Chapter 10: I'm Dating Him, Call the Police if You Don't Like It
Jiang Chen had no idea what a passionate impact his single word, “Okay,” had on a woman on such an ordinary late night.
Meeting Jiang Chen was something Li Qinqin had long anticipated. She had a thousand reasons to want to see Jiang Chen, but in the end, they all boiled down to one: to get closer to him.
The night passed without a word.
Early the next morning, Jiang Chen woke up early, washed up, and went downstairs.
Less than two minutes after Jiang Chen got up and left, Su Peng groggily woke up and rushed to the bathroom to wash up, then hurried downstairs.
He wanted to get to his sister's dorm building early, to intercept his sister and find out exactly what was going on!
Jiang Chen went downstairs so early to give Su Manyao her car keys and, as they had agreed, to buy her breakfast.
Instead of going out the main gate, he went to the school cafeteria.
This was Jiang Chen's first time entering the cafeteria, and he felt a strange sense of unease.
It was as if people were watching him and paying attention to him the whole way, though Jiang Chen knew it was just his imagination.
But when he ordered a bowl of porridge and bought a few steamed buns, Jiang Chen was still incredibly fast, his gaze unconsciously darting left and right.
Bringing breakfast to a girl, how embarrassing.
If word got out, he'd be mortified!
Jiang Chen thought to himself.
But when he saw the auntie scooping porridge, Jiang Chen couldn't help but say, “Make it a bit thinner, give her something light for breakfast.”
Bah, bah, bah!
What does light or not light have to do with me!
Jiang Chen grabbed the porridge and buns and ran!
After getting some distance from the cafeteria, Jiang Chen finally felt a bit more at ease. Isn't it just buying a portion of buns and a portion of porridge? What's the big deal!
Yujie was trending on the campus forum yesterday, and she didn't say anything, so how could he be a coward!
Jiang Chen carried the buns and porridge, walking towards the vocational school dormitory.
In the middle, he had to pass a flowerbed. There was a path around the flowerbed where some people chose to jog and then sit on the edge of the flowerbed to rest.
So as Jiang Chen walked along, he heard several groups of people discussing yesterday's hot topic on the forum.
“I bet the person watching the movie with Professor Su is probably a student from our school. The style of clothes he was wearing looked young, not old-fashioned.”
“Oh, of course, it's a young person. Maybe we usually think the prettier a girl is, the more likely she is to hook up with an older man with a bigger wallet, so we instinctively wondered if Su Manyao's man would also be much older. But what kind of person is my goddess Su Manyao? She would never compromise, she would definitely choose the man she likes.”
“Did Su Manyao and her man… do something intimate in that room yesterday?”
“Isn't that obvious? If they didn't go to that room to do something intimate, what did they go for? It'd be embarrassing to say otherwise!”
Jiang Chen: Sorry, brothers, I've embarrassed you…
He quickened his pace and arrived downstairs at the faculty dormitory building. First, he saw many people either squatting or standing downstairs, each carrying breakfast. From the distance between them, it was clear that they were not together.
Jiang Chen, carrying breakfast, walked over suspiciously and saw a guy with dark circles under his eyes, holding breakfast and squatting on the ground. In front of him was a foam board that read: “Manyao, I've brought you breakfast!”
What the heck?
Yujie didn't just have me buy breakfast?
That can't be right.
Jiang Chen pulled his breakfast back a bit, but his appearance attracted many people's attention. However, these people only glanced at him and then, accustomed to the sight, looked elsewhere.
Jiang Chen saw someone next to him also carrying breakfast. He pursed his lips, leaned over, and asked:
“Brother, are you also bringing breakfast to your girlfriend?”
The man glanced at Jiang Chen: “What girlfriend? Brother, you think too highly of me, don't you?”
“I'm bringing breakfast to my goddess, Professor Su.”
“Didn't you see everyone else? Don't tell me you're not here to bring breakfast to Su Manyao.”
The man said, glancing at the people around them who were carrying breakfast.
Jiang Chen, holding his breakfast, stared at him, momentarily speechless, because he really was there to bring breakfast to Su Manyao!
“Jiang Chen, why are you here?”
Jiang Chen turned his head and saw that it was Su Peng calling him!
“Why are you here?” Jiang Chen's scalp tingled.
He came to bring breakfast to Su Manyao, but there were at least seven or eight people downstairs also bringing breakfast.
That was one thing, but Su Peng was also here. How was he going to handle this?
He had already sent a message to Su Manyao on the way here.
“Isn't it normal for me to be here?” Su Peng said, “I'm here to intercept my sister, I need to ask her exactly what's going on!”
“Look here, these are all people bringing breakfast to my sister.”
Jiang Chen followed Su Peng's gaze to the people around them. Among them, some looked at the two with challenging eyes.
They probably knew Su Peng was Su Manyao's younger brother, and their eyes seemed to say: “Just wait until you call me brother-in-law!”
Jiang Chen saw this scene and suddenly found it quite interesting.
It was like an extremely clean road where people came and went, and no one would dare to throw even a single piece of trash on the ground.
But if that clean road got its first piece of trash, then very quickly a second, then a third would appear, until the whole street was covered in trash.
Just like before yesterday, no one in the school was heard to be pursuing Su Manyao madly!
Either they didn't dare, or they felt unworthy.
But after the photos of Su Manyao and a man watching a movie appeared on the forum yesterday, this scene occurred today.
The aloof Yujie, who kept people at a thousand li's distance, had been touched by someone, and they all seemed to think that others could also touch her.
If they really had the guts, why wait until Su Manyao was a hot topic on the school forum before bringing breakfast?
These jerks, chasing highs and cutting losses, deserved to never have a full meal!
“Hey, what are you thinking about!” Su Peng's voice interrupted Jiang Chen's train of thought.
“I'm thinking these jerks aren't worthy of competing with me,” Jiang Chen said without thinking.
Su Peng: ???
Su Peng's eyes widened, looking at Jiang Chen as if he didn't recognize him!
Then his gaze shifted to the breakfast Jiang Chen was holding.
The implication was already very clear!
“Lao… Lao Jiang, tell me honestly, what are you doing here?” Su Peng grabbed Jiang Chen's hand, looking as if if Jiang Chen's answer wasn't satisfactory, he would break his arm the next second.
Jiang Chen also knew he had let it slip.
But coincidentally, at that moment, a woman walked out of the stairwell exit of the vocational school dormitory.
The woman wore a loose, long dress and slippers, her exposed skin as white as her feet.
She looked disheveled, as if she had just woken up, but the sleepy charm reduced some of her cold, distant aloofness, adding more feminine allure.
However, Jiang Chen knew that this woman's aloofness was either innate or due to her work, not a pretentious act. In fact, upon closer inspection, his sister was quite down-to-earth.
Then he looked at those jerks who had arrived here so early to bring breakfast to Su Manyao.
Now, each of them looked at one another, flustered, no one daring to step forward.
Jiang Chen had just been racking his brain on how to explain to Su Peng.
Seeing Su Manyao now, he had a flash of inspiration, jingled the car keys in his hand, and handed them to Su Manyao as she walked over.
He said to Su Peng: “I came to drop off the car keys.”
Su Peng looked at the car keys in Jiang Chen's hand, then at Su Manyao, who walked over and reached out to take the car keys.
“Impossible, did you two start dating?!” Su Peng shouted.
From Jiang Chen to Lao Jiang, and then to “you two,” that was the change!
Before Jiang Chen could speak, Su Manyao walked even closer, naturally taking his arm.
On her flawless, beautiful face, without makeup, she looked like an arrogant queen: “Yes, call the police if you don't like it.”