Volume 2 High School - The White Robe Fluttering Years Chapter 11

  Because of being extremely busy for two weeks, Ai Ziqing finally pushed away Xue Mei's birthday party two weeks ago. As Wang Lele said, Xue Mei would at most let Zhang Yuanyuan and Liu Xiaomei see what a real wealthy family looks like in such an occasion, but wouldn't embarrass the two young girls in front of everyone. Maybe she said something hurtful, which made Zhang Yuanyuan and Liu Xiaomei distracted during class for these two weeks.

  Tang Feng, however, was still somewhat gloomy due to not catching Old K. In the end, Ai Zi Qing had no choice but to let Zhou Yuan put a photo of Old K's corpse into Tang Feng's car seat, which made Tang Feng's face even more unpredictable the next day.

  Classmates spread the news during class break that the most handsome teacher in No. 1 Middle School has been dumped...

  Tang Feng was indeed feeling depressed, as Old K had actually died, and someone had deliberately stuffed his photo into their own car. Now that the Yang City underworld was unified, he must have received the news. So this matter should be done by Qing She, but why would Qing She help him? How did they know he was looking for Old K? Was everything he did being carried out under Qing She's nose? He suddenly felt like he had been stripped naked and thrown onto the street! Later, he thought, could it be that his grandfather had used money to get in touch with Qing She? It must be so! But if that were the case, wouldn't it mean that everything he did after escaping to Yang City was not hidden from the old man? This still made him feel like he had been stripped naked and thrown onto the street! So Tang Feng felt depressed.

  At noon, Ai Zi Qing came out of the girls' bathroom and was going to make a phone call to Zhou Yuan in a corner of the corridor where few people usually pass by. However, when she approached the corner, she heard a low sobbing sound. She thought about turning back, but suddenly a comforting voice stopped her in her tracks: "Yuan Yuan, don't be sad, his father is the deputy secretary of the provincial committee, how could he possibly like a girl from our background?" The voice belonged to Liu Xiao Mei.

  "But he clearly held my hand in front of Xue Mei that day at the gathering! He didn't have any feelings for me, how could he do such a thing?" Zhang Yuanyuan loudly refuted.

  "Yuan Yuan, don't be foolish, he's using you to reject Xue Mei! Your family may have some wealth, but in their eyes, they're just small business owners. How could Secretary Xu allow his own son..." Liu Xiaomei trailed off, lowering her eyelids and falling silent.

  "How could he take advantage of me! He even sent me home! You don't understand! Don't understand!" Zhang Yuanyuan said with a sobbing tone, and the only sound left in the corridor was her muffled crying.

  Ai Zi Qing didn't know whether she should go forward and say something, remembering how Zhang Yuanyuan was so innocent and cheerful when school first started, but now she's always depressed. Although they weren't close friends, Ai Zi Qing still considered her one of the people she knew at No. 1 Middle School. She wanted to say something, but thinking about her own pain back then, she didn't know what to say after all. Girls of this age would all fantasize about finding a handsome boyfriend that would make others jealous, and many girls would fantasize about marrying into a wealthy family. But the gap between reality and fantasy would only gradually reveal itself as they grew older, and the pressure would increase accordingly. At that time, perhaps there would only be scars left in her heart.

  After all, society is so realistic that not everyone can be like the men and women in fairy tales, bearing great pressure, giving up their families and careers to accompany you in finding love, which would undoubtedly be foolish.

  Humans are a species of desire, with hearts full of longing and fantasy, but after the passion of love has passed, what is left?

  After getting used to having money and power, the days of mountain delicacies and sea flavors are indeed enjoyable, but after enjoying them for a year or two, three years, or even seven or eight years, what's left is only the torture brought by dullness and boredom.

  Ai Zi Qing has the thoughts of an adult, so she naturally won't look at things as simply as Zhang Yuan Yuan does. She also wouldn't go around advising people to follow their feelings to find love and other such nonsense. She always believed that only by relying on one's own efforts to strive for it, with both parties standing on the same level, can true happiness be achieved! Rather than waiting for others to bear great pressure 'for' you or bestow it upon you!

  These words were undoubtedly incomprehensible to the current Zhang Yuanyuan, so Ai Ziqing's raised leg did not move forward. At this time, Zhang Yuanyuan suppressed her crying and muttered, "Little sister, you didn't see that Xu Jian was really gentle that day, a gentleness I dared not imagine before, my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my throat, he was like a prince, and even sent me home... Although we didn't talk on the way, I enjoyed that atmosphere very much, that night, I didn't sleep all night, feeling like there was a lump in my brain, constantly thinking wildly, dazedly, I...I felt like I had fallen in love with him!"

  Liu Xiaomei's face turned bright red with anxiety, and anyone with discerning eyes could clearly see that Xu Jian had no interest in her! But she just fell for it like that! Are women really so muddle-headed when they're in love?

  Ai Zi Qing didn't want to stay any longer, took a step back and turned around to leave, but bumped into Xu Jian who had been standing behind her for a long time. Fortunately, neither of them made a sound. They just awkwardly stood there with their bodies touching, then simultaneously took a step back and stood still. Xu Jian was somewhat surprised by Ai Zi Qing's reaction, she didn't show any panic at all, instead she seemed unusually calm when seeing him. He wasn't arrogant enough to think that every girl would blush when seeing him, but in this situation, shouldn't there be some surprise or shyness?

  Xu Jianben originally wanted to come here alone to calm down, but unexpectedly saw Ai Ziqing standing alone from a distance. He thought of turning around and leaving, but seeing her quietly standing there, as if listening to something, he became somewhat curious and walked over just in time to hear the conversation between the two people inside.

  Actually, Ai Zi Qing was somewhat annoyed in her heart. There was someone standing behind her, and she had no consciousness at all. If the comer was an enemy, wouldn't she have been killed long ago?

  Xu Jian just glanced at her and stood there, showing no intention of leaving. Ai Ziying didn't dare to remind the two people inside either. She could only frown and stare at Xu Jian, hoping he would realize how shameful it was to eavesdrop on a girl's secrets.

  "Yuan Yuan, you can't go on like this. Has he contacted you since that gathering? It's been two weeks! If he liked you, why wouldn't he have looked for you? Wake up!" Liu Xiaomei felt sad and angry seeing Zhang Yuanyuan's infatuated state.

  Ai Zi Qing saw that he didn't react at all, so she pulled his arm and turned to walk outside. Xu Jian tried to pull back but couldn't, so he had no choice but to follow her quietly as they walked out of the glass door of the building. Just as they were walking out, they saw Xue Mei and two sisters walking towards the teaching building, and they happened to see the two of them pulling each other.

  Ai Zi Qing saw Xue Mei staring at her with a gloomy gaze, holding onto Xu Jian's arm, and thought to herself: Now there's going to be a misunderstanding...

  Xu Jian suddenly whispered to Ai Zi Qing, "What's the hurry? I'm not going anywhere." As he spoke, he withdrew his arm and gently grasped Zi Qing's left hand. His voice was low, just loud enough for Xue Mei and a few others nearby to hear, like a lover's whisper.

  The two people's hands were slightly cold, and when they held them, both of them slightly trembled. Ai Zi Qing raised her eyes to look at Xu Jian, knowing that with Xue Mei's personality, it was pointless to try to clear things up today. So she simply stood there calmly and naturally. Xue Mei saw the natural expressions on their faces and felt a bit shocked in her heart. In the past, even if Xu Jian had rejected her in such a way, she would have understood that Xu Jian could never like those women, and her purpose in scolding those women was also to make them realize their foolish fantasies of rising above their station! But today, this woman actually looked completely natural, without a hint of shyness or embarrassment, as if the two of them had held hands thousands of times before. This made Xue Mei feel like she had swallowed a fly, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

  "Who is this?" Xue Wei asked in a cold voice without any disguise.

  "A friend, Miss Xue, we still have things to do, let's talk next time." Xu Jian said and pulled Ai Zi Qing towards the direction of the cafeteria, he remembered seeing Ai Zi Qing before but couldn't recall her name.

  "One, friend." Xue Mei stared at the two figures in the distance, repeating slowly.