The two people sitting in front of her, one of them said excitedly, "Zhou Chun, have you heard?"
Zhou Chun gracefully put a spoonful of rice into her mouth and asked calmly, "Heard what?"
"I heard that six luxury cars just stopped outside the school, all here to pick up Qin Yue!" replied the other.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Chunâs hand holding the spoon suddenly stiffened. She looked up at her two roommates in front of her, "Where did you hear that from?"
She had known Qin Yue for a semester. At first, she didnât explicitly reject him because Qin Yue was good-looking and generous. She did like him a bit, thinking his family background was decent. So she strung him along for half a semester, and in the last half month of this semester, she agreed to his pursuit and got together with him.
But after being together, she found out that not only was he not a local from Beidu, but his family background wasnât very good either. His parents were just police officers, and police officers from a small place at that.
In Capital City, where the ground is littered with the powerful and wealthy, what counts as a small police family background?
Her grades had been bad since she was a child, but she was good at dancing. Her family had spent a lot to let her dance, and with the help of arts points, she barely got into Beidu. The aim was to find a good match in Beidu in the future. So even though she did like him, it was impossible for her to really develop something long-term with him because her family wouldnât agree. So she seized an earlier opportunity to simply break up with him.
But now, she was being told that six luxury cars came to pick him up? She couldnât help but start to doubt, were all the things before a lie to her? Or was it just a test for her?
Zhou Chun felt a mess inside her thoughts upon thinking about this.
"Do you even need to hear it? Itâs spread all over outside by now, hasnât it? Not only did many students see it, but even the school leaders went out to welcome them. How could this be fake?"
"Exactly, Zhou Chun, you have such a good eye, just randomly picking someone and their family background is this good." One of them said enviously, not knowing that Zhou Chun had already broken up with Qin Yue.
Good eye?
Zhou Chunâs expression remained unchanged, but inside she was hit by a tempest of waves.
She couldnât continue eating her meal. She covered the lunchbox, told her two roommates in front of her that she had finished eating, and left first.
The people sitting in front of her hadnât finished talking, and when they saw her suddenly walk away, they froze for a moment. They called out to her twice, but seeing she didnât turn back, they could only retract their gaze and continue the earlier conversation with those beside them.
Zhou Chun ran out of the cafeteria, walking on the schoolâs tree-lined path, her mind in turmoil, not knowing what she was supposed to do.
Unconsciously, she ended up walking towards the male dormitory area.
She looked up at the entrance of the male dormitory, seemingly after a significant inner struggle, finally mustering up the courage to walk in, but just as she got to the entrance, she lost her nerve and turned around.
Summoning her courage once again to turn and walk in, she happened to see a boy coming out with a snakeskin bag on his back, her eyes lit up because she remembered this seemed to be Qin Yueâs roommate. She hesitated and walked up to the boy, saying, "Classmate, could you help me call Qin Yue? Just say Zhou Chun from the art class is looking for him."
"I recognize you, youâre looking for Qin Yue, huh. Didnât you two break up? What do you need him for? Or maybe you feel like you didnât hurt him enough last time?" The other person was one of the male classmates who had hung out with Qin Yue at the dance hall before, and upon seeing Zhou Chun, immediately asked sardonically.