Chapter 69: Shooting down planes
When class ended, Li Lumei nudged Chen Lingshan. "What's going on?"
Li Weimei paused, then smiled. "Hey, Tang Wu used to be a major rival, and she caused such a huge stir at your birthday party. Now that she's gone, don't you have no competition left?"
Chen Lingshan blushed and turned away. "What are you talking about?"
"You know what I mean." Li Lumei smiled, then pointed toward Su Can, her expression gradually turning cold and haughty. "I just can't accept it. Why should you be any less than Tang Wu? You might not be worried, Lingshan, but all of us girls feel you're being shortchanged. Tang Wu openly showed up at your party. What was that if not a show of strength? What makes me angry is that you even told Su Can to go after her. Weren't you just handing him over?"
Chen Lingshan stared blankly at Li Weimei. For the first time, she found Li Weimei looking so haughty, as though she were neither the fragile girl who had cried after Ran Yu slapped her and needed Chen Lingshan to stand up for her, nor the girl who blushed and grew flustered in front of Mao Xiaoshi. She seemed to have regained that forceful side of her personality.
In fact, when faced with many things, Li Lüemei might be tough on the outside and soft within, or perhaps all bluster and no substance. But when it came to Chen Lingshan's personal affairs, she simply could not stay calm. In her eyes, Chen Lingshan ought to be proud, admired just as she had been at her birthday party that day. Whatever she had ought to be the very best.
"You might not know this, but word of what happened at your birthday party