People are like this sometimes. When it comes to their own interests, they can only see the bad side of others, but don't think about the good things they have done in the past, or whether everything they have done is worthy of others' kindness.

"I heard that the campus gossip tabloid has ceased publication? These people are so weak-willed. I have been supporting them all the time." Xu Ying muttered while eating snacks while sitting on the bed.
"That's right, but the last article about Yaoyao was so sensational. If Yaoyao hadn't kept saying that she had nothing to do with Jian Yan, I would have believed it." Qiao Dandan said, "But Yaoyao has been so close to Cheng Anran and the others recently, and we roommates have been ignored." These words were filled with resentment.
Indeed, during the time that she met Mingliang and Cheng Anran, Lin Leyao spent less time with her roommates and spent most of her time playing outside with Mingliang.
For Qiao Dandan and Xu Ying, life without Lin Leyao is really not easy. They always feel that the money in their wallets is flowing away like water. There were many things that they didn't need to pay for themselves before, but now they have to pay for everything themselves, which is very painful.
"Yaoyao, are you going to move out of the dormitory in a few days?" Xu Ying asked suddenly.
"Why should I move out?" Lin Leyao asked blankly, not hearing the unhappiness in her tone.
"It's nothing. I thought you were planning to move out directly." Xu Ying said.
Even if Lin Leyao was slow, she understood what Xu Ying meant. She had indeed been very cold to them during this period. She sat next to Qiao Dandan, hugged her and said, "Oh , are you jealous of my relationship with Mingliang? Okay, okay, I'll treat you to a meal, and you can choose the place."
Hearing this, Xu Ying's face looked much better. She suppressed her smile and said, "How about calling Jian Yan?"
Lin Leyao was puzzled: "Why did you call Jian Yan?"
"Oh, just scream when I tell you to." Xu Ying blushed.
"I understand, I understand. Your intention is not to call you. I'll call him." Lin Leyao really didn't want to call Jian Yan, but Xu Ying had already said it, and it would not be good for her to refuse. She could only bite the bullet and call Jian Yan.
Jian Yan seemed to be a bit busy recently, and they hadn't seen each other for a few days. From the cafeteria to the girls' dormitory, the boys' dormitory was a must-go place. Every time she passed by, she would look up at the location of their dormitory. After being teased by Mingliang, she realized that she was distracted.
So the whole boys' dormitory knew about it. After Lin Leyao said that she didn't want to care about Jian Yan anymore, she regretted it, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud. She could only look at the direction where he lived with lingering eyes every day.
She kept reminding herself not to contact Jian Yan actively. If she didn't want to meet, then she wouldn't meet. Who's afraid of who?
This time, there seems to be a very legitimate reason.
After the beep, Jian Yan picked up the phone, with a hint of fatigue in his voice: "Xiao Yaoyao, do you miss me?"
"Miss you? Only a fool would miss you." Lin Leyao subconsciously retorted after hearing what he said.
Jian Yan laughed: "So Xiao Yaoyao changed her name to Gui?"
"I'm not calling to argue with you. Are you free tonight? If you are, let's go out for dinner together." Lin Leyao said seriously, "It's my roommate who wants to see you, not me."
"Really?" Jian Yan's voice was filled with a hint of playfulness. "Give me the time and address you guys agreed on later, and I'll be there as soon as I finish what I'm doing."
"Are you... busy lately?" Ahhh, why did she ask this? It felt so weird. After Lin Leyao asked, she wanted to slap herself twice. She didn't care about him. She didn't care whether he was busy or not!
After hanging up the phone, Lin Leyao took a deep breath. She must stay calm and keep her mind clear! She must keep a distance from Jian Yan! There must be no more ambiguous things happening!
Why does she have such an idea?
She actually didn't know. She just felt that being too close to Jian Yan was a very dangerous thing. She was already scared before it happened.
The dinner was held at a very expensive restaurant, which was chosen by Xu Ying. Qiao Dandan thought it was a bit expensive at first, but when she saw that Lin Leyao didn't object, she didn't say much.
Not long after they arrived, Jian Yan arrived, and was led into the private room by the waiter. When he entered, Lin Leyao and the others were already seated, and he was arranged to sit next to Xu Ying, opposite Qiao Dandan.
It was obvious that the seat was deliberately arranged, so he sat down without saying much and looked at Lin Leyao, who seemed a little guilty.
"Why, you don't want to introduce your roommate to me?" Jian Yan smiled, very gentlemanly.
"Oh, this is Xu Ying, and this is Qiao Dandan. They are both my roommates and good friends." Lin Leyao introduced.
"Hello, I'm Jian Yan, Yaoyao's good friend." Jian Yan deliberately emphasized the word "good friend", making it sound particularly meaningful.
"We know you." Qiao Dandan said with a smile, "You are very famous. I have always wanted to meet you up close. This time I finally met you."
Xu Ying glanced at Qiao Dandan with a warning look in her eyes.
"Hello, I'm Xu Ying from the Department of Economics and Management. We are in the same department, and our classroom is right next to yours." Xu Ying's voice was soft, with a hint of deliberate gentleness.
"Really? I never noticed that." Jian Yan took the menu and changed the subject, "Have you all ordered? The steak here is good."
Before he came, Xu Ying and the others had already looked through the menu several times. After the waiter came over, she ordered the most expensive steak set, and Qiao Dandan ordered a relatively mid-priced one.
Jian Yan raised his eyebrows without comment and said nothing.
"What does Yaoyao want to eat?" Xu Ying asked.
"I'll order for her." Jian Yan pointed to a set meal on the menu and said to the waiter, "I'll give you two of these. One steak is 7 cents and the other is 5 cents. The 5 cents is for the lady."
"Jian Yan understands Yao Yao so well, really..." Qiao Dandan's next words were glared back at by Xu Ying.
Xu Ying moved her butt and leaned closer to Jian Yan. Because there were so many people present, she didn't dare to get too close. However, her chest rubbed against Jian Yan's arm, and the teasing meaning was self-evident.
Is she trying to use me as a springboard?
Lin Leyao finally understood that this meal was Xu Ying's way of getting close to Jian Yan! This Xu Ying was actually blatantly teasing Jian Yan in front of her! She didn't take her seriously! She wanted to rush up and tear that smiling face apart!
Huh? No, why is she so angry?
Xu Ying liked Jian Yan, she had no objection, but she was very angry that he wanted to use her as a springboard! Yes, that's right, she was angry because she was used as a pawn, not because of anything else.
"Yaoyao, you scratched the paint off the table." Qiao Dandan reminded in a low voice.
Lin Leyao then realized that she had scratched out a little white on the dark brown solid wood table. She smiled awkwardly and changed the subject, "The atmosphere is so good, would you like to drink some red wine?"
"Okay." Xu Ying was the first to agree.
After the bread was served, the waiter pushed the red wine on ice over, opened it skillfully, poured it into the decanter, and then poured a glass for each of them.
Qiao Dandan was stunned by this series of actions. She used to drink directly into the glass, but she didn't expect it to be so particular.
"Jian Yan, I'll toast you." Xu Ying raised her glass, clinked it with Jian Yan's, and then drank it all in one gulp.
Jian Yan accepted her advances and did not refuse.
This was like an invitation to Xu Ying, and she was even more proud. After thinking for a while, she turned her eyes to Lin Leyao. She remembered that they had a drink together last year, and the drunk Lin Leyao was like a crazy woman. She was very curious whether Jian Yan had seen her like this before.
When the steak came, Lin Leyao had already been forced to drink several glasses of red wine by Xu Ying. She had a low alcohol tolerance to begin with, and she felt a little dizzy.
The medium-rare steak was served, with obvious blood in the middle. Xu Ying exclaimed, "Yaoyao, you have such a strong taste."
"She has always had a heavy taste. You can tell from the way she makes friends." Jian Yan looked up and smiled at Qiao Dandan, and asked gently, "Excuse me, can we change places?"
Qiao Dandan was dazed by the smile and nodded.
"Thank you." Jian Yan sat down next to Lin Leyao, reached out to take her steak, carefully cut the meat into pieces, and then handed it back to her, saying lovingly, "Every time you use a knife and fork, it makes people shudder. It's better to just use a fork."
"Hehe, you still understand me." Lin Leyao unceremoniously forked a piece of meat into her mouth and chewed it with satisfaction. After she finished eating all the steak on her plate, Jian Yan took away her empty plate and put his own plate of steak, which he had only eaten a few pieces of, in front of her. She didn't feel anything wrong at all and started eating with a silly smile on her face.
This meal, an expensive steak set, tasted dry and tasteless in Xu Ying's mouth. She looked at the silly Lin Leyao with some resentment.
She hated Lin Leyao in her heart and thought that this girl was so hypocritical. She kept saying that she and Jian Yan were just ordinary friends, and that she didn't like Jian Yan and that Jian Yan wouldn't like her either, but what happened...
Judging from the way they looked while eating, who would have thought they were just ordinary friends?
Xu Ying felt like a fool. She naively believed Lin Leyao and even looked for opportunities to seduce Jian Yan. It was such a huge joke!
She must make Lin Leyao look good!
People are like this sometimes. When it comes to their own interests, they can only see the bad side of others, but don't think about the good things they did in the past, or whether they deserve others to be nice to them.
After getting up the next day, Lin Leyao had a headache and a little pain in her thigh. She lifted the quilt and found an obvious bruise on the side of her thigh, which hurt a lot when she pressed it lightly.
She pressed her temples and recalled what happened yesterday. After they finished their meal, Jian Yan sent them back, and then she fell asleep. As for the bruise, she couldn't remember how it came about.
"Awake? Jian Yan asked someone to bring you three bowls of porridge." Han Qiuya was the only one in the dormitory. She looked up at Lin Leyao and continued reading.
Before Lin Leyao got out of bed, someone knocked on the door and brought in the fourth bowl of porridge. After asking, she found out that Jian Yan was afraid that she would be hungry after waking up, so he bought porridge for her. But he didn't know when she would wake up, so he could only ask someone to bring hot porridge over again and again.
Sugar-coated bullet! Lin Leyao thought so! But she still drank up all the porridge.
"Lin Leyao, you finally woke up! I heard that Jian Yan brought you porridge four times. How touching!" Mingliang pushed open the door and poked his head in. Seeing that she was awake, he said cheerfully, "I'm telling you, I've come here four times today, and every time I came, you slept like a dead pig."
Mingliang climbed onto the bed and sat next to Lin Leyao. After seeing the bruises on Lin Leyao's legs, she frowned and said, "Yaoyao, did someone pinch your legs?"
"Maybe I bumped into him accidentally last night. Tell me, what do you want from me?" Lin Leyao asked.
Mingliang: "God and heaven, if I'm fine, can't I come to see you?"
Lin Leyao: "Yes, yes, please keep your voice down, my roommate is still reading."
Mingliang lowered his voice and asked, "Yaoyao, do you know Cheng Anran?"
"An Ran?" She knew that Mingliang and An Ran had always been at odds, and the atmosphere was always strange when the three of them were together. Most of the time she avoided them from meeting each other.
"Yaoyao, you know I like Ma Ruge. He's outspoken and not as handsome as Jian Yan, and I don't know what I like about him." Mingliang said with a wry smile, "Many times, he likes to joke with me and say he wants to date me. I know it's all jokes, not real, and I'm not his type."
"You like Ma Ruge?" Lin Leyao was shocked. She thought for a long time but couldn't find any point that made Ma Ruge likable. Although this person looks okay, he has a bad mouth, is unreliable and careless. No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like the type that Mingliang would like.
She suddenly remembered that she also knew a girl in high school. The two of them had a good relationship. The girl liked another boy. There was nothing good about that boy, but she still loved him to death. There were several times when Lin Leyao couldn't help but want to create opportunities for the two of them, but Jian Yan stopped her. Jian Yan said that things like feelings can only be seen through by oneself, and no one else can help.
After saying this, she remembered Jian Yan said another sentence, "You can't even understand your own feelings, and you still want to help others?"
Her mood? What mood could she have? She was determined not to fall in love with someone. She didn't want her life to be filled with quarrels and the sound of smashing things like her parents'.
No, that’s off topic.
Lin Leyao pulled her thoughts back and asked, "Is there any connection between An Ran and Ma Ruge?"
"Ma Ruge seems to have fallen in love with An Ran." Mingliang said solemnly .
Lin Leyao was stunned. It took her a long time before she closed her mouth and said, "That's impossible."
It seemed as if God wanted to slap her in the face. A few days after Mingliang told her about this matter, she saw An Ran and Ma Ruge together. The two of them were whispering to each other and were quite ambiguous.
She was with Mingliang at the time, and seeing this, Mingliang wanted to rush up and slap Anran twice. But she held back. Although she was impulsive, she was sometimes terrifyingly calm.
After that day, her originally bright and radiant face gradually dimmed. Sometimes when chatting with her, she would always be stunned for a moment before answering, and her whole appearance seemed listless.
Lin Leyao saw it all and was anxious, but she didn't know how to comfort her. Should she drag Ma Ruge directly to Mingliang?
There's no point in pulling it over. If Ma Ruge just doesn't like bright lights, it will be counterproductive.
In desperation, Lin Leyao could only ask Jian Yan for help.
The two of them met at a coffee shop. As soon as they entered, Lin Leyao found that Jian Yan had already arrived, and he seemed to be in a bad mood.
She stood at the door and looked at Jian Yan for a long time, analyzing from every angle why Jian Yan was in a bad mood, but in the end, her brain exploded and she still couldn't figure it out.
Don't hit a smiling person, and it's always right to smile when you meet someone.
Lin Leyao sat down opposite Jian Yan with a smile on her face. Jian Yan raised his eyelids lazily and said, "You're willing to come in?"
Did he discover her a long time ago?
She laughed dryly and asked tentatively: "Are you in a bad mood?"
Jian Yan looked up at him, and after two minutes of silence, she said, "I'm hungry."
Lin Leyao wanted to tear his mouth apart. She stood at the door for ten minutes thinking about why he was in such a bad mood. Was he just hungry?
"You know, people always feel bad when they are hungry. Lin Leyao, please accompany me to eat." Jian Yan said, a little bit shamelessly.
"There are food here. Do you want French fries and bread? Do you want cake and cookies? Oh, yes, there is also pasta here. Do you like it? Do you want me to order some for you and you eat first? After I finish telling you about my story, shall we go out for a big meal? The same place where we had steak last time? It's a bit more expensive, but it tastes pretty good." Lin Leyao was afraid that the old man would suddenly get excited and drag him out to eat, so he could only say everything he wanted to say in one breath.
Mingliang's lethargy during this period annoyed her so much that she even lost a lot of hair. If it was someone else who was close to Ma Ruge, it would be fine, but it had to be An Ran, her other friend. She really didn't know what to do?
An Ran was a very quiet person. After they got to know each other, she liked being with her. She felt comfortable and at peace. She didn't want to lose Ming Liang, nor did she want to lose An Ran because of this.
When did she, who didn't believe in true friendship, become accustomed to the existence of real friends?
Lin Leyao ordered a table full of food for Jian Yan. After the French fries came, she carefully squeezed the ketchup from the bag into his plate. After everything was ready, she respectfully invited Mr. Jian to eat. While he was eating, she kept secretly observing him.
He doesn't seem that hungry.
She thought of another possibility, could it be that Jian Yan had already discovered her before she entered the door? So she pretended to be in a bad mood, in order to seize her eagerness to solve the problem and put forward her own request.
Or maybe he had no demands at all and just wanted to tease her.
Jian Yan raised his head and squinted at her: "I know I'm good-looking, but you don't have to stare at me so unabashedly. I'll be shy."
"If you are shy, there is no one in this world who is not shy." Lin Leyao shouted in her heart, but she was still smiling. After all, she was asking for help, so she couldn't get angry or lose her temper. "Mr. Jian is the best-looking boy I have ever seen."
The compliment was very helpful, and Jian Yan smiled contentedly: "Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Um..." Jian Yan had warned her before not to try to get involved in other people's feelings. Before she said that, she pondered for a long time, thinking about what words to use that would not make Jian Yan angry and could also help her solve the problem.
"Just say what you want to say. I promise I won't be angry when you say the first three sentences." Lord Jian Yan said generously.
Just three sentences? Did he already guess what she was going to say?
Jian Yan added: "If you want to talk about Mingliang and Ma Ruge, I will get angry at the first sentence."
Lin Leyao was like a balloon with a hole in it, and the air instantly disappeared.
He must have guessed what she was going to say when she called? If he didn't want to help, he should just say so. Why did he have to attack her in person? Lin Leyao was depressed.
Seeing her tangled and annoyed look, Jian Yan felt a little sorry for her and explained, "I've told you before that you can't let others interfere in matters of the heart, even your best friends."
"But... bright... safe..."
Jian Yan's expression darkened: "No matter who it is, it won't work."
Lin Leyao wanted to make a last-ditch effort: "Is there no room for maneuver at all?"
Jian Yan shook his head: "No."
Continue to struggle: "Even a little bit is fine."
Jian Yan's face... darkened a little...
It is better to live a miserable life than to die. It is impossible for her to sit idly by and watch such bright things. She must find a solution.
Thinking of this, Lin Leyao mustered up the courage to look Jian Yan in the face: "No matter what, Mingliang is my friend. I can't just sit there and watch her be sad! Jian Yan, you keep saying that you are my good friend. I am in trouble, are you not going to help me? Or do you want to tell me that you don't consider me a friend at all, just like you were the last one to tell me when you decided to go abroad."
When talking about going abroad, Jian Yan's eyes dimmed. It turned out that she still remembered it in her heart.
"Lin Leyao, have you started to believe in friendship?" Jian Yan asked.
"I don't know, I just know that Mingliang is very important to me, unlike Qiaodandan and Xu Ying." She once didn't believe in all relationships. Her parents' love and the faces of her friends and relatives when her family was in trouble had all made her feel disappointed. But for Mingliang, she believed in him once, for no reason.
When it comes to Xu Ying, Jian Yan is in a bad mood . His intuition tells him that this girl is very scheming, and he still needs to find a way to separate her from Lin Leyao.
It’s better not to mention this kind of thing in front of Lin Leyao. With her personality, it’s useless to mention it.
"Now that you've said this, it would be cruel for me to do nothing." Jian Yan looked at Lin Leyao with a condescending look, "Go ahead, tell me your doubts first."
He tapped the knuckles of his right middle finger on the table, once, once... The sound was very light and crisp.
Lin Leyao knew that he was thinking about something, or you could say he was calculating, but she didn't know what he was calculating.
Jian Yan was very decisive, and when he sat quietly, he had an air of being in control of everything. Lin Leyao's gaze stayed on Jian Yan's face. She had clearly seen this face for ten years, but now she still thought it was beautiful.
He was a good-looking boy, she had always known that. Perhaps it was because of this good-looking face that created an illusion in her that she had been unable to turn things around.
Obviously...she is a domineering queen.
"Didn't I tell you to ask? What are you thinking about?" Jian Yan looked up and saw that she looked absent-minded. He knew that she was daydreaming again, so he raised his hand and ruffled her hair to bring her thoughts back to her mind.
"Oh oh oh, let me ask, does Ma Ruge really like An Ran?" Lin Leyao finally remembered what she wanted to ask.
Jian Yan asked back: "What do you think?"
"Jian Yan, I am asking you a question very seriously, please don't..."
Before Lin Leyao finished speaking, Jian Yan continued, "I don't know if Ma Ruge really likes An Ran, but I know that An Ran is his type. Do you understand?"
She thought about it and nodded.
"Although Ma Ruge and I are good friends, it doesn't mean that I know everything about him. I know the type of girl he likes, but it doesn't mean I know whether he has fallen in love with An Ran. He didn't say it, so I can't tell you the answer 100%. "Jian Yan analyzed the matter carefully for him, "I know that Mingliang likes Ma Ruge, not because she told me, but because it is clearly written on her face."
"Is it that clear? Why haven't I noticed it?" Lin Leyao knew that Jian Yan must be laughing at her low IQ in his heart. Sure enough, when she looked at him, she caught a glimpse of mockery in his eyes.
Well, that’s not the point, she endured it.
"So you said so much, what's the conclusion? How should I help Mingliang?" Lin Leyao felt that Jian Yan had analyzed a bunch of nonsense for her, and she just wanted to know what she could do.
"An Ran and Ming Liang, if you were asked to choose between the two, who would you choose?" Jian Yan asked a question that left her confused.
Choose one?
She frowned. According to the time they had known each other, she should choose Mingliang. But this kind of thing cannot be measured by time.
If Mingliang and Anran fell into the water at the same time, who would she save? It seemed that she was the only one who couldn't swim. If they fell into the water, Anran and Mingliang could save themselves, but she would need them to save her.
What if one day Mingliang told her that she had to choose between bread and milk, what would she choose?
"If I have to choose between the two, I choose Mingliang." Lin Leyao said firmly. After a moment of hesitation, her mind was filled with Mingliang's face and Mingliang's sadness.
"Really?" Jian Yan seemed to be relieved, and moved his body, returning to his original state. "If you choose Mingliang, then let Mingliang confess her feelings, and let Mingliang clearly tell Ma Ruge how she feels. If Ma Ruge also likes her, then everyone will be happy. If Ma Ruge likes An Ran, then at least she can get away with it."
"Is this your solution?" Lin Leyao asked uncertainly.
"That's right." Jian Yan didn't give any other answers about this matter. Even if Lin Leyao continued to ask, he didn't say anything. He just buried his head in eating the food on the table. After eating for a while, he looked up and added, "Remember that you still owe me a meal."
I thought he would give some more suggestions, but he actually said this. Lin Leyao was very disappointed, and her brain started to work hard to think about the feasibility of Jian Yan's proposal.
Until she returned to school with Jian Yan, Lin Leyao was still thinking about this question.
Ah, this Jian Yan is too unkind. Is he really not giving such a suggestion just to cheat a meal? Although she was a little skeptical, she still agreed with this method in her heart.
She knew that she was a little biased. She had never had a good talk with An Ran after the incident. Otherwise... talk to An Ran first. If there was nothing between An Ran and Ma Ruge, she could just give a hint. This way Mingliang wouldn't be so sad.
This idea seems a bit stupid, but is there any other solution?
Lin Leyao tossed and turned in bed for an hour but couldn't come up with a better solution. She finally realized that she was not suitable to be a relationship expert.
Then just ask An Ran indirectly first. There shouldn't be any problem if you don't ask her explicitly.
What if An Ran also likes Ma Ruge?
"Lin Leyao, don't try to find Cheng Anran to solve the problem." The phone flashed, and when it was opened, it was a message from Jian Yan.
Does he know what he is thinking? This man is so scary!
So Lin Leyao was in a dilemma again. On the left was An Ran, and on the right was Ming Liang. What should she do? Should she listen to Jian Yan or not?
"Don't think I was joking with you. Don't try to find Cheng Anran to solve the problem."
Jian Yan sent another message, and Lin Leyao became even more confused. She didn’t know what to do!
Finally, Lin Leyao made a decision. She would go find Cheng Anran. She couldn't let Mingliang confess his feelings without considering the consequences.