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Ye Zhanyan took out her phone and said, "Qi Ming, you're a very interesting person. Let's exchange contact information."

Looking at Ye Zhanyan's expectant face, Zhao Shucheng hesitated for a moment, then gave her his number, but did not intend to contact her first.

The class ended quickly, and just as Ye Zhanyan was about to say something to Zhao Shucheng, Zhao Shucheng simply packed up and left the classroom.

Ye Zhanyan followed them out, only to see Gu Senxiang waiting for Zhao Shucheng outside the classroom. The two walked away chatting and laughing.

This made Ye Zhanyan feel a little disappointed, after all, she had just developed some feelings for Zhao Shucheng, but he hadn't responded at all.

Just then, Ye Zhanyan received a text message from her father. Her father, who had always been a womanizer, was actually going to remarry.

She had witnessed her mother commit suicide because of her father's infidelity, but now that her father had remarried, he only sent her a cold text message, which made her lose control of her emotions.

Her outward cheerfulness and optimism were all to hide her inner vulnerability and wretchedness, but now her father's text message has completely broken her down.

Alone in this unfamiliar city, Sheng Huainan, her only salvation, has broken up with her, and her only lifeline seems to have left her, leaving her feeling extremely lonely and lost.

She smashed all her belongings in the dormitory like a madwoman, but she still couldn't get over it completely.

Just as she was holding the art knife to her wrist, she suddenly saw her only surviving cell phone. Excitedly, she grabbed the phone and called Zhao Shucheng.

"Qi Ming, where are you now? Can you come and see me?"

Gu Senxiang was reading a book with Zhao Shucheng when she saw Zhao Shucheng's phone ring. It was an unfamiliar number, and she heard a girl on the other end.

"Who?"

Zhao Shucheng covered his phone and said, "I only gave Ye Zhanyan my number today. I don't know why she called me or even asked to meet me."

Gu Senxiang was silent for a moment, then said, "Then go ahead. She's in such a hurry to see you, maybe something's wrong."

Zhao Shucheng said, "Let's go together, otherwise I won't be able to explain it later."

Gu Senxiang was happy that Zhao Shucheng actually asked her to go with him, but she was also worried that something might happen to Ye Zhanyan, so she agreed.

Zhao Shucheng arranged a meeting place with Ye Zhanyan, then rode his bicycle with Gu Senxiang to the meeting place.

Bicycles can be said to be a classic poem of campus romance. Gu Senxiang held onto Zhao Shucheng's clothes, feeling the close contact between them. Although they could not see each other, they did not need to hide their happy feelings.

Although they had been together for a long time, they rarely had such intimate contact, which made Gu Senxiang very intoxicated.

Soon, Zhao Shucheng and the others arrived at the agreed meeting place, but Zhao Shucheng did not recognize Ye Zhanyan at first.

It was Gu Senxiang who first noticed Ye Zhanyan, who was disheveled and somewhat embarrassed.

"Qi Ming, there he is!"

Zhao Shucheng was stunned when he saw Ye Zhanyan. Her appearance made it easy to assume that something unfortunate had happened to her.

"Ye Zhanyan, are you alright?"

When Ye Zhanyan looked up and saw Zhao Shucheng appear, she was so excited that she was about to rush towards him. However, when she realized that Gu Senxiang was right behind Zhao Shucheng, she suddenly stopped and stared at them blankly.

Gu Senxiang noticed that Ye Zhanyan's mood was a bit off and said, "Qi Ming, I'll wait for you outside. You should comfort her."

"No, stay here. I'm worried about you going out alone."

“I’m not going far, I’ll stay right at the door.”

"That's not OK!"

Hearing Zhao Shucheng's resolute attitude, Gu Senxiang sighed, nodded, and stood silently not far away.

"Ye Zhanyan, what's wrong with you? Should I call the police for you?"

Ye Zhanyan found Zhao Shucheng's words a bit strange, but when she saw her reflection in the window, she immediately understood why Zhao Shucheng had asked that question.

She was only thinking about seeing Zhao Shucheng as soon as possible, but she didn't expect that her previous outburst would make her look so pathetic, and that Zhao Shucheng would see it.

"Don't get me wrong, I lost control of my emotions just now, so I did it all myself."

Seeing Zhao Shucheng's expression, Ye Zhanyan felt that he didn't believe it at all, and was only pretending to believe it to comfort her.

Zhao Shucheng asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to see me? What happened? Tell me, and I'll definitely help if I can."

Upon hearing Zhao Shucheng's words, Ye Zhanyan suddenly burst into tears and said, "Qi Ming, can you please stop being so good to me? You're making me feel like I can't live without you."

“You need to make yourself clear. My girlfriend is right here. If she misunderstands, it will take me a long time to appease her.”

Ye Zhanyan glanced at Gu Senxiang not far away and said, "Being your girlfriend must be so wonderful."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Being good to your woman is what a man should do. But now, can you tell me what happened to make you like this?"

Ye Zhanyan hesitated for a moment, but still told Zhao Shucheng about her situation. She also told him about her father's remarriage and that she wouldn't go home in order to avoid his opposition, sending only a cold text message saying she wouldn't be home for a while.

After hearing this, Zhao Shucheng looked at Ye Zhanyan and finally understood why she was clinging to Sheng Huainan as a lifeline. Because of childhood trauma, she craved attention and feared losing it, so she treated everyone willing to approach her as a lifeline.

Sheng Huainan undoubtedly arrived at the perfect time. The bottle of cola he left behind brought her a long-lost warmth, which she then saw as her only salvation, and she wouldn't allow anyone to take him away. But Zhao Shucheng was now confused. If Ye Zhanyan didn't want to give up on Sheng Huainan, why was she calling him now instead of asking him to come over?
"But why did you contact me instead of Sheng Huainan? Maybe after knowing your current situation, he would want to get back together with you?"

Ye Zhanyan gave a bitter smile and said, "My relationship with Sheng Huainan started because of a lie. Even if he pities me now and gets back together with me, he will still leave me one day in the future."

"Then why me?"

Ye Zhanyan shook her head and said, "I don't know either, but the first thing I wanted to do when I saw my phone was to call you."

Zhao Shucheng fell silent. He hadn't expected that even though he had only met Ye Zhanyan a few times, she would think of him immediately.

"It's my honor, but I don't think you should care too much about your father's remarriage. After all, you said yourself that you've been used to his womanizing ways since you were a child. As for loneliness, it's just that you've never opened your heart. When you have new friends and new relationships, you'll find that life isn't just about losing, but also about constantly gaining new things—love, friendship, work, and life."

Ye Zhanyan looked at Zhao Shucheng and said, "Then can you be my friend?"

Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "Of course, aren't we friends now? But I can't be your boyfriend. After all, I have a girlfriend, and I love her very much; it's impossible for us to break up. Besides, I really hate it when other girls try to force us to break up; those who did that before have already learned their lesson."

Ye Zhanyan was stunned for a moment after hearing this. When she saw Zhao Shucheng staring at her, she immediately realized that Zhao Shucheng was actually warning her.

She had considered taking Zhao Shucheng away from Gu Senxiang earlier, but now she didn't dare to do it because she was worried that if Zhao Shucheng found out, he would completely distance himself from her.

She once clung to Sheng Huainan as her lifeline, but there always seemed to be something between them. He never took the initiative to care about her, and they always talked about academic matters. In order to be able to get along with Sheng Huainan, she had to study hard, from poetry and songs to insects, from mathematics to biology.

She signed up for the school's reading club in order to keep up with Sheng Huainan and broaden her knowledge so that she could have common topics with him.

However, Sheng Huainan's mother looked down on her family, so she broke up with him in a fit of anger. But Sheng Huainan barely reacted to this, leaving Ye Zhanyan wondering if he truly cared for her.

After this incident, she didn't think of Sheng Huainan at all. Instead, she called Zhao Shucheng immediately, which shows that she had long since given up on Sheng Huainan.

"You can rest assured, I would never do anything to hurt Gu Senxiang. But will I still be able to see you often in the future?"

Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "You can contact me, but don't contact me unless you have something to do, since I need to spend time with my girlfriend. If you want someone to keep you company, you can go find someone to date or make friends, like your roommates or classmates."

Ye Zhanyan naturally couldn't actually do what Zhao Shucheng said. She just hoped to get closer to Zhao Shucheng in the future, and even gradually enter his heart.

In order to have more in common with Zhao Shucheng and to get closer to him, she was even willing to apologize to Luo Zhi in order to get more information about Zhao Shucheng.

Seeing that Ye Zhanyan was in a much better mood, Zhao Shucheng walked over to Gu Senxiang and said, "Alright, Xiangxiang, let's go!"

Is she really alright?

"It should be alright now. By the way, you heard our conversation just now, didn't I do anything to make you misunderstand?"

"no!"

Gu Senxiang felt that things wouldn't end there. After all, the way Ye Zhanyan looked at Zhao Shucheng just now didn't seem like a stranger at all; on the contrary, it was very familiar—it was the look of affection.

But she couldn't let Zhao Shucheng distance himself from Ye Zhanyan just because of someone else's glance, so she could only pay more attention to Ye Zhanyan's activities in the future.

When Luo Zhi returned to her dormitory, she saw Ye Zhanyan lingering at the dormitory entrance.

She was taken aback, since Ye Zhanyan didn't live in their dormitory building, but in another campus, so Luo Zhi was curious as to why Ye Zhanyan was here.

Ye Zhanyan finally saw Luo Zhi and breathed a sigh of relief. She was really worried that she was too late and that Luo Zhi had already gone back to her dormitory. Would she have to ask someone to call Luo Zhi then?
"Luo Zhi, do you have time? I have something to tell you."

Luo Zhi hesitated for a moment, checked the time, then looked at the classmates watching them, nodded, and said, "Okay, I have time!"

Ye Zhanyan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Luo Zhi agree, and said, "Then let's go over there to talk!"

Luo Zhi saw the pavilion not far away, nodded, and said, "Okay!"

After the two arrived at the pavilion, they fell silent for a moment.

Luo Zhi had no idea why Ye Zhanyan wanted to see her. If it was about Sheng Huainan, she hadn't had much contact with him lately, so even if Ye Zhanyan was jealous, she shouldn't be looking for her.

Ye Zhanyan didn't know how to start the conversation. After all, she had been mocking Luo Zhi in Sheng Huainan's debate competition, but now she suddenly wanted to be friends with Luo Zhi. No one would believe that, right?

Luo Zhi suddenly felt the atmosphere was a bit awkward. After coughing, she said, "Ye Zhanyan, what exactly do you want to talk to me about?"

"Luo Zhi, actually I'm here to apologize to you. In fact, when Sheng Huainan was with me in high school, it wasn't because he liked me. It was a misunderstanding. I was the one who was chatting with him by the window on the school rooftop and writing on the window."

Luo Zhi never expected the truth to be like this. Her own timidity prevented her from facing Sheng Huainan, which is why Ye Zhanyan was able to take advantage of the situation. If she had been braver and appeared directly in front of Sheng Huainan, would everything have been different?
"So what? Now that it's already happened, whether you're with Sheng Huainan or break up with him, it shouldn't concern me anymore, right?"

Ye Zhanyan said somewhat anxiously, "No, how can it be nothing? I came here to apologize sincerely. If possible, I can even take the initiative to explain things to Sheng Huainan. Maybe you two will get together because of this. Isn't this what you've always wanted?"

"My relationship problems are my own business, and it's none of your concern. Besides, haven't you always liked Sheng Huainan? Why are you doing these things now? Did Sheng Huainan force you to do them?"

"No, no, it's that I feel like a thief who stole your love. I always thought that as long as you and Sheng Huainan could never be together, no one would find out the secret. But secrets can't stay hidden forever, and it was bound to be exposed sooner or later."

"I've figured it out now. Love that's stolen will never truly belong to me. Since I got together with Sheng Huainan, although we're officially a couple, we're just a little closer than ordinary classmates."

"Although I was very happy at first, after we spent time together, I could tell that Sheng Huainan wasn't happy when he was with me, and his expression was always indifferent. Moreover, Sheng Huainan's family felt that our two families were not a good match, so his mother was very opposed to me, which is why we broke up."

Luo Zhi looked at Ye Zhanyan and asked, "Then why did you come to me? It can't be because you've had a change of heart and want me to be with Sheng Huainan, can it?"

"Of course not. I have no right to interfere in your feelings, but I just want to apologize for the mistakes I made before. I hope we can be friends from now on, not enemies." (End of Chapter)