I rejected your confession, but you took my best friend home?

Chapter 52 I think it's best not to make a move on her.

Tong Yining's momentum weakened considerably, even though she was the one with the louder voice.

But why did she always feel that Tang Zhi had an imposing presence even without anger?

His voice was flat and his face expressionless, yet it brought her a great sense of oppression.

"Her not playing with you anymore has nothing to do with me, and how we became friends has nothing to do with you either, but I can tell you clearly that there is no causal relationship between the two."

Tang Zhi answered softly, and Tong Yining didn't know whether she was telling the truth or not.

But judging from her current state, she doesn't seem to be lying.

"Goo-"

Although she had prepared a long list of questions to ask, she couldn't come up with any of them now.

It's as if they already know what answer they'll get after asking the question.

"Can I...trust you?"

Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant.

After Tang Zhi finished speaking, she turned to leave.

She didn't want to waste any more time here. Her answers to Tong Yining's questions were just out of pity for them, considering how long they had followed her.

"Wait! There's one last question..."

Tong Yining called out to Tang Zhi,

Actually, what she wanted to ask Tang Zhi wasn't just about Yin Mengran; there was something else she really wanted to know...

Tang Zhi stopped in her tracks, but didn't turn around; she listened quietly.

Tong Yining lowered her head, her hands nervously twisting the hem of her clothes. After a while, she asked in a very low voice:

"Um...you and Zhou Heng..."

"He's my brother."

Before Tong Yining could finish speaking, Tang Zhi interrupted and left.

Tong Yining was left standing there alone, the night breeze caressing her cheeks, her mouth slightly open, frozen like a wooden statue.

She had considered many possibilities, but she never imagined that the two of them would have this kind of relationship.

For a moment, an overwhelming joy welled up within her, as if her heart were blooming with happiness.

Does this mean that all my previous worries were wrong? That Tang Zhi and Zhou Heng have no chance at all?

"Damn it, I already said no, no... You're crazy."

At this moment, Lu Yunshuo finally managed to escape and arrived here.

Seeing Tong Yining standing in the alley, he couldn't help but pause in surprise.

"You didn't leave?"

"what..."

Tong Yining came to her senses and felt somewhat embarrassed when she saw Lu Yunshuo standing in front of her.

I just dumped him. We weren't friends, but we were classmates at least. It doesn't feel right to just leave like that...

Lu Yunshuo clearly didn't take the matter seriously and didn't mention it again. He simply straightened his disheveled clothes and said:

"Alright, let's go home. What bad luck. Let's follow them again after school tomorrow."

Tong Yining stepped forward, stood in front of Lu Yunshuo, and said:

"I think it has nothing to do with Tang Zhi, so I think we should just leave her alone."

Lu Yunshuo was taken aback, paused for a moment, then spread his hands and asked in surprise:

"Huh? What? No... why did you change your mind? Didn't you think the same thing as me? That Tang Zhi was the culprit?"

"It was like that before... but not anymore. I think there must be another reason for Ranran's change. By the way... I haven't asked you yet, what do you think has changed about Ranran? Let me see if you think the same way I do."

Tong Yining stroked her chin, deep in thought. She carefully recalled the differences in Yin Mengran, and felt that she was more carefree than before.

I used to be so worried about this and that, but now it seems like I don't care about anything anymore.

She wanted to know if Lu Yunshuo felt the same way, if that would prove her intuition was correct.

Without even thinking, Lu Yunshuo said:

"Of course she doesn't like me anymore! And she even said it in front of the whole class! This would never have happened before!"

"??"

Tong Yining looked at Lu Yunshuo with her brows furrowed and her expression grave. Her brain seemed to have lost its ability to think; this one sentence had short-circuited her brain.

She had never asked Lu Yunshuo this question because she felt that his feelings were probably similar to her own.

After all, Yin Mengran's change was obvious on the surface.

But why was Lu Yunshuo's answer so inexplicable?

"Wait! Hold on! You mean... Yin Mengran doesn't like you, and you think she's changed? Is that all?"

"Yes! Don't you think so?"

Lu Yunshuo answered frankly, nodding earnestly.

Tong Yining closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and held it in her chest. She felt a chill run down her spine and a sense of being deceived.

She actually believed that Lu Yunshuo cared a lot about Yin Mengran and could even see that she had changed.

It seems Lu Yunshuo is truly beyond redemption now. No wonder Yin Mengran so resolutely declared she didn't like him back then.

Who could like someone like that?

"What a waste of time!"

Tong Yining glared at Lu Yunshuo, then brushed past him and quickly left.

Throughout the day, starting in the morning, Lu Yunshuo's image in her mind kept crumbling.

Even now, in her heart, Lu Yunshuo is nothing but ruins. And ruins come in different grades. He is not even as good as Kong Yue, who is also a ruin!

"Hey? What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

When Lu Yunshuo saw Tong Yining about to leave, he was puzzled. Wasn't Yin Mengran a person who had changed like this? Where did he say something wrong?

He'd been trapped in confusion all day. He didn't know what was wrong with Yin Mengran this morning—she'd betrayed him. Liang Jiaxiang didn't understand him either.

I don't know how I lost track of Tang Zhi that night; it was as if she had vanished.

Then I encountered a crazy man who insisted that I had thrown something at him. I only saw a lollipop on the ground, nothing else.

Following this, Tong Yining is now doing the same thing, her thoughts diverging from her own.

He always felt like he was being targeted, like everyone was against him.

"What bad luck! Am I cursed? Why is everything going wrong with me..."

Lu Yunshuo sighed helplessly, shook his head, and left. The thought of having to take an exam tomorrow made him even more upset.

He's been thinking about Yin Mengran a lot lately and hasn't been studying much. He can clearly feel that his grades have dropped...

That evening, Tong Yining returned home, took out her phone, and glanced at her message list.

In the past, her phone was always full of unread messages, from Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran.

But now... it's unusually quiet, and I haven't received any response to the messages I sent.

She opened her chat with Zhou Heng, knowing full well that he wouldn't reply, and might not even see it.

But she still sent a message:

Good luck on your exam tomorrow!