After I went bankrupt, the school heartthrob I humiliated actually wanted to…?

Bastard!
Bastard!
Damn bastard!

Song Qiuzhi stormed out of Gu Yan’s office, cursing viciously in her heart.
When Gu Yan had called her to stop earlier and she had met his eyes, Song Qiuzhi belatedly realized—
This dog had already dug the pit waiting for her to jump in.

First, the appearance of Xia Lan, the Director of the Artist Department, at the meeting room door doing reception work was likely arranged by Gu Yan. This guy had probably heard about the conflict between Xia Lan and herself.

Then this dog Gu Yan suddenly appeared, taking her and Xia Lan together to his office to handle matters.

Notably, Gu Yan didn’t directly address her conflict with Xia Lan, but instead actively brought up work, specifically the Mango TV “New Generation” variety show matter.

The trap Gu Yan had set for her started there.

This cold-faced, black-hearted bastard had deepened the importance of “New Generation” through his conversation with Xia Lan, then used it as leverage to bring up the keeping arrangement, step by step leading her into his preset trap, and she had really just stupidly jumped right in?

For revenge, could he really scheme to this extent…

Thinking about all those things she had made him do before, Song Qiuzhi’s heavy mood couldn’t lighten up at all.

Making him come to her house late at night to drink with her, calling him whenever she was in a bad mood, having him buy and deliver breakfast at set times every day, then going to class with her and such.

These were still acceptable, but Song Qiuzhi remembered one time when she was drunk, she seemed to have treated Gu Yan like a KTV hostess, grabbing his chin and saying many dignity-hurting things in public…

There was another time—

After drinking, she had called Gu Yan to pick her up, but then forgot about it, causing him to wait for her in the rain all night.

As various past events floated through her mind, Song Qiuzhi suddenly realized that she had really been quite excessive in how she treated Gu Yan before.

Wait, no?

This guy couldn’t be planning to get revenge for each and every thing, could he?!

Song Qiuzhi sighed somewhat dejectedly. If she had known this would happen, why did she do those things back then?

It was too late for regrets now. After Gu Yan had endured humiliation for so many years, if he didn’t thoroughly vent that deep-seated resentment from back then, he probably wouldn’t let it go.

However…

While Gu Yan wanted revenge, wasn’t she also hoping to use this opportunity to change her fate?

The level of Mango TV in the variety show field was something all national viewers could see clearly—although this “New Generation” variety show hadn’t been tested by the market yet, since it was Mango TV’s only S-level show this year, its exposure was undoubtedly guaranteed.

Using “New Generation” to increase her fame, Song Qiuzhi was confident she could soar to great heights.

For a singer, a good song might be hard to come by even with a thousand in gold, but for her, this was nothing to worry about.

Those widely circulated hit songs from her previous life were her greatest confidence.

Making money after becoming famous would be extremely simple. Even if she had to pay compensation for breaking the keeping contract with Gu Yan, it should be completely sufficient.

Most importantly—

After gaining fame, she could quickly save up enough money for her mother’s surgery.

“Ding dong.”

The WeChat notification interrupted Song Qiuzhi’s thoughts.

Song Qiuzhi’s footsteps paused slightly as she took out her phone from her pocket to check the message.

[Chu Wei: !!!]
[Chu Wei: Qiuqiu, did the Extermination Master give you a hard time?]

Seeing it was a message from Chu Wei, Song Qiuzhi carefully typed back a reply: [It’s fine, don’t worry, I’m heading back now.]

“Ding dong.”

Chu Wei replied instantly.

[Chu Wei: That’s good, that’s good, I thought you were done for this time…]

Song Qiuzhi’s eye corner twitched slightly.

In the year and more since she had entered Fanxing Entertainment, Chu Wei had been the colleague she got along with best. They could probably be considered—fellow sufferers?

In the monthly performance evaluations, the two of them basically monopolized the last and second-to-last places in the whole company.

[Chu Wei: Come back quickly, I bought two cups of glutinous rice lemon tea, let’s taste test this new product together to see if it’s good.]

Fine.

I’ll forgive you this time for speaking rashly about me being done for.

Song Qiuzhi sent back an emoji and put away her phone, quickly walking back to the artist department office area.

No one could resist the temptation of a cup of Mixue Ice Cream, especially when tasting it on someone else’s dime—that feeling would be absolutely beautiful!

“Hey, don’t you watch where you’re going?!”

At the corridor’s corner, a pungent perfume smell hit her face.

As her body suddenly received force, Song Qiuzhi stumbled back several steps, nearly falling.

Combined with that shrill, harsh voice that reached her ears, although Song Qiuzhi hadn’t raised her head to see who it was clearly, her expression had already darkened.

“Su Yuerang, who’s really not watching where they’re going?”

Song Qiuzhi rubbed her shoulder where she had been hit and raised her eyes to say coldly, “Even elementary school students know to walk on the right side. You bump into me and still try to blame me?”

This woman Su Yuerang was full of technological enhancements, and with one shoulder bump nearly made her see stars. How dare she try to turn things around here?

Opposite Song Qiuzhi.

Su Yuerang slightly furrowed her brows and snorted coldly, saying with disgust: “Song Qiuzhi, has your brain short-circuited?”

Big waves, heavy European-style makeup, around 1.7 meters tall, impressive assets + deep V bodycon dress, dazzling enough to hurt one’s eyes.

“Can’t understand your hometown dialect.”

Song Qiuzhi’s emotions remained stable, but her words were not polite at all.

Hearing this.

Su Yuerang’s brows showed more anger, but her expression still looked somewhat unnatural—technology’s power could indeed change one’s appearance, but facial stiffness was an unavoidable side effect.

“Laughable, dialect? Ah-la I’m from Shanghai, you countryside bumpkin, apologize to me!”

Song Qiuzhi rubbed her aching brow. Working at Fanxing Entertainment was like playing a game instance—people like the Extermination Master were like big bosses, every move they made was a ultimate skill that needed charging time, and they wouldn’t strike easily.

But—

The Su Yuerang in front of her was different.

She was like the minions in League of Legends’ Summoner’s Rift, the hilichurls in Genshin Impact, the car knife sickles in Honkai: Star Rail…

Hovering in front of you every day, occasionally making people sick, with a perverse and harsh personality.

Song Qiuzhi hadn’t gotten along with Su Yuerang since her first day at the company.

Like now… even though she was clearly in the wrong, she could brazenly act like a victim and command you to apologize while showing her teeth and waving her claws.

Tch, the taste was too right!

Song Qiuzhi’s momentary silence only made Su Yuerang more emboldened.

“Ah-la talking to you, are you deaf? Song Qiuzhi, apologize to me right now, did you hear!”

“I don’t have time to deal with you today, Su Yuerang, move aside.”

Su Yuerang had never been one to let things go when she could, and even though she wasn’t in the right, she would still stir up trouble for no reason.

“Apologize to me first, you’re not leaving today until you apologize to me.”

Annoyed.

Song Qiuzhi was really annoyed.

She was already very unhappy about being manipulated by Gu Yan today, holding in a belly full of anger with nowhere to vent it, and now Su Yuerang kept pushing her buttons again and again.

Not buddy…I might not be able to handle Gu Yan, but you think I can’t handle you?

Little Caramel, you’re the one who provoked me first, don’t blame me.

Thinking of this, Song Qiuzhi’s mouth corner lifted slightly in a mocking curve as she spoke teasingly: “Su Yuerang…”

“There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the company now, no matter how unreasonable you are, it’s useless~”

“Oh right—”

“How’s the quality of your implants now? Do they still go crooked? Want to test it out now?”

As soon as the words fell.

Su Yuerang’s face changed drastically, and she instinctively stepped back half a step, glaring vigilantly at Song Qiuzhi.

“Song Qiuzhi, don’t you dare try anything.”

“I, I still need to go report to the new boss… too lazy to deal with you.”

Song Qiuzhi didn’t reply, just smiled while looking at Su Yuerang, actively moving aside to make way.

This time Su Yuerang was truly triggered, and no longer caring about face, she glared fiercely at Song Qiuzhi before quickly leaving.

Song Qiuzhi hadn’t wanted to bring this up, but Su Yuerang was really too annoying.

Speaking of which, the reason Su Yuerang targeted her everywhere was also because Song Qiuzhi had stumbled upon Su Yuerang’s most embarrassing scene back then.

They had entered Fanxing Entertainment in the same batch. At that time, Su Yuerang had borrowed the practice room to dance, but while dancing she suddenly lost her balance and fell to the ground.

Face-first.

Song Qiuzhi had been closest to the practice room at the time, and hearing the scream from inside, she quickly pushed open the door to check the situation.

As a result, she saw Su Yuerang with her nose crooked…