Villain: Without morals, you can’t be manipulated!

Chapter 18: Destroying Self-Esteem, Bringing the Goddess Down to Earth

“Qi Lin, do… do you like me?”

Lan Yuxi’s beautiful eyes sparkled like stars as she gazed directly at Qi Lin. She knew that her only advantage right now was her beauty. Whether she could escape this situation depended on whether she could charm Qi Lin.

She was the most beautiful girl at the First High School of China Teachers University, receiving countless love letters every day.

Now that Qi Lin had said he wanted to kiss her, Lan Yuxi guessed that Qi Lin must like her too. If she used the same tactics she employed to deal with her admirers, would it work on Qi Lin as well?

“Like you? No, no, no, I don’t like you,” Qi Lin said, startled by Lan Yuxi’s question. Then, he immediately shook his head with a disgusted expression.

His attitude completely caught Lan Yuxi off guard.

“You don’t like me, yet you still…”

Lan Yuxi’s face was full of disbelief.

“You’re arrogant, always looking down your nose at people.”

“You act nice, but you keep people at arm’s length.”

“In private, you’re all flirty with Wang Cheng, getting into early relationships.”

“You’ve got a bad temper.”

“And now you’re even cheating on exams.”

“In your eyes, I’m just a lazy, spoiled rich kid. But in my eyes, you’re worse—completely fake.”

“Do you think I’d like a girl with such a terrible track record?”

“As for kissing you, it’s because I’m a pervert. You’re so pretty that kissing you would be a win for me. I don’t want you to be my girlfriend—I’ll kiss and run. Isn’t that thrilling?”

Qi Lin smiled slyly as he listed Lan Yuxi’s flaws, counting them off one by one with his fingers. He knew very well that to destroy a girl’s self-esteem, he needed to tear down her pride, reducing her from a goddess in the heavens to an ordinary village girl.

Qi Lin’s strategy was spot-on.

Listening to Qi Lin criticize her one fault after another, Lan Yuxi’s face turned from red to pale, then back to red again.

“Qi Lin, what nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever flirt with Wang Cheng?”

What bothered Lan Yuxi the most was how Qi Lin knew about her private interactions with Wang Cheng—something only the two of them were supposed to know.

Could it be that Wang Cheng couldn’t keep his mouth shut and bragged about it? The thought made Lan Yuxi feel frustrated.

“Huh? I was just guessing randomly. Your reaction is so big—did I guess right?”

Qi Lin feigned surprise as he looked at Lan Yuxi.

“Ugh!”

At that moment, Lan Yuxi wanted to cough up blood—Qi Lin had tricked her, and the worst part was that she had given herself away. And why was this guy so shameless?

It wasn’t even true that she was as bad as he claimed. If she was that terrible, why would Qi Lin still want to kiss her?

He even said her only good quality was her looks, and that he didn’t want her as his girlfriend—he just wanted to take advantage of her and run.

How shameless did someone have to be to say something like that?

“Hey, Lan Yuxi, are you going to let me kiss you or not? If not, I’m taking this cheat sheet straight to the teacher,” Qi Lin said lazily, seeing Lan Yuxi glaring at him with her big, beautiful eyes, her chest heaving, but saying nothing.

“No! No! Definitely not! You said all that about me, and now you want to drag me down with you?”

“If you tell the teacher I cheated, I’ll tell the teacher you trespassed into the girls’ restroom and tried to bully me!”

Lan Yuxi placed her hands on her hips, fuming.

Clearly, Qi Lin’s barrage of insults had completely thrown her off balance, and her intelligence was slipping away.

When someone loses their composure, that’s the best time to break their defenses.@@novelbin@@

“Sigh, it’s just a kiss. Why are you acting like I’m about to kill you?”

“If you really don’t want me to kiss you, I’ll take a step back. Just kiss me on the cheek, and I’ll give you the cheat sheet back,” Qi Lin said, as though compromising under Lan Yuxi’s resistance, waving his hand dismissively.

The same tactic, always effective. If he had initially asked Lan Yuxi to kiss him on the cheek, she would have flatly refused due to her pride and cleanliness.

But by starting with an outrageous demand that Lan Yuxi would never agree to, then significantly lowering the bar, it would make her defenses crumble.

It was the same trick he had used to fool Wang Siling before.

“Just a kiss on the cheek?”

Sure enough, hearing that all she needed to do was kiss him on the cheek to get the cheat sheet back, Lan Yuxi began to hesitate. She never wanted her cheating to be exposed to her parents.

“Damn it, I’ll just pretend I’m kissing a mop.”

Glancing at Qi Lin’s smug expression, Lan Yuxi felt a burst of frustration. Thankfully, Qi Lin was handsome—a bona fide heartthrob.

If it were some acne-ridden, scruffy boy, Lan Yuxi wouldn’t agree even if it killed her.

“Alright, you promised—just one kiss on the cheek, and you’ll give me the cheat sheet. No tricks, or I’ll fight you to the end!”

Lan Yuxi’s cheeks flushed slightly. To appear more assertive, she spoke with an exaggerated fierceness.