Chapter 23: Heart-Pounding, April Fool's Day (Part 1)

Uncle Zhu Deyong once said something well...

There are only two teachers in life: one is time, and the other is a liar...

Starting two years ago, this sentence became Zhou Xiaoru's motto.

She felt that in the past, she had drunk too much chicken soup for the soul, to the point that after occasionally tasting poisonous chicken soup, she directly lost the ability to resist it.

And in her view, Gu Liyan was that bowl of poisonous chicken soup!

He was even more so a highly toxic liar in her fleeting years!

A liar is certainly hateful! But a liar like Gu Liyan is not simple!

He possesses a beauty as alluring as a datura flower...

A mysterious and noble temperament like a tuberose...

And even more so, a scent like a poppy that makes one obsessed and addicted...

But no matter which kind it is, they all share a common characteristic!

They are poisonous!

A biology teacher once taught us how to distinguish whether a flower is poisonous!

Under normal circumstances, one needs to observe its color and smell its scent...

If you encounter a flower with unusually gorgeous colors and a rare, fluctuating, abnormal fragrance...

Remember! You must never touch, pick, or eat it casually.

Because they might all be poisonous!

This point can also be applied to people; the logic is exactly the same.

Contacting beautiful flowers or beautiful people carries risks, and even more so, it may carry a danger to one's life!

Jiang Bufan always advised Zhou Xiaoru that to ensure her life's safety, she must drink the poisonous chicken soup! And she must drink plenty of it!

Only by drinking enough poisonous chicken soup can one train oneself to be immune to all poisons!

But Zhou Xiaoru did not think so...

For some reason, while Jiang Bufan was saying these things, a series of martial arts characters flashed through her mind.

And they were all women!

These women all shared a common trait: they all sought what they could not have, and thus turned love into hate!

For example...

Zhou Zhiruo, Qiu Qianchi, Li Mochou, He Hongyao, Dongfang Bubai...

Dongfang Bubai...

Zhou Xiaoru couldn't help but suddenly shudder; it seemed Dongfang Bubai had nothing to do with this...

With an irritated pat to her head, why was she thinking about these random things again?

It was already dark, past nine o'clock in the evening; she had just finished showering and was sitting on a stool drying her hair with a towel, and as she wiped, she drifted off again.

Recently, she seemed to frequently fall into daydreams.

She didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing; even though the crisis at Tengyuan Company had been resolved, she still thought about all sorts of messy things.

These past few days at the Tengyuan Company cafeteria, she could see Gu Liyan and Su Poyang coming to the Employee Restaurant to eat together almost every day.

Their relationship was truly good, always together, inseparable...

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoru couldn't help but shudder again!

What was she blindly speculating about again? Whether their relationship was good or not was none of her business!

In any case, the previous ambiguous scandal had finally passed completely.

Thank heavens, thank the ancestors for their protection!

But thinking back to this noon, she felt a little disappointed in her heart...

Today, her colleague Zhang Yao had her "lovestruck" illness flare up again; after eating in the cafeteria, she insisted on dragging her along to follow behind the two big shots who had also finished eating.

Just so she could say hello to the handsome Gu at close range.

In the end, the greeting was made; although the big shot Gu didn't say much, he nodded politely as a response.

But when she said hello to the big shot Gu, he didn't even look at her directly, and the aura around him turned icy cold in an instant.

There was no reaction at all, leaving her with only a perfect view of his back...

Zhou Xiaoru was depressed; when had she offended this person!

It was as if she were the one who had been forcibly kissed by that guy last time!

This really made her a little angry; Zhang Yao even asked her if she had done something wrong to be so disliked by the president.

Zhou Xiaoru just replied, "The ghost knows!"

But after calming down and thinking about it from another angle, she felt that he might be deliberately avoiding her, perhaps fearing that Su Poyang would get angry and misunderstand again,

which was why he ignored her...

Thinking about it this way, it made sense; for the sake of one's partner, one has to avoid suspicion to some extent, and keeping a distance from one's former girlfriend is perfectly normal.

Now, she was one hundred percent certain that the kiss in the underground parking lot that tasted like grilled fish...

was something Gu Liyan did on purpose to provoke Su Poyang.

She really was the cannon fodder caught in the middle of that pair of "back-to-back" lovers, enduring the test of their love!

And she, this cannon fodder, was truly doing a competent job!

Once again, she knocked on her own head with force...

Zhou Xiaoru shouted in her heart, telling herself not to think about it anymore; the more she thought, the more annoyed she became, and the more... she cared...

Involuntarily, she began to shake her long hair, shaking it uncontrollably, wanting to shake everything out of her brain...

At this moment, Jiang Bufan, who had finished hanging up the laundry on the balcony, walked in and saw the person sitting under her bed, shaking her head vigorously.

She couldn't help but wonder, what is this person doing! Is she practicing some head-shaking technique!

Is this popular now?!

The commotion here instantly drew the attention of the other two people in the dormitory...

One could see our Miss Zhou, eyes closed, shaking her head of straw-like hair.

She was lost in her own high, enjoying the thrill of shaking her head!

Among the other three, Xiao Lan was already watching with her mouth twisted in a grimace.

She pointed at the person sitting on the stool and asked the other two.

"Is this person possessed!" How is she getting more and more abnormal!

The person sitting on the stool, who had been shaking vigorously, heard the sound and hurriedly stopped.

That head of straw-like hair instantly came to a rest!

She slowly pushed aside the hair draped over her face, revealing two eyes, only to see six eyes around her staring at her in disbelief.

Jiang Bufan also chimed in, "Baby! Your brain isn't broken, is it!"

How did Tengyuan Company manage to persecute a normal person into such a fool!

If she sees Gu Liyan next time, she must ask that person properly...

Even if he doesn't want to court this cabbage Zhou Xiaoru, he can't just take a dump in someone's cabbage patch and then walk away after dusting off his pants!

Look at how this child has been ravaged, her nerves are all scrambled.

Zhou Xiaoru hurriedly smoothed out her hair and waved her hand at the group, saying.

"Everyone disperse, the performance ends here!"

The three of them had no intention of dispersing, all looking suspiciously at the person sitting there.

Zhou Xiaoru's large eyes darted around, looking here and there, thinking to herself, what do these few fools want now.

At this moment, the peacemaker Yao Xiang spoke up, changing the subject.

"Huh? By the way, tomorrow is April Fool's Day, do you have any ideas?"

Every year on April Fool's Day, they are either pranking others or being pranked; she wondered what would happen this year.

Yao Xiang's topic successfully attracted Xiao Lan and Jiang Bufan.

Zhou Xiaoru secretly gave Yao Xiang a grateful look.

Although she knew in her heart that everyone was just concerned about her, sometimes there were certain worries she still wanted to keep to herself.

If Jiang Bufan and Xiao Lan knew she was still thinking about Gu Liyan, one would definitely strangle her on the spot!

Even if she wasn't strangled, she would 'die' from the other's mockery.

She didn't want the man who had controlled her for years to continue controlling her future life...

As the saying goes, meeting the right person at the wrong time, or meeting the wrong person at the right time.

But when the timing, the people, and the location all align, and the five elements are in their proper places, even parallel lines will have a day where they intersect.

The next day, April 1st, April Fool's Day.

This is a good day!

Early in the morning, Zhou Xiaoru's WeChat and QQ had already received various versions of prank messages.

She took advantage of the time while brushing her teeth to scan through them, some she didn't even look at carefully, until she saw a message from someone...

Looking at the content, her eyes grew wider and wider, and she even forgot she was still brushing her teeth; the toothpaste foam was about to drip down...

At this moment, Jiang Bufan, who had groggily finished using the restroom and was washing her hands at the sink, inadvertently saw this scene.

She hurriedly nudged the person who was staring blankly at her phone...

But it was too late; the white foam fell onto the clothes on Zhou Xiaoru's chest, which happened to be a black base layer.

Jiang Bufan inadvertently nagged again, "What on earth are you thinking about all day long?"

But Zhou Xiaoru's next action instantly scared all her sleepiness away.

She watched with her own eyes as the person who had been staring at the phone for a long time directly swallowed a mouthful of saliva...

You have to know, Zhou Xiaoru was brushing her teeth at the time, and she had swallowed the toothpaste directly into her stomach.

Now, Jiang Bufan was completely awake, and she slowly approached the still-motionless person in 'terror' and 'horror'.

She whispered from the side, "Xiaoru, when... when did you develop a habit of eating toothpaste..."

After saying this, she craned her neck, trying hard to see the expression of the person eating toothpaste.

While sizing up the person beside her, she also occasionally glanced at the curtains drawn on the balcony.

Last night, the window on the balcony seemed to have been left open, and a slight breeze was blowing in, making the curtains fly and flutter...

The dormitory was somewhat dark, with only a small light on by the sink.

Seeing this, Jiang Bufan felt a chill run down her spine; she suddenly had the feeling of a corpse coming back to life!

And just as she was craning her neck, trying hard to see Zhou Xiaoru's expression...

At this moment, the person who had been 'dazed' for a long time suddenly turned her head, which scared the hair on the person beside her to stand on end.

One could see Zhou Xiaoru holding a toothbrush in one hand and her phone in the other, with toothpaste foam still remaining on her mouth and her black base layer.

She looked blankly at the person beside her who was already scared stiff, and then she directly handed the phone in her hand to Jiang Bufan.

Jiang Bufan looked suspiciously at the phone screen, which in her eyes was now glowing with a ghostly light.

The first thing that caught her eye was the name in the contact, the three characters 'Dianfan Guo'.

Without needing to think, this Dianfan Guo must be Su Poyang.

Looking further down, Jiang Bufan's eyes and expression became exactly the same as Zhou Xiaoru's just a moment ago...

Other than dazed, she was just foolish!

At this time, Xiao Lan, who was sleeping near the sink, heard the commotion, first sat up groggily, and looked at the two empty beds opposite.

Scratching at a bird's nest of hair, she then collapsed back down, mumbling something indistinct.

"What are you two hiding in the bathroom eating..."

On the other side, Yao Xiang, who was also sleeping soundly, vaguely heard the sound of voices and thought she was dreaming.

She even replied cooperatively, "Besides shit, what else could there be to eat in the bathroom?"

After saying that, she turned over and went back to sleep...

Meanwhile, the two people frozen in front of the washbasin were staring at each other, and simultaneously swallowed their saliva.

Both of them were thinking that Dianfan Guo must have sent that message on purpose!

Today... is April Fool's Day... right...