Growing Fond of You, Mr Nian

Reading the comments, Yan Su didn’t feel good. She knew that Mo Liuxi would be angry if he saw them. She wanted to call him but was afraid to do so. It looked as if he wasn’t home tonight. The light in his room was off.

Thinking about how angry he was in the morning, Yan Su was a little worried. She hesitated for a while but then finally called him.

The call wasn’t answered. What was he doing? Would he be angry when he saw the Weibo post? That was her only choice.

Feeling troubled, she sat on the couch with her arms around her knees. She waited until twelve, but Mo Liuxi still hadn’t come home. She was getting more and more worried. Mo Liuxi liked to stay at home, so she didn’t know what he was doing out so late.

He didn’t have many friends. Zhang Hongchuan was his only friend in school.

She spent some time trying to find Zhang Hongchuan’s WeChat number from a talking group from her school. Thankfully, Zhang Hongchuan accepted her friend request right away.

She asked for his phone number, then called him.

“Did Liuxi go to school earlier today?”

After a short silence, Zhang Hongchuan replied with, “He’s here drinking with me.”

Yan Su stayed silent.

Zhang Hongchuan sighed. “He drank a lot and he’s in a bad mood. I rarely see him like this. Before he got drunk, he told me that I should keep a close eye on him in case some other women try to steal him from you.”

Yan Su wanted to cry. She couldn’t imagine how Mo Liuxi got himself drunk. “Where are you now? I’ll… I’ll come find you.”

“Don’t. You’re a star. They took a picture of you and Shi Xiang at the hotel yesterday. If they took a picture of you and Mo Liuxi together, people would scold you to death.” Zhang Hongchuan hurriedly said, “Just get some rest. I’ll bring him to my place later.”

“Thank you.”

After ending the call, Yan Su couldn’t focus. She lay on the bed, without getting any sleep.

The next day, she went to school early in the morning.

The whole world had heard about the story between her and Shi Xiang. Her schoolmates strangely looked at her.

During the lunch break, Yan Su saw Zhang Hongchuan and learned that Mo Liuxi was at the lawn near the lake. She went there, and finally found him under a tree. He was lying on the ground, sleeping. It was a sunny day, but still, the weather was cold in the winter.

Yan Su walked over and looked at him. He was wearing the same clothes that he wore yesterday. His eyes were closed, but the dark circles under his eyes were obvious.

She looked at him and recalled what he did to her yesterday. She was still a little afraid of him.

Thinking that he got himself drunk last night, she also felt sad. At last, she called his name with a dry voice, “Liuxi…”

Mo Liuxi heard her footsteps long ago but didn’t open his eyes before she called him. He gave a sneer and said, “We are in the school. You always kept a distance from me in school. Why are you talking to me now? Aren’t you afraid that people might see us?”

“If I didn’t clarify it, people would soon dig it out.” Yan Su explained with a low voice, “That’s the discussion made by both our companies.”

“So you ended your relationship in that room.” Mo Liuxi smiled coldly and said, “You’re my girlfriend. What was there to end between you and him? Was is so hard to break up with him? Did you need the whole night to do that? Only idiots would believe you.”

Yan Su didn’t want to face that sarcastic look in his eyes. She turned to the lake and said, “Liuxi, you can choose not to believe me. But yesterday… didn’t you check my body from the inside to the outside? Did it look like that I’ve cheated on you? You can leave marks on me merely by making out with me, but I had nothing on my skin yesterday.”