Chapter 41: There are so many men in the pool hall, but none of them are as important as sisters.
As the 8 a.m. bell rang in the campus, the students playing and joking in the corridors rushed out of the front and back doors one after another like a group of monkeys in Mount Emei. Luo Shu, carrying a bag of breakfast, drifted into the classroom before the bell rang at the last second. She passed by Gu Jiaqian and Hou Sisi's seats, threw the breakfast to them, and then found an empty seat to sit down.
Xia Yimo had missed classes for nearly a week. She was grabbing her hair and doing homework until the pen in her palm was sparking. Then a shadow fell over her. She looked up and saw a bottle of yogurt landed right in front of her.
As the young female teacher stepped onto the podium in her suede high heels, the noisy classroom fell silent. Luo Shu flipped through the textbook and explained in a low voice, "You probably haven't had breakfast yet. I thought you don't eat carbohydrates, so I brought you a bottle of yogurt."
Xia Yimo was used to sitting alone. She looked awkwardly at Luo Shuxu, who was sitting next to her and had no intention of leaving. With a bunch of questions in her mind, she finally said only two words: thank you.
During the break, Gu Jiaqian couldn't sleep and ran to the back of the classroom to chat with her best friend. Luo Shu's seat was empty except for Xia Yimo, who was buried in her writing. She sat back in the front seat and asked, "Where's Luo Shu?"
"The squad leader just came over and said the instructor was looking for her." Xia Yimo replied in a businesslike tone.
"Oh." Gu Jiaqian had no intention of leaving. She supported her chin with interest and watched her do her homework. If she missed some words, she would kindly remind her.
As a normal person, who can stand being pointed at and criticized for nothing? Xia Yimo said simply, "What's the matter?"
Since she had asked, Gu Jiaqian no longer hid it: "You should have Zhuang He's WeChat, right?"
Xia Yimo clenched the pen tightly without noticing and reached for the phone in the drawer. "I'm going to push you now."
"Wait a minute," Gu Jiaqian interrupted her in disbelief, as if she had just heard a ghost story. "I'm a little uncomfortable with you suddenly being so easygoing."
"Try talking nonsense again."
This Xia Yimo is just the right one.
Gu Jiaqian cleared her throat and said, "Before you push, I have a question for you."
"What's the problem?" Xia Yimo worked hard again, racing against time.
"That Zhuang He seems to be interested in you. What do you think of him?"
The pen stopped abruptly: "I have no idea about him."
"That shouldn't be the case. Zhuang He is quite handsome. Although his behavior is a bit silly, he has a good personality. More importantly, his family owns a mine. With these conditions, how can you not have any feelings for him?"
At first, Xia Yimo's reaction was calm, until the second half of the sentence, she got angry for no reason and threw her pen: "Just because he's interested in me, does that mean I have to have feelings for him?"
Why did he get angry again? Gu Jiaqian said in a bad tone: "Hey, what's your attitude? I'm just asking. If you two are interested in each other, then I won't add him."
"I told you, I don't like him." Xia Yimo picked up her phone and swished across the screen. "I've sent you his WeChat profile. Anything else? If not, I need to do my homework."
After being ordered to leave, Gu Jiaqian pouted in dissatisfaction, snorted coldly, and left.
Over in the computer science classroom, Zhuang He was halfway through a game when a friend request popped up. Curious, he clicked on it and fell into an inexplicable state of excitement. He patted Fang Qingzhuo, who was sitting next to him, and said, "Look, Xia Yimo's roommate added me. Does Xia Yimo have any instructions?"
Fang Qingzhuo turned a deaf ear to him, retracted his hit arm, and kept hitting the enter key.
Not getting a response, Zhuang He shamelessly hooked his arm around his broad shoulders and said, "Oh, our Mr. Fang is still angry about what happened last night."
Thinking back to last night when the big fox finally showed its tail and was about to swallow the little white rabbit, Zhuang He was still amazed.
Fang Qingzhuo mercilessly shook him off and stared at the computer screen lifelessly, wondering what he was thinking about.
Tsk, as boring as a wooden stake, Zhuang He picked up his phone and started chatting.
Halfway through the class, Fang Qingzhuo's absent mindedness became more serious, and his thoughts were tangled like a tangled ball of wool. He slowly sorted it out, and when he was about to finish, someone refused to do as he wished.
"Tsk, don't bother me." Fang Qingzhuo still had that lifeless look on his face and shook off the hand that was pulling on his sleeve.
Zhuang He: "Something happened."
Fang Qingzhuo frowned slightly: "Don't bother me even if something happens."
Zhuang Heliang went to the chat interface: "Something happened to Luo Shu."
The back of his neck stiffened for a moment, and he felt like an electric current passing through him. He instantly came back to life. He spent a minute scanning the questions and answering the unit test. He submitted it, locked his computer, put on his backpack, said hello to the teacher, and ran out of the laboratory classroom.
At the door of the International Design Institute's teaching and research office, Gu Jiaqian and Xia Yimo looked at each other and were punished to stand in the aisle.
The two who were still angry with each other in the last second could actually join forces to fight together in the next second. Gu Jiaqian couldn't help laughing as she thought about it. She glanced at Xia Yimo whose wig was flying around and sighed sincerely: "I didn't expect you to be so loyal at the critical moment."
Xia Yimo looked at her, not much better than her. The ripped sweater on her body really looked ripped. She also suppressed her laughter: "Same here."
They looked at each other and were disgusted by each other's miserable appearance, and they burst into laughter at the same time.
"Look at you now, you don't even look like a beauty blogger anymore. I really want to take an ugly photo of you and save it."
"Just take care of yourself first. People who know the situation will think it's a fight, but those who don't will think it's a beggar trend."
"You're ugly."
"You're ugly..."
Gu Jiaqian sniffed, "That's what Liang Rong deserves. She plagiarized a classmate's work. Luo Shu worked day and night on it, but she's so unrepentant and turns the tables on me. She's completely clueless. She even mocked Luo Shu for being a well-known poverty alleviation advocate. Oh, I have such a bad temper."
Xia Yimo also let out a sullen rage. When she was in trouble, the girls in her class had been gossiping about her. “Now you’ve grown your brains and know who’s truly righteous, right?”
Gu Jiaqian knew exactly who she was referring to and coughed, "Didn't Sisi go to see the counselor?"
Xia Yimo leaned against the wall with her arms folded. "Yeah, if the instructor hadn't come, we might have been able to give her a few more beatings."
After standing until their legs were numb, they both squatted on the ground to hold a summary meeting, exchanging ideas with each other on the shortcomings of the hair-pulling battle just now.
Gu Jiaqian nudged her with her elbow: "Why didn't I find you quite interesting before?"
Xia Yimo's figure swayed a little: "I don't know the real thing."
Gu Jiaqian reflected: "Then I sincerely apologize for my previous behavior of not recognizing the great man. I simply spoke without thinking and had no ill intentions. And as for what happened just now, don't get me wrong. There are so many men, but sisters are not as important as them."
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“…”
As they were shaking hands and making peace, the office door opened from the inside out.
Luo Shu came out from inside, and the three parties had a brief meeting, which was interrupted by the instructor's angry shouting.
"It's like the school's vegetable market. Those two at the door come in. Luo Shu goes back to class."
The twists and turns that happened in the past half day were almost as many as several episodes of a TV series. First, she was informed that the competition organizing committee found that the work she submitted was similar to the works of the same group in many places and was suspected of plagiarism. Coincidentally, Liang Rong submitted her work earlier than her. Then, after arguing with her to no avail, she was told to go back and wait for news, but Liang Rong was not ashamed and pointed at her nose and threw dirty water on her, which led to a confrontation between the two sides.
Luo Shu looked up at the gray sky. It turned out to be cloudy today. No wonder she was unhappy.
"What are you looking at? God isn't as pretty as your boyfriend."
Luo Shu was stunned, suspecting that she was hallucinating. She seemed to hear Fang Qingzhuo's voice.
Following the familiar teasing, I turned around and met the caring eyes at the end.
Across the distance of an office, Fang Qingzhuo's figure was exceptionally tall and clear, with his heavy gaming laptop slung over one shoulder. His demeanor remained unapproachable and unshakable, but his chest rose and fell slightly.
Her nose suddenly felt sore, and she no longer thought about the broken scene or the broken feelings. Luo Shu ran towards him. On the way, she tripped over a corner of the floor tile because she didn't look at the road. Fang Qingzhuo was so scared that he immediately ran over to help her.
"You're here like this, shouldn't you be in class?"
"As soon as your roommate and Zhuang He mentioned it, I came here." Fang Qingzhuo hooked a strand of her hair and gently tucked it behind her ear. "So, what was the outcome of your hospital's handling of the matter?"
"Disqualify both of them from the competition and let's keep the peace." Finally unable to hold back any longer, Luo Shu threw herself into his arms, whimpering aggrievedly, "Fang Qingzhuo, they're going too far."
When her tone softened, Fang Qingzhuo felt distressed and hugged her back tightly, with his palm covering the back of her head.
Both parties involved are from the same school, and it is expected that the school would consider its reputation.
He half-jokingly and half-seriously consoled me: "If you don't always say that I'm the best at bullying people, then I'll stand up for you and bully you back."
"We are all classmates. We will see each other sooner or later."
"When someone bullies you, they've already stopped treating you as a human being. Sometimes you just have to settle things, and getting angry is the most effective way to resolve interpersonal conflicts."
"But no matter how much I think about it, I can't prove that I am your support."
"Didn't I tell you that you don't need to prove it."
Luo Shu didn't speak for a long time, fearing that she might be secretly wiping away tears in his arms. While she was daydreaming, the person in his arms suddenly giggled.
Could it be that she was irritated? Fang Qingzhuo frantically put his hand on her forehead to take her temperature.
"Oh, I don't have a fever." Luo Shu showed half of her face, her pupils sparkling. "But my good friends have helped me turn the tables and successfully got my revenge."
"You guys, were fighting."
No wonder his hair is so messy.
"She was the first to attack, and we acted in self-defense."
"You said, the other party made the first move?" Fang Qingzhuo's eyes suddenly became sharp and sinister. "How did she touch you? Let's go find your hospital leader."
"Hey, don't make trouble." Luo Shu held him back. "Even though she's in the wrong, we're three against one, and the instructor said not to record our punishment is a mercy."
Oh, this is just to scare her.
"Okay, as you say." Fang Qingzhuo lifted her chin with both hands and carefully checked for scratches. If there were any, it would be best to get a rabies vaccine first. He then straightened her messy long hair. "If you want to go back to class, I'll go with you. If not, then your boyfriend will take you to relax today."
On this side, Gu Yang happened to drop something off in the dormitory and was going back to school. When he was unbuckled his seat belt, he saw a pair of eye-catching backs standing on the sidewalk, which made him envious. He was so angry that his teeth itched. The two of them were holding hands. Not knowing what happened, Luo Shu suddenly stopped and grabbed Fang Qingzhuo with both hands, refusing to let him go forward. Fang Qingzhuo really obeyed her and was easily pulled back.
She took his arm and shook it, as if acting coquettishly, and her sparkling eyes looking at him were like the shimmering surface of a lake.
Fang Qingzhuo's brows didn't relax at all, he pretended to be deep, and said nothing to her coquettish request, but the corners of his mouth never smoothed out, and he couldn't hold it for more than three seconds. He pinched her cheek lovingly, turned to the other side, took her other hand, and continued on his way.
Gu Yang suddenly felt a sense of crisis because an expression he had never seen before appeared on the face of the brother he grew up with. Fang Qingzhuo, who never showed his emotions easily, was filled with love at this moment.
The seeds of jealousy were watered and sprouted. These warm scenes that he longed for should have happened to him. To be fair, he could never bear to part with Luo Shu. No matter whether she was good or bad, or even if her intentions were impure, those memories to him, no matter how unbearable they were, remained indelible and could not be desecrated. As long as she was willing to look back, he would forgive her unconditionally, but she didn't, not even once.
It doesn't matter. Girls are naturally willful, so he should be more tolerant, so tolerant that he personally dug a clear path for her, and then witnessed her and his good brother walking hand in hand on this path, going in the opposite direction of him.
Open the car door and get out. Enough is enough. It's time to end this farce.
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"Fang Qingzhuo, when you say you want to take me to relax, you mean to go to the billiard hall."
Fang Qingzhuo originally wanted to take her to the shooting range, but thought that her small body might not be able to handle it, so he decided to wait until next time.
"Where else do you think you're going? Scientific studies have shown that moderate exercise can help relieve anxiety and stress."
They had booked a private room. Fang Qingzhuo opened a bottle of soda water in the lounge area and asked, "Have you ever played before?"
Luo Shu inspected the surrounding facilities, tossing a white ball on the green table, and shook her head: "No, but you've never seen a pig run before you've eaten pork."
Fang Qingzhuo smiled, raised his arm and effortlessly caught the cue ball that was thrown in the air: "Then I will tell you the rules of billiards."
He picked up the golf club with his right hand, and with his legs half-bent over, he raised them much higher than the horizontal line of the table. Without further ado, he teeted off violently.
As he launched a powerful shot, the billiards on the table fell apart, and the closed room was filled with the crisp sound of balls colliding with each other. Luo Shu was a little impressed by his handsomeness and was eager to try: "Are you good at billiards?"
Sometimes Fang Qingzhuo felt helpless. Luo Shu didn't understand computers and didn't play competitive games. She didn't know how great his talent was in this field. He was a layman in design. That senior in the third year of graduate school was Li Youxiu, right? But it didn't matter. Today he would avenge his previous defeat. Fang Qingzhuo didn't believe that he couldn't charm her after this half-game of table tennis.
Half an hour later, Luo Shu, who had learned the technique well, had her upper body pressed against the edge of the table, her legs stretched straight under the table, and she had learned the posture quite well. However, her hands were so busy that she didn't know where to put them. She was either fiddling with the hair that was covering her face and affecting her performance, or she was dissatisfied with the feng shui layout and manually moved the white ball to the best sniping position.
"Luo Shu, you can't touch the ball with your hands, it's a foul." Fang Qingzhuo reminded from the side.
"I didn't touch it." She responded perfunctorily, her big watery eyes fixed on the direction of the hole without blinking, as if scouting prey.
Fang Qingzhuo held her forehead and tried to convince herself that indeed, she didn't touch it, she just changed it.
In a blink of an eye, Luo Shu set her sights on the red target ball again. She prepared to hit it with her right hand, but it seemed that the feel did not suit her hand. She moved her position, but still felt restrained. She swept the two colorful balls that were in the way on the left, and suddenly remembered Fang Qingzhuo's repeated warnings that the body was not allowed to touch the ball. That's right, she did it subconsciously, and with the momentum of "how can you sweep the world without a single swing", she swept away all the obstacles that blocked her vision.
"Finally, it's spacious." she muttered.
Immediately afterwards, there was a dull thud, and the red ball was shot down and fell into the pocket.
Luo Shu Qianqian suppressed her smug expression, dropped her golf club, and took credit for it: "Fang Qingzhuo, didn't I say I was very talented? Look, in less than five minutes, I scored ten goals."
Fang Qingzhuo forced a smile, but his emotional value was full: "Well, he is indeed quite talented."
It's just that the playing scene is a little different from what I imagined.
He spent more than twenty minutes explaining the rules and techniques of billiards, and she finished it in five minutes. Isn't that a kind of talent?
"Oh, it's your good teaching." She still complained.
No, she taught me well. Fang Qingzhuo’s first lesson in love was: Don’t talk about the rules of the game with your girlfriend, even if you try.
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