“Only others would believe such a lie. If you want to lie to me, you should practice for a few more years. Are you going to tell me the truth?”
Nothing could stop Zhang Xiaolu when she became ruthless. She grabbed the pen next to her. “If you still insist on holding out on me, do you think I wouldn’t dare to poke a few more holes in your face?”
Hearing her words, horror flashed in Meng Kefei’s eyes. “Don’t you dare!”
“Try me!”
Zhang Xiaolu held the pen and moved it toward Meng Kefei’s face slowly. Yuan Yuehan—who was standing to the side—was taken aback as she saw the scene unfold. She reached out to stop Zhang Xiaolu.
“I don’t think you should do anything to her face. What if people see…”
“So what if others see it? If I don’t do it to her face, she’d never remember this lesson.”
Zhang Xiaolu sneered. “I’m going to give you one last chance. Are you going to tell me or not? If you’re not going to tell the truth, your face will be in much pain today, and it’s going to be so ugly that no one will even look at it.”
Meng Kefei looked at Zhang Xiaolu’s eyes and realized she wasn’t joking. If she didn’t tell the truth, nothing would stop Zhang Xiaolu from hurting her face with the pen.
She didn’t know why there would even be such a vicious person on this planet, and why out of all people, they chose to pick on her, and she was the only one being bullied.
Meng Kefei hated her so badly, but she couldn’t do anything about it.
She gritted her teeth and braced herself. “Fine! I’ll tell you.”
“Say it then.”
“She has a crush on a guy, so she wants to improve, hence her determination to lose weight.”
Meng Kefei did not mention who was the crush, but at least she was honest about the reason. She thought that Zhang Xiaolu and Yuan Yuehan would let her go, but she couldn’t be more wrong.
Zhang Xiaolu was a bit skeptical at first, but she felt that the answer was much more believable than the previous one.
“Did you hear that, Yuehan? Even a chubby girl like her has a crush.”
Yuan Yuehan laughed scornfully. “No wonder. Turns out that she has a crush. But I don’t think a person like her would look good after losing weight anyway.”
Zhang Xiaolu tossed the pen to the side and patted Meng Kefei’s cheeks. “You should’ve just told us about this earlier. Such a simple answer, yet you tried to hide from us. Do you really think of her as your close friend?”
After Zhang Xiaolu let her go, Meng Kefei slumped on the table, panting heavily. Her face felt numb from the pain, and she had no idea how serious the injury was.
Meng Kefei would have to make a trip to the infirmary later on.
Fortunately, they didn’t insist on getting to the bottom of it, or else she wouldn’t have been able to hide the truth.
Zhang Xiaolu seemed happy with the answer. She exchanged satisfied looks with Yuan Yuehan as they both prepared to leave.
As they were about to leave, Zhang Xiaolu suddenly thought of something and stopped.
As she stood there, Meng Kefei’s heartbeat halted.
She won’t dig further, will she? Meng Kefei could imagine how Zhang Xiaolu and Yuan Yuehan would react if they knew about the relationship between Tang Yuanyuan and Yuchi Yishu.
She was afraid that they would turn to pick on Tang Yuanyuan.
So, she would try her very best to avoid saying anything.
Please don’t turn back. Please don’t.
Meng Kefei prayed silently.
Unfortunately, her prayers were not answered.
Zhang Xiaolu looked back at Meng Kefei and squinted her eyes. She stared dangerously at Meng Kefei.
“Something’s fishy. If it was such a simple answer, why didn’t you tell us the truth from the start?”
There was nothing wrong with crushing on someone, and it was certainly nothing to be secretive about. Unless… Meng Kefei was trying to keep the identity of Tang Yuanyuan’s crush a secret.
“Who is it?”
“What’s wrong?” Yuan Yuehan didn’t have time to react. Seeing how serious Zhang Xiaolu was, and as she wasn’t able to figure it out herself, she had no choice but to ask Zhang Xiaolu.
Zhang Xiaolu sneered.
“I think the one that you should be asking is her!”
Zhang Xiaolu grabbed Meng Kefei’s hair once again and asked, “Who is her crush?”
Meng Kefei didn’t expect Zhang Xiaolu to be so smart, and to connect the dots so soon. Besides, she probably already had the answer in mind. Meng Kefei shouted angrily, “Why are you asking me when you already know who it is?”
She’d had enough already!
Meng Kefei pushed Zhang Xiaolu’s hand away and swept the table’s contents to the floor.
“What does this have to do with me? If you’re so smart, then you already have the answer, so stop asking me!”
Zhang Xiaolu’s eyes widened in disbelief. She didn’t expect Meng Kefei to admit it so quickly.
“Are you telling the truth?”
“What’s going on? What do you mean telling the truth? What are you both talking about?” Yuan Yuehan asked, confused.
Zhang Xiaolu stepped forward and grabbed hold of Meng Kefei’s collar.
“Aren’t they siblings?”
Hearing the word ‘siblings’, Yuan Yuehan realized what they were talking about. Her face was filled with shock, and she couldn’t believe her ears.
How could it be…
“Siblings?” Meng Kefei sneered. “Yuanyuan is the one addressing him as her brother, but he has never addressed her as his sister. How could they be siblings?”
Zhang Xiaolu was at a loss for words, but she still didn’t want to believe what she had heard.
“You’re lying!”
“How could they not be siblings?”
“It’s up to you whether you want to believe it or not. Anyway, you’ve got your answer. Stop bugging me on this. I just want to concentrate on my studies. It has nothing to do with me!”
Meng Kefei flung Zhang Xiaolu’s hand away, and picked up her bag, preparing to leave.
“Meng Kefei!”
Zhang Xiaolu stopped her with a cold voice. “I didn’t expect you to be like this.”
Hearing that, Meng Kefei’s face darkened as she remained silent.
“Tang Yuanyuan probably didn’t expect to be betrayed by her close friend. That silly fat girl certainly trusted her close friend to keep her secret well.”
Upon hearing, Meng Kefei finally turned back, unable to hold it in any longer.
“Do you think I wanted to betray her trust? It was you who kept forcing me to say it!” Meng Kefei pointed toward Zhang Xiaolu. “Zhang Xiaolu, you don’t think I’d fight back, do you? Tread on a worm and it will turn. You better not come looking for me in the future, or else I’ll make sure it will be a struggle to the death, since I have nothing to lose.”
“If they’re not siblings, why does she address him as her brother?”
Meng Kefei spun on her heel and left without giving a response.
Only Zhang Xiaolu and Yuan Yuehan were left standing there.
It took Yuan Yuehan a while to regain her senses.
“Please don’t tell me that you guys were talking about Yuanyuan and her brother.”
“Besides Yuchi Yishu, who else do you think it could be?”
“What about them?”
“They’re not biological siblings.”
“Then what are they? Besides, what does this have to do with their relationship? Why bring this up all of a sudden…”
As Yuan Yuehan said it, she suddenly connected the dots. “Do you mean that Tang Yuanyuan’s crush is…”
“It’s exactly what you think.” Zhang Xiaolu walked past her. Yuan Yuehan immediately turned toward Zhang Xiaolu. “Where are you going?”
“Tang Yuanyuan lied to us; I’m going to set things straight with her.”
Yuan Yuehan was taken aback for a while before regaining her senses and catching up with Zhang Xiaolu.
Meanwhile, Tang Yuanyuan was in the cafeteria filling up her plate with rice and greens, before finding a place to sit down to eat.
