Pay Attention To Me

Chapter 29

Early in the morning, the cold wind rustled bleakly through the air.

The students walking on the road wrapped themselves up tightly in their school uniforms and scarves to keep the freezing wind from drilling down onto their necks.

It was clear there were many more students coming to the cafeteria nowadays for breakfast and stomach-warming foods such as congee and noodles have become incredibly popular.

Jiang Yao had deliberately woken up early today and was waiting in front of the next door over, Room 306. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he immediately turned 180 degrees and bowed confidentiality.

"Yin-shaoye, will you do me the honor of accepting an invitation to eat breakfast together?"

".........fuck off."

Nevertheless, in the end, they went to the cafeteria together.

In order to show the sincerity of his apology, Jiang Yao spent the huge sum of 26.5 yuan to buy his deskmate a bowl of mushroom and vegetable congee, two meat buns, a tea egg, and a serving of steamed dumplings.

"......" Yin Che looked at the table packed full of breakfast, "You think I'm a pig?"

"You're so thin, eat more."

"I'm not thin."

"Really? Let me squeeze your arm," Jiang Yao struck the pose of reaching out with his hand.

Yin Che immediately withdrew his hands, "Don't touch me."

Same as usual, so fierce over a single touch.

"Just kidding." Jiang Yao took a few sips of congee, making his stomach warm. Comfortable, he said, "Oh, yeah, I asked Bai YuWei about it last night."

Yin Che gripped his chopsticks tight, "What did you ask?"

"I just asked her if she likes me or not and if she wanted to go out with me. Of course, I also told her my mindset, that I think she's pretty good but that I couldn't say for sure if she liked me very much, and that if she sincerely likes me, maybe we could give dating a try and possibly be able to cultivate some feelings."

"And how did she reply to you?"

"She just said she'd think it over," Jiang Yao said, "A woman's heart is like a needle on the seafloor¹, right? ......what do you think she meant in the end?"

Yin Che used his chopsticks to stir up his congee into a mess.

Bai YuWei didn't confess to Jiang Yao, but she'd confessed everything to him.

[Actually, I was just acting out of annoyance at first.]

After Bai YuWei added him as a friend the night before, she'd gotten right to the point:

[Jiang Yao is a really good guy, but he isn't my type. I agreed to go out with him and make everyone think we're together because I wanted to piss off my ex-boyfriend.]

[That is, your di, Yin Ze.]

Yin Che was stunned, and then he replied: [Why?]

Bai YuWei had said: [Don't be angry if I say something offensive, but that stinky Yin Ze has a ton of flaws. After we started dating, I found out that he didn't match what I imagined.

After that, I took the initiative to break up with him and he was so arrogant, saying that I would never be able to find a boyfriend better than him, which pissed me off.]

[Later on, when Jiang Yao broke the school record at the sports meet, surpassing Yin Ze's previous record, he happened to come around on his own looking for me, as if he was interested in me, so I just went with the flow. I wanted to prove to Yin Ze that I could find a better boyfriend than him.]