My Online Boyfriend Has Been Plotting Against Me for a Long Time

Chapter 4

At this point, I was even more confused.

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Snapping out of it, I turned to my roommate, who was watching a movie, and asked, "Who are the campus heartthrobs that are popular with both guys and girls?"

He immediately paused the video, excited to give me a rundown.

"Jiang Kai from the Physics department—he’s got that cold, aloof vibe. Whenever I see him, I feel like kneeling down and singing 'Conquer.' 
Zhou Yiran from the Math department—he’s a notorious player, but aside from being a jerk, he has no flaws. 
Then there's Wang Qi from the Digital Media department, though he's not single anymore. 
Oh, and Qi Yan! He's truly adored by both guys and girls, but he keeps himself clean for his one true love."

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I quickly went through these high-quality male students in my mind, unsure of which one could be Y.

In the end, my eyes landed on Qi Yan.

Y calls me "Little Swan," and Qi Yan also called me "Little Swan" in the cafeteria today.

Y lives in the dorm next door, and it seems Qi Yan does too.

Whenever I message Y during our elective class, Qi Yan’s phone always goes off.

I even feel like their voices sound somewhat similar.

All these coincidences made me take a sharp breath.

No way... Could it be?

Suppressing my shock, I hesitantly asked my roommate, "So, how likely is it that Qi Yan has a crush on me?"

He froze for a second before chuckling mischievously. 
"I’m not sure about the chances, but I do know that if he does, you're in for a rough time."

"Check out the pinned post on the school's trending forum," he added with a smirk.

Suspicious, I opened the forum and found a post titled, "Which of Qi Yan's skills is the most impressive?"

The top comment had just four words: *Endurance Ability.*

The replies beneath were endless, all equally suggestive and inappropriate.

It was chaos.

I closed my phone, feeling utterly defeated.

Maybe I should just drop out of school.

But then, a thought struck me—weren’t all these guys in relationships already?

Qi Yan is supposedly with his “white moonlight,” and the other three guys also have girlfriends, according to gossip.

My roommate, being the social butterfly he is, would’ve mentioned it to me at some point.

There’s no way one of these guys would be dating a girl while also carrying on an online relationship with me, right?

At that moment, I even began to wonder if I was the third party.

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With that awful realization, I started feeling reluctant to call my online boyfriend "husband" during our chats.

I even considered blocking him.

I felt so troubled.

But I also didn’t want him to out me or cause my classmates to treat me differently, so I just played along.

The downside of this, though, was that my writing quality took a nosedive.

The feedback in the comments was brutal.