Kind Words Can't Save a Ghost Bent on Death

Liang Zhirou asked Lin Miaomiao on WeChat where they had changed clothes, then quietly led Chen Lu to the empty classroom.

Lin Miaomiao had specifically mentioned that it was a classroom for specialized courses and had no surveillance cameras.

Chen Lu followed silently beside Liang Zhirou. For some reason, he felt as though the two of them were sneaking around doing something naughty.

The clothes were perfectly proper, and so were they!

They reached the door.

Liang Zhirou adorably poked her head inside, looking left and right before making sure no one was there and relaxing.

"Y-you keep watch at the door." Liang Zhirou stepped into the classroom, then opened the door a crack and murmured to Chen Lu.

"Don't worry." Chen Lu leaned against the wall and smiled at her.

Liang Zhirou still wasn't entirely reassured. "You're not allowed to come in either..."

Chen Lu put on a look of sudden realization. "I wouldn't have thought of that if you hadn't said it!"

Liang Zhirou immediately shut the door and ignored him.

As it turned out, Liang Zhirou's worries were completely unnecessary. With the weather this hot and May Day approaching, these college beasts either attended class or holed up in their dorms. They had no reason to come over here.

During that time, Chen Lu didn't see a single person. The entire hallway was deserted.

And so he waited in utter boredom for nearly ten minutes, even resorting to counting the tiles on the wall.

Chen Lu picked up his phone to check the time and was visibly startled to see how long it had been.

Did it take girls this long to change clothes?

Had she fainted in there?

"Liang Zhirou! Did you fall asleep?" Chen Lu asked, a little worried.

"C-coming!"

The door finally opened slowly. Liang Zhirou walked over to Chen Lu with her head lowered, saying nothing, probably because she was embarrassed.

Her long hair hung loose, and she wore a very tight, light-blue short-sleeved top with a low neckline. She had fastened the diagonal row of buttons securely, and a black skirt covered her lower half.

It made her already impressive figure look even more pronounced.

Her towering chest drew nearly all of Chen Lu's attention.

Liang Zhirou seemed to notice his gaze. She turned her face away and quietly tugged at the front of her top with her fingers, murmuring, "It's a little small..."

Chen Lu felt a sudden heat in his nose. Looking at the girl before him, who was beautiful enough to have just stepped off a film set, he gently brushed aside her long bangs.

His movements were gentle, as though he were doing his utmost not to make her uncomfortable.

Sure enough, once was all it took for there to be a second time. Liang Zhirou no longer resisted when Chen Lu brushed her bangs aside. She merely narrowed her eyes, looking as though she were at his mercy.

For some reason, Chen Lu felt a little dazed. When he had stepped forward to help her back then, he had never expected to get to know this girl.

Even when their eyes met that night and he discovered her breathtaking beauty, he had never imagined they would grow closer and closer.

Still less could he have imagined that she was not only beautiful, but sweetly naive and gentle, and especially good to him, almost to the point of indulging his every wish.

She was just like a treasure he had discovered.

After Chen Lu came back to his senses, he waved the phone in his hand.

"Let's take a photo."

He was sure Liang Zhirou would never wear this outfit again.

It would be a shame not to capture it.

"Huh?" Liang Zhirou was visibly startled. She instinctively took two steps back until her back pressed against the wall. "M-must we...?"

"This is part of the plan."

Chen Lu spoke with complete seriousness, then framed her in his phone camera and carefully took a photo.

Unlike most guys who could drive their girlfriends to death with their photography, Chen Lu knew a thing or two about it. At least he wouldn't make people look uglier in photos, and he was his family's designated photographer whenever they traveled.

If Liang Zhirou hadn't been so shy, he was confident he could have found a better background and taken an even prettier photo.

When he was done, Chen Lu rose from his half-kneeling position and studied his phone, marveling to himself that pretty girls didn't even need their pictures touched up.

In the photo, the girl looked like a startled fawn. She hadn't even thought to pose, and her hands clutched the hem of her skirt as she gazed pitifully at the camera.

Chen Lu swallowed and went into a daze, forgetting for a moment that he could look up and see her in person.

"I sent you the photo on WeChat," Chen Lu said with a soft chuckle.

He finally understood why so many girls liked playing dress-up games like Love Nikki.

"O-okay, then... can I change out of this now?"

"Nope."

In a lecture hall.

"Yuqing, did you really see Chen Lu playing guitar for another girl a few days ago? Something this big, and you couldn't have waited until your next life to tell me?" Liu Yan asked in disbelief, planning to give Jiang Chao a proper grilling that evening to find out what was going on.

She had heard Mo Yuqing say long ago that Chen Lu played the guitar exceptionally well, but Chen Lu had always kept it under wraps, saying it was exclusively for Mo Yuqing.

So Chen Lu being willing to play guitar for another girl carried a meaning that was far from simple...

Chen Lu had a good personality and was handsome. It was only natural for other girls to fall for him.

But if he really intended to let go of Mo Yuqing...

Once the man had feelings and the woman returned them, their relationship would progress at a terrifying speed.

Other girls might not be as pretty as Mo Yuqing, but they certainly weren't as silly as her.

Mo Yuqing watched a few girls dancing nimbly in the distance and nodded in a daze.

Liu Yan sighed. She had always been a nagging mother hen, but by now she was genuinely tired of trying to talk sense into her.

But what could she do? She was Mo Yuqing's best friend.

"...How do you feel about it?" Liu Yan continued with a wry smile.

Mo Yuqing interlaced her slender fingers and squeezed them, looking very anxious. "Very uncomfortable."

Liu Yan was helpless. "Then why are you still being so stubborn? If you really had no feelings for him, you shouldn't care. So many people pursue you. Do you care whether they're with other girls?"

Mo Yuqing slowly shook her head.

She didn't care about the others. She couldn't even remember many of their names.

If anything, she wished many of those people who kept coming after her and bothering her would go like other girls instead.

"If you keep this up, you can just sit there and watch Chen Lu and that girl get closer and closer, faster and faster!" Liu Yan's voice was full of frustration at seeing iron refuse to become steel. "Then you'll get to watch him hug and kiss another girl, and after a little longer, you can get ready to attend his wedding!"

"No! He can't be with another girl!"

Mo Yuqing suddenly cried out. When she saw the dance club members turn to look at her, she bit her lower lip in embarrassment and said quietly, "I'll... think about it some more."

"Go on, keep being stubborn!"

Liu Yan said no more. Breathing heavily, she picked up the hamburger on the table and took a vicious bite.

Why bother trying to persuade her? She was asking for it!

Kind words couldn't save a ghost bent on death!

"Have I really... been that bad to him?"

After a long while, Mo Yuqing asked in a low voice, her voice trembling slightly.

"You want the truth? It might hurt our friendship." Although Liu Yan knew Mo Yuqing's personality well enough to know she wouldn't mind, she couldn't help asking.

"Just tell me the truth."

"The truth, huh..."

Liu Yan recalled everything she had seen, took a deep breath, and said, "You owe him."

Mo Yuqing fell silent again. Her whole body froze there like a sculpture of exquisite beauty, utterly motionless.

No one knew what she was thinking.

Liu Yan finished the KFC in front of her, gathered everything up, and prepared to get up and throw it away.

But as soon as she stood, someone gently tugged her arm.

The weather was hot, yet Mo Yuqing's hand was a little cold.

"Do you think Chen Lu would have a change of heart after getting together with me? He's already playing guitar for another girl now." There was a faint, tearful note in Mo Yuqing's voice.

Liu Yan was a little surprised and immediately found it strange. She hadn't expected Mo Yuqing to feel so insecure.

Still, she was speechless. "You shouldn't be asking me that. Aren't you two childhood sweethearts? Don't you know him yourself?"

Even she couldn't imagine how Chen Lu had kept it up, day after day, year after year. She was sure she loved Jiang Chao very much, but if she had to be like Chen Lu every day-

She really couldn't do it.

If Mo Yuqing felt insecure, it wasn't because Chen Lu hadn't done enough. The problem lay with her dear best friend.

She had been spoiled into demanding more and more. Once she had grown accustomed to Chen Lu treating her exceptionally well, how could she possibly still get a sense of security from him?

If she took love ten times greater than an ordinary person's for granted, who in this world could make her feel secure?

Chen Lu had already reached his limit. How much better could he possibly do?

Liu Yan smiled helplessly again.

"Besides, whether he'd have a change of heart after getting together with you isn't what you should be worrying about now. You should be thinking about how to make Chen Lu come back to you."

Liu Yan patted Mo Yuqing on the head, then turned to throw away the trash.

Mo Yuqing watched Liu Yan walk away, too choked up to speak.

My mom and dad were childhood sweethearts too...