Cheng Si Ran turned to look at her and frowned. Lu Wei Xi is very familiar with that expression on her face. In the past, every time when there are boys pursuing Lu Wei Xi and pestering her in front of the dormitory, Cheng Si Ran would always have this expression on. She would then take her high heels and go downstairs and arrogantly talk about life ideals with those boys.
In short, it is because of her that Lu Wei Xi was able to be protected by the harassment of those male scums.
“Yes, I am with Jian Chi.” She looked up at Cheng Si Ran who is half a head taller than her as she slowly said this. For some unknown reason, she felt like crying the next second.
Cheng Si Ran just silently stared at her and sighed. Then she narrowed her eyes and said, “Xi Xi, tell me the truth. Are you really together with him or are you using this as an excuse to reject Lu Yu?”
Lu Wei Xi pursed her lips and wanted to respond. However, Lu Yu who had been standing on the sidelines silently watching them spoke first, “Wei Xi, I know that you don’t like me but you don’t have to use this excuse to lie to me. My emotional state….I have already prepared myself before I decided to confess to you.”
“Whether you believe it or not, what I said is true. Senior Lu, I am grateful that you took care of me for the past two years, but….I already have someone I like.” When Lu Wei Xi said this to him, she never thought that she, who had always been lazy and slow-witted, would say such serious and resolute words.
Lu Yu suddenly smiled. He is still the patient and gentle senior who treated her well, “In short, I will still wait for you unless I one day see that that person is treating you well.”
The atmosphere almost reached freezing point. No matter how hard Xia Nuan tried to warm up the atmosphere, no one was in the mood to enjoy the meal.
Outside the restaurant, Lu Yu decided not to bother them anymore. Even his request to escort them home was rejected by Lu Wei Xi.
On the way back to their dorm, the roommates experience a rarely seen stifling atmosphere. Of course, 99% of it is due to Cheng Si Ran’s serious expression and her dead silence.
Knowing that she is very angry at the moment and that Cheng Si Ran can’t be provoked, the other three kept their mouth shut and didn’t utter a word.
The evening breeze is cool, gentle and cozy. The street lights on both sides of the streets are dim. Occasionally, they would encounter a few boys who would whistle and holler at Cheng Si Ran. However, when they met her fierce gaze and her threatening sentence, “Look at me again and I will report you for sexual harassment,” they were scared witless and didn’t dare to look back.
Lu Wei Xi kept her head down and didn’t speak.
In fact, she understands the other party very well. For someone who never mixed in the network or even applied for a Weibo account before, the possibility that online dating is based on mutual love is basically zero. What’s more, the regular broadcast section on TV clearly warned us that people on the other side of the internet are not who they say they are and are just waiting to prey on young and ignorant little girls.
But…..she and Jian Chi couldn’t be counted as online dating. After all, they would meet in reality and the number of times they talk online are only a handful.
She looked down and kicked the stone under her feet as she thought about how she should explain to Cheng Si Ran. The red lights flashed at the intersection at this time. Lu Wei Xi stopped and looked up at the red numbers counting down second by second. Once again she thought of Jian Chi. She thought back to the night when he sent her back to school. He frowned and grabbed her wrist while he reprimanded her for not looking when crossing the road.
As she thought about it, her eyes softened.
Xia Nuan seemed to have seen something and broke the silence first, “Hey, look. Doesn’t that girl across the road look familiar? She looked like–––”
Lu Wei Xi looked up at the direction Xia Nuan is pointing at and stiffened.
On the other side of the road, is a girl wearing exquisite makeup and elegantly walking. Although she met her once, she looked very impressive.
“Isn’t that girl Xu Qu Qing, the department beauty of the law department? I heard that there are a few companies looking for her to be a print model.” Mu Ran Ran’s tone is very envious while she looked at her with fascination.
Cheng Si Ran also looked over and coldly sneered, “I heard that her family is a long-time friend of the deputy mayor of City T. Also, the reason why Xu Qu Qing didn’t have a boyfriend up till now is because she is following her parents’ orders and waiting for the deputy mayor’s only son who is studying abroad.”
……
A long-time family friend? Deputy mayor? Only son?
Her brain seemed to crash for a few seconds while a few ambiguous thoughts float to her head. Her nails unconsciously dug into her palm. Lu Wei Xi looked at Xu Qu Qing’s back as she gradually moved further away, some dubious thoughts clearly going through her head.
When she was at Starbucks that day, she had clearly heard Xu Qu Qing complain to Jian Chi. She said, Ah Chi, it was uncle and auntie who told me to come to see you. You’re just going to leave me here and leave with her?
So...is it like how she had imagined it to be?
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