There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 53.2

Just then, the shop door was pushed open again, and a group of girls who looked like college students walked in one after another.

Four or five of them ordered drinks and happened to sit down next to Qin Ke and Qiao Xiaoyun.

Within seconds of them sitting down, voices carried over from their table –

“Have you heard? It seems that Huo Zhonglou from the Business School already has a girlfriend?”

“… Holy crap?”

“Is it true?”

“Damn, I haven’t even figured out how to write my love letter yet, how can he already have a girlfriend??”

“Yeah – Didn’t they say just a couple days ago that since school started, no girl has ever been able to get within half a meter of him??”

“…”

Qin Ke’s expression froze at this table.

Across from her, Qiao Xiaoyun gave her a meaningful look.

The two of them were engaged in a silent emotional exchange when they heard a few girls across from them move past the denial stage of being unable to accept this nightmarish news and enter a state of frenzy—

“Which college, which major, which class and year? I must go see what this little vixen who stole Huo Zhonglou looks like!”

“I heard she’s not from our school.”

“A long-distance relationship? With heartthrob Huo’s looks, wouldn’t it just be a matter of time before someone steals him away?”

“It doesn’t seem to be a long-distance relationship either…”

“Sister, stop keeping us in suspense, just tell us.”

The one who spoke first hesitated for a few seconds, then lowered her voice and said quietly, “I don’t know if the information is accurate or not. There were too many people in the basketball court at that time, I couldn’t see a thing—anyway, someone who was close by said the girl who was directly wrapped in a jacket and kissed by heartthrob Huo was wearing the uniform of the affiliated high school next to our school.”

“…”

The air suddenly fell dead silent.

A few seconds later, a earth-shattering cry came from the next table:

“Holy crap!! A high school student!!!”

“Isn’t that still underage?!”

“What a beast…”

“…”

Qin Ke’s fingers holding the straw trembled.

Across from her, Qiao Xiaoyun covered her mouth and laughed inappropriately.

Qin Ke gave her a helpless look.

At this point, the topic at the neighboring table took a turn, and they began to discuss the possibility of the couple breaking up.

“I can’t imagine heartthrob Huo would be interested in a high school student. What kind of high school girl could tame such a wild stallion?”

“Tsk, you speak as if you know the campus heartthrob so well.”

“I don’t need to know him, I just need to know the group of girls in our school who are like wolves and tigers—so I’m even more confused, how could he date a high school girl?”

“Maybe they’ll break up soon.”

“I think so too. How many senior female students in A University are eagerly waiting to use all their charms to hook him? Can a handsome boyfriend be kept? Not possible.”

“Speaking of which, what does his girlfriend look like? Is she pretty?”

“Never seen her. Heartthrob Huo protected her so well at that time, not a bit was revealed. But I heard her figure is just ordinary, probably not that good-looking.”

“…”

Beside them, Qiao Xiaoyun, who had been laughing, paused upon hearing this. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she glanced at those girls with an unhappy look.

However, they were chatting so enthusiastically that they didn’t notice Qiao Xiaoyun’s gaze at all.

Qiao Xiaoyun turned back and muttered in the lowest voice, “Not ten thousand times better-looking than you…Taking pleasure in others’ misfortune behind their backs, wanting them to break up, and even picking on the girlfriend’s looks and figure, aren’t you just jealous that the campus heartthrob doesn’t like you… Hmph!”

Qin Ke, sitting across the table, heard this and couldn’t help but smile.

Afterwards, the two of them waited quietly for another twenty minutes before finally hearing those A University girls end their conversation and leave the milk tea shop.

As soon as the last person went out the door, Qiao Xiaoyun immediately let out a long sigh of relief—

“Oh my, that scared me to death.”

Qin Ke looked up at her, “What were you afraid of?”

“Wasn’t it because one of them might suddenly realize you’re that high school girl they’re so eager to get rid of?” Qiao Xiaoyun looked at Qin Ke with a still-shaken expression.

Qin Ke joked, “I’m good at sprinting.”

Qiao Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment, then her expression became somewhat complicated, “As expected of the woman who captured heartthrob Huo. You can still laugh at a time like this.”

“?” Qin Ke was a bit at a loss whether to laugh or cry, “What do you mean ‘a time like this’?”

Qiao Xiaoyun: “Didn’t you hear? Those girls just listed a hundred possibilities for your breakup!”

“Oh, you mean those things they said… the hundred possibilities of me getting dumped or someone stealing him away?” Qin Ke asked with a smile.

“You’re still laughing—” Qiao Xiaoyun was quite upset, “You’re really too easygoing! Aren’t you angry at all about how they talked about you??”

“…”

Qin Ke blinked and said frankly, “They’re just a group of strangers I’ve never met, and like you said, they’re just jealous of me having the person or relationship they want—why should I be angry about them?”

Qiao Xiaoyun was speechless for a while.

“Although what you say does make sense…”

This time the silence was particularly long. Qiao Xiaoyun finally expressed the worry in her heart. “Aren’t you afraid that what they said might come true?”

“?”

“Well… what if hearthrob Huo is deliberately seduced away by some bad woman?” Qiao Xiaoyun hesitated, “After all, you know, you have way too many rivals in love.”

Qin Ke smiled.

“I’m not worried.”

“Huh? Why?” Qiao Xiaoyun said without thinking, “Nine out of ten handsome guys are jerks, are you really that confident in him?”

As soon as she said it, Qiao Xiaoyun regretted it a little and quickly waved her hands, “Uh, uh, don’t take what I said seriously, I’m just talking nonsense…”

“It’s okay, I do trust him very much.”

After Qin Ke finished speaking, she was silent for a few seconds. She played with the straw in her hand, twirling it around and around.

Not knowing what she was thinking about, Qiao Xiaoyun only saw the girl suddenly smile after a long while and look up. Her eyes were clear and transparent.

“He’s different from other guys… No, he’s just different from normal people.”

Qiao Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing—

“Then you two are truly a perfect match, aren’t you?”

“…?”

“You don’t know? In our class, even in our grade, many classmates say you’re not like normal girls—actually, I think so too, hahaha.”

“.”

This time, Qin Ke was stunned for a long while.

After the shock, she laughed wryly and lowered her head, “Maybe… it really is like that.”

****

As they left the milk tea shop, it was about half an hour before the school gates opened in the afternoon. Qin Ke and Qiao Xiaoyun walked together towards the main gate of the affiliated high school.

At this time, there weren’t many people outside the school yet. Qin Ke and Qiao Xiaoyun were chatting and laughing as they walked to the gate. Suddenly, they heard a voice from behind—

“Qin Ke!”

Both of them were startled and looked up.

The smile on Qin Ke’s face faded.

Standing by the stone monument next to the school gate were none other than Qin Ke’s parents—

Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang.