"Gu Yueji, you son of a bitch, why didn't you tell me that Ye Zurong married someone else?!"
Gu Yueji was tilting her head and holding the phone between her shoulder and arm, using her computer to change the pictures for the new products in her online store, when the angry roar that came from the receiver startled her so much that she quickly put the phone down.
"Gu Yueji, don't play dumb! Do you think you can get away with it by staying silent?! Tell me what happened! When did Ye Zurong become someone else's husband?!" Xiao Yao continued to shout at the top of her lungs.
Looking at the phone, Gu Yueji thought, "What was bound to happen has finally happened."
Xiao Yao was Gu Yueji's college roommate. Gu Yueji's first impression of Xiao Yao was her loud voice and fearless personality.
She remembers that on her first day of university, she heard an argument while standing at the stairwell.
"This bed is clearly in my name, why should I give it to you?"
"It doesn't matter where you live."
"It doesn't matter where you stay, why are you taking my bed? Why don't you stay in your bed near the door?"
Gu Yueji followed the sound and finally stood in front of her dormitory room number.
The small dormitory was packed with people.
"We'll all be sharing a dorm from now on, so please be understanding of each other, okay, classmate?" A middle-aged woman was advising a short-haired girl.
The girl looked indignant. "Just because we're in the same dorm, the rules need to be established now. What belongs to someone should belong to them. There's no such thing as tolerance or intolerance. I'm the same age as your daughter, and I'm also an only child. There's no reason for me to tolerate her. If my parents were here today, they wouldn't agree to me giving in either, so I won't give in."
The argument that Gu Yueji had just heard mainly came from this girl; her voice was loud and penetrating.
She faced four adults and a girl of similar age with long hair all by herself. All five of them were taller than her, but her presence overshadowed them all.
Seeing that she couldn't reason with the short-haired girl, the middle-aged woman turned to her own daughter and began to persuade her, "Honey, why don't we give the bed back to someone else? Look, no one's in the bed across from you. Mom and Dad will help you pack up and move it to the other side right now, okay?"
The long-haired girl pouted in displeasure, and finally said reluctantly, "Fine."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yueji raised her voice and shouted, "Who said there's no one here?"
Everyone turned around in surprise, only to see Gu Yueji pulling her luggage straight to the bed they said was empty. She then threw a bag onto the bed, pointed to the three words "Gu Yueji" pasted on the bed frame, and said, "This is my bed."
Except for the short-haired girl, the expressions of the others immediately turned ugly.
The long-haired girl was stunned for a moment, then started acting unreasonably, "I'm not in good health, it's too windy by the door, I don't care, I want to live by the window."
The parents exchanged a troubled look, and finally decided to start with the short-haired girl. "Excuse me, how about this? I'll give you 500 yuan, and you can give this bed to my daughter, okay?"
The short-haired girl refused without hesitation, saying, "No, my family isn't short of money."
Gu Yueji paused, her hand already poised to open her suitcase, then turned to the parents and said, "Give me the 500 yuan, and I'll trade with you."
The short-haired girl stared at Gu Yueji in shock, "Holy crap, how can you be so spineless!"
Gu Yueji said frankly, "Your family doesn't lack money, but my family does."
The short-haired girl paused for a moment, then said generously, "Then I'll give you 1000, don't trade with her!"
Gu Yueji agreed without hesitation, "Deal."
Then the long-haired girl immediately started crying.
Gu Yueji was afraid that the girl would cry away the 1,000 yuan, so she said to the short-haired girl, "I have the counselor's phone number, do you want it?"
"I want it! Give it to me!"
The long-haired girl yelled at them, "You're all ganging up on me!"
The short-haired girl retorted defiantly, "You're taller and stronger than us. If you're not feeling well, we both need to see a doctor and be hospitalized. We won't bully you. I'll call the counselor right now. If the counselor asks us to give up our spot to you, we'll do so."
Gu Yueji looked at the short-haired girl. She had an adorable chubby face, short hair, and was not tall, looking like a junior high school student. Yet, when she argued her case, she was fearless.
And this short-haired girl is Xiao Yao.
In the end, they all slept in their own beds. Gu Yueji didn't actually take Xiao Yao's 1,000 yuan. However, after learning that Gu Yueji's family was really struggling financially, Xiao Yao introduced her to many part-time jobs during her four years of university, earning far more than just 1,000 yuan.
Gu Yueji put her phone on speakerphone and said, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "I'm afraid you'll come and cause trouble if I tell you."
"Get lost, stop pretending to be some saint! If I were to crash his party, you'd probably be there setting off firecrackers to celebrate. Tell me what really happened? I heard he got married in February. When I called you at the beginning of February, around Chinese New Year, you said you planned to pay off your debts in the next two years before getting married. He cheated on you, didn't he? But his wife is already so pregnant, you don't need to ask him, he's definitely cheating on me."
The word "pregnant" made Gu Yueji pause. "His wife is pregnant?"
Xiao Yao was silent for a moment, then lowered her voice, "Yes, my belly is quite noticeably protruding."
Gu Yueji recalled that Ye Zurong had once said that he enjoyed the life of just the two of them, that taking care of a child was time-consuming and exhausting, and that he didn't need children. She never expected to become a father so soon.
"Should I get someone to deal with him?" Xiao Yao said angrily.
Xiao Yao's father runs a business in Yun City and has connections in both the legal and illegal worlds, so it's entirely possible that he could be targeted.
Gu Yueji asked with a smile, "Tell me, what do you plan to do with him?"
Upon hearing that Gu Yueji was still laughing, Xiao Yao exclaimed, "Are you out of your mind? How can you still laugh?"
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