Chapter 1 Bad Girl
"You are a good person, but you can't give me what I need. We are not destined to be from the same world, so Li Muhan, stop pestering me. Goodbye."
The girl with an angelic face bowed to Li Muhan and got into the passenger seat of a luxury sports car.
The sports car sped away, leaving behind Li Muhan who was still holding two ice cream cones in a daze.
Everything was going well, so why was he dumped all of a sudden? And it was the most standard template.
"Oh my god, let's go, let's go, I can have a double ice cream cone."
Li Muhan sat on a bench in the park, eating two ice cream cones at the same time, his mind constantly thinking about everything he had done with Gu Ruoxi.
He and Gu Ruoxi were childhood sweethearts, attending the same junior high and high school, and they officially confirmed their relationship in their senior year of high school.
For Gu Ruoxi, Li Muhan even studied hard and was finally admitted to the same university as Gu Ruoxi.
But just in the first month of college, Li Muhan deeply felt what his best friend said: once entering college, both boys and girls will change.
Because their horizons have been broadened, they will see many things they have never seen before, and their hearts will be exposed to countless shocks and temptations.
Li Muhan didn't believe it. He felt that Gu Ruoxi must have had some difficulties in breaking up with him.
"Wait, does this make me seem too humble? Can we discuss this? I want to win her back for other reasons."
......OK.
Li Muhan took into consideration that Gu Ruoxi's parents were also his adoptive parents, and they would see each other every day in the future, so this relationship shouldn't become too awkward.
So I thought that if we couldn’t be lovers, we could at least be friends.
"Still like a dog."
Li Muhan committed suicide due to excessive grief, and the play ended.
"...Sorry, Dad, let's just go with the second version."
So in the past few months, Li Muhan has been trying to save this relationship, or friendship, and even gritted his teeth and bought a bracelet worth two thousand yuan.
This is already a considerable expense for Li Muhan, who works and studies.
It wasn't until today, when he saw with his own eyes that Gu Ruoxi was riding on the future she had always wanted and drifting away from him, that he realized that the bracelet in his hand was far from what Gu Ruoxi had wanted.
Dragging his tired body, Li Muhan returned to the rental house.
He was studying alone in another city at a university, so he decided to rent this house in order to live with Gu Ruoxi. However, Gu Ruoxi only stayed here for a week.
At some point, she had moved all her luggage away, leaving only an empty room.
For a moment, Li Muhan felt that he had lost everything.
Ding ding ding——
The cell phone rang.
"Li Muhan, Xiao Wang, who's on the night shift, has something to do tonight. Please come and cover for him."
He is the owner of the 24-hour supermarket where Li Muhan works.
Although love is gone, life must go on and the rent has to be paid next week.
Li Muhan's parents died very early and he had lost contact with other relatives.
So there is no such thing as asking for help from family members. Although Gu Ruoxi's parents are his adoptive parents, others have already paid for his college education. It would be too shameless to ask for money from them.
After washing his face, Li Muhan went to the supermarket. Fortunately, there were not many people in the supermarket that night, and no one noticed that he was almost in a trance.
At five o'clock in the morning, Li Muhan came out of the supermarket and found that it was raining. He held an umbrella and dragged his tired body towards home.
But when passing by a park not far from his home, Li Muhan suddenly found a girl sitting on a swing in the park without an umbrella.
"Xia Yue?"
Li Muhan knew this girl. She was a celebrity in the university he attended. She was a freshman like himself, but she was famous for her extremely cold and aloof personality and her perfect and impeccable appearance.
Even the freshmen kept their distance from Xia Yue. There were also rumors that Xia Yue was actually a bad girl who was involved in smoking, drinking and fighting.
This resulted in more and more negative news about her, and even people like Li Muhan, who didn't pay much attention to school gossip, often heard this person's name.
Li Muhan was stunned at first when he saw Xia Yue sitting on the swing in a daze in the rain, but finally he mustered up the courage to walk over to her.
"Are you Xia Yue?"
Under the heavy rain, the lonely figure of the girl seemed extremely small, and her originally beautiful black hair also looked a little dull.
It was not until the umbrella in Li Muhan's hand shielded her from the wind and rain that she slowly raised her head.
“......?”
The girl looked at Li Muhan with a puzzled expression on her face.
The ends of her hair were wet from the rain, and water stains were dripping down her face. Her hooded sweatshirt, plaid skirt, and the black stockings wrapped around her legs were all soaked by the rain.
If this goes on, I’ll probably catch a cold, Li Muhan thought to himself.
"You'll catch a cold if you keep going like this."
"None of your business."
Xia Yue's voice sounded very weak, perhaps because the rain was so loud. Li Muhan felt that if he had come any later, the girl might have been completely swallowed up by the rainstorm.
The other party has made it clear that they don't need you to meddle in their affairs.
But when Li Muhan looked at the petite figure, he remembered that he had once been alone in the rainstorm, silently enduring everything.
What were your thoughts at that time?
I want to be helped and I want to be noticed.
"Let me take you home."
So Li Muhan spoke again.
He observed Xia Yue's clothes.
The sweatshirt that was completely soaked by the rain looked a little worn, the skirt was obviously wrinkled, and the stockings had several tears.
It looked like he hadn't changed his clothes in days.
Xia Yue held the swing rope with both hands, looked straight ahead, and spoke as if talking to herself.
"I don't......"
"What?"
Li Muhan didn't hear clearly what she said and moved closer.
"I have no home."
"Ah? You're an orphan too?"
Li Muhan felt that he had said something very stupid. Sure enough, Xia Yue stopped talking and just lightly closed her lips which were trembling from the cold.
Leave now.
A voice in Li Muhan's mind urged him that this girl was a bad girl who didn't go home at night and hung out outside, so he should never have anything to do with her.
Indeed, Xia Yue had a very bad reputation in school. There were even rumors that she would bring boys home at night, and instead of going home at this time, she would stay in the park.
There must be some hidden secret. The best thing to do is to leave quickly and avoid trouble.
But the brain can't think as fast as your mouth.
Before Li Muhan's brain issued the order, his mouth opened first.
"By the way, do you want to come to my house? It's quite big."
“......?”
Xia Yue's icy face also revealed a hint of confusion at this time. Even Li Muhan himself did not expect that he would say such words.
"It's not good for you to stay here all the time. Besides, it's so late, there might be bad guys nearby. You can at least take a shower at my house first."
Oh shit.
Li Muhan really wanted to slap himself twice. Why did he become more and more confused as he talked about something so private as taking a bath?
Xia Yue stared at Li Muhan's face for a long time, and after a while, her expression changed slightly.
"May I?"
There was a hint of reluctance and sadness in her tone.
Li Muhan did not see the rumored bitch or bad girl in these eyes, but only a poor girl who wanted to grasp at the last straw.
"As long as you don't mind, of course."
"......Thanks."
So just like that, Li Muhan and the girl held the same umbrella and returned to the slightly cramped rental house in the rain.
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