Jiang Tang didn’t speak.
Jiang Chiye looked thoroughly annoyed. Seeing the little cloud she had crocheted, he reached out to take it.
Jiang Tang immediately snatched the little cloud away.
Jiang Chiye’s hand closed on empty air. He let out a frustrated laugh. “Jiang Tang, is that really necessary? It’s just a little trinket. I can’t even touch it?”
Jiang Tang calmly put the little cloud away. “This is a gift for Shen Xiunian. Of course you can’t touch it.”
“So I was right—you prioritize romance over friendship. We’ve known each other for two years, and I never knew you could crochet little things like this.”
Jiang Chiye thought he was making his point pretty obvious. Shouldn’t Jiang Tang understand what he meant?
He didn’t want them to drift apart.
Jiang Tang pretended not to catch his meaning and said calmly, “I only learned to crochet recently because I wanted to give Shen Xiunian a gift.”
Jiang Chiye raised an eyebrow. “You learned pretty fast, then.”
“Yeah, because I wanted to give Shen Xiunian a gift as soon as possible.”
Jiang Tang realized that Shen Xiunian could perfectly serve as an excuse for her change in personality.
She was in love, after all.
It was only natural she’d be different from before.
“Shen Xiunian, Shen Xiunian, Shen Xiunian. Jiang Tang, you really can’t go a single sentence without mentioning Shen Xiunian. I never knew you were such a lovesick fool before.”
“Because I wasn’t dating Shen Xiunian before,” Jiang Tang replied matter-of-factly.
Jiang Chiye was infuriated.
“Fine. Keep prioritizing romance over friendship like this. I’ll wait and see how you cry when Shen Xiunian dumps you.”
Jiang Tang fell silent.
Shen Xiunian would break up with her a year later.
Song Xu and the other two stood to the side. Since Jiang Chiye was Jiang Tang’s friend, they hadn’t intervened, but his words were too harsh.
They couldn’t help but want to stand up for Jiang Tang.
Jiang Tang stopped them. Jiang Chiye was a young master from a wealthy family, and she couldn’t let her roommates offend him on her behalf.
But there were some things she needed to make clear to Jiang Chiye.
Jiang Tang pressed her lips together, her voice strained. “Jiang Chiye, even if Shen Xiunian and I break up, it will be an amicable separation. How could you use the word ‘dump’?”
“That word is so ugly. You need to apologize to me.”
“Apologize?” Jiang Chiye frowned. He never apologized.
And was that really the point?
The point was the “friend” in “prioritizing romance over friendship”! He didn’t want them to drift apart!
Couldn’t Jiang Tang understand? Where had her focus gone?
Jiang Tang’s eyes reddened. She looked at Jiang Chiye, her voice trembling slightly.
“Jiang Chiye, I know you’re Young Master Jiang. What you call dating isn’t really dating—it’s just playing around.”
“But Shen Xiunian isn’t like you. He and I are in a proper relationship.”
“Talking about me like that is very disrespectful. I don’t think you ever really saw me as a friend.”
“Jiang Chiye, we’re not friends anymore.”
Jiang Chiye stared at Jiang Tang in shock. “Jiang Tang? Are you crying?”
“What? Why are you crying?”
“You think the word ‘dump’ is ugly? Don’t we say stuff like that all the time?”
“You’ve always said you were going to ditch me!”
“What’s going on with you?”
The corners of Jiang Tang’s eyes were red. She blinked, trying hard to hold back her tears. She definitely wasn’t crying just because she heard Shen Xiunian might dump her.
“I’m not crying,” she said, suppressing a sob. “You said something really ugly last time too, and you never apologized. I don’t want to put up with it anymore.”
“What happened before is in the past. This is now. Anyway, we’re not friends anymore. Don’t come looking for me in the future.”
Jiang Tang gathered her things, took her roommates’ hands, and walked away.
Jiang Chiye stared dumbfounded at Jiang Tang’s retreating figure.
He took off his baseball cap, ruffled his hair twice, his face full of incomprehension.
“What the hell? Does falling in love make someone’s personality change completely?”
“Jiang Tang, are you possessed by a ghost or something?”
Hearing this, Jiang Tang guiltily pulled her roommate and ran off.
Jiang Chiye really felt baffled.
Recalling how Jiang Tang’s eyes had been slightly red earlier, he inexplicably lowered his head and looked at the design on his shirt.
On the deep pink T-shirt was a large, three-dimensional, fluffy kitten.
Jiang Tang was like this cat—she was as inexplicable as the cat.
But pretty, but cute, but very well-behaved.
Two guys and a girl who had been waiting nearby walked over.
Like Jiang Chiye, they clearly looked wealthy and dressed fashionably; they had watched the whole scene unfold.
“Brother Jiang, looks like Jiang Tang is really angry.”
“She’s really going to ditch you now.”
“What do we do?”
“Let her ditch me then!” Jiang Chiye turned and walked away. “Am I short of one friend?”
“Brother Jiang, maybe you should apologize to Jiang Tang?”
“I will never apologize!”
Jiang Chiye walked a few steps, then came back, gritting his teeth as he asked, “Who said my dating isn’t dating but just ‘following’? Who’s spreading rumors about me?”
Who on earth spread rumors about him to Jiang Tang?!
Jiang Tang even said Shen Xiunian was completely different from him.
Ha!
Jiang Chiye laughed in anger.
Jiang Tang pulled her roommate and ran quite a distance before stopping.
Zhou Nuo was furious. “He speaks so offensively. What’s so great about having money?”
Song Xu and Wen Nian were also angry.
Jiang Tang rubbed her eyes, calmed her emotions, and said softly, “It’s fine. Anyway, I won’t hang out with him anymore.”
“Tangtang, you did the right thing.”
Song Xu, Zhou Nuo, and Wen Nian all felt that whenever Tangtang used to hang out with Jiang Chiye, she must have been wronged just like today.
Now that Tangtang had decided to break things off with Jiang Chiye, they were all happy for Jiang Tang.
Jiang Tang hugged them. “You guys are so good.”
Jiang Chiye’s appearance not only affected Jiang Tang’s mood but also wasted her time.
That afternoon, she seized every spare moment to crochet, finally finishing two little feet before the last class.
She used the same colored thread to attach the feet to the bottom of the little cloud, and the little cloud keychain was done.
Jiang Tang let out a soft sigh of relief. Finally finished.
She held the keychain and gave it a gentle shake. The little cloud doll swayed from side to side, the feet swinging back and forth—utterly adorable.
Song Xu and the other two exclaimed, “This is way too cute!”
Jiang Tang couldn’t help but smile.
Her smile was truly breathtakingly beautiful.
Song Xu couldn’t resist taking a few more photos. Looking at them afterward, they were absolutely stunning—straight out of the camera, no editing needed at all.
She also took a ten-second video.
Who wouldn’t be captivated by such beauty?
The last class of the afternoon ended.
Song Xu asked, “Which cafeteria do you guys want to eat at tonight?”
Jiang Tang whispered, “I’m going out to eat tonight.”
Zhou Nuo immediately looked at her. “Are you going on a date with God Nian?”
Jiang Tang shyly nodded.
“Wow~”
Her three roommates started making teasing noises.
Song Xu asked, “Which one of you suggested the date?”
Jiang Tang said, “He did.”
“Wow~”
“We thought God Nian might be a bit cold in a relationship.”
“Turns out he’s quite passionate.”
“You just had a date on Saturday, haven’t seen each other for three days, and God Nian already misses you. This is clearly the honeymoon phase!”
“That’s normal. Who wouldn’t miss our Tangtang?”
Jiang Tang’s face was about to turn red from all the compliments from her three roommates.
Zhou Nuo comforted her, “Tangtang, what Jiang Chiye said was just malicious cursing!”
“I think he’s jealous of how sweet you two lovebirds are!”
“Don’t take it to heart, just focus on your relationship.”
Jiang Tang: “Mhm, mhm!”
The four of them joked around for a while longer.
Wen Nian said, “Alright, enough fooling around. Tangtang, hurry back to the dorm and pack up. We’ll grab food from the cafeteria and head back.”
“Okay.”
Jiang Tang returned to her dorm.
At this time, Shen Xiunian also left the underground laboratory. He was heading back to his place to freshen up and change clothes.
He took out his phone. Since there was no experiment tonight, would Jiang Tang send him a message?
The message notification kept chiming.
Shen Xiunian’s lips curved into a smile. He tapped into the chat—Jiang Tang had sent him 63 messages.
Though not as many as the previous two days, this showed that Jiang Tang was genuinely worried about disturbing him, which was why she restrained her urge to share.
She was incredibly considerate.
He carefully read through all the messages and replied, “I’ve finished reading your messages. I’ll reply to you in person when we meet, okay?”
Jiang Tang had just returned to her dorm when she received Shen Xiunian’s message. She replied with a simple “okay.”
After taking a quick shower and preparing to pick out an outfit, she heard the System’s voice.
Tongtong: “Tangtang, do you want to deliberately be half an hour late?”