After Running Away From Her Wedding, The Tsundere Young Lady Went Crazy - Chapter 14

Seven Ex-Girlfriends

“What’s the matter?” Shang Keyu asked.

“The Beletopia land—is it in your hands?”

“Yes.”

“We’ve known each other for so many years. Do me a favor: don’t demolish that place,” Ye Qingyu pleaded, looking at Shang Keyu.

Shang Keyu felt a bit puzzled. Why was everyone, one after another, telling her not to demolish it?

“You’re late,” she said. “I’ve already—”

“What! Have the excavators already gone there?” Ye Qingyu turned pale with fright and began pacing back and forth in a panic.

Shang Keyu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Let me finish. I’ve already canceled the demolition plan.”

“That’s good, that’s good.” Ye Qingyu let out a sigh of relief.

“Is that the only reason you came to see me?”

“Of course not! I came to chat with you.”

Ye Qingyu plopped down on the sofa, slumped as if she were boneless, turning into a puddle of liquid slime, and began to complain:

“You’re such a busy person. We haven’t seen each other in years, and you don’t even know how to find the time to catch up with me. You’re never available when I invite you; I actually had to run all the way to your company. You really prioritize profit over friends.”

“It’s almost time to pull in the net,” Shang Keyu said indifferently.

“Is it that?”

“Yes.”

Ye Qingyu immediately sat up straight. “You’ve been away from here for fourteen years. Is the goal you set when you fled finally about to be completed?”

“Soon.” Shang Keyu looked out the window. The entire city was shrunk down like a miniature model, crouching at her feet.

Seeing her expression of overflowing self-confidence, Ye Qingyu felt at ease. She slid back down against the sofa cushions and began to gossip: “By the way, I heard you went out with Pei Jiyue yesterday?”

“Yes.”

“How was it? Did you see her true colors?” Ye Qingyu’s voice was full of schadenfreude.

Shang Keyu frowned slightly. “Don’t speak about her that way.”

“Huh?” Ye Qingyu was shocked. “Please, don’t tell me you’re actually satisfied with her.”

“…And if I say I am?”

Ye Qingyu stood up abruptly, her expression turning serious. “I was in the same school as Pei Jiyue since high school. Not only is there a problem with her character, but her love life is a mess. She’s had exactly seven ex-girlfriends, and she was dating several of them at the same time.”

“So what?” Shang Keyu’s expression remained unchanged. “I will be the last one.”

“Next time there’s a chance, I’ll bring her to meet you.”

“No, no need. I don’t want to meet someone who bullied my best friend,” Ye Qingyu said with fire in her eyes, gritting her teeth.

“When I first met Niannian, Niannian was being grabbed by the hair and slammed against a desk by her. Her glasses were even crushed underfoot—just because the person she liked looked at Niannian a few extra times during morning exercises. Such a rotten person, and you’re telling me you’re satisfied with her?”

Shang Keyu was stunned. She pictured the girl’s face and could not, for the life of her, imagine her bullying a classmate.

Fearing she wouldn’t believe it, Ye Qingyu pulled up her sleeve and showed Shang Keyu a dark red scar on the inside of her elbow.

“This happened when I went to break up the fight; she scratched me with a compass. The mark is still there.”

Looking at the scar, the smile on Shang Keyu’s lips vanished completely. She fell into deep thought.

Ji Songshu sat in the third row of the classroom, propping up her head, letting the teacher’s lecture go in one ear and out the other.

To call it a “lecture” wasn’t quite accurate. This was an elective course, and the content mainly consisted of the teacher sharing stories about her big house in America and her child studying abroad.

Ji Songshu had arrived too late, and the back rows were already packed, so she had to sit right under the teacher’s nose, quietly daydreaming and scribbling aimlessly in her notebook.

“Do you have time tomorrow?” Shang Keyu’s profile picture popped up.

Her avatar was an Alaskan Malamute wearing sunglasses, looking both cocky and cute.

When it came to dogs, Ji Songshu had always maintained an attitude of “viewing from a distance but not playing with them.” When she was a child, she had been chased and bitten by a dog once. When getting her rabies vaccine, she had wailed at the sight of the needle and was even scolded by the nurse.

The past was too painful to recall. Ji Songshu sighed and pulled out her course schedule.

She had a full day of classes tomorrow, so she could only politely decline.

Shang Keyu: “Send me a copy of your course schedule.”

She was stunned for a moment.

She was a physics major, while Pei Jiyue studied sociology. If anyone looked at the schedule for even a second, they would notice the discrepancy.

So, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask Pei Jiyue. After waiting a long time, there was no response.

Shang Keyu: “Is it inconvenient to tell me?”

Ji Songshu covered her face while screaming for help in her heart. She continued to remain silent, pretending her connection had dropped.

She pinched her chin, thinking of a countermeasure. Should she ask a friend in the faculty to check? Or maybe she knew some of Pei Jiyue’s classmates.

As she was thinking, a spark of inspiration suddenly hit her.

At the beginning of the semester, Pei Jiyue had posted a status complaining about having too many classes. The accompanying picture seemed to be a course schedule.

She hurriedly opened Pei Jiyue’s social media feed and struggled through a pile of distorted selfies and cringey captions until she finally found the schedule, saved it, and sent it to Shang Keyu.

Before Ji Songshu could even celebrate her cleverness, Shang Keyu’s reply came instantly:

“You clearly have no classes tomorrow. You just don’t want to come out with me?”

Ji Songshu: “…”

She replied: “I made plans with a friend.”

“Then what about the day after tomorrow?”

According to Pei Jiyue’s schedule, there were no classes, but Ji Songshu had two classes in the afternoon.

She could only continue to make things up: “I also have plans with a friend.”

The other side was silent for a good while, and then a shocking sentence popped up in the chat box:

“You certainly have a lot of friends. Is it those seven girlfriends?”

Ji Songshu’s breath hitched. How did Shang Keyu know that Pei Jiyue had seven ex-girlfriends?!

She practically wanted to bang her head against the ground. She quickly tried to fix it: “No, no, there’s a school activity. I’m free Friday afternoon; I can skip class.”

“Then at one o’clock Friday afternoon, I’ll pick you up at the school.”

Ji Songshu breathed a sigh of relief and slumped on the desk, closing her eyes to zone out.

“The girl in the blue clothes, you answer this,” the teacher suddenly called on someone to answer a question.

Ji Songshu remained slumped, thinking about which unlucky person it was. This teacher often called on people, but everyone was only picked once. She had unfortunately been selected for the very first question of the first class, so she felt completely safe now.

It wasn’t until the person next to her gave her a kind nudge that Ji Songshu realized the unlucky person was her.

When your luck is down, it really is down!

She hurriedly opened her second-hand book, which was filled with the previous owner’s notes, and scanned it quickly. Then, she closed the book and repeated a long paragraph of concepts word for word.

The teacher nodded. “Very good. This is the second time I’ve called on you, right? After class, give your name to the teaching assistant. I’ll give you full marks for your participation grade.”

In an instant, the eyes of the entire classroom were focused on Ji Songshu. The moment she sat down, she keenly felt a camera lens pointed at her.

In the afternoon, Ji Songshu went to work at the “Dream Coffee Shop.”

Soon, an acquaintance came to find her.

Ke Yan was a senior who had already been recommended for graduate school. She was one of the moderators of the school forum and had met Ji Songshu during a group project.

Ji Songshu came to take her order. As soon as Ke Yan sat down, she said, “Songshu, I found the student ID of the person who took your photo and harassed you on the forum.”

“You still need to be very careful. It’s not like there haven’t been cases before. The whistleblowing post on the forum has already been banned, and the relevant people have all been called in for talks. The school will only try to suppress this kind of thing, and the other party won’t really receive any punishment.”

“I understand. Thank you, Senior,” Ji Songshu said. “What would you like to drink?”

“I’m in a hurry to get back to do an experiment. Just bring me whatever you recommend.”

“Then I’ll treat you to my best matcha latte.”

After seeing her senior off, Ji Songshu plunged into her stressful yet mundane work: taking orders, making coffee, and repeating the cycle.

At that moment, a familiar voice rang out.

Ji Songshu looked up to see someone with bags under their eyes and a face full of despair, drifting in like a ghost.

“Qingqing, what’s wrong with you!?”

“It’s nothing. I’m just doing something for my childhood friend,” Ye Qingyu waved her hand.

“What could possibly turn you into this?”

“I’m planning something big. I’m going to mess with someone.”

“Mess with who?”

“A person you also hate,” Ye Qingyu said mysteriously. “I’ll tell you after I succeed, and we’ll celebrate together.”

Ye Qingyu held out her fist, and Ji Songshu bumped it, but a bad premonition rose in her heart for some reason she couldn’t explain.

“Well, good luck then,” she said.

“I can’t ‘add oil’ (fuel up), I’m an electric car,” Ye Qingyu joked, sticking out her tongue.

Ji Songshu: “Then I’ll help you recharge. The usual? Coconut latte, large, standard sugar, and standard ice.”

“Niannian knows me best.” Ye Qingyu clutched her heart. Suddenly, she remembered something: “By the way, how did your date end up the other day?”

Ji Songshu hid the key information and gave a general account of the day’s experience, concluding at the end: “She’s actually quite a good person; I was mistaken.”

“The precious girl can’t be kept at home,” Ye Qingyu sighed with regret.

Ji Songshu returned the DeepLove from her pocket. “This was very useful, but I still hope to fall in love as myself. That would be the real me.”

“Of course you can, Niannian. The real you is very likable.”

Ji Songshu was a bit embarrassed by Ye Qingyu’s praise. Twirling her hair with her fingers, she said, “But speaking of dating, I’m a complete novice.”

“Who hasn’t started from their first love?” Ye Qingyu remarked. “Your lack of experience just means you have a lot of room for growth!”

As she spoke, she began pulling things out of her bag—this time, several novels as thick as Oxford dictionaries.

Ji Songshu looked curiously at the beautiful women pressed together on the covers and read the titles one by one.

《Rebirth: The Domineering President Alpha Falls in Love with Me》, 《Gentry Contract: The Sweet Omega Runs Away with a Baby》, 《CEO X’s Substitute Beta Lover》…

“These are all timeless classic love bibles. Take them and read them; they’ll definitely be useful!” Ye Qingyu waved her hand grandly.

“Yes, madam. Mission guaranteed to be accomplished,” Ji Songshu stood at attention and saluted.

The two of them leaned against each other and laughed until Ji Songshu was called away by the shop manager to be scolded.

Late at night, in her tiny servant’s room, Ji Songshu tossed and turned, unable to sleep. She turned on the bedside lamp, and the orange light illuminated the entire room.

She fished out her glasses, which were as thick as beer bottles, put them on, and opened the love bibles Ye Qingyu had given her, studying them seriously.

Every person has a unique pheromone. People with high pheromone compatibility have a strong attraction to each other…

Pheromone thirst disorder…

If an Alpha bites the back of the neck and injects pheromones, they will be marked…

After being marked, one will become pregnant…

Ji Songshu: “?”

The more she read, the more confused she became. Her worldview and values were being heavily impacted.

So, the reason she hadn’t felt anything about dating all these years was because she hadn’t “differentiated” yet?

So, the reason people’s personalities changed when they were in love was because of the influence of pheromones?

No wonder she always smelled a faint fragrance on Shang Keyu.

Ji Songshu had an epiphany!

She understood everything!