With a speechless expression, Zhou Ji tugged at the corner of his lips.
Girlfriend…
Even when he was in Yanjing, no one dared to approach him like this. Zhou Ji’s friends were almost all from wealthy families, born with silver spoons in their mouths. They had the best resources and started dating in middle school. Sometimes, before Zhou Ji could even get to know one girlfriend, his friends would already have switched to another.
Personally, Zhou Ji didn’t approve of this kind of relationships.
Although he was born into a prestigious family, he always believed that marriage should be sacred, or at least not like his parents’ marriage. He was fed up with his parents’ promiscuity and disregard for marital and family values. Under such disgust, he could never become the kind of person he despised.
Most importantly, he had never really liked anyone. Since he didn’t like anyone, it was even more impossible for him to casually get together with someone.
He couldn’t stand being around someone he didn’t like, let alone talking to them.
And now, here he was.
After coming to Ningcheng, inexplicably, he had a girlfriend.
It turned out there was someone daring enough to pursue, and there was someone willing to accept.
This matter needs to be wrapped up. Zhou Ji thought to himself. After the match ended, he called one of his follower and said, “Call that person over later.”
The subordinate was puzzled, “Who?”
Impatiently, Zhou Ji looked at him and said, “You think?”
The follower hesitated and probed, “Sister-in-law Ning Zhiyu?”
Zhou Ji put his hand in his pocket and kicked him, saying, “Stop calling her ‘sister-in-law’ in front or behind me. Did I say she’s my girlfriend?”
The follower felt very uncomfortable and wanted to say something, but seeing Zhou Ji’s displeased expression, he swallowed his words. He wanted to say that he wasn’t a gangster. Brother Zhou asked him to call Ning Zhiyu, but what could he do if she refused to come? Would he dare to force her to come? He wasn’t that audacious.
Now he regrets it, regrets it a lot.
Zhao Zheng and the others didn’t want him to follow along with Brother Duan. He knew that Brother Duan looked down on him, but even so, he couldn’t willingly sink to the point of following Zhou Ji!
Zhou Ji has a terrible temper, not even half as good as Brother Duan’s.
But now that they’ve already boarded the pirate ship, how can they get off? He has completely offended Zhao Zheng and the others as well.
After much consideration, he decided to ask for help from a female classmate whom he was familiar with. He offered her three bottles of Nutri-Express1 as a bribe to persuade her to call Ning Zhiyu for him. He didn’t dare to go to Class 2 and call Ning Zhiyu himself because if the teacher from Class 2 saw him, it would be disastrous.
Ning Zhiyu was summoned by an unfamiliar girl outside the classroom. After listening to the girl’s words, she fell into contemplation.
What does Zhou Ji want to do exactly?
Does he want to get back the few hundred bucks he gave her back then?
The girl noticed Ning Zhiyu’s silence and whispered to her, “Ning Zhiyu, even though we don’t know each other and aren’t close, I still want to remind you… That Zhou Ji, I think he has a really bad temper. One of the girls in our class gave him chocolates, and he just threw them away. He even rejected a confession from someone. If you feel troubled, you should let the teacher handle it. But you also need to be careful because what if he gets angry and becomes violent?”
The more she thought about it, the more she felt it was possible. She sighed and muttered to herself, “If only I had known, I wouldn’t have agreed.”
It was just three bottles of Nutri-Express.
Ning Zhiyu snapped out of her thoughts and smiled, “Thank you anyway. Even if he doesn’t approach you, he will find someone else. I appreciate your warning.”
The girl sighed, “Just be careful yourself. If you really don’t want the teacher to know, you can talk to Jiang Yumo.”
She paused for a moment, “I’ve seen you playing with Jiang Yumo before. Brother Duan likes Jiang Yumo so much, so if you encounter any danger or difficulties, just let Jiang Yumo know, and it shouldn’t be a big problem.” She muttered to herself again, “Come to think of it, I really think Brother Duan is much better than Zhou Ji.”
Ning Zhiyu didn’t know how to answer this topic, so she could only nod and say, “Okay, I will be careful. Thank you.”
After the bell rang signaling the end of the first period of evening self-study, Ning Zhiyu arrived at the entrance of the multimedia classroom.
This was where Zhou Ji Yue usually stayed.
After thinking it over, she felt it was necessary to come here at least once and clarify things. Otherwise, it would always be like this, truly troublesome.
Both of them arrived at the multimedia classroom almost at the same time.
There wouldn’t be anyone coming here at night, after all, it was pitch black.
“Do you have something to talk to me about?” Ning Zhiyu directly asked. There were only ten minutes left until the start of the next class, so it was better to skip unnecessary pleasantries. She was afraid that if she wasn’t in the classroom when the bell rang for the next class, the teacher would come looking for her. She really didn’t want the teachers to know about this kind of thing.
Her straightforwardness caught Zhou Ji Yue off guard.
Why was her tone so familiar?
Did he know her? Have they met before? Did they have any conversations? It seemed she really took herself as his girlfriend.
“I heard you’re my girlfriend,” Zhou Ji’s tone carried a hint of sarcasm. “Is that so?”
So, that’s how it is. It’s not about the money.
Ning Zhiyu sensed his displeasure in his tone, and replied calmly, “There’s something that needs to be clarified. Your friends came to me with a bouquet of flowers and forced me to accept. Maybe in your logic of coercion, accepting the flowers makes me your girlfriend.”
Zhou Ji’s expression changed. “What do you mean?”
“What I mean is,” Ning Zhiyu looked up at him, her eyes clear under the moonlight, “I am not your girlfriend, nor have I ever considered becoming your girlfriend. You don’t have to feel offended. On the contrary, the actions of your friends are quite troublesome. If it happens again, I’ll have to involve the teachers.”
Zhou Ji wasn’t a fool; he couldn’t pretend not to understand her words.
He clenched his teeth and took a deep breath. “You…”
Ning Zhiyu nodded. “I have to go back to class now.”
She paused for a moment. “Is there anything else you want?”
Zhou Ji stared at her, almost gritting his teeth as he said, “No.”
Shameful! Shameful!
He hurried back to the classroom, and the first thing he did was kick away the little follower’s desk, causing a loud noise throughout the classroom. Even Duan Ye glanced in his direction.
Guo Shichao commented while paying attention to the situation, “D*mn, did he take the wrong medicine or did a door hit his pig head?”
He’s throwing such a tantrum.
Duan Ye couldn’t be bothered.
However, the class monitor from Class 10 was frightened. The classroom was very quiet, and it was almost time for class. The headmaster would patrol during evening self-study, and if the headmaster saw this, it would cause a big scene. The class monitor was a kind person, so they ran to Zhou Ji’s side and tried to persuade him repeatedly, barely suppressing his anger.
Zhou Ji was still very furious and pointed at one of the little followers who had been jumping around before, saying, “No one has ever dared to play with me like this. Be careful from now on!”
In Zhou Ji’s original plan, he wanted to clarify things with Ning Zhiyu, to make sure she didn’t misunderstand that he was pursuing her or that she was his girlfriend.
He thought Ning Zhiyu was like the other girls he had encountered before.
Unexpectedly, he ended up being humiliated instead. Although Ning Zhiyu didn’t say anything harsh, it was still extremely embarrassing.
- a popular Chinese beverage, a combination of milk and fruit juice ↩︎
Hehe DY responds to the sun and ZJ responds to the moon
Aww, the poor young master’s feelings were hurt? Poor widdle young master’s pride was wounded? Boo-hoo, oh woe is the young master! 😕