Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 134 - 116: How could you go to his store?

Chapter 134: Chapter 116: How could you go to his store?

Inside Dormitory 309, Dong Dong had no idea he’d become Cheng Zhu’s tool.

“Brother Zhu, what did you just ask me to do?” He had quite gotten the hang of calling him Brother Zhu.

“Oh, I was just checking up on how things are progressing with you and Zhu Yingying,” he made up an excuse on the fly.

“Average.” Dong Dong’s face clouded over at the mention of her.

Cheng Zhu looked at him and suggested, “You know, you should just focus on pursuing Zhu Yingying instead of being indecisive, be good, hmm?”

Dong Dong opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn’t know what to say.

Indeed, he and Zhu Yingying had started off well, and their emotional progress wasn’t bad, even slightly flirty.

But then he saw Cheng Zhu flitting among various top-tier goddesses seemingly without any issues, which made him want to emulate him.

He thought Yao Yina was quite hot and Guan Jiayue was very pure, so he occasionally took the initiative to chat with them too.

As a result, Zhu Yingying became increasingly cold towards him.

Lately, Dong Dong had also begun to realize he might have overplayed his hand.

“Could it be that Guan Jiayue and Yao Yina said something to Yingying?” He wondered, but couldn’t find an answer.

Instead, at this moment, the usually reticent Zheng Qingfeng suddenly said, “Um… I’ve been in contact with Guan Jiayue lately.”

The gaze of the three others in the dorm instantly focused on him.

“Holy shit, Zheng, what do you mean by ‘contact’? You guys chat every day?” Dong Dong immediately got excited.

Zheng Qingfeng nodded.

This made Mr. Dong so frustrated that he regretted it to the point of wanting to beat his chest in anguish!

Did Yao Yina see Cheng Zhu as a god, while Guan Jiayue was more interested in old Zheng?

Damn it! If I had just focused on Zhu Yingying from the start, we probably would be holding hands by now!

Cheng Zhu just glanced at cold-faced old fatty and, recalling his many impressions of Guan Jiayue, figured Zheng was about to hit the first obstacle in his love life.

Guan Jiayue was definitely someone with a lot of history.

With Zheng Qingfeng being so introverted, he presumed Zheng would be tightly controlled.

However, after thinking it over, Cheng Zhu didn’t say much.

After all, Zheng was really into it right now and wouldn’t listen to reason.

No point in talking more; it was futile and would ruin the mood.

Some walls are meant to be hit head-on.

As a friend, all Cheng Zhu could do was help him avoid getting too badly hurt.

At this moment, Liu Feng also suddenly raised his hand, saying, “Um… I’ve actually been getting along pretty well with Chen Tingting lately.”

“What!?” Dong Dong found these people to be really crafty.

They’re all so shady, doing big things quietly!

He had no clue how Zheng Qingfeng and Guan Jiayue ended up getting close.

Liu Feng probably used his position as the class monitor to get in touch more with Chen Tingting, who was the youth league secretary.

As for whom Cheng Zhu was just sending a voice message to, calling her “senior,” Dong Dong had entirely stopped caring.

Damn it, so I’m the only one in the entire dorm who hasn’t made any progress in his love life, and I’m actually backsliding?!

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…

At night, Cheng Zhu chatted with Lin Lu for a few more sentences.

He occasionally teased her, finding it amusing.

In his heart, Lin Lu and Shen Qingning were amusing in different ways.

Lin Lu was adorable, and he liked to play with her. Plus, she was always energetic and lively, making him feel better just by being around her.

Shen Qingning, on the other hand, was cool and distant, and he really wanted to bring her down from her high pedestal to show a more vibrant and contrasting side of her.

He had already asked Lin Lu to eat with him alone before, and after the meal, he took her to play darts.

According to his original plan, once the shop opened and business was booming, he intended to use this as a reason to ask Shen Qingning, the female landlord, to dine with him alone.

Cheng Zhu wanted to issue the invitation tonight, but then Lin Lu mentioned she and Ningning were going to watch a movie together in the living room.

So he had to put it off for the time being.

There was a bit of flirting in the air between him and Lin Lu tonight.

He certainly didn’t want that to get ruined.

Cheng Zhu checked the backend of the shop Persistent Visit on his laptop.

Business had been consistently good; the shop had climbed to the fifth position in its category.

“We’re aiming for the top three!” Cheng Zhu was very confident.

And you should know, many shops might have good figures but also high investments, leading to slim margins.

Cheng Zhu’s was different; he hadn’t made major investments, and he’d even stopped driving “black taxis,” thoroughly formalizing his operations.

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He was all about playing the game with strategies that went beyond the traditional intense competition.

After closing the shop backend, he picked up his phone and browsed through his circle of friends.

As expected, his beloved beautiful instructor had posted her glamour shots on her circle of friends.

She uploaded four photos with the caption: “Checking in at the student-run shop outside of school, business is thriving.”

Cheng Zhu looked through the photos and saw she hadn’t photoshopped them much, so there was a high degree of authenticity—not a huge discrepancy between photos and reality.

Previously, Cheng Zhu had hoped to catch the attention of the college and even university leaders.

He didn’t know whether Chen Jieyu’s post would have any small effect.

But it didn’t matter, it was just a casual move.

If it was useful, great; if not, no big deal.

After all, there are only so many types of support for student entrepreneurship in college.

Like interest-free loans, Cheng Zhu didn’t need them.

Having faculty as technical advisors wasn’t necessary for now, but who knows about the future.

All he wanted was for the university to approve some space for his future projects and provide a few free office locations. This way, he could save on rent, that’s all.

Cheng Zhu was more interested in the energy and connections of university leaders than the support offered to student entrepreneurs.

With nothing else to do, he liked the instructor’s post and casually looked at other content in her circle of friends.

“She really packages herself exquisitely, as if living a good life in the big city of Hang City,” thought Cheng Zhu.

But when he thought about the many rumors he had heard about Chen Jieyu in his past life and her near-suicidal resignation in the end, he figured his beautiful instructor must be living quite a hard life.

Honestly, Cheng Zhu wasn’t one to play the hero.

But he also knew about the so-called butterfly effect. As a Reborn, he was already a butterfly in Chen Jieyu’s life.

Just how her life would change because of his colorful presence was something he didn’t know yet.

After closing the instructor’s circle of friends, Cheng Zhu browsed the university’s forum to enjoy the shock of passersby before bed.

“News from the frontline, today three goddesses of the university gathered at the doll machine shop off-campus!”

“I’m really convinced, Zhang Qiqi senior proactively added Cheng Zhu on Weibo! But why?! What’s so special about him?”

“I went for a stamp today, the shop is indeed very photogenic, the dolls are cute, and the owner is as handsome as the rumors say, didn’t dare ask for his WeChat.”

“Let me share a selfie from the shop!”

“Visited Youu Come to Play with my boyfriend today, and I think we’ve found some juicy gossip!”

“How is it that this Cheng Zhu seems to have a connection with every goddess? Jiang Cen senior and Yue Lingjing junior better watch out!”

Reading the last post, Cheng Zhu thought indignantly, “What do you mean ‘better watch out’?”

As for Jiang Cen and Yue Lingjing mentioned by the person, the former was unanimously recognized as a goddess in the junior year, while the latter was a freshman, same year as Cheng Zhu.

He had seen Yue Lingjing a few times in his past life but hadn’t interacted with her.

To be realistic, among the four campus goddesses at Technology University, Jiang Cen was the least impressive overall, and she had been in a relationship that seemed to be quite dramatic, treating her boyfriend like a dog who nevertheless relished it.

Then, there was Zhang Qiqi.

But Zhang Qiqi knew how to enhance her personal charm in other ways, so she wasn’t lagging far behind.

Yue Lingjing, however, was on par with Shen Qingning and Lin Lu in terms of appearance, and she also had a particularly pleasant temperament.

“Only, if I remember correctly, she seems to have only attended Technology University for a year before going abroad the next.” Cheng Zhu mused.

He hadn’t been paying much attention to these things, merely continuing to read posts that praised him and Youu Come to Play.

Of course, there were people cursing on the forum, but Cheng Zhu chose to ignore them.

Some people were quite inexplicable, and Cheng Zhu didn’t even know who they were, but they acted as if they were familiar with him, fabricating his personal history, detailing the things he supposedly did in high school, spreading wild rumors.

They didn’t even get his high school right, but the made-up stories sounded believable.

“With so many birds in the forest, you never know what some people are thinking in their heads.”

“It’s like those people who kneel in the streets begging for reconciliation—there will always be some who challenge your views on the world.”

Cheng Zhu didn’t bother to take any action, simply sending a friendly greeting below the post: “Are you an idiot?”

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Around eleven o’clock at night, Zhang Qiqi started sending WeChat messages to Cheng Zhu.

She had readied all the photos a while ago, but deliberately waited until it was late at night before chatting with Cheng Zhu.

After all, the late hour always makes people more passionate—about everything!

It’s easier to feel sentimental and to be enthusiastic.

This is how many college students’ days go.

Morning: Hahahaha!

Afternoon: Hahahaha!

Dawn: Pouring love into a loveless river is more tragic than a lack of love.

The next day: Sorry, got possessed last night.

The night seems to possess some magical power, muddling people’s brains when it’s dead quiet.

“Junior, are you asleep?” Zhang Qiqi asked.

“Not yet.”

“Is it a bit of a bother to talk at this hour?”

“It’s okay, I sleep quite late.”

Jokingly, college student hello! How could you possibly fall asleep at eleven o’clock?

“The photos have all been Photoshopped, wanna see?” Zhang Qiqi asked.

“Sure.”

This internet-famous campus belle immediately sent several photos, which Cheng Zhu saw and thought were quite good; they might even make a small splash on Weibo!

With Cheng Zhu’s reassurance, Zhang Qiqi immediately began typing: “I’ll post in my circle of friends first, and I’ll post on Weibo tomorrow afternoon!”

“Okay, you handle it, thanks for helping to promote my shop,” Cheng Zhu replied.

Without Lin Lu and Shen Qingning around, he didn’t even bother to address her as Senior when chatting on WeChat.

After Zhang Qiqi posted in her circle of friends and was about to send Cheng Zhu a flirty shock wave, asking him, “So how do you plan to thank me,” she received a WeChat message from Xu Shao.

This dogged pursuer, Xu Shao could sniff things out like a bloodhound; as soon as Zhang Qiqi posted, he saw it immediately.

“Qiqi, why did you go to his shop?”