Chapter 575: , The Longzhong Plan of Mai Sui and Song Yu, Li Heng to the Rescue

Wang Runwen stared at his retreating back until the sound of the bedroom door latching shut reached her ears; for no reason, she felt a sense of emptiness in her heart.

She sat listlessly on the sofa for a while.

A moment later, she stood up and went to the doorway to tidy up the gifts he had brought, examining them one by one with the curiosity of a child.

It turned out to be nothing but liquor and some cheap candies.

Her anger flared up instantly: "A man of his stature, worth tens of millions, and he brings out this kind of street-stall junk that you can find anywhere?"

In an instant, she lost the desire to tidy up and left them right where they were, just as they had come.

Yet, after walking ten paces away, she suddenly stopped. She stood rooted to the spot for a long while, and finally, she turned back to the door and carefully organized all the gifts.

After finishing, her gaze settled on a bottle of white liquor. Finally, she popped the cap and took two large gulps straight from the bottle.

It wasn't any different; it tasted just like that. After drinking, she twirled the bottle in her hand, muttering to herself.

A while later, she took a third gulp.

Afterward, remembering something, she grabbed the bottle and hurried to the sofa.

She made a call to Jingcheng, to Yu Shuheng.

The two had spoken on the phone just this morning, and it was through that call that she learned someone had returned home from Shencheng yesterday.

"Ring-a-ling..."

"Ring-a-ling..."

The phone was answered on the third ring, and Yu Shuheng's lazy voice came through: "Who is this?"

"It's me, Wang Runwen," the English teacher announced herself.

Yu Shuheng asked: "We just spoke this morning, why are you calling again?"

Wang Runwen said: "Guess?"

Yu Shuheng glanced at the receiver in her hand, pondered for a short moment, and asked: "He came to see you? Are you in such a rush to show off to me?"

"Heh heh, correct! He rushed over from home this afternoon; isn't that worth showing off?" Wang Runwen retorted.

Yu Shuheng gave a refined smile: "Don't get too smug too soon; it's not certain he came specifically for you."

Wang Runwen mocked: "Never mind that for now; the moment he saw me, he stared at my chest, and later on the sofa, he even tried to kiss me..."

Yu Shuheng wanted to hang up.

But halfway through putting the white receiver back, Yu Laoshi picked it up again and held it to her ear. Her fingers tightened around the receiver, and after a long moment of calming herself, she laughed: "It seems Xiao Han didn't satisfy him the night before last, leaving him this hungry."

The two traded barbs, and it could be said they were truly malicious.

One bluntly stated that the Li Heng you love but cannot have tried to get handsy with me the moment we met.

The other bluntly stated that Li Heng slept with Xiao Han the night before last, and at most, you can only fantasize about drinking his foot-washing water now. At the same time, she used the word "hungry" to describe him, practically saying you, Runwen, aren't qualified to compete with me for a man.

The two best friends, once as close as one, had reached a point of irreconcilable conflict over a student. Once the subtle masks of the past were torn away, neither retreated, and every sentence was a blade drawing blood.

Wang Runwen narrowed her eyes, a fierce glint appearing: "What do you mean by that?"

Yu Shuheng smiled and said: "You are just a logistics person; he came to Shaodong County for Song Yu and Mai Sui. Also, I'm going to his home in a few days; do you want to come along?"

The first half of the sentence was a continuous attack.

The second half was truly lethal!

The subtext of Yu Laoshi's words was: I can come and go from his hometown as I please, but you can't. If you are willing to humble yourself, I can take you along.

Wang Runwen's ample chest heaved more than a dozen times, and finally, she threatened:

"Yu Shuheng, if you provoke me again, I'll have his child tonight, and we'll flip the table—nobody gets to play."

Yu Shuheng remained calm: "Go ahead and have it. When the child is born, have them call him Dad and me Mom; I'll raise it for you."

In ancient times, many children born to concubines called the primary wife "Mother."

Wang Runwen was furious: "Mine is bigger than yours; do I need you to raise it?"

"Bigger?"

Yu Shuheng smiled: "Is it true that for a woman, bigger is always better? Beauty depends on shape. You just like wearing tight clothes to pose and preen.

I guess that just now on the sofa, he wanted to kiss you, and it was probably you deliberately seducing him, but you didn't dare to actually give it to him. Am I right? You weakling?"

"Weakling? A proper lady, where did you learn such dirty words?" Wang Runwen was displeased.

Yu Shuheng said: "I heard it from Que Xinyan; I think the word has a certain artistic quality and suits you well, so I remembered it."

Wang Runwen mocked: "Heh! Aren't you a weakling too? You've been running around for him for so long, and I don't see you having gotten him either."

Yu Shuheng said softly: "He has laid on top of me several times; what do you think?"

With a loud *pia*, the phone hung up, and Wang Runwen felt extremely restless inside.

The more calm and composed Yu Shuheng was, the more she could provoke Wang Runwen's nerves.

She believed the words, after all, Shuheng was beautiful and intellectual, with a unique, rich scholarly temperament; she didn't believe Li Heng could control himself.

Yu Shuheng looked at the white receiver in her hand and wanted to laugh. If she didn't have her own pursuits, the little boy would have been her man long ago; how could it have dragged on until now?

However, one point could not be ignored: the little boy wanting to kiss Runwen just now might actually be true.

Although she kept attacking Runwen, Runwen's sexiness was something few men could refuse. If it were under certain specific circumstances, being in a room together carried a certain danger.

Thinking and thinking, Yu Shuheng stood up, wanting to immediately take a flight to Changshi, to Shaodong County.

But then, considering Runwen's personality, she let out a long sigh. If Runwen really wanted to climb into his bed, she would have done it long ago; she wouldn't have waited until now.

After all, a long time ago, out of guilt, she had given Runwen many opportunities, but Runwen herself hadn't been willing.

Thinking of this, Yu Shuheng sat back down gracefully.

She sat on the sofa.

Third floor, the other end of the corridor on the left.

Li Heng raised his hand and knocked on the door of the high school principal's home.

It was a bit of a coincidence that the one who opened the door was Sun Maning.

This big girl exclaimed the moment she saw him: "Eeya! I was wondering who it was, turns out it's you, Li Heng.

Didn't you just go back yesterday? Why are you here again today? Could it be that I'm hallucinating?"

Sun Maning muttered, rubbing her eyes with her hands. Afterward, she took a look and realized it really was Li Heng. Not giving up, she reached out to pinch him.

Li Heng swatted her hand away and leaned in to ask: "You weren't home when I called this afternoon; where are Song Yu and Mai Sui?"

Sun Maning pouted: "You're looking for them?"

"Of course, otherwise would I have run all this way just to find you?" Li Heng raised an eyebrow.

Hearing this, Sun Maning pressed her hand on his head, pushed him outward, and then slammed the door shut with a *bang*.

Li Heng was speechless and had no choice but to keep knocking.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Dong dong dong!"

"Who is it?" a voice asked from inside.

Li Heng's mouth twitched: "It's almost New Year, is your skin itching, do you want a beating?"

"Who are you?" Sun Maning continued to tease him.

Li Heng shouted: "It's getting dark, are Song Yu and Mai Sui there with you?"

Sun Maning inside the door ignored him and didn't make a sound.

After waiting a while, Li Heng, not getting a reply, simply turned and left, heading toward the stairwell, planning to check the Song family at the Teachers' College first; maybe he'd run into them?

Hearing the footsteps outside fade away, Sun Maning ran to the kitchen and told her mother, who was cooking, "Mom, eat dinner yourself first, I have something to do and am going out, I'll be back later." Having said that, she hurriedly opened the door to chase after Li Heng.

Just as Li Heng reached the first floor, Sun Maning came rushing up from behind.

This girl complained: "You really can't take a joke, why did you stop knocking?"

Li Heng rolled his eyes: "Where are they?"

Sun Maning said with a grin: "Beg me."

Li Heng walked forward with long strides, passed the guard room, and reached the road outside. He paused, turned right, and walked toward the Teachers' College.

Sun Maning shouted from behind: "Hey! Wait for me, don't walk so fast, they aren't at the Teachers' College."

"Then where are they?" Li Heng turned around and asked, suppressing his patience.

Seeing his serious expression, Sun Maning didn't dare to tease him anymore and blurted out everything she knew: "I don't know where Song Yu and Mai Sui are either?

But they definitely aren't at the Song family's. I ate lunch with them today, and the three of us went shopping together this afternoon.

About half an hour ago, Song Yu told me: she had something to do with Mai Sui and told me to come back first."

Li Heng asked: "And you were just that obedient? You just came back?"

"What else could I do? This is Song Yu; I play around with her usually, but when she's serious, I'm inexplicably a bit afraid of her," Sun Maning said unnaturally.

Li Heng circled around her: "This really isn't your style; it's too strange."

Sun Maning didn't refute: "Maybe it's because they are too beautiful; Song Yu is like this, and I sometimes feel this way facing Zhou Shihe too."

Recalling the situation at Fudan University this past year, it seemed to be the truth.

This girl and Ye Ning usually joked around and loved to tease, and everyone around them had been pranked by them, yet they never dared to joke too much with Zhou Shihe, and even if they did, it was at most a light touch.

Uh, there was one more thing, these two also behaved relatively well in front of Yu Laoshi.

But it was different; Zhou Shihe was a student, and Yu Laoshi was a teacher. In this day and age, teachers naturally held seniority, and coupled with Yu Laoshi's personal conditions and the Yu family background, it was reasonable that the two didn't dare to be too presumptuous.

Li Heng asked: "Where did you part ways with them?"

Sun Maning said: "Chengnan Park."

Li Heng turned around and said: "Then let's go to Chengnan Park."

In fact, Song Yu and Mai Sui were not at Chengnan Park at this time.

After parting ways with Sun Maning, Mai Sui had brought Song Yu to her uncle's house next to Chengnan Park.

Mai Sui's uncle was the director of the local police station, and because his mother-in-law was celebrating her 80th birthday, the uncle's family of four was not at home.

This provided the conditions for the two women.

After all, in the middle of winter, Chengnan Park was freezing cold.

And whether it was Mai Sui's grandmother's house or the Song family's, there were people at home, so it wasn't as convenient.

Opening the door and entering the house, the two women, who had been shopping happily as if nothing was wrong, instantly became silent.

Both women knew what they would face next.

If things went poorly, their sisterly bond would end today.

So the atmosphere was quite heavy.

"The bedroom on the left, I occasionally stay here, my aunt specifically left it for me, let's go inside and talk," Mai Sui said.

Song Yu said okay.

Entering the bedroom, they closed the door. One sat on the edge of the bed, the other on a chair, looking at each other with a tacit understanding.

The air suddenly became silent, yet for a moment, neither spoke.

This was the first time the two women were facing each other honestly after falling in love with the same man and breaking the window paper.

Song Yu was dressed in white as snow today, her temperament natural, her light eyebrows like autumn water, her jade skin accompanied by a light breeze, beautiful beyond description.

And Mai Sui was the exact opposite, in a red dress, her charming eyes shy, every smile and frown showing feminine softness, that was the unique charm bestowed by time.

Sitting north and south, they displayed two completely different kinds of beauty to the fullest.

After a long silence, Song Yu said with a faint smile in her eyes: "Mai Sui, compared to high school, you've changed a lot, you're getting more and more beautiful."

If an ordinary person said this, Mai Sui might not think anything of it and just listen.

But the person saying this was the great beauty Song Yu, and Mai Sui felt a touch in her heart.

Before meeting Song Yu, Mai Sui had always been the most eye-catching among her peers.

And after meeting Song Yu in high school, her halo dimmed a bit. But she was a favorite of heaven, enjoying unique good fortune, and was transforming almost every day.

And so, with only a small part of university passed, she already had a trend of vaguely surpassing Fudan's little beauty.

And as time went on, this trend became more and more obvious.

Facing her good sister's admiring gaze, Mai Sui said: "You too."

The stalemate was broken, Song Yu looked at her watch, it was getting dark, she didn't delay any further, but started the topic of the day.

Song Yu pondered and asked: "Do you love him?"

Who "he" was, went without saying.

Looking into each other's eyes, Mai Sui didn't lie this time, didn't avoid it, and said with difficulty but certainty: "Love!"

Song Yu wasn't surprised at all, and said calmly: "I love him too."

Mai Sui said "um."

After another while, Song Yu recalled: "In terms of feelings, I am a slow-warming person.

From the first year of high school until now, it took a full 5 years to completely digest the heartbeat I felt when I first met him."

Mai Sui asked: "You fell in love with him at first sight in your first year of high school?"

Song Yu smiled indifferently and said yes.

Afterward, she asked: "What about you? Is it the same? Love at first sight?"

Mai Sui didn't dare to look into her best friend's eyes and tacitly agreed.

Both women fell in love with Li Heng at first sight.

The difference was: Li Heng also fell in love with Song Yu at first sight, but with Mai Sui, it was love growing over time.

The difference between love at first sight and love growing over time was huge, and Mai Sui felt a bit bitter.

Song Yu seemed to see the waves in her friend's heart and said thoughtfully: "Suisui, liking someone cannot be hidden.

Li Heng's appearance and temperament are the type we like most, and just one glance struck the softness of our hearts. For this, I don't blame you, and I have always treated you as my best sister."

Mai Sui lowered her head, feeling a bit guilty, and responded after a long time: "Me too, I have always treated you as my own sister."

Song Yu nodded gently: "I know, otherwise you wouldn't have kept your purity until today."

Mai Sui was surprised and raised her head with some shyness.

Song Yu explained: "It's not that I guessed it, I asked him. You know, he wouldn't lie to me."

Hearing this, Mai Sui felt relieved. Li Heng loved Song Yu the most, so naturally, he wouldn't lie to her.

Song Yu sighed in a low voice: "Do you know why I came to meet you this winter break?"

Mai Sui said: "I have been thinking about this question for more than half a month."

Song Yu asked: "Did you start thinking about it the day you received my letter?"

Mai Sui said yes.

Song Yu said: "Then take a guess?"

Mai Sui guessed: "Xiao, Xiao Han forced you to come?"

Song Yu didn't deny it: "You could say that. If I'm not mistaken, Xiao Han and Zijin teamed up to set a trap for me."

Then she asked: "Guess again, why would Xiao Han and Zijin go to such great lengths to set this trap?"

Mai Sui fell into deep thought, and after a long time, she said: "I can guess some of it, just don't know if it's right?"

Song Yu looked at her with encouraging eyes, signaling her to continue.

Mai Sui asked: "Drive the tiger to swallow the wolf, Xiao Han and Zijin want us to move toward opposite sides?"

Song Yu nodded and shook her head: "Yes, but not entirely right. Xiao Han wants to catch all 5 of us in one net."

Mai Sui didn't react for a moment: "You, me, Yu Laoshi, that's only 3, who else is there?"

Song Yu said meaningfully, mentioning a name: "Zhou Shihe."

Mai Sui was particularly shocked, then fell into a long silence.

Seeing this, Song Yu asked: "Haven't you suspected him and Zhou Shihe?"

Mai Sui shook her head, still a bit unable to believe: "They are very gentlemanly in front of people, very restrained, and have no overstepping actions."

Song Yu nodded thoughtfully: "Perhaps, this is being under the lamp and not seeing the darkness.

You are in the game, and you trust both of them very much, so it's normal to think this way. Perhaps there are two other possibilities..."

Mai Sui asked: "Which two?"

Song Yu said: "One is that Li Heng and Zhou Shihe have a mutual understanding, and they are very tacitly in agreement, so they can show no flaws in front of people."

Speaking of this, she paused and continued: "The other is, as you said, they are completely innocent, and there is nothing between them. That's why there are no clues.

Perhaps, Li Heng was poisoned by Zhou Shihe's love without knowing it, but Zhou Shihe kept him at a distance."

Mai Sui asked: "Mutual understanding?"

Song Yu said: "If it's this kind, then they are buried very deep, and their feelings are equally mellow, just hidden and not released."

Mai Sui continued: "Once this kind of feeling breaks the window paper one day, it will be quite terrifying."

Song Yu nodded.

Mai Sui asked: "Poisoned by love?"

Song Yu said: "Xiao Han and I once met, and to use Xiao Han's words: our Mr. Li only loves beauties, the more beautiful, the more he can't put them down, and the easier it is to sink."

Mai Sui asked: "Do you agree with this too?"

Song Yu said: "He does indeed like big beauties."

Mai Sui had known Li Heng for so long, and naturally had a certain degree of understanding of his philandering, and finally asked: "Innocent, mutual understanding, and deeply poisoned by love, which of these three do you believe more?"

Song Yu pondered for a while: "Divide into three, each is possible. But the possibility of mutual understanding and being deeply poisoned by love is not small, I can only judge after I see Zhou Shihe in person."

Mai Sui was stunned: "You are going to Fudan University?"

From this sentence of her best friend, Song Yu concluded that Li Heng had not told Mai Sui about his plan to go to Lushan Village during the Dragon Boat Festival.

So Song Yu said ambiguously: "In music, Zhou Shihe and he cooperate a lot, I will run into her sooner or later." ===== CHAPTER 576 =====