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"Our situations are different. You have someone in your heart. I don't. For me, it is good to go on a blind date."
Zhao Yeye sat on the recliner next to Xia Yeshuang.
Last time, Xia Yeshuang's teacher had mentioned that both sides were officially organizing a joint exchange party for domestic and foreign artists.
At that time, Xia Yeshuang had said she wasn't going. After all, she still had someone waiting for her in the piano room.
She hadn't expected that just before the event, Xia Yeshuang would get her heart broken, crying so pitifully. She figured she might as well follow her teacher to New York to relax.
Zhao Yeye had nothing to do anyway, so she had come along at her own expense.
Xia Yeshuang turned her head and asked with confusion,
"You just broke up with that guy named Wang. How can you say you have no one in your heart?"
She remembered that last time Zhao Yeye mentioned him, she had been full of praise.
"Oh, you mean that one?" Zhao Yeye waved her hand nonchalantly. "He was just for fun. How could I take it seriously?"
Xia Yeshuang frowned, clearly not understanding.
"Doesn't he like you very much? Is it really okay for you to treat him like that?"
Zhao Yeye curled the corners of her mouth and said with a smile.
"Does he like me?"
"He likes my money."
"I like that he has a sweet mouth and knows how to coax people. He likes that I am rich and generous. This is a win-win situation. How could it ever lead to being heartbroken?"
Xia Yeshuang was stunned.
She knew that Zhao Yeye was not serious about her relationships, but she hadn't expected that her "special someone" was literally bought with money.
Xia Yeshuang bit her lower lip and suddenly asked.
"When you were with him, wasn't there a single moment of true feeling?"
Zhao Yeye let out a light sigh, lay flat on the chair, and said faintly.
"We started with money. The purpose of everything he said was just for me to transfer him more money."
"When a person is attracted by money, yet you demand that they give you true feelings, isn't that asking for too much?"
Xia Yeshuang was lost in thought.
A person feels unhappy because they always want to have it both ways.
You are clearly attracted to someone because of their luxury car and mansion, yet you demand that they don't love money and only love you sincerely.
Isn't that too greedy?
Xia Yeshuang was silent for a long time.
Before, she had actually complained about Lu Xing in her heart.
Why, when I clearly like you so sincerely, are you so indifferent to me? I expected you to like me too.
But...
Xia Yeshuang closed her eyes, lay back on the chair, and thought of what Wei Qingyu had said on her birthday.
Wei Qingyu had said that she was the one who had pursued him. Lu Xing didn't have to pay for her expectations.
That's right.
She liked Lu Xing. On what grounds should Lu Xing be required to like her back?
Expectation, in itself, is a form of invisible blackmail.
Xia Yeshuang let out a self-deprecating laugh. What was the use of figuring this out now? She and Lu Xing had long since ended.
Hearing no movement from the side, Zhao Yeye asked something she had been curious about for a long time.
"How on earth did you finally move on?"
She had been running around with Xia Yeshuang in pursuit of love before. She hadn't expected Xia Yeshuang to give up so quickly.
Until now, she didn't even know what that guy looked like.
She was curious.
Really curious.
Zhao Yeye had known Xia Yeshuang for a long time. She knew that this "Little Goldie" just had a bright and flamboyant face.
She looks like she has a short fuse, and if you get to know her, her temper is indeed big.
But she doesn't have any bad intentions because her brain capacity just isn't that large.
As Zhao Yeye thought this, she chuckled to herself.
Xia Yeshuang lost out because of her looks.
She was too strong-featured and too flamboyant. In the stereotypical impression of an ordinary person, she looked like she would be an expert in love.
Before, Zhao Yeye also didn't dare to talk to Xia Yeshuang, afraid that she might suddenly lash out.
Until one day, she discovered that although Xia Yeshuang dressed fashionably, she was actually secretly wearing socks with childish little bears on them.
At that time, Xia Yeshuang had even threatened her not to tell anyone. She looked fierce, but her ears were red with shyness.
It was also at that time that Zhao Yeye suddenly realized.
'Ah, so Xia Yeshuang is a tsundere!'
Her fierce look was to make others think she wasn't to be trifled with so they wouldn't dare bully her.
But in reality, she was a pure and innocent child who would even look away when she saw a kiss on TV.
Like a child secretly wearing adult clothes, she was particularly cute.
Zhao Yeye cursed in her heart again. That guy who didn't like Xia Yeshuang was simply blind!
"How did I move on?"
Xia Yeshuang lay flat on the chair, stared at the dark sky, and said blankly.
"He said his job was to fish for rich people."
"He said he has now hooked someone richer and more powerful than me, so of course he doesn't need me anymore."
"He also said, for the sake of our past relationship, he hoped I wouldn't stop him from finding a better and wealthier rich lady."
"I asked him what our long time together meant."
"He said I was just unlucky."
Xia Yeshuang wanted to laugh, but she couldn't laugh at all.
She had thought she had long since buried this memory, but only when she could repeat Lu Xing's words verbatim did she understand.
She couldn't forget.
She had never forgotten.
"What?!"
Zhao Yeye abruptly sat up from the recliner, in disbelief.
"He's a gold digger!"
She knew that Xia Yeshuang's wealth was well-known throughout the school, so of course she would run into people with bad intentions.
But!
This gold digger actually had the nerve to say he wanted an even richer lady!
Xia Yeshuang said, feigning ease.
"But it's okay. The most difficult time for me has already passed. I don't like him anymore."
Zhao Yeye stared at Xia Yeshuang's face and said.
"Take off your sunglasses before you speak."
Xia Yeshuang: "..."
Zhao Yeye: "..."
She was wondering why Xia Yeshuang was pretending to be blind and wearing sunglasses at night.
It was just to save face; she didn't want to look embarrassed while she cried.
Xia Yeshuang put her sunglasses back on, stared at the steel forest of high-rise buildings, and said calmly.
"There's nothing that can't be solved by going out to play."
"If there is, then just play twice."
She believed that during this period abroad, she could heal her own heart.
Zhao Yeye sighed and comforted her.
"That's true. But you're fine by yourself now. We can go to... huh?"
She didn't know which of her words had hit Xia Yeshuang's sore spot. Xia Yeshuang's mouth twisted, and she burst out crying with a loud sob.
Zhao Yeye panicked, fumbled to stand up, and fell right off the recliner.
"Aiyo, holy crap!"
Xia Yeshuang cried while pouring Coke into her wine glass. With big black sunglasses on, she sobbed and wailed.
"That's right! I'm alone now, boo-hoo-hoo!"
"Before, he and I were two people in the piano room. Now I'm alone, boo-hoo-hoo!"
Zhao Yeye: "..."
Damn it!
I shouldn't have said that!
Looking at Xia Yeshuang's pitiful state as she drank the Coke, Zhao Yeye suggested.
"Shuangshuang, how about we have a little something to drink?"
"I just came from Sis Chi's place next door. She seems to be training her alcohol tolerance recently, so she brought a lot of wine."
"Huh?"
Xia Yeshuang asked, dazed, "Sis Chi?"
"Chi Yueshan!"
"She's quite famous on the internet recently. You must have seen her. My teacher and her teacher are neighbors. We've had dinner together before."
"What, is opera not art?"
Zhao Yeye thought that instead of letting her cry here, it would be better to drink a little and go to sleep early.
Thinking of this, she stood up and went directly to the room next door.
Ten minutes later.
Zhao Yeye returned. Behind her was a woman as cold as snow, holding a bottle of Maotai.
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