Chapter 73 She is not Cinderella
He Xilou?
Meng Shiyi seemed to have a radar installed in her brain, and she immediately moved over and looked out the car window.
At that moment, she seemed to be nailed to the spot, unable to move.
At the entrance of a top luxury hotel, on the long steps, the man's tall and straight figure is extremely eye-catching and attracts attention immediately.
He was wearing a black haute couture suit, looking noble and lazy, with a faint smile on his lips. He looked both sassy and charming, and seemed to be in a good mood.
It’s He Xilou.
Next to him stood a bright and intellectual beauty.
The beauty was wearing an exquisite and elegant black and gold cheongsam, with a graceful figure. She held an ivory-carved fan in her hand. I don't know what she was talking about, but her red lips were curved and she smiled brightly and charmingly.
Xu Qingqing said bluntly: "You know what, they look quite a good match!"
The roommate's unintentional words turned into a sharp, cold thorn, piercing the softest part of Meng Shiyi's heart.
Meng Shiyi felt a lump in her throat and blinked her sore eyes hard, wondering if it was an illusion or a nightmare.
But the facts are there.
The cheongsam beauty walked up the stairs in low heels and couldn't stand steadily for a moment.
He Xilou held her arm and walked into the hotel together.
The two figures slowly disappeared from sight.
Meng Shiyi was still stunned in the car, at a loss.
Xu Qingqing watched the two of them enter the hotel and started gossiping. "Tsk, He Xilou is indeed known as the 'King of Picking Up Girls'. He's dating someone again after just a short breakup? This must be his new girlfriend, right?"
Sheng Wan took it for granted: "Of course, otherwise, why would the two of them go to a hotel so late at night after eating so much?"
"Oh my god, let's go to the hotel..." You can guess what will happen next in just one second.
Xu Qingqing continued to sigh: "That woman doesn't look like a student, but she is quite pretty and has a great figure."
Sheng Wan asked back, "Which of He Xilou's girlfriends is not beautiful?"
Meng Shiyi's throat was dry and she couldn't speak at all.
She silently withdrew her gaze and stared blankly at the trees outside the window on the other side.
Sheng Wan thought she was not interested in gossip, so she didn't bring it up any further. Instead, she turned around and talked about the poses she would take when taking photos and checking in.
Meng Shiyi looked out the window without saying a word, her eyelashes trembling, her fingertips tightly clenching the fabric at the corner of her clothes.
No.
Maybe... there's a misunderstanding?
She should have asked clearly.
When they arrived at the hot pot restaurant, Sheng Wan and Xu Qingqing became excited.
The store is decorated in an ancient style, with many internet celebrity check-in spots, and its business is booming.
After queuing up and ordering the food, Meng Shiyi didn't want to spoil their fun, so she pretended to be very satisfied and relaxed.
While waiting for the food, Meng Shiyi finally couldn't help herself and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm going to the bathroom. You guys can eat first."
The two nodded at her: "Yeah, go ahead~"
Meng Shiyi went out with a pack of tissues.
After this hotpot restaurant became popular in the campus forum of Imperial University, half of the customers who came today were students of Imperial University.
At the door, she unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance.
Lu Shijie was hanging out with a few boys, and when he saw her, he immediately waved and said hello, grinning:
"Hey, sister Shiyi is here to eat hot pot too?"
Meng Shiyi nodded and said softly, "Yeah."
After a brief greeting, Lu Shijie was about to enter the store with his classmates.
"Wait," Meng Shiyi hesitated for two seconds and suddenly called him, "Brother Shijie, I want to ask you something in private."
So Lawrence Lu waved his hand to let his classmates go in first, walked up to her and patted his chest, "What's the matter? Sister, just ask, I will definitely help if I can!"
"I have a friend... She likes He Xilou very much and wants to know if he has a girlfriend now."
"You've asked the right person!" Lu Shijie swore, "Yes, she did. They started dating not long ago. Last week, Xilou was still flirting with her on the phone."
There was a buzzing sound in Meng Shiyi's brain, and the last taut string suddenly broke.
She took a long time to react, then repeated woodenly, "Really... He has a girlfriend now?"
"Yeah, can I still lie to you?"
Lu Shijie reminded: "If your friend also wants to date for fun, then wait until He Xilou breaks up before pursuing him. If he is the kind of person who is serious about it, forget it, after all, he is the kind of person who only wants to date for fun."
"...Oh, thank you."
After saying that, Meng Shiyi ran to the bathroom mirror and looked at her pale and weak face.
He Xilou has a girlfriend.
If you have a girlfriend, why do you keep teasing and provoking her?
Since he doesn't like her, why does he give her illusions again and again?
Meng Shiyi stood there, her mind playing a slow-motion movie as frames of ambiguous and intimate scenes emerged:
He Xilou would trap her in the corridor, put the bracelet on her with his own hands, and say, "Wear the bracelet well, little rabbit";
He Xilou would drive her to the hospital when she had an allergic reaction, would lower his head and bite into the oranges she peeled, and call her a "little princess";
He Xilou never drinks water given by girls, but will ask her to buy water after basketball games, saying "I mean, you're pretty sweet";
He Xilou would suddenly hug her from behind in the rain and say, "Meng Shiyi, comfort me";
He Xilou would coax her and hug her when she was drunk, saying "You have to be responsible for me";
He Xilou will also...
Really, all of it, is she just being sentimental?
Meng Shiyi turned on the faucet and let the cold water wash over her fingertips.
It was as if unripe sour oranges suddenly exploded in his chest, and the juice spread to every part of his body, leaving no corner untouched.
She couldn't even feel any pain or sadness, she just felt as if her heart had suddenly lost the most important and precious piece of flesh, leaving it empty.
Suddenly, I recalled what He Xilou had said.
At a dinner party when she first entered school.
He Xilou teased in public and sneered: "Don't worry, I won't touch my friend's sister~"
When she was about to give He Xilou a pen to express her gratitude, she unexpectedly heard him say to someone else:
"You're overthinking it. I just treat her as my sister."
"I don't talk about good girls."
He still had that playful and unrestrained look on his face, not caring about anything and looking down on everything.
He didn't talk about the good girl, he just treated her as a sister. He had no interest in her from the beginning, and he didn't like her from the beginning.
Maybe there is indeed a little interest, but it is only a little bit.
He is unruly and cannot be tamed.
He can flirtatiously call her sister, and naturally he can also call someone else sister; he can video call her ambiguously today, and of course he can find someone else tomorrow... After all, who knows whether what comes out of his mouth is true or false.
is that so?
Meng Shiyi scooped up the water again, wiped it on her face, and forced herself to calm down.
After a long time, she stared at her disheveled self in the mirror, took a deep breath, and said silently in her heart:
Meng Shiyi, wake up quickly.
You are never the Cinderella in the fairy tale world...
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