Chen Yue’s butt buzzed, and her head buzzed too.
She was in an extremely dazed state, her mind blanking out momentarily.
This state wasn’t because of some fancy earbuds—she could handle those; a few minutes were nothing extreme.
Her current mental state was all due to Cheng Zhu!
After a while, she suddenly sat up from the bed, like a zombie popping out of a coffin.
"He’s the secret owner of Persistent Visit?"
Chen Yue’s first reaction was, "Fake news, right?"
There were plenty of rumors about Cheng Zhu online, all sorts of versions.
After Youu Tea’s first financing round exceeded a billion, lots of messy sounds erupted online.
Like: He isn’t self-made at all, his family is actually very influential, the kind you can’t find information on, got it?
Some people just have too much free time, liking to fabricate stories online.
And yet, people believed these rumors.
People preferred to believe that this freshman had sky-high connections rather than accepting he’d achieved a height in his youth that they couldn’t reach in their whole lives, maybe not even in several lifetimes.
After Shen Qingning appeared at the concert, there would surely be claims that Cheng Zhu was living off a woman.
"So, he’s relying on the woman’s background."
"I knew it, how can an ordinary college student open a tea shop and secure financial funding of over a hundred million!"
"Living off a woman tastes sweet, so pretty and wealthy too, super envious!"
"Though he’s living off a woman, saying he started from scratch isn’t entirely false."
"Awesome dude, I really want to learn from him. Can you teach us how to win over a wealthy lady?"
Chen Yue had seen all these things too, and believed some of them.
There were also those interviews and news articles about Cheng Zhu—she read every one.
In these, they mentioned that he made his first fortune during the summer by doing e-commerce and then used that capital to open a claw machine arcade.
The details about this first sum of money were usually glossed over.
Like Chen Yue who didn’t think much about it, as it didn’t seem like a huge amount of money to her.
"Opening a claw machine arcade doesn’t cost much!" That was what she thought.
No one thought a high school graduate could make big money during summer break, grow e-commerce hugely, then casually open a claw machine arcade just to get some experience with physical stores.
Cheng Zhu: It was indeed started with my first fortune, only using a little bit of it.
But the idea of Cheng Zhu being the secret owner of Persistent Visit instinctively felt too outrageous to her!
But then, the problem arose!
"With my years of experience in online gossip, the more unrealistic it seems, the more likely it is to be true!"
She was right in this thought.
After all, fabricated gossip must seem realistic to deceive others.
But the real gist is not the same!
Those stories that initially seem ridiculously false turn out to be confirmed tidbit by tidbit!
"The more it looks false at first glance, the less it is baseless gossip!" Chen Yue thought.
But how could he be the owner of Persistent Visit!
Chen Yue thought about this and couldn’t help but look down again.
She had been relying on this thing too frequently recently, rewarding herself when happy, venting when upset.
And, you must know, eighty percent of her mood swings were because of Cheng Zhu!
So, the thing she used also belonged to him?
She felt as though she transformed from one type of fool into another.
It was as if she was being consistently visited by the opposite party.
Every time she used it, it was because of him, and it turned out it also belonged to him!
She opened Weibo to look at the rumors, and the more she read, the more real they seemed!
Unable to hold back, Chen Yue cursed several times in English.
But these words, combined with the buzzing sounds from below, added a different taste to the mix.
In a complex mix of emotions, about seven or eight minutes later, her brain blanked out yet again.
She curled up for a while and, not knowing what came over her, removed the earphones and threw them down forcefully.
The earphones slid across the floor, leaving a thin wet streak.
Chen Yue picked up her phone and immediately requested a refund on Taobao.
Let’s not forget, they are releasing the version 2.0 of the earphone model, and she had already placed a pre-order.
It’s unusable, utterly unusable now!
"Not knowing could have been bearable, but now I’m reliant on a product developed by him, what does that make me!"
Thinking about how this device had been with her day and night, Chen Yue could not help but tightly clench her teeth against her lower lip, feeling an indescribable sense of embarrassment and annoyance.
What made her most awkward was suddenly remembering something!
It was a friend who was studying with her in England who sent her the WeChat message informing her about this bombshell secret.
And she had strongly recommended this earphone model to that friend.
"What might Yaoyao be thinking now?"
"Oh, she might be playing with Cheng Zhu’s photo right now."
Chen Yue knew very well how liberal and obsessed Yaoyao was.
"But after playing, she would definitely remember it was me who shared that treasure on Taobao with her!"
Social death, utterly socially devastating!
She could already foresee Yaoyao coming soon to joke around, definitely going to make some risqué comments, using Cheng Zhu to tease her!
Embarrassed to the point of wanting to jump from a building, Chen Yue started throwing a tantrum on the bed again.