Chapter 566: Chapter 206 GF’s Little Trick, the Conflict Between BFFs_3

Li Yuan pointed toward the northwest corner, frowning as he said, "There are people over there peeping at us with binoculars."

"Someone’s peeping?" Bai Weixi asked, startled.

"Yes, by that small grove."

Bai Weixi, Zhong Tingyue, and Xia Zhijin looked in the direction Li Yuan was pointing. Sure enough, they saw four or five boys spying on them with binoculars.

Zhong Tingyue’s brow furrowed in disgust. "How perverted. I can’t believe our school has such disgusting guys."

Bai Weixi shivered and spat on the ground. "I thought the male students at a 985 university would have better character, but it seems they’re all the same. When we get back to the dorm, I have to remind Shasha and Meiqi to always draw the curtains when they change. There are too many disgusting men out there."

Zhong Tingyue nodded in agreement. "Exactly. They’re a bunch of cultured swine. It’s truly shameless and annoying."

For once, Bai Weixi found herself on the same side as Zhong Tingyue. "It’s true that you become like the company you keep. Luckily, we don’t have people like that around us."

Li Yuan listened to Bai Weixi and Zhong Tingyue’s angry tirade.

It suddenly occurred to him that his good friend, Wang Shuai, also seemed to enjoy peeping at the school’s beauties with binoculars. Is it me, or do I feel like I’m being called out right now?

Li Yuan cleared his throat. "Ahem, ahem. Fame has its price, you know. I’m both famous and strapping, so this sort of thing is unavoidable. It’s just like those celebrities who are constantly followed by invasive paparazzi. They have no privacy at all, it’s especially annoying..."

"Bai, Tingyue, Zhijin, let’s head back. It’s about time for dinner."

Zhong Tingyue and Bai Weixi exchanged a look and nodded in unison.

Zhong Tingyue smiled. "Okay, Senior. You should take Zhijin to see your aunt first. Weixi and I will head back to the dorm together."

Bai Weixi cast a complicated glance at Li Yuan and the slightly shy Xia Zhijin, then nodded silently.

Not suspecting a thing, Li Yuan asked, "Do you want me to walk you back?"

Zhong Tingyue gave a charming smile. "No need, Senior. It’s really crowded right now, and you wouldn’t want to be surrounded and stared at, right?"

Five or six in the evening was peak dinner time at the university. If Li Yuan were to walk with three stunningly beautiful women, he would undoubtedly end up on the school’s trending topics again. Not that he personally cared.

Li Yuan laughed. "Alright then, you two head back. I’m going to check on our class’s game. It would be hilarious if the other team managed to turn the tables on us."

Zhong Tingyue waved at Li Yuan and Xia Zhijin. To an outsider, they might have looked like good friends.

"Okay, Senior, bye-bye."

Li Yuan patted Xia Zhijin’s head and smiled. "Zhijin, let’s go!"

"Oh!" Xia Zhijin responded obediently and left with Li Yuan.

After Li Yuan departed for the basketball court with Xia Zhijin, only Bai Weixi and Zhong Tingyue remained. The atmosphere suddenly fell silent.

Zhong Tingyue, still wearing a gentle smile, spoke first. "Weixi, let’s head back too."

Bai Weixi didn’t answer. She just stared coldly at Zhong Tingyue, her eyes filled with a storm of emotions, her expression grim.

Zhong Tingyue felt very uncomfortable under Bai Weixi’s gaze and frowned. "Weixi, why are you looking at me like that?"

Bai Weixi glared at her, her tone sharp. "Zhong Tingyue, aren’t you going to explain yourself?"

Zhong Tingyue could hear the hostility in Bai Weixi’s voice, and her delicate brows furrowed. "Explain what?"

Bai Weixi scoffed, her tone dripping with sarcasm. "Heh, have you forgotten what you told me the other day?"

"If you can’t follow through, then don’t make such bold promises. Was it fun treating us all like clowns?"

"If you had just told me back then that you were going to compete with me openly, I would’ve respected you more for it..."

Hearing the biting sarcasm in Bai Weixi’s words, Zhong Tingyue fell silent. Bai Weixi’s words cut her deeply. While it was true she had genuinely considered giving up...

Zhong Tingyue sighed, her gaze fixed on Bai Weixi as she spoke in a low, helpless voice. "Weixi, love is selfish, and who can really say what the future holds? No matter what happens, at the very least, I don’t want to live with regrets."

"Li Yuan is truly exceptional. I genuinely considered giving up, tried to forget him, but I just couldn’t. His image is like a brand seared into my mind... I can only force myself not to seek him out. But when he stands before me and reaches out to embrace me, all my defenses crumble...

"I don’t even know why I love him so deeply. Maybe it’s because he brought a ray of light into my otherwise gray world. I don’t know if what he told me was true or false—all that talk of ’three lifetimes and ten miles of peach blossoms,’ of ’Nanshan South and Beihai North’—but I’m choosing to believe him one more time.

"Think of me as shameless or despicable if you want. I don’t care...

"But please remember, I’m not your only rival!!"

After she finished speaking, Zhong Tingyue stared at the retreating figures of Li Yuan and Xia Zhijin. By then, Li Yuan had already taken Xia Zhijin’s hand.

Before today, she hadn’t known much about Xia Zhijin or that other girl from a different school. She had always assumed that the person Li Yuan liked most was Bai Weixi, who was always by his side. After all, he had pursued Bai Weixi for three years in high school and had known her the longest. But after seeing Xia Zhijin today, she knew she had been completely and utterly wrong. Her intuition told her with one hundred percent certainty that the person Li Yuan liked most was undoubtedly Xia Zhijin.