Everyday Romance After Becoming a Billionaire

ACHOO—

At the same time, Su Ran sneezed.

Family Group Video Call.

Su Ran: [I keep sneezing. Are you guys talking about how handsome I am behind my back again?]

They had known each other for a long time and were getting to the point where they knew everything about one another, so they naturally bantered and joked around. If they were still acting all polite and formal, it would just be weird.

Xiao Wanqing: [You shameless jerk, have you lost all sense of shame? Believe it or not, I can get the fountain whale to spit out some water for you to use as a mirror.]

Su Ran: [Is Aina not there?]

Liu Jinyu: [Someone’s confessing to Aina.]

Su Ran instinctively sat up straight. [For real?!]

Liu Jinyu shot Su Ran a look. He immediately slumped back down, coughed awkwardly twice, and said, [I’m just worried she’ll run into a scumbag.]

Tch~

Liu Jinyu rolled her eyes. [I’ll show you, and you’ll see.] With that, she walked to the windowsill and pointed the camera at the scene under the large banyan tree outside their dorm.

Liu Jinyu glanced at Su Ran on the screen. He had a supposedly "calm" expression, but his eyes were incredibly serious.

’I’ll let you off the hook for now,’ she thought. ’But when I get back, I’m going to teach you a lesson, you stinky Ranran.’

Under the large banyan tree.

Aina was once again rejecting a guy.

This happened all the time, but her reason for rejecting him was different this time.

Usually, it was, "Thank you for liking me, but I’m not planning on having a boyfriend during college. I’m sorry."

Today, it was, "I already like someone! I won’t accept anyone but him!"

Didn’t she say she wasn’t going to have a boyfriend during college?

Heh~ A woman’s words are the devil’s lies.

Since the semester hadn’t started yet, there weren’t many people around. Su Ran could hear everything clearly, while Liu Jinyu watched his every move with a complicated sidelong glance.

Su Ran: "I’ve got something to do, so I’m gonna hang up."

The three girls: "Watch it!"

Su Ran: "..."

At that moment, the guy became furious. He thought about his beloved goddess liking someone else, and how that scumbag would be the one to take her first time.

"Who is that bastard?!"

"That bastard is... well, there’s someone, so just give it up."

"I know who it is even if you don’t tell me!"

The guy scoffed, looking utterly disappointed in Aina.

"I thought you were really different from other girls. But in the end? You still went for that super-rich kid, Wang Xin."

「Previously.」

A rich kid named Wang Xin had heard that there was a stunning Western-looking beauty at Demon Dance, so he’d driven his sports car over to find Aina, planning to "recruit" her.

He offered to sponsor her for three million a year. For a super-rich kid, a "big money player," three million was nothing, but for an ordinary person, it was an astronomical sum.

This incident caused a huge stir at the time, and everyone knew about it.

And it was because Aina’s looks had even caught the attention of Wang Xin that her popularity skyrocketed.

Now, upon hearing Aina’s words, this suitor immediately concluded it had to be Wang Xin.

To him, there was no other possibility. It had to be Wang Xin. If a beautiful goddess like her had someone she liked, it definitely wouldn’t be an ordinary person. It had to be a rich kid like Wang Xin.

Aina puffed up her cheeks angrily. "I said it’s not Wang Xin! Stop spouting nonsense."

"Hah. If it’s not Wang Xin, then is it Chen Bin? Or Gao Jian? Or could it be the great Young Master Zhao Xiu?"

As he said this, he cast a provocative glance toward the three girls by the window of Room 404.

The three girls were speechless and furious.

’That son of a bitch downstairs is clearly trying to ruin what he can’t have, and he’s dragging us into it. Although the four of us have absolutely nothing to do with those four "super-rich kids"—who are just chasing us for our looks—’

But...

’Now Su Ran has heard it all. Guys can be really petty. What if he gets angry?’

Liu Jinyu: "Su Ran, didn’t you say you had something to do? Let’s hang up for now, bye-bye!"

Su Ran: "I’m watching until the end!"

Liu Jinyu: "..."

"Damn it, I’m going down there right now to rip his mouth off!"

Xiao Wanqing charged downstairs, with Liu Jinyu and Xie Yiren following her.

"You bastard! I dare you to say that again!"

Xiao Wanqing stormed out of the dorm building, rolling up her sleeves to go and teach that rumormonger a lesson.

Liu Jinyu and Xie Yiren quickly grabbed her.

"So angry. What, did I say something wrong?"

"Everyone’s seen it! A private butler personally delivers gourmet food to you every day. If it wasn’t sent by super-rich kids like Wang Xin and his friends, who else would be willing to spend that kind of money?"

What the guy said was, in fact, true.

Except he was only half right. There were no four rich kids, just one rich kid’s dad who ordered food for them every day. And it was their payment for gaming with him!

Su Ran sipped his Coke and continued watching.

The guy put on a self-righteous air, scorning these four "so-called pure campus goddesses." In the end, they were just another dish for the super-rich. After all, countless goddesses from previous years who had sworn not to date in college had eventually ended up in the cars of some rich kid.

Aina was also completely disgusted by this vile guy and his "if I can’t have you, I’ll destroy you" attitude.

Besides, every move the four of them made was gossip fodder for the entire campus.

This wasn’t a situation where "the innocent need no defense." If they didn’t explain things clearly, the rumors would quickly spiral out of control.

Aina was so mad she felt like her lungs were about to explode.

"Fine, you don’t believe me, right?! Then I’ll prove it to you!"

Aina turned her head and saw Su Ran on the screen of the phone Liu Jinyu was holding. He was sitting on a lounge chair in his yard, drinking a Coke, with the leisurely expression of a bystander just watching the drama unfold.

"What are you doing?"

Su Ran started to panic a little as he saw Aina walking toward the camera.

"Shut up!"

"..."

Aina took the phone from Liu Jinyu and shoved it in the guy’s face.

"See this? This is the person I like! It’s not Wang Xin or anyone else! Open your eyes and look carefully!"

Xie Yiren: "Exactly! Now you’ve seen him, so you can give up. If you spout any more nonsense and slander our Nana, I won’t let you off!"

The guy: "Tch, you just find some random person on a video call and that’s supposed to be real? Yeah, right. Only a ghost would believe that."

Aina: "Are you just determined to argue about everything? Fine! I’ll prove it to you, just so you don’t go spreading baseless rumors later."

As she spoke, Aina shot a glare at Su Ran on the screen. ’If you dare hang up and ’run away,’ you’re dead meat.’

Aina cleared her throat, held up the phone, and said, "Call my name."

Su Ran: "Huh?"

"Call my name."

"Uh... Aina Dilmurat."

PFFT—

It wasn’t just Aina who nearly died on the spot; Liu Jieyu and the others almost checked out too.

"Hah," the guy said, looking even more skeptical. "What, your boyfriend calls you by your full name?"

Aina held back her frustration and whispered in a low voice, "Su Ran, stop messing around! Say it again. Use a more intimate nickname, one that people will believe when they hear it! Hurry up!!!"

Well...

Su Ran thought for a moment, then opened his mouth and said, "Honey..."