Chen Dongze remained expressionless and spoke coldly: "What happened between Song Lan and me has nothing to do with you. Besides... she's married and has her own family. You'd better not take advantage of my attitude towards you to target her maliciously, or don't blame me for being impolite!"
He spread rumors, and the target of those rumors was the girl he admired. Just because he hadn't ended that relationship, he did that kind of thing to the girl he liked. To be honest, after learning the whole thing, he felt disgusted with Yuan Xiaoya from the bottom of his heart!
What did Song Lan do wrong?
He couldn't forget that relationship, and he wanted to get back together with her. If Yuan Xiaoya had the ability to deal with him, she could, so why was she targeting Song Lan?
"Brother Dongze!"
Yuan Xiaoya raised her voice, her eyes filled with sadness: "I just asked someone to say a few words of gossip at the gate of the machinery factory. I didn't beat or kill that Song Lan. Why did you have to get angry at me and say such heartless things?"
Besides, I just care about you too much and don't want you to focus your attention on other women. What did I do wrong?
Tears welled up in her eyes, and Yuan Xiaoya choked out, "We've been childhood sweethearts, and Aunt Zhang really likes me. She even mentioned to my mom that she hopes we can become a couple. Don't you want that?"
"Have you forgotten?" I told you before that we could never be together. I only ever saw you as a younger sister. You're the one who's stubbornly fixated on me, and that's bothering me. Don't you understand?"
Before Yuan Xiaoya could respond, Chen Dongze strode forward.
"I don't understand, Dongze-gege. I don't understand what you mean. I like you and want to be with you. I don't think there's anything wrong with that!"
Running to catch up with Chen Dongze, Yuan Xiaoya sobbed and begged him, "I can change anything you don't like about me, Dongze-gege, please be with me, okay? I really like you so much!"
"It's your business if you like me, there's no rule that says I have to like you back!"
Chen Dongze said bluntly, "I really don't understand what you're thinking. It's clearly me who can't let go of my feelings for Song Lan. What does that have to do with Song Lan? But you, behind my back, went to the gate of the machinery factory to spread rumors. Your intentions are exceptionally malicious!"
Furthermore, is that rumor true? Or do you not care whether it's true or not, and only want to destroy Song Lan, right?
However, Yuan Xiaoya did not answer. She said, "I heard it from Song Jiaojiao. She said that Song Lan was violated by two hooligans, and that's why you broke off your relationship with her."
So, I thought of using that incident to force her to leave. I didn't have any bad intentions; I just wanted her to return to the capital. Brother Dongze, I'm doing this for her sake. Think about it, compared to staying in that run-down place like the machinery factory's staff hospital, Song Lan could go back to…”
Chen Dongze interrupted: "Does Song Lan need you to meddle in her work? You think she has no ill intentions? It's easy to spread rumors, but debunking them is exhausting, don't you know that? Not to mention, some rumors can even drive people to their deaths."
For example, what you heard from Song Jiaojiao... I really don't understand. You seem quite smart, so why do you believe everything Song Jiaojiao says? If she said killing could solve the problem, would you actually do what she says?
"I……"
Yuan Xiaoya opened her mouth, unsure how to respond.
After being taken to the police station by Officer Lin, she was very angry when she learned the reason. She was angry that Song Jiaojiao had said at the police station that she had paid for the good people to leave messages at the gate of the machinery factory. However, she did not feel panicked or afraid.
Because she knew that as long as she called home, her family could easily help her sort things out.
That is indeed the case.
At first, she refused to cooperate with the police officers' questioning, insisting on using a landline to make a phone call to her family in Beijing; otherwise, she wouldn't utter a single word.
As she made a fuss, she eventually got her hands on the microphone.
After that, she was able to walk out of the police station without incident.
Chen Dongze was utterly disappointed in Yuan Xiaoya. On his way back to Shisong Village, he didn't consider whether Yuan Xiaoya could keep up at all, and his pace was much faster than usual.
Yuan Xiaoya, with tears in her eyes, ran to avoid being left far behind.
"Brother Dongze! Brother Dongze, please don't treat me like this!"
Just as they were about to reach the village entrance, Yuan Xiaoya mustered all her strength and ran forward, finally catching up with Chen Dongze. She didn't even have time to catch her breath and cried, "I know I was wrong, Brother Dongze, please forgive me this once. I promise I won't do anything to that woman Song Lan again!"
However, Chen Dongze completely ignored him.
"You don't want to talk to me anymore, do you? Brother Dongze, this makes me very sad!"
Yuan Xiaoya cried and said, "I've liked you for a long time..."
"Shut up!"
Chen Dongze found it annoying and glanced at Yuan Xiaoya sideways: "I said it's your business if you like me, but that doesn't mean I have to like you."
Why? Why don't you like me?
Between sobs, Yuan Xiaoya asked, "Am I not pretty enough, or is my family background not a good match for you? Brother Dongze, in our compound, I'm considered the prettiest girl my age..."
"Enough!"
Chen Dongze's face darkened. He interrupted Yuan Xiaoya and said, "I have never had any romantic feelings for you. From this moment on, I hope you will stop being delusional!"
"..."
Yuan Xiaoya could tell that Chen Dongze was truly angry, and she shivered in fright, even stopping in her tracks and not continuing to follow him.
Do you hate her that much?
Is she completely unappealing to him?
Otherwise, why would he get so angry with her?
After a while, seeing that Chen Dongze had walked a hundred meters away without ever looking back at her, Yuan Xiaoya felt very hurt. She squatted down, buried her head in her knees, and made a "woo-woo" sound.
She likes him, she really likes him, so why can't he like her back?
Chen Dongze was unaware of what Yuan Xiaoya was thinking. At that moment, he was thinking: I'll take a day off tomorrow and go to the machinery factory to apologize to Song Lan in person.
After all, if it weren't for him, Yuan Xiaoya wouldn't have been so hostile towards Song Lan, and wouldn't have done such a terrible thing.
Back at the educated youth compound, the other educated youth had only been off work for a short time when they saw Chen Dongze. The male educated youth immediately surrounded him, asking him one after another what had happened that led to him being taken to the police station.
It sounds like concern, but in reality, it's just to satisfy a gossipy nature.
"It's a trivial matter and has nothing to do with me."
Chen Dongze's face was ashen. He only replied with one sentence, then pushed past the male educated youth in front of him and walked towards his dormitory.
"Song Jiaojiao and Yuan Xiaoya haven't returned. Could it be that they really did something wrong?"
"You can't just say that."
"That's right. If we make wild guesses without knowing anything, it would be a bit petty of us to speak recklessly."
"But if they didn't do anything wrong, why didn't they come back with Chen Dongze?"
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