"..." Zhu Mingyue's heart skipped a beat, and speechlessness instantly filled her mind.

"Mingyue, may I sit next to you?"

A clear male voice rang in her ears, and Zhu Mingyue's eyes showed a moment of confusion. Then, the confusion turned into surprise.

"Senior Qi!" She suddenly looked up at the boy in front of her, who seemed like her lifeline.

Qi Yu smiled slightly and repeated her question: "Mingyue, may I sit next to you?"

Zhu Mingyue nodded: "Of course."

Qi Yu immediately sat down next to her.

She glanced at the two computers opposite her, hesitated for a few seconds, and then introduced the person sitting next to her.

"Xiaowen, this is Qi Yu, the president of the student council."

Zhu Jinzhao and Jiang Jingwen greeted each other in unison: "Senior Qi."

Qi Yu nodded: "I've seen you before."

"ah……"

Zhu Jinzhao is socially awkward, and her most common responses when talking to strangers are "Ah..." "Oh..." "Okay..."

Qi Yu understood her, and after saying that, he didn't try to force her to chat.

"I heard that Senior Qi received offers from three major companies within a week?" Zhu Mingyue replied to Lu Yuzhou's message while chatting casually.

—Don't bother looking for me. I'm having dinner with other people, and Jinzhao is here too, so it's not convenient for you to come over.

Zhu Mingyue's reply came a little late; by the time Lu Yuzhou received the message, he was already standing downstairs in the cafeteria.

"Eating with someone else?" He automatically ignored the following sentence, "Jinzhao is here too," and his mind was filled with the image of Zhu Mingyue eating with another man.

Full of suspicion, he immediately put away his phone and ran to the cafeteria where Zhu Mingyue ate most often.

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the cafeteria entrance, he saw Zhu Mingyue having lunch with the student council president. The two were chatting and laughing, looking quite intimate.

"Snobbish people who judge others by their appearance..." Lu Yuzhou was provoked by the scene before him. He stared intently at Zhu Mingyue, every word he uttered was barbed.

"You always make excuses when I ask you out to dinner, but you immediately change your tune when it's the student council president. You're more sycophantic than a dog."

"A mere student council president, all he does is show off and is utterly useless! Zhu Mingyue, you're supposed to be the daughter of the Zhu family in the capital, how can you not even have this much vision? Ha, no wonder you want to enter the entertainment industry, it turns out your very bones are already etched with the label of vulgarity!"

"If it weren't for the fact that you have some money, do you think I would even look at you? I've been sucking up to you for a couple of days and you actually think you're something special..."

Lu Yuzhou was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he stood at the cafeteria entrance cursing for several minutes.

Zhu Mingyue noticed something and suddenly looked up in Lu Yuzhou's direction.

Their eyes met, and Lu Yuzhou's expression faltered for a moment. He quickly composed himself and smiled at Zhu Mingyue.

"..."

Zhu Mingyue ignored him, glanced at him once and then looked away, not giving him a second more look.

His breath hitched, and his hands, hanging by his sides, instantly clenched into fists.

"Zhu Mingyue, you just wait! I will make you kneel at my feet and beg for my life!"

Reluctantly leaving those words behind, Lu Yuzhou turned and walked away, his anger palpable.

As he passed the trash can, he threw the milk tea he was carrying into it.

After dinner, Zhu Mingyue and Qi Yu went to the student council. Zhu Jinzhao didn't like going to those places, so she made an excuse and slipped away with Jiang Jingwen.

"Hey? Isn't that Lu Yuzhou?"

On her way back to the classroom, Jiang Jingwen spotted Lu Yuzhou's fleeting figure from a distance.

Zhu Jinzhao looked in the direction she was pointing and nodded indifferently: "Yeah, it really is him."

Jiang Jingwen frowned: "Where is he going so fast? Is he having diarrhea?"

Zhu Jinzhao shrugged, showing no interest in Lu Yuzhou's affairs: "Maybe."

"Hey, did you text him today?" Jiang Jingwen linked arms with her, her expression suddenly turning a little mischievous.

Zhu Jinzhao looked at her with a puzzled expression: "Not yet."

Jiang Jingwen: "No? Didn't you say you were going to fawn over him every day? It's almost afternoon, how come you haven't sent him any more simp messages yet?"

"Quick, quick, send him a message to flatter him, lure him out and ask him what he's been up to lately."

"Why?" Jiang Jingwen's request was sudden and strange, and Zhu Jinzhao didn't understand at all.

"Tsk..." Jiang Jingwen explained somewhat hastily, "At midday, Lu Yuzhou neither went to the cafeteria for lunch nor returned to the classroom to rest, and he even sneaked off towards the grove. It's obvious he's up to no good."

“He’s been giving you the silent treatment for a week now. If you don’t text him soon, you won’t even know when he marries another woman.”

"Besides, didn't you say you were going to use a 'praise-to-kill' strategy on him? How can you carry out your plan if you don't even know the enemy's basic movements?"

"Huh? That makes sense!" Zhu Jinzhao was successfully persuaded. She took out her phone, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Lu Yuzhou under Jiang Jingwen's guidance.

—Brother, I just saw you. Where are you going? You told me your phone seemed to be a bit broken. Since Apple just released a new model, how about I get you a new phone?

...

Several minutes have passed since the message was sent, but Zhu Jinzhao has not received any reply.

Jiang Jingwen: "Send it again, we must lure him out today."

"Oh." Zhu Jinzhao obediently sent another message.

—Hey bro? Are you there? I'm going to buy you a new phone!

The message has been sent, but the recipient has rejected it.

"Huh?" Zhu Jinzhao exclaimed in shock, "He blocked me!!"

...

"Did you break up with your boyfriend today?"

On Sunday morning, Zhu Mingyue suddenly asked Zhu Jinzhao this question at the dinner table.

"...Hmm?" Zhu Jinzhao paused in peeling the egg, and furtively turned his head to glance at Zhu Xingye in the kitchen.

"Why...why did you suddenly ask that?" She lowered her voice, afraid that Zhu Xingye would hear her.

Zhu Mingyue listlessly munched on her bread, unconsciously lowering her voice: "It's just a gut feeling, nothing more. You just need to tell me if you two have broken up or not."

"I..." Zhu Jinzhao lowered her head, thought about her current situation with Lu Yuzhou, and honestly said, "We should be considered to have broken up."

"Oh," Zhu Mingyue replied with only one word, and then ignored her.

She peeled the eggs in her hands until they were uneven and pitted, appearing calm and composed on the surface, but in reality, her heart was churning with turmoil.

Something's not right, absolutely not right!

Lu Yuzhou had inexplicably blocked her just two days ago, and today Zhu Mingyue asked her this very question; this was definitely not a coincidence.