In the end, Bai Tao was “escorted” out of Pei’s house along with her megaphone. On the way back to school, she was slumped like a dead dog, her heart shattered. Yu Guo wanted to ask several times but was stopped by Bai Tao’s deathly glare.

Don’t ask. If you ask, you might as well die.

But Bai Tao didn’t expect the worst was yet to come. That night, a video of her passionate confession at Pei Shi’s house made it to the top of the school forum.

Originally, only she would have known about the failed confession, but now the whole school knew…

“I finally understand why celebrities hate malicious editing. Why did they only cut the part where I confessed? Why didn’t they include the part where I was chased by the dog? It makes me look so pathetic, so humble!”

Bai Tao cried under her blanket, unable to face the next day. “Yu Guo, are you really my friend? Didn’t you say you had reliable information that Pei Shi’s parents and Pei Fei wouldn’t be home?”

Yu Guo handed her tissues, guiltily explaining, “I wasn’t wrong. Pei Shi’s parents and Pei Fei really weren’t home… I just didn’t expect it to be his birthday, and he invited his classmates over…” At this point, she even turned the tables, “Besides, this was your own mistake. How could you not know Pei Shi’s birthday if you were going to pursue him?”

Hearing this, Bai Tao finally threw off her blanket. “Am I pursuing him? I just want to be the woman of the big boss! Isn’t it all because of that little bitch Pei Fei?”

Talking about Pei Fei made Bai Tao even angrier. If it weren’t for her, would she have ended up in this situation, having to mess with her idiot brother?

Yu Guo tried to console her, “Maybe you should just let it go. Just treat Pei Fei like a fart and let it go. Why bother? I don’t think her brother is easy to deal with…”

“How can I just let it go!” Bai Tao angrily pointed at her face, “Trash Pei Fei slapped me on April 12 at 3:12 PM in Studio 203. I can’t forget this, it’s not over! This is the biggest humiliation of my life!”

Bai Tao wasn’t usually a vengeful person, but she cared deeply about her dignity. She could lose substance, but never face! The fight with Pei Fei in the art studio, pulling each other’s hair, quickly attracted a crowd. Some busybody even took a series of photos capturing the moment Pei Fei slapped Bai Tao. Although it wasn’t posted on the school forum, it went viral in the WeChat groups.

Yu Guo sympathized, “You were really unlucky. Who could have guessed Pei Fei’s new boyfriend was cheating with the female model in the studio that day? Pei Fei’s not very smart. When she heard the mistress was in the studio, she rushed in, saw you with the model, and immediately assumed you were the mistress…”

Bai Tao and Pei Fei had been classmates since middle school and had been at odds since then. The Bai family and the Pei family were considered rivals in Rong City, and the two girls, being of similar age, were naturally compared: who wore the latest haute couture, who shone at the debutante ball, who had better exam scores, who was more popular at school, who stole the spotlight…

Over time, their overt and covert struggles became numerous and intense.

Pei Fei was quite good-looking, but compared to Bai Tao, she paled significantly. On her own, Pei Fei had her charm, but next to Bai Tao, she seemed plain and bland.

Because of her striking looks, Bai Tao had been a magnet for love letters since middle school. The boys Pei Fei liked invariably ended up having feelings for Bai Tao.

Although Bai Tao never accepted any of these love letters, perhaps this was precisely why Pei Fei assumed Bai Tao was the other woman after being cheated on.

Thinking back to that day, Yu Guo still felt a bit uneasy. “But you turned Pei Fei into the ‘Hulk’ that day, so it kind of evens out, right? I heard it took her three days of washing her hair to get rid of the green…”

Bai Tao was not one to be trifled with. After getting slapped by Pei Fei, she retaliated with her oil paints, turning Pei Fei’s already slightly green-tinged hair truly green.

“But I was slapped! She clearly made a mistake and didn’t even apologize in the end!”

Bai Tao succinctly summed up, “In short, she messes with me, I mess with her brother.”

After saying this, Bai Tao once again emphatically expressed her ambitious goal. “Once I get Pei Shi, what can Pei Fei do? Can she still act cocky? She’ll have to respectfully call me sister-in-law. Once I’m the big boss’s woman, Pei Fei will have to cry and kneel at my feet, massaging my legs and feet. How could she defy me?”

Yu Guo kindly reminded her, “But the prerequisite is that you manage to get Pei Shi. He seems pretty hard to get…”

Bai Tao sat up abruptly. “You don’t understand. Lu Xun once said, there are only two types of men in the world: those who like beauties and those who still like beauties.” She pointed to her face, “Am I a beauty? Yes!”

“In short, difficult people just need more effort. If one method doesn’t work, I’ll try another.”

“The key is to learn from experience. After thinking about it today, it seems Pei Shi doesn’t like fiery and direct confessions. I need to be more subtle, you know? He might like the gentle and delicate type. I think it’s time to switch to Plan B.”

Having said that, Bai Tao lay back down on the bed and pulled up the covers. She stuck her head out and told Yu Guo, “Now, turn off the light.”

“?”

“I need to sleep!”

Yu Guo checked her watch, “It’s only ten in the evening. A young person’s nightlife should just be starting!”

“No, a great person once said, those who stay up late will remain single.”

Yu Guo was dumbfounded, “Which great person said that?”

“Lu Xun said it.”

What? How come everything was said by Lu Xun? Did he really say all these things???