Chapter 25: Don't Let Your Little Girlfriend Misunderstand

If it were the twenty-five-year-old Xu Heng, and Ying Ziyun came to ask him to get back together, he probably would have agreed in a heartbeat.

If it were the thirty-year-old Xu Heng, and Ying Ziyun came to ask him to get back together, he might have hesitated and considered it, and perhaps would have agreed as well.

But Xu Heng is neither twenty-five nor thirty now; he is a middle-aged man who is thirty-six years old psychologically, yet possesses the young body of a twenty-year-old.

At this age, it is impossible for him to get back together with Ying Ziyun.

If it were a woman like Liu Yiyan, who only acts as a lover and doesn't talk about feelings, he wouldn't mind playing around, but Ying Ziyun is clearly not that kind of woman.

Born in a small city, Ying Ziyun has always been devoted and persistent toward love; she will stubbornly stick to a relationship she has decided on even if her parents try to stop her, and she won't bother with people she isn't interested in, no matter how much they fawn over her.

Such a woman is indeed a top-tier choice to take as a wife.

But the problem is that Xu Heng has no intention of getting married in this life; he just wants to earn a few "small goals" and sleep with a few more women in this lifetime.

Talking about feelings was too exhausting in his past life; in this life, it is better to talk about material things.

Therefore, Xu Heng can chat with other women, and even sleep with them, but he doesn't want to have too much contact with Ying Ziyun.

Hearing Xu Heng's refusal, Ying Ziyun's expression was filled with surprise and shock; she stood there stunned, motionless like a wooden statue.

It seems that in her memory, Xu Heng had been obedient to her almost all the time and would never refuse any of her requests; during the time they were dating, she had always been in a position of advantage, so she naturally developed the illusion that "Xu Heng is my possession; I threw him away, but if I want him back, he will come back on his own."

Little did she know, even the most loyal "lickspittle" will follow a stranger away with a ham sausage after being abandoned by their master.

What's more, Xu Heng is not a "lickspittle" now, so why should he be obedient to Ying Ziyun?

Thus, he refused Ying Ziyun very calmly, which caused the little bit of favorability that had just risen in Ying Ziyun's heart for him to vanish instantly.

Admittedly, Ying Ziyun was feeling a bit hurt at this moment, as if something important was being lost, but after calming down to think about it, Xu Heng's refusal was not entirely a bad thing.

If one were to give up their dreams because of a little bit of kindness, how would that be any different from an ordinary person?

Like the reborn Xu Heng, Ying Ziyun also does not want to be an ordinary person.

The atmosphere between the two fell back into an eerie silence.

Still feeling a bit carsick, Ying Ziyun's face turned cold again, and she did not say a single word to Xu Heng.

Xu Heng was happy to be left in peace, continuing to chat with Liu Yiyan on his phone.

This girl Liu Yiyan is particularly clingy; it wasn't obvious at first, but today, the moment he left, she was already there saying in a soft, sweet voice that she missed him.

Xu Heng asked: "Call me 'hubby' and I'll come back to keep you company."

Facing this kind of teasing remark, Liu Yiyan did not show weakness and replied: "Hubby, hubby, hubby."

As she said this, she sent a multimedia message—a text message with an image, which costs several yuan each; after receiving Xu Heng's "poverty subsidy," Liu Yiyan was no longer stingy about sending such messages.

Xu Heng clicked it open and discovered the image was of Liu Yiyan's pair of "great mountains" half-covered by vegetation.

He couldn't quite hold himself back and quickly closed the phone, no longer chatting with this little flirt; it wouldn't be good if he really woke his "little brother" up, after all, he was still on the bus.

But before two minutes had passed, the phone screen lit up again; this time it wasn't a text message, but a call.

Xu Heng saw the number labeled "Baby Yanyan" and helplessly rubbed his forehead.

He had previously labeled Liu Yiyan as "Little Lover," but after finishing a biology class one day, this girl secretly changed the label in his phone to "Baby Yanyan."

Xu Heng pretended not to notice; he wasn't an ancient tyrant who would behead his concubines at the drop of a hat.

"What is it now? I'm on the bus."

"Why did you suddenly stop talking to me? Did I make you angry?"

"How could that be?" Xu Heng couldn't say that he was being seduced by her to the point where his "little brother" was about to salute his ex-girlfriend, so he could only lie: "I slept late last night and am a bit tired, so I'm preparing to take a nap on the bus."

"Oh, then sleep, hubby. I'll go to Jinling to find you in a couple of days."

Xu Heng laughed; he only let her call him "hubby" to tease her, but this girl actually refused to change how she addressed him.

"Aren't you going to school in Modu?"

"Our school starts late, no rush; it just so happens I haven't been to play in Jinling yet."

"Alright, alright, I'm hanging up now."

This scene was seen by Ying Ziyun; because she was relatively close to Xu Heng, she had even heard seven or eight tenths of their conversation.

The voice on the other end of the phone was a woman's, and she even said "hubby" and such; it turns out Xu Heng hadn't really let her go completely, but had found a new girlfriend!

Plus, that phone of Xu Heng's was a new Nokia model released this year, costing seven or eight thousand; with Xu Heng's family background, he certainly couldn't afford it.

That woman on the other end was a rich woman!

Her ex-boyfriend was being "kept" by a rich woman, which was why he refused her request to get back together...

Thinking of this, Ying Ziyun's face darkened further; seeing Xu Heng hang up the phone, she immediately turned her head away and remained silent.

Xu Heng felt baffled by this; he didn't know what he had done to provoke this "young mistress" again.

However, the young mistress's temper on the surface had always been very foul—Zheng Jingjing was not wrong about that—and besides, he had just refused her, so the two of them were currently in a relationship that didn't even qualify as friends, so Xu Heng didn't deliberately try to curry favor with her.

At noon, the bus drove through Yuhuatai District; because it happened to be the peak hour for commuting and school dismissal, it was stuck in traffic in downtown Jinling for a little while, and it wasn't until around one in the afternoon that it arrived at Xianlin University Town. By this time, there were only seven or eight people left on the bus; students from other universities had long since gotten off at Yuhuatai.

Ying Ziyun was carrying large and small bags and dragging a suitcase; Xu Heng brushed past her, and he didn't even ask the question, "Do you need help?"

At this moment, Ying Ziyun was feeling quite sad, because she could feel the distance between the two of them growing ever wider, but as soon as she thought about how Xu Heng had already found a new love, she stubbornly walked in the opposite direction of Xu Heng out of spite.

Although she could return to her dormitory this way, she would have to take a detour through the small gate, and with her thin arms and legs, not yet fully recovered from heatstroke, she would likely be carried into the infirmary again before she could reach the dormitory under the scorching September sun; by then, word would spread, and she would become the number one jerk at Jin Da.

People would say, "That guy named Xu Heng, wow, he's really not a decent person, he wouldn't even help his ex-girlfriend, causing her to end up in the hospital."

Xu Heng felt helpless; he personally didn't care about moral blackmail, but if he wanted to start a business in the future, he had to pay attention to this sort of thing, so he turned back, walked behind Ying Ziyun, and took the suitcase.

"Is it necessary? We can still be friends."

Ying Ziyun looked up abruptly, her expression cold: "Don't. It wouldn't be good if your little girlfriend misunderstood our relationship."