Chapter 22 Just Consider It His Good Deed for the College Entrance Exam

Seeing Ye Xiaoyang looking completely distracted, Zhou Jiahang patted his own backside, sat down, and wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.

This deskmate of his was naturally good at studying beyond words. But when it came to matters of the heart, he was very raw.

Stepping forward to point out the landscape when Ye Xiaoyang was wounded in love was his responsibility as a friend. Although Zhou Jiahang had zero romantic experience, every qualified bro or bestie was extremely good at disguising themselves as experts in the field of love.

“What on earth happened? Weren’t you two fine during May Day?” Zhou Jiahang asked.

Ye Xiaoyang pressed the book under his arm, casually pulled out a pen, and calculated on draft paper. From the looks of it, he didn’t plan to pay him any attention.

But after writing only a few characters, he suddenly asked out of nowhere, “Do I look very scary?”

“What?” Zhou Jiahang didn’t understand.

However you put it, Ye Xiaoyang was a jade tree standing in the wind, a person of distinguished appearance. He was completely insulated from the word “scary.”

“She’s afraid of me,” Ye Xiaoyang said.

In Ye Xiaoyang’s understanding, if you liked someone, you would desperately treat her well.

He felt he hadn’t done anything wrong. So why did Luo Yi look at him as if he were a jackal, wolf, tiger, or leopard?

“Brother, things reverse when they reach an extreme,” Zhou Jiahang asked. “Did you chase her so hard you scared her?”

Ye Xiaoyang thought for a moment and said, “I don’t think so.”

Before, when he gave her chocolate, she accepted it too.

Was it really because the card matter made her feel he was too abrupt and offensive?

But if she had feelings for him, seeing words like that, how would she avoid him like this now?

“So now she won’t pay attention to you?”

“Pretty much.”

Zhou Jiahang’s eyeballs rolled, and he came up with an idea. “Isn’t your birthday coming soon?”

Ye Xiaoyang said, “My birthday is in summer vacation, July 24. There are still two months.”

He was a Leo. According to so-called astrology, he had inborn pride and a sense of control.

But these two points were completely useless in front of Luo Yi.

He had thought she was as tame and soft as a little rabbit, and could only obediently wait to be caught. He hadn’t expected this little rabbit to run too fast and give him no chance at all.

“Aiya, you’re so smart when you study. Why can’t your brain turn the corner now?” Zhou Jiahang said.

Ye Xiaoyang stopped his pen and suddenly understood what he meant.

Zhou Jiahang was telling him to find an excuse to ask Luo Yi out. After all, Luo Yi was hiding from him every day now. He didn’t even have a chance to speak. And a birthday banquet happened to be an occasion that was both public and private. If he grasped it well, there might be a bit of a turning point.

“She might not come,” Ye Xiaoyang said.

“If she doesn’t come, you just won’t think of a way?” Zhou Jiahang felt Ye Xiaoyang was truly single-minded. That brain that was usually so smart also crashed once he fell in love. Early romance really shouldn’t be done.

Zhou Jiahang jutted his chin toward Luo Yi’s direction. He saw Luo Yi lying on the desk, with Qian Jiayun beside her speaking softly.

“Go ask her deskmate. Save the country by a curve,” Zhou Jiahang said. “Those two seem pretty close.”

Ye Xiaoyang: “…”

Last time with the football matter, Qian Jiayun had said he wasn’t a man and had lost all conscience. He didn’t want to deal with her at all.

Going to Qian Jiayun now to humble himself and ask for help—he couldn’t do it.

Ye Xiaoyang: “You go.”

Zhou Jiahang: “?”

Ye Xiaoyang: “It was your idea.”

Zhou Jiahang: “I say, big bro, aren’t you the one chasing her?”

Ye Xiaoyang sent over a knife-like look.

The meaning was, even if he was the one chasing her, he still couldn’t lose face.

Zhou Jiahang grumbled inwardly. Still putting on airs at this time. Just now, who was it looking bitter and deep-hating, as if Zhou Jiahang owed him several million and wouldn’t pay it back?

Fine. If he was going, he was going.

He would treat it as accumulating virtue for the college entrance exam.

So after evening self-study ended that day, Zhou Jiahang called Qian Jiayun out to the corridor.

Qian Jiayun: “What do you need me for?”

Zhou Jiahang: “I don’t need anything. Ye Xiaoyang does.”

Qian Jiayun associated this with Luo Yi looking unhappy today, and her gossip soul immediately burned fiercely. “Did Ye Xiaoyang bully my deskmate?”

“Bully?” Zhou Jiahang corrected her wording. “Clearly he likes her.”

Qian Jiayun realized after the fact and suddenly understood.

No wonder Ye Xiaoyang had wanted to buy Luo Yi milk tea back then, and today even helped her do a problem on the blackboard. So it was…

“Wait.” Qian Jiayun suddenly remembered something. “Doesn’t Ye Xiaoyang have a girlfriend?”

“What girlfriend?” Zhou Jiahang was confused.

“You know…” Qian Jiayun lowered her voice. “I heard last time Fahai caught him and his girlfriend in the little woods doing something indescribable.”

She stuck out two thumbs, put them together, and bent them.

Zhou Jiahang: “…”

What the hell? Ye Xiaoyang was a clean and innocent sixteen-year-old pure little virgin. How could he do something like that?

Zhou Jiahang: “Can you people stop treating the wind as rain? Rumors fly around every day. He was only caught by Fahai playing football after evening self-study.”

“Ah? It was only football.” Qian Jiayun’s tone carried an unspeakable disappointment, as if her beloved on-screen CP had shattered.

“Rumors fly around, so why has no one ever heard him deny it?” Qian Jiayun asked.

“Do you think he cares about these things?” Zhou Jiahang said.

“Please. If you want to chase a girl, how can you have peach-colored scandals wrapping around you?” Qian Jiayun leaned against the wall and clicked her tongue in emotion.

The two of them seemed to have both overlooked one thing. That night, Ye Xiaoyang had come back together with Luo Yi.

Even if the school spread rumors that he had done something indescribable with his girlfriend in the little woods, that partner could only be Luo Yi.

That was why Ye Xiaoyang hadn’t bothered when he heard this gossip.

“Alright, talk about the real matter.” Zhou Jiahang discovered he had almost been led into a ditch by Qian Jiayun. “This weekend is Ye Xiaoyang’s birthday. He wants to invite her over.”

“Why tell me this? I can’t decide for her.”

“Luo Yi isn’t paying attention to him anymore.” Zhou Jiahang was concise.

“Did he do something that made her unhappy?” Qian Jiayun asked. “During math class today, I saw she was about to cry.”

Thinking of this, Qian Jiayun still felt pretty distressed.

She had asked Luo Yi what was going on, but Luo Yi wouldn’t tell her.

Now connecting it to Ye Xiaoyang, Qian Jiayun finally sorted out a bit of a lead.

“The key is there isn’t anything,” Zhou Jiahang added. “If he didn’t lie to me.”

The two of them pondered for a while. Qian Jiayun finally agreed to help Ye Xiaoyang with this favor.

“Tell him he owes me a favor,” Qian Jiayun said with her nose in the air.

“Fine. Got it.”

That night on the way back to the dormitory, Qian Jiayun linked arms with Luo Yi and said, “This weekend is Ye Xiaoyang’s birthday. Are you going?”

When Luo Yi heard his name, her chest tightened. She silently shook her head. “I’m not going. I have to go to my aunt’s place on the weekend.”

“I want to go, but I can’t find anyone to go with me.” Qian Jiayun pretended to beat her chest and stamp her feet. “It’s at Fuli Hotel. I heard their river seafood is especially good.”

“Good Luo Yi, dear Luo Yi, just come with me.” Qian Jiayun pinched a circle of flesh at her waist. “Look, I’m about to starve thin at school. The cafeteria is truly too bad.”

Luo Yi: “…”

If she remembered correctly, two days ago Qian Jiayun had still said she had gained two jin.

Luo Yi: “If you want to go eat, I’ll treat you, okay?”

Qian Jiayun: “Fuli Hotel is Xishui’s first five-star hotel. The stuff is expensive to death.”

Luo Yi: “The two of us—about how much could we eat?”

Qian Jiayun thought for a moment and stuck out two fingers.

Luo Yi: “Two hundred?”

Qian Jiayun wagged her fingers. “Two thousand. One crab there costs over a hundred.”

Luo Yi: “Oh.”

Qian Jiayun thought Luo Yi had been moved. After all, a restaurant with a per-person price of a thousand—going to see the world was good too.

In a small place like Tongze, how could you eat such good things?

Luo Yi: “Then the two of us can go eat. I’ll treat you.”

Qian Jiayun wanted to shake her shoulders and make her wake up a little. A normal student at school couldn’t even eat a thousand yuan in a month.

Only someone like Ye Xiaoyang, whose family had so much money they had nowhere to put it, would be this generous holding a birthday at a place like this.

Luo Yi: “It’s only two thousand. Just now I thought it was much more expensive.”

Qian Jiayun: “?”

Is your unit of pricing the Vietnamese dong?

Qian Jiayun felt she was the one who needed to wake up. She confirmed, “Not expensive?”

Luo Yi: “Before Dad went abroad he left some money in my card. I live on campus and have nowhere to spend it. It’s just right to treat you to a meal.”

Qian Jiayun: “…”

Good heavens. No wonder Luo Yi was unmoved by Ye Xiaoyang’s showing-off-wealth behavior. If it were a normal little girl being chased by this kind of tall, rich, and handsome guy, she would have long been cheering and acting like a little bird leaning on a person.

Tsk. Ye Xiaoyang, oh Ye Xiaoyang. You thought the girl you liked was bronze, but the difficulty coefficient of pursuing her is simply no less than Challenger.

Not only is she pure-hearted and desireless, she also doesn’t lack money. What would she want from you? Want you because you’re a three-legged—ah, spit—two-legged man?

Qian Jiayun smugly despised Ye Xiaoyang for a while, then finally returned to the real matter. “That kind of hotel generally quotes a per-person price. The customer reports the number of people. Below ten people, the hotel generally doesn’t take the order.”

“So the two of us probably won’t work.”

Luo Yi thought about it. The two of them eating ten thousand did seem a bit excessive. The key was, wasting food was against heaven and reason.

“With Ye Xiaoyang as the sucker, just come with me.” Qian Jiayun decided to bring out her killer move. “You don’t want to go—is it because you’re shy?”

“You wouldn’t happen to have feelings for Ye Xiaoyang—”

“No.” Luo Yi hurriedly stopped Qian Jiayun’s groundless speculation. “I’ll go with you then.”

The two of them walked for a while. Luo Yi suddenly asked, “Should we prepare a gift for him?”