Chen Zhenzhen's face was as still as water.
She stared hard at Zhang Zhaomu's face as he struggled to look sincere, and squeezed the words out through clenched teeth. "Guess whether I believe you."
Like me, my ass!
From the moment he gave her that look like he was staring at a complete idiot, Chen Zhenzhen had realized with a jolt that her entire emotional journey today had been built on a completely baseless guess!
It was all because Wang Qianzi had been filling her head with that sort of thing lately, influencing her and making her think of this guy in terms of love and romance!
An idiot like Zhang Zaowan had nothing in his head but video games. He was completely immune to romance!
The thought left Chen Zhenzhen both embarrassed and frantic.
I'm a complete idiot too! For the sake of our friendship, I actually decided to say yes to him. How is that any different from sacrificing myself for righteousness or cutting off my own flesh to feed an eagle?
She instinctively ignored that strange little thought deep in her heart. What thoughts could she possibly have? It was all so they could keep hanging out together like before!
"Come on, out with the truth!" Chen Zhenzhen couldn't help grabbing Zhang Zhaomu by the collar. "What was it really about?"
Zhang Zhaomu leaned back as far as he could, avoiding Chen Zhenzhen's eyes.
"No, I really do like you!"
His tone was a little awkward. "As the saying goes, a graceful maiden is a gentleman's heart's desire... Chen Zhen, you're a goddess-level beauty now, no matter how you look at it. The people at school who want to pursue you could line up from the classroom building to the cafeteria. Isn't it normal for me to develop forbidden feelings for you?"
"Heh." Chen Zhenzhen sneered. "I'm really touched... except for the fact that you're still calling me Chen Zhen!"
She wanted nothing more than to take a bite out of him. "Who the fuck calls someone Chen Zhen when they're confessing? Want me to buy you a ticket to Fist of Fury?"
"That's a pet name! A pet name, get it?" Zhang Zhaomu still refused to back down.
"If you don't come clean, believe it or not, I won't leave tonight!" Chen Zhenzhen threatened.
"Fine, don't leave."
Zhang Zhaomu was a dead pig that feared no boiling water anyway. No matter what, there was no way he could say something like that.
I must leave my innocence in this world!
"Fine." Chen Zhenzhen swiftly pulled his phone out of Zhang Zhaomu's pocket. "I'll call my mom right now and tell her I'm sleeping at Zhang Zaowan's house tonight-"
She paused. "No, at Zhang Zhaomu's house... It's about time I let my mom know that the so-called Zhang Zaowan is actually a guy."
Zhang Zhaomu's face instantly turned pale. "Wait, Chen Zhen, are you crazy? Aren't you afraid your mom will beat you to death?"
"I don't know if my mom will beat me to death." Chen Zhenzhen waved the phone. "But she'll definitely beat you to death."
"Call her if you've got the guts!" Zhang Zhaomu gritted his teeth. "At worst, we'll go down together!"
His phone had a passcode anyway, so she couldn't unlock it.
"Fine." Chen Zhenzhen lit up the phone's screen and deftly tapped in a few numbers. The phone unlocked with a chime.
Zhang Zhaomu: "?"
"How the fuck do you know my phone passcode?"
Chen Zhenzhen lifted her chin slightly. "How could I not? You only have two sets of passwords. One's for all your social media and game accounts. If I remember right, it's zzm. If you need a capital letter, you change the first z to Z. If you need a special character, you add a period at the end. Am I wrong?"
"And the other one is your bank card PIN. As it happens, your phone passcode has six digits too..."
"Fuck!" Zhang Zhaomu covered his face and let out a wail. "I'm changing my passwords later!"
"Change it, and you won't be able to unlock your phone the next day." Chen Zhenzhen entered the phone number. "Last chance."
Zhang Zhaomu turned his head away without a word.
"Hmph." Chen Zhenzhen turned on speakerphone and tapped the call button. The sound of ringing came from the phone.
"Wait, you're actually doing it?!" Zhang Zhaomu cried, his face changing drastically. "Fine, I'll tell you!"
"I shouldn't have secretly looked at your chest and fantasized about some indescribable scenes!"
Chen Zhenzhen: "..."
"Beep, beep, beep... Hello, China Telecom at your service, please-"
Click.
She hung up.
Chen Zhenzhen put the phone down expressionlessly, turned and headed for the door.
At a loss, Zhang Zhaomu asked quietly, "Are you going home?"
"Yeah."
"Nothing you want to ask?"
"No."
"Then..." Zhang Zhaomu rubbed his hands together. "You're not angry, are you?"
"What's there to be angry about?" Chen Zhenzhen pulled the door open and turned her head. "It's normal, isn't it?"
Her expression was unmistakably that of someone looking at a cockroach. "Anyway, you've always been the kind of goddamn pervert who not only has a head full of dirty thoughts, but can also brazenly say them to the person involved, right?"
Zhang Zhaomu: "...Weren't you the one who made me say it?"
Chen Zhenzhen acted as though she hadn't heard Zhang Zhaomu, still looking at him like a cockroach. "Anyway, if I stayed any longer, you'd probably be planning to do all those indescribable things you fantasized about to me, wouldn't you?"
"I really wouldn't!" Zhang Zhaomu hurriedly protested. "At most, I'd just think about it!"
"Anyway, you definitely want to force me into white stockings too, then run your hands all over me without a care, don't you?"
Zhang Zhaomu: "Are you even listening to me?"
"What are you saying? I can only understand human language. As for you-" Chen Zhenzhen slowly closed the door, leaving only her faint voice drifting inside. "Rot in a cesspit like the maggot you are..."
Zhang Zhaomu: "..."
I've already been stripped of my status as a human and downgraded to a maggot?
He collapsed weakly onto the sofa, his eyes vacant.
Fair enough. After I said something that outrageous, nobody could accept it, right?
There's nothing to explain. Forget it. Let it all be destroyed.
Outside the door, Chen Zhenzhen finally couldn't keep her expression blank any longer and suddenly squatted down on the ground.
"Psycho, psycho, psycho!"
Of course she knew he had been sneaking glances at her. Of course she could guess that, as a guy, he definitely had plenty of dirty thoughts in his head.
But bringing it out into the open was another matter entirely!
"If I'd known, I wouldn't have pushed him. I should've known it had to be something like that."
"No, it's all Zhang Zaowan's fault. How can he be thick-skinned enough to say something like that so brazenly?!"
How am I supposed to face him from now on?!
I thought of you as a bro, but you wanted to...
She couldn't help secretly rubbing herself and let out a whimper. "They... they're not that ridiculously big, are they? Are guys really that interested in them?"
A strange feeling welled up from the bottom of her heart. The September night was still especially hot and stifling.
Chen Zhenzhen took a deep breath and stood up.
"Anyway, I absolutely can't let him get away with this!"
"I have to teach him a proper lesson and make him reflect deeply on how filthy he's been!"
"It's decided. For the next week... three days... no, a whole day, I won't talk to him!"