Getting Caught Up In His Cycle Of Passionate Love - Chapter 13
When will I finally win you over?
“So you weren’t at school all day today. Where did you go exactly?”
Xu Tao Yue was still very curious. Lu Que seemed to make some vague excuse, “Had some family matters to deal with.”
“Did you see that girl just now?” Xu Tao Yue stubbornly wanted to know if Song Mo meant anything to him.
“No.”
“Don’t believe you,” Xu Tao Yue immediately said, “She’s so pretty.”
Lu Que: “……”
After Song Mo returned, her expression changed. She wiped clean the hand Xu Tao Yue had just touched, while the girls who had been around her earlier circled nearby.
“Song Jie, how do you think our little act just now went?”
Song Mo didn’t say much and took off the clothes she was wearing, tossing them on the chair: “Not good at all, I even scared Lu Que.”
The others were confused: “Jie, what exactly did Xu Tao Yue do to make you so worked up?”
Song Mo ignored them and opened Zhou Yu’s chat window: “Zhou Yu, I think I found Lu Que’s soft spot.”
He quickly replied: “What?”
“Xu Tao Yue.”
In the next two days, Lu Que seemed very busy, even rushing out mid-class after receiving a phone call. The strangest thing was, he didn’t say anything to Xiang Baijie.
Xu Tao Yue felt very strange. It was just too strange.
Xiang Baijie noticed Xu Tao Yue’s thoughts and cleared her throat: “Some people’s thoughts are written all over their faces. Stop staring, next class there’s a pop quiz.”
The class groaned again. Xu Tao Yue didn’t want to think about anything else and poked the two people in front with her pen: “Help me, help me.”
Ye Wan turned around: “Taozi, you can’t always cram last minute.”
Xu Tao Yue pouted: “Please, please.”
Ye Wan sighed: “Don’t do it again.”
Xia Xiangyang shrugged: “You’ve got Ye Wan’s soft spot figured out.”
Xu Tao Yue made a funny face at him and started asking questions one by one.
After getting through most of it, Xu Tao Yue regained confidence: “Hmph, when Lu Que gets back, I’ll make him see me differently!”
“If we finish these questions, the quiz will definitely be no problem.”
Xu Tao Yue blew a kiss: “Wanwan, what would I do without you?”
“Stop exaggerating,” Ye Wan stopped Xu Tao Yue’s overacting: “I think you can’t live without your Lu classmate, huh?”
Xu Tao Yue’s primary goal now was to please Ye Wan: “No, no, you’re my most beloved baby~”
Ye Wan looked unconvinced: “Then what about Lu Que?”
Xu Tao Yue answered decisively: “Of course you’re the most important!”
Next moment, Lu Que popped his head out the window with a “I knew it” expression, his hand propped on the balcony. Just from the side, the sunlight cast his sharp profile.
“Oh.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!!!”
Uh oh, she messed up.
Ye Wan sat still, listening to how Xu Tao Yue would choose, not turning to look at all.
Xu Tao Yue awkwardly chuckled twice: “But really, Lu Que is also a very important friend in my life.”
Xia Xiangyang turned around: “So you mean I’m not the most important friend in your life?”
The three of them gang up on the poor Xu Tao Yue, it’s so cool.
Xu Tao Yue wiped the nonexistent sweat from her forehead: “No way!”
“You’re all my most, most, most, most, most important friends.”
Ye Wan still didn’t let up: “Then who’s more important?”
Xu Tao Yue thought fast: “The college entrance exam is more important.”
The others: “……”
“Okay, I’ll let you off.”
Xu Tao Yue finally experienced what it feels like to be caught in the subtle battle between best friends and best friends’ boyfriends online.
Lu Que sat back, pretending to be sad: “So, Xu Tao Yue, you’re actually a fickle woman.”
Xu Tao Yue lowered her head: “I’m not! Don’t slander me!”
“Obviously you are.”
For some reason, Xu Tao Yue suddenly heard a hint of grievance in that sentence.
“If you think that way, I can’t help it.”
Xu Tao Yue suddenly felt like she was being too heartless to say such outrageous words.
Lu Que: “…Oh.”
Whether to comfort or not, Xu Tao Yue poked him with a pen: “Don’t be mad.”
“I’m not mad.”
Xu Tao Yue thought: Uh oh, looks like he’s pretty angry.
“You’re the most important.”
Xu Tao Yue whispered quietly near his ear.
Without saying a word, Lu Que’s ears quickly turned red: “Go away.”
“Oh.”
Xu Tao Yue was happy, it really had to be pure Lu Que. She didn’t even know when she would be able to get him.
A long way to go.
Xu Tao Yue couldn’t help asking: “Lu Que?”
“Speak.” Lu Que probably just came back, still a bit cold. He moved to sit by the side.
Then Lu Que heard Xu Tao Yue’s shocking words: “When will I finally win you over?”
Lu Que: “???”
Xu Tao Yue really needed to change her straightforward nature. If next time she said more outrageous things, it might be unbearable.
Ye Wan and Xia Xiangyang had already started eavesdropping on their conversation, and hearing that sentence, they were both shocked.
After Xia Xiangyang’s shock, he asked the person beside him: “Has Taozi always talked like this?”
“I think I only started to know Xu Tao Yue like this from today.”
They tacitly didn’t mention it further, just turned a bit more so they could hear better.
“What are you saying?” Lu Que was almost stammering.
Xu Tao Yue didn’t feel anything wrong, after all, she was a few years older than him. Though she hadn’t graduated from high school in this world, she was already an adult.
“Ah… the phrase was not very well put. Let me change it.”
Xu Tao Yue looked seriously at Lu Que.
“When will I be able to chase after you?”
Xiang Baijie was sitting on the podium, unaware of the little incident here. Lu Que’s face flushed: “Don’t even think about it.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!”
They said they were good friends, but were they really going to be good friends for life? Xu Tao Yue wasn’t willing.
Forget it.
A long way to go.
Xu Tao Yue pouted and turned her back to him, with an expression that said, “Don’t talk to me now.”
Lu Que: “……”
After the test, Xu Tao Yue returned to her usual lively self: “Awesome, Wanwan! You really are a legendary test-predicting genius!”
Ye Wan: “……”
“Teacher Xiang said the test is exactly the questions we covered in class today.”
“Really?” Xu Tao Yue scratched her head: “I didn’t hear that.”
Lu Que patted her head: “Why don’t you listen carefully in class?”
Xu Tao Yue looked discontent: “Thinking about you, that’s why I wasn’t paying attention. You ran off without telling us, planning a rebellion?”
Lu Que quickly covered her mouth: “What are you talking about?”
Xia Xiangyang threw away the bag in his hand. The sun was setting, and near Beian No.1 High School was a beach. The four walked there. Xu Tao Yue stood by the railing watching kids playing on the beach, so full of life.
“What are you thinking about?” Lu Que handed her some water.
“About the future.”
Lu Que rarely saw her thinking so deeply.
“Why do you think about that?”
Ye Wan and Xia Xiangyang had already gone to the beach to have fun, where there were ice cream and snacks, totally uncontrollable, so they went along.
Xu Tao Yue shook her head: “If I’m not around in the future, will you miss me?”
Lu Que’s heart suddenly tightened hearing this. He felt an uncontrollable helplessness and a kind of irritation.
“Why would you not be around in the future? Are you really planning to abandon us?”
Xu Tao Yue hurriedly waved her hands: “No, I just suddenly thought of this question. It’s not like if I leave, none of you will miss me.”
“And you, you would miss me, right?”
Xu Tao Yue always returned to reality, this was something she understood after stepping into the story.
Lu Que didn’t want to answer her directly and sulked: “No.”
“Oh.”
Xu Tao Yue knew Lu Que was pretending. Knife mouth, tofu heart: “Okay, then I’m so pitiful, no one will miss me.”
“Aren’t you going to chase me?”
Lu Que unexpectedly said: “I said you’re not going to chase me? You wouldn’t really abandon me, right?”
Xu Tao Yue blinked, digesting what he said, then tilted her head at him: “Lu Que, say that again?”
“If you don’t understand, just don’t listen.”
Lu Que frustratedly patted his head. Why did he have to blurt that out?
“I understand, I understand,” Xu Tao Yue smiled slyly. “What now, Lu Que?”
“What?”
Xu Tao Yue didn’t continue the topic but paused for a moment, then Lu Que said: “Xu Tao Yue, how about trying for North China?”
Xu Tao Yue smiled: “Thank you, Lu Que.”
“Why are you suddenly saying thanks?”
Lu Que stared at the two sunbathing on the beach: “You don’t want to go, or… you don’t want to go with me?”
Xu Tao Yue shook her head quickly and denied it.
“Impossible not to go with you! Even if I have to rack my brains, I’ll go! I have to chase you! What if someone else beats me to it?”
Lu Que was amused by her words: “Then it’s settled.”
Xu Tao Yue made promises easily, but keeping them was hard. Looking at math problems, she was buried in the question sea and didn’t want to come out.
Lu Que: “…”
“Get up quickly, these are all normal questions for us, you have 45 minutes to finish.”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Fortunately, Xu Tao Yue’s foundation wasn’t bad. She finished just in time and handed it over for Lu Que’s inspection.
Check, check, check.
One after another, Xu Tao Yue regained confidence and started humming.
Next second, Lu Que mercilessly gave a big red cross.
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Uh oh, too early to be happy.