Friday, nearing midnight, the university campus that had been bustling all day was slowly settling into silence.
The lights in the dormitory had already been turned off. Sun Hao had just returned from outside and was about to lock the dorm room door from the inside when Zhou Nan, already lying in bed, said, “Don’t lock it. A’Xue just went out to take a call. He hasn’t come back yet.”
“It’s probably a call from the junior,” Sun Hao said, unable to resist clicking his tongue twice. “As expected, little brothers really are clingy. He can’t even stand being apart for one night.”
Zhou Nan laughed. “Isn’t that the truth? Only that little junior could tame this demon.”
The person they were talking about, Wen Moxue, was the famous beauty of their Literature Department and the kind of beauty that was extraordinarily aggressive at that, a face that stunned people at first sight and remained unforgettable long afterward.
With him around, their liberal arts university, where the annual campus beauty election had always been particularly bloody, had finally experienced a rare era of peace.
Wen Moxue also had a nickname: the Straight Man Catcher.
Countless straight men who refused to believe the rumors had come to him only to meet their downfall. The number of straight men he had supposedly bent could have gone around the entire Hai University.
Yet Wen Moxue himself seemed to have little interest in either men or women. He had been freely wreaking havoc for two years and no one had managed to win him over.
That was, until Fu Jiaheng appeared.
Fu Jiaheng was a freshman who had just entered their university that year. Because there weren’t enough rooms in the freshmen dormitory, he had been placed in their three person dorm.
Unsurprisingly, the junior had fallen in love with Wen Moxue at first sight and immediately launched an enthusiastic pursuit.
Unlike all those pursuers who had been ignored in the past, Fu Jiaheng had the advantage of being right there under the same roof. He was also highly intelligent and emotionally perceptive. Probably because of his privileged family background and the things he had been exposed to while growing up, he was remarkably skilled at pursuing someone.
Both roommates could tell that Wen Moxue was clearly falling for him.
The moment the conversation turned to their roommate’s romantic gossip, Zhou Nan was no longer sleepy.
He said, “They’re not together yet, right? Hehe, I bet the junior will confess on Singles’ Day.”
“I don’t think they’ll even make it that long. I bet they’ll get together sometime this month.”
“I bet the two of us will never get together in this lifetime.”
A clear, melodious voice answered them from the doorway. It was none other than the very person they had been discussing.
Wen Moxue pushed the door open and walked inside. He had already taken a shower and his slightly curly black hair was neither fully wet nor fully dry, falling loosely around his face. In the dim glow of the phone flashlight, his skin looked even whiter than snow, while his delicate features seemed almost like something out of a painting.
The two roommates stared at each other.
They had both assumed those two were practically destined to become a couple. Wen Moxue’s words instantly filled their heads with question marks.
Zhou Nan poked his head out from his bed and asked with a grin, “What? Did the junior make you angry?”
Wen Moxue locked the door behind him. “No.”
“Then why?” Sun Hao asked curiously.
Wen Moxue thought for a moment before saying, “Probably because when he left today, he stepped out with his right foot first and it pissed me off.”
Roommates: “…”
What an unpredictable beauty!
But who could blame him?
He was beautiful, after all.
Of course, Wen Moxue wasn’t actually that much of a psychopath. He really did quite like Fu Jiaheng. The boy was sunny and clean cut, neither greasy nor desperately trying to look cool. He didn’t deliberately lower himself or act submissive just to please Wen Moxue and being around him was genuinely comfortable.
If it weren’t for something that had happened today, Wen Moxue had already been prepared to accept his confession.
Fu Jiaheng was a local. Today, one of his cousins was getting engaged, so he had no choice but to go home.
The relationship between the two of them had already entered that ambiguous stage. Fu Jiaheng was like a large dog guarding its chosen mate, practically wishing he could stick to Wen Moxue twenty four hours a day. He had lingered in the dormitory, saying goodbye to Wen Moxue with endless reluctance, turning back every few steps as he finally left.
Only to realize afterward that he had forgotten his phone.
Wen Moxue picked up the phone, intending to take it outside to him but when he happened to see a WeChat message pop up on the screen, his movements suddenly stopped.
Dad: 【Is this your senior? A man who looks this much like a evildoer doesn’t look like a decent person.】
Dad: 【I can tell at a glance that he’s a gold digger. He only agreed to be with you because you have money. I don’t approve of you dating him.】
Wen Moxue: ???
For a moment after seeing those two messages, Wen Moxue’s mind went completely blank.
A gold digger… Was he talking about him?
Wen Moxue found it utterly unbelievable. He had grown up without even having a romantic relationship yet in this man’s eyes, he had somehow become an indecent person.
Just because he was good looking, that made him a gold digger?
What kind of logic was that?!
At that moment, he genuinely wanted to unlock Fu Jiaheng’s phone and reply, So I’m after your money, huh?
He truly had never expected that the mature and handsome man he had caught a glimpse of at the beginning of the semester, the one with broad, imposing shoulders and an overwhelming husbandly aura, the very definition of a powerful Daddy, would have such a filthy mind underneath it all.
What the hell was wrong with this man?
Because of his upbringing, words like “scrounging for money” and “indecent” struck directly at Wen Moxue’s sore spot.
He was so angry that he wanted to curse him out. Just then, the phone began buzzing in his hand. An incoming call appeared on the screen.
Caller: Dad, Fu Cheng.
It was that old bastard!
Perfect timing. He was going to tear him apart.
Wen Moxue’s finger was just about to press the answer button when he stopped.
He wasn’t good at cursing people. What if he ended up getting into a verbal fight over the phone and failed to win the argument? Wouldn’t that just make him even angrier?
Thinking that, he calmed down a little. He glanced at the number displayed on the screen and, almost instinctively, memorized the string of digits before placing the phone back where he had found it.
He really did like Fu Jiaheng. He wanted to pretend he hadn’t seen anything but he had overestimated his own ability to tolerate things like this. The entire night, the matter kept bothering him. It even dragged his feelings for Fu Jiaheng down with it.
So what if the guy had a little money?
He acted as if anyone else was dying to have it.
The more Wen Moxue thought about it, the more irritated he became and the angrier he got. As a result, even in his dreams that night, he saw that disgusting man’s face and desperately wanted to smash his dog like head in.
When he woke up the next morning and remembered that he hadn’t managed to beat him up in the dream, he became even more annoyed.
Two dark circles hung beneath his eyes. He grabbed an empty book bag, stuffed it full of books and drifted out of the dormitory like a ghost.
The university’s Love and Care Society was holding a donation drive for extracurricular reading materials. Wen Moxue had plenty of books, so he planned to donate some that he no longer needed. Otherwise, by the time he reached his senior year, he would probably end up selling them by the kilogram for a few cents.
He walked to the parasol trees beneath the East Gate and waited for a while. Soon, Shu Yan, who had arranged to come donate books with him, came jogging over and handed him a cup of milk tea.
“Sorry to keep you waiting! I got held up because there was a line when I bought the milk tea.”
“It’s fine,” Wen Moxue said as he accepted it. “Thanks.”
The two of them walked toward the place where the books were being collected.
Shu Yan had once been one of their roommates as well but after getting a boyfriend from outside the university, he had applied to live off campus during his sophomore year and moved in with his partner.
Seeing the listless look on Wen Moxue’s face, Shu Yan clicked his tongue twice and said, “Damn, the junior really went all out, huh? He drained you dry.”
Wen Moxue took a sip of his milk tea and said without bothering to hide his disgust, “Stop being disgusting.”
Seeing that something was clearly wrong with his attitude, Shu Yan hurriedly asked, “What happened?”
Wen Moxue and Shu Yan were the same type and they were also in the same class in the same department, so the two of them were particularly close.
Besides, this kind of thing wasn’t something he could tell the other two roommates. They still had to live under the same roof for another two years and keeping quiet about it would at least spare them the awkwardness.
But there was no problem telling Shu Yan.
So Wen Moxue told him what had happened.
“Fuck!” Shu Yan said in disbelief. “Are you sure that was his father? The handsome Daddy we saw at the beginning of the semester?”
“The contact is saved as ‘Dad,’ anyway,” Wen Moxue said, spreading his hands. “Unless Fu Jiaheng has a habit of randomly acknowledging people as his father, then there’s no mistaking it.”
“Fuck and I even had a little crush on him when I saw him back then. Who would’ve thought his character was actually this shitty? He acts like he’s so damn respectable. His own mind is filthy, so he sees filth wherever he looks. For all we know, his mountains of wealth were earned by going out to sea and fishing for money. Hah! No wonder he’s still single despite looking like that. With thoughts as filthy as his, who would dare spend the rest of their life with him?”
Fu Jiaheng had been pursuing Wen Moxue for nearly two months. They all knew a little about his family situation. They knew that he came from a single parent family and that his father was currently single, without even a romantic interest, let alone a relationship.
Back then, they had privately sighed over the fact that such a handsome Daddy had already started living like a widower at such a young age, saying it was a waste of such a good looking face.
Now, they only wanted to laugh.
Wen Moxue sneered. “Maybe he’s been fishing for money so much that it left him impotent.”
This was the first time Shu Yan had ever seen Wen Moxue speak so viciously.
He couldn’t help sighing. “Who would’ve thought? Our Hai University’s straight man killer, who has never met his match, actually suffered his first defeat because of an old man.”
Wen Moxue said expressionlessly, “Don’t make it sound like I was trying to bend him and failed. That’s disgusting.”
Shu Yan could tell that he was genuinely furious and asked, “Then what are you going to do about Fu Jiaheng? From what I’ve seen, he’s actually a really good guy.”
After something like this had happened, how could Wen Moxue possibly get together with him?
In fact, he was so angry that he was now indiscriminately taking it out on everyone connected to the matter. “That’s hard to say. Like father, like son. Maybe he also thinks that the only reason I could possibly agree to date him is because he has money.”
Shu Yan burst out laughing. “A thousand days of building up goodwill and all it takes is one moment to get the ick.”
By then, they had arrived at the place where the books were being donated.
It was Saturday morning. Most students were still sleeping in, so there were hardly any people coming to donate books. Beneath the temporary canopy that had been set up for the event, everything was quiet and deserted.
The junior students responsible for manning the stall became extremely enthusiastic the moment they saw the great beauty Wen Moxue.
The junior especially turned bright red, so nervous that he could barely get his words out.
The female junior knew perfectly well that Wen Moxue was gay, so she remained relatively composed. When she saw him take more than ten books out of his bag, she quickly reached out to take them from him.
“Senior, did you flip through every book? There’s nothing important tucked inside any of them, right?”
When people donated books, they often stuffed things between the pages without thinking about it and then forgot about them. They had found all sorts of things inside donated books before, including meal cards, student IDs, exam admission tickets and even bank cards and cash. Items with names on them were still manageable but when they found bank cards or cash, they often had no idea who they belonged to.
That was why they always reminded donors to flip through their books before handing them over.
Wen Moxue had been so furious when he left the dormitory that morning that this was the last thing on his mind.
After being reminded, he said, “No, I didn’t. I’ll look through them.”
The junior and female junior helped him flip through the books together.
“Eh? There’s something here.”
The junior found something tucked inside one of the books and immediately pulled it out, handing it to Wen Moxue as though he had discovered some treasure.
Wen Moxue took it and looked down.
It was a note with Fu Cheng’s phone number written on it.
After memorizing Fu Cheng’s number yesterday, he had been afraid that he might forget it, so he had written it down and casually stuffed the note inside one of his books.
He hadn’t expected it to be found during the inspection.
What terrible luck!
The junior probably noticed that Wen Moxue’s expression had turned unpleasant and asked nervously, “S Senior, is there a problem?”
Wen Moxue calmly slipped the note into his pocket. “It’s nothing.”
After flipping through every book and confirming that there was nothing else inside, the two of them registered the donation information and left.
Even after they had walked quite a distance away, Wen Moxue could still feel the junior’s burning gaze following him.
He took the note out of his pocket and said, “What do you think? If I stick his phone number on a utility pole and put up an advertisement for sperm donation, do you think people would actually go harass him?”
“That’s nothing compared to getting into one of the socialite groups in Hai City and posting his phone number there. Maybe there really are some gold digging men or women who would go after him for his money.”
Wen Moxue’s movement stopped.
His eyes lit up as he looked at Shu Yan. “Would that actually work?”
“Uh… I don’t know either.”
Shu Yan wasn’t good at lying, so he honestly said, “The main problem is that we don’t know what kind of big shot he is. If the target isn’t clear enough, those people might not be willing to waste their time but what if someone actually is willing to go after him? Even if they only harass him or disgust him a little, that would still be something, wouldn’t it?”
Wen Moxue wasn’t discouraged. Instead, the more he listened, the brighter his eyes became.
Shu Yan’s reminder had given him an extremely vicious plan.
“Why rely on other people when I can rely on myself? Wouldn’t it be more reliable if I pretended to be a gold digging woman and personally went after him?”
Shu Yan was utterly dumbfounded when he heard this. “This… no, isn’t that taking things way too far? He’s just some old man. Is he really worth making such a huge sacrifice for?”
Wen Moxue, however, didn’t care in the slightest. “His sacrifice would be bigger than mine.”
That was simply Wen Moxue’s personality.
He held grudges and when someone offended him, he was determined to repay it several times over. If someone pulled out a single strand of his hair, he would turn around and pluck out three of theirs in return.
Even if taking down an enemy meant suffering eight hundred points of damage himself after dealing a thousand points of damage to them, he would still think that winning two hundred points in the end was worth it. At the very least, his heart would feel satisfied. As far as he was concerned, that made the whole bloody exchange a profitable deal.
The main reason was that this damnable man was simply too infuriating. Unless he disgusted him in return, Wen Moxue couldn’t swallow this anger.
The corners of his lips slowly curled upward into an evil smile.
“So I’m a gold digger, am I? Then I’ll bleed him dry!”
Shu Yan: “…”
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ChaptersChapter 1 · You think you can get away with this?Chapter 2 · That clueless straight guyChapter 3 · It’s just women’s clothing, right?Chapter 4 · That’s clearly a girl’s voice!Chapter 5 · Fu Dog, prepare to die!Chapter 6 · I possess a masculine charmChapter 7 · This skirt makes her look like a slutChapter 8 · Fu transferred 10,000 yuan to you.Chapter 9 · Black stockings photosChapter 10 · The older man asked for the photos himself!Chapter 11 · I bumped into an old man while dressed as a manChapter 12 · An older man took the initiative to ask him out!Chapter 13 · Forums where posts were postedChapter 14 · Eating with an older manChapter 15 · Pattting HeadChapter 16 · The older man’s heart flutterChapter 17 · Don’t keep posting these kinds of photos.Chapter 18 · Exclusive private photos of an older manChapter 19 · I was kissedChapter 20 · Unique seduction methodChapter 21 · My lips are swollen from being kissed.Chapter 22 · Watching legs in a videoChapter 23 · Absence makes the heart grow fonderChapter 24 · The Older Man’s FallChapter 25 Part 1 · We broke up! We broke up!Chapter 25 Part 2 · We broke up! We broke up!Chapter 26 · Is he your dad?Chapter 27 · This man has a face that looks very similarChapter 28 · I do mind, I only like womenChapter 29 · I’m dizzyChapter 30 · Fair legs that would drive any foot fetishist crazy.Chapter 31 · Put it on and let me seeChapter 32 · Crossdressing againChapter 33 · PunishChapter 34 · Punish Fu Jiahang’s scumbag fatherChapter 35 · Massage the waistChapter 36 · HeartbeatChapter 37 · Men are no longer able to function after the age of 25Chapter 38 Part 1 · BedmatesChapter 38 Part 2 · BedmatesChapter 39 · PossessivenessChapter 40 · Little Godmother