TFS | Chapter 14

Qi Yue was angry. He felt his dignity had been dealt a blow, and if Xu Linruan didn’t come coax him, he wasn’t going to make up with her.

Though he said that, the moment Xu Linruan held out her hands, he still took them with complete entitlement, then lay back down again and sulked alone in the room.

Xu Linruan saw it and did not bother with him.

This guy was putting on airs again.

She also had to admit, the man was impressive. Setting aside his personality for the moment, his face was thick enough. So thick that while holding her hand, he could still be angry at the same time.

…

Near noon, two familiar guests arrived at the villa. The butler brought them over to Qi Yue, and only then did Xu Linruan find out who they were. She really hadn’t expected to see the female lead from the original story, Jiang Mian, here.

That was why people said the plot was powerful. Her official girlfriend identity still hadn’t been broken off, and yet the storyline between the male and female leads was already about to unfold.

With her was the young master’s sworn brother, Xu Zhou, who was also a rich second generation in the original novel, and like the young master, a privileged layabout.

Only, he was a little smarter than Qi Yue. He was the type who played the role of a scheming sidekick, and it was also him who had egged Qi Yue on to make the bet they were secretly carrying out.

Xu Linruan only smiled at them.

This made the young master even more unhappy. He had originally been waiting for Xu Linruan to come coax him, but instead of ignoring him, she had actually smiled so beautifully at another man.

How was he supposed to tolerate that?

At any rate, Qi Yue couldn’t. As soon as he got upset, even the way he looked at his good brother turned strange. His girlfriend was smiling at someone else more happily than she ever smiled at him. It wasn’t his fault for overthinking. The truth was, this brat was just too annoying to look at.

No matter how you looked at it, he seemed like someone who deserved a beating.

Qi Yue watched them greet each other. They obviously hadn’t met many times, but the way they carried on made it seem as if they were very familiar, which only earned a string of cold laughs from the young master. Fortunately, after the greetings, they didn’t really talk much, and that eased his expression a little.

Xu Zhou just felt a little baffled. He had kindly come to visit him, and this guy not only failed to say anything nice, he was even putting on a cold face?

He had only greeted Xu Linruan a couple of times. They hadn’t even managed to chat. What kind of jealousy was this guy nursing?

“Since you’re already here and have seen me, if there’s nothing else, you can leave, right? The doctor said I need to rest and recover, I can’t be too noisy.” Only he could say something like that. Xu Linruan found it speechless just hearing it.

That tiny bit of injury needed rest and recovery? Could this guy be any more shameless?

Xu Zhou rolled his eyes. He was thick-skinned too, and simply moved a stool over and sat by the bed. He had grown up playing with Qi Yue. How could he not understand what he was thinking?

“Do you really have to be this petty?” Xu Zhou couldn’t help complaining. “I came all this way to see you, and you won’t even keep me for a meal, fine, but at least pour me a glass of water, right?”

“And this girl is also from your class. She came specially to visit you. I’m saying, Qi Yue, you should at least let people put their things down.”

Xu Linruan glanced at Jiang Mian. This girl also had a personality that hated evil as if it were an enemy.

When she first met the young master, she had been indifferent toward him, and the two even argued. Especially later on, as they spent time together, the young master was even more drawn to her so-called “pure and unpretentious” personality, thinking she was completely different from all those coquettish, cheap women outside. That was how his difficult, long road of chasing after her began.

Thinking of that, the bad ideas in Xu Linruan’s stomach started stirring again.

For some reason, she just really wanted to dig a pit for the male lead.

Jiang Mian, standing nearby, also glanced at Qi Yue, a hint of dislike in her eyes. This guy was as rude as ever. She set the fruit basket and flowers in her hands onto the table with a bang. Those had been sent by everyone in their class together.

Since Qi Yue usually didn’t have a very good reputation, no one had been willing to come to his house. It was only because she was a transfer student that everyone had asked her to come visit him.

Hearing the sound, Qi Yue looked up. He remembered this girl too. Wasn’t she the one who had crashed into him that day? He was rather petty, and once he disliked someone, nothing about them looked right.

Right now, Qi Yue was exactly in that state. He disliked the fact that these two had disturbed the private space between him and Xu Linruan. They rarely saw each other to begin with, and after finally getting a chance to be alone, these two blind fools had come to make trouble.

The fact that he hadn’t blown up already was pretty good. What more were they expecting from him?

“And here I thought who it was. Aren’t you the one who snatched my phone that day?” His tone toward Jiang Mian was downright impolite, cold and hard. “We’re not even familiar. What are you doing coming to my house?”

A few sentences in, the female lead’s eyes were already red with anger. She probably had never seen someone this rude before.

She clenched her teeth, her chest rising and falling. “Who’s desperate to come to your house? If the classmates hadn’t begged me, I wouldn’t have wanted to come anyway.” Jiang Mian was so angry she was practically steaming. Her personality was also very direct, and once the two of them started arguing, neither would back down.

“Is that so? Then why don’t you leave?” Qi Yue asked with a cold laugh.

“Just because you tell me to leave means I have to leave? I’m not leaving now!” She really couldn’t swallow that anger, and this time she dug in her heels with him too.

…

Xu Linruan had been watching the whole thing like it was a show.

To be honest, the male lead really was kind of dog-like. Treating his future girlfriend like that, wasn’t he afraid he’d end up going through the infamous wife-chasing crematorium later on? Look how angry the poor girl was, she was practically unable to breathe.

…

Just as the two of them looked ready to start a full-on argument, Xu Zhou on the side quickly shot Xu Linruan a look.

Xu Linruan, who had been enjoying the show, was suddenly dragged into the mess.

She rolled her eyes. He had brought the person here and then did nothing about it, and now he wanted her to help? What was that supposed to mean?

Did he think she had such a good temper that he could order her around however he wanted?

Xu Linruan looked at him once. Since she was still technically the male lead’s girlfriend at the moment, she decided not to make a fuss, so as to avoid Qi Yue turning melodramatic again for half the day.

She turned and smiled at Xu Zhou. “Why don’t we go out for a walk first? They’ll probably keep talking for a while.” If he didn’t want her watching the show, then naturally she had to drag him into the mess too.

As she spoke, she prepared to head outside.

The words had barely fallen when an extremely irritated voice came from behind her. “Try taking one step with him.”

The young master had been watching this side the whole time. Hearing her say that, his beautiful eyes widened at once, fixed tightly on her. If one looked closely, there was even a hint of barely noticeable grievance in those eyes.

She didn’t care that he was arguing with someone, fine, but she was actually going to leave with another man?

Thinking of that, Qi Yue felt even more stifled. He didn’t dare glare at her with that unhappy look, so he could only turn and glare at his old buddy instead. You bastard, that’s my girlfriend!

Xu Zhou was utterly baffled. What now? He had just been sitting here without moving, saying nothing, so who exactly had he provoked? Did they really have to bully him like this?