Peach-Orange! – Chapter 450 – The Magnified Dark Thoughts

‘I am Xiaocheng’s girlfriend….’

‘Xiaocheng and I are a couple.’

‘And now, Xiaocheng and Dongfang Yang… are on a date?’

Su Tao listened to Luo Ying’s words, feeling only a buzzing in her head.

Her vision was somewhat blurry, stopping at the counter by the coffee shop entrance.

She didn’t know what they were talking about, but Dongfang Yang seemed somewhat flustered, while Chi Xiaocheng was happily laughing heartily.

On the other side of her vision, just outside the coffee shop, there was also a boy and a girl.

They weren’t old, probably still in elementary school.

The girl teased the boy, making the boy, who already had a crush on her, become embarrassed and start blushing.

The girl, however, didn’t seem to realize all that, smiling broadly at the success of her prank.

One side was inside the door.

The other side was outside the door.

Heh, what a similar scene.

She quickly looked at Luo Ying; the trust in Chi Xiaocheng in her heart made her ask directly, “But Luo Ying, how can you be so sure they… they are definitely on a date? What you said on WeChat wasn’t clear either. Maybe this is just a misunderstanding.”

She wanted to go ask Chi Xiaocheng directly.

But, wouldn’t that be just like what Jiang Nan said? It would be a lack of trust in Xiaocheng.

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Luo Ying crossed her arms, glanced at Su Tao, who was hanging her head slightly and didn’t want to believe this fact, and sighed helplessly. “Forget it, let me just tell you about my own discoveries.”

“Discoveries?”

“Yeah, it’s not good to talk here. Let’s go to the milk tea shop across the street. We can still see Xiaocheng and Dongfang Yang from there, and we won’t bump into them the moment they come out.”

Luo Ying took Su Tao to a Naixue tea shop at an angle across the street. This spot was relatively hidden yet still offered a view of Chi Xiaocheng and Dongfang Yang inside the coffee shop.

However, due to the distance and sightlines, they could barely make out some expressions. Also, because of the height of the counter, one side completely blocked Qian Qing from view.

Just like the previous perspective, Qian Qing was completely blocked.

Su Tao’s gaze remained fixed on the coffee shop.

Luo Ying, beside her, didn’t mind and said, “First, let me tell you about the initial thing between Xiaocheng and Dongfang Yang. Like I said on WeChat, Dongfang Yang needed a fake girlfriend to deal with some family matters, so he asked Chi Xiaocheng.”

Su Tao snapped back to attention. “But you said, Xiaocheng agreed… why?”

Luo Ying shrugged. “Why? I don’t know. She told us when she came back to the dorm.”

“You… all?”

“Yeah,” Luo Ying said. “After something like that happened in the morning, anyone would be curious. When Xiaocheng came back, Shi Ling couldn’t wait to ask, and then Xiaocheng told us.

“Dongfang Yang asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend, and she said she would think of a way to help Dongfang Yang solve this issue in the afternoon.”

Luo Ying seemed afraid Su Tao might mishear, deliberately slowing her speech for the latter part.

It almost gave the young girl a heart attack.

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‘So that means, Xiaocheng… really agreed to be Dongfang Yang’s fake girlfriend?’

‘But isn’t she already completely with me?’

‘Why… why would she go pretend to be someone else’s girlfriend?’

‘Even without discussing it with me at all.’

This last point was something Su Tao couldn’t accept no matter what.

‘This… isn’t this just like….’

“Does this count as cheating?”

Luo Ying’s light, airy voice spoke aloud those two words that Su Tao’s heart did not want to face no matter what.

Su Tao almost subconsciously slammed the table. “Impossible!”

“Don’t get excited.”

Luo Ying quickly stood up, smiling apologetically at the other customers in the milk tea shop.

After Su Tao calmed down a bit, Luo Ying said calmly, “Being Dongfang Yang’s fake girlfriend, and now dating him, and the fact that you have such an anxious reaction… you probably know, right?”

“Know… what?” Su Tao looked up, her lips somewhat dry.

Luo Ying’s direct words were like a sharp sword. “Know that Chi Xiaocheng actually holds a certain degree of affection for Dongfang Yang.”

And anyone could see that Dongfang Yang had a liking for Chi Xiaocheng.

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The current situation is that the man has affection, but whether the woman reciprocates is the question.

Yes, this was something Su Tao couldn’t refute no matter what.

Just as she had said before, she owed Dongfang Yang too much, and therefore couldn’t do anything about him.

Seeing Su Tao in this state, Luo Ying also sighed helplessly. “You’re now making me wonder if I should even continue talking to you about this.”

Su Tao looked up.

Luo Ying: “If I say Xiaocheng might not like you, you get anxious; if I say Xiaocheng likes you, going along with your wishes, that’s just lying and not the objective fact. Making you happy won’t change the current situation.”

Su Tao fell silent.

But she didn’t notice.

While Luo Ying seemed to be presenting Su Tao with two completely different conjectures and statements,

In reality, they both only served to confirm one aspect of the fact: Chi Xiaocheng had shifted her affection elsewhere.

Su Tao didn’t even realize that, even though she still had a basic trust in Chi Xiaocheng in her heart, she didn’t doubt what Luo Ying was saying.

A certain mysterious hand was subtly guiding the young girl’s emotions.

Su Tao took a deep breath and then said, “Luo Ying, tell me everything you’re thinking. I will make my own judgment, not just believe whatever you say and then blame you if something goes wrong.”

“Alright then.” Luo Ying took a sip of milk tea. “Since you treat me as a friend, I’ll share my conjectures with you. But let me state beforehand, this might not be favorable for you.”

After getting Su Tao’s confirmation, Luo Ying slowly said, “Actually, I felt from the beginning that Chi Xiaocheng seemed a bit awkward when she was with you.”

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Su Tao: “Awkward?”

“Yes.” Luo Ying nodded. “Like when we went to dinner together yesterday, I saw through that you two were a couple. Actually, I had that feeling even then.

“But considering your relationship, it was better not to say anything.”

Luo Ying explained: “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Xiaocheng’s behavior and mannerisms are occasionally a bit strange. You mutually like each other, right? But I always get a sense of dissonance.

“She occasionally avoids your gaze, sometimes uses shyness to conceal her own thoughts, like she’s acting.”

Su Tao was already stunned just hearing this beginning part.

In her mind, following Luo Ying’s words, some details she hadn’t noticed during the relationship began to flash by.

Xiaocheng was hiding something from her.

When chatting and talking with her, their gazes would occasionally miss each other.

If she wanted to ask something and Xiaocheng didn’t want to answer, she would lower her head and make her ears turn red.

Su Tao originally thought that was Chi Xiaocheng being shy.

Looking at it now, was it not that simple?

When an egg develops a crack, the even distribution of force on the shell can no longer be maintained.

The doubt that had only appeared for an instant in Su Tao’s mind was magnified.