“You must be thirsty. I’ll go buy some milk tea,” Ye Yun hurriedly said when he found an opportunity.
Carrying bags and buying milk tea were practically standard duties when accompanying a girl shopping. However, Ye Yun did not even have the privilege of carrying Wu Jiarui’s bags right now. All he could do was buy the milk tea.
“Mm.” Wu Jiarui nodded lightly.
After Ye Yun left, Wu Jiarui walked over to another luxury-brand counter.
At that moment, Zhou Feng noticed something unexpected. Wu Jiarui quietly slipped an item into her pocket.
The Campus Belle was stealing!
No matter how imaginative Zhou Feng was, he had never expected Wu Jiarui to have such a peculiar habit. If news like this ever got out, he could hardly imagine how explosive it would be.
[Ding!]
[A random system choice has appeared.]
[Option 1: Pretend you saw nothing. Reward: 500,000 yuan in cash.]
[Option 2: Step forward and reprimand Wu Jiarui, making her voluntarily return the item. Reward: Wu Jiarui’s favorability -10.]
[Option 3: You wouldn’t want anyone to find out that you stole something from the mall, would you…? Reward: Information about the Destined Protagonist of another novel.]
Zhou Feng was slightly startled. He had not expected the system to offer rewards even for something like this.
Naturally, he chose Option 3.
He received hundreds of thousands of yuan in living expenses every month. What use would another 500,000 yuan in cash be to him?
As for reprimanding and educating Wu Jiarui? That was even more pointless. It would actually lower her favorability toward him by 10 points.
More importantly, Zhou Feng had never intended to win Wu Jiarui’s favor in the first place.
Instead, the reward of information about the Destined Protagonist of another novel greatly interested him. He wondered what kind of protagonist this one would be.
Regardless, that person was potentially Zhou Feng’s enemy. Any such threat had to be eliminated before it had a chance to grow.
Meanwhile, Wu Jiarui glanced around cautiously. After confirming that no one was watching her, she deliberately wandered around several other shelves, pretending to browse before turning around and leaving the store.
From the direction she was heading, she seemed to be going to the restroom.
Zhou Feng smiled faintly and followed her.
There were not many people in the mall to begin with, and the corridor was even quieter. Zhou Feng quickly caught up and directly cornered Wu Jiarui.
“W-What are you doing?” Wu Jiarui’s expression changed slightly.
For an instant, she nearly screamed for help.
‘What is this playboy trying to do? Why did he suddenly chase after me and corner me here?’
‘What if I’ve been exposed?’
Zhou Feng moved incredibly fast. Before Wu Jiarui could react, he reached into her pocket and pulled out a bottle of foundation.
“Look what we have here. I never expected our Campus Belle to have such a peculiar habit.”
Wu Jiarui’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
She had clearly avoided everyone’s gaze when she made her move. She had even deliberately chosen a blind spot where there were no surveillance cameras.
‘Then why did Zhou Feng notice? Could it be that although he looked like he was standing outside, he’d actually been watching me the entire time?!’
“Give it back!” Wu Jiarui was genuinely panicking now and even reached out to snatch it away.
However, compared with Zhou Feng, she looked small and delicate. Her attempts to grab the foundation from him made her seem more like a little bird nestling against him and acting spoiled.
“If I call the police, your life will probably be ruined. Your reputation will be completely destroyed.” Zhou Feng raised the bottle of foundation as he spoke.
The item itself was not particularly expensive, costing only a few hundred yuan. That was a fairly ordinary price for cosmetics, especially in a large shopping mall like this.
However, the fact that Wu Jiarui would steal even something like this suggested that it was hardly her first time.
“I wonder what your classmates and best friends would think of you. Oh, right, and your family too,” Zhou Feng added with a smile.
He remembered that Wu Jiarui’s family circumstances were actually quite decent. Her parents seemed to both be teachers, and they were especially strict with her.
Yet the daughter they had raised was truly an embarrassment.
Seeing Zhou Feng’s roguish expression, Wu Jiarui took a deep breath and tried her best to remain calm.
“W-What exactly do you want?”
Wu Jiarui understood perfectly well what would happen if the fact that she had stolen something became public. Her parents would be utterly humiliated. How could they continue facing their students as teachers afterward?
“You wouldn’t want anyone finding out that you’re a thief, would you? My demand isn’t unreasonable. You only need to kiss me once.” Zhou Feng casually waved the bottle of foundation in his hand.
“No!”
Wu Jiarui instinctively blurted out her refusal.
She had never imagined that Zhou Feng would set his sights on her like this.
She had never even had a boyfriend before, and her first kiss was still untouched. Naturally, this was largely because of her parents. They had strictly forbidden her from dating while she was in school.
Even though Wu Jiarui was already a university student, her parents still insisted that she could not date on campus.
Sometimes, even Wu Jiarui found her parents ridiculous.
They were exactly the kind of parents who absolutely forbade their daughter from dating while she was studying, yet the moment she graduated from university and had worked for a year, they would immediately start demanding that she get married.
“How can you be so shameless?!” Wu Jiarui was almost driven to tears, her eyes already glistening.
Zhou Feng could not help laughing when he heard that.
“Me? Shameless? You’re the thief here. A thief is accusing me of being shameless?” Zhou Feng said with an amused smile.
Wu Jiarui froze.
Only then did she suddenly realize what her current identity was.
A thief!
Deep down, Wu Jiarui had never considered herself a thief. Her parents simply did not give her enough living expenses, yet she refused to let other people outshine her.
Especially those women who were not even as beautiful as her. They merely knew how to dress themselves up and used expensive cosmetics, yet somehow acted as though they were superior to her.
“Don’t call the police… Zhou Feng, what will it take for you to let me go? I really only stole something this once. I promise I’ll never do it again. I just lost my head for a moment. Please forgive me.” Wu Jiarui deliberately put on a pitiful expression.
“Actually, it’s quite simple. I’d like to know what it’s like to be the Campus Belle’s boyfriend too. How about being my girlfriend for three days?” Zhou Feng asked with a faint smile.
‘What?!’
Wu Jiarui was so furious that she nearly coughed up blood.
She had never imagined that Zhou Feng would make such a demand.
‘Be his girlfriend for three days? What kind of joke is that?! What would that make me?’
Forget three days. Even one day was impossible!
How could she possibly date a rich young master like him? She was not some materialistic woman who worshiped money.
Of course, that was merely how Wu Jiarui viewed herself.
How could the lofty Campus Belle ever admit that she was materialistic?
‘Wait! Why would Zhou Feng ask me to be his girlfriend for three days? Could it be because… he likes me?!’
‘That must be it.’
Wu Jiarui was extremely confident about this.
Back in high school, more than half the boys in her class had liked her. On Valentine’s Day, her desk drawer had always been stuffed with chocolates and confession letters.
Although none of them had come from Zhou Feng, he must have liked her too.
“Zhou Feng… if you want to pursue me, you can use other methods. If you’re truly sincere, I’m sure I’ll be able to feel it,” Wu Jiarui said after adjusting her tone.
“Pursue you? You want me to become a bootlicker like Ye Yun?” Zhou Feng immediately looked at her with disdain.