The Impostor Campus Queen Chapter 1

After two months of online dating, I decided it was time to lose weight.

Suddenly, comments popped up in my vision:

【Why is the supporting character dieting? If she gets slim, how will the female lead replace her with the male lead?】

【Don’t worry, she’s insecure. A few taunts from the female lead and she’ll quit—she never succeeds anyway.】

【Isn’t the female lead unethical? Even if the supporting character edited her photos thinner, they were still hers. The female lead lied and accused her of using them.】

【The supporting character has potential—if she slims down, she’d be elegant and cool.】

【What do you know? She’s 5'6", 130 lbs—a total pig! How dare she date a rich, handsome guy?】

I froze, stunned.

Then my roommate Luna peeked from behind her bed curtain, still masked, scanning my desk.

“Wow, Audrey, just a veggie salad tonight?”

She smiled sweetly.

“I get it—trying to lose weight again? But you’re so big, you won’t look good even if you slim down. Don’t bother.”

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Luna said this while scrutinizing me from head to toe.

Her voice was laced with a smile, but her eyes held a strangely knowing look.

If it had been the old me, my face would have flushed crimson by now.

I would have hidden the salad away like I’d committed some offense.

Then, I'd hastily explain that I was just trying it out, not necessarily aiming to be stunning.

Honestly, more than once, I’d felt a subtle malice from Luna directed at me.

She’d always complain about how she’d lost weight again whenever I intended to diet.

And if I skipped dinner, she’d suddenly ask loudly during evening study hall, "Audrey, are you not eating anything all day?"

Then she’d sigh dramatically, "Dieting must be so hard; everyone who does it is so amazing."

But these thoughts were quickly dismissed. Luna was the campus queen; why would she bear any ill will towards me?

Until now.

I saw the comments scrolling by with a gleeful tone:

【Hahaha, the female lead is so cute even when she's being sneaky.】

【Actually, the female lead deliberately doesn't want the supporting character to lose weight. At the start of the semester, even though the female lead was there, the other roommates complimented the supporting character's cuteness several times. The female lead, with her lifelong high self-esteem, would naturally dislike her.】

【She's just so proud and insecure, like a cat, you know. Honestly, even if the supporting character, that pig, slims down, she couldn't be half as pretty as our kitty.】

【Don't worry, our girl is putting on a face mask; she'll be all dolled up soon to go meet the male lead! Afterwards, the male lead's love will give our girl all the security she needs!】

My hands clenched into fists, almost instinctively.

Meeting Luna's innocent gaze, for the first time, I didn't rush to explain or tacitly agree.

I didn't know what emotion propelled me.

I pressed my lips together, then suddenly said:

"Not necessarily. What if I look quite good after I slim down?"

"I'll give it a try."