Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 431 Love and Hate

If Mo Yixia didn't want to see Han Zhou in trouble, she wouldn't have found Lin Anyu immediately after discovering Gu Zheng's parents appeared in the school, and used Yaya who happened to be with him to hastily make a plan to temporarily help Han Zhou get out of the crisis.

Obviously, that guy needed to be taught a lesson, and it was only a matter of time before he would suffer the consequences. However, she still subconsciously wanted to avoid seeing him suffer, otherwise she would not have stayed in the gymnasium and was so slow to appear in front of everyone.

Mo Yixia still cannot give an exact definition of what love is like, like in the book, but she has some general ideas of her own.

Compared to love, hate is also an interesting emotion worth studying. She has no experience of hating other people, and she rarely sees this emotion around Han Zhou, so she has some interest in the girl named He Ling in front of her.

...It's just right for killing time.

According to He Ling, she was Gu Zheng's best friend in junior high school. She gave him unlimited care and help when he just entered junior high school and knew nothing. She even spent a lot of time and energy to tutor him and helped him improve his grades at the cost of sacrificing her own grades. She can be said to have taken the term "doing her utmost" to the extreme.

These were not He Ling's original words, but it was not difficult to hear the meaning from the other party's words.

Mo Yixia remembered that she seemed to have heard Han Zhou mention this before. It was the night when they climbed up the snowy mountain. After expressing his ambition to have two relationships at the same time, Han Zhou tried to introduce Gu Zheng, but she interrupted him before he could say two words.

She had no interest in a rival who was bound to fail.

But she is interested now, so she listened quite carefully just now.

In He Ling's later narrative, the image of the guzheng was quite hateful.

Obviously, she has such a friend who is truly good to her, but she is not willing to return his sincerity. The difficulty of junior high school knowledge is not high. The reason why Guzheng can improve her grades so quickly must be because she has mastered some tricks, but she has never thought of sharing it.

Boys at that age just like to joke around, and there was no need to pay attention to them, but Gu Zheng always liked to fight with them, and sometimes even her friend He Ling would be implicated.

What's even more infuriating is that even though her guzheng score was nearly 100 points higher than the second place in the class, she was still not satisfied and continued to study from morning to night. He Ling didn't care (she said so herself), but other students were overwhelmed by this atmosphere. After all, the feeling of not being able to surpass someone no matter how much they studied was really unpleasant.

Mo Yixia was somewhat uninterested in these statements. People are always used to stating facts from a perspective that is favorable to themselves. How much water there is in these descriptions, perhaps only He Ling himself knows.

She did not comment.

Fortunately, after a lot of preparation, the other party finally said something quite interesting -

"When I was in the third year of junior high school, my family required me to get into the top ten in a competition. At that time, the guzheng had become a shadow for everyone in the class, including me."

"Study, sports, even looks... You can't understand the feeling of being inferior to the other person in everything... Forget it, you don't have to understand."

"Anyway, if Guzheng also participates in this competition, I won't have any hope of getting into the top ten, so I found her, hoping that for the sake of our friendship, she would give up this competition and give me the prize. You may not know this, but with Guzheng's ability, she will definitely win first place as long as she participates. So as long as she is willing to give up the competition, one of the top ten places will be vacant, and my chances of winning will increase dramatically."

"I was a little depressed at the time, because I clearly treated Guzheng as a friend, but she never seemed to treat me as a friend. I hardly saw her do anything for me, but I still had hope at the time, thinking that she would not refuse such a small thing."

"But I was wrong. No matter what I said, she was unwilling to quit the competition for me. In her eyes, first place is more important than anything else, even the best friend. You simply cannot understand how I felt at that time... Never mind. You have no friends, so it's normal that you cannot understand my feelings."

“I transferred schools after that.”

"I posted the news in the class group. Everyone in the class was reluctant to let me go and even took a graduation photo with me in advance. On the day I left, everyone came to see me off except Guzheng. She didn't even bother to pretend... Haha, I guess she's studying somewhere." "I never want to see her face again, nor do I want to hear her name again, let alone hear any news about her."

"But I just couldn't help myself. One day after I entered high school, I asked my former junior high school friends about her. Guess what happened?"

"Heh, she hasn't changed at all since junior high school. She's even worse than before. Apart from a dog, almost no one is willing to communicate with her."

"I gradually forgot about this person, but she still wouldn't let me go. Not only did she not give me a chance in the competition before, but she even went against me in the college entrance examination!"

"Linda has always been my ideal university. I studied hard every day just to get into this dream school, but in the end I failed because of a one-point difference. Do you know why this happened?"

"I know what you want to say. Are you thinking that it's because I didn't work hard enough? Oh, I used to think so too, until not long ago I found out the real reason -"

"It's because of a guy who could have gone to Beijing University! Or Yan University! He could have gone anywhere he wanted! But he chose not to go anywhere and insisted on applying to Linda like a madman, snatching the spot that should have belonged to me!"

"I've been hiding from that guy for a long time, but she still won't let me go until today. She still won't let me go! Do you think I can help but hate her?"

Mo Yixia still remembers He Ling's expression when she said the last sentence. It was a crazy expression of grievance, resentment and anger, more complicated than any expression she had ever seen.

...Is this the emotion of "hatred"?
I just wonder what kind of expression this guy would have if he knew that there was actually another person who snatched her spot.

As a high school student with high moral character, Mo Yixia kindly chose to conceal the matter.

"So today's match... is your 'revenge' on that guy?"

She pressed down the brim of her hat and looked down at the runway outside the window.

In a sense, the game can actually be declared over.

Except for Guzheng's team, the other teams had already finished the entire course and were now standing outside the track, bending over and supporting their knees to rest.

Like most people, their eyes all fell on the only two people left on the runway——

One dragged his injured body and limped towards the starting line, trying to finish the last distance;
He stood there with his head down, as if he was completely oblivious to the sounds nearby.

The playground was filled with chaotic discussions, some encouraging, some insulting.

Mo Yixia shifted her gaze and turned to look in the direction of Han Zhou.

The wheelchair that was supposed to be there disappeared at some point.

It seems that during the time when I just understood "hatred"... a lot of things happened on the playground.

(End of this chapter)