Living Only For Myself: Make Those Who Hate Me Regret It-Chapter 206: When a Woman Pursues, Only a Veil Separates

Chapter 206: Chapter 206: When a Woman Pursues, Only a Veil Separates

She had made the decision to break up with Xi Zirong, so what right did she have to stop other girls from pursuing him?

Xu Su knew perfectly well how outstanding Xi Zirong was. It was only natural that other people liked him.

Still, Xu Su never expected that Gu Yunjia, someone she’d considered a friend, would confront her so publicly just for Xi Zirong.

’It still felt a bit like being stabbed in the back...’

Whether the two of them liked it or not, the incident in the cafeteria that afternoon spread through campus at the speed of light.

The gossips included, but were not limited to, students and teachers. Perhaps even some of the school administrators had caught wind of it.

After all, this wasn’t just a relationship between the academic prodigy and the campus belle; it was a relationship between the top two students in the entire senior class.

Anyone who paid even the slightest attention knew how good their relationship was and how completely head-over-heels Xi Zirong could be. After all, the guy never knew how to hold back.

Once, a student from another class passing by the Rocket Class caught the way Xi Zirong looked at Xu Su and immediately declared that they now believed in true love.

Xu Su and Xi Zirong’s relationship was so widely seen as true love that when the news from the cafeteria first started to spread, the vast majority of people were convinced it was just a rumor.

It wasn’t until the next few days, when the two started eating their meals separately, that people began to wonder. Students in the Rocket Class even noticed that Xu Su and Xi Zirong hadn’t exchanged a single word.

And so, three days after it began to spread, the news that the top two students in the grade had broken up was finally confirmed.

In their free time, the students’ post-meal chatter shifted from "Did Xi Zirong and Xu Su really break up?" to "Why did they break up?"

Some said that with senior year upon them, the two had made the painful decision to break up to focus on their studies.

Others claimed the teachers and school administration had intervened. After all, they were the top two students in their grade. If the relationship affected their college entrance exam scores, it would be a huge loss for the school.

Still others speculated that perhaps Xu Su’s parents had found out, since it was a known fact that she had been the one to initiate the breakup.

Theories flew, but no one ever guessed that the reason for the breakup was that one of them had fallen for someone else.

After all, both Xu Su and Xi Zirong always kept their distance from other members of the opposite sex at school, never giving anyone else so much as a second glance.

A lot of people even went out of their way to ask Qian Jia and Huang Feng, figuring that as Xu Su’s best friends, they might know the real reason.

Huang Feng, annoyed to no end, complained on several occasions that she wanted to know the reason herself...

While Xu Su and Xi Zirong hadn’t exchanged more than a few words in days, the same couldn’t be said for Gu Yunjia, Xu Su’s deskmate. The number of times she turned around in her seat had increased exponentially.

One moment, she’d be unsure about a formula for a math problem; the next, she’d be stumped by a physics test. Each time, she would turn around to ask Xi Zirong for help.

When other classmates came to him for help, Xi Zirong would usually just write down the answer and only explain further if they still didn’t get it.

He treated Gu Yunjia’s questions no differently, simply writing down the answers for her.

But the girl was nothing if not persistent. She loved to ask a whole slew of follow-up questions, her tone full of adoration and anticipation, her eyes sparkling like a star-struck fan’s.

She would often bring Xi Zirong a soda or a bag of snacks, calling it a thank-you gift for his help...

After a few days of this, Gu Yunjia’s intentions—which she hadn’t bothered to hide in the first place—were plain for all to see. Everyone knew she was interested in Xi Zirong.

Gu Yunjia was quite pretty. She had been her former class’s "beauty," but after the students were split into arts and science tracks and she ended up in the Rocket Class, she lost that title. Still, as long as you didn’t compare her to Xu Su, she was definitely attractive.

There’s a saying: "A woman’s pursuit of a man is like piercing through gauze." Students from their class and others were all secretly watching the drama unfold, wondering when Gu Yunjia would finally succeed and win the academic prodigy’s heart.

One of them was Xu Su’s deskmate, and the other sat right behind her. Gu Yunjia wasn’t exactly subtle in her pursuit of Xi Zirong, so Xu Su was forced to witness the entire spectacle.

For the past few days during evening self-study, Xu Su couldn’t focus at all. She was forced to listen to Xi Zirong explaining problems to Gu Yunjia.

It made Xu Su think of what Qian Jia had said. ’Qian Jia has a point. Maybe I really should talk to Teacher Wu about changing seats.’

She couldn’t stop Gu Yunjia from showing her interest in Xi Zirong, and she had no standing to tell Xi Zirong to ignore other girls.

’But what am I supposed to do, just sit here and listen to my ex-boyfriend’s daily back-and-forth with a girl who likes him?’

Xu Su had to admit she was annoyed. Very annoyed. Even though she had no right to be.

So, she decided to go with "out of sight, out of mind." She just had to find a time when Teacher Wu was in a good mood to bring up the subject of changing seats.

Ever since throwing her fit at Xu Su in the cafeteria, Gu Yunjia hadn’t said a single word of greeting to her. Occasionally, Xu Su would overhear her making passive-aggressive comments with her friends.

Unlike Xu Su, who wasn’t particularly social, Gu Yunjia was quite popular in their class.

During breaks, a group of three to five girls would often huddle together, whispering. Whenever Xu Su walked past, they would either deliberately raise their voices or fall completely silent.

...In short, it was starting to feel like they were forming a clique to isolate her.

If Xu Su were a typical eighteen-year-old, she might have actually been hurt by the isolation.

But in her past life, she had spent the better part of her four years in university as a loner, with most of her daily interactions limited to a few girls in her dorm room.

For Xu Su, who was long used to being alone, this so-called isolation had no effect on her whatsoever.

Besides, she still had Huang Feng and Qian Jia.

For the past few days, Huang Feng had been coming to the Rocket Class as soon as school let out to wait for Xu Su and Qian Jia to go to the cafeteria together. Afraid of upsetting Xu Su, they had an unspoken agreement to avoid the topic of Gu Yunjia and Xi Zirong, instead chatting animatedly about fun things happening in other classes.

As for Gu Yunjia’s clique, Huang Feng, the group’s intelligence network, had already caught wind of it despite being in a different class.

But since Gu Yunjia and her friends were only being subtly hostile, Huang Feng couldn’t exactly charge into the Rocket Class to defend Xu Su. All she could do was complain in solidarity.

This week, the cafeteria had a new special: hot and sour noodle soup with minced pork.

The moment she stepped into the cafeteria, Xu Su caught the tart, spicy aroma. Having not eaten anything spicy in days, her mouth began to water involuntarily.

Xu Su pulled her arms free from her two friends’ grip, interrupting Huang Feng, who was still listing Gu Yunjia’s crimes. "Let’s not talk about that," she said. "I’m going to get some of that hot and sour noodle soup."

She headed excitedly toward the hot and sour noodle soup counter, all thoughts of the gossip about Gu Yunjia and Xi Zirong forgotten.

The cafeteria was packed, and the line for the hot and sour noodle soup was even longer. Huang Feng and Qian Jia were also keen to try it, so the three of them decided that’s what they would all have for lunch.

So they divided and conquered: Xu Su would wait in line for the noodle soup, Huang Feng would get in line for fried chicken legs, and Qian Jia would go buy sodas.

Qian Jia finished first. After buying the sodas, she expertly saved three seats. When Huang Feng returned with the fried chicken, she went over to help Xu Su with the trays of noodle soup.