After Saving My Possessive Best Friend, I Couldn't Escape (GL) - Chapter 25

Ye Yu shot up, her eyes already cold.

Zhou Meize put down her bag, changed into slippers in the entryway, and her gaze remained fixed on Fang Zhile as she walked by.

“Xiaoyu,” Zhou Meize said, “didn’t I tell you to stay away from people like her?”

Ye Yu didn’t have time to stop Zhou Meize. “You shut up.”

Zhou Meize looked at Ye Yu in astonishment. Since childhood, Ye Yu had always been the little girl following behind her, never contradicting her.

Unexpectedly, Ye Yu glanced quickly at Fang Zhile, her nose flushed with urgency, yet she continued to block Zhou Meize. “She is my friend. You can’t talk about her like that.”

Zhou Meize laughed in disbelief. “Your friend? You don’t have such low-class friends.”

“Zhou Meize!” Ye Yu raised her voice.

Fang Zhile swallowed the grape in her mouth and stood up, saying to Ye Yu, “I’m going now.”

“No, you can’t go,” Ye Yu looked at her anxiously. “She didn’t mean it that way.”

Fang Zhile gave her a comforting smile. “I know. That’s not why I’m leaving.”

“She came to find you, probably about something important. You two go handle your business. I’ll see you at school on Monday.” Fang Zhile finished speaking and left with her belongings.

After she left, Ye Yu’s expression completely froze over.

“Do you need something?” Ye Yu asked coldly.

“Xiaoyu,” Zhou Meize frowned. “Are you blaming me?”

A wave of cold mockery washed over Ye Yu’s heart, but another voice chimed in inappropriately in her mind. That voice had the exact same pitch as hers, yet it was like two people inhabiting the same body, one humbly pleading with Ye Yu not to speak to Zhou Meize that way.

It wasn’t a person, just a lingering obsession stuck in her body. It stubbornly refused to disappear, urging her again and again to chase Zhou Meize.

Ye Yu pitied it, sympathized with it, and when it bothered her too much, she would do what it said. It was harmless anyway.

But today, for the first time in her life, she didn’t want to listen to it.

“You treat my friend with such an attitude,” Ye Yu said. “Am I supposed to be eternally grateful to you?”

Zhou Meize was completely confused. “Xiaoyu, what is your status? How can you be friends with people like that?”

“Besides, you don’t know this, but I ran into her before I came to pick you up on Friday night. She was flaunting your hairpin in front of me and even cursed me out.” Zhou Meize took a deep breath, her expression darkening. “How could you be friends with a person like that?”

Ye Yu sat down across from her, her face still cold. “I gave her the hairpin. What’s wrong with her wearing it? How is that ‘flaunting’? If that’s the case, should Sun Yangyang hide from me and never appear in front of me again?”

Zhou Meize’s expression stiffened, and her sitting posture became uncomfortable. Yet, deep down, an uncontrollable feeling of excitement burst forth. Ye Yu had never brought up these people’s names before. She was as precious as a goddess in the heavens; the wild flowers she casually picked didn’t even deserve to be named by her.

Now, Ye Yu uttered Sun Yangyang’s name with a hint of anger, as if the person on the altar had finally been dragged down to earth. Zhou Meize felt a strange excitement.

“Are you jealous?” Zhou Meize even managed a smile, softening her tone. “They’re just a bunch of kittens and puppies. If you don’t like her, I’ll make her leave.”

Perhaps Ye Yu’s unusual behavior today made Zhou Meize exceptionally excited. She wasn’t even angry about the Fang Zhile incident anymore. She tried to appease her, “Alright, alright, you’re right. I shouldn’t bother with the kittens and puppies. I won’t curse Fang Zhile anymore, okay?”

Ye Yu thought, It’s too late.

It was inappropriate enough that she had rashly brought Fang Zhile home. For Zhou Meize to then say such insulting things—what would Fang Zhile think? How sad would she be? She had explicitly said she didn’t mind, yet she had put Fang Zhile in such a humiliating situation. And the perpetrator acted so nonchalant, as if it were nothing.

Seeing that Ye Yu still didn’t speak, Zhou Meize reconsidered. “I did what you asked. I warned Li Zi and the other two not to play tricks on classmates anymore.”

Ye Yu looked up at her. She was so angry that her eyes were red, like a streak of rosy sunset smeared across the corner of her eye.

Zhou Meize was immediately captivated, her tone becoming even softer. “Alright, don’t be angry with me. I’ll listen to you from now on.”

This last point somewhat soothed Ye Yu’s expression. As long as Fang Zhile wasn’t being bullied, she could let things slide with Zhou Meize.

But what if Fang Zhile stopped associating with her because of this incident? Ye Yu suddenly felt anxious.

“Why did you come over today?” Ye Yu asked. Both families had each other’s personal information logged. Zhou Meize didn’t need to knock to enter Ye Yu’s house.

Zhou Meize said, “We’re going on a picnic outside the city this weekend. Do you want to come?”

Ye Yu shook her head. “Mother asked me to write the Ode to the Luo River Goddess.”

Hearing it was Ye Mu’s request, Zhou Meize frowned and chimed in, “The Ode to the Luo River Goddess is good. You should still practice regular script. You’ve had excellent training in regular script since you were a child. Don’t let it go to waste.”

Ye Yu remained cold and silent.

“Can’t you even spare half a day?” Zhou Meize asked. “It’s just our childhood friends, no one else.”

Ye Yu refused. “I don’t like going out, and I don’t keep in touch with them much. You guys go ahead and have fun. I won’t go.”

This was typical of Ye Yu; she rarely went out and had avoided many activities since middle school.

Zhou Meize had just felt that Ye Yu was a true lady, possessing an inimitable, noble air.

Now, seeing her placid, head-down demeanor, she found her tedious again. Girlfriends should be more fun and lively.

But it wasn’t a big deal. Ye Yu was her fiancée. If she didn’t want to come out, she didn’t have to. She was different from the others, after all.

Before leaving, Zhou Meize left a small box. “A little gift for you.”

After Zhou Meize left, Ye Yu opened the box. Inside was a diamond brooch. It was shaped like a white ragdoll cat, closely resembling Emma.

It was obvious Zhou Meize hadn’t bought it herself. It was probably bought by Zhou’s mother as an apology for not coming downstairs when Ye Yu visited yesterday.

It had been this way since childhood.

Ye Yu closed the box resignedly.

Sometimes, she felt that the engagement wasn’t between her and Zhou Meize, but between the two mothers.

Zhou’s mother cared about her feelings so much, mostly to make amends for her own daughter’s behavior.

But Zhou Meize didn’t appreciate it.

Ye Yu tucked the box into a drawer, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Fang Zhile.

“I’m hungry. Can I come over to your place for a meal?”

Three minutes later, Fang Zhile replied.

“Are you alone?”

Ye Yu said, “Just me.”

The message indicated that Fang Zhile was typing…

Ye Yu’s breathing nearly stopped. She stared nervously at the typing indicator, until finally—

“We’re having dumplings. Come over and help me wrap them.”