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After Ye Wenyu finished speaking, she looked at the chattering female students surrounding her and felt a "whoosh" as the girls finally relaxed. They exchanged happy glances, and their hostility towards her instantly dissipated. One of them even sat a little closer to her. Then, one of the bolder girls continued to ask Ye Wenyu, "So, do you like him?"
Ye Wenyu was stunned. She hadn't expected that these questions would be like threads, one after another, endless. How long would it take her to answer them?
She had the air of a big star answering reporters' questions.
A girl said to Ye Wenyu in silence, "Professor Cai is the school heartthrob. He's so handsome, you must like him."
The third girl immediately had a flash of inspiration and asked, "Whether he likes you or not is the most important thing."
The other girls immediately nodded in agreement. One girl said, "He definitely likes her. Otherwise, why would he eat with her? You know, because Xiao Ye's family is poor, she only eats one vegetable dish per meal. Professor Cai must feel sorry for her and be worried that she's malnourished, so he came to the student cafeteria to eat with her. Didn't you see him get seven or eight dishes at once? How can one person eat so many dishes in one meal? Those dishes were all for her! No man has ever been so good to me!"
Ye Wenyu sat among a group of girls, listening to their lively speculations. Each of them seemed to be possessed by Sherlock Holmes, analyzing the situation with reason and evidence.
As Ye Wenyu listened to their discussion, she gradually lowered her head. Even the strongest and most optimistic person would feel a pang of sadness upon hearing the gossip of the young girl. She thought painfully that the news that her family was poor and that she only ate one vegetarian dish per meal had already spread throughout the entire campus.
The fire of Bagua (Eight Trigrams) is indeed spreading like wildfire.
Now her poverty has become a label stuck to her; wherever she goes, people know her without her having to introduce herself.
Not only was she poor, but she was also ugly. All the female students at Q University knew that the reason she always wore a mask was because she had a terrible birthmark on her face with long hair growing on it, making her even more terrifying than an alien monster.
so--
She was truly the most pitiful student at Q University. She thought to herself that Jiang Zhiming always felt that he was the most pitiful one. Compared to her, what was he?
She should leave this place of trouble as soon as possible. Her life experiences have destined her to never be able to become friends with these young and naive female students.
She forced a smile and said to the chattering girls, who were as lively as sparrows, "I have to go now. I have something to do. Could you please move aside?"
But they all seemed deaf and didn't hear what Ye Wenyu said. One of them said to another girl, "What you said makes sense, but Ye Wenyu isn't pretty. She has a birthmark on her face. If you don't believe me, ask her to take off her mask and try it on."
A bold girl reached out and tried to remove the mask from Ye Wenyu's face.
That's incredibly rude!
Ye Wenyu suddenly stood up, her whole body trembling with anger. They had gone too far, bullying people to this extent. She stared at them with cold eyes, her whole being radiating an aura of icy coldness, exuding an imposing and awe-inspiring presence. The female students realized they had gone too far and fell silent.
Ye Wenyu waited until they lowered their heads and stopped talking before pushing through the crowd and striding out of the student cafeteria.
When she was almost at her dormitory, she looked down, took out her phone, and sent Cai Wenchuan a WeChat message: "You don't need to have lunch with me tomorrow, and you don't need to in the future either. I have things to do, and I won't be eating in the cafeteria every day from now on."
The message was sent out like a stone sinking into the sea, without making a ripple.
He did not reply to her.
Ye Wenyu waited for a few minutes, but her brother Wen did not reply to her message. She thought that given how dependent people are on their phones these days, he must have seen it, but he was pretending not to. In that case, she would have to come to the student cafeteria tomorrow to explain things to him.
I used to know that if a man didn't like you, he wouldn't reply to your WeChat messages. Now I realize that a man who loves you will not reply to certain of your WeChat messages.
Ye Wenyu was troubled by this matter, and was restless all day long. She couldn't sleep well at night. She repeatedly made up her mind that she would not go to the student cafeteria to eat tomorrow, but she was worried that her brother Wen would be waiting for her in the cafeteria, so she changed her mind.
Restless and unsettled, Ye Wenyu stayed in the library studying, delaying her lunch break. Cai Wenchuan texted her: "I'm in the cafeteria. I won't eat unless you come."
Ye Wenyu stared at the message, startled, and stood up abruptly. She felt a mix of pain and happiness, anxiety and joy. The happiness stemmed from her brother Wen's care for her despite the stares of others. The anxiety and pain arose from the growing impact of the situation, fearing it would soon bring him unnecessary trouble.
She thought she had to go. If she didn't go, Brother Wen wouldn't eat. He would sit in the student cafeteria waiting for her, surrounded by waves of female students, like tides and ocean waves, endless and continuous. This was a very bad influence on him. As long as he was in the student cafeteria, whether she went or not, it would have a very bad impact on him.
Thinking it over, Ye Wenyu had no choice but to bite the bullet and go by herself.
When he arrived at the student cafeteria and went inside, sure enough, a group of pretty girls surrounded Cai Wenchuan, chatting and laughing with him like stars around the moon.
Cai Wenchuan, on the other hand, had no expression on his face. His eyes were fixed on the entrance of the cafeteria. He was waiting for her. When he saw her hurrying in, a warm smile appeared on his face and his eyes shone like stars.
But those girls, who were originally looking at Cai Wenchuan, all turned their eyes to the cafeteria entrance when they saw the strange expression on his face. When they saw Ye Wenyu, their faces turned cold and they became envious.
Ye Wenyu steeled herself and walked up to Cai Wenchuan, but the female students sitting around him didn't move. Ye Wenyu looked at Cai Wenchuan and smiled bitterly, shrugging helplessly. Her expression said, "See what kind of impact you've had in the student cafeteria? You've seen it all."
Being too good-looking can be a problem.
Cai Wenchuan smiled slightly and said to the female students beside him, "I'm going to eat now, please move aside."
"Shall we have dinner with the professor?" The female students not only didn't move their seats, but became even more excited, their voices as melodious as music.
Cai Wenchuan's face darkened, and he said to them, "I don't need you to eat with me. It will make me unhappy, and when I'm unhappy, I'll keep interrogating the students around me about their homework. Do you want to try it?"
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