“Mysophobia?” Wen Jingrou gave a smug smile. “That was only meant for you boys, but I’m a girl—it’s different for Yishu.” She smiled bashfully then giggled, “You guys should come with him to my birthday party that’s in a few days.”
Zhong Chufeng despised the way Wen Jingrou looked. She’s just a university student, but she dresses up like a wh*re at some club. What is she even thinking? She must not know her place to think that she can make Yishu her boyfriend! Why doesn’t she take a look at herself? Zhong Chufeng coughed. “About that birthday party of yours, I’m afraid the strong perfume scent will trigger my allergies so I better not go.”
Wen Jingrou immediately sensed the sarcasm in his words and her expression changed.
“Zhong Chufeng, I know you’re good with words, but I’m not interested in you. What right do you have to speak to me like that? Don’t you know how to be a man?”
“Of course I do,” Zhong Chufeng shot back at her. “Don’t you know that I’m known for being nice to people? Everyone at this school knows I’m like a central heating system because I treat everyone the same. So has it not occurred to you why you’re the only person I’m not nice to?”
Wen Jingrou smirked. “Oh? Aren’t you just jealous because I’m interested in Yishu? But hey, you should take a look in the mirror. How can I ever fall for that face?”
“I don’t need your interest. But if you do fall for me one day, I probably have to go get plastic surgery right away. Being a love interest of someone like you is insulting.”
“You!”
Bang! The door to the dormitory opened and a tall and slender figure appeared in the doorway.
All talk stopped abruptly. Wen Jingrou’s previously flustered expression quickly changed when she saw Yuchi Yishu. “Yishu, you’re back. It’s going to be my birthday in a few days and I wanted to invite you to my birthday party.”
“Get down,” Yuchi Yishu demanded as he looked at her with a stone-hard expression. His overwhelming presence indicated that there was no room for arguing.
She responded brazenly. “Um, I’m also—” Before she could finish her sentence, he paced over toward her, ripped the blanket off the bed, and tossed it over her body. “Get out.”
There was a hint of impatience in his grim tone as though he was suppressing his anger. She pulled the blanket down and retorted, “Yuchi Yishu, I purposely came to invite you to my birthday party. What is this attitude you’re giving me?”
“What is this attitude?” he snarled. “What birthday invitation requires you to sit here to invite me? Did you get my approval to come into the dorm and sit on my bed? I never hit women, but if this happens again, I won’t hesitate to make an exception.”
“You!” She did not think that he would be so unforgiving and continued to sit there shamelessly. “I’m not leaving. I personally came here to invite you to my birthday party. You don’t have to go if you don’t want to, but do you have to treat me like this?”
Zhong Chufeng had enough of her. Although he had the urge to get up and kick her out, he held himself back out of decency. He walked over to her, wrapped the blanket all over her, then threw her over his shoulder.
“Zhong Chufeng! Are you crazy? What are you doing? Put me down!”
“Shut up, if you don’t want me to just throw you down from here.”
The Chinese character ‘feng’ in Zhong Chufeng’s name sounded the same as the word ‘crazy’ in Chinese. Both his behavior and his name were the same; they were both insane. If he said he was going to throw her, there was a possibility that he would actually do that. She became terrified in an instant and did not dare to speak anymore. Once she was brought outside the dormitory, she tore the blanket away and glared at him.
“I already told you he has mysophobia but you didn’t believe me. Do you believe me now? You like Yishu, don’t you? That’s his blanket. You can have it!”
She threw the blanket at him in anger. Because they were at the boys’ dormitory, several people heard the commotion and turned to look in their direction. “What are you looking at?” she snapped at them.
Some were scared off by her glare and quickly looked away while some ridiculed her, “We don’t want to look either, but this is the guys’ dormitory. You’re the one who came all the way here to put on a show. Wouldn’t it be such a waste if we didn’t look?”
“Hey!”
Zhong Chufeng muttered, “Just go home. Stop embarrassing yourself by staying here any longer.”
Hearing that, Wen Jingrou turned around and stormed off. When she returned to the girls’ dormitory, the other girls quickly gravitated toward her. “Jingrou, how did it go? Did Yuchi Yishu agree to come to your birthday party?”
The moment she brought it up, Wen Jingrou got mad again. She tossed the invitation card that was in her hand and fumed, “As if. I went to look for him at his dorm and he actually had his friend throw me out. Zhong Chufeng, that son of a b*tch. I’m not done with him yet.”
As the girls listened, they empathized with her. One of them advised, “Just forget it. The hardest person to win over at our school is Yuchi Yishu. Even though he’ll normally answer your questions when you ask him, I don’t think he’s interested in dating at all. It seems like he only cares about his studies.”
“Yeah, that’s right. I’ve never seen him show interest in any girl before.”
Wen Jingrou felt slightly better when she heard that. If Yuchi Yishu had disregarded her because he was interested in someone else, then she would be devastated. Luckily, it was because he only cared about his studies and had no interest in dating. She started to calm down. “I’ll just wait for him then. We’re already sophomores. I doubt he won’t start dating next year or the year after that.”
“Jingrou, why are you so determined? There are so many outstanding guys at our school, and they’re not just ordinary guys either. There are also many tall and handsome guys with good family backgrounds here.”
“Yeah. They’re just guys. If it doesn’t work out with this one, then there will always be a next one. Yuchi Yishu might be great, but the others aren’t bad either. Jingrou, don’t you want to consider other guys?”
“What does that have to do with me?” Wen Jingrou crossed her arms in front of her chest and declared, “Even if there were more guys on this planet, I will only like Yuchi Yishu. I don’t want anyone except for him.”
But little did she know how big of a price she would have to pay in the future for that one sentence. She only realized when the time came that there were just some things she could not have. Nevertheless, that was for the future. For now, she was still set on her feelings for Yuchi Yishu and on being an eccentric female student who liked to dress maturely.
