Chapter 4: Cinderella's Transformation Ball 04
"One lap... two laps... fifteen laps... bastard Duanmu Jichu... tyrant... a pig who only cares about money... a poisonous monster..."
I skipped the last class because I was so angry that I had to calm down in my own way.
Yes, that's right, my way to calm down is to run, run hard until I'm too tired to think about anything anymore.
I ran around the big banyan tree outside the back gate of the school, cursing Duanmu Jichu angrily, otherwise the resentment in my heart would not be eliminated.
Bastard, you easily ruined the turnaround plan I worked so hard on, bastard!
"Xiao Ye, are you chanting a spell?"
Just when I was sweating profusely and felt dizzy, a sweet voice like ice cream suddenly came from behind me: "Xiao Ye, I've been looking for you for a long time. Why didn't you go to class? Are you feeling unwell?"
Small leaf?
It’s the first time someone calls me like this. I didn’t know my name could be so cute.
I stopped, turned around and looked at Leo's smiling face that was as bright and shining as a diamond, and the resentment in my heart was instantly eliminated by half.
"No. I'm just in a bad mood." I sat on the flower bed next to the banyan tree, panting, and forced a smile at him.
"So, Xiaoye, was that a spell that can make people happy?" Leo sat down beside me, staring at me with his deep blue eyes. A blush gradually appeared on his face, and then he suddenly reached out and pinched my face. "Xiaoye, your blushing face is so cute, like a peach, making people want to take a bite."
Ahem... peach, take a bite...
Is this cute line really talking about me?
I have always been thick-skinned, but I couldn't help blushing in this situation. However, my face was already very red from running, so it probably wouldn't be noticeable if it was a little redder.
However, I really like Le Ou. He made me realize that I have so many advantages, and he is the only one who has praised me sincerely in my life.
My mother only called me a stupid girl, my younger brothers only flattered me by praising my fighting skills, and that bastard Duanmu Jichu never said a good word to me and even called me a worthless rice cake girl.
My mood became sunny because of Le'ou's arrival, so I asked him with a smile: "Le'ou, do you have something to talk to me about?"
"Something." He nodded solemnly, put away his smile, and replaced it with a serious expression. "These days with you are the happiest days of my life, Xiaoye. If I confessed to you before because of our country's regulations and because I wanted to be a responsible man, then what I am going to say next has nothing to do with that incident. This is my sincere words, and I hope you can listen carefully."
He looked so serious and earnest that I couldn't help but take it seriously too. I nodded along with his words: "Okay."
"Xiaoye, I like you, sincerely. Do you remember when we first met, you pulled me to run on the street? That was the first time I had such an experience, my heartbeat accelerated, the blood in my body was boiling, and I could clearly feel that your hands were so warm. Maybe it was because of my special status, no one dared to treat me like that, even when I was with my parents, I was respectful, because grandpa was a very serious person, he didn't like others to be too intimate in front of him, plus he had to take into account the image of the royal family, so I never had that feeling. I was so moved, and I recalled that scene for a long time afterwards. If I was not sure whether I had fallen in love with you at that time, then after this period of time together, I have been completely sure. I like you, Xiaoye, can you date me?"
Le Ou’s voice was like the clouds in the sky, soft and light. These words rang soft in my ears and also touched my heart.
He likes me?
This time he really liked me.
It turns out that I can make others like me so much!
What a wonderful feeling, and so touching.
"Leo..."
I looked into his deep blue eyes, which were slightly moist. At this moment, facing his affectionate gaze, my heart softened for a moment.
Promise him, it must be a very happy thing to date him, to date someone with a smile as bright as a gem.
As for other things, other people... don't think about them anymore. He looks down on me anyway. Don't think about him anymore. Don't think about anything else...
"Leo." I looked into his eyes and gently opened my lips, "Leo, I also--"
"Rice Cake Girl, you are here. You dare to skip class. Do you want to be punished?"
Before I could even utter "I like you, too," my body suddenly felt lighter, and someone grabbed my collar and lifted me up from the flower bed. Then someone shouted fiercely over my head, "Even if you are a defective product, you should be aware of being a defective product and make the most of your only advantage! I was working on a document and needed someone to calculate the data for me, but I couldn't find you, Rice Cake Girl, do you want to be punished again?"
It turned out to be Duanmu Jichu. He picked me up from the flower bed and held me to his side. With a frown on his face, he yelled at me angrily. Then he seemed to have just noticed Le Ou next to him. He then greeted Le Ou with a surprised expression. I didn’t know whether it was real or intentional.
"Le Ou, so you are here too. Ji Mo and Ximen are looking for you. I have something urgent to do. Please lend me this rice cake girl."
Then he dragged me into Xingxiu Tower without saying anything.
"Duanmu Jichu, where are you taking me? Let me go!"
I struggled all the way, being half-dragged by Duanmu Jichu in an extremely indecent posture, unable to walk normally and could only walk backwards. Fortunately, there was no one in Xingxiu Building, otherwise I would have been embarrassed to my grandmother's house.
Duanmu Jichu ignored me and dragged me into his private office before letting me go.
"You knew Le'ou was a prince, so you tried your best to get close to him. Women like you are really greedy for money! What? Do you think you can enter the upper class by getting close to Le'ou?" Duanmu Jichu closed the door of his office, turned around and glanced at me, his eyes full of contempt, "But it's true, Le'ou is the prince of the Gem Kingdom, and he may be appointed crown prince and become king in the future. A button on his clothes is enough to make you worry-free for the rest of your life, so it's inevitable that you will be tempted."
I'm sticking to Leo? Am I a woman who is greedy for money?
If I were really that kind of person, I would have left this damn class long ago. Why would I stand here and be insulted by him? Although he was also very sharp-tongued before and never said a nice word to me, I cannot accept it now that he said such words. I absolutely cannot tolerate such insults!
"Duanmu Jichu, don't think you can insult me just because I'm poor! Yes, when Le'ou confessed to me just now, I should have agreed to him immediately, and then smashed his buttons in your face to pay off the inexplicable tuition fee, because I don't want to see your disgusting face anymore!"
I clenched my fists and couldn't control myself from punching him in the face, yelled out the conversation angrily, then turned and ran out of his office.
I ran out of school angrily, feeling as if a huge rock was blocking my heart. I couldn't stop crying even though I hadn't cried in years. I couldn't go home, so I could only wander the streets alone.
"Asshole Duanmu Jichu, big asshole, super asshole!" It was getting dark, and I walked to the Meteor Bridge on the outskirts of the city without realizing it. The bridge was empty, just right for someone like me who was angry and needed to vent, so I stood by the bridge and shouted at the dark river below: "Duanmu Jichu, the person I hate most in my life is you. If it weren't for you, I would have become a princess long ago! Duanmu Jichu, I hate you, hate you, hate you..."
Although I was shouting like this, I was still very sad in my heart. I was not sad because I missed the chance to be a princess, but because of Duanmu Jichu's view of me - in his eyes, I was not only worthless, but also a gold digger who was greedy for money...
Well, although I once rented out my body to him as a hug bear in order to save money for a cell phone, and even bargained with him, it was all because I was angry and wanted to get rid of the title of "the only person in Aurora College without a cell phone"!
The sky was completely dark, and the stars in the sky lit up one by one, as if magic had been cast. The originally gloomy sky became full of stars and shining brightly in just a moment of looking down.
A few couples walked past me, chatting sweetly while looking at the stars, but I was sitting alone on the bridge, my mood fell to the bottom, and I couldn't be happy for a long time.
"You are sitting in such a dangerous place, do you want to jump into the river?"
A voice came from behind me, accompanied by the cool night breeze and reached my ears. I felt my whole body tremble and my heart tightened for no reason.
It was the voice of that bastard Duanmu Jichu. How did he know I was here? Has he been looking for me?
But I don't want to look back.
Who told him to say that to me before, huh...
"Did you hear me? This place is dangerous, come down quickly!"
Duanmu Jichu seemed a little anxious when he saw that I ignored him. He reached out and pulled me down from the railing at the end of the bridge. He held my arm tightly and refused to let go. His perfect and handsome face had a gentle expression that I had never seen before. He frowned slightly and said, "Are you really angry?"
Which girl wouldn’t be angry if someone said that?
I continued to ignore him out of spite.
"You've already hit me, why are you still angry? Aren't you too stingy?" Duanmu Jichu pulled my arm. Maybe it was because he had never comforted a girl before, so his movements were clumsy and rude, and his words made me even angrier.
I turned around and glared at him, broke free from his hand, and walked to the other side of the bridge, refusing to speak to him.
"sorry……"
Maybe it was the cold night wind that made me hallucinate. I had only taken a few steps when I heard an incredible voice behind me: "I'm sorry, I admit that what I said before was a bit excessive."
He actually apologized to me!
Duanmu Jichu, who thinks of himself as a god, is high and mighty, willful, overbearing and vicious-tongued, is apologizing to me!
Oh my God, did you get the wrong script?
This is not Duanmu Jichu's line, definitely not...
If it were him, he should have said something like "It's an honor for a worthless rice cake girl like you to be humiliated by me, you should feel honored!" "Rice cake girl, beg me to humiliate you, come and beg me!"
"What did you say?"
I turned around to look at his face. His eyes, which were deeper than the night and brighter than the stars, stared at me steadily, then turned away awkwardly: "I've already apologized, so forget it if you didn't hear it."
How could I not hear it? I heard it, and I heard it clearly, and even the annoyance and anger in my heart disappeared without a trace along with the word "I'm sorry".
But I still don't understand why Duanmu Jichu chased me and why he came to apologize to me? For a businessman like him who only cares about money, he should not care even if others die.
"What are you looking at? Anyway, I've apologized, you can do whatever you want, I'm leaving." Duanmu Jichu seemed unable to stand being stared at with such doubtful eyes. He scratched his hair awkwardly, frowned, turned around and walked away.
"Duanmu Jichu..." I don't know why, but the moment he turned around, I rushed over and grabbed his arm, as if I was afraid that he would really leave. "Duanmu Jichu, I forgive you."
"I told you, you can do whatever you want."
Duanmu Jichu turned back and glared at me angrily, but he stopped and did not continue to walk away. Even when I let go of his arm and jumped onto the railing to sit, he actually followed me. After hesitating for a while, he also sat on the railing like me.
The night wind was blowing, the air was damp and cool, the sky was full of stars, the surroundings were very quiet, and the scent of lilies drifted from time to time. I turned my head to look at Duanmu Jichu, his profile was bathed in the starlight, there was an indescribable beauty, like a god lost in the mortal world, even if he was sitting next to me in real life, he still had a sense of distance and alienation.
"Duanmu Jichu, you don't really hate me as much as you say, right?" Looking at his profile, I suddenly couldn't help but ask.
"Who said I hate you?" He turned his head to look at me, a soft light flashed in his eyes, "I just have never met a strange girl like you, who is obviously very stubborn and strong, but pretends to be a bootlicker, and also plays some pranks out of the blue, making it impossible for people to predict what you want to do next..." He glared at me here, but his expression was very gentle, "Do you know what it feels like to step into a pair of shoes full of rice cakes? I was so angry that I wanted to catch you immediately, tie you up with lead and throw you into the river to feed the fish."
Uh, is it really that serious?
Although it does feel bad to step on a "rice cake mine", it is too cruel to tie it up with lead and throw it into the river to feed the fish. Killing people is against the law, sir.
“Um…hahaha…” I scratched my head with a silly smile, but then I immediately realized that he had it all to himself, so I rolled my eyes at him and said, “Who told you to deduct my wages? Humph, you’re so rich but so stingy. Rich people are the most annoying!”
"Then it's right for you to sell your body?" Duanmu Jichu raised his hand and ruffled my hair.
"Hey, who sold my body? I sold my time. You hugged me like a teddy bear for so long, can't I get some money?" I shouted unconvinced.
"Since this is a transaction, there's nothing wrong with me negotiating the price normally."
"It's all your fault anyway, you meanie!"
"Nian Gao girl, if you continue to act so arrogant, be careful and I will really throw you into the river to feed the fish!"
…
Although we were still arguing, the atmosphere was unusually good. And for the first time ever, I didn't get angry and lose control of myself. Duanmu Jichu's expression also became more and more gentle in the moonlight.
I don't know how long it had been, but a distant bell rang from the city center square. I was so sleepy that I slowly leaned on Duanmu Jichu's body and fell asleep in a daze.
Perhaps it was the momentary comfort that made me a little too proud of myself, so that I didn’t realize what kind of disaster I would face in the future.
