Chen Yi x Xu Taiqing ③
Chen Yi stood behind the door, her hair a little messy, the collar of her T-shirt askew, her eyes darting away, avoiding his gaze, her hands behind her back, as if hiding something.
Xu Taiqing ignored him and barged into the dormitory, his gaze immediately sweeping over Chen Yi's wardrobe. The wardrobe door wasn't fully closed, revealing clothes crammed haphazardly inside, with a glimpse of black fabric peeking out from the bottom.
"What are you hiding?" He suddenly reached for the wardrobe door. Chen Yi exclaimed and lunged to stop him, but he pushed her away.
His skirt, underwear, and his torn jersey were piled up in the bottom corner.
Xu Taiqing picked up the jersey with a big hole in it, the number on the back cut crookedly. It was a limited edition that he had finally managed to buy.
"Chen Yi," he turned around and slammed his jersey down on Chen Yi, "what else do you have to say?"
Chen Yi staggered from the impact, her lips pressed tightly together, unable to utter a single word.
Seeing his expression, Xu Taiqing's anger flared even more.
The images of him posing seductively in the surveillance footage suddenly flashed into his mind, overlapping with his current timid appearance, which made him very unhappy.
"Speak up!" He took a step forward, closing in on the other person. "You cut my clothes, you stole my things, are you crazy?"
Chen Yi's body trembled, and tears suddenly fell without warning. He remained silent, biting his lower lip tightly, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Xu Taiqing was taken aback by his crying appearance, then became even more irritated: "What are you crying for? You did it, why are you afraid of what people say?"
He took out his phone, opened the surveillance video he had just recorded, and shoved it in front of Chen Yi's eyes. "See for yourself. Do you want me to spread the word for you?"
On the screen, Chen Yi is seen holding his jersey and snip-snip-scissors. The camera then pans to show him wearing a skirt, striking various embarrassing poses in front of the phone.
Upon seeing this scene, Chen Yi's face turned deathly pale. He reached out to grab the phone, but Xu Taiqing easily dodged it.
“I’ll compensate you,” Chen Yi said hurriedly, “...but you can’t send this out.”
"You'll pay for it?" Xu Taiqing scoffed. "Can you even afford it? Do you know how much that jersey cost? And what about my limited-edition sneakers? How are you going to compensate me?"
He remembered that Chen Yi's family was poor, and he always carefully budgeted his living expenses. His clothes were always the same few faded old styles, and he always chose the cheapest vegetarian dishes when getting food from the cafeteria. How could someone like that have the audacity to claim he was losing money?
"Tell me first what I did to offend you?" Xu Taiqing frowned, his tone puzzled.
The two of them rarely interacted in the dormitory, keeping to themselves and not interfering with each other. He really couldn't understand why Chen Yi was targeting him.
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