Ling Feng frowned, "I didn't lie to you, what I meant is that there really is a smell on you! Do you really want me to spell it out?"
"Fine then, let's hear it!" Zheng Xinyi said coldly, "I'm quite curious to see how you're going to defend your promiscuous girlfriend!" As she spoke, she cast a glance at Liu Tingyu.
Wiping his mouth, Ling Feng replied, "Although you use a lot of perfume, it's undeniable that the perfumes you use are cheap ones, otherwise, they wouldn't smell so suffocating!"
"Nonsense!" Zheng Xinyi snapped, "I use Anais Anais high-level perfume, what would a bumpkin like you know!"
"Anais Anais is a classic perfume launched by Cacharel in 1978, made from a combination of over 300 fragrances with a floral bouquet as its main theme. It chiefly features a fresh lily at its heart, fresh and elegant, gentle and pure, epitomizing a girl's romantic sentiment! But all I can sense from you is a strong, irritating odor. If you say you're using Anais Anais, I can only say you must have bought a counterfeit! If you have the receipt, you might want to consider going to customer service!"
The crowd around heard Ling Feng's professional explanation and looked at Zheng Xinyi with mocking eyes. In Liu Tingyu's eyes, there was an extraordinary brilliance; she hadn't expected Ling Feng to be so knowledgeable about perfumes.
"Of course, using low-quality perfume isn't your fault!" Ling Feng continued indifferently, not minding the ugly expression on Zheng Xinyi's face, "You use perfume solely to mask another scent on you, am I right?"
Zheng Xinyi's face turned pale, and she said defiantly, "That's utter nonsense!"
Suddenly, everyone's ambiguous gaze shifted to Zheng Xinyi. Liu Tingyu blushed slightly but her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"You... you're spouting nonsense!" Zheng Xinyi paled, her body trembling slightly.
She was immensely scared, even wondering if Ling Feng had been spying outside her door; otherwise, how could he have known?
"Whether I'm spouting nonsense, you know better yourself," said Ling Feng quietly, "To be honest, I've been holding back. After all, exposing your matters in public isn't gentlemanly. But I had no choice, I've let you off many times, yet you incessantly challenge my patience! Don't you realize that your presence is to me what a garbage bin is to others? Who would like to eat next to a garbage bin?"
"Haha, this guy is something!"
"Eating next to a garbage bin? Stop there, his words are making me feel nauseous too!"
"Look at her dress, she's not any innocent girl, yet shamelessly comes here to mock and provoke, truly ridiculous!"
...
The stares and sarcastic remarks pierced Zheng Xinyi like swords! It was the first time she truly understood what it felt like to be ridiculed and pointed at by the crowd!
"No, this is all your fault!" Zheng Xinyi shrieked, then grabbed a plate of stir-fried rice cakes from the table, intending to dump it on Liu Tingyu.
The plate still had some stir-fried rice cakes and leftover broth, which would definitely ruin her look if it hit her.
Ling Feng's finger twitched, and a gust of Finger Wind struck Zheng Xinyi's wrist.
Zheng Xinyi felt a numbness in her hand, and the plate she intended to dump on Liu Tingyu fell and landed on herself instead.
The sticky broth spilled all down her blouse and into her underwear!
Fortunately, the broth was no longer hot; otherwise, she might have gotten burnt!
"Ah!" Zheng Xinyi was stunned before screaming shrilly.
She felt incredibly unlucky, having heard Liu Tingyu was at the Food Street and wanted to jinx her, only to end up humiliating herself greatly!
"Liu Tingyu, you wait for me!" Zheng Xinyi clutched her chest and ran off.
The three girls with her also hurriedly ran back.
"Haha, she really did end up quite embarrassingly!"
"Lucky I've been filming all along, today's forum news will be juicy!"
"Bro, share the goods, wish you lifelong safety!"
...
"Was it your doing?" Liu Tingyu looked at Ling Feng, her voice tinged with excitement.
Ling Feng earnestly replied, "Don't wrong me now, it was clearly her own inability to hold the plate. Maybe the plate was too slippery! You can't pin this on me, I'm not taking the blame for this!"
Liu Tingyu rolled her eyes at Ling Feng, "Who's asking you to take the blame? But today really was gratifying, it's my first time seeing her so mortified!"
Ling Feng gently shook his head, "What's really going on between you two? It feels like you have irreconcilable differences! You're both just students, is it really necessary?"
Liu Tingyu shrugged and said, "Exactly, I also think it's unnecessary, but she has been troubling me constantly, I'm so fed up! If not for her, I wouldn't even consider renting a place to live."
"What happened?"
"It's quite simple," Tingyu explained, "Zheng Xinyi and I are both from the Industrial Management Department and in the same year. After entering the university, some bored individuals organized a 'campus beauty' contest, and I was inexplicably selected, even ranking above Zheng Xinyi. Since then, she has always been lukewarm towards me."
"That doesn't seem enough to warrant such enmity!"
"Of course, the real discord happened in our sophomore year. Zheng Xinyi, well, she's somewhat vain. She schemingly started dating a rich second-generation boyfriend, thinking it would set her up for a life of luxury as a rich wife. Unexpectedly, after a class reunion, that idiotic boyfriend approached me, wanting to confess his feelings!"
Liu Tingyu said irritably, "I didn't accept his proposal, but he spoke rudely, and I ended up slapping him. Later, that idiot spread rumors that I seduced him, which is just absurd!"
"What's even more absurd is that Zheng Xinyi believed it. That's why we fell out."
"What about that rich second-generation boyfriend?"
"He's long since broken up with her," Liu Tingyu said, "Apparently, the rich guy hooked up with some girl from the Yanjing Film Academy. Perhaps because of this, Zheng Xinyi believes I ruined her chance to reach the pinnacle of her life, so she has always been hostile towards me."