Chapter 45: Someone’s Looking in a Mirror

“Hong Yan, Jiang Qin liked me from the very beginning. Why do you insist on fighting with me over him?” Chu Siqi spoke first, her eyes full of resentment.

Hong Yan slowly raised her head: “He doesn’t like you. Even if he did, you wouldn’t deserve his affection.”

Wang Huiru’s mind suddenly went blank for a moment. She couldn’t believe the usually gentle Hong Yan could say such things: “Hong Yan, calm down.”

“Am I wrong? Chu Siqi, what are you trying to do? Let him continue liking you so you can reject him and gain a sense of satisfaction from it?”

Chu Siqi’s breath caught, her face instantly turning pale: “You’re talking nonsense. I didn’t.”

Hong Yan looked at Wang Huiru: “Huiru, there are many things you know more clearly than me. Who do you think is talking nonsense here?”

Wang Huiru pursed her lips and remained silent for a long time: “I don’t know. I don’t understand anything.”

“If even you don’t dare to tell the truth, it means Chu Siqi is beyond saving.”

“Hong Yan, don’t twist the facts. Jiang Qin has liked me since the first year of high school!” Chu Siqi gritted her teeth.

Hong Yan looked at her with calm eyes: “So what? What did that get you? Do you like him?”

“I…”

“You just like the feeling of being pursued, right? Selfish, vain, foolish.”

Hong Yan’s words were as sharp as blades, instantly making Chu Siqi’s face turn deathly pale.

She couldn’t understand. She had gone back to change into her most beautiful, sexy clothes and carefully did her makeup before charging over. How could she not even withstand a few words from the other party?

South Street was always crowded with people coming to eat on weekends. The tables in front, behind, next to them, and the tables next to those – over a dozen people were all staring at Jiang Qin’s table, thinking what are all these beauties surrounding one guy trying to do? This dude looks utterly average!

“Hong Yan, you’ve only met Jiang Qin twice. You don’t understand him at all.”

The corners of Hong Yan’s lips curled up slightly: “Does that matter? I’ll have plenty of time to get to know him in the future. After all, I won’t waste my time chatting with senior male students.”

Chu Siqi’s eyes instantly widened: “How can you distort the facts like this? There was a problem with my student registration information. What else could I do if I didn’t go?”

“Really?”

Hong Yan reached out and opened her leather bag, pulling out a BBK cellphone. She opened the text messages and found one of them.

[Junior, there’s an issue with your student registration information. Do you have time to come out and discuss it?]

Chu Siqi’s eyes widened slightly. She stared blankly for a while, then took out her own phone and compared the text messages. They were exactly the same, word for word!

“I received his text message too. But I didn’t go, because I knew he was just making up an excuse. Don’t you know that?”

“I…”

After putting her phone back in her bag, Hong Yan looked at Chu Siqi with calm eyes: “You’re not stupid. You’re just pretending to be dumb. You hope to have a few more people chasing you to feel smug and conceited. That’s why you pretended not to know Zheng Qinglong’s intentions and acted all innocent.”

Chu Siqi felt extremely wronged: “I didn’t. I really didn’t think too much about it at the time. My student information had an issue once in high school too. You’re falsely accusing me.”

“Don’t act naive. It’s really annoying.”

Si Huiying couldn’t stand it anymore: “Hong Yan, we’re dorm mates and sisters. Is it worth it, just for a scumbag?”

Scumbag????

Jiang Qin frowned, thinking I’ve been working hard to make money this whole time without pursuing anyone. How am I a scumbag?

In two lifetimes, this is the first time I’ve been granted the honor of being called a scumbag.

But Si Huiying clearly had no intention of stopping after she started talking. So she immediately directed her attack at Jiang Qin.

“You sit here without saying a word. Do you think it’s glorious to have two girls fighting over you? Do you enjoy this feeling?”

“The four of us were a harmonious dorm, like sisters. But your existence has made us despise each other. Do you have the nerve to sit here and eat?”

“Since you like Siqi, then continue liking her properly. She already said she’ll give you a chance. Why do you still entice Hong Yan? Does it feel great to have your feet in two boats?”

Jiang Qin glanced up at her, thinking why the hell would I explain myself to a stranger.

Seeing him remain silent, Si Huiying felt he had a guilty conscience. So her tone became even more intense and her words sharper.

“Why aren’t you talking?”

“What you said is quite correct. I have nothing to fucking say.”

Jiang Qin opened another bottle of beer and took out four more cups to pour it: “If you’re tired of scolding, then eat something. After finishing this cup, let’s all forget about each other after going back.”

Si Huiying immediately let out a contemptuous sneer: “Forget it if you say so? Our dorm’s relationships have become like this. Shouldn’t you take responsibility?”

“Four is too many. The country doesn’t allow me to be responsible.”

Just then, a shrill scream suddenly came from the middle section of South Street. Everyone present couldn’t help but shudder and looked over in the direction of the sound.

A boy wearing a white t-shirt was seen kneeling on the road, wailing constantly. Beside him, rose petals were scattered all over the ground. The flower stems were already broken and tattered, a miserable sight.

Right in front of where this boy knelt, a girl with dyed flaxen long hair was looking at him in shock. Her arm was still linked with another boy’s, her eyes full of panic.

“Tang Xiaoyan, I’ve liked you for a full five years. A whole five years!”

“From the first year of high school to the second year of university, I thought I’d always have a chance to win your heart. You always encouraged me, saying you’d be with me once you felt it. I believed it!”

“I held onto hope and took an overnight long-distance bus to rush over. But I discovered you shopping with someone else in your arms?”

“I don’t blame you at all for not liking me. But why did you say last night that you couldn’t resist wanting to be with me anymore?”

“Is this how you treat me? Is this how you repay my five years of youth?”

“Tang Xiaoyan, I fucking pursued you for five years. Everyone knows I like you. Even my mom knows!”

“Ah!!!!!”

Amidst the agonized wails, the entire long street fell into endless silence.

The girl seemed to curse “crazy” before taking her bag and smashing it on the boy’s face. The boy didn’t even dodge, only having a bitter smile on his face.

Jiang Qin felt drunk just looking at this scene, thinking I only came out to eat, who the fuck is holding a mirror up to me?

Meanwhile, Chu Siqi stared blankly at the boy kneeling on the ground. For some reason, her heart suddenly tightened.

“Five years is pretty devoted. That boy is quite good-looking too. Who knows if that girl will regret it…”

“She won’t.”

Si Huiying raised her head and glanced at Jiang Qin, her face instantly turning cold: “Who asked you? Scumbags have no right to speak!”

Jiang Qin picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, his gaze calm as he looked towards the girl with flaxen long hair: “She will never regret it. She won’t even realize she once had the chance to have the best love. The fact that boy can be wronged means this girl has no perception of truly beautiful things. Heaven will never give a person this kind of gifted opportunity twice. But no need to worry, since that boy has even encountered this kind of girl, he will never be hurt by love again in the future.”

“…”

The four golden flowers of the law department stared at him blankly, momentarily speechless.

Especially Si Huiying. There was some bewilderment in her eyes, not understanding how a scumbag could say such profound words.

As an outsider, Wang Huiru saw things more clearly. She felt Jiang Qin seemed to have matured to the point of being able to see through everything. Talking about love in front of him felt particularly childish.

But they didn’t know, at this moment Jiang Qin was actually seeing his past self. He too had asked himself over and over what he did wrong, but no one ever gave him an answer.

He felt his heart was a bit heavy now. He was afraid only Feng Nanshu’s pink little toes could comfort him.

“Love is something not even dogs bother with.”