Mei Terumi finally understood what it meant to suffer a fate worse than death!
That was exactly what she was going through!
She honestly had never expected this from Bai Ye. At first, she had only thought he might reject her, or that she was reading too much into things.
This was more or less the same.
But did he really have to crush her like this?!
That single "oh" from Bai Ye really was the last straw.
She had never imagined he would finish with a remark like that.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, and the angrier she got, the more she thought about it.
Yet she had no idea what to say.
"I was joking. Honestly, I prefer gentler girls, I suppose. You're pretty nice too, though. Feelings aren't something you can explain in a sentence or two."
"Oh, you're not stringing me along, are you?!"
Hearing that, Mei Terumi gave Bai Ye a strange look, unsure whether she was imagining things.
She kept getting the feeling that he was stringing her along!
She had learned about this from the newspaper Bai Ye had published earlier.
One of the stories in it had described something just like this.
Especially now, looking at the situation, Mei Terumi suddenly had the impression that Bai Ye might be stringing her along!
No!!!!
This couldn't be her imagination!
He was definitely stringing her along!
Mei Terumi grew more and more certain!
Her situation felt awfully similar to that story!
"Damn! You even figured that out?"
"?"
Seriously?!
Was there something wrong with him?!
Even if he was, he didn't have to say it outright!!!
Bai Ye's reply instantly left Mei Terumi feeling utterly miserable!
This guy...
He was doing it on purpose!
*Even if she had seen