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"Say that again?!" Lin Tingxuan stopped abruptly, roaring as he glared at Ye Wenyu, his face ashen and eyes blazing with fury. His hands, hanging at his sides, were clenched into fists, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
Ye Wenyu was terrified, her hands and feet turning cold, as if the next second, Lin Tingxuan, in his rage, would pounce on her like a sick tiger and tear her to pieces.
But as she retreated from the pavilion, she insisted, "I might leave him someday, but not now. I think it's you who urgently needs to leave the Lin family now, unless you can't support yourself at all, you don't have the ability to be independent. You're used to being taken care of by the servants of the Lin family, you don't have the ability to take care of yourself, you're afraid to leave the Lin family, you simply don't have the ability to survive, so you've stayed in the Lin family all this time. Your brother is busy with business at the group every day, making money for the Lin family, while all you do is paint all day long, and you even call him a big devil, you lazy bum!"
"You!" Lin Tingxuan lunged at him angrily.
She actually dared to call him a lazy bum! Lin Tingxuan was furious.
Ye Wenyu darted out from the corner of the pavilion like a nimble rabbit, and then ran away into the distance like a gust of wind.
Lin Tingxuan missed his target, staring blankly at the girl's fleeing figure in the distance. He slowly sat down. How dare she tell him to leave, how dare she call him a freeloader! Everything in the Lin family originally belonged to him, but now he had to beg Lin Tingfeng for scraps. And this brat even dared to call him a freeloader! She's got some nerve! His face was ashen, his fists clenched, and he thought fiercely to himself, "Not only will I not leave, I will take back everything that belongs to me! Definitely!"
Lin Tingxuan made a silent vow in his heart.
Ye Wenyu pulled her thoughts, which had drifted away like a kite, back to the reality of this life. The dormitory was quiet and dimly lit, as if it were dusk in the daytime. Her roommates still hadn't returned. She looked down at the student ID card, which Lin Tingfeng had returned to her.
Despite her standing him up, he was not angry at all, and even asked Yuanyuan to return her student ID to her.
So what should she do? Should she pretend nothing happened, forget about it, and continue with her life, or should she return the eight thousand yuan to him?
But--
Paying back the money would be like throwing herself into the lion's den, a suicide mission. Ye Wenyu bit her lip, deep in thought. If she didn't pay, her conscience wouldn't allow it, and she would suffer torment for a long time, since it was her fault for owing him money. But if she did pay, she feared that she would become entangled with Lin Tingfeng in this life, causing her previously stable life, built on her self-respect and hard work, to be shattered again by a terrible storm.
To pay back the money or not to pay it back, that is the question.
As Ye Wenyu was deep in thought, a roommate walked in, wiping away sweat. Seeing Ye Wenyu, the roommate paused, frowned, and said, "Ye Wenyu, you're acting strange. In this sweltering heat, you're sitting alone in the dorm without turning on the lights or the air conditioning." The roommate turned on the air conditioner, glanced at Ye Wenyu, and muttered to herself, "Wearing a mask all the time in this heat, aren't you afraid of getting heat rash on your face!"
Face mask? Upon hearing this word, Ye Wenyu, who had been lost in thought, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and her eyes lit up. She sat up abruptly and ran to the girls' dormitory bathroom as fast as she could, then slammed the bathroom door shut in a flash.
My roommate stood near the air conditioner, holding the remote, staring at the closed bathroom door as if watching an alien monster leave, and muttered under his breath, "Crazy!"
Ye Wenyu heard it, but she didn't care what her roommate thought. Their relationship had always been strained, and it wasn't something she could change on her own, so she simply decided not to bother with it.
She rushed to the bathroom mirror, quickly took off her mask, and stared at herself in the mirror. A huge birthmark on her face was still conspicuously there. It was a fake birthmark she had drawn on when she put on makeup after washing her face every day. However, because she was used to wearing a mask every day, and was busy with part-time work and studies, and because her relationship with Cai Wenchuan had been progressing very smoothly, Cai Wenchuan didn't care whether the birthmark on her face was real or not. So even Ye Wenyu herself gradually forgot that she had been deliberately drawing an ugly birthmark on her face.
Because of Cai Wenchuan's indifference, she continued to think about everything in this life and the previous life using the mindset of her past life. She even forgot about the fake birthmark that brought her a great sense of security and courage!
The reason she deliberately drew this huge, ugly birthmark on her face was to prevent Lin Tingfeng from falling in love with her when he saw her. However, as time went on, she mechanically continued to draw the birthmark every day, forgetting her original intention and its great function!
Thinking of this, Ye Wenyu became excited. Her blood boiled, and her eyes shone like stars. She stretched out her slender fingers and slowly stroked the birthmark on her face. The girl in the mirror, wearing a light blue medical mask, was a beautiful woman loved by everyone. But if she took off the mask, she would be disgusting to everyone. This was probably why her roommates didn't like her. Not only was her personality strange, but her appearance was also strange.
She thought with amusement how terrified she was of seeing Lin Tingfeng when she was first reborn. So when she drew the birthmark, she was merciless to herself. The birthmark occupied almost half of her left cheek. It was made of black and brown, and there were even fake hairs growing on the black part.
She truly has the potential to be a makeup artist; she can casually draw a fake birthmark and it looks incredibly realistic.
Ye Wenyu gradually formed an idea. As if to prove the feasibility of her idea, she took out her toner and used a cotton pad to wash away the birthmark on her face. Then she took a picture with her phone, applied foundation, and used cosmetics to redraw the birthmark. She took another picture and then stitched the two pictures together using a photo editing app. The contrast between the two photos was striking.
Looking at herself with her ugly birthmark, she thought, if Lin Tingfeng could even be attracted to someone like her, he'd be blind! Even if the sun rose in the west, he wouldn't fall for her because, based on her understanding of him, Lin Tingfeng was quite handsome and therefore very particular about his partner's appearance—which was precisely why she had attracted him in her past life. If she had been an ugly girl, she would have been spared this fate in her previous life.
Why did Lin Tingfeng still pursue her with the same scheming as in his previous life after meeting her? He went to great lengths to arrange for the student Yuan Yuan to meet her and even paid off her bar bills. The reason for this was that he hadn't seen her face with the birthmark in this life!
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