Strings Pulled; Huaze Lei

chapter 4: Jing

The next morning I walk over to Shancai and Quinghe, who just got done talking to Daoming Si before Ximen took him away.

"Who is Jing?" Qinghe asks. Why's he asking about her? Is she back? I heard about how shes like the princess of Mingde.. and also that Lei is in love with her. I can't help but feel a pit in my stomach at the thought. What if Lei still loves her? I frown as I walk up to Shancai and Qinghe and start following Daoming Si and Ximen.

She's beautiful. And he's not mine we're just friends, I can't feel this way. But why does it hurt..

"Shancai can I talk to you?" I ask seeing her expression.

"Sure, what's up?" she asks. We walk away from Qinghe and F4.

"I like Lei." I admit, to Shancai and myself.

"Oh." she replies looking glum

"Do you like him?" I ask, she looks down.

"I don't know. But if you like him I won't." Shancai responds selflessly.

"I do like him, yes, but he loves her. We don't stand a chance."

"Let's just forget about Lei and hangout tonight!" Shancai suggests

"I couldn't agree more." I smile.

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A few days later

Walking into lunch with Qinghe and Shancai following, I immediately see F4 with Jing. Ximen and Meizuo see me and smile waving at me. I return their smiles and wave back sitting my tray down at a table Qinghe and Shancai following suit. With Qinghe on my left, and Shancai on my right I can see F4 and Jing. Shancai looks over a couple of times at Daoming Si, who continues to stare at her unblinking.

Slowly, Daoming Si gets up and starts walking over, his eyes never leaving Shancai. Shancai sees him get up and quickly stands up with her tray rushing to get out of the cafeteria. Not looking where she was going, she runs right into someone and spills her tray all over herself. Yikes. This is embarrassing.

Mentally groaning in my head I go over to Shancai and start picking up the food that spilt.

"Are you blind? Watch where you're going." The guy yells at her. Qinghe apologizes to the man as I look up at him

"She didn't do it on purpose asshole. Maybe you should watch where you're going. Now scram before I have you doing my dry cleaning."

"Apologies ma'am!" he frantically apologizes, realizing who I am and rushes off before I can threaten him even more.

Qinghe tries to get to Shancai when Si pulls him back. He looks at Shancai,

"Being with Qinghe makes you 100, 1,000, 10,000 times happier, right? So you must be really happy now." I open my mouth to defend her but Shancai beats me to it

"Daoming Si. Why are you picking on us? Do you really enjoy doing that?"

"I do. It makes me so happy to see you fall on your face." he responds, bending down to our level. "Shancai. You look like you love to eat all kinds of vegetables." He pinches her cheek, " No wonder you're called "Shancai.""

"Let go of her!" I yell as I stand dragging Si up by his collar. I lift him up higher and shove him. He regains his balance and stands close to me as I glare up at him and he glares down on me, our faces barely inches apart.

"What's wrong? Go ahead and hit me."

"Leave us the hell alone. Not everyone worships the ground you walk on you self-centered prick." I seethe at him. Lei walks over,