Han Lie had just returned to his dorm room when he was completely dumbfounded by the news Ding Ding and Xiao Dongbei brought back.
What on earth was going on with Xi Luting?!
He could understand a normal outburst, but for her to actually...
Realizing something was amiss, Han Lie quickly logged onto his QQ alt account, intending to probe the absurdly twisted Queen Ting.
I can’t really hit you, and normal methods won’t keep you down. I can only continue my "villain" persona, using previously verified, effective experiences to deal with you.
But everything is just too coincidental.
Anyway, if there had been one less coincidence, today’s incident wouldn’t have happened.
In a nutshell, the world plays tricks on people, interweaving all kinds of ill-fated connections seamlessly—damn it, everything just fits together.
As a result, everyone’s destinies have taken a big turn, heading down paths entirely different from their past lives.
After realizing this, Han Lie’s scalp tingled.
The destructive power is just so damn strong!
Han Lie regretted it immensely.
To miss such an iconic scene...
Alright, starting over is impossible. Now is not the time for jokes.
Xi Luting’s psychological problems are serious, and she can’t continue ; I need to help her sort things out.
So, Han Lie earnestly made a suggestion.
Ham turned into Cucumber: "Your problem lies in excessive yang energy; you need to address it urgently."
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "Huh? What do you mean?"
Ham turned into Cucumber: "It means you’re too irritable and competitive about everything. You have excessive internal heat and shortness of breath, which causes anxiety. This, in turn, leads to irritability and aggressive paranoia. That’s an illness."
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "╭(⊙o⊙)╮"
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "Master, you understand traditional Chinese medicine too?"
Ham turned into Cucumber: "What’s so surprising about that! I even know clinical psychology!"
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "Mama mia, for real?"
Ham turned into Cucumber: "By my calculations, with your mental state, you have a sky-high chance of suffering from dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation."
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "HOLY SHIT!!!!!"
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "Master, you’re amazing!"
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "So, what should I do? Go get herbal medicine? No way!"
Ham turned into Cucumber: "The ’Tao Te Ching’ states: ’The myriad creatures flourish, and each returns to its root.’ What is your true nature? As a girl, your nature is to be soft, quiet, yin, like water." Follow current novᴇls on N()velFire.net
Ham turned into Cucumber: "The ’Tao Te Ching’ also states: ’The heavy is the root of the light; stillness, the master of agitation.’ This is the ultimate truth."
Xi Luting was baffled by his words.
Did Brother Ham make any sense?
Upon careful reflection, it seemed he might be onto something.
Radical, irritable, irregular menstruation... Good heavens! Is he a demigod?!
A Stick of Blinding Loneliness: "I’m not going to waste words with you. I’m going to revise my writing, bye!"
After saying goodbye, she quickly looked up Han Lie’s QQ account, hesitated for a long while, and sent a "beckoning" emoji.
Brother Lie burst out laughing.
After a moment’s thought, he decided to cut to the chase.
Xi Luting’s eyes widened; she was completely floored by the dog-man’s way of thinking.
How should I respond?
Being used to a dominant style made it hard for her to soften up immediately.
So, she blurted out something awkward, "I have to pay for the room? Are you even a man?!"
Only after hitting send did she realize her mistake, but it was too late.
True to form, the dog-man immediately seized the opportunity. "Okay, I’ll go get the room. How long until you can get here?"
Xi Luting covered her burning cheeks and spat. "Get where? Did I agree to get a room with you? In your dreams!"
"Anyway, I’m heading down to get a room now. If you don’t show up, I’ll call Yu Yun."
Xi Luting felt her internal rage skyrocketing again as she repeated to herself: I’m not angry, I’m not angry. It’s not worth getting angry with this dog-man. My period is more important...
After some time, she hastily typed, "Call her! If Yu Yun stays in the dorm tonight, you’ll take my last name from now on!"
Han Lie didn’t reply.
5 seconds, 10 seconds, half a minute, five minutes...
Xi Luting’s confidence gradually wavered, and a bad premonition grew stronger.
She hurriedly shut down the computer, settled the bill at the counter, and rushed towards the school gate.
That’s right, she didn’t go back to the dorm. After impulsively pulling that stunt earlier, she was too embarrassed to return, so she went to an internet cafe to kill some time instead.
Approaching the school gate, her steps faltered, then she suddenly headed to the coffee shop across the street.
On the second floor, she found a window seat, took out her phone, and kept her eyes on the school entrance.
Fifteen minutes later, her pupils shrank sharply as she saw a familiar figure.
She quickly typed, "Where are you?"
Calmly, Brother Lie replied with three words, "At the hotel!"
Xi Luting felt light-headed.
She brushed aside everything else and directly asked, "Weren’t you supposed to call Yu Yun? Why is Pan Ge the one who came out?!"
Inside his dorm, reading a book, Han Lie was taken aback. What the heck?
What did Pan Ge have to do with this?
But soon, he figured it out.
Well, well, so Little Cucumber was staking out the school gate to catch someone?
You really are something else!
But why was Pan Ge going out so late at night?
Confused but undeterred, he continued to bluff.
"Oh, Yu Yun was somewhat lacking. I think Pan Ge is more suitable."
Just because her chewing gum is cherry-flavored?!
Xi Luting was about to explode with anger as she fiercely typed, "Which hotel are you at?!"
Brother Lie replied with a mischievous smile, "Tell you, so you can come catch me in the act? Do I look that stupid?"
Xi Luting was truly frantic. "So, you won’t tell me and that’s that? You think I can’t just go ask Pan Ge?!"
There’s such a good thing?!
Han Lie was thrilled, laughing quietly as he fanned the flames, "You think Pan Ge has the same IQ as you? If you can get a single word out of her, I’ll admit defeat!"
"You damn man, even killing you wouldn’t be enough to vent my anger!"
Xi Luting had just resolved to be as gentle as water, to overcome hardness with softness, and to take good care of her health, but she completely lost it in less than half an hour.
However, the stark contrast between Han Lie’s behavior and "Brother Ham’s" only reinforced Xi Luting’s belief that "Brother Ham" truly had her best interests at heart, while Han Lie was just an unappreciative scoundrel.
Looking up again, Pan Ge had also disappeared.
She hurried downstairs, threw 50 yuan at the counter, and bolted out the door after her.
Running too hastily, by the time she dialed Pan Ge’s number, she was already out of breath.
As soon as the call connected, she blurted out an accusation, "Where are you going?"
Pan Ge immediately looked around but didn’t spot Xi Luting.
She replied, puzzled, "I’m going home. My mom suddenly said her heart was bothering her and asked me to go home and keep her company."
"Ha! What a convenient excuse!"
Xi Luting scoffed through clenched teeth, "And you expect me to believe that?!"
Pan Ge frowned, a bit annoyed. "Are you insane? Why should I care if you believe me or not?! What obligation do I have to make you believe me?!"
Normally, she wouldn’t be this agitated. However, today she’d been forcefully kissed twice, and on top of that, her mother was feeling unwell. Consequently, her mood was in an extremely rare state of irritation.
As a result, this intense attitude further convinced Xi Luting that Pan Ge was hiding something.
"Stop the nonsense! Aren’t you just trying to compete with me for Han Lie? What’s with the act? Don’t you feel hypocritical?!"
Pan Ge immediately felt a twinge of guilt.
Competing for Han Lie...
In a sense, she wasn’t wrong.
But before being forcefully kissed today, her intention was only to get the upper hand with Han Lie and thus overshadow Xi Luting.
She really hadn’t considered anything actually happening with Han Lie.
However, that dog of a man, like a giant suction cup, had gnawed on her, and the result was a completely revolutionary thought—
After all, she was going to date someone eventually, so why couldn’t it be Han Lie?
He had the looks, outstanding abilities, and there was a spark...
So now, she really was competing with Xi Luting for a man.
Thinking this way, she didn’t just feel incredibly guilty, but also a bit strange.
You + me + Han Lie... isn’t this getting too messy...?
She forced herself to stay calm, trying hard to reason with Xi Luting.
"Han Lie has nothing to do with you. On the contrary, you’re chasing after me while also trying to monopolize Han Lie. Don’t you think that’s too overbearing? I don’t even have the freedom to do whatever I want, so what gives you the right? What you did to me today was outrageous. I haven’t berated you because I have some class, but you keep pestering me. Do you think I’m easy to bully? I’m warning you, don’t push me, or else..."
Xi Luting immediately retorted, "Or else what?"
Pan Ge was just about to utter a harsh threat when an arm suddenly draped over her shoulder, and a soft voice sounded right by her ear.
She decisively changed her tune, "Or else... I can’t really do anything. We’re friends, after all. How could I genuinely be angry with you?!"
A wise woman knows when to back down, right?
Xi Luting was so amused by Pan Ge’s shamelessness that she laughed.
Pressing half her body against Pan Ge, panting, she sneered, "Let’s go, dear. I’ll accompany you home to visit our mom!"
Pan Ge was utterly confused.
Xi Luting, you must have a screw loose!
Why would I want you to accompany me home?
Could she actually have... those kinds of feelings for me?!
Pan Ge shivered, giving her an odd look. "I’m just going home for the night. Why are you being so clingy?"
"I’m worried about you walking alone at night!"
"I don’t walk home at night."
Pan Ge quickly pointed to the intersection ahead. "I’m just going over there to wait for my family’s car to pick me up..."
Do you take me for a three-year-old?
Xi Luting scoffed in disdain, wrapping her arms around Pan Ge and not letting go.
"A car is picking you up? Even better! I’ll go home with you, and tomorrow morning you can accompany me back. Perfect!"
"What’s perfect about it? Tell me the truth, why are you so insistent on clinging to me?"
"I missed you, okay?!"
"Damn! You really swing both ways and aren’t picky, huh?"
As the two were bickering, a Phantom drove up ahead, its hazard lights flashing, and gently pulled over to the side of the road.
Xi Luting was startled for a moment, then a sneer appeared on her face.
Well, well, you’re really committed to this act, aren’t you?
You think I don’t know that good hotels have courtesy cars?
"Let’s go, let’s go, get in the car!"
Xi Luting proactively pushed Pan Ge into the back seat of the Phantom, gripping her hand tightly.
If I let you out of my sight for even one second today, I’ll change my surname to Han!
Pan Ge was completely at a loss, instructing the driver with a headache, "Drive. Home."
The Phantom sped along, finally coming to a smooth stop in the parking area of Pan Ge’s old Western-style house.
Xi Luting was dumbfounded.
Lil’ Pan, what’s going on with you?
How could you actually be home?!
Still in a daze, she let Pan Ge pull her out of the car. Looking left and right, she finally confirmed that they had indeed arrived at Pan Ge’s house.
That’s not right... What exactly went wrong?
Before she could figure it out, she looked up and saw Auntie Zhao standing elegantly at the villa entrance.
Frowning deeply, her right hand pressed to her chest, Auntie Zhao looked like a classic beauty in distress.
Xi Luting quickly bowed her head in greeting, politely asking, "Auntie Zhao, I heard your heart was bothering you a bit? I came back with Pan Ge to see you. How are you feeling now?"
Zhao Anni pressed her chest firmly. Looking at her daughter, she felt as if her heart, which had never given her trouble before, was indeed showing signs of going on strike today.
Come quickly, Auntie will give you a raise!