Chapter 114: The Shura Field of the Ex-Girlfriend and the Current Girlfriend

In the evening, the little girl said she wanted to go back to the school cafeteria to eat.

Xu Heng asked with a smile, "What's good to eat at the school cafeteria? All the dishes from the big pot taste the same."

"But the cafeteria is cheap. A meal outside costs several dozen, while the cafeteria only costs a few," Jiang Mengyuan retorted.

If one didn't know her family background, one would think she was some poor child from somewhere; it left Xu Heng speechless.

They were both born into wealthy families, so how could there be such a big difference?

Ren Man is what you call a real second-generation rich kid: driving a Maserati, wearing designer clothes, and spending lavishly, throwing away millions without a second thought.

In contrast, Jiang Mengyuan still wears cartoon skirts with Blue Fatso prints and little leather shoes, and she is meticulous with her spending; she is exactly like an ordinary female college student.

If he hadn't verified her identity with Jiang Lianghui that day, it would be really hard to imagine she is a second-generation rich kid from a family worth several tens of billions.

There was no helping it; Xu Heng followed her temperament and accompanied her back to school to settle dinner.

Although she had been teased by Xu Heng for a long time in the afternoon, the little girl still seemed to be in a good mood today.

Xu Heng asked her what she wanted to eat, and he would help her go get it.

Jiang Mengyuan shook her slanted ponytail and said she wanted to eat duck blood vermicelli soup.

Jinling doesn't have much else, but there is certainly enough duck blood vermicelli soup; it's just that she had eaten it for every meal for the past two days, so Xu Heng suggested changing it up, saying they couldn't just keep eating the same thing.

Jiang Mengyuan thought for a moment and then said, "Then let's have Lanzhou beef ramen."

Hearing this daunting name, Xu Heng said, "Are you sure?"

"What's wrong? Is it hard to eat?"

"It's not a question of whether it's hard to eat or not."

Xu Heng sighed, turned around, and found the noodle stall to order a portion of shredded pork with green pepper noodles and a portion of beef ramen, even thoughtfully adding a poached egg to the beef ramen.

Seeing the empty bowl of beef ramen with only a single poached egg, the little girl was dumbfounded.

"Where is the beef?"

Xu Heng used his chopsticks to lift the poached egg, showing her the two paper-thin slices of beef underneath.

Only then did the little girl get a taste of the cruelty of society, and she said with a mournful face, "Why is there so little?"

Xu Heng said, "Having two slices is already not bad. Don't you know the story about how one cow is sold for a lifetime in Lanzhou ramen?"

One cow sold for a lifetime?

Jiang Mengyuan didn't react at first, but she soon understood the meaning of Xu Heng's words and almost couldn't hold back a laugh.

"Have you never eaten at this kind of roadside restaurant before?" Xu Heng asked.

Jiang Mengyuan nodded: "Yeah, Auntie Wang wouldn't let me eat outside food. Usually, when I want noodles, she makes them by hand."

"Who is Auntie Wang?"

"My family's servant."

"Oh."

The evils of the bourgeoisie.

Xu Heng muttered to himself, then said, "No wonder you like eating duck blood vermicelli soup so much; turns out you'd never eaten it before?"

"Yeah, at first I was quite scared when I knew I had to come to school alone, but..."

"But after coming into contact with many new things, you discovered that the world outside is much more interesting than you imagined," Xu Heng continued.

The little girl covered her mouth and chuckled, clearly having her thoughts guessed by Xu Heng.

Xu Heng smiled helplessly, then pushed his own portion of shredded pork with green pepper noodles in front of her, and also gave her the poached egg and the two slices of beef, while he started eating the beef-less beef ramen.

"Aren't you eating?"

"You're in a growth spurt, eat more to grow your body."

Hearing this, Jiang Mengyuan felt sweet inside and moved the noodles to the middle: "I can't eat this much, let's share a bowl~"

Facts proved that Jiang Mengyuan was only introverted by nature, but she still had some tricks up her sleeve when it came to flirting.

Xu Heng thought to himself that it was a good thing he made his move early, otherwise such a flirtatious little girl might have turned into a foul-mouthed, bad-tempered woman later, and he would have regretted it too late.

Just as he nodded to say okay, a slender, delicate hand placed a tray of food in front of Xu Heng.

"I accidentally ordered an extra portion."

Ying Ziyun pulled at her skirt and sat down steadily opposite the two of them.

She was wearing a pale yellow dress today, her hair rolled up and tied in a bun at the back of her head, her expression cold, and her whole person exuding an aura of "strangers keep away."

It was rare for her not to come to the cafeteria with her roommates, and even rarer that she had ordered two portions of food.

With Ying Ziyun's personality, it was naturally impossible to have "accidentally" ordered an extra portion.

It was clearly a long-planned scheme; she had been waiting here like a rabbit waiting for a tree to catch Xu Heng and Jiang Mengyuan.

"Ziyun, this is..." Xu Heng couldn't understand her intentions.

Jiang Mengyuan, on the other hand, was very wary of Ying Ziyun.

For an ex-girlfriend to appear before her in this manner was subconsciously taken by her as some kind of provocation.

"You said last time that if we couldn't be boyfriend and girlfriend, we could still be ordinary friends," Ying Ziyun said calmly without lifting her head. "Seeing a friend eating plain noodles, there's nothing wrong with ordering a meal for a friend, right?"

"Uh... indeed, there's nothing wrong with that." Xu Heng smiled awkwardly.

He didn't object, and Jiang Mengyuan wouldn't say anything either, but the little girl clearly didn't welcome Ying Ziyun, her mouth pouting.

She was the type of child who was very obedient and well-behaved, but she wasn't good at hiding her emotions; that intense dissatisfaction was almost spilling off her face.

Perhaps sensing the hostility, Ying Ziyun glanced at her faintly and said, "Don't be so afraid of me. I'm also someone who has been through this; based on experience, I'm still your senior."

"???"

"Xu Heng is a very excellent boy. It's normal for you to like him now, but that doesn't mean you will always like him in the future. I'll wait for you two to break up." Ying Ziyun paused and added, "As for now, just treat me as his ordinary friend."

"We won't break up!" Jiang Mengyuan said indignantly.

"That's hard to say." Ying Ziyun wore a polite smile on her face.

She usually only wore this kind of smile when she was very certain about something.

It seemed she had truly moved on from Xu Heng's rejection two weeks ago, slowly turning back into that girl who was indifferent and full of confidence about everything.

Xu Heng couldn't quite figure out why Ying Ziyun had suddenly become so persistent toward him.

If it were the Ying Ziyun from his past life, she would have long since made a clean break and cast Xu Heng to the back of her mind; after all, something like romance could not bind a woman with a strong heart.

How did it happen that in this life, Ying Ziyun had been so heavily nerfed by the plot?

Or was it that the world he had been reborn into was inherently slightly different from the original, and he just hadn't discovered it yet?

Xu Heng couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother thinking about it.

Faced with his ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend, he still chose his current girlfriend, eating a bowl of noodles with Jiang Mengyuan.

Seeing this, the little girl proudly lifted her chin and huffed in a show of defiance.

Ying Ziyun was not angry, but smiled and said, "I couldn't tell your relationship was developing so quickly."

"Of course, Senior has already..." Jiang Mengyuan took a deep breath, gathering her courage to say, "... already kissed me."