Chapter 4 Your Heart Is Out of Reach 05
July kept his promise and treated me to a meal at the most luxurious "Manhan Banquet" in the city.
She was very comfortable taking the order throughout the whole process, and I was terrified while eating, fearing that I would lose out on the money she spent like water.
"Why waste it like this? Your money doesn't come from the wind." I leaned against the taxi and complained to her like an old lady.
"Always remember that I owe you a thank you meal." She turned her gaze from the night view outside the car window back to the car and crossed her hands on her knees.
I muttered quietly, "I didn't ask you to return it."
"How is Zhuang Nan? Is he feeling better?" I changed the subject. I didn't want her to think about the day . She has scars in her heart that cannot be touched. I understand.
July stretched and replied lazily, "Well, it's still the same, but he is willing to eat at the same table with me, and we haven't said anything."
"It will get better over time," I said.
"Well, I hope so." She responded to me tiredly. I turned my head and saw that she was tired, so I didn't ask any more questions. I asked the master to take me to the dormitory building, and then asked the master to take July home.
After the beginning of spring, the weather gradually became warmer, but the things that happened in this winter could not go away with the melting ice and snow.
My life went uneventful for the next few weeks until Xue Ye's continuous harassing phone calls broke the peace. Last time, he had taken Lin Jiaxuan's phone and got my phone number, so he started pestering me. However, if he hadn't reminded me, I would have almost forgotten that I had hit him with a bottle.
What is coming will come, there is no need to hide, I might as well make an appointment with him to meet and end it once and for all.
"I'm here to collect a debt." As soon as he saw me, Xue Ye directly stated his purpose.
"How much? You tell me." I said.
"Girl, could you please stop being so vulgar? Besides, can this debt be paid off with money? Do you know how much mental and psychological damage that bottle of wine you drank caused me?" He lifted up his hair to show me.
"Then tell me, how are you going to pay it back?" I was not afraid at all.
"Mental compensation is fine. I don't need your money. You didn't cause me any harm. Just a little compensation will be fine."
"Just say what you want to say." I don't have time to listen to his rambling.
"Be my girlfriend." He smiled playfully. Seeing my changed expression, Xue Ye quickly raised three fingers, "Three days! Three days! Just treat it as three days, okay?"
I sneered and shook my head.
"One day, okay?" he bargained.
I shook my head.
"You're so difficult to deal with. I want to pick you up!" Xue Ye spat.
I turned around and prepared to leave.
"Okay, let's go watch a movie together. You'll have to pay for what you've done, is this okay?" He was quite discouraged.
"I can agree to watch a movie with you, but only if you refuse any physical contact," I said.
Xue Ye had no objection.
At that time, I didn't know that people like Xue Ye were like leopards that claimed to be the king of their own territory on the grassland. Once they saw the prey, they would do everything they could to drag it to their territory. As long as they could occupy the prey, they would even bite it to death.
Unfortunately, when I understood this truth, it was already too late.
Xue Ye bought movie tickets for Saturday, and when I arrived at the cinema, he was already waiting for me at the door.
There was still an hour before the venue was due to leave, Xue Ye said he hadn't had lunch yet, and asked me to go with him to the nearby KFC. There were few people in KFC, and Xue Ye ordered a family bucket meal and wolfed it down, while I sat aside and wasted time.
I lowered my head to play with my phone, and felt the light in front of me dim. A voice without any emotion rang above my head: "Merry Christmas Eve."
It’s not Christmas Eve, what blessings are you offering?
However, I seem to have seen this sentence somewhere...card!
My heart skipped a beat and I looked up subconsciously. Fang Xuyu's unfathomable starry eyes were filled with a shrewd and calculating light.
"You're going to die, Fang Xuyu." I was frightened and picked up the napkin on the table and hit him with it, but the napkin was so light that it had no effect at all.
At this time, through Fang Xuyu's shoulder, I saw Zhong Man'er standing behind him. She still stared at me with that fierce look, probably because I always ruined her good things. I put my hand down awkwardly and smiled. Can you blame me? I didn't mean it.
I guess I admire my own memory. It’s been so long since Lin Jiaxuan sent me the last birthday photo, but I still remember this girl who confessed to Fang Xuyu.
How did they get here? Are they together?
"Do you know each other?" Xue Ye looked at Fang Xuyu with hostility in his tone.
"Fang Weiyang, come home next week and have dinner together." Fang Xuyu looked at me intently.
"Who are you, you little brat?" Xue Ye, who was ignored, slammed the table and yelled at him.
Xue Ye has a really bad temper.
"Sweet and sour pork ribs, chicken curry rice, cabbage rolls, steamed pork ribs, eh? And an orange milk pudding." He smiled at me, and it made me shudder.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Xue Ye grabbed Fang Xuyu's sweater collar and was about to hit him. Fang Xuyu's eyes swept across the hand in front of him calmly, and pierced Xue Ye's face like an ice pick.
"Did anyone ever teach you not to interrupt others when they are talking?"
Fang Xuyu's tone was like a pool of water in the cold winter, freezing people to the point of shivering.
“Oh my god!”
"go away."
Xue Ye let go of Fang Xuyu's collar and prepared to attack. I pushed him, and Xue Ye's face stink as if he had eaten a fly from a cesspool.
I saw that Fang Xuyu's originally furrowed brows gradually relaxed because of my movements.
He turned around, as if he had not said anything, and returned to Zhong Man'er with a different face, saying lightly: "Let's go."
"Okay, the movie is about to start, let's go in." Zhong Maner raised an exquisite smile to him. Her eyes were full of tenderness when she looked at Fang Xuyu, but turned into thorns when she looked at me.
Fang Xuyu deliberately spoke to me like that to let Xue Ye misunderstand his meaning. I don't know what his intention was. But it was obvious that Xue Ye was greatly stimulated. He was terribly gloomy during the movie. He didn't even react when the ending song of the movie sounded. He was absent-minded.
"Hey, time to go." I tapped my elbow on the armchair, trying to get his attention.
"Oh? Yeah, okay." He nodded and stood up suddenly.
The lights in the theater came on, and we followed the audience out of the security passage. Xue Ye walked slowly to the end until everyone had left.
"Girl, you've never been kissed, right?" he suddenly called me.
"W-what?"
"I'll teach you." He approached me step by step. I was startled and quickly retreated, but this was a blind spot. He pushed me against the wall, and I heard the sound of fear in my chest.
"Xue Ye, this joke is not funny!" I glared at him. In the current situation, I didn't dare to anger him.
"I am serious."
The heel of my shoe hit the corner of the wall, and Xue Ye's encirclement was getting smaller and smaller.
"Don't be afraid." He spoke softly, smiling as he approached me, blocking me in a corner, his arms blocking my way out. A disgusting breath sprayed on my neck, and as I looked at the face getting closer and closer, I closed my eyes and my mind went blank for a moment.
I dug my fingers into the wall and struggled to yell "Help". The word "Help" was still stuck in my throat when a strong wind suddenly swept past my ears. Xue Ye groaned, and I opened my eyes to see him lying on the ground.
Fang Xuyu protected me behind him like a cub, his chest heaving violently, and his heavy and disordered breathing showed his anger at the moment.
"You again." Xue Ye wanted to get up, but before he could stand firmly, Fang Xuyu punched him in the face again. Xue Ye pushed back the punch, not wanting to be outdone. I saw that Fang Xuyu's face was tilted to one side.
Fang Xuyu turned his head and locked his eyes with Xue Ye, his sharp eyes emitting an inextinguishable anger. I felt my wrist being pinched and it hurt. Without saying a word, he grabbed my hand tightly and walked away quickly.
"I tell you, I will definitely get her!" Xue Ye's arrogant shouting made Fang Xuyu stop in his tracks.
"Just try and touch her if you dare!" Fang Xuyu didn't look back, his teeth were clattering, and his words contained an unquestionable warning.
He pulled me forward forcefully. I heard Xue Ye's scolding behind me, the sound of a chair being kicked and broken, and the sound of a metal trash can falling to the ground. I also saw Zhong Man'er's pitiful tears, vicious eyes, and resentful expression at the gate.
This time, Fang Xuyu saved me. However, his actions also planted the seeds of "evil" in Xue Ye and Zhong Man'er's hearts.
No one knew that these two seeds would swell and grow, blossoming into countless flowers of evil, announcing the opening of the gates of hell and the arrival of the believers of hell.
No one knew that I could have been very happy, but because of that one short step, I have been suffering in the bottomless abyss ever since, unable to get out.
