Campus Ace Girl-Chapter 271 - 272: Mrs. Gu, are you satisfied now?
Gu Anxi said resentfully, "You made me miss my update yesterday."
"Is it ’Ice Mountain Beauty: A Strategy’?" Bo Xichen asked with a smile.
Gu Anxi, realizing she’d let it slip, refused to say more and hopped out of the car with her notebook.
Bo Xichen chuckled softly and drove away.
「」
Before long, a rumor spread throughout Beicheng University—
Gu Anxi had been chosen by the Bo family for her beauty and had become an exchange student solely to live with them. The car that dropped her off this morning was worth over thirty million...
So, despite having beaten up Fang Ming, Gu Anxi faced no repercussions and attended school as if nothing had happened.
Poor Fang Ming, on the other hand, was still bedridden.
These rumors spread quickly. As Gu Anxi walked through campus, students pointed at her as if she were a rare animal.
She didn’t mind. During her computer science class, she chose a seat at the back. However, the moment she entered, the chattering boys fell silent, sneaking glances at her.
Gu Anxi had never cared about such things. Opening her notebook, she prepared to draw her comic, ’Da Hui and Ms. Rabbit,’ when she suddenly received a WeChat message from Wang Qin.
[Anxi, I’ve received something incredible!!!]
[You wouldn’t believe it!!!]
[Anxi, your damn charm!]
Gu Anxi was confused but decided to ignore it for now. She casually scrolled through her Weibo feed and was stunned.
The top trending hashtag on Weibo was: ’#DaHuiAndMsRabbitMissedAnUpdate’.
Gu Anxi clicked on it. It turned out a top-tier actress, who followed her comic, was complaining on Weibo because Gu Anxi hadn’t updated last night—attributing it to "someone’s outrageous behavior."
The top-tier actress was complaining on Weibo!
And today, this complaint had actually made it to the top of the trending list!
Moreover, it had a red ’Exploding!’ tag, indicating an index of over eight million, and it linked back to her own Weibo account.
Logging into her homepage, Gu Anxi was stunned to find she had over thirteen million followers.
Opening Fengyun Comics, she saw that the number of ’collects’ for her comic had also risen to over eight million... The tips and subscriptions from the past few days had skyrocketed.
Back on Weibo, the netizens’ comments were hilariously wicked—
[Last night, Da Hui made braised pork, so Ms. Rabbit couldn’t update...]
[So it wasn’t Da Hui eating grass with Ms. Rabbit, but Ms. Rabbit eating meat with Da Hui! LMAO!]
...
Gu Anxi posted on Weibo: [Will update in half an hour~]
As soon as it was posted, her Weibo exploded. Within minutes, there were tens of thousands of comments, all asking where Ms. Rabbit had been last night, why she hadn’t updated, if she was sick...
Gu Anxi couldn’t bear to look. She texted Bo Xichen, "Little Uncle, I think we need to establish some house rules."
About five minutes later, she received his reply: "House rules should be established by the elders! Are you sure, Gu Anxi?"
Gu Anxi put her phone down and, cursing inwardly, started drawing her comic.
An hour later, she had uploaded ten comic strips, sating her fans’ hunger.
Absorbed in her drawing, she was completely unaware of the peculiar stares directed at her. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
So, that’s the infamous Qing University student! The good-looking but supposedly terrible student! The Bo family’s intended daughter-in-law! The one who beat up Fang Ming!
「」
After class, Gu Anxi went to find Wang Qin for dinner. Wang Qin was looking at her rather strangely.
Gu Anxi touched her neck. "What’s wrong?"
Wang Qin shook her head. "It’s not that!"
Her face flushed. She quickly reached into her small backpack and pulled out several pink envelopes, handing them to Gu Anxi. "These are for you."
Gu Anxi was surprised. "...Mine? What are they?"
Wang Qin’s face grew even redder. "Don’t ask! Just read them when you get home."
In the end, Wang Qin covered her face and ran off.
Gu Anxi looked at the pink envelopes, still puzzled. She tucked them into her coat pocket, planning to head back to class for a break. She also decided she needed to ask her Little Uncle if she could drive herself to school; riding with him every day was very inconvenient.
She bought a coffee just off campus and was about to head back when a white Maserati slowly pulled up beside her. The window slid down, revealing an exquisitely beautiful face.
It was Tang Yuan.
Tang Yuan gave Gu Anxi a gentle smile. "Can we talk?"
Gu Anxi stood ramrod straight, taking a moment to respond, "Okay."
She got into Tang Yuan’s car, sitting in the back. Neither spoke a word during the drive.
She didn’t ask why Tang Yuan hadn’t wanted to talk at the school gate. She knew this refined woman didn’t intend to acknowledge her as her daughter, nor did she want anyone to know of her existence as such.
Tang Yuan drove, a smile on her face. "You shouldn’t drink such cheap coffee in the future. It’s bad for your health."
Gu Anxi stared out the window. After a long silence, she said softly, "If Grandma Chen hadn’t taken me from the orphanage, I probably wouldn’t even have the chance to drink cheap coffee."
The car seemed to wobble for a moment. Then, Tang Yuan asked softly, "Do you hate us very much?"
"Not really," Gu Anxi replied, then fell silent.
Ten minutes later, Tang Yuan pulled up in front of a very high-class, private clubhouse. Stopping the car, she smiled faintly. "It’s better to talk here."
Gu Anxi said nothing and followed her inside.
It was indeed a very private and elegant place, well-suited to Mrs. Gu’s status.
Gu Anxi didn’t order anything to drink, still holding her cup of coffee, from which she took small sips.
Tang Yuan personally brewed a pot of tea, meticulously performing the customary rinse before pouring two small cups.
She offered one to Gu Anxi.
After taking a delicate sip from her own cup, she said with a smile, "It was your father’s idea that I call you. He said that since you’re in Beicheng, I should look after you more."
Gu Anxi quietly looked at her.
The woman before her was her biological mother.
The woman who had carried her for ten months and given birth to her.
Ever since Gu Changqing appeared and her birth certificate was found in the library, she had suspected her true parentage.
One night, she had frantically searched for information about a woman named Tang Yuan, using every connection she had to learn about her.
She had only hoped to find even a sliver of news suggesting this woman was suffering because she missed a child.
But there was none.
The renowned Mrs. Gu of Beicheng was living a splendid life, with a precious daughter—Mingzhu—by her side.
The girl was, to all appearances, her and Gu Yuanshan’s only child.
Gu Anxi lowered her head. What did that make her, then?
She said softly, "There’s no need. I can take care of myself."
Tang Yuan smiled habitually. "I also know the Bo family is taking good care of you."
She paused slightly. "The Bo family helped you sort out the fight at school yesterday, so they must value you highly... Mingzhu’s father and I... we think we should all have a meal together sometime. As for you rejoining the family, we can discuss that later. Anxi, do you think that’s acceptable?"
Her words, though considerate and measured, were also distant and heartless. She was speaking to the daughter she had abandoned for twenty years as if negotiating with a business rival.
Gu Anxi raised her head. Looking at the woman who had given birth to her with cold, clear eyes, she gave a slight, humorless smile. "Rest assured, I won’t touch anything belonging to the Gu family, nor will I do anything to implicate the Gu family. Is Mrs. Gu satisfied with that answer?"
