Chapter 162: Chapter 125: A Heart Biased Towards the Outer Star Sea
She smiled gently and said, "Sister Shu, that’s not a problem at all. If you don’t have a suitable dress, I can lend you one. I’ll have my butler pick a pretty dress from my closet and send it over right away. There’s still time. Our figures are pretty similar..."
"Similar?" Shu Yao wondered where she got that confidence.
Shu Yao usually didn’t fuss over her clothes, but that didn’t mean her figure was lacking. On the contrary, her body was flawless.
Shu Yao sized up Lin Zhenxiang’s height and measurements, her baffled expression seeming to ask, ’How exactly are our figures similar?’
Lin Zhenxiang looked mortified, suddenly unable to meet her gaze.
"They say a woman’s body improves after having a baby. Once our Xiangxiang has a child, her figure won’t be any worse than yours!" Huo Jiao was trying to defend Lin Zhenxiang, but she apparently didn’t realize she had just admitted Lin Zhenxiang’s figure was inferior to Shu Yao’s.
A dark look flickered in Lin Zhenxiang’s eyes.
Shu Yao gave a smug grin. "First of all, she’d have to be able to get pregnant."
Huo Jiao instinctively shot back, "Of course Xiangxiang can have kids!"
"Oh, my apologies. I just assumed..." Shu Yao feigned an apology, her tone dripping with innocence. "I heard Miss Lin underwent genetic modification, so I thought she might have some... complications in that department."
’Someone without any defects running off to get genetic modification? Are they sick in the head?’
Lin Zhenxiang’s expression turned visibly sour.
"Sister Shu, was it really necessary to insult me like that?"
Shu Yao smiled innocently, her tone one of helplessness. "You came here asking for it. What was I supposed to do?"
Lin Zhenxiang pressed her lips together, staring silently at Shu Yao. Beneath the hurt and sorrow in her eyes, resentment simmered.
At that moment, other girls came to her defense:
"Shu, there’s no need for your words to be so barbed. Xiangxiang was just trying to help you."
"We all go to the same school. Can’t we just be friendly?"
Shu Yao’s voice rang out, crisp and clear. "Be friendly with someone who tried to get me thrown into an interstellar prison and used Spiritual Manipulation on her fans to attack me? What the hell, I’m not sick in the head!"
The girls fell silent.
It was no secret what Lin Zhenxiang had done to Shu Yao.
It was all over the school and the Star Network.
Putting themselves in Shu Yao’s shoes, they knew if they had suffered the same kind of suppression and attacks from Lin Zhenxiang, they wouldn’t be able to face her calmly either.
Just then, a girl in a white dress, unable to take it any longer, stood up and let Lin Zhenxiang have it:
"Lin Zhenxiang, stop with the nice-girl act! When we were picking up the beads just now, you hid a big one. Were you trying to pocket it?!
"I once said the food you made on your livestream didn’t look good, and you led the entire class in ostracizing me!
"You started livestreaming back in our first year, roping everyone in class into it and pressuring us to donate to boost your rankings!
"And after we made you famous, did you ever give anything back to us? No! You act like we owe you something! I’ve been sick of you for a long time!
"We graduate in a month, so I’m not afraid of offending you anymore! Getting all this off my chest, letting out all the stress you’ve caused me... who knows, maybe I’ll have a breakthrough and ace the unified examination!"
After her tirade, the girl in the white dress felt an incredible rush of satisfaction.
The other girls all glanced at her, impressed by her courage.
Lin Zhenxiang’s shoulders trembled. Tears welled up in her eyes and streamed down her face as she put on a piteous display.
Through suppressed sobs, she murmured, "I was planning on taking the whole class on a trip to another planet for graduation..."
A graduation trip to an off-world planet! This was something many students in the class could only dream of.
With that one sentence, Lin Zhenxiang completely turned the tables.
Suddenly, the girl in the white dress became the public enemy.
Huo Jiao and her friends rushed to comfort Lin Zhenxiang. Those who couldn’t get close enough turned on the girl in the white dress, hurling accusations at her.
"E Yue, you’ve gone too far!"
"We all donated to Xiangxiang because we wanted to! Don’t act like anyone forced you!"
Seeing them being used as pawns without a clue, the girl in the white dress snorted in contempt.
"See? This is what she does best—using disgusting tactics to manipulate her brain-dead followers into attacking anyone who speaks out against her!
"Try using those broken brains of yours for once. She’s already getting crushed by Mrs. Bao. She’ll obviously have to spend the entire break trying to boost her rankings. Where would she get the time to take you all on a graduation trip?"
Lin Zhenxiang tearfully retorted, "I’ve had it planned for ages! I, Lin Zhenxiang, always keep my promises!"
"Oh, really? Fine." The girl in the white dress calmly swept her gaze over the crowd. "I’ll be waiting for the day you all set off on your graduation trip to come and rub it in my face. I just pray that when the time comes, you don’t all turn around and say it’s my fault she’s not taking you!"