Chapter 24
The heavy rain came unexpectedly and instantly disrupted the order of the school.
Pedestrians on the road started running, and a long queue formed at the campus bus stop in more than ten minutes. The lucky few who had umbrellas walked forward with their heads down, while some who were in a hurry ran directly into the rain.
Yue Qianling stood alone at the entrance of the gymnasium, her mind blank. She was stunned for a long while until the phone rang.
It’s still that senior sister.
"Qian Ling, why haven't you come yet?"
Yue Qianling suddenly came back to his senses and subconsciously said, "I'll be right there!"
"Okay, hurry up, it's in Minghui Building." The senior student reminded, "We don't have much time, we have to leave soon."
After hanging up the phone, Yue Qianling looked at the rain blocking the door and suddenly felt a blockage in her heart.
For a moment, she had no outlet for her emotions and no direction for her thoughts. Going to a communication meeting was the only thing she could think of.
Gu Xun originally planned to go back to the dormitory directly, but he didn't expect the rain to come so suddenly, and he was trapped in a small platform next to the green shade.
He didn't care at first. There was nothing urgent anyway, so it didn't matter if he waited a little longer.
Suddenly, Jiang Junnan walked towards him holding a black umbrella.
"I was so smart. It was raining so hard and I saw the people from the community running towards the gymnasium warehouse. I knew something was wrong and followed them. Sure enough, I saw a lot of umbrellas piled up inside. I fought hard to grab one."
He raised his head towards Gu Xun and said, "Let's go back and play games."
Gu Xun was about to take a step forward when his eyes suddenly froze.
From a distance of more than ten meters, he saw Yue Qianling stretch out his hand to feel the rain, hesitate for a moment, and begin to take off his bachelor's gown, as if he was going to cover his head with it and run into the rain.
Gu Xunji sighed inexplicably, turned to Jiang Junnan and said, "Why don't you give the umbrella to Yue Qianling?"
"ah?"
Jiang Junnan looked around and finally saw Yue Qianling in the crowd, "I give it to her?"
Jiang Junnan didn't think there was anything wrong with giving the umbrella to a girl at a time like this.
But he couldn't understand why Gu Xun didn't go by himself.
"You'll just give me this chance?"
Gu Xun raised his eyes, "You don't dare?"
"Fuck, what's there to be afraid of?"
Jiang Junnan held an umbrella and walked towards Yue Qianling.
After going up the stairs, he put away his umbrella and considerately shook off the water. Then he walked behind Yue Qianling and patted her shoulder.
Yue Qianling was about to rush into the rain, but when she turned around and saw Jiang Junnan, she was stunned for a moment.
"What's up?"
Jiang Junnan handed her the umbrella, "Gu Xun asked me to bring you an umbrella."
“…”
Jiang Junnan saw Yue Qianling staring at the umbrella that was still dripping water, wondering what she was thinking. She raised her head after a moment.
"No, thank you."
After saying that, she put her bachelor's gown over her head and ran into the rain.
"Hey, what's her special hobby?"
Jiang Junnan was confused and felt that girls' minds were indeed hard to guess. He walked back muttering, "She doesn't want it."
Gu Xun raised his head, glanced toward the main road, and said nonchalantly, "Forget it."
The two of them held an umbrella and walked towards the dormitory.
The graduation ceremony was over, and Gu Xun had nothing to do at school. There was nothing in the dormitory, so he packed his toiletries for the next two days and prepared to return to his newly rented house.
Jiang Junnan sent all his luggage back home a few days ago and is going out for a trip tomorrow.
He thought about it and realized that the flight was at eight in the morning. It would take more than an hour to get to the airport from the school, but it would only take more than twenty minutes to get there from where Gu Xun lived. So he prepared to take his luggage and stay at Gu Xun's house for the night.
Yue Qianling ultimately did not make it to the exchange meeting.
When she arrived, everyone had already left the school by bus.
When I returned to the dormitory, a voice call came in.
Yue Qianling took it out and saw that the caller ID showed "School Prince".
She now feels a little annoyed when she sees these two words.
After frowning, she answered the call and said weakly, "What?"
The other party's voice was cold, "Go to number."
"No, I'm not feeling well."
There was silence in the receiver for a moment.
Then, his voice became a little warmer.
"What's wrong?"
"I feel uncomfortable when I hear your voice."
"?"
Yue Qianling didn't want to chat anymore and hung up the call directly.
When she returned to the dormitory, she saw Fang Qingqing and Yin Xue packing their luggage. She hurried to take a shower, not wanting to leave herself time to be in a daze.
Half an hour later, she saw Fang Qingqing and Yin Xue off, and returned to the dormitory to pack her luggage.
Just as she finished her work and was about to leave, messages on her cell phone came in one after another.
[Xiaomi]: I want to fight|with a gun ahhhhh!
[Xiaomi]: Camel, why don’t we go in a duo? ! !
【Camel】: OK.
Yue Qianling took a look and typed a few words.
【Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks】: I can do that too.
【Xiaomi】: No need to say more! Assemble!
【Camel】: @校草what about you?
It took a long time.
【School Prince】: I can.
Yue Qianling sighed and logged into the game.
It’s better to find something else to do so that you don’t have to feel so choked up in your chest.
But Luotuo and the others had never seen Yue Qianling fight so fiercely.
Regardless of whether the terrain is favorable or not, and completely disregarding strategy, they will chase and attack anyone they see, and sometimes they will even attack their teammates when they are so angry that they kill them.
When she lost, she said "try again"; when she won, she also said the same two words, without any emotion.
He is not talkative and seems to be just staring at his phone.
By the fifth time, Luotuo saw Yue Qianling's 18 heads and seemed to have guessed something, but he was not in a position to ask.
Until the final round.
The circle has shrunk to the final round, and the survivors Yue Qianling and Lin Xun are still very far away from the safe zone.
They couldn't find a car, so they had to run on foot.
Suddenly, a noisy voice came from the headset. Yue Qianling took a look at who it was, Mai Zailiang, frowned and said, "Lin Xun, why is it so noisy over there?"
"My roommate."
After saying that, he turned to Jiang Junnan who was browsing a certain audio app and said, "Keep your voice down."
Jiang Junnan turned down the volume and handed the phone to him, "Let's go to this restaurant tonight?"
"casual."
Lin Xun dropped these two words and turned to look at his phone again. Yue Qianling fell into the poison circle.
At that moment, Yue Qianling's emotions suddenly broke down. She dropped her phone and started crying.
Xiaomai and Luotuo were frightened by her sudden crying and tried to comfort her: "Don't cry! Lin Xun has medicine, he can help you."
After saying that, he looked up and saw that the bastard was still more than 200 meters away from Yue Qianling.
A few seconds later, Yue Qianling died from radiation. After a tragic "Ah", his whole body turned into a box, and the interface mercilessly switched to Lin Xun's perspective.
Yue Qianling cried even harder.
"No, I'm still here, and I still have a chance to win the game. Why are you crying?"
Lin Xun thought she was very strange today. Didn’t she just get together with someone and play games for a while? Why was she crying now?
So he asked, "What happened to you today?"
"What's wrong with me? What else can I do? Of course I'm heartbroken!"
Yue Qianling cried and said miserably, "I'm heartbroken, do you understand?!!!"
In the game screen, the only remaining person suddenly stopped moving.
Even the camel fell silent for unknown reasons.
After a few seconds of silence.
Yue Qianling suddenly heard Lin Xun say to his roommate with a slight smile: "I'll treat you to dinner tonight."
Then another man's voice sounded: "Okay! I'll be polite then!"
Gu Xun turned around and smiled at Jiang Junnan, "As you wish."
Jiang Junnan thought his expression was a little strange, and asked teasingly, "What's the big happy event?"
Just as Gu Xun was about to speak, the girl's crying voice rang out in the earphones again.
"I'm fucking heartbroken and you're still treating others to a meal, are you human!!!"
Gu Xun raised his eyebrows and continued to run towards the safe zone, "What does your broken heart have to do with me?"
Yue Qianling's already broken emotions got even more out of control, and she cried so miserably that even Camel couldn't bear to watch it.
Only Xiaomai asked heartlessly: "Fuck! Did you really confess today? No way! Didn't you say you are the school beauty? How could you fail? No man would reject a beautiful woman! Unless he is not a man!"
"I am the school belle and he is the school hunk!" Yue Qianling cried, "What can I do if he just doesn't like me?"
Gu Xun's fingers suddenly stopped, and a scene from a few hours ago inexplicably popped up in his mind.
The camel far away in another city also seemed to have some ridiculous guesses.
"Ah? Campus hunk?" Camel asked tentatively, "Really? Which university are you in Jiangcheng?"
Yue Qianling didn't know why Luotuo suddenly asked this, but she did have a lot of grievances that she wanted to vent.
"Why, do you want to avenge me?"
Camel laughed dryly, "Yeah, let me see which blind idiot actually rejects our little cutie. I'll go to Jiangcheng tomorrow with a knife in hand!"
Xiaomai also followed suit, "Yes! We are comrades who have been through life and death together. How can we allow you to suffer such injustice? Tell us your name, and we will pick up our knives and kill that stupid bastard!"
Although the words of these netizens were very rude, Yue Qianling was indeed comforted.
She shrugged her nose and said hoarsely, "Go to the Jiangbin Campus of Nanjing University and find a man named Gu Xun. Kill him for me!!!"
"His name is Gu Xun. Okay, I'll remember this stupid name—"
Xiaomai was halfway through her speech when her voice suddenly stopped.
The headphones suddenly became as quiet as if the pause button had been pressed.
Although the game was still going on, the three people were silent, and there was a strange silence.
Deathly silence.
But Yue Qianling didn't have the mind to ponder their behavior.
A few seconds later, she saw Lin Xun, who was standing still, also died from the poison, and the game ended in complete failure.
Yue Qianling's emotions, which had been suppressed for several hours, burst out like a torrent and could not be contained at all. So she took off her headphones, laid on the table and cried bitterly.
More than an hour later, Yue Qianling cried until she had no more tears left and finally raised her head.
She turned on her phone and saw that the other three people in the game had been disconnected.
No one was talking in the group. It was quiet, not at all noisy as before, as if everyone had forgotten about her.
Yue Qianling wiped his eyes, raised his head and took a deep breath.
Maybe it was because the water in her brain had drained away, but she finally figured it out.
What tortured her was not Gu Xun's ruthlessness, but her own fabricated expectations and fantasies.
With the excitement she felt when they first met, she started a fire herself, turning the spark into a raging fire.
Then she fell into her own trap, and for his sake she jumped back into the pit she had already climbed out of.
Because of his coldness, she always doubted herself. She was already very tired from work, but she still forced herself to get up early and put on makeup because she doubted that she was not good-looking enough. She was completely unaware that her confidence was being eroded silently.
The growing inferiority complex overflowed and turned into the gentleness and affectation that she pretended to be in front of Gu Xun.
Gu Xun looked down on her, and she herself didn't like him either, and she almost forgot that she was also a person who was the center of attention.
Even at today's exchange meeting, she subconsciously felt that Gu Xun was more important, but in the end reality slapped her hard in the face.
She didn't do anything at all, but all her emotions were controlled by him. Because he was happy and sad, she didn't realize that she had been so moved by herself that she lost herself.
Those past scenes reappeared in Yue Qianling's mind again and again. She was finally able to see how stupid she was from a third-person perspective.
Rather than saying that she decided to give up on Gu Xun completely, it would be better to say that she decided to get rid of Yue Qianling who liked Gu Xun.
She really didn't like herself like that.
As if she had thrown away a layer of callus, Yue Qianling rubbed her red and swollen eyes and stood up.
Everyone in the dormitory had left and everything was packed up. She cleaned the dormitory one last time and after making sure there were no regrets, she quickly left the school facing the sunset.
It was only a half-hour drive to the newly rented house. When he arrived at the community, Yue Qianling walked towards the building where he lived.
While waiting for the elevator, she tried to take out her phone to check the time, but found several new messages.
It was very strange that both Xiaomai Luotuo and Lin Xun came to chat with her privately.
[Xiaomi]: Are you... okay?
[Camel]: Are you okay? Are you free to chat sometime?
The netizen was quite nice and actually cared about her.
Yue Qianling simply replied to them both, scrolled down and glanced at Lin Xun's message.
[“School Prince” patted my peach blossom and told me not to bloom anymore]
【School Prince】:?
【School Prince】：……
Are you crazy?
Seeing these inexplicable messages from him, Yue Qianling became furious.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: Burn incense when there is something to do and kowtow when there is nothing to do. I am so annoyed!
【School Prince】: Oh...
After sending the message, she put away her phone and entered the elevator.
Looking at this unfamiliar environment, Yue Qianling took a deep breath, feeling filled with a new life.
Turning left from the elevator is the house that Yue Qianling rented. She pressed the password and the door opened automatically.
Yue Qianling walked in dragging her suitcase. Just as she was about to close the door, she heard the door of the house opposite suddenly open, accompanied by a boy's voice.
"Didn't you say you were going out to eat? Why did you suddenly come back to school?"
Yue Qianling subconsciously turned around, raised her eyes, and met Gu Xun's eyes as he was about to step out of the door.
Yue Qianling: “…”
Gu Xun: “…”
Yue Qianling didn't know how to describe her feelings at that moment.
Simply put, if this was on the first floor, she could have jumped down right away.
After failing to confess his love in the morning, he moved across the street from the man in the afternoon.
Without Gu Xun saying anything, she could already imagine that he was probably using the words "shameless and clingy" to describe her at this moment.
And Gu Xun was indeed looking at her, his eyes becoming very complicated.
Yue Qianling became more certain of his thoughts.
Jiang Junnan, who knew nothing, stood behind Gu Xun. After changing his shoes, he looked up and saw that he suddenly stood still. He leaned over to look at him and said in surprise, "What the hell! Yue Qianling? You live here too? What a coincidence! You'll be neighbors from now on!"
Yue Qianling: “…”
She saw that Gu Xun's expression became more and more strange, as if it was breaking, and he walked towards her, as if he wanted to say something.
So what?
I haven't said anything yet!
Yue Qianling immediately grabbed the door handle and said in one breath: "This is just a coincidence. I didn't follow you and I won't pester you. You don't have to look at me like that. If you are really worried, just move away."
The two doors were very close to each other. Gu Xun took three or two steps over and was about to open his mouth, but he saw Yue Qianling subconsciously take half a step back.
"I--"
The door in front of me suddenly slammed shut, sending up some dust that flew in the light.
Gu Xun: “…”
"Hold."
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