Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 246 - 258: News Photo

"Who are you calling crazy? Su Xingyu, the shameless one here is you!" Before Zhuang Heng, who was sitting by the trash can, could speak, a woman charged out from the side. It was Yun Xi.

She quickly pushed through the crowd and crouched down to help Zhuang Heng, "Miss Zhuang, are you alright?"

Zhuang Heng used Yun Xi’s hand to stand up, then took the bag Xia Ranran handed over, the one she had dropped, without saying a word, and turned to leave the office.

Su Xingyu felt bewildered; had this woman’s mind been caught in a door today? Where was the well-crafted demeanor she usually maintained? Where was her image as a lady of a respectable family?

She touched the burning spot on her face, feeling a slight pain at her fingertips, unsure if it was swelling.

Just as she was about to return to her seat to drop off her things and then head to the restroom to deal with her injury, Yun Xi stepped in front of her, in front of all the onlooking colleagues, shoved a newspaper in her face: "Su Xingyu, you’re really good at hiding! So it’s you, the shameless vixen seducing Mr. Lu! You’re despicable; you even dare to seduce Miss Zhuang’s fiancé!" 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"Slap!"

Another crisp slap sounded.

Everyone was shocked again, staring at Yun Xi who was covering her face with anger and astonishment in her heavily made-up eyes: "You dare hit me?!"

"Watch your mouth," Su Xingyu pushed away the newspaper Yun Xi was trying to shove in her face, "or do you believe I won’t hit you again?"

"You!" Yun Xi angrily raised her hand, ready to hit her.

Having learned from Zhuang Heng earlier, Su Xingyu prudently stepped back this time, causing Yun Xi’s attempt to hit her to miss.

"Bitch! Watch me beat you to death!" Being publicly humiliated, Yun Xi went crazy and her eyes reddened with rage. She was determined to charge at Su Xingyu, appearing as if she wouldn’t rest until she hit her.

This was when finally someone reacted, Fang Luohua stepped forward protecting Su Xingyu behind him: "Yun Xi, calm down!"

"Get out of my way! I want to beat that bitch to death!" Yun Xi screamed hysterically, clawing at Fang Luohua’s face with her nails.

"What are you all standing around for, come and help restrain her!" Fang Luohua couldn’t hold off alone, and not daring to lay hands on a woman, he quickly urged the other colleagues who were watching the spectacle.

It was only then the other colleagues snapped out of it and hurriedly came over to pull Yun Xi away. Yun Xi, in her madness, struggled fiercely and still tried to lunge at Su Xingyu, not noticing that several buttons on her shirt had come undone. Xia Ranran and the others quickly found a blanket to cover her upper body, the scene was utter chaos.

Protected by Fang Luohua, Su Xingyu went straight upstairs to a nearby sky garden. It was work time, so only the two of them were there.

"What exactly happened?" Su Xingyu managed to catch her breath and asked Fang Luohua.

Fang Luohua’s expression was peculiar. He looked at her, handed her the newspaper he had inadvertently brought up in the chaos.

Su Xingyu took it, and with one glance, her expression changed—

The front page featured a photo of her and Lu Shifeng embracing and kissing by the roadside yesterday. At that time, she was held in Lu Shifeng’s arms, her slightly tilted posture looked beautiful. Lu Shifeng appeared tall and handsome, and their semi-profile was clearly captured. More clearly, the black Bentley beside them had a full visible license plate number, anyone could tell whose car it was.

The newspaper’s reporter extensively reported Lu Shifeng’s girlfriend’s exposure, with words of great praise.

But what kind of impact does this kind of praise really have?

Look at Zhuang Heng’s reaction and you’ll know.

Su Xingyu couldn’t help but touch her own face again, now understanding why Zhuang Heng went crazy; reports like these indeed justified the frenzy of such a self-proclaimed demure socialite.

Fang Luohua kindly comforted: "Don’t take it too much to heart. Miss Zhuang is Mr. Lu’s fiancée. Suddenly finding out you and Mr. Lu... are together, she must be very angry and upset, losing control of her emotions."

"No." Su Xingyu said.

"What?" Fang Luohua asked.

Su Xingyu handed the newspaper back to Fang Luohua, with a slightly sarcastic smile: "Zhuang Heng isn’t Lu Shifeng’s fiancée. All these years, she’s just been too good at creating false impressions. Additionally, she didn’t find out today about me and Lu Shifeng being together. You remember Lu Shifeng’s birthday party a while back? He kept it low-key, with only a line or two reported in the news. Yet at that birthday party, Lu Shifeng publicly announced that I’m his woman, and Zhuang Heng was present."

"Ah?!" Fang Luohua was truly shocked, his mouth unable to close, "How could this be? Isn’t Mr. Lu essentially slapping Miss Zhuang in the face?"

"How could Lu Shifeng treat his fiancée like that?" The sarcasm on Su Xingyu’s lips was more intense, "However, if he sees her as a mere ordinary female subordinate, do you think he would?"

Fang Luohua said nothing. Initially, when Su Xingyu said Zhuang Heng wasn’t Lu Shifeng’s fiancée, he didn’t believe her. But what she said was too logically coherent; indeed, no man, especially one with prestige in the upper-class society, would do such a thing to his fiancée.

"You’re not lying to me, are you?" He tentatively asked Su Xingyu.

"Why would I lie to you?" Su Xingyu said, "Zhuang Heng can say whatever she wants to anyone, it’s none of my business. But when she provokes me, that’s where she’s wrong."

"So that’s why you slapped her back so hard?"

"Yeah," Su Xingyu replied matter-of-factly, then grabbed her hair in annoyance, "How did the paparazzi manage to capture that? So troublesome, I’ve already told Lu Shifeng I didn’t want the relationship to be exposed!"

"Indeed, it’s rather unfortunate," Fang Luohua sympathized, watching her, then grew worried, "Won’t Mr. Lu give you trouble over this?"

"Why would he trouble me?" Su Xingyu asked, puzzled.

Fang Luohua said, "For instance, he doesn’t want to be so public, and breaks up with you?" He paused, then cheered up, "Actually, it’s nice if you can leave him too, otherwise always hiding is so uncomfortable." He didn’t say aloud that, no matter how big Su Xingyu’s grievances, sticking around Lu Shifeng means just being a mistress, forever not fit for formal status, why suffer?

Su Xingyu just laughed: "Hmm, thanks, don’t worry about me."

The trouble caused by her identity being revealed was only within the company. Truly, it had little impact on her relationship with Lu Shifeng, because between the two, she was the one truly concerned about the exposure.

After chatting with Fang Luohua for a while, she went to the restroom to wash her face, using a small towel for a cold compress on the swollen area. Her skin was naturally good, and since marrying Lu Shifenghad been nurtured to a lustrous jade-like sheen. Even though Zhuang Heng had hit her hard, a cold compress would erase any sign of it.

When she returned to the office, colleagues were surreptitiously observing her.