Your boyfriend is so good looking

"..probably could be the heat…"

"But that student sai… panicking because of somethi-"

Various sounds accompanied a conversation that entered Xu Jiao's ears intermittently, throwing her mind into momentary confusion.

[Wha- where?] She mused in a muddle while trying to strain her ears to clearly hear what the voices were talking about when she suddenly thought of something that shocked her out of the stupefied trance and filled her mind with cold fear.

[Wh-why? Why am I lying on a bed?]

Before she could will herself not to, her eyes snapped open from sheer reflex, prompting a startled shout from a person standing near the bed.

"Student… How do you feel now?"

"..."

"Hey! Please calm down…" A flurry of activities after which another voice sounding like that of a middle-aged lady interjected, interrupting the slightly younger sounding female voice that sounded flustered.

"There, there, everything is fine now.… Take a deep breath…. that's right, take another. Good, that's how to do it…"

Feeling much calmer after unconsciously following the instructions given by the soothing voice, Xu Jiao finally managed to pry open her eyes and take a look to see a middle-aged lady who gently smiled down at her; standing by her was a worried-looking younger female, both garbed in nurse attire.

"My bag?" She croaked out with much difficulty after the younger of the duo fed her some water.

"You don't need to worry… This is the medical centre of the university. You were brought here after fainting." The older nurse spoke, carefully watching the way Xu Jiao was rummaging her bag frantically before taking out the phone to take a look.

[Kids these days… Can't go a few hours without looking at their phones.]

Lifting up her head to see the younger nurse had left while the older lady looked at her with a slightly mystified look on her face, she squeezed out a rather stiff smile, a feeling of shame that suddenly came out of nowhere filling her heart; would this aunty believe her if she said that it definitely wasn't what she thought it to be?

And later on, when Xu Jiao sat facing the doctor who looked to be in his thirties, this sense of shame only continued to grow even more, nearly crushing her self-esteem under its crippling weight.

[Let's hope that I don't have to come here another time] she thought, pretending as if she couldn't see the slightly pitying look in the eyes of the older man.

"Student… wait a bit!" The doctor suddenly called out to her, just when she was preparing to leave.

[What now?] she thought, feeling a tad bit hysterical; from the concerned looks he had shot her earlier, she knew that he wouldn't be saying anything good.

"Here.. take this" the doctor placed a plain-looking printed sheet on her hands, which he had dug up after scouring the drawers of his table. And, just taking one look at this paper made Xu Jiao's lips twitch, while what little bit of dignity she possessed seemed to crumble into dust.

"This paper has information about counselling facilities in our university. Find some time to go and meet one of these counsellors…"

"..."

"I know you young people are very resistant to these things." The doctor blithely continued, ignoring the befuddled silence of the young girl standing in front of him. "But this is for your own good. If you have a problem…. or a fear of any sort, it's best to get psychological counselling early on, before it turns worse," he concluded, even his voice turning gentler when nearing the end of his speech.

"Doctor... I- It's not like that! I'm not-"

"Ok, ok… I know… Now be good and don't forget to go visit the counsellor as soon as you get some free time."

Then paying no heed to the horrified expression on Xu Jiao's face, the doctor shooed her out, an understanding yet slightly patronising look on his face. Seeing the young girl leaving with that unwilling and stubborn look on her face, he shook his head resignedly.

[Aai… Kids this age are the hardest to handle. Well… I did my best.]

Xu Jiao stood at the entrance of the medical centre, her eyes looking dead while listening to the chatter of the young nurse without really paying much attention.

[Is it too late to tell the doctor that I'm not really crazy or anything, and I'm just…]

[You're just what? Experienced 'rebirth' so a bit paranoid of waking up lying on a bed after fainting? Can this kind of thing be even told?]

"By the way… your boyfriend is quite the looker ne." The young nurse bumped her shoulder in a playful manner, a teasing look in her eyes. "You should guard him well."

"Oh…" Xu Jiao responded dispiritedly, and then "huh?"

[Wha? What boyfriend?]

Probably taking her surprise as being curious, the other started advising sagely. "You know, if you don't guard him properly… someone else might snatch him away!" A pause and then, "Let me tell you… even this big sis was tempted for a moment. If not for the fact that I already have a boyfriend, and I'm much older than you guys… Aai" She sighed, kicking a pebble away with her foot. "If only my boyfriend was as half good-looking as yours!"

[Sister… Does your boyfriend know that you disdain him in this manner?]

[No, wait…that's not the problem here, right? Who the hell is this 'boyfriend'?]

Now feeling slightly dizzy from the overload of information, on top of that particularly unpleasant encounter with the doctor, Xu Jiao started feeling like she'd faint for a second time. And for god's sake, when had she ever had the chance in all of her 37 years of life to get acquainted with this mythical creature called a 'boyfriend', huh? Huh?

"Boyfriend?" She gritted out with much difficulty, while a stunningly handsome face flashed in front of her eyes, allowing the most unfathomable and unbelievable guess she had ever had the fortune of encountering to emerge in her mind.

[No way... Right? Hehe… I mean, is that even possible? I'm not even sure if it was him that I really saw that time ne… Hahaha…]

"Yes ah… He even carried you all the way here, even dragging along his friend and was so gentle as well. You're so lucky!"

[Why are you looking so envious? That's not my boyfriend!] But, today of all days, her words seemed to have failed her, utterly and irrevocably.

"Aai… If only my boyfriend was as half considerate as that! But, not only is he not considerate, he isn't even half as handsome as your boyfriend's friend.. tsk! "

[Why don't you just dump him then, that would solve your troubles right?] Finally finding her voice after some struggle, Xu Jiao tried to stammer out her defence, but it was to no avail!

"N-no… I mean, he-he's not… we're not… I-"

"Ok, ok… Big sis knows… I won't tell anyone! You're so shy… haha" This was the second person who looked at her in such a patronising manner this day!

"No big sister, we're really not…. "

"Ok... I get it… Anyway, I gotta get back to work. Just don't worry your boyfriend!"

Seeing the young woman walk away with a sprint in her gait after winking mischievously at her, Xu Jiao fell into utter speechlessness. Why can't any of these people properly listen to what others are saying? Aren't they medical professionals? Aren't they supposed to listen well to their patients?

[Gaah….]

Inwardly screaming, she stepped outside the door of the medical centre, but froze right in her tracks after suddenly remembering another problem; the biggest problem actually, if she wasn't mistaken.

If the supposed 'boyfriend' that brought her here was really Guo Shen, she's in deeper trouble than she thought. After all, that guy had always been a walking magnet for women, if her memory didn't deceive her. And, if she remembers correctly, there were even a bunch of girls who called themselves his face fans in the university forums back then.

Even being as withdrawn as she had been in the past, she had still come to know about them due to a particular incident that happened when she was still a freshman. Supposedly, a beautiful senior sister who was chasing Guo Shen at that time and who liked to act like a 'white lotus' as those girls put it, apparently tried to scheme against another senior sister who was quite popular among the girls of H university liberal arts faculty and who was apparently a good friend of this guy, Guo Shen. And, his fan club who had been itching to rip into this particularly nasty 'white lotus' had literally dived in at this chance with as much enthusiasm as you could find in a pack of hunting wolves.

[Those fans of his are truly too scary..] Xu Jiao shuddered, remembering the endless online attacks both on their school forum and outside of it, as well as all sorts of other such harassments; even though this incident occurred more than a decade ago according to her current memories, it still left quite an impression in her mind. Well, as for Guo Shen- Guo Shen didn't bother about this matter as much as he'd about a fart.

[Wonder what happened to that senior sister?] She thought with a sense of schadenfreude filling her heart, but remembering her own situation in the next moment, Xu Jiao's face turned black as the bottom of a pot.

[How on earth am I going to live the supposed peaceful campus life, if I'm going to be chased around by a bunch of angry girls?]

If she was really carried here by Guo Shen -She was now 99.99% sure that this was what happened, considering her shitty luck and all- what would happen to her in the future? Suddenly feeling as if thousands of prying and judging eyes were directed her way, Xu Jiao tried hard to rub away the goose bumps that popped up in her arms.

[Why is life so hard?]

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