deserves!"

Even though Su Qingqing hadn't actually touched Ye Zixin, as soon as these words came out of her mouth, she inadvertently sealed her own guilt, and Zhou Zhen became even more furious.

Right at this moment, Ye Zixin added fuel to the fire, "A Zhen, don't blame Qingqing. It was my fault for not being cautious and coveting something that didn't belong to me."

Zhou Zhen had never liked Su Qingqing, finding her loud and rash like an idiot, with no poise at all. Compared with the gentle and understanding Ye Zixin, he found nothing pleasing about Su Qingqing.

Now hearing what Ye Zixin said, he couldn't help but pause and think to himself, 'Could it be that Ye Zixin is also interested in me?'

With this thought, Zhou Zhen couldn't help but turn his head to see Ye Zixin looking at him with a gentle expression, and his heart swelled with joy.

Feeling encouraged, when Zhou Zhen turned back around, he subconsciously positioned Ye Zixin behind himself, and with a cold look towards Su Qingqing, he said:

"Su Qingqing, I've told you before to stop making unreasonable scenes. Our engagement was just the wish of our families; did you really think I was interested in you?"

Su Qingqing stood aghast: "What are you saying?"

Zhou Zhen let out a cold laugh, "Since it has come to this, I might as well tell you, I like Ye Zixin. Our engagement is off from now on. I will discuss this with my family. You just wait to attend Ye Zixin's and my wedding!"

Tears immediately filled Su Qingqing's eyes. She involuntarily took a step back, looking at Zhou Zhen in disbelief, "Zhou Zhen, don't you regret this!"

On the other side, Zhou Zhen crisply took the engagement ring off his ring finger and threw it into the Yellow River with a flick of his hand.

In the darkness of night, the river water glistened. The ring plunged without a splash, and before Su Qingqing could react, he walked away with Ye Zixin.

Ye Zixin looped her arm through Zhou Zhen's, glancing back at Su Qingqing as they walked away.

Only then did Su Qingqing notice the slight upward curl of Ye Zixin's lips, her pretty face bearing a victoriously smug smile, her eyes filled with indescribable mockery and disdain.

Such melodrama in the Jianghu!

Witnessing this scene, Huo Sining couldn't help but sigh. In her previous life, wasn't she played just like this by Wu Jingyi?

Looking at Su Qingqing crying her heart out, the poor girl probably didn't even realize she had been schemed against by her best friend.

But what good would crying do?

Having experienced her previous life, Huo Sining finally understood one thing: the only way to deal with scumbags is not to seek wild revenge against them, but to live a better life than they do.

Only if she lived well would the scumbags feel unsettled, and deep jealousy would make them suffer every day.

Well, the show is over; time to go back.

Huo Sining stood up, patted the dust off the back of her pants, and was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, something out of the ordinary happened.

Su Qingqing, who was sobbing inconsolably nearby, suddenly acted as if she were provoked, rushed to the river bank, clambered over the railing, and was about to jump into the river.