"If you don't accept it, I'll buy you a Lv bag from Hongji after school! You decide." Jiang Yan happily unboxed her new phone.
Ye Wan appreciated her thoughtfulness and no longer refused, accepting the money for the phone. Jiang Yan finally got her favorite new phone, and seeing that she and Ye Wan had the same model, she giggled, "We finally have matching couple phones!"
She even pulled Ye Wan to take pictures and post on Moments to 'officially announce' it.
Ye Wan knew Jiang Yan was in a bad mood because of the arranged marriage, so to cheer her up, she joined her in posting a 'grand announcement' on Moments.
Jiang Yan's face bloomed with happiness. The joy of an admirer of beauty is always this simple and direct!!!!
...
At noon, Ye Wan, Jiang Yan, and Ning Xin went to the cafeteria to eat. The three found a table and sat down. Ning Xin seemed to be in low spirits.
"Ning Xin, what's wrong? What happened?" Jiang Yan asked with concern.
"Jiang Lingyu hasn't returned to the dorm for several days, and I can't reach her. I'm a bit worried... we even argued when she left last time," Ning Xin said helplessly to the two of them.
"What are you worried about? Jiang Lingyu is probably with her rich second-generation boyfriend. Don't worry. I saw her posting on Moments, all about showing off her wealth."
Ye Wan frowned but didn't say much.
Ning Xin stopped thinking about it and started eating. As the three were eating, a discordant voice suddenly came from nearby.
"What pure, inspirational, poor campus belle? She's clearly being kept! Pretending to be poor and inspirational, it's sickening."
"Exactly, I saw some inspirational campus belle receiving a phone worth tens of thousands today. That person is probably just one of the fish in her pond! A true queen of hearts!"
Sitting at the next table were Zhao Huiran, the campus belle of the Design Department, and her followers. They were a year above Ye Wan and the others. Zhao Huiran was originally the campus belle of Jingda University, but after Ye Wan enrolled, she was demoted to department belle. Therefore, Zhao Huiran had always disliked Ye Wan. However, anyone with eyes could see that her looks were not even a fraction as good as Ye Wan's. As long as Ye Wan was at Jingda University, her position as campus belle was unshakeable.
Jiang Yan had a fiery temper. How could she tolerate hearing this? She could curse her, but not Ye Wan! Before Ye Wan and Ning Xin could react, Jiang Yan had already smashed her food tray onto the other table.
Zhao Huiran and her companions screamed and stood up, but they were also splashed with soup. The faces of the four girls turned green with anger.
They yelled, "Jiang Yan, are you crazy? What are you losing your temper for!"
"You're the crazy one! Your whole family is crazy! If you're sick, go get treated, why are you even in school! Biting people everywhere like a mad dog!" Jiang Yan was furious and unleashed a torrent of abuse at the girls.
"Are we wrong? Wasn't Ye Wan's phone a gift from a man? Other students saw it!" one girl questioned indignantly.
"So what? My Ye Wan has many admirers, and they're all elites. It's useless to be jealous. Who told you you don't have Ye Wan's looks! You can only be a dog who's green with envy!" Jiang Yan retorted.
"It's normal for admirers to give phones, but isn't Ye Wan painstakingly cultivating the image of a pure, inspirational, and poor campus belle? How do you explain the clothes worth hundreds of thousands of yuan she wears?" Zhao Huiran looked at Ye Wan disdainfully and questioned.
Most students were eating in the cafeteria now, and there were many onlookers. Zhao Huiran was determined to strip away Ye Wan's pretense today and see if she could still be the campus belle when her persona collapsed.
Ye Wan was speechless. How did she not know she had a persona? And painstakingly cultivating it? She didn't have time for that.