Chapter 59: Trampling The Fourth Sister's Pride

Qin Shuyun cared most about her face.

To repair the scars on her face, she had visited almost all of the world’s most authoritative plastic surgeons, all to restore her face to its former peak.

But technological means could never match a face given by one’s mother.

Her obsessive corrections left her features stiff and distorted, with some stubborn scars ugly and obvious—worse than before the accident.

Qin Jiang’s shouting really worked.

The campus lacked no fans — plus, college students made up the biggest proportion of society waiting to consume celebrity gossip.

In less than a minute, Qin Shuyun was surrounded and hemmed in.

She screamed and clutched her face. The tight black mask had been deliberately ripped off by Qin Jiang.

She could only frantically hide herself with her clothes and hands.

At that moment, she felt as if her soul were shattering.

Meanwhile Qin Jiang stood cool and detached outside the crowd, eyes indifferent as he admired the scene.

Hah… she was arrogant only in front of him!

So much for thinking she was something special in the past.

Qin Yun quickly noticed the stir in the crowd here. His steps wavered as new wounds and old ones overlapped each other on his body.

Though there was some acting involved, Yan Liang’s men had indeed shown him no mercy yesterday.

At this moment his hobbling, powerless appearance looked almost comically attractive.

Definitely a character who just popped out of a comic book.

“Aaaah a celebrity? Where, where!! Hurry, go get an autograph~”

“I just heard someone say it’s the retired movie queen Qin Shuyun? Didn’t she step back from acting and only do screenwriting and directing? Seriously, she’s really talented—her new film broke $500 million at the box office! This time she might win again!”

“What an honor it would be to get an autograph from such a gifted female director!“

“Yeah! Director Qin is exceptionally gifted, but why come to our Huajing University this time? Could someone competing from our school be someone she knows?”

“Ah… I’m so envious~~“

“Wait, Qin Yun and Qin Jiang’s fifth sister is called Qin Qianyun, so Director Qin Shuyun’s name fits the Qin family’s naming pattern—could they be related?”

“What’s wrong with you? If Qin Qianyun is the fifth sister, there must be four older sisters ahead of her.”

“But I heard the other four Qin sisters are low-key and do well in their fields. Her coming to Huajing University is probably to give face to Qin Yun?“

“After all, Qin Jiang is kept by a rich woman. If the Qin family knew, they’d probably kick him out of the Qin family…”

The crowd swelled. The college students were mainly there to gawk, but generally behaved themselves.

After her mask was snatched away, Qin Shuyun immediately crouched and covered her face. Except for the camera captures, almost no one saw her face.

Most were more impressed by her talent and fame, eager to catch a glimpse of her real face.

But they courteously refrained from pawing at her.

Qin Jiang stood outside the crowd, toying with Qin Shuyun’s mask in his hand, and nonchalantly met her fierce glare—she crouched, covering her entire face except for her eyes.

That look seemed like it wanted to rip him to pieces.

But he didn’t care at all.

Seeing this, he lifted his hand and let the mask fall to the ground.

Then he strode forward and stepped on it.

This brazen insult made Qin Shuyun—who always felt superior and untouchable before Qin Jiang—experience a fall from the clouds to the abyss.

She couldn’t believe it. Her rage surged to the sky.

Once Qin Jiang had stomped enough on it, he lifted his foot and stared down at her in an utterly condescending posture.

It mirrored the contemptuous expression Qin Shuyun once used to watch stare at him. The way she used to glare at him like he was nothing but a pile of trash.

In that instant, Qin Shuyun was painfully stabbed again!!

“Crawl over, pick it up and put it on, and I won’t expose the photos I just snapped.”

“Otherwise, I think tomorrow’s entertainment news will be extremely juicy,” Qin Jiang said coolly.

But the calm, unhurried threatening tone was increasingly like Yan Liang’s—devoid of emotion yet still intimidating.

“Qin Jiang, don’t go too far!”

“Fourth Sister came specially for Yun! Even if you can’t enjoy the honor of the entertainment industry’s top director coming for your sake, there’s no need to deliberately expose her scars, right?”

“You know perfectly well that Fourth Sister retired behind the scenes to keep her private life low-key and doesn’t want to appear in public.”

“We students at Huajing University are well-mannered, so we wouldn’t intentionally expose someone’s wounds…”

“Please, everyone step back and let Fourth Sister stand up!”

Bai Chuchu couldn’t stand it, and came forward to right what she saw as wrong, showing her kind and brave side.

Her persona had always been like that.

The pure, stubborn little white flower.

One tear of hers was enough to make everyone feel like they owed her.

She was also adept at manipulating public opinion this way, skillfully deceiving many men.

It must be said, Bai Chuchu’s remarks did work.

Everyone admired the talented director Qin Shuyun, so they voluntarily stepped back.

“I agree – Qin Jiang has really gone too far. If I had such an opportunistic, ungrateful brother, I’d kill him!!”

“We shouldn’t gather around here like this and give Qin Jiang the attention. After all, Qin Jiang has been jealous of his brother for a long time. He got lost as a child and picked up bad habits outside before returning to the Qin family. He probably has to bully the well-raised and refined young master Qin Yun to feel superior.”

“In the end, he’s just insecure!“

“Being a kept man is also a sign of insecurity—look at him switching extravagant cars every day. Surely he’s doing this just to provoke Qin Yun and show he’s living better.”

“In reality, who knows how much abuse he suffers from that rich woman behind closed doors…“

“Heh, don’t be fooled by his current arrogance. The committee issued a report: if Qin Jiang doesn’t place in the top three of this research contest, it will prove he stole the campus gold prize from Qin Yun, and the school will expel him!”

“Good riddance! A piece of shit like him will sooner or later contaminate our school’s good pot…”

With the change in public opinion, the crowd thinned out a bit.

Qin Shuyun stood up with her hoodie clamped over her face. She stared at the mask on the ground and felt terribly conflicted.

She was born proud, a famed acting talent in the film industry, highly respected.

One could say she had never been humiliated like this before.

But she was also worried… Qin Jiang might really post her ugly photos online.

After all, Qin Jiang had gone mad.

Neither a madman nor a thief would have any sense of morality.

“Will you pick it up or not?”

Qin Jiang knew what she feared. His question was almost a demand.

That tone was as if asking, “How pathetic are you willing to be?”

Qin Shuyun furrowed her brows and finally endured the humiliation, taking step by step toward the filthy mask.

It was not just a mask, but the last thing covering her shame.

Yet, it had been trampled upon by Qin Jiang.

She could not retaliate now, but fortunately, Qin Jiang would soon be expelled from Huajing University.

Once that happened, he would have no degree and would also be unable to even find an internship or good job in the capital. Then he would have to come running back to the Qin family with his tail between his legs and beg them to take him back.

When that time came, she was going to skin him alive!

“I’ll pick it up.”

Qin Shuyun lowered her eyes. Her dignity and pride were shattered.

In other words, she was admitting that she was pathetic.

Qin Jiang was satisfied, supervising as she picked up the filthy mask and put it back on her face.

He was not surprised to see tears of humiliation streaming from Qin Shuyun’s eyes soon after.

They were turbulent, mixed with hatred.

Did she hate him?

But she wasn’t fit to hate him.

Qin Shuyun, this is just the beginning and you can’t bear it already?* Pathetic indeed!*

Bai Chuchu steered public opinion successfully, so she thought she had reinstated her image as the kind and brave campus belle.

Even if Qin Jiang blamed her for standing against him now, once he thought it through carefully, he’d still turn back and worship her as his ideal woman.

After all, his ideal woman was one who always stood on the side of justice, a woman far more dignified and honorable than him.

Only then would he obsess over her and feel that he wasn’t worthy of her.

He’d fawn over her even more!

Men need to be baited.

“Jiang, stop.”

“Before the contest starts, go apologize to the principal. Perhaps you’ll only get a severe demerit and not be expelled…”

“I’m looking out for you.”

Bai Chuchu wore an innocent expression, as if she understood none of the truth.

As if she had simply chosen righteousness.

As if she was still thinking of him, pulling him back to safety.

What a dazzling, wonderfully upright woman, worthy of his pursuit.

But Qin Jiang spat contemptuously in her direction.

“Pui!”

“If you’re sick, go to the hospital; if you’re unhappy, go kill yourself. Stop whining here.”

“Auntie Bai, your face is enough to make me sick, and I can smell the stench of urine on you from dozens of meters away. Why do you love watching drama so much? If a truck full of poop passed by, would you eat a spoonful of poop so you could spin a story out of it?”

Qin Jiang’s disgust was unabashed.

His already foul mood worsened as he saw so many nauseating faces.

At this moment he only wanted to give the sky the middle finger.

He thought he was numb to all this, but nope!

Yu Qian was dressed gorgeously today in a red dress, seductive and alluring. Her curvaceous figure carried a more mature charm than before.

She had dressed this way on purpose.

From what she knew… Qin Jiang had a taste for women like this.

Of course she wanted to cater to his tastes.

A bland, sweet princess-in-white vibe like Bai Chuchu’s naturally couldn’t attract a Qin Jiang whose tastes had shifted.

She stood confidently beside Bai Chuchu, deliberately creating a contrast in styles.

She was already the department belle, anyway. A vivid, glamorous look suited her features better.

To everyone, she indeed had a different kind of allure.

“Young Master Qin, Chuchu…”

Yu Qian had just opened her mouth and pouted her red lips on purpose, but Qin Jiang was instantly annoyed, “Shut up.”

“You get lost too.”

Jules Massenet’s Meditation