The Kitty Became a Cutie and Was Pampered in the 80s-Chapter 1655: Military Training Chronicle (Part 17)
"Do you think there’s something wrong with her brain?" Li Que stormed around the dorm room in anger, gesticulating wildly. "She’s been doing that guy’s laundry since high school, for over three years already. Isn’t that enough?"
"Doing laundry isn’t the issue. The problem is that after all these years, he hasn’t shown any interest, and she’s still helping him like this. Isn’t that just sick?" Li Que was truly furious. If they were a couple, it would be understandable. But the thing is, they’re not. That guy hasn’t expressed anything, nor has he rejected her. It’s clear he’s just stringing her along."
While Li Que was fuming, Ruan Jiaojiao was lost in thought.
From Li Que’s words, it was clear that the guy her friend liked was a typical manipulative jerk. He neither rejected nor accepted her, a proper jerk in modern terms.
However, Ruan Jiaojiao wasn’t focusing on that point, but rather on something else.
And that is—
Li Que’s friend doing laundry for the guy was a way of showing affection.
So, when Duan Xi helps her with laundry... is it the same?
Does Duan Xi like her? And with that kind of affection? Or is she overthinking it, and it’s just mutual assistance between friends?
Thinking it might be the latter, Ruan Jiaojiao couldn’t help but feel a bit sour, because she realized that if Duan Xi helped another girl with her laundry, she would feel uncomfortable, particularly upset.
"Little One, why aren’t you saying anything?" Li Que nudged the dazed Ruan Jiaojiao, seeing her clutch a pile of clothes, she asked, "What are you doing with these clothes? Are you going to wash them?"
"Huh? It’s nothing, nothing. I’m not asking anyone to wash them for me, no!" Ruan Jiaojiao was worried she’d become the kind of person Li Que looked down upon, so she quickly shook her head and said.
"..." Li Que.
Seeing her earnestly defending herself so foolishly, Li Que was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, "Little One, what are you talking about? ’Not asking anyone to wash for me’... wait a minute." Li Que looked at her with an utterly astonished expression, "Isn’t it your brother Xi who wants to wash them for you?"
Ruan Jiaojiao pursed her lips, unsure of how to answer.
Seeing her silent little expression, Li Que knew she had guessed correctly. Smacking her lips, she said, "Little One, you sure are lucky." Pausing, she asked, "Are you and your brother Xi really that close? Have you confirmed things? You’re only fifteen, aren’t you?"
Yesterday, when she and Liang Wenjing returned, from Liang Wenjing’s words, she thought it might be that way. But seeing Ruan Jiaojiao’s demeanor now, she felt it wasn’t, so she was all confused.
Ruan Jiaojiao tightly held onto her clothes, looking at Li Que. This wasn’t the first time she’d heard people talk about her relationship with Duan Xi this way. She couldn’t help but think, do she and Duan Xi really look so much like a couple?
She unconsciously voiced her inner doubts, "Sister Que, do we look like we’re dating?"
Maybe because she grew up with Duan Xi, even though there were couples around them one after another, Ruan Jiaojiao never thought about her relationship with Duan Xi.
She used to think they were the closest people in the world, the best partners forever.
Because he is a wolf, so even though he acknowledged the Duan Family, once her calamity had passed, he didn’t go back, she found it unsurprising. Because she felt in his heart, she, the cat from a past life, was the only one he recognized, which inevitably led to some dependency.
