Xuan? Why?

Lu Zuan's heart broke upon seeing Wei Jingyu's expression. He still seemed not to be able to believe what was happening as he looked from Shen Jie to Ying Xuan.

Jingyu's trance seemed to break when Shen Jie walked over and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Too bad Wei Jingyu. Don't let it bother you too much."

Jingyu's eyes suddenly seemed to register what was happening, as he looked up at Ying Xuan, his face still the same expressionless, but his eyes looking like he was in some physical pain. Two words escaped his lips, "Xuan? Why?"

He continued to look at Ying Xuan, completely disregarding Shen Jie, his eyes seeking answers. Lu Zuan saw, to her earth shattering shock, that tears started falling down Jingyu's eyes. Wei Jingyu was famous in the upper class circle for being a young man with a heart of stone, who would never show any signs of weakness, let alone cry. Yet here he was, in such a pitiful state, crying over a girl who had kissed a boy before him.

Uptil then, Lu Zuan had believed, and usually told Xuan, that Jingyu did not deserve her. She had said that he was too proud with too bad a temper which was like a ticking bomb, could blow up any instant.

But at that moment, Lu Zuan felt disguised by Ying Xuan. She felt that it was her who did not deserve such pure love like Jingyu's. Zuan felt angry at herself that she had ever become friends with Ying Xuan, thinking her a good person. Lu Zuan mentally slapped herself, "And you consider yourself to be a good judge of character."

Her meditations were broken when Zuan saw that Shen Jie had wrapped his hand around Ying Xuan's waist and was leading her towards the front of the building, and in moments they would pass right by where she was standing. Lu Zuan did not know what to do, her first response was to run and hide, which was exactly what she did.

Zuan ran as fast as she could in that qipao towards the entrance of the gym building, and rushed in. She barely had time to catch her breath when she heard Shen Jie talking happily to Ying Xuan. His voice faded away, and Lu Zuan came out of the building and once again went around it to the back.

And there she saw Wei Jingyu, in the same position as she had left him, on his knees and looking like he would very much like to end his life right now.

Jingyu turned around at the sound of Zuan's footsteps and his expression changed to one of self-mockery. "What? Why are you crying?" He said in a cracked voice.

Lu Zuan stopped dead a few paces from him. She touched her face and it was then that she realised that she indeed had begun crying, though she had no clue when. Wei Jingyu shook his head and sighed, his expression changing again and settling to a mix of disgust and anger.

He said, "Am I so pitiful now to need tears of sympathy from a gril like you? Who dislikes me so very much?"