Jilted by Day, Cuddled At Night

Gu Yan said quietly, "Don’t worry, your face won’t be disfigured, it’ll just be swollen for a couple of days. This is the punishment for your reckless gossiping and nonsense! All those messy things you accused me of, I’ve never done. Stop pinning them on me! Consider this a warning. If you come at me like this again, it won’t be as simple as a swollen face for just two days!"

After saying those words, Gu Yan took the stunned Vivian by the hand and walked away.

It was only then that the girls who were on good terms with Luo Xixi dared to step forward and help her up. Luo Xixi quickly said, "Mirror, give me a mirror quickly!"

Seeing her swollen face in the mirror, Luo Xixi immediately burst into tears.

Meanwhile, some of the onlookers had captured the scene on video and uploaded it to the campus’s StarWeb.

Gu Yan’s presence at Empire University was already the center of much attention, with many people following her, some out of curiosity and others out of jealousy.

Especially since they thought Gu Yan wasn’t anything special, not as excellent as her two brothers, and that her only talent was being born into the right family.

Thus, when the video started spreading across the campus StarWeb, the comments section became filled with all sorts of remarks.

"Isn’t this just bullying by taking advantage of one’s power? What’s the point of hitting someone for no good reason?"

"Wasn’t Gu Yan said to be a mushroom Plantman? Why can she still produce vines?"

"She’s the daughter of Commander Gu after all, what can’t she get?" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"The one who got hit is from the Luo family, right? They should be relatives, shouldn’t they? Does anyone know why Gu Yan hit her?"

"I heard it’s because Gu Yan stole Luo Xixi’s fiancé, and when Luo Xixi confronted her about it, Gu Yan hit her?"

"My god, if that’s true, isn’t this little Gu princess going a bit too far with her bullying?"

Gu Yu quickly saw the news online and was instantly furious. He immediately called his little sister’s neural implant.

"Xiaoyan, what’s going on with the video on the campus web? Did someone bully you?"

Even though the video clearly showed Gu Yan hitting someone, as a concerned older brother, his first instinct was to check if his little sister was okay.

After all, Gu Yu couldn’t believe that his Xiaoyan would hit someone without a good reason.

Gu Yan was still unaware of the online fiasco. She had been discussing with Vivian about Insectoids coming to participate in a student exchange and even doing military training together, which was also significant news.

When she heard her brother’s words, Gu Yan was stunned for a few seconds before Vivian hurriedly opened the campus StarWeb and saw the video and the comments below.

"Xiaoyan, look at this quickly!"

After Gu Yan saw it, her lovely face darkened. Then she explained the whole incident to her brother Gu Yu, who became inflamed with anger when he heard it.

"That woman is insane! You only slapped her once, which is already letting her off lightly! No, this just won’t do, it’s too lenient on her!"

"Brother, don’t get worked up. I’ve already taught her a lesson. But it looks like someone is stirring the pot with this post."

"Hmph, and it’s all anonymous too, no worries. I’ll have someone make this post require real names."

If those people still dare to speak up then, we’ll proceed to the next step because some people are just following the crowd or are simply jealous of Gu Yan.

Take Molly, for example.

She’d tried to be close to Gu Yan multiple times, and Gu Yan had always been nonchalant towards her, which really annoyed Molly. Yet she didn’t dare to directly confront Gu Yan, since she hadn’t completely given up yet.

When she saw the video online, no matter what the reason was, it showed Gu Yan hitting someone, so she hurried to post anonymously, seizing the opportunity to kick someone while they were down.

"How could Gu Yan do this? Both Commander Gu and Commander Su are such good people, sigh, and His Majesty is also outstanding. How could Gu Yan be like this?"

"It must be because her status is so high, she feels untouchable."

"I saw it with my own eyes, Gu Yan was really warm and familiar with Senior Brother Mu. I never saw it coming, she even stole someone else’s fiancé."

People like Molly were not in the minority, not to mention Luo Xixi leading people to stir the pot.

Luo Xixi got beaten up, and dared not retaliate physically, so she thought of using this method to completely tarnish Gu Yan’s reputation at Empire University!

There were also people speaking up for Gu Yan, believing that the video was taken out of context and that she definitely wouldn’t hit someone without good reason.

Vivian also posted a few times, trying to get those people to be more rational and not say such nasty things, also mentioning that Gu Yan and Mu Feng had absolutely no relationship.

But the few posts they made were quickly overwhelmed by the others, unable to cause even a ripple.

It could be said that in the entire Landis Star, if one were to mention the person most envied, it would undoubtedly be Gu Yan.

Who wouldn’t be envious of her, with her powerful father, her equally formidable and outstanding mother, a brother who became the Emperor, and the other younger brother, who was also an outstanding Mermaid?

Of a family of five, four were Super S-class Beastmen, and Gu Yan herself was almost like a purebred Plantman, clearly the family’s darling.

Why was her life so good?

Since it was anonymous, many people took this opportunity to join in and vent their jealousy and envy.

However, just at that moment, the school forum’s staff immediately added a note to the thread.

[This post involves personal attacks and will switch to real-name posting in three minutes.]

Concerning personal attacks, the nature of the post changed, it wasn’t just about casual banter anymore; those making personal attacks were to be ID-checked and held accountable.

Upon seeing this, Vivian immediately said to Gu Yan, "It’s switched to a real-name post now, those people definitely won’t dare to continue talking nonsense. But why is there a three-minute delay?"

Gu Yan observed the forum threads, "There’s no need for this matter to blow up, but we can’t let them carry on like this either. Providing a three-minute delay is also to give them a chance."

True enough, after the admin posted that note, those who were ranting and making sarcastic comments at the bottom of the thread hurriedly deleted their own posts.

Vivian watched, stunned, as the thread that had reached over two thousand floors began to shrink.

In the end... was the thread deleted?

Gu Yan nodded, "It seems that the person who posted the video deleted their own post outright."

Others might just be making sarcastic jokes, but the person who first posted the video had a bigger problem.

He was more afraid than anyone else.

As for Mu Feng, he watched the entire incident unfold, knowing that someone must have intervened later on. After all, if the number of floors continued to increase on the post, it would definitely be detrimental to Gu Yan.

But... did Gu Yan really like him?

To be honest, Mu Feng was very confident in himself, aware that he was quite outstanding, but Gu Yan’s standards were so high, his first reaction to the possibility that she liked him was disbelief.