Chapter 55: It’s only been a stray dog for half a year, I’ll give it to you.
The return of the south wind that lasted for a week finally ended today.
As soon as the lengthy lecture was over, Gu Jiaqian caught Luo Shu and treated her to a meal on the pretext of celebrating Xia Yimo's taking on a big brand promotion contract.
While waiting in line at the cafeteria, Gu Jiaqian felt the gazes of many men. She took out her small mirror and looked at herself, saying narcissistically, "Maybe my spring has arrived too? All the boys who just passed by were looking at me."
Xia Yimo crossed her arms and looked around calmly. When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something wrong. The extra attention today clearly has a hint of pointing and criticizing.
After getting their meals and sitting down, there were originally two female classmates dining at the next table. The second they saw Luo Shu, they either moved their plates or their seats around as if to prevent bad luck, and managed to create two empty seats between them.
Gu Jiaqian was completely unaware and was pretending to be a professor at a lecture to amuse herself. Before she had even taken two bites of her meal, the two men started making trouble again, singing the same tune and making indirect accusations.
The girl with the ponytail picked at her plate and said, "Some people just have no shame. They love being in the public eye so much, and they even have the nerve to come to the cafeteria to eat."
"That's right. I've done so many immoral things that I can't even hide from him, so how can I have the nerve to come and get close to him?" The short-haired girl immediately agreed.
The voice, neither too loud nor too soft, just drifted into Xia Yimo's ears. Holding the chopsticks, she tilted her head and retorted, "Excuse me, are you talking about us? You are so sarcastic. Do you dare to come to me and talk to me in person?"
After this commotion, gossiping eyes from other tables flocked over.
The short-haired girl took a bite of vegetables as if nothing had happened, then while chewing, she glanced at Luo Shu in the same row with a meaningful look: "Whoever I'm talking about knows it well."
Xia Yimo frowned: "Who are you looking at?"
Unexpectedly, the female classmates escalated their discussion, laughing out loud: "Who else can you look at? Look at someone, a cool campus beauty on the surface, but secretly having multiple girlfriends at once."
When someone slandered Luo Shu to her face, Gu Jiaqian was the first to object: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Believe it or not, I'll sue you for defamation."
"Defamation?" The short-haired girl sneered disdainfully. "Go check the forums yourself. The chat logs have all been leaked. Our goddess Luo is truly charming. How could she possibly have ten boyfriends? Oh, and she's even playing with Fang Qingzhuo. Why are you still in college? You might as well open a stray dog shelter. She's definitely a good hand."
"By the way, I'm quite curious, how do you train men? Do you have any secrets? It's not that kind of thing..."
The humiliating words had not yet fully fallen.
"I'm happy to be her dog. What, do you have any objections?"
During the whole process, Luo Shu ate as if it had nothing to do with her, until a stone was involved and disturbed the clear water.
The short-haired girl turned around tremblingly at the frightened reminder of her companion. The person she was talking about was standing behind her. His eyebrows were cold, and he was tall, so he stood there motionless like a towering sculpture. When he saw her turn around, Fang Qingzhuo pursed his lips slightly with a look of contempt, which made people feel like she was being treated like trash for no reason.
"Why don't you say anything?"
"Keep asking?"
"Weren't you quite eloquent and aggressive just now?"
Fang Qingzhuo's barrage of questions was like the straw that broke the camel's back. The girl's legs were trembling with fear. "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I didn't mean to say you were a stray..."
"What do you mean?" The voice was still indifferent and gloomy.
"I'm just standing up for you. You're obviously the most innocent one, so why should you be covering for her?"
Fang Qingzhuo interrupted her self-conceited thoughts unhappily: "Because she is my girlfriend."
As soon as these words were spoken, the gossipers nearby, who had pricked up their ears, began to whisper to each other.
"girlfriend?"
"Didn't they break up? What happened?"
"Could it be that they're back together again?"
Hearing the word "break up," Fang Qingzhuo lost his usual aloofness and politeness. He frowned and shouted, "I'm making it clear again, if you cause trouble for my girlfriend again, you're going against me."
He was shouting at the girl, but his eyes swept around the chattering crowd.
The whispering people were silenced by his fierce shooting.
In full view of the crowd, Fang Qingzhuo performed Peking Opera face-changing again, showing the tenderness of a good boyfriend. He took out the Fanta soda that he had been holding in his hand for a long time and handed it to Luo Shu.
It was this action that made Luo Shu no longer able to pretend to be calm. She ran away with her nails digging into her flesh.
Zhuang He arrived late, carrying two plates of food, and happened to see Fang Qingzhuo chasing Luo Shu. He sat down next to Xia Yimo and watched the two of them leave one after another.
"Oh, why are they all gone?" He picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks and put it on Xia Yimo's plate. "The braised pork is so delicious, let's not waste it."
Xia Yimo: "Go away."
As if it wasn't enough, he cursed him as a scumbag.
Zhuang He curled his lips: "Momo, how can you say that to me."
Xia Yimo rolled her eyes and pulled Gu Jiaqian, who was covered in goose bumps, to the side. "Fang Qingzhuo is a worthless person. Birds of a feather flock together. You're not necessarily a good person either."
At the staircase reserved for cafeteria staff, Fang Qingzhuo followed behind and called out to Luo Shu countless times without success. He had no choice but to grab her wrist and stop her halfway.
"Luo Shu, I was wrong. Let's make peace, okay?"
Luo Shu didn't bother to look at him any more, and tilted her forehead stubbornly: "Let go."
Fang Qingzhuo was equally stubborn, firmly grasping the slender wrist bone. "I don't ask for an apology from you. I can delete the post, I can stop people from talking, I can handle everything. Please forgive me, okay?"
Hearing this, Luo Shu slowly raised her eyes and looked at him coldly, "Fang Qingzhuo, there's no one here, stop pretending."
Fang Qingzhuo knew he was in the wrong, so he had no choice but to humbly say, "I'm not pretending. I told you I can help you."
"Help me? Help me with what? Help me remember how I was tricked and deceived by you guys, or help me be played like a monkey?" Luo Shu felt ridiculous and tried to shake off the annoying restraint around her wrist, but failed.
Fang Qingzhuo obviously didn't want to talk about the past. He forced a smile and secretly increased the strength of his hands, saying to himself: "I see you haven't eaten much. Maybe you have a poor appetite? Let's go out..."
He was rudely interrupted midway through his words.
"It's really off-putting because your display of affection makes me sick."
Tsk, such a sharp tongue was truly rare in her. Fang Qingzhuo's fake smile faded, and he looked at her with interest for a moment before revealing his purpose: "You can curse as much as you want, but I don't agree to break up. I've deleted your Moments post."
Being so self-righteous again, Luo Shu laughed in anger: "I need your consent to break up, who do you think you are?"
"Who am I? Of course I'm your beloved boyfriend." Fang Qingzhuo casually responded, but his eyes were like the sudden change of weather, from sunny to cloudy and gloomy. "You are angry with me, you blame me, and I understand your emotions, but breaking up is impossible. I tell you, Luo Shu, unless I die before you in this life, don't even think about getting rid of me. If you dare to date one, I will ruin one. If you dare to date two, I will ruin both."
Finally, he stopped acting. Fang Qingzhuo was perfect. Luo Shu had seen four points of him, had come into contact with three points, and had experienced two points in person. The remaining one point was the irreversible nature that had seeped into his bones. This was the complete him, and at the same time, the hopeless him.
"To this day, you still don't understand why I want to end this relationship. I am annoyed, but what I can't accept the most is that you don't trust me. I can't accept that in your subconscious mind, I am an unfaithful person. We have been together for so long, haven't you ever had the slightest doubt?"
"How could there not be?"
Fang Qingzhuo's expression remained unchanged. He stared at me with his deep, obsessive eyes and laughed bitterly. "Who told me to love you? I love you to the point of no return. I've convinced myself countless times that as long as you stay by my side, I don't care about anything else."
"But I care."
The resounding words "I care" left Fang Qingzhuo frozen in place, speechless for a long time.
The impetuous air was floating, and Luo Shu even felt that the body temperature on her wrist that did not belong to her was gradually disappearing. Unfortunately, this illusion did not last for more than three seconds.
"Let the past be the past, let's start over, and I will pursue you again."
The tone was full of defeat and defeat. This was the biggest concession Fang Qingzhuo could make.
Unfortunately, his biggest concession was worthless in Luo Shu's eyes.
"Fang Qingzhuo, do you have any sense of shame at all? Do you know what you look like now? You're like a dog-skin plaster that can't be shaken off. You want to let the past go? It's impossible, absolutely impossible."
Seeing her like a pool of stagnant water without causing any waves, Fang Qingzhuo felt furious and wanted to tear off the mask immediately.
"Don't you dare say you don't love me now."
Luo Shu stiffened her neck, her eyes dull as she spoke word by word: "I don't love you anymore."
When Fang Qingzhuo suddenly heard the answer, he paused, probably because he didn't expect her to say those words so readily and directly. He moved closer, not missing a single expression on her face, trying to find any signs of lying through the black pupils of her eyes.
Unfortunately, this pair of beautiful eyes that seemed to contain the brightest pearls in the world were now shattered, completely devoid of the deep affection they once had.
Unable to accept this fact, Fang Qingzhuo's eyes quickly turned sinister, and his forehead throbbed wildly. So what if it was broken? Even if it was broken into millions of pieces, he had plenty of ways and energy to piece it back to its original state.
Luo Shu had never seen Fang Qingzhuo like this before, and instinctively took two steps back, but he held his chin.
"Look me in the eyes and say it again."
His tone was heavy, as heavy as a hammer, and every word he uttered seemed to hammer into her bones.
After this battle, Luo Shu was completely desperate. She raised the corners of her lips and looked at him with pity in her eyes.
"I just don't like you anymore, I don't love you anymore, what can you do to me?"
The next second, the lips that had spoken the cruel words were savagely blocked by him, and he pinched her chin and pried open her teeth easily. His movements were wanton and snatched away all her breath. The more she struggled, the more excited he became. It was not until she tasted a faint taste of blood in her mouth that Luo Shu tried her best to push him away. Fang Qingzhuo staggered backwards and hit the door panel, making a muffled sound. It should have hurt a lot from the sound, but the person involved did not feel that way. Looking at the masterpiece left on Luo Shu's lips, he showed a sense of satisfaction of success.
"What to do? Your body is very honest."
Immediately afterwards, a crisp slap echoed throughout the corridor. Fang Qingzhuo's head was turned sideways, his hair covering his eyelids, and his emotions were unclear. It was the first time he was slapped in his life, and he did not react for a long time.
Along with the slap, a tear fell from the corner of Luo Shu's eye.
Wipe away the tear with your fingers.
"Fang Qingzhuo, you've done so many things to deceive me, don't you feel guilty?"
Many images unconsciously turned over in her mind, sweet memories filled her eyes, and when she was about to drown in them, tormenting memories popped up. On the path following him, she walked through the mud, naively thinking that she was peeling off layers of his sincerity, but she didn't expect that she was tearing off an onion. In the end, she had tears in her eyes and was in a mess.
"I used to wonder why you were so fickle. When I got hit by a ball, you said you didn't know me, but you came to my rescue during team building. You said you wouldn't announce it, but you'd come to the social gathering to arrest me. Even when I was swearing at you, you'd come to apologize in the middle of the night. When I couldn't sleep at night, I'd just comfort myself silently. Everyone has bad moods, and when you have a bad temper, I'll be a little more tolerant. If you like someone, you can't be too picky."
"And now it seems like a huge self-deceiving joke."
Fang Qingzhuo turned back and what caught her eyes was Luo Shu's stubborn look as she tilted her head back, trying not to let the tears fall. She wiped away every drop that fell, and this cycle went on over and over again, making her tired and annoyed. She tried to take deep breaths to try to calm down, but the result was counterproductive. All the humiliation she had tried so hard to suppress came back to her.
At this moment, Fang Qingzhuo doubted whether he had done something wrong. He tried to touch her injured lips with his hand with heartache, but she dodged him and his touch was missed.
He rubbed his fingertips together in apology, but it did nothing but make his tears flow faster.
"Don't ignore me, I'll do whatever you want."
Luo Shu was still shedding tears silently. Upon hearing what he said, she raised her tear-red eyes and stared at him intently.
That familiar feeling of unease returned.
"Okay, I want you to die."
Fang Qingzhuo's eyes darkened, and doubled pain kept surging in his heart. The blade pierced into his flesh and crushed against his bones.
He and Luo Shu had finally come to this point, after so many days and nights of tossing and turning, but it all came back to zero with just one sentence.
During this time, Luo Shu received a new text message.
[Shushu, come quickly, the fish has taken the bait.]
Instead of wasting time here, it is better to do something serious. He ignored Fang Qingzhuo, who had lost six of his seven souls and could barely be considered alive, and walked straight down the stairs holding the handrail. After taking two steps, he heard someone trying to keep him.
"You Spongebob is still in my room."
"No."
"The packages you ordered have all arrived and are piled up like a mountain in the entrance hallway, yet no one is opening them."
"No."
"The fish in the tank are still waiting to be fed."
"No."
Luo Shu seemed to only know how to say these three words.
"What about the relationship between us? You don't want it anymore?"
She stopped at the corner of the stairs, looking back with a resolute and serious gaze.
"It's only half a year. I'll give it to you."
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