Chapter 8: Material Girl

Ying Ziyun habitually dried her hair with a hairdryer downstairs before returning to the dormitory.

There were three other graceful girls in the dormitory; one was half-lying down applying a facial mask, and another was buried in the hard work of memorizing CET-6 vocabulary.

Only the one girl who was idle and munching on potato chips stretched out her long legs, blocked Ying Ziyun, and said with a smile, "Yunyun, you took so long to take a shower; were you entangled by your old flame again?"

"No."

Ying Ziyun lowered her head and glanced at the other girl. This girl was named Dan Yuyue; she was very pretty, even a bit flirtatious, and spoke in a cutesy tone. Even after removing her makeup following a shower, she was still as beautiful as a flower.

However, her attire at the moment was a bit unrefined: a pair of panties that hugged her buttocks, with no shorts worn over them. Her long legs were dazzlingly white, and her pajamas were the kind that exposed her armpits. While this outfit was indeed good-looking, it did not align with Ying Ziyun's aesthetic.

Dan Yuyue pursed her lips and retracted the long legs she had stretched across the middle of the dormitory: "Who are you kidding! I saw you and Xu Heng confronting each other downstairs. The way you two were posturing, whoa! It was like you were at war."

"We just chatted for a bit," Ying Ziyun said indifferently.

"Chatted about what? Preparing to get back together?"

Ying Ziyun did not speak; she turned her head to tidy up her change of clothes.

"Speaking of which, did that kid Xu Heng not bring you flowers today?" Dan Yuyue used her hand to fiddle with the roses inserted in the vase on the table. "You two aren't really breaking up for good, are you? If so, who's going to treat us to meals in the future?"

"Stop always thinking about taking advantage of others. He and I have nothing to do with each other anymore," Ying Ziyun replied.

"Sigh~~" Upon learning this result, Dan Yuyue shook her head dejectedly. "I saw from the start that this kid wasn't much. Our Yunyun is so pretty; you at least need a multi-millionaire second-generation heir to be worthy of you. Do you remember when school started and I told you that you two had too big a gap and would break up sooner or later..."

When she reached this point, Ying Ziyun shot her a cold glance, and she immediately didn't dare to continue.

Once Ying Ziyun left the dormitory to wash her clothes, Dan Yuyue muttered, "Putting on airs. It's not bad enough to have a wallet in college."

Just as Ying Ziyun looked down on Dan Yuyue, Dan Yuyue also didn't think much of Ying Ziyun's behavior of constantly claiming she wanted to be self-reliant while still dumping Xu Heng.

The two had different family upbringings, so their personalities naturally had significant differences.

Ying Ziyun was a child from an ordinary family, conservative and strong-willed, while Dan Yuyue had grown up in an orphanage and did not hold 100% trust in anyone's words in this world.

In Dan Yuyue's mind, Ying Ziyun simply felt that Xu Heng had no money, which was why she broke up with him.

She didn't think this was wrong; after all, love without material substance in this world was nonsense, and her greatest wish in life was to latch onto a very thick one.

Thigh.

The thicker the better, so that at least it could provide her with material comfort; as for other comforts.

Those could be discussed after material conditions were met.

Every time she talked about these things, the others in the dormitory would laugh and ask why she hadn't found a rich second-generation heir to take her home after so long, and that Ying Ziyun's relationship seemed quite happy.

Dan Yuyue felt they were too superficial; she didn't not find a rich second-generation heir because none were interested in her.

With her assets and academic background, if she stood at the school gate, plenty of rich people would come over to ask for her phone number.

But she wasn't looking for those thirty or forty-year-old old men, but rather high-quality potential stocks; it would be best if they weren't more than three years older than her, and if she could exchange sincerity for sincerity, that would be even more perfect.

So, in the second semester of her freshman year, she set her sights on Xu Heng's roommate, Cheng Huaiyu. This guy's family really had a bit of money, he wasn't ugly, and he had a Modu household registration. The two maintained an ambiguous relationship for several months, during which Cheng Huaiyu often bought her expensive cosmetics and clothes to show his favor.

Just as Dan Yuyue was deliberating whether to confirm a relationship with him, Ying Ziyun said she had broken up.

Good heavens, she had just considered dating Cheng Huaiyu, and right on her heels, Ying Ziyun broke up with Xu Heng!

Wasn't it obvious that she was jealous because she had found a rich second-generation heir?

At first, she was terrified that Ying Ziyun was coming to snatch her high-quality backup suitor. It wasn't that she didn't look as good as Ying Ziyun, but the environment of having no parents since childhood made it hard for her to possess much self-confidence.

So when Ying Ziyun and Xu Heng first broke up, she kept trying to get them to reconcile, and only after Ying Ziyun had no contact with Cheng Huaiyu did she finally set her mind at ease.

It was true, how could a proud person like Ying Ziyun go fishing for a sugar daddy? It was she who had overthought it.

Thus, when the sophomore year started, Dan Yuyue gave up on trying to get Ying Ziyun and Xu Heng back together, and the originally strained relationship between the two eased as a result.

Of course, that was the story on the original timeline.

At the current point in time, Ying Ziyun and Dan Yuyue were still the two people in the dormitory who got along the least.

……

The next day, past six o'clock, Xu Heng got up early, while the three people in the dormitory were still in their dreams, fighting with women in their heads.

University courses were different from high school; they were more spread out. For example, today, Tuesday morning, their Chinese Language and Literature major had no classes, in the afternoon there were two non-major classes, and in the evening there were two more.

For college students, the days with no classes in the morning were the happiest.

Last night, Cheng Huaiyu and Zhao Gaoyang didn't return until two or three in the morning and basically had to wake up at noon; Sheng Bo also stayed up late reading until the early hours and was hard to wake up at this hour.

If it were normal times, Xu Heng would probably have gone to the internet cafe with Cheng Huaiyu and the others, also waking up at noon, living a life of reversed days and nights.

But after being reborn, he knew very clearly what he wanted and would no longer waste time on games.

In order not to disturb his roommates' sleep, after washing up, Xu Heng took that old, second-hand laptop to the study room.

The author backend hadn't sent him a contract application yet; after all, the review staff didn't start work until after eight, but his novel's momentum was currently very good.

Just one night after publishing, there were already twenty or so comments, most of which were positive, begging him not to abandon the book.

There were also a few comments that found it astonishing that Xu Heng's new book released twenty thousand words in one day, asking if he had spent time in advance to save up over a hundred thousand words of draft.

Xu Heng just replied indifferently: "Writing and posting daily. The author has been single for twenty years, typing speed is guaranteed, the outline starts at a million words, absolutely will not abandon the book."

He never had the good habit of saving drafts. It seemed that most authors in this era liked to save tens or hundreds of thousands of words in drafts, whereas in his previous life, except for when an editor reminded him that he would be on a recommendation list the following week, he wrote and posted one chapter at a time.

Emphasizing that not a drop was left.

Seeing the author reply in person, the comments showed a bit more anticipation for this new book that hadn't even sprouted yet.

Of course, there were also one or two "haters" mixed in, mocking that this book was far worse than such-and-such or so-and-so.

But because the new book didn't have much popularity, there were very few haters, and these types of haters were basically new authors coming to advertise their own novels; their comments had no influence on others and could almost be ignored.

Xu Heng opened the profile of one of the haters, who had a serialized novel of eighty thousand words under their name; judging by the publication date, this book had taken them a full fifty days of creative time.

The content was also extremely wonderful, such as this description of the scenery at the beginning.

"White clouds hung in the blue sky, the sunlight warmed the earth, the flowers by the roadside were so cute, like a girl's smiling face"... emm, it had a ten-year-old child's innocent beauty.

Xu Heng found it amusing and posted a comment in their lonely comment section.

【Just finished reading your novel, I cannot sleep at night, update quickly, a million words will surely be legendary!】