Chapter 87

Chapter 87

After the afternoon classes ended, Xia Sheng went out with the rest of her class for dinner.

The buffet restaurant the class monitor had chosen was inside a shopping mall, in a bustling area surrounded by shops and crowds.

Ning Xi dragged Xia Sheng around the nearby stores for several laps before they finally headed to the restaurant together.

By then, most of the class had already arrived.

Right next to the restaurant was an entertainment venue where people could play billiards or mahjong.

The restaurant and the entertainment center were connected, so Sun Yang simply booked the entertainment venue as well. If their classmates got tired of eating, they could head over to play a few rounds and relax.

After Ning Xi and Xia Sheng claimed some seats, they asked their roommates to watch the table. Then the others got up to get food.

This buffet restaurant was the largest in the area, with an extremely wide variety of food. Seafood, meat, vegetables, cakes-everything was available, a dazzling spread that seemed to have it all.

Xia Sheng picked out some dishes, then took five small cakes.

Ning Xi noticed and said, “My roommates and I don’t really eat cake. Why don’t you put two of those back?”

Xia Sheng said, “These are for me.”

Ning Xi laughed. “We haven’t even started the main meal yet. Don’t fill yourself up on dessert.”

After choosing their ingredients, Xia Sheng turned and was just about to head back when she saw a girl in high heels walking quickly toward them.

The girl’s looks were fairly average, but she was dressed in a very flashy style. Her face was covered in a thick layer of foundation, making her look frighteningly pale.

When she reached Ning Xi, the heel of her shoe seemed to snap, and her body toppled straight toward Ning Xi.

“Careful!”

Ning Xi cried out and reached out to steady her.

However, the girl fell with too much force. Although Ning Xi managed to catch her and spared her from hitting the floor, the things Ning Xi was holding were still knocked over by the girl.

An entire plate of raw meat fell onto the girl’s skirt, leaving it looking bloody and awful.

Seeing that she had accidentally dirtied someone else’s skirt, Ning Xi panicked a little and hurriedly prepared to apologize.

But before she could say a word, the girl raised her hand and slapped Ning Xi across the face.

“Are you blind? Sun Yang only gave me this skirt yesterday! It’s worth more than twenty thousand, and you just ruined it! Are you jealous of me?!”

After being slapped, Ning Xi was still a little dazed.

But after hearing the girl’s words, she instantly grew angry. “Who’s jealous of you? I don’t even know who you are!”

The girl snorted. “I’m Sun Yang’s girlfriend. I’ve come to your class to see him several times. How dare you say you don’t know me?”

Ning Xi sneered. “If you were as pretty as our Sheng’er, of course I’d remember you at a glance. But with a face as ugly as yours, who could remember you after one look?”

Hearing Ning Xi call her ugly made the girl even angrier. “You ugly freak, who are you calling ugly? I’m way prettier than you. Otherwise, how could Sun Yang possibly have fallen for me?

“You’re clearly jealous that I’m with Sun Yang, but you still refuse to admit it! I’ve seen way too many girls like you!”

Ning Xi was rendered completely speechless by this girl.

She had barely even spoken to Sun Yang a few times. She didn’t like him at all. What the hell was there for her to be jealous of?

After seeing Younger Brother Wu’s antics today, she had thought someone like him was already bizarre enough. She hadn’t expected there to be someone even more bizarre than Younger Brother Wu.

That morning, she had even thought that if Sun Yang could fall for a girl with ordinary looks and an ordinary family background, it must be because the girl had a beautiful and kind heart.

Now that she had seen this girl’s temper, she suddenly began to wonder if Sun Yang was some kind of masochist.

“Forget it. I can’t be bothered talking to a crazy woman like you.” Everyone was in a good mood for the class dinner today, and Ning Xi didn’t want to make a big scene and ruin it for everyone. She was about to pull Xia Sheng away.
But after they had only taken a few steps, the girl behind them was still sneering. “Who are you calling a crazy shrew? You broke little loser. Who are you trying to impress? You’re obviously just jealous that I found such a rich boyfriend, and you won’t even admit it!”

Ning Xi forced down the urge to turn around and slap her. Xia Sheng, however, stopped and looked back at the girl. Then she slowly said, “Something that doesn’t belong to you will never be yours, even if you use tricks to hold it in your hands.

“Right now, you’re borrowing someone else’s power and enjoying all the benefits that come with it. One day, you’ll have to pay every bit of it back.”

The girl frowned. “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Xia Sheng continued, “The thing you put inside Sun Yang’s body won’t do him much harm, but in the end, it will backlash onto you. At best, you’ll be seriously injured. At worst, you’ll lose your life.”

At first, after hearing Xia Sheng’s words, the girl thought she was cursing her on Ning Xi’s behalf.

But when Xia Sheng said there was something inside Sun Yang, the girl’s expression changed on the spot. “What kind of garbage are you spouting? You’re not making any sense!”

With that, the girl left, looking extremely guilty.

After she was gone, Ning Xi looked at Xia Sheng and asked, “Sheng’er, what were you saying to that girl just now? Is there something in Sun Yang’s body?”

Xia Sheng said, “Sun Yang was implanted with a Love Gu by that person. That’s why he’s so devoted to her. But it’s obvious she hasn’t been learning Gu techniques for very long and hasn’t fully mastered the Love Gu yet. Before long, she will definitely suffer a backlash.”

“Love Gu?” Ning Xi suddenly understood. “No wonder Sun Yang likes her. So she used that kind of method.”

After hearing Xia Sheng say the girl would suffer a backlash later, Ning Xi immediately felt much better. The little bit of gloom in her heart vanished, and she cheerfully dragged Xia Sheng off to get something to eat.

However, Ning Xi’s happiness did not last long. When she noticed that Sun Yang and that girl were sitting at the table next to theirs, the smile on her face faded.

The girl noticed Ning Xi and Xia Sheng as well. Her gaze lingered on Xia Sheng for a few seconds, and uncertainty flickered through her heart. She wasn’t sure whether Xia Sheng had truly seen through the method she had used.

But very quickly, she threw that sliver of doubt out of her mind.

She had found the method for cultivating a Love Gu among her grandmother’s belongings.

The Miaojiang Gu Arts had been in decline for a hundred years. Before she found that ancient book on raising Gu among her grandmother’s belongings, she had never even heard of anyone who knew how to raise Gu.

Xia Sheng must have been making wild guesses just now. Otherwise, why had she never heard anyone say that a Love Gu could backlash?

She forced down the unease in her heart, turned back, and smiled sweetly at Sun Yang. “Baby, let’s go toast everyone together. It’s a perfect chance for me to get to know the people in your class.”

Most importantly, she wanted that girl named Ning Xi to see just how much Sun Yang loved her. That way, the ugly freak would stop thinking about her baby all day long!

Sitting at the next table, Ning Xi heard the girl call Sun Yang “baby” in that sugary voice and instantly got goosebumps all over. She felt as if she were about to throw up last night’s dinner.

Sun Yang hesitated before saying, “Today is a class dinner. It’s not our personal event. Wouldn’t it be inappropriate to suddenly go around toasting people and introducing you? Besides, I don’t usually drink…”

“What’s inappropriate about it? You’re the one who booked this place today. Isn’t it perfectly normal for you to take me around for a toast?”

The girl clung to Sun Yang, pouting and acting coquettish. There was no trace in her expression or tone of the viciousness she had shown when arguing with Ning Xi earlier. “I just want to get to know your classmates.

“If you won’t introduce me to them, is it because you’re worried the girls in your class who like you will be disappointed?”