My Affairs Have Nothing to Do with You

In his previous life, Jiang Qin had been a student at Linchuan University, majoring in International Trade as an undergraduate, so he would still go to Linchuan in this life. He was already incredibly familiar with that city.

If he wanted to start a business, beginning in a familiar city would make things much easier.

Hearing Jiang Qin's answer, Feng Nanshu rubbed her face, then stared blankly at the snack bag she had just polished off, apparently lost in thought.

Just then, the Nokia on the table suddenly flashed. Jiang Qin unlocked it and found a QQ message from Wang Huiru.

"Jiang Qin, Chu Siqi scored 632. What about you?"

"She asked you to come and ask me, didn't she?"

"Fine, you guessed right. She did ask me to ask."

"My affairs have nothing to do with her. Just tell her that." Jiang Qin typed out a line on the physical keyboard and pressed send.

Wang Huiru was instantly dumbfounded. "Jiang Qin, you and Chu Siqi don't have some deep-seated grudge, do you? Even as classmates, asking about each other's scores is perfectly normal. Don't always be like this."

"Like what?"

"So petty!"

Jiang Qin grew more and more adept at using the physical keyboard. "Petty, then. She can think whatever she wants."

Wang Huiru sent an ellipsis. "Jiang Qin, Chu Siqi didn't do anything wrong. Rejecting you was her right, but even if you can't be lovers, you can still be friends."

"So the one who's wrong is me? Choosing not to pester her is my right too, okay? I don't want to be friends with her."

"Why?"

Jiang Qin switched to typing with one hand. "She thinks the whole world should like her, and that the whole world should bend to her will. Whatever she says goes. If she tells someone to go east, they absolutely can't go west. I can't afford a friend like that. It's annoying. Really annoying."

Wang Huiru was silent for a long while. "I know Siqi is a little tsundere, but isn't that part of her charm?"

"Being a little tsundere wouldn't matter, but she crossed the line. Like that day on Central Street, when she ordered me not to leave in front of so many people. Why? We weren't even friends, yet she said I couldn't leave just because she told me not to. Did she think the whole earth revolved around her?"

"Just talk it out with her and ask her to change."

Jiang Qin's brows drew together. "Why should I waste time on her? If this friend doesn't work out, I'll find another one. What's wrong with that?"

Wang Huiru's reply came with noticeably longer pauses. "There's nothing wrong with that, but are you sure you aren't saying this on purpose because you've turned love into hatred?"

"I've made myself perfectly clear. Why do you still think that way? I bet Chu Siqi thinks the same thing, doesn't she? That I only acted this way because I was rejected and couldn't save face, and that I'm just playing hard to get?"

"No, no, I didn't think that! Jiang Qin, don't misunderstand!"

Jiang Qin continued pressing the physical keyboard. "Classmate Wang, honestly, I don't want to say another word about her. I explained all this to you only out of respect for you. Do you understand?"

Seeing that reply, Wang Huiru's heart softened at once. "Then I'll talk to her properly and ask her not to bother you for a while."

"Not for a while. Forever."

"Jiang Qin, that's too hurtful. When she rejected you, she still left you some hope and encouraged you. Can't you stop being so cold to her?"

"Damn, just thinking about that makes me speechless. What did she mean by 'there's hope as long as you persist'? She called that encouragement? She wasn't interested in me. She just hadn't met someone she truly liked yet, so she felt lonely and thought I could keep her company. Once she meets someone she likes, she won't even remember who I am."

"..."

"Classmate Wang, sometimes words have to hurt in order to cut things off cleanly, so neither side keeps holding on to so many fantasies."

After seeing that reply, Wang Huiru fell silent, because she suddenly remembered the conversation she and Chu Siqi had had on Central Street.

Siqi, what will you do if you meet someone you truly like in the future?

Then I'll definitely choose the person I like. I can't choose Jiang Qin just because he persisted for a long time, can I?

She knew Jiang Qin wasn't wrong at all, so she had no grounds to refute him. She even faintly felt as though she was siding with him.

"Fine, Jiang Qin. I know what to do now."

"Classmate Wang, I've enjoyed talking with you, but please don't come to me about her anymore. I don't want to ruin my mood for an entire day, okay?"

"I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Clearing things up is all that matters."

After ending the conversation, Wang Huiru sighed, her eyes turning somewhat vacant.

Sure enough, Jiang Qin no longer had even the slightest attachment to her best friend. It had even turned into disgust and rejection.

What about Feng Nanshu? Was she really dating Jiang Qin? She was a young miss who was driven around in a Bentley, as well as the dream girl of countless boys at Chengnan High School. The boys secretly in love with her could have lined up all the way from Chengnan High School to City Within a City. Yet Jiang Qin had pinched her cheeks, and she had been so cute and spoiled that it was ridiculous. Who would believe it if they told people?

Even Wang Huiru wanted to ask: why? Jiang Qin was indeed good-looking, tall, and good at his studies, but she still couldn't believe he had managed to win Feng Nanshu over.

Feng Nanshu was famously aloof at school. She didn't speak to anyone and possessed an almost untouchably noble air.

Forget pursuing her—even some boys felt inferior just by approaching her. They felt as though they had grown incredibly bold to dare harbor such extravagant hopes. Didn't they know what they looked like? None of this made sense!

Wang Huiru felt that she understood Jiang Qin less and less. Then she couldn't help thinking of her best friend again.

Even now, Siqi was still acting haughty and throwing a tantrum, waiting for Jiang Qin to regret it and apologize. She had no idea that so much had happened in the short span of half a month.

Wang Huiru picked up her phone again, found Chu Siqi's QQ number, and sent her a message.

"I just went to ask Jiang Qin. He said his affairs have nothing to do with you and told you not to contact him anymore."

"That bastard! How could he say something like that? Didn't you curse him out for me?"

"Siqi, forget it. You've already rejected him. Just forget about him from now on."

In a bedroom in Maple Forest Green Residence, Chu Siqi, wearing pajamas, was so furious that she violently hurled the university application guide in her hand at the opposite wall. A layer of mist also rose in her eyes.

That Jiang Qin—he hated her for rejecting him, so he was doing everything he could to anger her! Yes, he had succeeded. She really was furious.

But hadn't he endured it for so long? Didn't it hurt him? He was simply too proud for his own good, making himself suffer needlessly.

In fact, Chu Siqi had asked Wang Huiru to inquire about Jiang Qin's score after giving it some thought. She wanted to give Jiang Qin a way out, hinting that he should stop being angry with her.

She had been increasingly irritated lately, constantly staring at her phone and imagining Jiang Qin sending her a message saying, "I was wrong."

It was almost becoming a fixation.

She hadn't cared this much about Jiang Qin before, but now her mind was filled with him. Chu Siqi didn't like this version of herself at all, and she liked this feeling of losing control even less.

But she hadn't expected Jiang Qin to be so ruthless, completely unable to appreciate her good intentions! Fine, he didn't want to keep in contact? Then they wouldn't. Whoever contacted the other first was a dog!

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