Chapter 98: A Sudden Turn of Events

The way girls interact with each other is something men find inconceivable and difficult to understand.

Not only do they make plans to go shopping, buy clothes, eat, and hold hands while watching movies together.

They even have to go to the restroom together.

All of this, from their own perspective, is the most normal thing in the world.

But if these things were done by two grown men...

The vibe...

Is a bit strange!

Halfway through the meal, Jiang Bufan said she wanted to go to the restroom, which immediately received Zhou Xiaoru's agreement.

"Wait for me, I'm going too."

The two agreed and left their seats one after the other.

Taking advantage of the trip to the restroom, Zhou Xiaoru asked Jiang Bufan, who had been acting a bit abnormal for the past two days.

"What's wrong with you? You've been absent-minded; did something happen?"

Jiang Bufan's personality was somewhat similar to hers; she usually seemed very straightforward, but whenever something happened, it was always written all over her face.

Facing her question, Jiang Bufan's expression suddenly turned somewhat ugly.

Without answering Zhou Xiaoru's question, she went straight into the restroom.

When Zhou Xiaoru came out of the restroom and was washing her hands, she saw the person already standing by the sink, washing her hands while lost in thought.

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoru was now very certain in her heart that this girl was definitely hiding something from her.

She leaned over and nudged the arm of the person who was spacing out.

"Hey! What exactly is wrong with you?"

Jiang Bufan immediately snapped out of it, hurriedly turned off the faucet, shook her hands, and replied.

"Oh, I'm fine, let's go."

Watching the person who was already in a hurry to leave, the questions in Zhou Xiaoru's heart grew larger and larger.

It seemed she would have to keep a closer eye on this girl.

The pleasant grilled fish feast lasted nearly two hours before it ended.

The group was full and satisfied, ready to head to the next place for activities.

The KTV they had booked as a group was nearby, and the few of them planned to walk there.

The city at night was illuminated everywhere by lights.

Xiao Lan and Yao Xiang walked in front, posing for photos as they went.

Zhou Xiaoru deliberately walked in the back, waiting for the somewhat gloomy and silent Jiang Bufan.

After walking for a distance, Zhou Xiaoru still couldn't help but ask again.

"Xiaofan, what exactly is wrong with you?" In their four years of university, she had rarely seen this person so dejected and unhappy as she was today.

Jiang Bufan remained silent, her face full of worry, her mood even heavier.

Under Zhou Xiaoru's anxious gaze, she finally loosened up a little.

"Wait a moment, let's find a place with no one around to talk; it's not convenient to talk here."

Not convenient?

Upon hearing this, a bad premonition rose in Zhou Xiaoru's heart. Could it be something very serious?

Now, it wasn't just Jiang Bufan who was heavy-hearted; Zhou Xiaoru also became somewhat restless because of this sentence.

She guessed all sorts of possibilities in her mind, but no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't come up with anything.

After arriving at the KTV, for the entire session, it was almost entirely Xiao Lan and Yao Xiang singing.

As for the other two, they each had their own thoughts...

This night of revelry ultimately failed to get going because of Jiang Bufan's cold atmosphere.

The group all felt like they had come with high spirits but returned disappointed!

The night was deep, and they took advantage of the moonlight to board the last bus heading back to school.

Because it was already late at night, there were very few people on the bus.

Yao Xiang and Xiao Lan sat in the front, while Zhou Xiaoru followed Jiang Bufan to sit in the very back, in the empty seats where there was no one else.

Xiao Lan just glanced indifferently at the two who were sitting far away from her, feeling a bit unhappy.

She didn't know when it started, but she discovered that Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan wouldn't tell her and Yao Xiang when they had things going on.

Tonight, watching the two of them being all mysterious and always sticking together, even showing no interest in their favorite singing segment, made her feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Meanwhile, in the last row of seats, Zhou Xiaoru had been waiting for Jiang Bufan to tell her something.

At this moment, Jiang Bufan took her phone out of her bag and started sending a message.

Her message was sent to Zhou Xiaoru.

Seeing her finish sending the message, Zhou Xiaoru glanced at her, then immediately realized what was happening and hurriedly took her own phone out of her bag.

But when she opened WeChat and saw the message that had been sent, her pupils were so terrified they almost dilated!

The message Jiang Bufan sent had only a few short words.

'I might be, pregnant...'

Zhou Xiaoru's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets; she mechanically turned her head to stare at the person beside her.

Her eyes seemed to be asking, 'Pregnant?! You're joking with me, right!'

And Jiang Bufan just returned a very helpless, bitter smile.

Swallowing hard, she sent a message back.

'Are you sure!'

"I'm not sure yet, but my period is already late this month, I'm afraid it might be..."

"How many days late is it?"

"Today is already the sixth day..."

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoru's face had already turned deathly pale.

The way she looked, it was as if she were the one who was pregnant.

Then she replied with another message, "Have you bought a pregnancy test to check?"

"Not yet."

"I'll go buy one tomorrow, let's talk after we're sure."

"Okay."

At this point, the series of actions taken by Miss Zhou made it seem as if the child being carried was hers.

She had already begun to pray in her heart, hoping that Jiang Bufan was not actually pregnant.

Jiang Bufan was someone who had to take the postgraduate entrance exam; how could she be pregnant! Wouldn't this ruin her bright future?

At this moment, she wished she could drag out the culprit and give them a good beating.

Sudden accidents are always catching people off guard and leaving them unable to cope.

Zhou Xiaoru finally understood Jiang Bufan's distress, and now her own heart felt heavy as well.

To be pregnant before even graduating from university, isn't this forcing someone onto a dead end?

That night, Dorm 601 was unusually quiet; everyone seemed very tired, and shortly after returning to the dorm, they all washed up and went to sleep.

Everyone was harboring different worries...

Early the next morning, Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan got up early and went out.

Taking advantage of these two days of rest, Zhou Xiaoru intended to accompany Jiang Bufan to get everything sorted out.

Right now it was only a suspicion; only after confirming it could they make plans for the next step.

But going to a pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test first thing in the morning...

This kind of thing was a first for both of them in their lives.

And what they were facing now wasn't just buying a pregnancy test for the first time, but that at such an early hour, the pharmacies near the school hadn't even opened yet.

In order to confirm the suspicion in her heart as soon as possible, Zhou Xiaoru decided to go look somewhere further away.

She knew that this was the most agonizing time for Jiang Bufan's heart.

While waiting for a car, Zhou Xiaoru gritted her teeth and said.

"Let's take a taxi, it'll be faster and save time, I'll pay the fare. Don't be too nervous, it's also possible that it's not what you think."

Jiang Bufan didn't speak; after returning last night, she hadn't slept all night.

In fact, for these past few days, she had been in this state; if it weren't for Zhou Xiaoru asking her repeatedly, she wouldn't have had the courage to confirm whether she was pregnant.

Zhou Xiaoru didn't wait for her to make a decision; just then a taxi came from the front, and she hailed it to a stop.

They hurriedly got into the car and hurriedly searched for a pharmacy nearby that was open.

It wasn't until the taxi reached the vicinity of the city center that they found a twenty-four-hour pharmacy.

After getting out of the car and paying, the two stood outside the pharmacy and suddenly both stopped in their tracks.

Now it wasn't just Jiang Bufan who was panicking uncontrollably; Zhou Xiaoru was also feeling exceptionally nervous.

Zhou Xiaoru would never have imagined that on the eve of graduation, she would be riding a taxi through the streets and alleys of A City looking for a pharmacy because she couldn't buy a pregnancy test.

And Jiang Bufan would never have imagined that she would sacrifice her first time because she drank too much.

And now, because of that sacrifice, she had hit the jackpot?!

If her parents found out about this, they would surely beat her to death!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shiver.

Seeing her tremble, Zhou Xiaoru couldn't help but ask a somewhat idiotic question.

"Are you cold? Or do you need to pee?"

She had heard that people who are pregnant need to pee a lot.

(Author's note: Are you a combination of four twos, you idiot! When is this, and you're still asking someone about peeing?)

Jiang Bufan replied just as idiotically, "A little."

The two fools managed to turn a heavy plot into a comedic life drama.

Zhou Xiaoru then said, "How about you wait for me outside, I'll go in and buy it."

(Author's note again: If she really is pregnant, are you sure it's not yours?)

Jiang Bufan nodded silently...

Zhou Xiaoru didn't dawdle; she dove into the pharmacy at top speed and rushed out again at top speed.

The whole process took less than two minutes!

It really took an hour to find a shop, but only two minutes to buy the item.

Then the two of them started looking for the next location again...

A toilet!

If you want to talk about the easiest thing to find in A City, it would be toilets; there's a toilet every two miles.

The decor of those toilets was even more high-class than the place they lived in.

Quickly finding a toilet, Zhou Xiaoru placed the item she bought into Jiang Bufan's hands.

If anyone else saw this scene, they might think this was the entrusting of something very important.

Before Jiang Bufan went in, she asked one more time.

"Do you know how to use it!"

Jiang Bufan had an instant urge to smash the thing in her hand directly onto this person's face.

She said nothing and went straight into the restroom.

Zhou Xiaoru waited anxiously outside, pacing back and forth; she looked just like a father whose girlfriend was inside giving birth.

Just as she was wondering if Jiang Bufan had fallen asleep in the toilet, the toilet door banged open...

She rushed in immediately and saw the person who had come out, her face ashen!

Her heart turned cold!

"Two lines?"

Last night, she had already carefully looked up how to use a pregnancy test online.

If two lines appeared, it meant she was pregnant.

Jiang Bufan nodded silently again.

This is the end, it's completely over...

She used to think that in TV shows and novels, getting pregnant on the first try was just for the sake of the plot.

How could it possibly be real!

Now, the plot had happened to her.

Jiang Bufan was beyond tears!

Zhou Xiaoru had bought her five pregnancy tests, and she had used them all.

The result on every single one was the same!

She had been worried as early as when her period was one day late; now, it was truly a nightmare come true.

Facing such a situation for the first time in her life, Jiang Bufan was at a loss and felt a bit dazed.

She suddenly remembered the youth films she had watched before, and how she had scoffed at the plots in them.

Modern youth films have three treasures: abortion, car accidents, and terminal illness!

Well, that's great; the first item she scoffed at, abortion, had now successfully manifested in her own life.

Is she going to have to go down the miserable, tragic route next? Just thinking about it made life feel meaningless.

Zhou Xiaoru didn't take Jiang Bufan back immediately, but instead took her to a breakfast shop.

Now that there was a sixty percent chance that Jiang Bufan was pregnant, she had to buy some good food to nourish her.

Jiang Bufan sat in the breakfast shop, watching as Zhou Xiaoru bought soy milk and then milk, and said with a mournful face.

"Why are you buying these?"

"Your situation is special now, you can't mistreat yourself. See what else you want to eat, and I'll go buy it for you."

Jiang Bufan was speechless for a moment; was this person trying to piss her off on purpose!

"You're not the father of the child, why are you making such a fuss? I'm in no mood to eat these right now."

Day after day, this is just too frustrating; she had finally managed to walk out of the shadow of that one-night stand.

And now, it's come back with a "to be continued"!

"No, no, you have to eat a good breakfast, your body is your own. I'll take time off next Monday to go to the hospital with you to check."

Although what she said was correct, in this current situation, who would have the mood to think about anything else?

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoru continued, "When the afternoon comes, I'll ask Su Poyang out to talk!"

"Ask him for what?"

"Shouldn't he be responsible for this matter!"

Jiang Bufan said in a huff, "It has nothing to do with him, this is my own business!"

"Without him, could you have gotten pregnant on your own?! Do you think you're doing IVF!"

"。。。。。。。。"

Jiang Bufan was speechless once again; it was fortunate they were good friends, otherwise she would have beaten this girl up.

At a time like this, Zhou Xiaoru acted like a real man, holding up a piece of the sky for Jiang Bufan.

But Jiang Bufan had her own thoughts...

"Even if you tell him, what can happen? Make him take responsibility? How?"

Marry her? Because of the crystallization of a one-night stand?!

Thinking about it, it was unrealistic, not to mention that the other party was the young master of a large conglomerate!

Jiang Bufan had self-awareness; she had no capital or desire to marry into a wealthy family.

Besides, for a playboy like Su Poyang, whoever married him would end up with a green hat!

What Jiang Bufan thought of, Zhou Xiaoru had thought of too...

After thinking for a while, she said.

"Xiaofan, no matter to what extent he can take responsibility, Su Poyang must at least bear more than half of the responsibility for this. No! I must call that big jerk out and beat him up!"

Thinking of Jiang Bufan's prime youth being ruined by this "pot," Zhou Xiaoru felt her teeth itch with hatred.