Cao Yang walked away with a dark face, and Xia Rou was relieved. After closing the book in her hand, she picked up the teacup and sipped the black tea.
The drama club really didn't practice in vain, her current acting skills can fool her elder brother.
When he suddenly came over to ask her suitor, she was startled, thinking he knew about Liang Zihuan. If possible, she didn't want Cao Yang to have any contact with Liang Zihuan in this life at all.
Liang Zihuan... Xia Rou couldn't help but think, is this fate? In this life, no one would match him up with her, yet Liang Zihuan... came to pursue her again!
The first time she met Liang Zihuan downstairs in the dormitory, she thought it was just a coincidence. After all, Lu Jialan and her are in the same dormitory building, and their cousins grew up together, and their relationship is very good. She also remembered that Lu Jialan had mentioned that Liang Zihuan often picked her up when she was in college.
In this life, she and Liang Zihuan only met a few times, and never even had a formal conversation. Moreover, in the third year of high school, she was almost in a state of closed-door study, and she hardly participated in any social activities in the second semester. Therefore, she didn't think that Liang Zihuan, who was almost a stranger to her in this life, could still remember her.
Let those things that happened in the previous life stay in the previous life. In this life, she and him are just passers-by.
She just pretended that he didn't exist, and walked past her without squinting. But the clinker called out her name as if in surprise.
"Xia Rou? Is it Xia Rou?" He asked.
"Xiarou, that person is calling you!" said the roommate.
She had to stop and turn around.
The young and handsome man had an expression of surprise on his face, even a little surprised. His face is indeed beautiful, otherwise she would not have chosen to be with him back then.
She looked at him indifferently, and then asked, "Who are you?"
Responding to other people's enthusiasm with such indifference would be somewhat embarrassing for someone else. But Liang Zihuan didn't.
Still smiling, he approached her warmly: "I'm Liang Zihuan, do you remember? We met when you were in high school. I'm Hu Chen's cousin."
A distant and unrelated step-cousin. Indeed, he could be called a cousin.
"Oh..." Xia Rou said flatly, "Hello."
Liang Zihuan felt her indifference, and smiled slightly. Although her surname is not Cao, this indifference is exactly the same as Cao Yang.
But he was not discouraged.
"It turns out that you have also been admitted to the Provincial University. What a coincidence, my sister is also in the Provincial University. You are not in the same dormitory, are you?" He said with a smile, "Her name is Lu Jialan, do you know her?"
"I don't know." Xia Rou shook her head, and then asked, "Is there anything else you can do? I'm going first. My roommate is waiting for me."
So Liang Zihuan could only watch helplessly as Xia Rou walked a few steps quickly, caught up with Zhuang Xiao and the others who were waiting for her, and entered the building together.
Is everyone in the Cao family so difficult to deal with
Liang Zihuan was also somewhat frustrated.
In the upper circles, his family background is not well-known, and the real daughter would not list him as a candidate for marriage. But he was handsome, and although they wouldn't consider marrying him, they wouldn't ignore him.
Only Xia Rou, the fake daughter, was so indifferent to him that she was almost arrogant.
He was a little annoyed in his heart. He lit a cigarette and took a few puffs before pressing it down.
Back at school the next week, Xia Rou met Lu Jialan in the corridor.
She lived on the same floor as her, and had actually met her many times. But Xia Rou ignored Lu Jialan in the past, and Lu Jialan didn't know Xia Rou at all in this life. Therefore, the two never had any intersection.
This time Lu Jialan took the initiative to greet Xia Rou, and asked with a smile, "Are you Xia Rou?"
Xia Rou glanced at her indifferently, but she didn't see the contempt that was hidden in her eyes in her previous life and occasionally revealed from her eyes. That's right, she went to a bad school in her previous life, that's why she looked down on her. In this life, she and she have become classmates, and she has no capital to look down on her.
"Yes. Are you...?" she asked back.
"Oh, my name is Lu Jialan." Before Lu Jialan realized it, she continued, "My brother mentioned you to me, oh, my brother is Liang Zihuan."
"Liang Zihuan..." Xia Rou pretended to be thinking, then shook her head, "I don't know."
Lu Jialan was stunned.
It was her cousin who told her that he knew a girl in the same dormitory as her, and that he had hinted that he wanted to pursue her, so she came to say hello to Xia Rou.
She didn't expect that Xia Rou would have such an attitude towards Liang Zihuan.
Liang Zihuan didn't tell her about Xia Rou's background. Because Lu Jialan actually didn't have much chance to get in touch with people in that circle.
When she was young, her family background was normal. Later, when her uncle prospered in business, she gave her mother a company to take care of her, and her life improved. Now her family has several companies, all of which are managed by her stepfather. And she and her mother lived the life of a young lady and a lady.
Most of her social circles in the past were ordinary people, and in this circle, she was a proper Bai Fumei.
And the uncle's cousin who brought such a big change to her life, in her mind, is out-and-out tall, rich and handsome.
It has always been others who surround them and fawn on them. Especially those girls, seeing their cousin driving a nice car and being handsome, they would hang around him.
It was because her cousin revealed for the first time who she wanted to actively pursue, that she wanted to come over to say hello and see what kind of person the other party was. You must know that there are too many green tea whores among girls, and they are too cute in front of boys, but only in front of girls will they show their true colors. She has to take good care of her brother.
But she never expected that this girl just opened her mouth and said that she didn't know her brother.
She has grown up so big, and she has never encountered such a situation!
"Why don't you know me?" She didn't realize it for a while, "Liang Zihuan, I know you."
"I don't know." Xia Rou insisted.
"How could it be?" Lu Jialan asked in confusion, "Isn't my brother chasing you?"
"Oh..." Xia Rou's eyebrows were light, "There are a lot of people chasing me, I don't remember who he is."
Lu Jialan finally came to his senses.
She blushed immediately, and said angrily, "How do you talk?"
Xia Rou frowned and said, "Is there any problem? I really don't know who he is. "
"You, you..." Lu Jialan was ashamed and annoyed, and said angrily, "Why are you like this!"
"Xia Rou, what's wrong?" Xia Rou's roommates Xie Yun and Li Jingwen happened to pass by and stopped to ask.
The passing girls also slowed down and looked around curiously.
Xia Rou said calmly: "This classmate stopped me and said that her brother knew me. She was not very happy when I said I didn't know her brother."
What's the matter? Both Xie Yun and Li Jingwen were puzzled.
Li Jingwen looked at Lu Jialan, and tried to ask: "Student, is that so?"
The eyes of the onlookers also focused on Lu Jialan.
Lu Jialan's face flushed red: "She clearly knows my brother!" It was like acknowledging what Xia Rou said.
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
Xia Rou exhaled lightly, looked at Lu Jialan and said, "You said your brother was pursuing me, but I told you, there are quite a lot of people chasing me, and I rejected them all outright. I really don't know Which one is your brother?"
Some of the onlookers couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Lu Jialan finally realized that she had made a fool of herself today.
When her cousin told her that he wanted to pursue Xia Rou, she thought that even if this Xia Rou didn't hang around her brother like other girls, the two of them at least liked each other.
She didn't expect that her handsome and rich cousin turned out to be... one-sided...
Her face was flushed, but she couldn't answer in the negative. Because it is indeed what Xia Rou said.
Li Jingwen looked at Lu Jialan and then at Xia Rou, and said, "Oh... so that's how it is."
Embarrassed and annoyed, Lu Jialan rushed back to her bedroom without saying a word, and closed the door with a "bang".
So the spectators also dispersed.
"Baffling." Xie Yun said.
Li Jingwen shrugged and spread her hands.
"Let's go, go back." Xia Rou was the most calm.
That's fine, she thought.
If Lu Jialan was offended, with her personality, she would definitely complain to Liang Zihuan. Let Liang Zihuan understand her attitude, it's best for him to retreat in spite of the difficulties.
In this life, she doesn't want to have any interaction with him again.
As she expected, on the weekend, Lu Jialan went straight to her uncle's house, complaining when she saw Liang Zihuan!
"That Xiarou! Who is she! She's so proud!" She said angrily, "Why did you fall in love with her!"
Liang Zihuan was stunned: "What happened to Xia Rou?"
Lu Jialan also knew that she had done something wrong, so she faltered and talked about it.
"I just want to say hello. You don't even know her like that! Pretend! Let me tell you, she might be pretending! How could she not remember you!" she said angrily. She had a female classmate before, and she only saw her cousin once, and she couldn't forget it for two years.
Liang Zihuan supported his forehead. He didn't expect his cousin to strike up a conversation with Xia Rou on his own initiative, if he had known, he wouldn't have told her.
But Lu Jialan was still angry about what happened that day, and kept trying to persuade Liang Zihuan not to fall in love with a fake and proud girl so lamely.
Liang Zihuan listened for a while, then looked at Lu Jialan silently.
He is only a biological aunt, and her husband passed away, leaving behind this little cousin. So since childhood, he and his father loved her very much.
He used to think she was young, so he wouldn't talk to her about social matters. But now... Liang Zihuan felt that it was necessary to tell her something. How can he sweep the world if he doesn't sweep a house? Since he intends to continue to go up, if the family members can't understand what's going on, they will be in trouble sooner or later.
For example, the matter between Lu Jialan and Xia Rou this time is an example.
"Jiajia..." he said, "I didn't chase her because I like her."
Lu Jialan was slightly taken aback.
Liang Zihuan said: "I chased her because I wanted to marry her."
Lu Jialan was stunned.
She is just an eighteen-year-old freshman girl who has been living an enviable and generous life, with her mother, uncle and cousin doting on her. Even her stepfather was very kind to her.
Not to mention that every one of my brother's girlfriends fawns over her.
She really couldn't understand the meaning of Liang Zihuan's words.
"When you grow up, you should understand some things." Liang Zihuan said. "I want to marry Xia Rou, because although her surname is Xia, she is from the Cao family. Do you know the Cao family?"
Lu Jialan shook her head in confusion.
"Do you know Cao Xiong?"
Lu Jialan continued to shake her head.
Aunt and cousin are actually attached to their family life. Therefore, their circle and their vision are lower than theirs.
Liang Zihuan sighed slightly in his heart. This is because the level of their family is not high enough.
Those people he later met with Hu Chen, no matter how old they are, even if they are still in high school, when they talk about XX, they can know what this person does, and where is this person's father or grandfather? What position... These are all from the interpersonal contacts since childhood.
It was Xia Rou, who became a monk halfway, and got along with these people in a clear way. Knowing who should be with whom, and who is not dealing with who. At that time, she was only a sophomore in high school.
But his cousin, who is the same age as Xia Rou, has never even heard Cao Xiong's name.
"Cao Xiong, he is..."
On this day, Liang Zihuan told Lu Jialan a lot.
For the first time, Lu Jialan knew that the so-called "white rich beauty" and "tall, rich and handsome" were just definitions she gave to herself and her cousin from the perspective of an ordinary person.
For the first time, she knew that her clever and handsome cousin had to bow his head in front of other people.
It turned out that some girls would never consider her handsome cousin as a marriage partner. A girl like this, even if she was dating her cousin, would not try to please her as much as his former girlfriends did.
On this day, Lu Jialan's three views were greatly impacted.
Was completely broken, and then reassembled.
From the perfect fairy tale world to the utilitarian real world, this can be regarded as... another kind of growing pains.