Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 433 We are love rivals

On the second floor of the gymnasium, listening to the quarrel on the playground, He Ling had a smile on her face, as if she had finally untied the knot that had troubled her heart for years. Even the tone of her voice became a lot lighter.

"See, isn't it just like what I said? This guy's obsession with winning has reached a twisted level. He has already lost, but he still insists on fighting to the end. In comparison, his injured teammates are not important at all. The same goes for his friends."

Mo Yixia remained silent, looking for someone on the playground: "In comparison, I think your obsession is even deeper than that guy's."

He Ling was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "Where does my obsession come from?"

"A person who doesn't even dare to admit what he is thinking is often more obsessed and darker than those who often talk about their thoughts." Mo Yixia said in a light tone.

"Are you saying that I have always been brooding over Gu Zheng's betrayal? Is this my obsession?"

"I didn't say anything, you said it yourself."

Mo Yixia pulled up the hair beside her ears and said with interest, "But you defined what happened back then as 'betrayal'? Is that why you hate that guy?"

He Ling was stunned. Seeing that he couldn't hide his inner thoughts from the girl in front of him, he simply sneered and said what was in his heart: "Isn't it? I'm so good to her, but she won't even do me a small favor. Don't you think this is a betrayal?"

"You feel betrayed, that's your business, and I won't try to change your mind, but in my opinion, this is just a trivial matter."

"It's a small matter?" He Lingqi laughed back, "Why do you think this is a small matter? Gu Zheng threw away our friendship for a little bit of winning, and caused me to be scolded by my parents. I even dared not go to school. Do you think this is just a small matter?"

Her voice suddenly became very high, and many people in the gymnasium looked over, but Mo Yixia didn't care at all.

"So I understand that in your heart your desire to be in the top ten is more noble than that guy's desire to be first?"

"What do you mean?" He Ling frowned.

"As you said, you know very well how obsessed that guy is with winning, and you also know that getting first place is his most persistent wish. But in order to increase your chances of getting into the top ten, you don't hesitate to use your emotions to force him to give up the game. Isn't this trying to make his wishes give way to yours?"

Mo Yixia turned her head and looked at her. Every word seemed to pierce her heart like a sharp sword. "Besides, you should understand better than anyone that even if that guy really gave up the competition, you would not be able to get into the top ten, just like you would not be able to enter Linda without her."

"All along, you have been just trying to find an excuse for your unhappiness..."

"enough!"

He Ling interrupted her and gritted her teeth, "You don't understand anything at all. My family has always had high expectations of me. If I couldn't get into the top ten in that competition, everyone would be disappointed! Gu Zheng doesn't understand, and neither do you! You don't understand how important that competition was to me!"

Mo Yixia was silent for a moment: "So have you ever figured out how important the first pair is to that guy?"

This sentence was like a thunderclap, which made He Ling stand still.

As if Mo Yixia knew she would have this reaction, she continued, "It's not that you haven't thought about figuring it out, it's just that you don't want to figure it out, because you know that only in this way, when your wishes conflict with the other person's wishes, can you subconsciously forget what the other person is carrying, and hold high the banner of friendship to force the other person to make concessions for you."

"But you forgot that since you keep saying you are friends, then when you ask the other party to make concessions for you, you should always be prepared to make concessions for the other party's wishes... right?"

Looking at the silent He Ling, Mo Yixia shook her head slightly, "Most people in this world like to use the word 'hardship' to emphasize their own difficulties, and use it to impose certain expectations on others. Little do they know that what you impose on others is also their own hardship."

She pressed down the brim of her hat and glanced at the huge crowd on the playground, as if she felt it was a bit boring. "Giving expectations, responding to expectations, and rejecting expectations, this is the essence of interpersonal communication. Similar things happen all the time, so I said this is a sparse and ordinary little thing."

He Ling was silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed bitterly: "Hearing what you said, this world is really boring enough."

"Yeah, it's boring."

Mo Yixia didn't comment, thought for a moment and said, "But there are also interesting points."

"What is it?"

He Ling really wanted to know what kind of things could be rated as interesting by this girl.

"Don't tell you."

Mo Yixia's answer was quite concise.

"..."

He Ling sighed, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Um...can I ask you a question?"

"You want to ask me, a person of great intelligence, how I view the right and wrong between you and that guy?"

"Well, I guess so..."

He Ling was a little speechless about this guy's narcissism, but soon felt that he had the capital to be narcissistic. After thinking for a while, she continued to ask, "Besides that, I also want to know why you never call Gu Zheng by her name, but always call her 'that guy'. You two can walk together, even if you are not friends, you should know each other, right?"

“Don’t you know?” Mo Yixia stretched and spoke casually, as if she was talking about what she wanted to eat in the evening.

The afternoon wind blew the branches and made the windows rattle.

"That guy and I are rivals in love."

He Ling was struck by lightning. Her eyes suddenly widened, her expression more shocked than ever before, as if she couldn't believe her ears. It took her a long while to come back to her senses, her expression dull.

"You mean... Gu Zheng has someone she likes?"

……

When Gu Zheng ran back to the starting line, the rest of her teammates had disappeared. Wang Runxue hurried over to put on her coat and asked worriedly, "Is your leg okay?"

In her opinion, Gu Zheng's leg injury should not have fully healed yet. She didn't know if this guy was stupid. Why was he running so fast when he was already the last one? What if he was left with sequelae?
"I am fine."

Guzheng curled her eyes and asked in confusion, "But what's wrong with your voice?"

"No, nothing..."

Of course Wang Runxue would not say that it was because she had just had an argument with those hateful guys and even used some swear words that she would never say in normal days, for fear that saying them would damage her good image in Guzheng's heart.

The war of words ended not long ago, with Gu Zheng's side winning a resounding victory. The argument was so intense at the time, could it be that Gu Zheng actually heard herself swearing, but didn't expose it just to save her face?
"Are you really okay? But your voice seems hoarse..."

Well, she didn't hear it.

"It's really okay!"

Wang Runxue quickly shook her head to deny it, and finally dispelled Gu Zheng's doubts. What relieved her was that Gu Zheng did not seem to be discouraged by the failure. There was no expression of pain or sadness on her face, and she was still full of energy.

Guzheng has a strong desire to win, especially in some formal competitions. People who are familiar with her are well aware of this. Compared with the leg injury, this is actually what Wang Runxue is most worried about. Fortunately, it seems that these worries are a bit unnecessary now.

"Where are Han Zhou and the others?"

Ignoring all the strange looks around her, Gu Zheng walked out of the runway while looking around, but did not see Han Zhou and others.

"I don't know. It seemed like he left after he saw the girl in front of you fall." Wang Runxue replied.

"Oh."

Guzheng nodded, her expression still unchanged.

"stop."

Just then, a tall boy suddenly stopped in front of the two of them with a very unfriendly expression.

"What do you want to do?"

Wang Runxue wanted to pull the guzheng behind her, but found that she couldn't pull it at all. She felt a little embarrassed, but her expression was very serious.

She recognized this boy. He was very excited after the senior sister named Liu Xueyi fell down. It seemed like he wanted to carry her to the school hospital immediately. But the student union members kept stopping him. So he had to run over and beg Gu Zheng humbly to persuade senior sister Liu Xueyi to give up. But Gu Zheng ignored him completely and didn't say a word until senior sister Liu Xueyi finished running. He was embarrassed and laughed at for nothing. He must have been very angry for a long time.

If I remember correctly, it was this boy who started to speak ill of Guzheng first, and was scolded until his face turned blue by a short boy who spoke up for Guzheng. Wang Runxue felt happy at the time, but she didn't expect this guy to be so unreasonable and actually come to cause trouble after the game.

She was now certain that Gu Zheng had definitely not heard the quarreling around her, because facing the tall boy's angry stare, Gu Zheng's expression was clearly confused.

"who are you?"

It can be seen that Gu Zheng has tried very hard to recall, but there is really no impression of this person in her mind.

And such an expression in front of the tall boy is obviously a naked insult - I begged you for so long, and you don’t even know who I am?
In an instant, all the humiliation and resentment accumulated in his heart burst out and filled the boy's heart.

Especially when he thought about how not long ago when he proposed to carry Xueyi to the hospital, not only did she not accept, but she also absentmindedly replied, "You are too nosy, don't always do meaningless things", he became even more angry, and his eyes were bloodshot.

If I had done things better at that time and sent Xueyi to the hospital as soon as possible, would she not have said that my efforts were meaningless?

More and more anger surged into his head, the tall boy's breathing became heavier, and he couldn't help but raise his hands.

He originally just wanted to ask the girl to go to the infirmary to visit Xueyi and apologize, but now he changed his mind.

(End of this chapter)