vrcanaries Chapter 474: Saving the Jealous School Prince 29
Chapter 474: Saving the Jealous School Prince 29
"How did you get together? Who pursued who first?" Zhou Minghao asked.
This question was like an old key, which, with a gentle pry, opened the door to Xiang Chen's dusty memories.
"Neither of us pursued the other. We had very little interaction during the three years of high school. It was only because I lost the truth or dare game at graduation that everyone urged me to confess to her. After I confessed, she agreed casually. Now that I think about it, I guess she didn't really like me at that time." Xiang Chen lowered his eyes and said a little lonely.
"Tsk, that's impossible, Brother Chen. You might have been coaxed into confessing, but she agreed, which proves that she really likes you. How could there be no intersection? If there was no intersection, then why did your classmates coax you into doing something with her?" Zhou Minghao continued to ask.
Xiang Chen was stunned when he heard Zhou Minghao's words.
Then he thought seriously about what happened between him and Wen Yang in high school.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "When Wen Yang was in high school, she was very quiet in class. Because she always studied very hard and had good grades, the teachers always used her as a role model and asked everyone to learn from her."
"I guess this sparked a rebellious mentality among some students who didn't like studying. They secretly became very hostile towards Wen Yang and began to isolate her. Sometimes they even secretly destroyed her notes."
Zhou Minghao: “…”
"Then what?" Zhou Minghao asked.
"Later, during the sports meet in my second year of high school, I won a place in the running competition and was awarded a rabbit pendant. Two girls in my class who liked me wanted the pendant, but I couldn't give it to anyone else, so I just threw it to Wen Yang.
"I was afraid of causing trouble for her, so I specifically said, 'I can give my things to whoever I want. If anyone causes trouble because of this, don't blame me for being rude.'"
"She was stunned for a moment, and then she smiled while holding the thing." When Xiang Chen said this, he seemed to recall Wen Yang's smile at that time, and a gentle look appeared on his face involuntarily.
"Brother Chen, how can this not be considered an intersection? This is the origin of love!" Zhou Minghao said excitedly.
"A pendant can bring about love? It's not something valuable." Xiang Chen didn't quite agree with Zhou Minghao's statement.
Zhou Minghao stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Xiang Chen. "Tsk tsk tsk, Brother Chen, the reason for love is not only linked to the economic value of the gift."
"What does that have to do with?"
"It has something to do with what you did!"
"What did I do?"
Seeing that Xiang Chen's love quotient was negative, Zhou Minghao couldn't help but raise his hand to support his forehead, feeling a little speechless.
He sighed and began to explain, "After you gave her the things, didn't you specifically tell the people around you not to cause trouble for her? Aren't you just supporting her?"
"Support?" Xiang Chen frowned in confusion. His original intention was just to find an unrelated person to give the thing to. Otherwise, the two girls who liked him and were rivals in love would definitely fight each other. He just didn't want to cause trouble, so he found a person in the class who seemed to have the least connection with him as the recipient of the gift.
So he shook his head: "I didn't have the intention of supporting her at that time."
"Whether you have this thought or not is not important. What's important is that your behavior at that time supported her. After you said that, those classmates who originally disliked Wen Yang would no longer bother her. You are a kind of salvation for her. How could she not like you!?"
This analysis hit Xiang Chen's heart directly, and he instantly understood the key.
When he was in high school, he thought that Wen Yang agreed to him because she was just like the other girls, wanting to take advantage of his superior family background.
After all, he has a handsome appearance, and his parents are both teachers at W University. He usually has a lot of pocket money and is generous with his money. He is used to being the center of attention at school, so he thinks it is normal that many girls like him because of his appearance and family background.
Amidst the infatuated pursuit of these girls, Xiang Chen gradually realized that falling in love was like a business.
As long as he spends a little money on those girls, they will provide him with full emotional value.
He has firmly believed in this view since high school.
So he didn't take Wen Yang's acceptance of his confession seriously.
He felt that Wen Yang was just like the girls he had been in love with before, who just wanted to get something from him.
Even because Wen Yang dressed too simply and not pretty enough, he felt that there was no need to spend money on Wen Yang. It was already an honor for Wen Yang to be able to stay by his side.
Whenever Wen Yang stayed by his side obediently without complaint, his understanding would be reinforced.
Over time, he began to feel comfortable being mean to Wen Yang.
But now, he seemed to be suddenly awakened by Zhou Minghao's words.
Wen Yang accepted his confession and stayed by his side obediently, not because she wanted to gain anything from him, but because she had helped him unintentionally, and so she truly fell in love with him?
The moment Xiang Chen realized this thought, it was as if he had opened Pandora's box in his heart. No matter how much he wanted to erase this thought, it always lingered in his mind and could not be shaken off.
His definition of love over the years seemed to be overturned in an instant.
How could he admit this? If he admitted this now, wouldn't he be admitting that it was his own arrogance and mockery of love that had caused him to lose the girl who had carefully offered her true heart to him?
That kind of liking has nothing to do with his family background or appearance, or any other conditions of his, it's just because of him as a person.
So how come I was always available and treated him without regrets, was it because I really and simply liked him?
Upon realizing this feeling, Xiang Chen's first reaction was confusion.
Because in his previous cognition, it was impossible for him to encounter such unconditional and pure feelings.
Because even his parents cannot love him so unconditionally. If he does not achieve results that make his parents proud, his parents will not treat him well and may even think that he is not worthy of being their child.
He received the unconditional love from Wen Yang that he had never received from his parents.
But at that time he felt that Wen Yang was as dull as Cinderella in the attic, and even her love was too dull to be presented.
It was not until now that he realized that the love was not gray, but that he was blind and missed the love that was obscured by his arrogance.
Without realizing it, he had lost the most precious thing in his life...
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen!" Zhou Minghao saw Xiang Chen standing there in a daze without saying anything, so he called out twice.
Only then did Xiang Chen come out of his brief trance.
But after pulling himself out, he had to honestly and soberly face the fact that he had completely lost Wen Yang.
At that moment, a huge pain overwhelmed him like a drowning tide. Every moment of his past with Wen Yang resurfaced. Without the misunderstandings about Wen Yang's motives for liking him, he finally realized how truly sincere Wen Yang had been towards him...
Xiang Chen silently picked up the wine opener, opened two bottles of beer and gulped them down, as if only by getting drunk could he temporarily escape from the reality he didn't want to face.
Zhou Minghao and Yu Zhongyi watched Xiang Chen drinking so hard, but did not stop him. After all, they were in the dormitory now, so it was okay for him to get drunk.
So he let Xiang Chen finish the two bottles.
By the time he finished drinking, the scene in Xiang Chen's vision had completely become double.
Zhou Minghao and Yu Zhongyi saw that Xiang Chen was very drunk, so they stepped forward and prepared to help Xiang Chen to the bed to rest for a while.
Unexpectedly, just as the two of them had lifted up Xiang Chen, they heard a hurried knock on the dormitory door.
"Who is it?" Zhou Minghao asked loudly.
But the only answer from outside the door was still the rapid knocking.
"Open the door and take a look." Zhou Minghao raised his eyebrows at Yu Zhongyi.
Yu Zhongyi nodded, carefully released half of Xiang Chen's shoulder, walked quickly to the door and unlocked it.
As soon as the door opened, Yu Zhongyi was stunned when he saw who was coming. "Teacher Xiang... Teacher Xiang... why are you here..."
Xiang Yan ignored Yu Zhongyi's greeting. He glanced coldly into the dormitory and saw Xiang Chen being supported by Zhou Minghao.
Seeing Xiang Chen's distracted state of mind and the strong smell of alcohol in the room, Xiang Yan's anger, which had finally subsided when he walked to the boys' dormitory, suddenly rose again, and his face became even uglier.
He frowned and strode towards Xiang Chen.