Published at 22nd of November 2020 07:44:11 PM
Chapter 92
Translator: RandomAlex
Editor: Makoto
“How much did you spend on that fruit?” The silly girl Xuan Lele was worried about her boyfriend’s wallet. “Do you have enough money?”
“Don’t worry, I definitely have enough.”
Wei Mingyan walked forward with his girlfriend behind his back, ignoring the looks from people around him. As he walked, he said, “I was the one who didn’t think of you before, and I never saved money, but now that I’m a guy with a girlfriend, I won’t always be spending this money.”
As she listened to her boyfriend’s words, Xuan Lele couldn’t help but blush as she smiled ever so sweetly. She hugged Wei Mingyan’s neck, her eyes full of hope. “We still have one year until graduation. Although it will be a bit tiring to work part-time now, as long as we are willing to sacrifice and put in this effort, we can definitely get through this together. After graduation, we will start working together, and life will get better.”
She was a somewhat optimistic girl. Although she hasn’t lived a good life since birth, she was lucky to have this optimistic outlook on life. Even though she was too poor to eat in high school, she didn’t feel wronged. She truly believed in what grandma said, when the pain is over, there’s a rainbow.
“My Grandmother told me that I feel tired now, but when this matter is over and I have put in effort for my future life, my future self will thank my present self.”
Xuan Lele’s face was full of yearning for the future. “It’s called bittersweet, and you could only enjoy it after you eat up the bitterness first.”
Wei Mingyan carried her up the stairs, agreeing to it, “I think so too.”
“Yeah.”
Hearing her boyfriend agree with her thoughts, Xuan Lele smiled beautifully and said, “Although we have no money now, we are still young. When we graduate, we will join the workforce and work together for a few years, and we will definitely save money.”
Wei Mingyan paused and whispered, “Lele, would you be mad at me if you found out I was lying to you about something?”
Xuan Lele smiled, though unease crept into her eyes. “Are you… are you going to break up with me?”
Although she was simple and gullible, she was perceptive of the emotions transmitted by others. Her boyfriend’s increasingly bad attitude towards her had made Xuan Lele toss and turn at night.
Then, she was suddenly asked out yesterday. In truth, she wanted to ask her boyfriend what she really thought, but she didn’t expect that kind of thing to happen, causing her to panic and completely forgetting to ask.
If it was yesterday, and Wei Mingyan decided to break up with her, although Xuan Lele would be sad, she would have accepted it calmly. After all, she had metally prepared for it beforehand.
However, after almost being raped, her boyfriend protected her and helped carry her away so dotingly and reliably along the way. Xuan Lele, who originally liked Wei Mingyan’s heart, felt her love deepen again, and she felt that if her boyfriend broke up with her now, she couldn’t help but cry.
“Mingyan, well, let’s talk about this after class …” Xuan Lele’s voice trembled a little, and her past experiences had framed her thoughts so that she wouldn’t even think of blaming the boyfriend she had poured her heart and soul into.
Only, she just wanted to take advantage of this period of class to adjust her heart, so as not to make both of them look bad.
“Lele, what are you talking about? How can I break up with you!”
The man’s voice of doubt came from under her. The emotion that Xuan Lele just tried to suppress came out uncontrollably. She felt her eyes redden, blinked quickly, her voice choked as she said, “You didn’t talk to me for a while, so I thought …”
This period of time may have been the most painful period for Xuan Lele. Her most beloved boyfriend suddenly acted coldly towards her. Even when she gave him food, his attitude was so impatient.
Xuan Lele has been unpopular since she was a child in the village, so she was particularly sensitive to emotions. When Wei Mingyan asked her out, she had already thought about him leaving her in her heart. So, if they were to break up one day, she would be the generous one and ensure that both parties don’t look bad.
Unexpectedly, at this time, she still couldn’t control it.
“It’s all my fault. I was busy with other things and didn’t care about you. I asked you out yesterday and wanted to make up for it. Now, you are hurt…”
Wei Mingyan listened to the girl’s slightly sobbing voice, and suddenly panicked, “Lele, don’t cry. I really won’t be like this in the future. If I do this again, just hit me…”
Even so, she really thought that Mingyan didn’t want her. She secretly cried several times in bed these few days.
She really didn’t think it was all a blunder. However, just now, she couldn’t help but cry in front of her boyfriend. How humiliating.
Xuan Lele hugged the man’s neck, buried her head with a little shame, and whispered in a sullen voice, “I thought too much, I’m sorry Mingyan…”
“If I hadn’t been busy with other things and ignored you, you wouldn’t have got me wrong. I should apologize.”
Seeing the door of the classroom, Wei Mingyan carefully put down the person behind him, gently rubbed Xuan Lele’s hair, looked into her swollen red eyes and whispered, “Go on in, I’ll pick you up after class.”
“Okay!”
He helped Xuan Lele sit down, and as she watched her boyfriend leave, her heart was sweet, and her face, which had just cried, smiled again.
After listening to the teacher carefully, Xuan Lele sat obediently and waited for her boyfriend to pick her up. The pen in her hand couldn’t help but fall on the paper and began to draw the outline of the man.
Mingyan’s eyes are very beautiful, bright like stars, and he is very gentle when looking at her, especially today…
Drawing and sketching, she thought of her previous conversation with Wei Mingyan, and couldn’t help but smile.
It’s great that Mingyan had no intention of breaking up with her…
“What’s on your mind, silly?”
Yang Qing’s voice suddenly came from the side. Xuan Lele was shocked and quickly looked to the side. Sure enough, Yang Qing was sitting in the seat, twisting her eyebrows and looking at her.
“Why are you here? Don’t you have no class today?”
“I just came over after a meal. When I came over, I saw you smiling to yourself here, even saw smile-wrinkles near your eyes.”
When Yang Qing finished speaking, she saw that Xuan Lele touched the corner of her eye with a nervous face, and suddenly turned her eyes angrily. “Lele, you are so gullible, what would you do in the future?”
“Don’t touch it, your skin is smooth, not to mention wrinkles, you don’t even have a single blemish.”
She turned the key ring in her hand and pouted at Xuan Lele. “Lele, are you just going to follow Wei Mingyan all the way to the end?”
“Yes. ” Xuan Lele didn’t quite understand what her friends were saying, she nodded honestly.
“No, I have long wanted to say this. What else does he have besides his face? Huh? You two have been together for a long time. He hasn’t given you a single gift. He didn’t even give you a bottle of water. Instead you, ah, have been providing for him this whole time. Last time, because he said he couldn’t sleep at night, you even reduced your meal expenditures to save and buy him sleeping earplugs …”
“What about him? Not even a thank you in return, I’m telling you…”
“No, Mingyan just didn’t have any money. He bought me new clothes and shoes yesterday. You see, it’s the pair I’m wearing now.”
Yang Qing looked over with her chin propped up. “Yeah, sure he bought it. 10-yuan a pair, he can really save money.”
Xuan Lele was a little embarrassed and shrunk her feet under the table. “He has worked very hard, and he has no money in his hands.”
“How about you? Do YOU have money in your hands?”
If it wasn’t for the fact that the person in front of her was her best friend, Yang Qing really would have wanted to just ditch her and walk away. “Lele, don’t always spoil and support him. He is a big man. Right now, the classes aren’t intense, a part-time job would feed him and he won’t starve!”
“Forget it, you have drowned by love. When you’re deceived by the guy, don’t look for me to cry to.”
“Look, I will put down my words here. He, Wei Mingyan, will never spend more than 100 yuan on you from the time you start until you break up!”
“No, you just watch, you watch!”
As she was putting in harsh words, she saw the silly girl in front of her bright-eyed and cheerful, waving toward someone behind her.
Yang Qing rolled her eyes again. Looking at Xuan Lele’s happy and sweet appearance, she didn’t have to look back to know who had come over.
“Lele, I came to pick you up.” Wei Mingyan came down the aisle with a bag and said hello to Yang Qing when he saw her. “Yang Qing, what a coincidence, you’re here.”
“I came to see Lele.” Yang Qing rolled her eyes again and turned her head. “Are you here to take Lele to dinner?”
She knows that after these two people got together, Xuan Lele had paid for every meal.
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“Yes, didn’t Lele hurt her foot? I want to take her to eat something delicious.”
Looking at the gentle smile of the handsome man in front of her, Yang Qing also squeezed out a smile, but her heart was full of scorn.
Saying something about taking Xuan Lele out for a delicious meal, won’t she end up paying for it anyway?!
She turned to look back at this silly girl, whose face has smiled sweetly again. Yang Qing thought about it and said to Xuan Lele, “Lele, I’m going to do some shopping later. I don’t have enough money. Can you lend me some?”
“Okay, how much do you want?” Xuan Lele didn’t doubt her even for a second, and hurriedly turned to get her wallet.
“A few hundred yuan, I don’t have enough right now. I’ll pay you back later.”
Yang Qing looks down at Xuan Lele’s wallet and grabs it. “Exactly this much money, ah. I’ll borrow it, and I’ll give it back to you tonight when I get back to our dorm room.”
“Yang Qing? Yang Qing?”
Xuan Lele looked at Yang Qing with a confused face. She directly took away her wallet. Lele called a few times, only to get a couple of waves from her good-looking back.
“Let her be. I don’t think she is a roommate who borrows money and doesn’t pay it back. “Wei Mingyan carefully held his girlfriend to stand up. “Let’s go, I will take you to dinner.”
Xuan Lele stopped talking.
She wasn’t afraid that Yang Qing won’t pay back her money, but now, Yang Qing has taken all her money. How will she pay the bill when they eat later?
Yang Qing took her friend’s money for this. She pinched her wallet and looked proud.
Let’s look at that guy now. He would definitely be embarrassed if he asked Lele to pay!
If he doesn’t pay for it, she was sure Lele will see his true face clearly.
Yang Qing felt like she had accomplished something when she thought of her best friend finally getting rid of that cheapskate.
When Lele breaks up, she must invite all the people in her dorm room to eat kebabs together to celebrate, and drink beer and lobster at will. As long as Lele gets rid of that scum, it’s worth it!
Yang Qing went back, humming a little song along the way. The roommates in their dormitory asked her why she appeared so happy, but she didn’t tell the truth, and just said to wait for a barbecue.
Finally, at dusk, she received a call from Xuan Lele to come down and get something.
Yang Qing heard her best friend’s voice on the phone. Why does she still sound so happy?
Did she break up and go stupid?
She hurriedly went downstairs, but beside Xuan Lele, she saw the man dressed in a cheap coat, with something in his hand.
“This is what we packed when we ate just now. You can share it. Thank you for taking care of Lele.”
Yang Qing heard this sentence for the second time today. She took the bag half-heartedly, and after a glance, she couldn’t see anything, so she helped Xuan Lele upstairs first.
As they walked, she asked carefully, “Lele, did you spend a lot of money today?”
“No.” Xuan Lele walked the stairs carefully with the help of her friends. “Today, Mingyan spent money, and he specially ordered more food and asked the waiter to pack it for you.”
Pack?
That cheapskate, giving away leftovers!
Yang Qing helped her friend back to the dormitory, and immediately opened the bag. Turns out, the food inside appeared well prepared, and it surely didn’t look like leftovers.
Looking at Xuan Lele, sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a mobile phone and typing away with a sweet smile, Yang Qing doubtfully tied the bag shut and opened it again.
It must have just opened the wrong way, let’s try again!
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“Mingyan? Talking to your girlfriend?”
Wei Mingyan was sending a love message on his mobile phone. The roommate who just pushed the door open asked. He nodded, looked up and smiled. “Yeah, she hurt her foot the last few days, and I have to comfort her.”
“Old three, you don’t know, Mingyan has become a 24-hour filial boyfriend. He would send her and pick her up to and fro class, giving her food and drink. This guy, on my way back just now, I bumped into them together. Mingyan was carrying the girl, and his voice while speaking to her was so gentle that he could drop water.”
(TNote: so gentle that she could drop water = hyperbole of the phrase ‘as gentle as the water flowing’.)
The roommate on the other side, who had just finished playing a game, took off his headphones and started crackling a bit, making the roommate who just entered the door stunned.
“You are a good kid, you love your girlfriend so much.”
The relationship in their dorm isn’t bad. Wei Mingyan liked to pretend to be poor, but he was usually quite normal, except that he always disappeared mysteriously at various times.
They don’t know that Wei Mingyan disappeared to dine lavishly. They thought that their brother was poor and couldn’t eat.
“By the way Old Three, didn’t I borrow 100 yuan from you last week? Here, I’m paying you back.”
The roommate, who was called Old Third, looked at the 100-yuan handed by Wei Mingyan and hesitated. “If you’re short of money, you should use it first. Didn’t your girlfriend just get hurt? Take her to eat something good.”
(TNote: With a sense of camaraderie in a dorm room between males, they usually call each other by the number in order of who’s the eldest, or who is respected more. Just like siblings: Eldest, second, third and so on. With 老 [lǎo]/ ‘old’ prefix to indicate affection or familiarity.)
“Don’t worry, I have money here. When I wasn’t with Lele before, I was certain I could do anything myself. But now, I have Lele, right?”
What’s the relationship between rich and poor, and having a girlfriend?
Old Third didn’t quite understand, but when he saw Wei Mingyan just saying a couple of sentences and then turning back to his phone, his pretty face still full of rippling smiles, he just felt a toothache.
He took the money, placed it into his pocket, and said to another roommate on the side, “Look at his flirty face. He’s got a great girlfriend.”
“Jealous? If you’re jealous. Go find one.”
Wei Mingyan replied with a smile, closed the chat interface and opened a web page.
He did have a computer.
A broken computer, a very broken one. It’s a wonder how the original owner could have found it from some godforsaken part of town.
Wei Mingyan was on the upper bunk. He had the back of his computer toward the bedroom. His dorm roommates would never know that this guy’s hands knocking on the keyboard were not chatting with his girlfriend, but doing something else.
When he was done, it was already dark. Wei Mingyan looked at the successful status displayed on the computer, turned off the computer, said good night to Xuan Lele on the other end of the phone, then closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Xuan Lele, on the other hand, received a message from her boyfriend, and her lips immediately curled up sweetly, and closed her eyes to sleep.
Tomorrow, she still has to get up early to study. She was going to take an exam soon. She must get the scholarship. This way, her burden will not be so heavy in the future.
Yang Qing began to inquire about Wei Mingyan.
Before, she didn’t bother to inquire. After several contacts, Yang Qing felt that even if she didn’t say anything or do anything, Lele would definitely find something wrong with Wei Mingyan.
After all, when a normal girl falls in love, she can’t believe she would be the one who pays all the expenses when they go out, not even once from his side. Is this normal?
Definitely not!
As a result, she never imagined that she underestimated Xuan Lele’ naiveté, and she was still defending Wei Mingyan when things came to this point.
Now, it’s time for her to gather evidence.
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Yang Qing’s family was not short of money, but they were definitely not a rich family. Her so-called collecting evidence meant asking people around Wei Mingyan.
The answers are surprisingly consistent.
A poor man.
Some time ago, Wei Mingyan told Xuan Lele that he had not eaten, and Xuan Lele came to deliver food, which made some people puzzled.
A poor man like Wei Mingyan could have a girlfriend, so why can’t they?
Yang Qing’s interview only yielded a bunch of grumbles, but nothing useful at all. Although everyone acquiesced that Wei Mingyan was poor, few people say that he was bad.
To what extent was Wei Mingyan poor?
He likes to wear old clothes. Of course, they were all clean. Next, he eats and drinks as simple as he needs to. Then, he runs out to work part-time whenever he has time, so he looks like a very motivated poor teenager.
If he doesn’t need his girlfriend’s money.
However, Yang Qing recently got the information that Wei Mingyan didn’t work part-time any more.
They all think that Wei Mingyan’s girlfriend was injured, so this 24-hour filial boyfriend gave up his part-time job to concentrate on accompanying his girlfriend.
However, Yang Qing knew that Xuan Lele was busy studying for the exams. Apart from when Wei Mingyan showed up for class, she was always in her dorm room.
Yang Qing, according to what she found out today, stayed behind the big tree outside the dormitory early.
Although she had never done this before, she hid herself behind the leaves.
Finally, the handsome man came out. He was still wearing his washed out white shirt and shoes that looked like they would never cost more than 50-yuan, and they were also very shabby.
Seeing Wei Mingyan leave school, Yang Qing followed behind him.
On the way, she was worried about what she would do if Wei Mingyan got on the bus. Fortunately, Wei Mingyan might have wanted to save money, as he kept walking.
At first, Yang Qing paid much attention to moving stealthily, but after walking for half an hour, she grew very tired and gasped as she stayed on his tail. The man in front kept walking with slender legs at a leisurely speed.
Doesn’t that person feel tired?
She usually doesn’t like sports very much, so walking like this for a while was already too much to bear. However, when she thought of her best friend who was still in the dark, thinking that her boyfriend was also concentrating on studying, she gathered strength again and walked after Wei Mingyan.
After the two went one after the other, Yang Qing didn’t think about hiding at all. Anyway, Wei Mingyan could never imagine that there was a person following him.
They ended up walking for 2 hours non-stop.
Finally, the man in front stopped moving, and Yang Qing quickly halted her footsteps.
She looked at Wei Mingyan standing in front of a familiar door and raised her head.
Orphanage?
What is he doing in the orphanage?
Was this guy an orphan?
But didn’t Lele tell her that Wei Mingyan still had a father?
Rather, she has never heard him talk about his mother.
Yang Qing didn’t dare to take the lead. She watched Wei Mingyan go in, and only then did she dare to carefully emerge from the side and quietly walk in.
Luckily, the guards here don’t seem to be very strict.
As soon as she entered, Yang Qing heard a girl thank him in a grateful voice. “Thank you so much Mr. Wei, if it wasn’t for those donations you provided, we’d be in a tough spot for a while…