Running Away While Pregnant with the Villain’s Child - Chapter 7
Music festivals have only become a thing in recent years, and Luo Xingran’s university happens to be one of the best at hosting them among its peers.
Listening to music and watching dance performances should have been a relaxing experience.
However, the mere thought of having to see Li Dan shortly made Luo Xingran feel nothing but speechless irritation. It’s fair to say that her originally great mood had been completely clouded over by this guy.
When the time was right, Luo Xingran went to the road next to the music festival to wait for the male lead.
Li Dan had originally asked Luo Xingran to meet near a warehouse to talk, but she had sternly refused. What a joke—given Li Dan’s character, she wouldn’t give him an ounce of trust. Not a single shred. She’d trust a stray cat or dog on the street more than him.
When the appointed time arrived, Li Dan showed up exactly on the second.
When she saw him, Luo Xingran was momentarily stunned.
How should she put it? When she saw Li Dan two days ago, he at least dressed like a human being. Now, in this getup, he looked exactly like a beggar under an overpass. A tattered shirt, jeans covered in stains, and hair that practically had flies circling it.
Luo Xingran felt like she would suffocate if she looked at him for more than two seconds.
“Stop right there! Don’t come any closer to me!” Luo Xingran strictly forbade his approach.
Li Dan hadn’t expected that the look he had specifically crafted would be met with such loathing from Luo Xingran. How could this woman have no compassion at all? How dare she be disgusted by him! She had no idea that he had dressed this way entirely for her sake.
“Ranran, listen to me…” Li Dan tried to move closer, only to be poked back by Luo Xingran’s umbrella.
“I can hear you. Just stand there and talk. I’m not deaf; I can hear you perfectly fine,” Luo Xingran said, giving him zero face.
She was holding a long-handled black umbrella with a curved hook, specifically brought to keep Li Dan at bay. Originally, she wondered if she was overreacting, but the moment she saw him, she thanked her own vigilance. If anything, she regretted not wrapping some plastic film around the umbrella tip beforehand. Getting her umbrella dirty because of him truly pained her heart.
“You’re actually disgusted by me? Luo Xingran, oh Luo Xingran, I didn’t realize you were such a gold-digger!”
Li Dan had called Luo Xingran out to play the victim and to drive a wedge between her and Pei Junzhuo. But when he saw the sheer disdain in her eyes, his ego exploded. As the dignified male lead of this book, how could he allow himself to be looked down upon by one of the female leads?
“I never thought you were this kind of person! Luo Xingran, you are obsessed with money! You’re nothing but a woman who only loves wealth!”
“Heh, who knows where all that money of yours even comes from!”
Did Li Dan not know? As the author, of course he knew. He was shouting these things now purely to slander her.
As a crowd began to gather, Li Dan’s pathetic, fragile ego seemed to be nourished. He stared at Luo Xingran, waiting for her to break down. Once she collapsed, he would step forward with gentle comfort and play the “good guy.”
But the breakdown never came. Instead, Luo Xingran gave an elegant roll of her eyes. She extended her umbrella fully, forcing Li Dan even further away.
“What does my money have to do with you? Anyone who knows the Luo Group knows exactly where my money comes from.”
“What’s the matter? In that brain of yours, rich people don’t have daughters? As for being a gold-digger, that claim is even more ridiculous.”
“Please, take a look at yourself. Some poor people have clothes that are washed until they’re faded, yet they are still clean and tidy.”
“Now look at you. If I don’t let you get close, at most you could call me a germaphobe, yet you somehow jump to ‘despising the poor and loving the rich.’ For heaven’s sake, why do you need to be so close just to talk?”
Luo Xingran scanned Li Dan from head to toe, feeling like her eyes were being assaulted.
While not everyone in the crowd knew Luo Xingran, they all agreed that Li Dan was indeed filthy. Feeling the passersby distancing themselves from him, Li Dan’s rage intensified.
He struggled to suppress his fury, adopting a calm tone as he said to Luo Xingran: “My family is truly poor, Xingran. I really do love you.”
“I’m begging you, even if we just start as friends, please?”
He sounded pitiful enough, and the expression on his face matched that of a victim. Luo Xingran looked at the veins bulging in his neck and found it hilarious.
Was he trying to play the moral kidnapping card with her?
Luo Xingran found it ridiculous; Li Dan clearly didn’t know her well at all. Moral kidnapping was something that had never once succeeded against her. In her past life, she was an orphan who had to fight for everything. If she had ever compromised due to moral pressure, she would have starved to death on the streets long ago.
“Then I’m begging you—stop showing up in front of me, alright?”
“For some people, ‘pursuit’ is actual pursuit; for others, it’s just harassment.”
“Everyone, help me judge this: is spreading rumors everywhere that we’re dating a proper way to pursue someone?”
“And another thing—this guy claims to love me every day, yet the girls by his side change daily. You can’t even pretend to be decent while pursuing me. Being with you would be like ‘the Old God of Longevity hanging himself’—I’d have to be tired of living. Or like a ‘turtle painting itself green’—playing a game of being strictly ‘green’ with myself?”
“I’ll become friends with you when the sun and moon swap places, when the air no longer contains oxygen, and when every plant and animal is dead. Only then will I agree to be your friend.”
What a joke—back in the day, she could take on three people in an argument at once without even pausing for breath.
“Can’t you just give me a chance or a reason? Do you have to be so heartless?” As soon as Li Dan finished speaking, the boys standing around started to get restless, beginning to empathize with him.
“It’s not that I want to be heartless…”
Just as Luo Xingran was about to deliver the fatal blow to Li Dan, she spotted the stunning beauty she had encountered a couple of days prior.
“But I like women—specifically ones like this beautiful lady here. You want to be with me?”
“Go to Thailand for a sex change first, then I’ll consider becoming ordinary friends with you.”
“And I don’t accept the hormone-only route; it has to be the full surgery.”
Li Dan’s expression grew increasingly ugly. Gritting his teeth, he hissed, “Don’t take things too far!”
“Didn’t you say you liked me to death? If you aren’t even willing to do a small thing like this, it seems you don’t actually like me all that much.”
Luo Xingran gave Li Dan zero room to keep up his act, continuing to tear him down directly.
“Classmate, you should show him some respect.”
Sure enough, someone jumped out to play the “Saintly Father” role.
“Does he respect my sexual orientation? He doesn’t respect me, yet I’m expected to respect him?” Luo Xingran shot back.
“Do I look like the Virgin Mary to you? Or does my behavior suggest I’m some kind of easy target?”
“I have no interest in being generous at someone else’s expense, but you seem to love doing it. What’s the matter? Is it a case of ‘like mourning like’? Are you also the type who forces people to be with you against their will?”
“Tsk, tsk. Truly, public morals are declining and hearts are not what they used to be. Having someone like you in our school is a disgrace.”
Luo Xingran fought two people at once, talking them into a corner until they were utterly powerless to strike back.
Seeing the other person’s face turn beet-red, Li Dan spoke up: “Liking girls is wrong. Only the union of a man and a woman is natural and right.”
“If you ask me, it’s ‘natural and right’ for you to be struck by lightning this instant. What’s the matter? Why aren’t you dead yet?”
Luo Xingran looked at him with an expression of sincere confusion, as if she were genuinely curious.
A few people in the crowd began to whisper: “Homosexuality is so disgusting. I can’t believe Luo Xingran is that kind of person.”
“Nothing is as disgusting as you people, standing around with nothing better to do than spray filth from your foul mouths. I might just be ‘disgusting,’ but you lot have maggots in your brains—your whole beings are rotten.”
Luo Xingran wasn’t afraid at all; she simply expanded the battlefield.
“When it comes to being shameless, I can’t compete with you lot who are cursing me. It’s one thing to watch out of curiosity, but you actually have the nerve to speak up? What, do you know me? Or do you know him?”
“You don’t know anyone, yet you dare to heckle and play judge and jury. If he were a human trafficker today, you’d all be accomplices! If I ended up dead, you’d all be murderers!”
Pei Junzhuo had received a message from someone else and was actually quite worried about Luo Xingran.
However, when she arrived, she realized her worry was redundant.
In those five missing years, Xingran had grown far more than she had imagined. Yet, she felt a pang of heartache for the Luo Xingran who had grown this way. In corners she hadn’t seen, she wondered how many terrible people and hardships Xingran had faced all on her own.
Seeing the crowd disperse, Luo Xingran looked coldly at Li Dan.
“By tomorrow, news of you two-timing—no, ten-timing—will be all over the school. Li Dan, if your brain is functioning, don’t ever show your face in front of me again.”
“Every time you appear, I’ll make sure you regret it.”
By now, Li Dan had calmed down slightly. Looking at Pei Junzhuo, his confidence vanished completely. He didn’t even dare to leave a parting threat; he simply tucked his tail between his legs and bolted.
Once he was gone, Luo Xingran finally turned toward Pei Junzhuo.
“I am so incredibly sorry about just now. I apologize to you.”
“I’m sorry, I was just saying things randomly.”
“If you need me to, I can help you clarify everything,” Luo Xingran apologized profusely, showing she was truly sorry for using her as a shield.
What she didn’t expect was for Pei Junzhuo to lean in, closing the distance between them.
“If you like me… aren’t you going to show a little sincerity?”
Pei Junzhuo’s warm breath was right by Luo Xingran’s ear. She felt her entire body go weak and tingly.
“I… I… I…”
The current situation was far too intense. Looking into eyes that shone as bright as the stars, Luo Xingran’s heart began to thud wildly.
Waaaah, this beauty is just too good-looking. I’ve already surrendered my soul for the sake of beauty!
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Wow. Hahahaha. Love at first sight even after traveling back and forth to two worlds.