C11 Country Girl

The first period was over, and it was almost ten in the morning. As usual, Su Piaoan came out of the library to borrow a book and was about to go back to class when she saw two familiar figures in the hallway.

"Weiwei, what's wrong with you?"

"Don't touch me."

As the two of them pulled at each other, Su's shallow eyes, hidden by the flowerbed, saw Anvil angrily tear a necklace from around her neck and throw it into Gao Ming's hands.

The blue crystal glittered under the sunlight and every word of their conversation entered Su Qian's ears.

"Take back your fake feelings and don't bother me in the future!" Maybe because An Wei'er's voice was soft, even if she was angry, it didn't seem to have much power.

"What's going on? Wasn't it fine when I gave it to you yesterday?" Helplessness was written all over Gao Ming's face.

It was rare for Su Qian to see him humbling himself to a girl.

"You still have the nerve to say that? Tell me honestly, did you give a bracelet of the same model to Su?" An Wei Er asked.

Gao Ming agreed.

Anvil blushed and said angrily: "How could you give me the same sign as that country girl? Do you think I am in the same position as her in your heart?"

As she was venting her anger, she suddenly looked past Gao Ming and unexpectedly saw Su Qian, who was watching. Her dark eyes narrowed and suddenly became colder.

Su Qian really did not expect that she was the one who caused the conflict between the two of them!

"She and I are just friends. I like you, I'm courting you, that's a well-known fact. I don't think a bracelet would mean anything."

"You have disgraced me in front of them, and they have seen me wearing the same jewelry as a vulgar, tasteless country girl. Do you know that even Lin Leyan laughs at me?" Anvil crossed her arms and turned away unhappily.

She didn't feel good about being told off like that, especially when Gao Ming said she was just an ordinary friend.

"Well, I didn't think it through, and I thought the second thirty percent was a good deal, so I asked for an extra bracelet. Didn't you already have the Zodiac bracelet I gave you, so I gave it to someone else." Gao Ming tried to comfort her and turned her back.

"So you mean to say that you gave it to her because I didn't want it?"

Anvil lifted her chin, and the corners of her mouth curled up. There was a hint of irony in her voice, as if she were saying that what she didn't want was for someone else to have.

Su Qian couldn't help but look towards Gao Ming and wait for his reply even if it was just protecting the reputation of a normal friend.

But the result was disappointing.

"You can take it any way you like. As you say, she's just a country girl."

He replaced the necklace around Anvil's neck. "Not angry, not pretty."

An Wei'er, who was resting on his shoulder, looked at Su Qian's smug eyes as if she was the victor.

Su Qian felt a cold chill run down her spine, and the words were like a knife in her heart. She could not believe that Gao Ming felt the same way as his arrogant classmates, that he was a lowly, country girl!

The silver chain around her white wrist was like a barbed thorn of shame, lashing at her self-abased heart. She was shocked and angry.

"That's more like it. I'm going to the art club. Come pick me up after class."

An Wei'er left in satisfaction. After being safe and sound, Gao Ming slowly turned around and met Su Qian's stunned gaze.

Surprise and helplessness flashed through his eyes.

Su Qian only looked at him for a moment before turning around to escape.

"Su Qian!"

Gao Ming, who was chasing after her, quickly jumped over the guardrail and blocked her path.

Su Qian changed her route several times, but she couldn't get rid of him. She could only turn her unwilling body to the wall after he stopped her.

"Listen to me. I didn't mean to say that to you. I just..." Even he himself didn't believe it.

Su Qian-Shan finally calmed down and returned the silver chain to him in good condition.

"You are right. A country bumpkin like me doesn't deserve such an expensive bracelet. You should take it back." Her cold words were like fallen leaves in the autumn wind. Just as she was about to leave, she felt her wrist tighten and was pulled back by Gao Ming.

"You can't be serious. You believe my words of coaxing a girl?" His anxious face showed a hint of displeasure.

Su Qian Qian looked at him without any emotion on her face. She didn't know what it meant to coax a girl. She only knew that she had heard Gao Ming say those slanderous words about her with her own ears. Thinking of this, her heart suddenly ached again. She took a deep breath and suppressed her pain very well. When she looked up again, her eyes were calm as she looked at Gao Ming. "It's okay, Gao Ming. You don't have to care about how I feel."

Su Qian drew a line first, a line that drew a clear line between her and Gao Ming. If Gao Ming had even a shred of pride in him, he would have understood the meaning of that line.

Gao Ming stared at her in a daze. All his expressions froze on his face. Su Qian felt the strength in her wrist gradually relaxing, so she pulled her hand back and turned around to walk in front of him without turning back.

When her heart was gloomy, even the warm noon sun felt extremely cold.

Su Qian had been thinking about those words all along the way. She even felt that perhaps Gao Ming only came to her because she could help the cold air!

When she got home at night, she sat at her desk for an hour in a daze. During the day, the conversation between Anvil and Gao Ming kept replaying itself in her mind, and whenever she tried to force herself to read, she would be interrupted by those sharp, unpleasant words. She had no choice but to go to the bathroom and try to wake herself up with cold water.

She saw her own pale face in the mirror, and the water dripped down her long anemic, bloodless lips, and the memory of Anvil's impeccable features, and the bloody claptrap of the country bumpkin, touched her pride so deeply that she slowly curled up on the floor and buried her face in her knees...

The next day.

The classroom was full of people talking and laughing.

Su Yan walked to her seat with her head lowered. Suddenly, her leg reached out and tripped her on the floor!

"Ugh!"

Her elbow scraped across the floor, and soon she felt a burning pain in her arms. She looked down at the red, bleeding wound, then up at Zhang Manwen's triumphant smile.

"Are you okay?"

At this time, a white hand reached out from her messy hair and helped her up from the ground.

She looked back and saw that it was Gao Ming, who hadn't even had time to put down his backpack. She suddenly remembered what had happened the day before.

Today's class seemed to be especially long.

Su Qian finally got home from school. When she walked to the parking lot, she found that the tire that was fine in the morning had somehow deflated.

She stood there for a long time, as if she had understood something. Finally, she silently unlocked the door and pushed the two dry wheels out of the campus.

All kinds of luxury cars drove out of the majestic school gate one after another. When they passed by, the arrogant roar of exhaust pipes could be heard.

Su Qian tried her best to walk close to the side of the road. Suddenly, a silver-gray car slowed down in her sight.

A familiar voice came from the window, "Do you need help?"

Su Qian only glanced at Gao Ming. Whether it was in the morning or now, no one could understand his actions.

"No need, thank you." Su Qian Qian rejected him with a calm expression. After that, she turned the car around and entered the sidewalk in the flowerbed.

Gao Ming couldn't get any closer, so he had to stop on the road outside for a while before stepping on the gas and disappearing.

Su Qian went to a nearby repair shop and was checked by an uncle in his forties. He looked at her, then looked up at her with certainty."

As he spoke, he showed Su Qian the clean surface of the cut.

"Did you offend someone?" he asked curiously.

Su Qian was silent. She thought that her actions were aboveboard, but since others couldn't see through her, she couldn't do anything about it.

"How long will it take to fix it?" After a while, she didn't answer the question.

The uncle studied it for a while and said, "Just change the tire. It will be done in half an hour."

"Thank you."

She waited at the repair shop until the tires had been changed, then went back to the house. Before she went in, she tried not to worry her mother.

"Qian..."

At the dinner table, her mother called out in a low voice, bringing Su Qian's wandering thoughts back.

"What's wrong, Mom?" Seeing that her mother was looking at her in a weird way, she forced a smile on her face.

"Do you have something on your mind?" her mother asked.

"I'm fine. Why do you ask?" Su Qian asked to avoid her mother's questioning.

Ye Chunyu was still chewing the potato chips in his mouth. He looked troubled, "Tonight's dishes are salty..."

"Really?" Su Qian was slightly surprised. She immediately picked up a piece of potato and stuffed it into her mouth. She spat it out after chewing a few times, "Pooh, I must have added salt twice..."

She was annoyed. She thought to herself that she must have been distracted when she was cooking. That was why she put salt in the potato twice. However, she had implicated her mother, so she had to go hungry.

"There are still eggs in the fridge. Let me stir-fry another dish."

"It's okay, it's okay. Just drink the soup. Be good and sit down."

As soon as she got up, her mother stopped her and asked her to sit back down.

Ye Chunyu served her soup while carefully looking at her face. He asked tentatively, "Are you still worried about the cat demon?"

His mother thought that her unhappiness was because of the matter of the cat demon. After Su Qian's reaction, she simply took advantage of the situation and nodded her head. She was worried that her mother would see that something was wrong again, so she quickly buried her head in her food.

"Don't put too much pressure on yourself. It can't be rushed. Besides, you are still in school." Her mother tried to comfort her.

"I know, Mom," Su Qianfan responded obediently.

"Go ahead and eat." Su Xiaoxue's mother smiled and didn't say anything else.