Chapter 130: A pity
Zhao Xiaolu, who had gone hiking with Su Can's family, was a sophomore at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Central University for Nationalities. Back in Xiahai, she and Zeng Na had been neighbors in the Government Compound, and their families had been very close. Later, the old Government Compound had been demolished, and the Construction Bureau had pooled funds to build housing, so Zeng Na's family had moved there. Zhao Xiaolu's family had subsequently been transferred to Rongcheng, but the two families had stayed in touch. They would joke that whenever Zeng Na or Zhao Xiaolu got married, they would attend, even if they were ten thousand miles apart.
Now that they were both in Rongcheng, their relationship was naturally closer than most. Zhao Xiaolu's father was a division-level official in a provincial government agency, which hardly counted for much in the provincial capital of Rongcheng.
Tao Chuhong was someone a close female friend of hers, who lived in a villa neighborhood, was always cursing. That friend's best friend had supposedly been dumped by Tao Chuhong, which was enough to unite all the girls against him. Still, Zhao Xiaolu sometimes felt she could not fit into their circle. In their eyes, a man abandoning a woman was an unforgivable crime, while toying with someone else's feelings was called an emotional investment. Yet there was no doubt that Tao Chuhong was a playboy who had hurt plenty of women. Among the boys, he had a reputation as a rich brat best left alone. To the girls, he was a philandering scumbag.
But whether it was "Nanning Group," "Tao Chuhong," "deputy mayor," or "Tao Changping," all these terms carried an added weight and remoteness for Zhao Xiaolu.
Today's hike had given Zhao Xiaolu a