READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 7: Humiliation
Ryan frowned and turned around. Behind him was a long line of people—at least twenty—since it was right after school.
Standing directly behind him was a tall and stunning beauty, at least 170 cm tall.
She wore a tight T-shirt on her upper body, which outlined a very firm curve on her chest, and her waist was so slender that it could be held in one hand, which was even more amazing.
She wore a pair of tight jeans on her lower body, which outlined her perky buttocks and slender legs. She was so sexy that any foot fetishist would like her.
With an angelic face and a devilish body, her femininity was overwhelming. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her a femme fatale.
She was the campus belle, a radiant gem of the art department, Yana Ackerman—the girl everyone adored.
Yana looked at Ryan with a mocking expression, her disdain for him completely unconcealed.
Compared to her fresh, branded outfit, Ryan attire of unremarkable street-stall goods made him look shabby and utterly unsightly.
In the past, Ryan would have retreated timidly, not daring to provoke such a goddess-like girl.
But at that moment, the system's prompt sounded in his mind:
"Ding... Bound target: Yana Ackerman."
"Ding... Yana Ackerman: Favorability -20."
Hearing this prompt, Ryan couldn't help but curse inwardly. Negative favorability? Just how much do you look down on me?
Behind him, a group of lackeys began jeering:
"Hey, bumpkin, never seen a beauty before? You're so stunned you've gone dumb."
"Move out of the way! Can't even afford a bottle of Coke—what are you doing here?"
"Exactly! If you're broke, I'll pay for it. Just don't waste our Yana's precious time!"
As the campus belle of the art department, Yana was surrounded by countless admirers—bootlickers as numerous as flies around dung.
Ryan snapped back to reality and said with a cheeky smile, "Thanks a lot, classmate Yana. Add me on WhatsApp, and I'll treat you to a meal sometime."
Hearing this, Yana face showed an expression of disbelief, clearly a little stunned.
While it was true that countless people pursued her, and she kept many suitors on standby, not just anyone qualified to be part of her circle.
At the very least, they had to be the children of officials or wealthy families. Failing that, they needed to have strikingly good looks. The bumpkin standing before her didn't even meet the basic threshold.
"Wow, you country bumpkin! Have some self-awareness, will you?"
"Exactly! Who do you think you are, hitting on classmate Yana? If you don't have a mirror, at least go look at your reflection in a puddle…"
"Yeah, what the hell, you think you're so handsome when you smile like shit..."
The group of lackeys instantly went berserk, unleashing a barrage of scorn and ridicule at Ryan.
In their eyes, this bumpkin, this poor loser, wasn't even worthy of kneeling on the ground to lick Yana's shoes.
Yana was briefly taken aback but quickly broke into laughter out of sheer exasperation. Shaking her head, she said, "No need, classmate. You'd better focus on figuring out how to make enough money to support yourself first."
As a renowned campus belle known for her stunning beauty and sex appeal, Yana smile was captivating beyond words.
It wasn't just Ryan who stared wide-eyed at her. Even the other bootlickers couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Ryan was not that thick-skinned, and he finally ran away in panic under the ridicule of everyone.
Compared to the angel-like Yana, Ryan prefers the goddess he fell in love with at first sight, Tina, the beauty in the Literature department.
After leaving school, Ryan went to the Apple store in the mall first.
"Hello, I want an iPhone 16 top-end board!!"
The specialist quickly introduced that the top-of-the-line iPhone 16 now costs 1,500 dollars. Ryan had an idea and opened the Infinite Money APP again when paying.
"Ding…payment successful."
This time the payment went smoothly. Ryan was ecstatic when he saw it. As expected, if the gift was given to Tina, he could use the money here.
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Returning to school with his phone, Weston called Ryan and asked him to bring back food.
Ryan brought back enough food for three people and placed it on the table. Weston and Jacob eyes widened in shock.
"Old Third, what kind of madness is this?"
Normally, the three of them ate cheap cafeteria meals. Ryan was the stingiest of them all, often surviving on pickles and steamed buns for three meals a day to save money for Tina's birthday gift.
Braised pork, hand-shredded braised chicken, pork with preserved vegetables, and three boxes of rice.
For poor college students, this was a feast fit for a restaurant meal.
"You two have worked hard taking care of me these past few days. This is my treat to you."
After using unlimited money to pay for an iPhone 16 and using his savings of 1,600 dollars to clear his online loans and credit cards, Ryan still had over 600 dollars left. Now debt-free, he figured it was time to treat himself.
"Thank you, Dad!!"
"Dad, I love you."
The three starving "ghosts" devoured the meal like a whirlwind. After eating, they each started playing their games, while Ryan admired his Apple phone with great satisfaction.
Weston and Jacob sneered at Ryan's "licking dog" behavior, but knowing he was a lost cause, they didn't bother trying to dissuade him.
"Old Third, Old Third, you've made the trending list on our campus network!"
As the dorm lights were about to go out, Jacob suddenly stared at his phone and shouted, "Hurry up and take a look! The Forums are blowing up too."
Ryan froze in shock and quickly grabbed his phone. The top post on the campus network's trending list had an impolite title: "A Dog Without Self-Awareness, Urgently in Need of a Wake-Up Call."
When he clicked it, he saw a photo taken by someone who had been stirring up trouble. It captured the moment when Ryan tried to strike up a conversation and ask for Yana's WhatsApp contact.
In the photo, Yana looked as glamorous and charming as ever. By contrast, Ryan appeared utterly unsophisticated, exuding an aura of poverty from head to toe.
Various school forums were also exploding with discussions about this incident, and the mocking comments were outright unbearable.
"OMG, isn't this Ryan, that hillbilly?"
"Seriously, this is borderline sexual harassment. Where does he get the guts?"
"How dare he hit on Yana? He's practically defying the heavens!"
"Exactly, this poor guy has an unbelievable amount of blind confidence."
"He's harassing my goddess. If every shameless, clueless person like him hit on her, my goddess wouldn't even have time to reject them all!"