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Chapter 103: The Celestial Maiden
TL: Etude
“Siqi, time to get up a.”
“You go ahead, I’m not hungry.”
Chu Siqi, huddled in her b, replied dully to Wang Huiru. Her voice sounded weak, as if drained by a long illness, devoid of its usual proud and haughty tone.
After a while, she heard the soft sound of the door closing, indig Wang Huiru and Si Huiying had left. Only then did she climb out of bed.
Outside, the rain had intensified, pattering loudly against the windows. The sky was ominously dark and low, as if it were about to colpse.
It was only three iernoon, but their unlit dorm room was as dark as night.
Chu Siqi sat on her bed for a long time, her mind bnk, until the sound of a QQ notificatiht her back to reality. She checked her phone and looked at the messages in her list.
“Junior sister, I heard you won first p the campus beauty test. Let’s go out and celebrate tonight?”
“Chu, the campus beauty, I’ve got two movie tickets. Want to join?”
“Wow, number one campus beauty, that’s awesome. Would you sider dating?”
“First pce campus beauty, do you have time for a meal? I’ll take you to a westeraurant iy!”
Chu Siqi sat silently for a long moment, theed the incessantly buzzing QQ. She opened a bookmarked link aered the Zhihu forum. She searched for Jiang Qin’s name and read some exposé posts by people in the know.
As she read, she stumbled upon a series of posts titled “My Uious Life as a Rich Sed Geion.”
“Tus beauties vying for me, Cao Guangyu. Sorry, it’s better to part on good terms.”
“?”
“Military training, celestial maiden from the ext door seeks me out, yi!”
“…”
“Bentley? Sorry, it was me, the ordinary Mr. Cao.”
“????”
“Does wearing Patek Philippe affect driving my Bentley?”
“…”
Chu Siqi had met Cao Guangyu once, knew he was Jiang Qin’s roommate, and reized the first post’s tent. It mirrored the i at Nanshaaurant on the opening day of school.
This meant these posts were actually about Jiang Qin’s life.
Luxury cars, high-end watches, charmiies, trolling fortunes, sage advice, harb global aspirations, and engaging in phinthropy.
Jiang Qin’s life seemed dreamily beautiful.
Chu Siqi’s face paled slightly, realizing how much more ridiculous she seemed.
The mahought o prove himself, temporarily unworthy of her, though excellent, was seen by others as incredibly outstanding, almost unbelievably so.
But she believed it.
The 300,000 yuan during summer break, the Night Light Bar, the 500,000 yuan for the forum advertisement.
Though Chu Siqi didn’t know the details, she had heard of them all and thus didn’t regard these cims as mere bragging like the enters did.
Since she rejected him, he had gradually transformed into an idol.
Chu Siqi reopened QQ, intending to chat with Jiang Qin, but then remembered she had beeed. Feeling a sense of loss, she pursed her lips, feeling as if a part of her heart was hollowed out again.
She began to uand roud girl like Hong Yan could fall for Jiang Qin at first sight.
But she had missed her ce…
Siheir enter orain, she knew what she had missed with Jiang Qin was a lifetime. He would never like her again.
And now, Jiang Qin already had a celestial maiden. She might not be prettier than Chu Siqi, but she must be very good to him.
Chu Siqi thought that if the girl’s beauty was as exaggerated as described in the posts, she surely would have appeared in the campus beauty test and wouldn’t have remained unknown until now. But, as the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Jiang Qin must really like her to think of her as a celestial maiden.
At that moment, the dormitory door suddenly opened, and Wang Huiru, holding an umbrel, rushed ba with tws of fried rice. She had sensed something was off with Chu Siqi and, worried, had returned with food, bringing a portion for her as well.
“Siqi, time to eat,” Wang Huiru offered her a pair of chopsticks.
Chu Siqi thanked her and took a few bites. “Huiru, I’ve realized something. I probably ’t win him back. I’ve decided to give up.”
“Who?”
“Jiang Qin.”
“…”
Wang Huiru’s eyes gzed over, as if she had heard a fantastical tale.
“I’m serious. I suddenly realized how outstanding he is. I see now how blind I was before. Hong Yan indeed has a better eye for people. If I had been half as dising, maybe we would’ve been together after the college entrance exams, and now I might have been the one everyone envied.”
After speaking, Chu Siqi gave a self-depreg ugh, her expression showing resignatio filled with regret.
“Siqi, it’s great that you think this way. But how did you e to this realization?” Wang Huiru was happy for her friend but also a bit curious. Her friend was typically the kind of person who wouldn’t admit she was wrong unless she faced a major setback.
“There’s no use in not uanding. Jiang Qin already has someone he likes, a real celestial maiden.”
Chu Siqi’s tone was light, but it was filled with bitterness.
Upon hearing this, Wang Huiru dropped her chopsticks and sighed deeply, almost blurting out an expletive.
“Oh my god, why didn’t you say so earlier? I’ve been keeping this secret for over three months, dying to gossip about it but afraid you couldn’t ha. Now that you’ve let go, I finally breathe easy.”
“Siqi, you’re right in your thinking. I support you. Although we’re best friends, I must say, no one pete with Feng Nanshu for a man. Think about it, that’s Feng Nanshu! You didn’t lose out at all!”
“?”
Wang Huiru kept talking, clearly having held back for too long: “Do you know how I felt when I found out Jiang Qin was with Feng Nanshu? I couldn’t believe it. Feng Nanshu, the moonlight of gnan, actually likes Jiang Qin!”
Chu Siqi’s face ged, and her voice trembled: “What are you talking about?”
“Don’t you remember Feng Nanshu? The celestial maiden Feng Nanshu from our neighb css, the one who alks to anyone, super aloof, but is especially depe on Jiang Qin. I even saw him pinch her fa the street. It was adorable!”
Wang Huiru, having held back for three months, finally opened up, leaving Chu Siqi utterly stunned.
Every girl loves gossip, but for the sake of her friend’s feelings and to prevent making a se, Wang Huiru had really been at her limit. Today, she finally let it all out, feeling relieved.
Chu Siqi’s hands began to tremble.
Was the celestial maiden real? Did she also attend Lin Uy?
What a joke!
Chu Siqi couldn’t accept it. Even if Jiang Qin was outstanding enough, if he had chosen someone less beautiful than herself, she could have forted herself by thinking they had simply missed their ce.
But what was happening now?
Feng Nanshu…
I cked vision in the past and missed out on someone who only grew more outstanding and became an idol.
The hardest part to accept was that after missing him, not only did he beore impressive, he also found someone more beautiful than me…
No, this ’t be true!
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