After Rebirth, I Married the Great Demon King-Chapter 341 Concerns

However, she still managed to suppress the urge to go looking for him.

After all, they had already broken up, and Cheng Lie would surely have his own new life to live.

Even though she told herself this, her heart still felt sour.

How could she not be upset? Even if she thought that way rationally, emotionally, she still didn’t want to see such things happening.

When she went to the computer lab to study, Yun Shifei turned on the computer, opened her browser, and logged into her chatroom account.

Almost immediately, a message popped up.

"Why didn’t you reply to me?"

It was a message from Cheng Cheng.

That day, Cheng Cheng had offered to help Yun Shifei if she needed anything, but Yun Shifei hadn’t responded to him.

Her personality had always been a bit slow to warm up, and it was the same online.

Yet somehow, for reasons unclear even to herself, she suddenly felt the urge to chat with this person.

Yun Shifei checked Cheng Cheng’s profile—a girl, around the same age as her, and apparently attending a neighboring school. They would at least have some topics to talk about.

So Yun Shifei asked, "Have you ever been in a relationship?"

She didn’t even know why she brought up such a question.

After asking, she treated it like a message left in passing. After all, Cheng Cheng was probably in class right now and wouldn’t see it until she next logged on.

Yun Shifei left the chat running in the background while taking care of her own tasks.

When she returned to check, she saw that Cheng Cheng had replied!

"I’ve been in one." A simple reply of two words.

So she was online at the moment? Could she also be in a practical session, just like Yun Shifei?

"Are you guys in a practical session too?" Yun Shifei asked.

"Yeah." She replied.

Yun Shifei sent over an emoji: "^_^"

Suddenly, Yun Shifei realized something annoying about this chatroom—it didn’t support emojis! For her, communicating without emojis felt unbearable.

Like now, she had to manually type an emoji herself.

Unfortunately, Cheng Cheng didn’t understand and sent back a question mark.

Yun Shifei explained, "This is a happy emoji, representing the mood I have while chatting with you. Don’t you think it’s frustrating not to have emojis?"

Cheng Cheng, after a long pause, replied, "A bit."

"Back to our earlier topic—since you’ve been in a relationship, have you ever experienced a breakup?"

"I have."

In that moment, Yun Shifei felt as though she’d found a kindred spirit!

She, too, had experienced heartbreak. Cheng Cheng had also experienced heartbreak. And yet, they were just ordinary strangers on the internet—did that mean she could share her feelings with Cheng Cheng?

She couldn’t open up to Xu Yuejiao, nor could she talk to her roommates.

But she could share with strangers! Because they didn’t know her.

This was the beauty of the internet—to be able to confess life’s frustrations to strangers without fear of ridicule.

"Cheng Cheng, how did you and your partner break up?"

"She didn’t want me."

When Yun Shifei saw the word "she," she froze for a moment but assumed it was a typo. She replied, "I’m the opposite—I dumped him, but I feel awful about it."

She mulled over how to explain everything to Cheng Cheng.

After a long while, she finally said, "I thought he and I would never have anything to do with each other again in this lifetime. Then, out of nowhere, he showed up in our class. It’s so awkward. Even more awkward is seeing him surrounded by so many girls—it makes me jealous."

Yun Shifei typed rapidly, pouring her heart out to Cheng Cheng.

The sound of her furious typing caught the attention of Yu Liantao next to her. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"Wow, Shi Fei, your typing speed is insane! Teach me how to type that fast!"

Yun Shifei quickly switched tabs, afraid Yu Liantao might see her chat, then shot her a look and dropped two words: "Practice more."

Alright, that was basically non-advice.

Yu Liantao went back to hammering away at the keyboard.

This class was a foundational one, intended to familiarize them with computer operations, improve their typing speed, and teach them various functions of the computer.

Yun Shifei switched back to the chatroom and saw Cheng Cheng’s reply: "That means you still like him."

Yun Shifei paused for a moment, then couldn’t help but laugh. Even a stranger could see through her so clearly.

"I’ll tell you a secret—actually, I still like him, but we can’t be together."

"Why?"

"Because of a secret." Yun Shifei hesitated, almost ready to blurt out her secret.

When a person carries too much in their heart, it feels unbearably heavy.

And yet, she had no one to talk to. Now, she just wanted to let it out.

But after considering it, she couldn’t muster the courage—such an important matter couldn’t be shared with a stranger.

Cheng Cheng sent another message: "What’s the secret?"

"I can’t tell you. Compared to my situation, your breakup probably didn’t involve so many complications, right?"

Cheng Cheng replied with a simple "Mm," followed by: "You like him but broke up with him because of a secret—aren’t you afraid he’ll end up with someone else?"

Even though Yun Shifei had mentally prepared herself for the possibility that Cheng Lie might find someone else, hearing it stated out loud still stung her heart.

Of course, she was afraid.

Now, Cheng Lie was getting close to that heiress from the Wen Family. The two of them were perfectly matched, clearly a couple blessed by fate.

If things kept progressing this way, it was likely they’d end up together.

But she didn’t want Cheng Lie to be with anyone else at all.

Thinking about it, Yun Shifei didn’t know how to respond.

She could only say, "Let nature take its course."

But she had no idea what "letting nature take its course" would actually lead to.

Her current life was already nothing like what she had imagined.

Soon, the class bell rang, and Yun Shifei told Cheng Cheng, "I’m done with class, let’s chat another time."

Meanwhile, the face staring at the computer screen wasn’t the adorable image Yun Shifei had pictured.

The man’s expression was cold, his dark eyes fixed on the words on the screen, as if trying to read her thoughts through them.

Let nature take its course.

Cheng Lie clenched his teeth. It was obvious she still liked him, yet she insisted on breaking up with him. "Let nature take its course"? What a joke.

But Yun Shifei’s words had only made him more curious about this so-called secret.

What kind of secret could be so significant that it made her leave him even though she still liked him?

The weather was growing warmer, and the campus was buzzing with life and activity.

Yun Shifei had now grown accustomed to Cheng Lie frequently attending her classes. She was even used to sitting next to him.

As she had claimed, they could still be friends after breaking up, so Yu Liantao and the others kept pushing for Yun Shifei and Cheng Lie to reconcile.

But Yun Shifei was cautious and hesitant; she didn’t dare.

She thought of Mu Chengzhu’s words.

Mu Chengzhu may have left Beijing, but somehow, he still had influence within the city!