Li Qingshu looked at the food that had been served in front of her, still hesitating whether or not she should eat it.

At this moment, Chu Yang also brought over the food and sat down opposite her naturally.

"Eat quickly, don't wait for me."

Who's waiting for you?

Li Qingshu blinked, suddenly feeling that she didn't recognize Chu Yang in front of her.

Although we are classmates, we don't usually exchange more than a few words.

But today it definitely feels a bit different.

In my memory, Chu Yang was always around Su Lingxue. He would ride his bicycle to take her to school every day, get her lunch, study with her after class, and then take her home after school...

In short, they treated Su Lingxue like a little princess.

But now, what did he just say?

Ex-girlfriend?

They broke up?

Why?

Seeing Chu Yang eating his meal as if nothing had happened, he didn't look like he had just broken up at all.

However, Li Qingshu wasn't a gossipy girl; she was just curious but didn't ask any further questions.

Looking at the food served in front of her, and remembering that it was bought with Su Lingxue's meal tickets, she hesitated to pick up her chopsticks.

Chu Yang guessed what she was thinking and said with a smile, "Let's try a different approach."

"What's your idea?" Li Qingshu asked.

Chu Yang smiled slightly: "Your portion was paid for with my meal ticket, while mine is Su Lingxue's portion. Does that make you feel less guilty?"

Li Qingshu's eyes widened slightly, and she said in disbelief, "You can do that?"

"Yeah, that makes sense, right? Can we eat now?"

"……All right."

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the cafeteria.

Su Lingxue stormed in, her best friend Wang Xiaoli pulling her hand.

"Xiaoli, maybe we should just forget about it..."

"How can that be? He bullied you! How dare he! Don't worry, Lingxue, I'm here. I'll go and scold him for you!"

Wang Xiaoli glanced around the cafeteria and saw Chu Yang eating.

"He actually has the appetite to eat?... Wait, why is Li Qingshu sitting across from him?"

Su Lingxue saw it too, and almost couldn't catch her breath on the spot.

He just broke up with me, and then went to have dinner with another girl?

And it just so happens to be Li Qingshu!

What, are you deliberately trying to annoy me?

This time, Wang Xiaoli didn't need to pull her anymore. She walked angrily to the front and came to Chu Yang's dining table.

"Chu Yang, what do you mean by this?"

Chu Yang didn't even look up, calmly asking, "What do you mean?"

"Why did you have dinner with her?" Su Lingxue asked, her voice tinged with grievance.

At that moment, she forgot that they had broken up and her possessiveness overwhelmed her.

For the past two and a half years, you've been eating with me every day while you were in school. Have you ever considered my feelings when you ate with other girls?

But then Chu Yang raised his head, looked her up and down a few times, and looked at her as if she were an idiot.

"Get this straight, we've already broken up. It's my freedom to have dinner with whoever I want."

Su Lingxue's pretty face had turned bright red, and she said angrily, "You're the one who broke up with me!"

"You wanted to break up with me, so I brought it up first," Chu Yang said calmly.

"You!" Su Lingxue was speechless.

She couldn't deny that statement; that was her decision at the time.

But when Chu Yang brought it up first, she felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

Seeing Chu Yang and Li Qingshu eating together face to face, without any semblance of normalcy after their breakup, made her even more upset.

I'm the one who should initiate the breakup, why should you be the one to do it!

By this time, the area had attracted a large crowd of students.

"Chu Yang and Su, the school beauty, broke up?"

"Judging from his tone, is it still Chu Yang who dumped Su, the school beauty?"

"Holy crap, how dare he?!"

"If it were Li, the school beauty, sitting across from me, I think I'd dare to do it too!"

"That's even more explosive! Chu Yang and those two school beauties... they really deserve to die!!"

"..."

Chu Yang looked around.

It seems that this has already aroused public outrage?

However, he didn't care. Eating with Li Qingshu wasn't about trying to woo her; he was just helping her out by chance.

It's no big deal, look how excited these kids are.

Having been given a second chance at life, Chu Yang has decided to be himself again and live as he pleases, not caring about what others think.

Seeing Su Lingxue choking, her beautiful chest heaving, he smiled and continued eating.

I'd barely taken a couple of bites when someone slammed their hand on the table.

Bang!

"You, surnamed Chu, have hurt Ling Xue so much. Do you even deserve to be called a man?"

This aggressive girl is none other than Wang Xiaoli.

In Chu Yang's memory, Wang Xiaoli was quite good-looking, but she had a very fierce, domineering, and sharp-tongued personality, always siding with her relatives regardless of the truth.

In his previous life, he was terrified of this woman, so in addition to currying favor with Su Lingxue, he also had to smooth things over with this close friend of the emperor.

But now he wasn't afraid at all. He met her gaze calmly and said, word by word, "Whether I'm a man or not is none of your business. Get out of here."

Wang Xiaoli was immediately stunned.

That cold, resolute expression, that thorny gaze—was this the same Chu Yang she knew?

I felt completely overwhelmed and was thinking about how to fight back.

But then Su Lingxue stepped forward and held out her hand to Chu Yang: "Where's my meal ticket?"

Chu Yang pointed to Li Qingshu's lunchbox sitting opposite him.

Li Qingshu: "???"

She was completely devastated.

Didn't we just agree that your portion was Su Lingxue's?

They betrayed me in a heartbeat...

Chu Yang's sudden attack really infuriated Su Lingxue.

The surrounding classmates were all speechless with disbelief and cursed him as shameless.

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