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Shen Qingyu was awakened by the blinding sunlight. The unfamiliar ceiling instantly sobered her up, and yesterday's events replayed in her mind like a slideshow—the ACM cheating scandal, the drunken breakdown, the ambiguity in the hotel...
After confirming that Yu Wang was not in the room, she breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, stretched, and prepared to wash up. There was a note on the table, written in Yu Wang's handwriting: "I have classes, so I'll leave first. Breakfast is on the table, remember to eat it."
Shen Qingyu curled her lips, crumpled the note into a ball and threw it into the trash can, then turned and walked into the bathroom.
She entered the classroom just as the bell rang, hunched over to find Su Yi and the others, and just as she sat down, Qu Shengsheng's WeChat popped up. She clicked it and her heart skipped a beat—
【We've found the person who framed you.】
[She is Cai Yulin, the beauty of Peking University's Art Department.]
Then, Qu Shengsheng sent a video and several screenshots, all of which were records of Cai Yulin investigating Shen Qingyu and fabricating evidence of cheating, with irrefutable evidence. She also pushed Cai Yulin's WeChat to her. Shen Qingyu looked at the profile picture and frowned even more deeply - Cai Yulin's WeChat profile picture was exactly the same as the one she had used before.
She gritted her teeth and sent a friend request, which was accepted within seconds.
[Cai Yulin: Shen Qingyu! Is it really you? I'm so excited!]
Shen Qingyu felt a chill in her heart and typed a reply: [Let's meet. I need you for something.]
The two of them met on the rooftop of Tsinghua University, where there were few people. Shen Qingyu was puzzled as they walked. How could Cai Yulin, a student from Peking University, know such a secluded place in Tsinghua? It seemed that this was premeditated.
She was still a few steps away from the rooftop when she heard a familiar voice, filled with suppressed anger: "Do you know what you've done? How can I possibly like you when you're like this?"
Shen Qingyu paused, her heart skipping a beat. She prayed it wasn't him, but she couldn't help but peek through the crack in the door—the person standing opposite Cai Yulin, even with his back to her, she could tell it was Yu Wang at a glance.
"But you obviously like me!" Cai Yulin's voice was filled with tears, and the words behind it became quieter and quieter, so Shen Qingyu didn't hear clearly. Yu Wang seemed to want to leave, but Cai Yulin suddenly hugged his waist and begged with sobs: "Yu Wang, I'm sorry, let's make peace..."
Shen Qingyu couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she turned around and ran downstairs, stopping at the corner of the stairs. She supported herself against the wall with one hand, clutching her clothes with the other. Her heart felt like it was being tightly grasped, anger and grievance surged up, and tears instantly blurred her vision.
So Yu Wang and Cai Yulin had this kind of relationship, so what was she? A plaything to kill time?
At this moment, Yu Wang came down from the rooftop and bumped into her at the corner. Shen Qingyu's eyes were red, and the look in her eyes when she looked at him was full of vigilance and alienation.
When Yu Wang saw her, a smile instantly appeared on his face, and he walked over quickly: "Sister, why are you here? Oh, by the way, I found out who framed you..."
Who else could it be? Isn't it your Cai Yulin? Shen Qingyu sneered in his heart. It's so boring to still be pretending at this time.
"Yu Wang." Her voice was filled with tears, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye, and she forced a smile, "Let's break up."
The smile on Yu Wang's face froze, and he thought he had misheard: "Is today April Fool's Day?"
"No." Shen Qingyu raised his head, his eyes cold, "I said, let's break up."
She turned to leave, but Yu Wang suddenly reached out and pushed her against the wall. His other hand tightly grasped her wrist, his eyes flushed red as he asked, "Chen Qingyu, are you kidding me?"
The pain in her wrist made Shen Qingyu frown. She looked at the grievance and anger in Yu Wang's eyes, and her heart softened slightly, but the image of Cai Yulin hugging him suddenly popped up again. She gritted her teeth and deliberately said hurtful words: "That's right, I was just teasing you. You are just an ordinary junior, do you think I really have to have you? I just felt sorry for you and was teasing you, but I didn't expect you to take it seriously, how ridiculous."
Yu Wang's grip on her wrist suddenly loosened, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, leaving only despair. He muttered to himself, "Just... for fun?" The anger he had just shown vanished without a trace, and he looked at her with pleading eyes like an abandoned puppy.
"Yes, just for fun." Shen Qingyu hardened her heart and turned to leave without looking back. It was not until she walked out of the teaching building that she realized the tear marks on her cheeks had dried up, and the wind blew, bringing a stinging pain.
The news of Shen Qingyu and Yu Wang's breakup was like a stone dropped into water, instantly sending shockwaves through Tsinghua University. Within a day, everyone at neighboring Peking University and the Film Academy knew about it. Qu Shengsheng and Yu An's calls blew up her phone, and Shen Qingyu, so annoyed, simply turned it off.
In the dormitory, Su Yi and the others watched her dejected appearance and could only silently accompany her and support her with their actions. It was not until the next night that Shen Qingyu turned on her phone and made the first call to Qu Shengsheng.
"Auntie! You finally answer the phone!" Qu Shengsheng's voice exploded from the receiver.
Shen Qingyu sat in the booth of the bar, with noisy background noise: "See you at the bar, I have something to tell you."
When Qu Shengsheng arrived, Shen Qingyu was already drunk and her face was red, with several empty bottles in front of her. "Sister, it's just a breakup, why are you so generous?" Qu Shengsheng supported her as she was about to fall, and said helplessly.
"You're right..." Shen Qingyu said with a big smile, tears suddenly falling, "Men who are good at playing games are really not good people! Since he already has someone he likes, why does he want to date me..."
Qu Shengsheng frowned, realizing something was wrong: "Tell me clearly, what's going on?"
Chen Qingyu spoke incoherently, describing the scene she had seen on the rooftop and Yu Wang's "pretense." After hearing this, Qu Shengsheng slammed the table and said, "What? Yu Wang is actually this kind of person! I thought he was affectionate, but I was wrong!" She opened a bottle of wine and handed it to Chen Qingyu. "It's okay, there are plenty of men in the world, let's switch!"
The two of them raised their glasses and drank deeply. Shen Qingyu cried and laughed at the same time: "I never believed in love before, I thought it was all a lie... But I was so mean that I had to give it a try, and in the end I ended up in such a miserable state..."
Qu Shengsheng was also drunk. The image of Chen Chenchen's back flashed through her mind. She said in a muffled voice, "That's right! Being in love is suffering! I won't be in love again!" But she knew in her heart that if she was given another chance, she might still fall into it.
That night, the two girls got drunk and the bar waiter finally helped them call a designated driver.
In the men's dormitory of Tsinghua University, Yu Wang had been sitting on his bed for two days. Wu Hao and Lu Yi were extremely anxious as they saw his lifeless appearance.
"Old Yu, tell me! Why did she break up with you?" Wu Hao couldn't help but shout.
Yu Wang finally moved, his voice hoarse as sandpaper: "I found out that the person who framed her was Cai Yulin, and asked her to go to the rooftop for a confrontation..."
He slowly recounted what happened that day—after finding the evidence, he immediately called Cai Yu and arranged to meet on the rooftop. When Cai Yulin arrived, she acted coy, but only after he produced the evidence did she start to play dumb. He couldn't stand it any longer and yelled, "How can I like you when you're like this?" Cai Yulin, however, cried and accused Shen Qingyu of "seducing" her.
He didn't want to get entangled anymore and turned to leave. Cai Yulin suddenly hugged his waist. He shook her off with force. The photo fell to the ground. He yelled, "There is no relationship between us." Then he left without looking back. Unexpectedly, he met Shen Qingyu at the corner. Before he could explain, he heard the word "break up."
"She said...she was just playing with me and would throw me away when she had enough..." Yu Wang's voice was filled with tears, and she finally couldn't hold back her tears. "It turns out that in her eyes, I was just an object that could be thrown away at will..."
That night, it rained outside, drizzling, as if it was shedding tears all night for two people who had misunderstood each other.
After that, Shen Qingyu and Yu Wang never met again at school—it wasn't known whether they were truly not meant to be, or if they were just deliberately avoiding each other. Later, under pressure, Cai Yulin voluntarily surrendered herself, and Shen Qingyu's ACM team was cleared of suspicion, allowing her to graduate successfully.
Later, some said Yu Wang was scouted by a professional League of Legends team and went to Shanghai to compete; others said he applied for graduate school abroad and left Beijing. Shen Qingyu and he were like two intersecting lines, meeting and never meeting again.
On the day of the graduation photo shoot, Shen Qingyu saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure behind the stone statue. It looked very much like Yu Wang, but before she could see clearly, the figure disappeared. She lowered her eyes slightly, heard her roommate's reminder, turned around, and faced the camera with a standard smile.
With a click, the photo froze, and Shen Qingyu's college life came to an end. That time filled with sweetness, misunderstandings, and regrets also dissipated in the wind.
After graduation, Shen Qingyu and Qu Shengsheng went to Shanghai together and partnered with Qi Yan to open a bar on the Bund. With the resources of his heir and his own talent, Qu Shengsheng successfully broke into the entertainment industry with a debut film and became a rising star director.
As for Chen Qingyu, she spent her days checking the bills at the bar, chatting with regular customers, and occasionally accompanying Qu Shengsheng to events. She lived a life of "freeloading and free drinking," but she was quite comfortable. However, sometimes, late at night, when she saw boys playing games in the bar, she would think of the boy who had once made her heart flutter and also broke her heart.
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