Part 2 Hello, Mr. Major General I'm Gu Nianzi

201. Nobody will know

Mei Xiawen's expression had visibly darkened.
He held his head in his hands, his elbows propped on the table. There was a hint of sorrow in his voice. "I was young and stupid, and took her for granted. She was headstrong and stubborn, and I was too proud to give in to her. After she left the country, she was all alone in a foreign land. She needed someone to help her, but I was too far away to do that"
Gu Nianzhi suddenly realized what he was saying. She was very surprised. "She got a new boyfriend?"
Mei Xiawen looked at her with a wry smile on his face. "Nianzhi, c'mon, you don't have to be so blunt about it. I have my pride, too, you know."
Gu Nianzhi had wanted to ask whether his ex-girlfriend had gotten a new boyfriend before the breakup, or after
If it had happened before the breakup, then Mei Xiawen's first girlfriend had cheated on him.
She looked at Mei Xiawen, and noted how reluctant he was to talk about it. Gu Nianzhi guessed that he had been cheated on; it was written all over his face.
Gu Nianzhi was a little more sympathetic towards Mei Xiawen now.
"Let's eat. You like beef, don't you?" Gu Nianzhi grabbed the serving chopsticks and picked out a tender beef pentagon for Mei Xiawen. "Eat up."
Mei Xiawen smiled. He said, "Feed me," and opened his mouth expectantly.
Gu Nianzhi's hand froze in mid-air. She said, laughing, "I better not my wrists are made of jelly. You might end up with food all over your face." As she said that, her hand shook, and the tender beef pentagon dropped into the small bowl in front of Mei Xiawen.
"You wriggled out of it again. I'm not going to let you off so easy next time" Mei Xiawen put his hand over hers and winked at her.
Gu Nianzhi nonchalantly pulled her hand out of his grasp, and picked up the spoon for her porridge. She began to eat, relishing every bite.
The two of them quietly finished their dinner. When they were done, they ordered a pot of tea. They sat facing each other as they digested their dinner.
Mei Xiawen got up and sat beside her. He whipped out his phone. "Here, look. I was bored waiting for you this afternoon, so I made a Weibo account. Let's use it together."
Gu Nianzhi looked at his phone. The name of the blog was "Always On My Mind (Nian Zi Zai Zhi)."
The first and last characters combined to form her name.
She could not help blushing at this. She laughed, and said, "We're sharing a Weibo account? We're not that close, are we?"
"Don't play dumb." Mei Xiawen was all smiles as he sent the Weibo username and password to Gu Nianzhi's phone. "Keep it. You can vent on the blog whenever you have something you need to get off your chest. Let it all out, no one will know it's you."
Gu Nianzhi thought to herself: I have so many anonymous, duplicate accounts for that. Why on earth would I post my private feelings on a blog that literally spells out my name?
"I'll post my feelings, too." Mei Xiawen logged into the account. He asked Gu Nianzhi: "What's your Weibo username? Let's follow each other."
Gu Nianzhi smiled and shook her head. "I don't have Weibo. I don't even have a QQ account."
"In that case, this Weibo account is all yours," said Mei Xiawen quickly. "I'll help you manage it. How many followers do you want? Give me a number, and I'll buy them for you."
Gu Nianzhi: "...You just said I can write anything I want on the blog and nobody will know."
So what was all this about buying followers?
"Haha, I'm talking about zombie followers, bots with no one behind the accounts. The followers are just there so you won't feel lonely again." Mei Xiawen's smile was open and sincere. His gold-rimmed glasses made him look all the more refined and handsome.
The other young ladies in the restaurant could not stop looking over at Mei Xiawen. They were obviously smitten with him.
Gu Nianzhi had not registered anything Mei Xiawen had said, aside from "you won't feel lonely again." The words had hit a little too close to home.
"Why do you say I'm lonely? I have three lovely sisters living with me in the dormitory, and when I'm out and about you're always there for me. So how exactly am I lonely?" She refused to admit it.
Mei Xiawen smiled and said nothing. The dark eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were gentle as they watched her.