The Junior Schemer Has Her Eyes on Me, What Should I Do? - Chapter 5

“How is it, how is it!”

“How exactly is the senior student?!”

“Honestly, tell me, did you and the senior student used to have something going on?!!”

“If not, let me! Let me, alright!”

“Chen Mengjing, hurry up and come out, come out!!”

All the messages above were from Song Chuyou, sent late last night.

After a night passed, this morning around 11 a.m., she sent another one, “If you don’t reply, I’m disowning you for one day, one day, one day!!”

Around 12 p.m., she added another message, “Chen Mengjing, your disappearing acts this time, very good, very good! Scared, scared!”

Song Chuyou loved using exclamation marks and repeated words/phrases. Sitting in the driver’s seat, Chen Mengjing looked at the messages her friend sent. After starting the car and turning on the air conditioning, she replied to her good friend, “Firstly, she is not your senior student; secondly, you have no chance. We slept together.”

As soon as she put down her phone, Song Chuyou’s call came in lightning fast.

Chen Mengjing put on her earphones and answered the call, only to almost have her eardrums pierced by Song Chuyou’s scream.

“Please be quiet, my tender ears can’t handle your roughness,” Chen Mengjing said while starting the car.

“F***, f***, f***!!! Chen (Iron) Meng (Tree) Jing actually blossomed, ahhh… Please tell me every single detail, from beginning to end, not a single drop left behind—”

“I’m driving,” Chen Mengjing interrupted her.

“F***, f***, f***! You can still chat while driving, your driving skills are incredible!!” Song Chuyou, when excited, was always talkative and noisy.

“Hanging up.”

“No, no, no! Where are you? I’m coming to find you.” Burning with the fire of gossip, Song Chuyou at this moment wished she could instantly fly in front of Chen Mengjing.

When they left last night, she finally remembered that the aloof “senior student” had indeed appeared on Chen Mengjing’s social media a long time ago.

“No time, I have to go to school to register.”

“So you really are driving.”

“Otherwise?”

“So boring, it’s actually a fake drive!”

Hanging up the phone, Chen Mengjing’s ears were finally at peace.

She aggressively stepped on the gas. As she sped forward, the unhappiness caused by not receiving Zhou Xiangxu’s reply gradually fell behind.

Zhou Xiangxu was the opposite of her. She had thought that after the ONS, today would be no different from before.

Chen Mengjing’s short message, “Did you get home,” pulled her back to last night again. Every single detail from that time was vivid: the other party’s breath, body temperature, and soft murmurs came back to cling to her, and the pain of being bitten felt incredibly clear—

Although her fingernails were short, Zhou Xiangxu knew that in the moment of losing herself and unknowingly tightening her grip, her fingertips must have dug into Chen Mengjing’s smooth skin.

That was why she retaliated by creating those marks.

Although it was her first time, Zhou Xiangxu’s desire to change herself was too strong. That desire transformed into a passion and energy that frightened even herself, and it was all released onto Chen Mengjing.

“Senior student is so excellent no matter what she does.”

Zhou Xiangxu both wanted to accept Chen Mengjing’s post-coital comment with composure and felt that the other party’s compliment was full of teasing. So she responded, “You’re no less impressive.”

She knew that Chen Mengjing was the type of person who would try harder the more you complimented her. After saying that, the second time, she indeed became more dedicated.

Too unrestrained. Chen Mengjing is indeed—

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiangxu unconsciously stopped herself.

She couldn’t keep recalling it; happiness easily leads to obsession.

Her gaze returned to the “Did you get home” message on WeChat.

Along with it, she remembered Chen Mengjing’s question when she was leaving, “Senior student, are you really planning to just leave like this?” The anticipation in her words was obvious.

It was just that Zhou Xiangxu knew she couldn’t, or rather, didn’t dare to respond to Chen Mengjing’s expectation.

She was well aware of how compatible they were last night.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want such an intimate relationship.

But as soon as she thought of her mother, she couldn’t help but withdraw.

That was why she emphasized that it was only an ONS before they started; that was why she wanted to slip away without saying goodbye after waking up.

And that was why, at this very moment, she chose to be indifferent to Chen Mengjing’s greeting.

Although they were compatible, there would be no future, nor could there be one.

They had no future.

More than half an hour passed. Zhou Xiangxu was still sitting at the desk, seemingly captivated by Chen Mengjing’s short message, “Did you get home.”

Not until she heard a sound from the courtyard—it was her sister’s laughter.

Zhou Xiangxu quickly picked up her phone, took one last look at the message sent by Chen Mengjing, and then deleted it.

She put her diary back into the drawer and got up to leave the room.

Just as she turned the corner of the stairs, she saw her sister standing in the entryway.

“Sis!” Zhou Xiangying’s face was still smiling. She was carrying a box in her left hand and pulling a suitcase with her right, wearing wireless earphones.

“Who are you talking to?” Zhou Xiangxu walked down the stairs, not intending to help her sister with the luggage.

Zhou Xiangying let go of the suitcase, tilted her head to remove the wireless earphones, and walked into the kitchen, saying, “It was Dad. He originally said he’d take me, but the family has been busy lately, so I came by myself.”

“Oh,” Zhou Xiangxu’s tone was flat because she was still thinking about Chen Mengjing. “Why are you here early? Didn’t your semester start on the 30th?”

“Yesterday, Mom and Dad asked you to come home, but you said you were busy. Sis, are you really that busy?!” Zhou Xiangying put the box on the dining table.

Zhou Xiangxu also entered the kitchen, her gaze falling onto the cardboard box. “I am busy.”

Being busy was true. Not wanting to go home was also true.

“This is the cake Mom made. We originally planned to celebrate your birthday as a family, but you missed it, so Mom asked me to come early and make up for your birthday.”

“No need.”

“You can tell Mom and Dad yourself. The cake is delivered; my mission is complete.”

Zhou Xiangying placed her backpack on the wooden stool next to the dining table, unzipped it, and pulled out a gift box. “Here, my gift for you. Happy Birthday!”

Zhou Xiangxu took it. “Thank you. What is it?”

“You’ll know if you open it,” Zhou Xiangying picked up the leftover water her sister had been drinking, tilted her head back, and drank it down, gulping. “It’s so hot. When will summer finally end!”

Neither of the sisters liked summer.

Zhou Xiangxu didn’t respond. She carefully unwrapped the gift.

Zhou Xiangying put down the cup, walked to the stove, turned on the faucet, and hastily rinsed her hands.

Returning to the dining table, she reached for the cardboard box with her wet hands.

Zhou Xiangxu quickly pulled out two tissues and handed them to her. “Wipe them first.”

“Sis, your complexion is really good today!”

“Is it?”

“Your face is pink and lovely. You look like a woman immersed in happiness.”

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

It was only an ONS. How could she look like a woman immersed in happiness?

Zhou Xiangxu felt her sister’s words were overly dramatic. But she also knew her sister wasn’t a frivolous person.

“Hey, did you and Brother Dong do that last night—”

“Zhou Xiangying!” Zhou Xiangxu stopped her. “You’re a high school student. Can’t you be a little more innocent?”

“Hmph! Won’t own up to it.”

“There wasn’t any!”

Zhou Xiangxu’s face flushed even deeper with slight anger.

“Didn’t Brother Dong celebrate your birthday last night?”

Zhou Xiangying was disappointed. Last night around 8 p.m., she saw Li Qudong update his social media status: he was having dinner with Zhou Xiangxu, and the photo had flowers, a small cake, and, of course, Zhou Xiangxu. She quickly told her parents. Right after she finished, Li Qudong’s parents came over to their house. The two sets of parents enthusiastically discussed how their children had finally wised up and were getting down to business…

“How did you know?!” Zhou Xiangxu thought to herself, Li Qudong wasn’t a gossipy person.

“If you had the habit of checking social media, you would know why we know.”

“Brother Dong posted on social media?” Zhou Xiangxu found it unbelievable. Wasn’t he so busy that even the flowers and cake were bought by his assistant?

Li Qudong was Zhou Xiangxu’s neighbor, three years older than her, kind of like the boy next door.

When they were little, he often came over to Zhou Xiangxu’s house to eat.

Both families hoped they would end up together. Over the years, relatives from both sides had tried to matchmake them hundreds of times, both openly and subtly, but the people involved never agreed.

Seeing that they weren’t dating anyone else, the two families always seized every opportunity to keep trying to matchmake them.

“Did you really not?” Zhou Xiangying wouldn’t give up.

“No,” Zhou Xiangxu stated firmly.

Last night after dinner, Li Qudong suggested they go see a movie.

Halfway through the movie, he went out to answer a call.

Not long after, Zhou Xiangxu received a text message from him, “There’s an emergency at the company. I have to go back. Take a taxi home after the movie.”

After the movie, it was not yet ten o’clock. While waiting for a taxi by the roadside,

Zhou Xiangxu suddenly had the impulse to let loose,

The sudden impulse became uncontrollable while waiting for the car.

Having lived a conventional life for twenty-six years, she suddenly wanted to do something different. So, she put the flowers Li Qudong had given her—she had told him many times she didn’t like roses, but he still gave her roses—on the green belt beside her when the taxi arrived, and then told the driver she was going to Pansidong.

Her heart pounded all the way until she got out of the car. Only then did her resolve to change herself solidify. But outside the bar, she still hesitated for a long time—

“So disappointing!” Her sister’s words pulled Zhou Xiangxu out of her thoughts.

“What are you disappointed about?” she said distractedly.

The image of Chen Mengjing’s lazy and indifferent demeanor when they parted at noon once again dominated her mind.

“Forget it, let’s eat cake. I’m hungry.”

Zhou Xiangxu brewed a pot of Jin Jun Mei. This was the black tea that her great-aunt Cui Lanyi—the former owner of this old house she currently lived in—enjoyed during her lifetime. Influenced by her, Zhou Xiangxu also liked Jin Jun Mei.

Zhou Xiangying lit the birthday candles and even sang the birthday song.

While eating the cake, she persistently asked, “Are you and Brother Dong dating secretly?”

Zhou Xiangxu almost spat out the black tea. “No!”

“So disappointing!” Zhou Xiangying pouted.

“What exactly are you disappointed about?”

“Brother Dong looks so reliable, handsome, started his business from scratch, successful career, known background—”

“Please don’t repeat the things Mom and Dad have said a hundred and eighty times in front of me!” Zhou Xiangxu interrupted her sister.

“You can just stay at home every day and waste your time. Let’s see how long you can stay young,” Zhou Xiangying said maturely, mimicking their parents’ tone.

“Even if I go out every day, I won’t stay young for much longer,” Zhou Xiangxu retorted mercilessly.

“Boring.”

“I never intended to become interesting.”

Zhou Xiangxu had no ambition for a sense of humor.

Zhou Xiangying asked while eating the cake, “Sis, so, are you still a virgin?”

“Zhou Xiangying, please don’t ask such private questions. I don’t want to answer.”

“It is, after all!” Zhou Xiangying smiled slyly.

Thinking of Chen Mengjing, thinking of last night, Zhou Xiangxu changed the subject. “Did you finish your summer homework?”

“Zhou Xiangxu, please don’t ask such private questions. I don’t want to answer.”

“Hehe!”…

Late at night, Zhou Xiangxu couldn’t sleep. She took out Chen Mengjing’s WeChat account, clicked into her social media, and didn’t expect that she had already—