Chapter 16

Seeing the young men and women coming and going around him, he slowly regretted that he should not have come.

How Jiang Qiao...what does it have to do with him.

Lu Xun suppressed the inexplicable emotions in his heart and long-pressed the power button. As soon as he turned on the phone, a message quickly popped up. There was no note, but the number was very familiar to him: "When will you get off work?"

After a while, another post popped up, this time it was a picture. The falling snow was illuminated by the dim light of the street lamps like jumping stars.

"Lu Xun, it's snowing."

Lu Xun stared at his phone for a few seconds. Song Qingying called him several times before he came back to his senses: "What's wrong?"

"I said, it's snowing." Song Qingying smiled softly, her smile was pure and warm: "What are you thinking about? You are so absent-minded."

"nothing."

Lu Xun put the phone back: "What do you want to say?"

About Jiang Qiao.

Song Qingying's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she took back Jiexue's hand. She did not directly answer Lu Xun's question, but asked: "You are not really with her, right?"

Lu Xun's face turned pale. He didn't like discussing private matters with others.

Song Qingying was immersed in his own thoughts. His silence in a sense represented a kind of acquiescence. Song Qingying took a deep breath and made up his mind: "Lu Xun, actually I like-"

"Lu Xun."

Jiang Qiao stood not far from the two of them. Song Qingying couldn't finish her words and just stood there frozen.

As Lu Xun frowned, Jiang Qiao approached him, smiled, and handed him the brown paper bag in his hand: "Merry Christmas!"

She did not question why Lu Xun appeared here, as if he had suddenly lost his memory.

Not knowing what she was planning, Lu Xun was silent for a while before taking over.

Song Qingying couldn't stay any longer. Her face turned red as if it was burning. She said "something happened at home" and left in a hurry.

"Where's my gift?" Jiang Qiao opened his palm upwards, and snowflakes fell on it and quickly melted.

After waiting for a while, the person on the other side did not move. Jiang Qiao stopped smiling and pursed his lips.

"Lu Xun, we are in love."

There were no gifts, no blessings, all this relationship gave her was deception and perfunctory treatment.

There was no emotion in her tone, she was just stating a fact: "You are really boring."

Not sure which word touched Lu Xun's nerves. He turned around and faced Jiang Qiao: "You can choose to break up."

The beginning was not glorious, the purpose was not pure, but you still insist on having a good process. How is that possible?

The two eventually parted ways unhappily.

Of course, this was just a one-sided cold war between Jiang Qiao and Lu Xun. Nothing had changed significantly.

It's a good thing for him that the spoiled and overbearing Jiang Qiao is gone.

The vicious female supporting role also has to save face. Jiang Qiao was determined not to admit defeat this time. She did not contact Lu Xun for the entire winter vacation.

Lu Xun went to his part-time job as usual, and after get off work he returned to his old house to review.

Since the book briefly glossed over this period of forced love, Jiang Qiao could live as he pleased except for some necessary plot points.

So Jiang Qiao lived a happy life for a while, "bullying" the heroine verbally from time to time, and then he went shopping, playing and eating. His high school life was so colorful.

The start of the senior year of high school ushered in a busy period of exam preparation. In response to the call to pay attention to the mental health of teenagers, the school specially hired a mental health teacher.

It was the second male lead whom Jiang Qiao had met briefly, Song Qingying’s neighbor’s brother—Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao is young, handsome, and speaks gently. He immediately gained a large number of female fans.

He showed his concern for Song Qingying, and soon everyone in the class knew that Song Qingying had a close relationship with this young and handsome teacher.

This made Song Qingying more popular in the class. People who were afraid of the Jiang family's strength and dared not talk to Song Qingying also began to talk to her actively.

For a while, Jiang Qiao was "ignored".

A few friends who were of similar family background to Jiang Qiao felt that she was sad, and in order to comfort her, they forced her to skip classes and go to the bar.

Even though Jiang Qiao didn't feel anything at all, he still had to go with her in order not to go against her character.

A few rich kids rented a VIP room and had a great time, without any sense of urgency about the college entrance examination.

Ye Qingqing broke up again and sang a song that sounded like ghosts and wolves howling. Jiang Qiao thought it was funny and recorded a video for her.

After thinking about it, she took a few more selfies, including the environment inside the bar and the backs of several boys, and then posted them on her Moments.

After three rounds of drinks, it was getting dark. Jiang Qiao checked the time, took the elevator downstairs, and pretended not to see Lu Xun at the front desk.

After walking in and out several times, Lu Xun finally said, "Come to the bar for a walk?"

Jiang Qiao was speechless. She walked up to Lu Xun and pretended to be surprised: "Why are you still working here?"

“Lots of money,” Lu Xun said concisely.

This was the first normal conversation between the two since Jiang Qiao paid his tuition and said she wanted to support him, but he coldly refused but still insisted on paying.

Jiang Qiao frowned: "I've already told you that I have money. If you just treat me as your boyfriend, I can give you money."

Jiang Qiao's face was flushed. Lu Xun glanced at her and asked, "How much did you drink?"

"Ah?" Jiang Qiao didn't react: "I didn't drink."

She raised her head and thought again: "Oh, fruit wine."

Lu Xun: “……………………”

His face was a little cold, and the photos he had just seen flashed through his mind. He said, "Sit there and wait."

He looked like he thought she was troublesome and didn't want to bother with her.

Jiang Qiao curled her lips, but she was indeed tired and did not want to go back to the box to listen to the evil sound that would hurt her ears, so she sat on the sofa on the side to rest.

She was already pretty, and had grown up even more in the past two years. She usually spoke in a haughty tone, and was spoiled and unruly, naive and ignorant of the ways of the world. But now that her son had calmed down and was sitting there, she inexplicably felt that he was well behaved.

He just looks obedient, Lu Xun thought.

The young people forgot everything when they were having fun. By the time the people in the box realized that someone was missing, Jiang Qiao had already left with Lu Xun.

Ye Qingqing sent a message to angrily denounce her for being inhumane towards the opposite sex and being love-brained.

Jiang Qiao looked at the handsome face of the boy beside him and replied, "I'd love to."

She only realized now what Lu Xun meant by asking her to wait. It turned out that he wanted to send her home.

Jiang Qiao's eyes widened in surprise, and he felt relieved that his years of hard work had not been in vain.

She quietly reached out and held Lu Xun's hand. Lu Xun froze for a moment, but did not dodge and let her hold it.

A minute later, Lu Xun said indifferently: "Don't pinch me."

"Oh oh oh." Jiang Qiao quickly removed the fingers that were pinching his palm.

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At night, she lay in bed in a daze, talking to 166 who was online again after two years: "Do you think Lu Xun likes me a little bit?"

[No.] 166 said: [Don’t think too much.]

[Hey, I’m just asking~]

In the book, the Jiang family went bankrupt on the eve of the college entrance examination. Jiang Qiao calculated.

There is only half a year left.