Chapter 1404: Breakup

The person she least wanted to see right now was Zichen, yet she had just happened to run into him.

"Don't cover yourself up, I know it's you."

Lu Feifei pulled back the quilt covering her head and said angrily, "Go away, I don't need you to worry about me."

Zichen didn't leave; instead, he sat down brazenly opposite her: "If I hadn't seen it, of course I wouldn't care, but since I saw it, I have to care. I am the Class Monitor."

"Hmph! We have already graduated; even if you are the Class Monitor, you can't control me."

"Once a Class Monitor, always a Class Monitor..."

Zichen realized he had gone off track, so he brought the topic back and asked the doctor: "What illness does she have?"

The doctor: "It's not really an illness, just heatstroke and malnutrition."

The auntie who brought Lu Feifei overtedly added: "This girl is too strong-willed. She works three jobs alone. Every day before dawn, she goes to the breakfast shop to do odd jobs, at noon she works as an hourly worker at a restaurant, and when the sun is at its strongest, she hands out flyers in front of the mall..."

And so, he heard something beyond his own understanding.

Connecting this to the fact that Lu Feifei had once borrowed money from Litian and had applied for a tuition-free teacher training program, Zichen blurted out: "Are you very short on money? Did something happen at home? Don't carry it all by yourself; if you say it out loud, the whole class can help you."

Lu Feifei refused to admit that her family was in difficulty. She said that working was just her wanting to train herself, that she applied for the teacher training program because she liked it, and that the malnutrition was because she wanted to lose weight!

She also warned Zichen not to tell anyone else about this.

Zichen agreed, but went home and told Litian!

To him, Litian was a brother, not "anyone else."

Litian immediately rushed to the hospital, but Lu Feifei was not there; she had been discharged.

He braced himself and found Lu Feifei's home, only to learn that she had already moved out.

Although Lu Feifei's young stepmother hated him to the core, she still felt a sense of awe, so she didn't dare to make things difficult for him or say anything unpleasant.

Litian found out where Lu Feifei was currently living from the Lu Family, knocked on the door, and when Lu Feifei saw him, she was surprised at first, then frowned: "How did you find this place?"

"Can you let me in? Let's talk inside."

"Come in then."

Lu Feifei made way, and Litian entered the room.

He was carrying two large bags of various nutritional supplements and snacks. After looking around and seeing that the room didn't even have a table, he placed them on the floor.

"These were all bought for you. Eat more good food to build yourself up. You don't need to pay back that money; I never wanted it in the first place."

As he spoke, he took out the IOU, tore it to shreds in front of Lu Feifei, and turned to leave.

"Stop."

Lu Feifei called Litian to a halt, stood in front of him, and looked displeased: "What is the meaning of this? Pitying me? Let me tell you, it's not needed. I don't need anyone's pity, and I will definitely pay you back the money..."

She lost her temper, and in the end, she forced Litian to watch as she wrote a new IOU and shoved it into his pocket before kicking him out!

The next day.

Lu Feifei went to work at the breakfast shop as usual, only for the landlady to announce with a smile: "You don't need to come in starting today. I'm giving you a vacation, and your wages will be paid as usual."

"Why?" Lu Feifei felt no joy, but instead asked for the reason.

"You work hard and diligently, so it's only right to give you a few days off. Oh, go back, go back, go back and get some good rest."

Lu Feifei was "driven" home by the breakfast shop landlady.

Near noon at the restaurant, she received the exact same reply: "Little Lu, I'm giving you annual leave, paid annual leave. Go back and rest. It won't be long before you start university; go shopping, buy some clothes and bags you like..."

In the afternoon, when she arrived at the place where she handed out flyers and saw the foreman's face—which only beamed with joy when picking up money—she understood everything.

"Foreman, you don't want to give me a vacation too, do you?"

"How did you know? Little Lu, it's paid, you know. We pay normal wages during holidays. Keep your voice down, don't tell anyone else. Only you have this treatment; no one else does..."

Lu Feifei went aggressively to find Sheng Litian to settle the score.

When Litian saw Lu Feifei looking for him, he was happy at first, but soon noticed her ugly expression and even harsher tone.

"Sheng Litian, who told you to meddle in my business? We have already broken up; can you stop interfering in my affairs?"

Litian blushed and said in a low voice: "You know? I meant well; I just didn't want you to be too exhausted..."

"You're crazy. I'm not anyone to you! What right do you have to manage my affairs? Whether I'm exhausted or not has nothing to do with you..." Lu Feifei angrily threw a stack of money at Sheng Litian.

"Ten thousand yuan, count it carefully." After saying this, she left.

Litian had locked himself in his room for a full day.

He didn't eat, didn't drink, and didn't speak.

Shi Youxuan was worried that something had happened to her son, so she went to knock on the door: "Knock, knock, knock."

"Litian, Litian, are you asleep?"

Last time, it was because of Lu Feifei that Litian slept for three days and three nights. If it happened again... she didn't dare to think about it.

The doctor said that in severe cases of sleeping sickness, one might never wake up.

"No." Litian's muffled voice came from inside the room.

Shi Youxuan breathed a sigh of relief and said again: "Open the door, Mom wants to chat with you for a while."

"No, Mom, I want to be alone."

He was currently sitting on a chair, tears streaming down his face; he certainly couldn't let his mother see him like this.

"Fine, it's okay if you don't open the door."

Shi Youxuan simply leaned against the door and said: "Then let's talk like this, it won't be a problem. That girlfriend of yours breaking up with you is a good thing, not a bad thing..."

Litian hurriedly pulled out a tissue to wipe away his tears, jumped barefoot off the floor, and went to open the door.

Every room had excellent soundproofing; if they were "chatting" with one person inside and one outside like this, it would mean everyone could hear.

His mother must have been shouting at the top of her lungs; otherwise, he wouldn't have heard her so clearly from inside the room.

The door opened, and Shi Youxuan was "invited" inside.

She pretended not to see Litian's red, swollen eyes, simply pulling back the curtains to let the sunlight stream in.

"Pack up, we're going on vacation."

Litian:...

His mother's train of thought jumped too quickly, so quickly that he couldn't keep up.

"I'm not going."

"Not going, huh—" Shi Youxuan drew out her voice: "Then let's hold a family meeting to discuss the ten cardinal sins of your ex-girlfriend!"

"I'll go."

Litian changed his tune immediately and packed his luggage with the fastest speed possible.

The Resort.

This was a place Litian had loved especially much since he was a child, not only because the Architecture here looked particularly like his hometown, but also because there was an endless sea here.

Litian loved swimming, especially swimming freely in the ocean; it was simply incredibly satisfying.

But today, he sat by the seaside, yet for the first time ever, he didn't want to go down; his expression was also listless and dispirited.

Sheng Hanyu packed up his fishing rod, preparing to fish!

Shi Youxuan poked him in the lower back and pursed her lips toward Litian's direction: "Look over there."

"What's wrong?"