"What were you whispering to Miss Tian again?" Qian Li frowned, his temper as cold and stern as ever.
"Come on, you've wrapped her up so tightly. What could I possibly say?" Susan lied smoothly. "Of course, I said some comforting words. She's just calmed down and is about to go to sleep."
"Leave right after you're done. Your visiting time is up."
She snorted disdainfully. "I don't need your reminder. I was just about to leave!"
"Truly worthy of being the soldiers trained by the second young master. Each one of you has such a 'good temper'!"
In the cafeteria of Yancheng University.
Xiao Shuyuan looked at Xiao Shujing sitting across from him, feeling extremely guilty.
She had been sitting there in a daze with a spoon in her hand for a long time. The food was almost cold.
"Shujing? Shujing!" Yan Yueyue knocked on the table in front of her and called her several times.
"What's up?" Xiao Shujing came back to her senses and asked blankly.
"Hurry up and eat. What are you thinking about?"
She looked at Yan Yueyue dejectedly, with highly unstable emotions in her eyes.
It seemed that if Yan Yueyue spoke a bit louder, she would burst into tears.
"Come on, I've already said I'll help you." Yan Yueyue moved her plate next to Xiao Shujing and said confidently.
"Sis, maybe I should call Brother-in-law and tell him about this." Xiao Shuyuan felt so guilty that he couldn't let it go.
"I'll apologize to him. This matter has nothing to do with you in the first place."
"Are you crazy?" Yan Yueyue looked at him in disbelief. "Shujing has taken such a big risk for us. Do you want all her efforts to go to waste? You're really ungrateful!"
"I'd rather bear this sacrifice myself than use my sister to achieve our goal!" Xiao Shuyuan stuck out his neck stubbornly.
She was so angry that she wanted to punch him.
It had taken so much effort to persuade Xiao Shujing to help, but this guy was talking nonsense like his brain was missing.
"It's too late." Xiao Shujing sat there in a daze, her eyes dull.
"Minhan is already angry with me. If I tell him now that it was all a lie, he might get even angrier."
"Yueyue... please, please think of a way for me."
"I've already told you not to approach President Su for the time being!" Yan Yueyue moved a bit further away from her impatiently. "How can you break up and then immediately go back and chase him? You need to play hard to get!"
"I'm afraid he'll abandon me. I know Minhan's personality!"
"If you know him so well, why don't you go and beg him to get back together?"
She got a bit irritated and blurted out this sentence without thinking.
This made Xiao Shujing and Xiao Shuyuan freeze on the spot.
"Uh, I... I didn't mean it that way. Don't misunderstand," Yan Yueyue quickly reacted and tried to smooth things over. "What I meant was, since Shujing knows President Su so well, there's no need to rush this.
"Let's calm down for a few days. Then, we can find a suitable opportunity to bring this up. Shujing will definitely be able to win him back."
Their expressions softened a bit.
"But I still feel something's not right." Xiao Shuyuan couldn't let it go.
Xiao Shujing sighed with a gloomy face. "Things have come to this, and there's no other good way. We can only listen to Yueyue for now and calm down for a few days."
Ring ring ring.
She glanced at the note on her phone. It was a call from her assistant, Xiao Yang.
"I'll go answer the phone."
After seeing her leave, Yan Yueyue finally ate a few mouthfuls of food in peace.
"Were you doing that on purpose just now?" Xiao Shuyuan stared at her, looking like he was about to lose his temper.
"You suspect me?!" She said with a tearful voice, looking aggrieved.
"I've worked so hard for us! You don't even appreciate me, and you're still suspicious. Do you have a heart?!"
"Why didn't you discuss this decision with me?"
There was resentment in his heart. "Using my sister to achieve our goal is a petty behavior! You know this will not only hurt her but also make us feel guilty for the rest of our lives, right?"
Yan Yueyue crossed her arms and snorted. "Petty behavior? What about all the shady things you've done before? Using your sister as an ATM and changing girlfriends one after another. Don't you forget that I ended up in the hospital for surgery because of you! You can't get away with this."
"Don't talk to me about guilt. The deed is done. What's done can't be undone. We just have to accept it."
Xiao Shuyuan was rendered speechless by her retort.
He had indeed been a scumbag in the past, and he even felt disgusted with himself now.
But Yan Yueyue had a point.
The past couldn't be rewritten. There was no medicine for regret in this world. It was all karma, and he had to bear it.
"Sorry, A Yuan. I was too harsh just now."
Seeing him silent, Yan Yueyue was scared that he was going to break up with her.
She quickly walked around the table and sat next to him. Holding his hand tightly, she said earnestly, "You're the only one for me, A Yuan. I did all this for our future. Without a university diploma, we'll be restricted no matter where we look for a job. There will be immeasurable obstacles.
"I can't let a prank ruin our future!"
"Just this once." Xiao Shuyuan said weakly.
"Let's never do such a heartless thing again."
Yan Yueyue nodded vigorously. "I swear! It'll never happen again!"
"What were you two talking about?"
Xiao Shujing came back to her seat after answering the phone.
"Nothing. Just flirting~ Who called?"
She laughed and tried to brush it off.
"The company called. They said they have some work to discuss with me."
"Great! You've got a new advertisement to shoot. I'm so jealous of you. You can earn so much just by shooting an ad!"
Yan Yueyue flattered her excessively. Her over - enthusiasm was actually a sign of her guilt.
Xiao Shuyuan knew it very well.
"Sis, I'll talk to the professor for you about this afternoon's class. You can go."
Xiao Shujing nodded. "Yueyue, help me take notes. Xiao Yang is already waiting for me at the school gate. I have to hurry."
"Ah, I have to take notes..."
Yan Yueyue mumbled as she watched Xiao Shujing's back walking away without looking back.
"If you're on leave, you should go and discuss the topics with the professor yourself. Why do you have to drag me into taking notes for you? I was planning to go back to the dorm and sleep this afternoon." Her reluctance was written all over her face.
"My sister has helped you so much. What's wrong with taking a few notes?"
Xiao Shuyuan's temper flared up immediately. With a dark face, he picked up his plate and left his seat.
She was stunned for a moment and quickly followed him to explain.
"A Yuan, A Yuan, wait for me! I was just joking."
After getting into the business car, Xiao Shujing told the makeup artist to start doing her makeup right away.
"Did this delay your class again?" Xiao Yang poked his head out from the front passenger seat and asked softly.
"It's okay. I asked a classmate to help me take notes. What's the work today? I remember I'm not taking any new ads recently. The filming schedules for TV dramas and promotional videos are all arranged after the endorsements."
"Uh... there's no work today."
Xiao Shujing was stunned. "No work? Then why did I come out?"