I Fall Every Time I Meet an Alpha [Transmigrated into a Book] - Chapter 33

Dr. Chen looked at the person before him and chuckled softly. “You only react when it’s something you’re interested in.”

Upon hearing this, Meng Yuqing inwardly cursed. Playing mind games with a psychologist was still quite mentally taxing.

“Let me be direct,” Meng Yuqing said, meeting his gaze, no longer wanting to beat around the bush. “I’m not sick. Just as you said, I want to be released as soon as possible.”

“Your father hired me for precisely that purpose. As long as you cooperate fully, the outcome will be what you desire.” The psychologist smiled as he observed the girl across from him. She wasn’t as difficult to handle as during their first meeting. The hedgehog had finally retracted its spines, revealing its soft underbelly.

“I can cooperate with you,” Meng Yuqing nodded. “I hope you keep your word.”

“I will,” the psychologist assured her. “May we have a pleasant collaboration in the days to come.”

“Pleasant collaboration,” Meng Yuqing replied with a faint, ambiguous smile.

In the following days, Meng Yuqing and the psychologist began their “pleasant collaboration” at home. The two engaged in in-depth discussions about psychological issues.

Meng Yuqing’s problem wasn’t particularly major, but it wasn’t minor either. She had temporarily suspended her studies and was confined at home under strict supervision, unable to leave.

Without the villainous female supporting character at school, Zhong Xiaoxiao should have felt like she could breathe freely. Yet, seeing the heavily guarded school building, which resembled a prison, she felt suffocated.

Damn, this situation had escalated far more than she’d imagined.

Previously, Zhong Xiaoxiao had either been at the hospital or at home, where everything had been calm. It wasn’t until she returned to school that she realized the outside world’s reaction to the incident was far more intense than she’d anticipated.

Meng Yuzhou wasn’t in good spirits. Sitting at his desk, he seemed gloomy and withdrawn.

When Zhong Xiaoxiao appeared, his eyes lit up and not just his. Over a dozen pairs of eyes in the classroom brightened as well.

“Boss, boss lady, you’re okay?” One boy pointed at her dramatically. “Am I seeing a ghost or what?”

Zhong Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him and retorted playfully, “You’re the ghost here.”

“Hah, hah…” The boy scratched his head awkwardly after being called out.

“Quit spouting nonsense, man! Boss lady is perfectly fine!” Another boy whistled at Zhong Xiaoxiao. “Right, boss lady?” Following his lead, the other boys joined in, whistling loudly.

The sharp, piercing whistles made Zhong Xiaoxiao feel like her scalp was being peeled off. She had always been extremely sensitive to shrill, grating noises, and this was unbearable.

“Ugh, you guys are so annoying!” Zhong Xiaoxiao was so irritated by the noise that she wanted to throw a book at them. But the more she reacted, the more the boys egged each other on.

“Alright, class is starting. Quiet down.” Meng Yuzhou didn’t like the excessive attention the boys were giving Zhong Xiaoxiao. His expression darkened as he reminded them to settle down.

“Hey, the boss has spoken. Shh! Quiet!”

The boys immediately hushed, responding to each other in quick succession.

The girls in the class had also been surprised to see Zhong Xiaoxiao at first. But they quickly grew impatient with the boys’ whistling. Compared to the enthusiastic boys, the girls were much more indifferent.

Zhong Xiaoxiao wasn’t close with the other girls and didn’t pay them much attention. The person she knew best the villainous female supporting character had an empty seat.

Her gaze lingered on that vacant spot, and for some reason, she felt an inexplicable emptiness in her heart.

Meng Yuqing wasn’t here, and Zhong Xiaoxiao actually… missed her? What the hell.

Zhong Xiaoxiao cursed inwardly several times. After sitting down, her mind began to race again.

What should the next plot development be?

With the villainous female supporting character gone, wouldn’t that mean there was no one left to stand in the way between her and the male lead…?

Zhong Xiaoxiao found herself missing Meng Yuqing more and more.

She simply couldn’t accept a little brat like the male lead as her boyfriend. He hadn’t even grown all his feathers yet, what kind of romance could they possibly have?

Even for a noona romance, he’d at least have to be twenty.

Zhong Xiaoxiao tilted her head to look at the male lead, silently thinking to herself: Bratty little dìdì, when you turn twenty, maybe I’ll consider it. For now, all I can say is sorry.

Meng Yuzhou noticed Zhong Xiaoxiao’s gaze and turned to look at her. Seeing his attention, Zhong Xiaoxiao smiled at him before turning back to the blackboard.

Meng Yuzhou followed her lead and looked at the blackboard as well. His eyes were unfocused, his attention scattered, his thoughts drifting. His entire body sat in the classroom like an empty shell. Whatever the teacher said went in one ear and out the other.

His mind was no longer on studying at all.

The incident of his sister’s attempted suicide had shaken him deeply. Though she had ultimately survived, a shadow had fallen over his heart.

Perhaps this was a warning. He thought this was his sister’s warning to him. If he dared to be with her, she would die with him.

Recalling the scene he had witnessed that day, Meng Yuzhou still felt lingering fear. Now, every night, he had nightmares dreams of his sister standing on a high place, smiling at him, only to jump the next moment… The moment she jumped, he would wake up in terror.

After waking, his heart would race wildly, his breath coming in ragged gasps, his forehead drenched in cold sweat.

Meng Yuzhou slept poorly, his mental state deteriorating. In this weakened state, pessimism crept in. He began to feel that life was utterly meaningless.

Unable to love, forbidden to love, what was the point?

He loved her, yet he couldn’t be with her.

What was the point?

“From now on,  let’s just be friends.” On the way to walk Zhong Xiaoxiao home, Meng Yuzhou forced the words out with difficulty.

Since he couldn’t give her a future, he didn’t want to hold her back any longer.

God knew how much it hurt him to say those words. The mere thought of the person he loved being embraced by someone else made him want to kill especially if it was that shameless bastard.

But what could he do? Could he step over his sister’s corpse to be with her?

He couldn’t.

“Huh?” Zhong Xiaoxiao was baffled by his words. What kind of situation was this? The turn was so abrupt she couldn’t react in time. She had still been thinking about how to reject the male lead’s various advances, only for him to suddenly drop a breakup line out of nowhere. She couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

Why the breakup? Someone explain this to her! (The plot was moving faster than a tornado.)

“I think we should focus on our studies for now. Maybe when we’re in university…” Meng Yuzhou tried to explain.

“Oh, got it.” Focus on studies, got it! Zhong Xiaoxiao was actually somewhat satisfied with this arrangement, though she wasn’t sure if readers would be.

“You… agree?” Seeing how readily Zhong Xiaoxiao accepted it, Meng Yuzhou felt a pang of bitterness. Did she even have him in her heart at all? Was she not the least bit upset? No tears, no tantrums, she was even colder than Gan Qingyun.

Meng Yuzhou had seen how girls acted when they were dumped. Yet, he had never felt an ounce of pity for them.

Now this unbearable feeling had fallen upon him, and only three words came to mind: poetic justice.

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