Chapter 32 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Meng Qiyue is a few months younger than Chu Xiang. The birthday party she mentioned was actually her eighteenth birthday celebration, just like when Chu Xiang turned eighteen and all her "plastic sisters" from the circle came. Of course, Chu Xiang also had to go and support Meng Qiyue.
"I'll definitely go in July," Chu Xiang said with a smile. "I've already prepared your birthday present."
Meng Qiyue smiled broadly, but in her heart she was thinking that she absolutely had to dress up beautifully and outshine Chu Xiang no matter what.
Meng Qiyue glanced at the people around her, lowered her voice, and whispered, "Xiangxiang, you don't know yet, but I heard that Gu Jue is seeing another woman again."
Chu Xiang looked surprised. "Really?"
Meng Qiyue nodded, she was gloating, but her face was still full of concern. "I heard it from my mother. One of her mahjong partners was rude to by a waiter who didn't know how to read people when they were eating at a restaurant. In the end, Gu Jue's mother stepped in and resolved the matter."
Meng Qiyue was worried for Chu Xiang. "I didn't expect the Gu family to start siding with that woman. Xiangxiang, you haven't even married into the family yet, and your future mother-in-law is already so clueless. If you wait until you marry into the family, won't you be bullied by them every day?"
Chu Xiang also seemed to panic for a moment, "July, I didn't know any of these things you're talking about. I didn't expect Aunt Gu to be so good to me, but she would actually help that woman..."
Meng Qiyue patted Chu Xiang's hand and sighed, "Xiangxiang, you're too trusting. People can be so treacherous. I think the Gu family wants you to marry Gu Jue so that they can support him in the future. They're just using you."
Meng Qiyue shook her head again and sighed, "There aren't many people in this world who treat you as sincerely as I do."
"July..." Chu Xiang choked up, "You are so kind."
Meng Qiyue generously replied, "We're best friends, after all. If I'm not good to you, who else would I be good to?"
Chu Xiang: "Then could you give me that limited edition bag you bought when you went abroad last time as a consolation prize?"
Meng Qiyue: "This..."
Chu Xiang's eyes were red. "July, aren't you my best friend? You must feel bad for me being so sad and upset right now. Besides, you are the person who treats me the most sincerely in this world."
Meng Qiyue had seen moral blackmail before, but she had never seen someone so openly and blatantly engaging in moral blackmail like Chu Xiang.
That bag was something Meng Qiyue had gone to great lengths to buy abroad; it was no longer available on the market. When she returned to China, she openly and subtly showed it off to Chu Xiang several times. Little did she know that she would end up shooting herself in the foot.
Chu Xiang blinked. "Compared to a bag, July definitely thinks I'm more important, right?"
Meng Qiyue: "...Yes."
I wish I hadn't portrayed the "sisterly affection" drama so realistically.
Around six o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Xiang finally finished her afternoon classes. She walked briskly to the school gate and saw a familiar car on the roadside. A smile immediately appeared on Chu Xiang's face, and she quickly walked over and got into the car.
Someone at the school gate saw Chu Xiang get into the car and couldn't help but mutter, "Chu Xiang seems to get into that car often. Who exactly is that person who always picks her up?"
Another person said, "I don't think this car is cheap. I heard that the man who brought Chu Xiang to school was a gangster, and he seems to be very rich."
Someone else said, "And Chu Xiang doesn't live on campus; she said she has a house outside..."
Several people intuitively deduced that some major news had broken.
"Could it be that Chu Xiang is being kept by someone?"
People at school only knew that Chu Xiang was a recognized beauty, but because Chu Xiang didn't get close to the people at school, they only knew that the clothes she wore and the things she used were not cheap. Some people had previously guessed that her family must be well-off, but after seeing her get involved with a rich man, the direction of everyone's discussion changed.
That's how society is. If a girl is pretty, people easily assume she'll flirt with men and play around with them.
"You guys know Gu Jue from the second year, right? I heard his family is very rich, and Chu Xiang seems to have a connection with him!"
"No way, she's two-timing?"
"Who can blame them for being beautiful? They can skip decades of hard work just by looking at their faces."
When the girls were having the most lively discussion, someone laughed and said, "I thought everyone who could get into this university was smart, but I didn't expect that a big-mouthed woman who only has a tongue could also get into this school."
One of the girls who had been discussing it earlier immediately retorted, "What are you saying!"
Meng Qiyue crossed her arms, raised her face, and gave a smug look. She smiled sharply and said, "I said you're all gossipy women, don't you understand?"
The angry girl wanted to argue with Meng Qiyue, but someone in the group pulled her back and whispered that Meng Qiyue was the young lady of that jewelry store.
Meng Qiyue has an outgoing personality. She attracted attention during the early days of military training because of her strong personality. With her spoiled young lady temperament, it was easy for people to find out that she was the eldest daughter of the Meng family. Many people at school already knew her.
Chu Xiang is her nemesis whom she needs to deal with. What does it mean to be kept by a sugar daddy? Such talk about her nemesis would only lower her standards.
Meng Qiyue glanced at the girls and said, "If I hear you spreading rumors and causing trouble here again, you'd better expect to receive a lawyer's letter."
The girls' expressions changed, and they had no choice but to shut their mouths and leave quickly.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Chu Xiang asked the person who had fastened her seatbelt, "Have you been waiting long?"
Gu Heng replied gently, "Not long ago."
He fastened her seatbelt, picked up a bag from the side, took out a carton of yogurt, inserted a straw, and placed it in her hand. "I've made a reservation at a restaurant. There's a bit of traffic right now, so have some to tide you over if you're hungry."
Chu Xiang bit her straw; it was her favorite mango-flavored yogurt. She always ordered mango-flavored desserts too. Her eyes crinkled into a smile, almost bursting out of their depths.
Gu Heng then took out a small green hair clip from the bag. Before Chu Xiang could react, she saw him reach out towards her head. Soon after, there was a hair clip on each side of her head, and they were positioned symmetrically.
Gu Heng seemed quite satisfied. He slightly curved the corners of his lips and used his fingertips to tidy up her hair.
Chu Xiang took out her phone and looked at her reflection on the screen. To be honest, the symmetrical hair clips on both sides of her head were not aesthetically pleasing at all.
Chu Xiang put her phone away. "I heard a very interesting story. There was a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder who got married."
Gu Heng was about to pull the handbrake and step on the gas when he heard this, so he stopped.
Chu Xiang continued, "On their wedding night, the bride slept on his right, but he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep because he was missing someone on his left. So he told the bride that he should marry another woman so that he would have someone lying on both his left and right sides."
Gu Heng was silent for a moment, then...?
"Then the bride said that she also had OCD and always felt uncomfortable with people lying on their left side, so she cut the groom in half, starting from here and then here..."
Chu Xiang's outstretched fingers slid down the man's forehead, past his Adam's apple, chest, and lower abdomen, and just as she was about to move further down, he grabbed her hand.
She smiled innocently, "This way, with half of the flowers on each side, the bride won't feel uncomfortable."
Gu Heng remained silent for a long time.
In the end, he reached out and took a green hair clip off her head.
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