Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 247 - 259: Mr. Lu’s Girlfriend

She glanced at them, and they immediately lowered their heads, going back to their business.

People have such a curiosity, always wanting to explore others’ secrets. Su Xingyu couldn’t be bothered with what these colleagues were thinking and sat down at her seat.

"Xingyu!" As soon as she sat down, she saw Fang Luohua, who had just gone to the rooftop garden with her, return and ask her without preamble, "What did you say earlier, that Miss Zhuang already knew you were with Mr. Lu? And also, she’s not Mr. Lu’s fiancée, so why did she hit you?" As soon as he finished speaking, he realized the colleagues who were pretending to work just now were all looking intently in their direction again. He abruptly realized he misspoke and shut his mouth.

Su Xingyu rubbed her forehead. She always seemed to attract these types who are somewhat dense. Lu Shifeng is one, Xia Ling is one, and this Fang Luohua in front of her is another!

She sighed, deciding to explain everything once to both him and those gossiping crowds with their ears pricked up: "Zhuang Heng likes to uphold her elegant and generous image in front of you all. Even though she has long known that Lu Shifeng is my boyfriend," she paused here, as this was the strategy she had come up with while cold compressing in the bathroom. Given the current situation, the best solution was to insist that Lu Shifeng is her boyfriend. This would neither tarnish her reputation nor make it difficult to ’break up’ later. By that time, she’d go back to being the ordinary person Su Xingyu.

This idea was inspired by that newspaper from earlier.

She continued to speak clearly: "But Zhuang Heng couldn’t find a way to kick me out of Feng Ren. She considers herself Lu Shifeng’s fiancée, how awkward it is to be colleagues with me, right? To save face, she certainly wouldn’t expose my identity. As for my identity being exposed by the newspaper reporters? She hit me to maintain her dignity in front of you all."

Since childhood, she often took street photos, capturing portraits of various types of people, and developed a knack for understanding the human mind.

Basically, as long as she looked into Zhuang Heng’s eyes, she could roughly gauge her emotions. When thinking over the cause and effect, it really wasn’t that complicated.

In the office, someone gasped, surprised that Su Xingyu dared to speak so brazenly about Zhuang Heng!

Though the newspaper stated that Su Xingyu was Lu Shifeng’s girlfriend, many people didn’t actually believe it. In this day and age, there were plenty masquerading as girlfriends.

Yun Xi, who had just been slapped by Su Xingyu, was nowhere to be seen. At this moment, Xia Ranran spoke up, although there was a hint of hesitation in her tone, lacking the previous arrogance: "Su Xingyu, what proof do you have that Miss Zhuang isn’t Mr. Lu’s fiancée? And what proof do you have that you are Mr. Lu’s girlfriend? In these times, you can’t just make headlines and claim to be a girlfriend."

"Do you think I intentionally made headlines?" Su Xingyu was a bit irritated. She had been the victim in this news article, hadn’t she?

Xia Ranran stopped talking, but her eyes clearly carried a sign of disbelief.

Many people had thoughts similar to Xia Ranran’s—wasn’t it the case? There had long been actresses in the entertainment circle using this trick, intentionally getting photographed during secret meetings with men, gaining benefits from it.

Su Xingyu thought their thought processes were truly peculiar, but there was nothing she could do. She also had no evidence to prove that she was Lu Shifeng’s girlfriend!

Marriage certificate?

"Then what evidence do you have to prove you are your boyfriend’s girlfriend?" she retorted sarcastically.

Xia Ranran was taken aback by the question, as it was practically the ultimate question of "proving I am me"!

Many of the gossiping crowd on the side also realized the situation, all of them feeling a bit awkward.

"Alright, alright, consider that I misspoke," Fang Luohua quickly intervened as he saw the atmosphere turning sour. "I’ll treat everyone to sour plum juice at lunch, calm down, calm down."

"Yeah," said another young lady in the office who had always been kind to Su Xingyu, stepping up to speak, "Regardless of what’s happening between Xingyu, Miss Zhuang, and Mr. Lu, it’s their private business. This is our workplace, not a neighborhood committee. Why are we so concerned? Let’s focus on our work."

Everyone was certainly curious and gossip was pricking at their hearts, but hearing such righteous words rendered them speechless, so they had to reluctantly get back to work.

Su Xingyu also buried herself into her two tasks, fully concentrating until halfway through when she felt someone was watching her.

She turned her head slightly and saw Xia Ranran, her neighboring colleague, stretching her neck to look at her screen. When discovered, Xia Ranran gave an awkward smile.

"What are you looking at?" Su Xingyu asked her.

"I just..." Xia Ranran said somewhat unnaturally, "just casually looking. Your photo editing skills are quite good."

Su Xingyu replied, "My editing skills have always been at this level, haven’t you seen before?"

Xia Ranran felt more embarrassed: "Previously, I didn’t know you and Mr. Lu... Xingyu, how did you enter the company? Did you only meet Mr. Lu after joining the company? You two got together so quickly, quite impressive." This was an era of mocking the poor and not the immoral. The reason Xia Ranran dared to assist Zhuang Heng against Su Xingyu before was because she thought Su Xingyu had no background. But suddenly realizing that she had such a strong backing, she had to reconsider her past actions. Even if Su Xingyu was just a mistress, whispering into Lu Shifeng’s ear could probably get a person fired easily.

She was eager to mend her relationship with Su Xingyu, at least to avoid any retaliation.

Moreover, what if Su Xingyu wasn’t a mistress and actually a legitimate girlfriend? The reason she used to cozy up to Zhuang Heng was to gamble on a potential ally, wasn’t it?

Su Xingyu put down her work and looked at her with a half-smile: "Aren’t you worried that chatting with me like this might bring trouble from Zhuang Heng?"

Xia Ranran reflexively raised her head to glance at the office. Fortunately, Zhuang Heng had left and hadn’t returned.

Being seen through, she racked her brains to play dumb: "I don’t get what this has to do with Miss Zhuang. Like Fang Luohua, in front of Miss Zhuang, he’s good, and he can be friends with you, right?" She cautiously glanced at Su Xingyu, "Xingyu, you wouldn’t treat me differently, would you? I was immature before and offended you, I’m sorry. Please don’t hold it against me."

Upon hearing her apologizing submissively, Su Xingyu didn’t bother to bicker, and coolly nodded: "As long as you don’t cause me trouble, I won’t deliberately seek trouble for you."

Xia Ranran beamed with joy. Wasn’t this the exact sentence she had been waiting for!

She hadn’t expected that Su Xingyu would be so easy-going, letting her off lightly. She had prepared herself for a torrid time, thinking she’d have to peel off a layer of skin!

Yet she didn’t realize the reason Su Xingyu could let her off so easily was purely because she had never taken her seriously.

Only people like Zhuang Heng, who obstructed her from having a normal family, would she retaliate against head-on.

After a busy day, just before getting off work, Xie Jian appeared at the photography center.