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  Chapter 45: Someone Looking in the Mirror

  TL: Etude

  “Hong Yan, Jiang Qin has liked me from the beginning. Why must you pete with me for him?” Chu Siqi was the first to speak, her eyes filled with rese.

  Hong Yan slowly raised her head. “He doesn’t like you, and even if he did, you’re not worthy of his affe.”

  Wang Huiru’s mi bnk. She couldn’t believe the usually gentle Hong Yan could say such a thing. “Hong Yan, calm down.”

  “Am I wrong? Chu Siqi, what do you want to do? Have him tinue liking you, reject him again, and derive satisfa from it?”

  Chu Siqi’s breath hitched, her face turning pale in an instant. “You’re talking nonsense. I didn’t.”

  Hong Yan looked at Wang Huiru. “Huiru, you know many things better than I do. Who do you think is spouting nonsense?”

  Wang Huiru pursed her lips, silent for a long time. “I don’t know, I don’t uand anything.”

  “Even you’re afraid to speak the truth. It means Chu Siqi is beyond help.”

  “Hong Yan, don’t twist the facts. Jiang Qin has liked me sihe first year of high school!” Chu Siqi gritted her teeth.

  Hong Yan looked at her calmly. “So, what did that bring you? Do you like him?”

  “I…”

  “You just enjoy the feeling of being pursued, right? Selfish, vain, foolish.”

  Hong Yan’s words were sharp like a knife, instantly draining the color from Chu Siqi’s face.

  She couldn’t uand how she, having ged into her most beautiful and sexy clothes and applied attractive makeup, could not withstand a few words from the other party.

  On this weekend, South Street was crowded with people dining out. The tables around Jiang Qin’s, and those further away, with about a dozen people, all stared at Jiang Qin’s table, w why so maies were surrounding a man who seemed quite ordinary.

  “Hong Yan, you’ve only met Jiang Qin twice. You don’t really uand him.”

  Hong Yan’s lips curved slightly. “Does that matter? I have plenty of time to uand him, since I won’t waste my time flirting with seniors.”

  Chu Siqi’s eyes widened in shock. “How you distort the truth? There roblem with my student record. What was I supposed to do?”

  “Really?”

  Hong Yan reached into her purse, pulled out a BuBuGao phone, opened a message, and showed one of them.

  “Junior sister, there’s an issue with your student record. we talk about it sometime?”

  Chu Siqi’s eyes widened as she stared for a long time, then pared it with the message on her pho was exactly the same!

  “I also received his message, but I didn’t go because I knew he was just looking for an excuse. Don’t you uand?”

  “I…”

  After putting her phone ba her bag, Hong Yan calmly looked at Chu Siqi. “You’re not dumb, you’re just pretending to be. You hoped for more people to pursue you, to feel proud. That’s why you pretended not to know Zheng Qinglong’s iions, ag i.”

  Chu Siqi felt extremely wronged. “I didn’t. I didn’t think about it at the time. I had issues with my student record in high school. You’re wrongly acg me.”

  “Stop ag i. It’s really annoying.”

  Si Huiying couldn’t stand it anymore. “Hong Yan, we are sisters from the same dormitory. Just for a worthless man, is it worth it?”

  Worthless man???

  Jiang Qin’s brows furrowed. He thought to himself, from the beginning to the end, he had been trying hard to make money and not dating. How did he bee a worthless man?

  For two lifetimes, it was his first time receiving such a “honor.”

  But Si Huiying, once she started, didn’t seem to pn on stopping, and directly turned her accusations towards Jiang Qin.

  “Sitting here without a word, do you feel hoo see two women fighting over you? Do you enjoy this feeling?”

  “Our dorm was harmonious, but because of you, it’s filled with mutual hostility. Do you still have the face to sit here a?”

  “If you like Siqi, just keep liking her. She said she’d give you a ce. Why provoke Hong Yan and py two-timing games?”

  Jiang Qin looked up at her, thinking, why should I expin myself to a stranger?

  As Si Huiying noticed Jiang Qin’s silence, she became even mgressive, her words sharper.

  “Why don’t you say anything?”

  “You’re right, I have nothing to say.”

  Jiang Qin opened another bottle of beer, p it into fsses. “If you’re tired uing, have something to eat. After this drink, let’s all fet each other and move on.”

  Si Huiying scoffed disdainfully. “Fet just like that? Our dorm’s retionship is ruined because of you. Don’t you think you should take responsibility?”

  “Four is too many. The w doesn’t allow me to be responsible for that.”

  At that moment, a pierg scream rang out from the middle of South Street, making everyoremble and turn their heads toward the sound.

  A boy in a white T-shirt was kneeling on the road, wailing, surrounded by scattered roses, their stems broken and disheveled.

  In front of the kneeling boy, a girl with fxen hair looked at him in shock, her arm around another boy, pani her eyes.

  “Tang Xiaoyan, I’ve loved you for five whole years, five years!”

  “From the first year of high school to the sed year of college, I thought I would eventually win your heart. You always enced me, saying you’d be with me if you felt the same. I believed you!”

  “I came here full of hope after a night on a long-distance bus, only to find you strolling with someone else?”

  “I don’t bme you for not liking me, but why did you say st night you couldn’t resist being with me?”

  “Is this how you repay my five years of youth?”

  “Tang Xiaoyan, I’ve chased you for five years. Everyone knows I like you, even my mother!”

  “Ah!!!”

  In his agonized scream, the ereet fell into a profound silence.

  The girl seemed to curse him as a lunatic, then smmed her bag into the boy’s face. He didn’t even try to dodge, only a bitter smile.

  Jiang Qin, witnessing this se, felt bewildered. “I came out just to eat, who’s holding up a mirror to me?”

  Chu Siqi stared at the kneeling boy, feeling an ued tightness in her chest.

  “Five years is quite dedicated, and the boy is not bad-looking. I wonder if the girl will regret it…”

  “No, she won’t.”

  Si Huiying looked up sharply at Jiang Qin, her expression turning cold. “Who asked you? A worthless man has nht to speak!”

  Jiang Qin wiped his mouth with a napkin, his gaze calmly settling on the fxen-haired girl. “She’ll never regret it. She won’t even realize she had the ce for the best love. If that guy be taken franted like this, it shows the girl has no sense of truly beautiful things. Such a heavenly opportunity won’t e twice. But don’t worry, having entered such a girl, that guy will never be hurt by love again.”

  The four beauties from the w department stared at him, speechless for a moment.

  Especially Si Huiying, who seemed stunned, uo uand how a worthless man could speak so profoundly.

  Wang Huiru, as an outsider, saw things more clearly. She felt Jiang Qin had matured to a point where he could see through everything, making discussions of love seem particurly naive in his presence.

  What they didn’t know was that Jiang Qin saw his past self at that moment. He too had repeatedly questioned where he went wrong, never receiving an answer.

  He felt a heaviness in his heart, perhaps only forted by Feng Nanshu’s tender little feet.

  “Love, it’s not even worth discussing.”

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