Chapter 111: You Asked for It, and Now You Have It

The comment section exploded.

“I’m suddenly very curious about the people who were cursing Yun Fu. Aren’t you scared? Deleting your comments is useless now, ha ha ha. Thankfully I still had some sense!”

“Shivering all over. This is what a true heavyweight looks like. Who would dare offend the woman of someone like that?”

“What is going on? I only went out for a meal, and somehow I’ve already fallen behind on this round of gossip.”

The netizens were not the only ones who had fallen behind; the women involved were all struck with panic at the same time.

Especially Zeng Yuzi.

She stared blankly at the name at the top of the screen, the name of Lian Hanqi, a name she would never even dare to imagine.

And yet, seeing the officially verified account of the Lian Group, she began to panic.

If it really was Lian Hanqi, if the person standing behind Yun Fu was really Lian Hanqi, then she was finished. Completely finished.

“What do we do? What do we do?” Her agent was also pacing anxiously beside her. After all, she had quietly approved everything Zeng Yuzi had done.

She had thought that if they could drag Yun Fu down, then with Jinghong as a stepping stone, Zeng Yuzi might not soar to the heavens, but at the very least she could make a name for herself. She had never expected the outcome to be this.

Xi Rouer was different. She was jealous, jealous to the point of near death. She refused to believe that the man she had dreamed of, the man she could not even reach in her dreams, was so closely tied to the Yun Fu she hated most.

Thinking of the four men she had been trying to win over, she suddenly felt a sour, choking ache in her chest.

No matter how outstanding a man might be, he was nothing but clouds before Lian Hanqi. Why Yun Fu? Why did she get to have such an exceptional man?

And yet Xi Rouer truly did not dare make a move anymore. After all, if Lian Hanqi wanted to crush her, it would be as easy as stepping on an ant.

Just as the crowd of onlookers was still reeling, something even more shocking arrived.

The official account of Like: “We are deeply honored to present Miss Yun Fu with the first piece created after Linglong’s return. This work, named Nirvana, is brought to life to perfection by Miss Yun Fu’s beauty. You are the bravest phoenix above the nine heavens. Thank you for making one another shine.”

Yun Fu rubbed her temples. On her phone, Yi Huansheng’s message practically burned with anger: “Why can Lian Hanqi post and I can’t? I don’t care, I’m posting too. Just wait.”

And then, chaos broke loose.

“How is this happening? Is this really the same icy official account I know?”

“Didn’t someone say that if this was really designed by Linglong, they’d eat shit? Can they livestream that? I kind of want to see it.”

“Ha ha ha, that’s brutal, but I want to see it too. This slap in the face is loud enough to echo. Yun Fu even knows Lian Hanqi now, so would she really be wearing a fake?”

Yun Fu was amazing. And now even Like had stepped forward. Did Like also surrender before the power of money?

“This is basically the start of a direct endorsement!”

The onlookers were so shocked their jaws nearly hit the floor.

Even the people in the private room were a little stunned.

Especially the loud and animated Gu Zhishu. “Oh my God, Xiaofu, how do you know Like? My mother asked me to buy her a necklace last time, and those people were so cold they simply refused to sell. How did you get them to agree?”

The others were also looking at her with deep curiosity.

Yun Fu sighed, suddenly feeling the urge to buy a plane ticket just to go beat the childish Yi Huansheng senseless.

“I met their boss by chance.”

Gu Zhishu nodded as if that were no big deal at all. “Then do you know Linglong? Next time, could you ask her to design a piece of jewelry for my mother? Maybe she’ll hit me a little less.”

“I suppose I know her.”

Gu Zhishu was about to ask more when Lian Hanqi cut him off with a single sentence. “Say one more useless word and I’ll beat you first.”

Yun Fu glanced at Lian Hanqi, seated beside her. She could tell he was curious, but he did not ask, nor did he say much.

Su Changzhou could not help but remark, “Xiaofu’s friends are all impressive. They’re almost like us.”

Yun Fu looked down at her phone and found that Like had posted again. When she read it, she almost really did buy that plane ticket.

The official account of Like: “We solemnly state that the jewelry presented to Miss Yun Fu was given because Miss Yun Fu suited it, and absolutely not because of anyone’s status, power, or wealth!”

“How do I feel a little bit of tsundere pride in that?”

“Ha ha ha, I think what Like is really saying is: I gave the necklace to Yun Fu because I wanted to. It has nothing to do with Lian Hanqi, and we do not need to bow to anyone.”

“Same here. Suddenly the official account feels kind of adorable, not cold at all.”

“So if that’s the case, then Linglong and Like are appreciating Yun Fu purely for her talent and beauty? Yun Fu is even more amazing now!”

“At this point, all I can say is six six six.”

“Is the proof for the qipao coming out too? Come on, I’m ready.”

And indeed, proof came as if answering a summons.

Cheng Anzhi: “That qipao really is the award-winning one. I’ve kept it tucked away for a very long time. By chance, Yun Fu walked into my shop.

She said she needed an outfit for the launch event, so I took out the qipao. I’m very happy, because at last I found the true owner of that qipao.

It has a beautiful name: bloom, and butterflies will come. It suits Yun Fu perfectly.”

Cheng Anzhi was certified as a designer, and also the champion of the fashion design competition. Her social media had always been full of calm, unruffled posts about fabrics, flowers, and plants.

No one had expected her to post because of Yun Fu.

The gossip-hungry crowd was already stuffed to the brim.

After shock followed shock, they had become too stunned to be shocked anymore.

Not only that, even Director Bai and Director Liu posted as well, saying that they had cast Yun Fu in that role simply because she was right for it, and when the drama aired, everyone would see the answer for themselves.

Su Changzhou spun his phone around in his hand, a sly gleam flashing in his eyes. “Do you think I should throw in a post too and join the fun? Sounds pretty interesting.”

Qin Yi set down the mahjong piece he had been idly turning over and nodded with great seriousness. “Now that you say that, I kind of want to post too.”

Yun Fu: “…”

“Both of you, behave yourselves.”

Because of the post from the Lian Group, public opinion had already swung heavily in Yun Fu’s favor.

With Qiao An and her fans working hard as well, those rumors quickly scattered into nothing.

In total, it had taken barely an hour.

Qin Yi absentmindedly rolled the mahjong tiles in his hands, as though polishing walnuts. “The golden three hours. Any rumor resolved within three hours is only going to become a sail that catches the wind. Yun Fu, you’re definitely going to become huge.”

Yun Fu smiled and said to him seriously, “Thank you.”

Then she turned to the others. “And thank you all as well. If there’s ever anything you need me to do, I’ll spare no effort.”

When she turned again and met Lian Hanqi’s clear, dark eyes, her voice became even more sincere. “And thank you too.”

Once, she had been a creature without feeling, cold and bloodless. But after coming here, these people had given her so much warmth that she had gradually become more and more human.