Chapter 62

Translator: Abo Dammen

Madame Feng and her niece argued for a long time about whether being 25 years old counted as being a child. In the end, Madame Feng lost miserably without a doubt. 

Kids these days! How can they be like this! The more Madame Feng thought about it, the angrier she became, even though she didn’t quite know why she was so angry.

After deep thought, she finally identified the culprit. Chen Lu had taken her five million! How could he still kiss Qin Guchuan and let her niece see it?!

Utterly lacking in credibility! Madame Feng was burning with anger and immediately decided to expose this untrustworthy fellow, Chen Lu.

Madame Feng quickly found the forum for Chen Lu’s university and typed furiously, writing up a post about Chen Lu being kept, attaching the photo her niece had sent her earlier. Before clicking ‘send’, Madame Feng looked again at the ‘heinously guilty’ photo and suddenly had a moment of calm. 

She realized something was off.

But thinking carefully, she couldn’t pinpoint what. After thinking deeply and carefully for a moment, she suddenly came to a realization.

The students at Chen Lu’s university are even younger than my niece! So they’re all children! They can’t see kissing!

Madame Feng decisively chose to delete the photo and viciously clicked ‘send’. 

After sending it, looking at the malicious post before her, Madame Feng’s mind finally became completely calm again. Her gaze immediately turned to panic. She couldn’t believe she had written all that content. She hurriedly fumbled around looking for the delete button but couldn’t find it anywhere.

This forum didn’t allow the original poster to delete their own posts.

Madame Feng was dumbfounded. She quickly picked up her phone and dialed a number. “Darlingggg!!!!!! Help!!!”

Madame Feng’s friend listened to her tearful account, calmly took a deep breath, and tried hard to stay composed as she said, “So, you think you were scammed out of five million, so you made a post?” 

Madame Feng cried, “Waaaahhhhh… Darling, I’ve become so terrible… How could I be so awful…”

The chaos between the two ladies didn’t affect Chen Lu. Having been lurking and keeping watch on the school forum for a long time, Chen Lu was only delighted to finally see the plot’s malicious post appear.

——[Subject] Painting Department’s Chen Lu is being kept by a rich man!!!

——The post describing how he was being kept came into ‘Chen Lu’s’ sight. The intimate photo of him and Qin Guchuan was being commented on by everyone. Various filthy and obscene remarks surged before ‘Chen Lu’s’ eyes. 

Looking at the line described in the plot, Chen Lu clicked on the post whose title alone made its malicious intent and content clear.

[Content] Painting Department’s Chen Lu is being kept by a rich man. So shameless!!!

Chen Lu: “…”

Chen Lu: “…….. Ah.” 

Although it was just this one sentence, Chen Lu inexplicably sensed Madame Feng’s full-hearted effort to curse him out.

If this even counted as a curse…

…You’ve worked hard.

But like this, no one will look at it!!! 

And the photo?

Wasn’t the plot description supposed to include an intimate photo of him and Qin Guchuan?

——’This photo looks like it was taken outdoors at XX Mall, tsk tsk, as expected of someone being kept, you can do it anywhere.’

——’He looks so seductive, I’m hard. No wonder a rich man took a liking to him.’ 

——’If I fork over five hundred, can I have a go at this bitch too?’

The original plot had these replies too!

And now there’s just this one sentence, not even a picture. People online, having seen it all, definitely wouldn’t pay it any mind.

Sure enough, Chen Lu watched the post about himself sink to the bottom within mere minutes without a single reply. 

Chen Lu, who had already vaguely started feeling the world becoming unstable, his pupils shook in shock. He turned to look at Qin Guchuan, whose expression had also suddenly turned grave, confirming that this vague feeling wasn’t his illusion.

Most reliable Madame Feng! Why did you suddenly throw me this curveball!!!

Where is your reliability?!

Chen Lu hurriedly posted a reply under the post. 

1st Floor: This photo looks like it was taken outdoors at XX Mall, tsk tsk, as expected of someone being kept, you can do it anywhere.

Even though there was no photo, Chen Lu indicated that for the sake of advancing the plot, he could play dumb. After all, it wasn’t specified who sent these contents.

Feeling the world seemed to be gradually calming down a bit, Chen Lu affirmed his actions and quickly started replying to the post using the lines explicitly given in the plot.

Madame Feng, who was also monitoring her post, saw Chen Lu’s replies and became even more flustered. 

Did I actually send the photo out by mistake?

But no matter how many times Madame Feng looked, she couldn’t see any photo in her post. She cried even more miserably to her friend, “Darling, I think I’m being punished. I can’t even see the photo anymore.”

Her friend, whom Madame Feng had sent the link to, looked at the replies from passers-by who, seeing the post being bumped, thought there was a major scoop and one after another posted things like ‘Where’s the pic?’ ‘Is it just me who can’t see the pic?’: “……”

And just as Madame Feng sent the link to her friend, Chen Lu also sent the link to Fang Qizhi, and quickly received a reply. 

Fang Qizhi: Who did this!

Fang Qizhi: Damn it, don’t worry about this. I’ll track down everyone who said those bastardly things. I have money and time; I won’t let them get away with it.

Chen Lu, who hadn’t yet had time to send the message asking Fang Qizhi to help bump the post: “…”

Well… it was still quite touching. 

Feeling slightly embarrassed, Chen Lu deleted the half-typed message and sent Fang Qizhi a new one.

Chen Lu: Ahem, the first dozen or so floors were all posted by me.

After receiving this message, Fang Qizhi’s brain replayed the content of the first few floors he had seen upon clicking the link: “…”

An expression that words could not describe appeared on Fang Qizhi’s face. 

Even for ‘Just Passing By’, known for being ridiculous in the game streaming world, writing such cringey, suggestive stuff about himself in this kind of post was still too far.

Fortunately, Fang Qizhi quickly realized this was probably related to the plot again.

Not daring to delay for a moment, he immediately replied to Chen Lu.

Fang Qizhi: Don’t even think about it. Can’t do it. Just because I call you wifey doesn’t mean I’ll send this kind of bottom-of-the-barrel message about you! 

Fang Qizhi: I haven’t even eaten dinner yet!

Seeing Fang Qizhi’s rapid-fire reply, Chen Lu: “…”

Give me back the touching feeling I felt earlier!!!

Chen Lu: I just want you to bump the post randomly! Don’t overthink it! We need this post to stay on the front page of the forum all day today, so everyone sees that I’m being kept! 

Fang Qizhi didn’t know how to evaluate Chen Lu’s statement. He clicked back into the link Chen Lu had sent him.

During their exchange, the number of passers-by joining the thread had gradually increased.

At first, some were confused, asking ‘Where’s the pic?’. Later, seeing Chen Lu still posting a bunch of nonsense messages as if he could see a picture, they caught on. One by one, they started posting seemingly genuine replies as if they had seen the photo too.

‘I can confirm everything in the photo is true. I was there on the scene. The belt on the floor was mine.’ 

‘I can confirm too. The shirt on the floor was mine.’

‘How did you guys know? The underwear on the floor was mine?’

‘[Shy][Shy] I was the empty bottle of lube next to them. They squeezed so much out of me~ Ah~~’

Fang Qizhi: “…” 

No surprise, no accident, this was indeed the style of the netizens he was familiar with (lights a virtual cigarette.jpg)

Fang Qizhi: [Screenshot] Are you sure what everyone will see is you being kept, and not you being utterly debauched?

Looking at the utterly shameless words in the screenshot, Chen Lu declared that he was the one with the least shame. 

Chen Lu: Hey, big guy~ Wanna come play too~~ [Fluttering eyelashes][Fluttering eyelashes]

Fang Qizhi, who still possessed quite a lot of integrity, was stuck. Watching the post where the netizens had already finished their round of shamelessness and it was starting to sink again, Fang Qizhi held his nose and reluctantly joined in.

102nd Floor: Just adding some water.

Hard work never betrays those who stay up late. Although this plot had deviated by a tiny bit, in the end, through their joint efforts, they managed to straighten out the crooked plot. 

Regardless of whether the viewers believed it or not, you could say all the necessary content was there—except for the photo.

No longer sensing a world crisis, Chen Lu entered the classroom with the joyful feeling of having once again saved the world.

Hmm, still following the plot, still creative arts class.

——‘Chen Lu’ stepped into the classroom and immediately felt the strange gazes from his classmates. ‘Chen Lu’s’ footsteps halted. He looked puzzled at these classmates who seemed to have suddenly become strangers, feeling as if something he didn’t know about had happened. 

—— Soon, a ‘kind-hearted’ classmate enlightened ‘Chen Lu’. “Chen Lu, take a look at the forum.” As he spoke, he handed his phone to Chen Lu.

—— His expression barely concealed his obvious malice.

Chen Lu looked up at this classmate with a different kind of malice. His eyes pretending to be confused, he took the other’s phone, looked seriously at the content on it, and finally put on a pitiful expression, as if greatly hurt.

Tears welled up in Chen Lu’s eyes. Facing these classmates who had obviously all seen the post, he stumbled backward, then bolted out the door as if suffering an unbearable pain in life. 

The classmates were stunned by Chen Lu’s series of performances. A few seconds later, the ‘malicious’ classmate let out a miserable scream.

“My phone!!!”

After completing the final plot point of “rushing out the door”, Chen Lu ultimately returned to the classroom. Looking at the ‘malicious’ classmate who seemed on the verge of cracking, he returned the phone and unreservedly let out a mocking laugh.

Classmates, this is what you call karma! 

Was my, Chen Lu’s, joke really that fun to watch?! The little person in Chen Lu’s heart was feeling so smugly awesome, hands on hips.

The classmates, who could show such a lack of camaraderie towards Chen Lu, naturally wouldn’t have any sympathy for this ‘malicious’ classmate either. Instantly, a wave of uproarious laughter erupted in the classroom.

But after laughing, the other classmates were still kind-hearted enough to remind Chen Lu that although the matter had eventually passed as a meme, the person who initially made the post and then disappeared was clearly genuinely ill-intentioned towards him, and he should be careful.

Chen Lu half-heartedly responded with “Mhm, ah, yeah.” Then he heard one of his classmates say righteously and indignant, “Even if you want to slander someone, you can’t do it like this. How could Chen Lu possibly be kept by a rich man?” 

Chen Lu, who was indeed, by plot requirements, technically being kept, felt somewhat guilty looking at these classmates who trusted him completely.

He instinctively thought for a few seconds about whether to tell the truth, but then he heard the classmate’s next sentence.

“A rich person wouldn’t have such bad taste either!”

Chen Lu: “?” 

Chen Lu: “???”