"Hong Yan, Jiang Qin has liked me from the very beginning. Why do you insist on competing with me?" Chu Siqi spoke first, her eyes filled with resentment.
Hong Yan slowly raised her head. "He doesn't like you. And even if he did, you wouldn't deserve his affection."
Wang Huiru's mind went blank for a moment. She couldn't believe gentle Hong Yan could say something like that. "Hong Yan, calm down."
"Am I wrong? Chu Siqi, what are you trying to do? Keep making him like you, then reject him to get a sense of satisfaction?"
Chu Siqi's breath caught, and her face instantly paled. "You're talking nonsense. I didn't."
Hong Yan looked at Wang Huiru. "Hui Ru, there are many things you know more clearly than I do. Who do you think is talking nonsense?"
Wang Huiru pressed her lips together and remained silent for a long time. "I don't know. I don't understand anything."
"If even you don't dare to tell the truth, that proves Chu Siqi is truly beyond saving."
"Hong Yan, don't twist the issue. Jiang Qin has liked me since our first year of high school!" Chu Siqi ground her teeth.
Hong Yan looked at her calmly. "So what did that get you? Do you like him?"
"I..."
"You just like the feeling of being pursued, don't you? Selfish, vain, and foolish."
Hong Yan's words were as sharp as knives, instantly turning Chu Siqi's face deathly pale.
She couldn't understand it. She had gone home to change into her prettiest, sexiest clothes and put on beautiful makeup before coming over aggressively. How had she ended up unable to withstand even a few words from the other side? South Street was packed with people coming out to eat on the weekend. The tables in front and behind them, the two tables beside them, and even the table beside those tables were all staring at Jiang Qin's table. They were wondering why so many beautiful girls were surrounding one man and putting on a show. That guy was clearly so ordinary!
"Hong Yan, you've only met Jiang Qin twice. You don't understand him at all."
Hong Yan's lips curved slightly. "Does that matter? I'll have plenty of time to understand him in the future. After all, I won't spend my time chatting with a senior."
Chu Siqi's eyes widened. "How can you twist right and wrong like that? There was a problem with my enrollment records. What else could I do but go?"
"Is that so?"
Hong Yan reached into her handbag, pulled out a BBK Mobile Phone, opened her messages, and found one of them.
Junior, there's a problem with your enrollment records. Do you have time to come out and talk?
Chu Siqi's eyes widened slightly. She stared at it blankly for a long while, then pulled out the message on her own phone and compared it. It was exactly the same, word for word! "I received his message too, but I didn't go because I knew he was just looking for an excuse. Didn't you know that?"
"I..."
After putting away her phone and returning it to her bag, Hong Yan looked calmly at Chu Siqi. "You're not stupid. You're just pretending to be stupid. You wanted a few more people to pursue you so you could bask in your own pride, so you pretended not to know Zheng Qinglong's intentions and pretended to be innocent."
Chu Siqi felt wronged beyond belief. "I didn't! I didn't think that deeply about it at the time. My enrollment information had already caused trouble once in high school. You're falsely accusing me."
"Stop pretending to be innocent. It's really annoying."
Si Huiying couldn't stand it anymore. "Hong Yan, we're roommates and sisters. Is this really necessary over some scumbag?"
A scumbag???? Jiang Qin's brows drew tightly together. I've been desperately trying to make money and avoid relationships from beginning to end. Exactly how am I a scumbag?
In two lifetimes, this is the first time I've ever received the honor of being called a scumbag.
But Si Huiying had clearly opened her mouth without any intention of stopping, so she immediately turned her spearhead toward Jiang Qin.
"You're sitting here without saying a word. Do you think it's something to be proud of that two girls are fighting over you? Are you enjoying this?"
"We were perfectly good roommates, the four of us sisters, and your existence has made us hate each other. How can you still sit here and eat?"
"Since you like Siqi, then keep liking her properly. She already said she'd give you a chance. Why are you still provoking Hong Yan? Does it feel great to have two women at once?"
Jiang Qin looked up at her. Why the hell should I explain myself to someone I don't even know?
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Si Huiying immediately assumed he felt guilty. Her tone grew even more heated, and her words became even sharper.
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
"You're absolutely right. I have nothing to say."
Jiang Qin opened another bottle of beer and took out four more glasses, filling them. "Eat something once you're tired of cursing. After we finish this drink, let's go back and forget we ever knew each other."
Si Huiying immediately let out a contemptuous laugh. "You think you can just decide to forget? You've turned our dormitory into this mess. Don't you think you should take responsibility?"
"Four people is too many. The country doesn't allow me to take responsibility for that."
Just then, a shrill scream suddenly rang out from the middle of South Street. Everyone present couldn't help but tremble as they turned toward the sound.
A boy in a white T-shirt was kneeling in the middle of the road, howling continuously. Roses lay scattered all around him, their stems snapped into a disheveled, miserable mess.
Directly in front of the kneeling boy, a girl with long flaxen hair was staring at him in shock, one arm wrapped around another boy. Her eyes were filled with panic.
"Tang Xiaoyan, I've liked you for five whole years, five whole years!"
"From our first year of high school to my second year of university, I thought I'd eventually have a chance to make you fall for me. You always encouraged me, saying you'd be with me once you felt something. I believed you!"
"I came here on an overnight long-distance bus, carrying all my hopes, only to find you walking around with someone else?"
"You don't like me. I don't blame you at all. But why did you say last night that you couldn't wait to be with me?"
"How can you do this to me? How can you repay the five years of my youth?"
"Tang Xiaoyan, I've pursued you for five years! Everyone knows I like you—even my mother knows!"
"Ah!!!!!"
Amid the anguished howl, the entire long street fell into endless silence.
The girl seemed to curse him for being insane, then swung her bag into the boy's face. He didn't even dodge, wearing only a tragic smile.
Jiang Qin was drunk just watching this scene. I only came out for a meal. Who the hell is holding up a mirror to me? Chu Siqi, meanwhile, stared blankly at the boy kneeling on the ground. For some reason, her heart suddenly tightened.
"Five years is a long time to stay devoted, and that boy looks pretty good too. I wonder if that girl will regret it..."
"She won't."
Si Huiying raised her head and glanced at Jiang Qin, her expression instantly turning cold. "Who asked you? Scumbags don't get a say!"
Jiang Qin picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, his gaze calmly fixed on the girl with flaxen hair. "She'll never regret it. She won't even realize that she once had the chance to possess the finest kind of love. The fact that girl was capable of hurting that boy means she has no ability to recognize anything truly beautiful. Heaven will never grant someone such a God-given chance twice. But there's no need to worry. After that boy has even encountered a girl like her, he'll never be hurt by love again."
"..."
The four campus beauties from the Department of Law stared at him blankly, speechless for a moment.
Especially Si Huiying. Her eyes held a trace of astonishment, and she couldn't understand how a scumbag could say something so profound.
As an outsider, Wang Huiru saw things somewhat more clearly. She felt that Jiang Qin seemed mature enough to see through everything, making talk of romance seem especially childish in front of him.
But they didn't know that, at that moment, Jiang Qin had actually seen his past self. He, too, had asked himself again and again where he had gone wrong, yet no one had ever given him an answer.
He felt a little heavy-hearted. Perhaps only Feng Nanshu's tender little feet could comfort him now.
"Love is something even dogs shouldn't get involved in."
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