Though they were no longer boyfriend and girlfriend, continuing like this was obviously inappropriate. Feeling helpless, she said, "Wang Yue, we've broken up. You shouldn't be doing this."
Wang Yue didn't seem to care. "You were the one who brought up breaking up. I never agreed. You've always been my girlfriend."
Bai Xiaoche was exasperated by his response. "Haven't you already found Huang Yimei as your new girlfriend? Doesn't that mean you've accepted the breakup?"
Wang Yue replied as if it were only natural, "A great man like me having a few more girlfriends is perfectly normal. What does it matter if there's one more or one less?"
Hearing Wang Yue say something so shameless, Bai Xiaoche reached out and smacked him. But he didn't dodge at all, and the impact left her hand stinging.
After hitting him, Bai Xiaoche understood what Wang Yue was thinking, but as someone who'd received a proper education, she really couldn't accept it.
Still, Bai Xiaoche couldn't exactly tell Wang Yue to stop coming around. That stack of papers was so thick that, without his personal guidance, it would probably take her ages to work through them on her own.
But if she kept seeing Wang Yue, wouldn't that mean they hadn't really broken up?
As for asking her advisor for help, Bai Xiaoche had observed Wang Yue and concluded that he knew more than the professor. Asking Professor Liang would be no better than asking Wang Yue.
It was like the last time she showed Professor Liang her lab notes. He hadn't even realized that the experiment had already gone far beyond Bai Xiaoche's progress, let alone recognized how important Wang Yue was.
Bai Xiaoche agonized over it only briefly before deciding to take a page from the playbook of some unscrupulous women.