novelraw Chapter 278: She Has a Boyfriend and Needs to Consider His Feelings
Chapter 278: She Has a Boyfriend and Needs to Consider His Feelings
"Fine, I’ll shut up." Ganged up on by the two of them again, Shen Chen lamented, "You’re all bullying a lone wolf like me."
Xu Su couldn’t be bothered with him. ’How could Young Master Shen possibly be a lone wolf?’
’Who knows how many little lovers he’s keeping on the side...’
A short argument was great for turning up the heat in their relationship—at least, that’s what Xu Su believed. In the days that followed, she could feel a noticeable change in Zhou Mochen.
How should she put it... He just seemed more confident and at ease with his feelings for Xu Su.
Before, even if he didn’t say anything, as lovers who spent all their time together, Xu Su could always sense his subtle moods. The smallest trifle, a careless word from her, could send his thoughts wandering—all the way to Xi Zirong.
It was just as Zhou Mochen himself had said. He couldn’t help but wonder how Xu Su and Xi Zirong had acted when they were together...
His possessiveness hadn’t diminished in the slightest, and with a moment of carelessness, it threatened to escalate into the same paranoid, sick obsession from his previous life.
But now, he was much more composed. After Xu Su had so openly shown her affection for him, he visibly relaxed... He was no longer so insecure about losing her.
Xu Su, who had originally been annoyed at herself for speaking so rashly, was now increasingly glad she had said what she did that day.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, after spending a few days in Chang City, Shen Chen headed back to the capital. Xu Su also returned to school to begin the final semester of her senior year.
Huang Chao was as tight-lipped as ever, so Huang Feng had no idea what Xu Su had gone through on New Year’s Eve. She just thought Xu Su had taken sick leave for a bad cold.
For the past few days, Huang Feng had been calling her during every lunch break, asking if she was feeling better and when she was coming back to class.
Qian Jia didn’t have a cell phone, but she would always lean in and chirp from the other end of the line, urging her to hurry back to school.
Xu Su wanted to return to the embrace of campus life sooner, too, but she still had a slight cough. It wasn’t until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, when her cough had completely healed, that she was allowed to go back to class.
Xi Zirong was probably the only person in class who knew the real reason for her absence. After returning, Xu Su had worried for a bit that he might come over to show concern, but thankfully, that never happened.
During the final sprint before the college entrance exams, the atmosphere in the classroom was incredibly tense, like a tightly drawn bowstring. The sounds of laughter and horseplay were rarely heard.
Most of the students were only sleeping five or six hours a night. Aside from eating or using the restroom, they remained in the classroom, as if trying to digest three years’ worth of knowledge all at once.
Even Sika, who was in the elite group chat and attended a prestigious private high school, frequently complained that the academic pressure had ramped up after school started, and that she finally felt the urgency of a student facing the college entrance exams.
Out of curiosity, Xu Su asked for specifics, only to discover that what Sika called "ramped-up pressure" was basically the same as Xu Su’s own class schedule back in her freshman year...
After school started, she hadn’t logged into the game in a long time. The bounty placed by Ge Feifei of the Cangyue Sect had been withdrawn by Ge Feifei herself that very same day. Aside from some brief public attention, it hadn’t caused Xu Su any trouble at all.
As for why Ge Feifei withdrew the bounty?
The reason was that after Xu Su logged off that day, Si Xuan had placed a retaliatory bounty on Ge Feifei, with the reward set at one thousand RMB.
He even posted a notice in the elite group chat, instructing the Qingxuan Sect Elders to kill Ge Feifei on sight, over and over, until she could no longer be de-leveled.
All in all, it was pretty ruthless.
That very day, Ge Feifei canceled the bounty on Xu Su and pulled all sorts of strings to contact a high-ranking member of the Qingxuan Sect, hoping to apologize and make peace.
It wasn’t until Ge Feifei had been killed three times in a row—dropping her from Golden Core Perfection all the way down to Early Stage Golden Core—and had issued a public apology on the world channel that Si Xuan finally let her off the hook.
Regarding this incident, the gossip-loving players of Immortal World were all in agreement: this was a classic case of "a gentleman’s fury, all for a beautiful lady."
Even some people in the group chat who had been firm believers that the two were just a "quest couple" couldn’t help but have their doubts. Nanyang, in particular, privately asked Xu Su several times if her relationship with Si Xuan was actually real.
Xu Su felt completely helpless. ’I understand why Si Xuan did it. After all, I’m the nominal Sect Leader’s Wife of the Qingxuan Sect. How could he possibly let someone put a bounty on me? What a huge loss of face that would be for the entire sect!’
Understanding was one thing, but on the day the one-month period was up, she couldn’t help but private message Si Xuan to talk about dissolving their in-game relationship.
In the Immortal Continent, any bonded relationship—be it master-disciple, sworn friends, or Daoist partners—could only be dissolved one month after it was formed.
Si Xuan said they could dissolve it anytime, but he advised her that it would be best to maintain the relationship. The reason, he explained, was that once they dissolved their status, Ge Feifei might stage a comeback. Because of Xu Su, she had been killed three times in a row, thoroughly losing both her cultivation level and a great deal of face. She didn’t dare provoke Xu Su now because she was wary of her status as the Qingxuan Sect’s Sect Leader’s Wife. If they really dissolved the relationship, she would probably come for revenge at the first opportunity.
After all, she was ranked sixth on the server-wide beauty rankings, and there were plenty of simps eager to curry favor with her. Once Xu Su and Si Xuan dissolved their relationship, someone would surely be willing to get revenge on Ge Feifei’s behalf.
Xu Su hesitated for a moment but ultimately insisted on dissolving the relationship.
’If Ge Feifei really wants revenge, I’ll just have to lay low. In any case, I can’t stay in a Daoist partner relationship with Si Xuan forever. I have a boyfriend, and I have to consider his feelings.’
’If Zhou Mochen found out I was in an in-game marriage, who knows how angry he’d get. I don’t want to make him angry, and I don’t want him to be upset.’
After dissolving the relationship, the first thing Xu Su wanted to do was return the Purple Illusion Immortal Robe. Si Xuan refused to take it. Not only that, he specifically told her that if she ever ran into real danger, she should remember to call for help in the group chat.
Xu Su was moved to the verge of tears. ’What a great Sect Leader! What a great ex-husband!’
From the day they dissolved their relationship, no one in the group chat linked her with Si Xuan anymore. Everyone was now thoroughly convinced they had just been a quest couple.
With her intense school schedule, Xu Su no longer logged on every week like she had the previous semester. Other than occasionally chiming in on the group chat, she had almost no free time.
「In early April」 The weather wasn’t so cold anymore, and Teacher Wu began coming to the classroom every afternoon after lunch to call the students downstairs for some physical activity. The teachers were actually unhappy to see the academic atmosphere get so tense.
In every graduating class, a fair number of students developed mental health issues due to the immense pressure. That’s why, during this time, the senior class homeroom teachers were always telling their students to go down to the sports field during breaks to run around and get some exercise.
It let their brains rest, and their taut nerves needed a chance to unwind.
Xu Su had no objections whatsoever and placidly went with the flow. When her classmates ran, she ran. When her classmates studied hard, she studied hard.
Her paternal aunt’s two daughters, Zhang Yingying and Zhang Tingting, came to First High School to find her once. Xu Su was quite surprised. In this life, she had exchanged fewer than ten sentences with these two cousins. Seeing the two thin, frail girls standing timidly at the door of the honors classroom made Xu Su’s heart ache for them.