After Breaking Up, I Shared an Apartment With My Best Friend and Her Boyfriend (H) - 70
Chapter 70: Transfer the Money, and I’ll Leave Right Away
Wen Sui said two words in a helpless and reluctant tone, “All right.”
After she finished speaking, Chen Qiao was about to stand up and pack her things. Wen Sui watched her walk away from the bedside. “But Qiaoqiao, can’t you compromise a little for me, for your good girlfriend?”
When she said that, Chen Qiao turned her eyes and focused her gaze. “Wen Sui, I signed a sublet contract with Xu Yanqi. As long as I don’t agree to move out, if Xu Yanqi forces me to leave, he has to pay me ten times the penalty fee. Based on the rent I’ve paid, that’s a total of thirty thousand yuan. He transfers the money, and I’ll leave right away.”
Wen Sui could hardly believe the words coming out of Chen Qiao’s mouth at that moment. Her tone sank slightly. “Qiaoqiao, we’ve known each other for so long. How can you, how could you calculate things like this?”
In fact, the way Chen Qiao spoke was not scolding at all. She had always been gentle and soft, speaking in an orderly manner with clear logic. Every sentence she said stood on solid ground, leaving no room for rebuttal.
But to Wen Sui’s ears, it still sounded extremely harsh.
She was just like Xu Yanqi, damaging her pride, but she could tolerate Xu Yanqi, yet she could not tolerate Chen Qiao doing the same.
Chen Qiao then said, “Wen Sui, you’re the one asking me to compromise. This is my compromise.”
She said each word one by one, her voice still soft and gentle, her tone not hurried at all.
Chen Qiao had indeed compromised. She was willing to move out, but she wanted to handle it according to the contract.
Still like before, treating money like her life.
Wen Sui pursed her lips. Tonight’s Chen Qiao suddenly reminded her of things from their university days. She had even forgotten that the usually approachable Chen Qiao also had a side that was as hard to get along with as she was tonight.
Back then, right after they started freshman year, most girls who could study violin were basically from wealthy families. After all, getting into Jiang University through the art exam required heavy investment unless admitted as an exception.
So at the time, many people speculated that Chen Qiao was the one admitted as an exception. On one hand, because she was a student from a county town, and on the other, because she really dressed poorly, without a single brand-name item on her.
Until one day, Chen Qiao wore a brand-name item. Then a girl who had the same outfit on stood in front of her very ostentatiously and pointed her out clearly.
“It’s fake stuff you’re wearing, right?”
Wen Sui had been standing right next to Chen Qiao at the time. She immediately refuted for her, but with limited wit, she could only say, “Are you sick?”
When the girl saw that the one retorting was Wen Sui, she did not bother arguing and just glared fiercely at Chen Qiao before trying to leave.
It was Chen Qiao who directly blocked her way. She spoke in a light and soft voice, like the gentle spring breeze, yet every word made everyone present hear it clearly.
“Fake? Unfortunately, I bought it from the same store as you, even from the same salesperson Lu Qin. If mine is fake, then yours must be fake too, right?”
After she said that, the girl looked at Chen Qiao in stunned silence. She had no idea how Chen Qiao knew she bought it from Lu Qin. Secondly, she was of course surprised that this usually quiet person had grown a voice today and spoken up.
And Wen Sui at the time felt the same shock. She was shocked that Chen Qiao would actually retort.
Then in the second semester of their sophomore year, Chen Qiao had found a part-time liquor sales job. The girls in the dorm pointed fingers at her behind her back, but they did not dare say it to her face.
One day, Chen Qiao had just changed into slightly sexy clothes and was about to leave campus. She had just reached the school gate when she realized she forgot her bag and turned back to get it.
But at that moment, as she turned her head, she clearly heard the discussion about her from the couple not far ahead, especially from the girl leaning on the boy’s shoulder, who was precisely her roommate.