Chapter 55: The Annoying Love Rival is Actually Breaking Up?!
Have you ever played with a boomerang?
You throw it out, and it flies right back, hitting the thrower hard on the head.
Yang Yueping originally wanted to paint Lin Yibai as a gold-digging homewrecker, someone who pretended to be sweet but only wanted Xia Changyu’s money. She wanted to nail down this accusation.
But this kind of lie is actually easy to break.
All Lin Yibai had to do was show her spending records. The only annoying part was having to “prove herself” like that, it felt disgusting.
Lin Yibai took out her phone and said, “All my spending from Fucheng to Binhai, including train tickets and hotel costs, is in my WeChat payment records. If you think I need to prove my innocence, I’ll show the police when they arrive. But I’m not going to show you.”
Now the real problem shows up. Lin Yibai has both the proof and the courage to prove she’s innocent.
But what about you?
Yang Yueping and the others avoided eye contact, giving off that “Okay, maybe we were wrong, but now that you’ve cleared your name, let’s just pretend this never happened” attitude.
But Lin Yibai wasn’t about to let it go. She took another step forward and asked sharply.
“Tell me, you and your besties, how much money did you actually spend on this trip to Binhai?”
From what Lin Yibai knew about them, she was almost sure they didn’t spend a single cent. That’s why she was so confident.
Yang Yueping’s face changed. She panicked and said, “You’re being unreasonable!”
Lin Yibai smiled and replied, “Now I’m being unreasonable? You didn’t think that when you slandered me and tried to humiliate me. I’m just asking to see your travel expenses, is that so hard?”
Yang Yueping’s face twisted like someone with a stomach ache. She mumbled, “That... that’s our personal privacy. You have no right to ask. It’s none of your business.”
Lin Yibai let out a cold laugh and said, “Oh, now you remember that privacy matters? Your privacy is ‘personal,’ but mine isn’t? How can you be such a double standard?”
Slowly, the people around them started to understand. On one side was a girl who was open, confident, and willing to prove her innocence. On the other side were girls who kept dodging questions.
Who was right and who was wrong? It was already very clear.
Seeing how embarrassed they looked, Lin Yibai went on the attack again.
“What? Don’t tell me none of you paid even one cent for this trip?”
Yang Yueping refused to answer. Her expression got even worse.
Lin Yibai didn’t let up and made fun of her even more.
“No way, no way! Are you seriously telling me there are people who go on vacation without spending a single coin of their own?”
That was a direct slap to their pride.
Everyone there was a girl too, so why should they keep tolerating girls like them?
Who’s going to keep putting up with their bad attitude?
Yang Yueping got so angry her voice turned sharp and wild, “You’re talking nonsense! You’re slandering us! Where’s your proof?”
Perfect. Lin Yibai had been waiting for that.
She now really loved the idea of boomerangs, because whatever you throw out, just comes flying right back to you.
Just like the tricks Yang Yueping had used earlier. Lin Yibai fired back without hesitation.
“Proof? Shouldn’t you be the one showing proof and proving your own innocence?”
Yang Yueping: ……
Lin Yibai smiled lightly and said, “Why is it that I can bring proof to clear my name, but you can’t?”
A total defeat. A complete and utter defeat.
No matter if it was about the boomerang or the magic battle, Lin Yibai won.
Lin Yibai, now using her identity as a girl, said confidently, “I gave them a chance, but they didn’t know how to use it!”
The crowd watching was actually called over by Yang Yueping herself, hoping to embarrass Lin Yibai. But now, things were backfiring.
“The girl is right… Where’s the proof? If you have proof and can show you’re innocent, then everything would be fine, right?”
“Don’t tell me they were really blaming her for no reason?”
“I even felt bad for her before, but now it looks like she’s just a mean woman who loves to stir up trouble.”
“Apologize!!”
“Yes, you must say sorry.”
“But even if they apologize, are we really supposed to forgive them? So disgusting. Really gross.”
“......”
Someone in the crowd pointed their phone camera at them.
Yang Yueping quickly covered her face and started yelling like a madwoman.
She had planned all of this and thought the cameras should be recording the other girl, and then posting it online so everyone could attack her on the internet.
But now things had flipped around.
She screamed with hate and curses, but still didn’t think about apologizing. Instead, she kept yelling.
“Proof... You don’t have any proof either, do you? You're making up lies to hurt someone’s reputation, be careful or I’ll sue you! And all of you recording on your phones, if I end up being attacked online and feel depressed, it’s all your fault!”
Oh? Now you're worried about proving your innocence?
Now you know online bullying can hurt people?
What about earlier? Where were your morals then?
Xia Changyu had been watching everything.
He had already been angry at Yang Yueping and her friends for a while and felt like he needed to do something.
Didn’t Yang Yueping ask for proof?
Fine then… he’d give them the proof they wanted.
He took out his payment records and said, “Forget proof, since I’m the person involved, I can tell you directly, they came in my car, stayed in my hotel, and ate food I paid for.”
Oops. He really said it all. That completely confirmed that they didn’t spend a single coin on the trip.
Gu Xiaoxue’s face turned ugly too.
She was one of the group, a roommate and a close friend.
If someone slapped Yang Yueping in the face, it felt like her face got slapped too.
But she seemed to misunderstand something. This wasn’t about Lin Yibai being too aggressive, and it wasn’t about Xia Changyu turning against his own girlfriend.
Let’s be honest here. If they had just admitted they were wrong and apologized, this whole thing wouldn’t have gone so far. Most guys wouldn’t even care enough to fight like this.
Gu Xiaoxue started pretending to be pitiful, her voice shaky with fake tears.
“Xia Changyu, aren’t you going too far? I’m your real girlfriend! Let’s not even talk about why you didn’t come home last night and were with another girl...”
Xia Changyu: “?”
Gu Xiaoxue wiped her eyes and kept going.
“But Yueping and the others are my roommates, my best friends. Even if you’re mad, don’t you think you’re going a little overboard? Can’t you at least think of me, your girlfriend?”
What a joke. Still trying to twist the truth?
Now you want to throw the "boomerang"?
So what, do we now have to blame ourselves?
Xia Changyu was completely disappointed. He said calmly, “Speaking of going too far, wasn’t it you and your friends who sent people to beat me up for no reason? I had to spend the whole night at the police station giving a report.”
“You say I didn’t come home last night?”
“You all had someone nearly beat me to death! Of course I didn’t dare go back!”
“And now you ask me why I was with another girl?”
“Good question!” Xia Changyu grew angrier and snorted coldly.
“If that girl hadn’t happened to walk by and save me, I’d probably be lying in a hospital bed right now because of the people you called!”
“So tell me, who’s really going too far here?”
“You call yourself my girlfriend, my partner? Think about your actions. Do you even deserve that title?”
“......”
“We’re breaking up.”
What?!
The annoying love rival is really breaking up with her?!