Getting Caught Up In His Cycle Of Passionate Love - Chapter 16
“If you don’t want us to bother you two, just say so.”
Since they had started university, Xu Tao Yue had resumed her early 8 AM classes that overlapped with real life.
After class, the two found a quiet place to sit, and only then did Xu Tao Yue have time to glance at her class schedule and get used to her new life.
She opened her phone and checked the schedule on Enterprise WeChat—there were classes every day, and no two days were the same.
Xu Tao Yue was overwhelmed.
She couldn’t believe she had to memorize all that. It seemed like everyone else had fewer classes than she did. She refused to accept it and then asked Lu Que for a copy of the Business Department’s schedule. From Monday to Friday, their classes were pitifully few.
Compared side by side, Xu Tao Yue was completely overwhelmed.
“Why?! Change major! I want to change major!” Xu Tao Yue went crazy, pointing at the schedule on his phone and ranting.
“No! Why? Our schedules are so different! What if you’re hanging out with other girls every day and I don’t even know?”
Actually, Xu Tao Yue had another reason she couldn’t say out loud—if she had so many classes, how could she have a college romance with Lu Que?
She was either in class or on her way to class every day. What if Song Mo got to him first?
The more Xu Tao Yue thought about it, the colder her heart became.
“Can’t do anything about it.” Lu Que sat beside her and said coldly in three words.
Xu Tao Yue’s eyes widened: “You actually said that! Tell me, which girl do you want to be hooked up with? Song Mo? I knew it! You’ve fallen for her, haven’t you? Men’s hearts really do change completely!”
Lu Que: “…”
“You only ever scolded me before!”
No love left, totally no love in this world.
Xu Tao Yue grabbed Lu Que, still feeling unsafe: “No! Lu Que, you have to be with me every second. What if someone with bad intentions finds a chance and takes you away?”
Lu Que put away his phone and stared at her: “I think the one with bad intentions right now is you.”
Xu Tao Yue rolled her eyes at him: “Pfft, I’ve been scheming since senior high school, you knew that.”
Lu Que: “…”
Indeed, Xu Tao Yue’s only advantage was her thick skin; she could say anything.
Lu Que showed a QR code: “So if I don’t bring it up, how do you plan to contact me?”
Xu Tao Yue suddenly realized she hadn’t saved Lu Que’s new WeChat. Since she came to this school, Lu Que had been contacting her through Enterprise WeChat.
For some reason, she suddenly remembered what Lu Que said when they first met and wanted to tease him: “Ah… but I only add… important people on WeChat.”
Lu Que: “…”
Hearing this, Lu Que immediately pulled back his phone, covering it, then started completely ignoring Xu Tao Yue’s anxious expressions.
“Hey hey hey, I was wrong, I was wrong!” Xu Tao Yue panicked. She knew Lu Que wasn’t easy to tease, and now she regretted being so cheeky.
Xu Tao Yue started begging Lu Que: “Lu Que, I think you’re the most, most, most important person in my life. Besides my mom, my brother, and Zhuo Mi, you’re really the person I like the most.”
Lu Que: “…”
Lu Que didn’t listen to her nonsense. How come she never sent him a single message all year if she liked him?
“Rare that you even remember Zhuo Mi. When you do, pigs might fly.”
Xu Tao Yue blinked, pouted, and acted pitifully with big eyes: “Lu Que, how’s Zhuo Mi doing now?”
“You shouldn’t care about him first?” Lu Que said.
Xu Tao Yue smiled: “I knew you wouldn’t bear to see me angry, so I forgive you.”
Lu Que lowered his eyes, unsure which sentence hit him, and let Xu Tao Yue snatch his phone away.
“Ahhh next time I’m going to post on Red Sweet Potato [a social media]: My crush didn’t reply to me for a whole year but actively came to find me, and even gave me contact info!”
Xu Tao Yue was a little excited.
Lu Que: “…”
Okay, let her have her moment of pride.
Then Ye Wan stormed over angrily, looking around: “Where’s Xu Tao Yue?!”
Xu Tao Yue turned her head and saw a beautiful woman frowning, dragging a man toward her—and to her horror, it was Ye Wan and Xia Xiangyang.
Oh no, they say girlfriends are harder to please than boyfriends. After barely fending off Lu Que, Xu Tao Yue felt she was definitely not in a condition to face Ye Wan now.
So she quickly pulled Lu Que down and crouched: “Lu Que, let’s run.”
Lu Que: “?”
“If I don’t leave now, I might just…” Xu Tao Yue made a throat-cutting gesture and pleaded with a begging look.
Lu Que stood expressionless. Ye Wan saw him and gave an evil smile.
Xu Tao Yue crouched, walking like a duck trying to slowly leave the scene.
But the three of them surrounded her.
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
She glared fiercely at Lu Que, incredulous and a little angry, then ground her teeth: “Lu Que, we’re no longer best, best, best friends.”
Hearing this, Lu Que crouched, helped her up, and pushed her onto a chair: “Oh.”
Ye Wan saw the red welling in Xu Tao Yue’s eyes, and just staring at her made Xu Tao Yue uneasy.
“It’s not… Wan Wan, don’t cry, listen to me. I really have something very, very, very helpless I must go to.”
Xu Tao Yue began to feel lost, then Ye Wan suddenly hugged her tightly, not letting go: “I’m so mad, you actually dared to leave? And you didn’t even tell me first!”
Xu Tao Yue was stunned, then hugged her back: “Wan Wan… I’m sorry.”
This damn broken story.
The more Xu Tao Yue thought, the more guilty she felt. She lowered her head, listened to Ye Wan, and silently complained about this broken system.
“We promised to take the college entrance exam together. How could you just abandon me?”
“Wan Wan… I’m sorry, Wan Wan…”
“I don’t want to hear you say sorry!”
Ye Wan’s eyes were red as she stared at her without speaking, then suddenly lunged to hug Xu Tao Yue, not letting go.
“If you don’t say sorry earlier, I only want to hear you promise you won’t leave without a word next time.”
Xu Tao Yue nodded obediently: “I won’t leave without a word next time.”
Xia Xiangyang stood beside Lu Que: “You knew on the first day of school, right?”
“Yeah.” Lu Que didn’t deny it.
“Then why didn’t you tell us?”
Lu Que looked at the two girls hugging without saying anything.
“Tch, if you didn’t want us to bother you two, just say so.”
Xu Tao Yue hadn’t expected that in their world, although she mysteriously disappeared for a year, the other three hadn’t become distant from her during that time.
Instead, they reunited happily.
October, gradually entering winter.
Xu Tao Yue suddenly noticed that the three of them had been acting strangely these days.
Especially Lu Que—he was avoiding her like playing hide-and-seek, like they were planning some huge secret, not letting her know anything.
Xu Tao Yue was very suspicious.
One afternoon with no classes, she ran to the Business Department and stared at Lu Que: “Don’t tell me you have things to do after class. I don’t buy your excuses.”
Lu Que sighed and started typing in the secret group chat: “Plan changed.”
Night: “What?”
Summer: “No need to think? Xu Tao Yue definitely noticed something.”
Night: “What do we do?”
Lu: “Play it by ear.”
Xu Tao Yue propped herself up bit by bit, about to crash onto the table. Lu Que reached out and held her face.
Lu Que: “…”
She was already bad at math but insisted on coming to economics math with him.
Really… dumb.
After class, when Xu Tao Yue got up from a sheet of white paper, she saw light marks on her face.
She touched her face and quickly covered it so Lu Que wouldn’t see.
“Stop hiding it.”
Lu Que handed her the paper: “While you were tossing and turning trying to sleep just now, I already saw the marks on your face.”
Xu Tao Yue: “!!!”
“Shut up.” Xu Tao Yue poked his mouth and pinched: “Your mouth’s soft but the words you say are so mean.”
Lu Que: “…”
After leaving the teaching building, Xu Tao Yue saw Ye Wan and Xia Xiangyang waiting outside.
Xu Tao Yue was surprised: “Eh, why are you two here?”
“Xia Xiangyang wants to ask you a math question.”
“Ye Wan wants you to take her shopping.”
The two voices sounded at once, and they looked at each other.
Xu Tao Yue didn’t know what was going on. She definitely couldn’t rely on them, so she grabbed Lu Que and ran away.
“What’s up with them?”
“They’re a little crazy, definitely infected by you.”
Xu Tao Yue: “?”
“Why are you blaming me again?”
“No, I’m just stating facts.”
Xu Tao Yue: “…”
Ye Wan elbowed Xia Xiangyang: “What are you saying? If we get exposed, it’s your fault.”
Xia Xiangyang: “!”
“How did it become my fault?! You didn’t follow the script we rehearsed! Luckily Xu Tao Yue isn’t smart, or everything we planned would have been ruined!”
Ye Wan glared at him, and Xia Xiangyang couldn’t argue.
Next second, Xia Xiangyang slid onto his knees: “Okay, okay, it’s all my fault, alright?”
“No!” Hearing those words, Ye Wan got furious: “Now it’s all my fault!”
Xia Xiangyang: “?”
Women really are unpredictable creatures. Xia Xiangyang laughed.
“Big sis, how did I offend you this time?”
Ye Wan rolled her eyes and turned away, leaving behind a sentence: “No, I’m good.”
Xia Xiangyang: “…”
Ye Wan slammed her drink down on the table. Xu Tao Yue sat quietly, listening to Ye Wan complain about Xia Xiangyang.
Lu Que sat aside, pretending not to care, actually talking on the phone with Xia Xiangyang.
“Too much!” Ye Wan yelled.
Xu Tao Yue agreed: “Yeah! That’s right! He’s too much!”
“He doesn’t even know where he’s wrong!”
“Right! He did something wrong and doesn’t even know it—that’s infuriating!”
Although Xu Tao Yue didn’t know the details, if Ye Wan was mad, it must have been something serious.