novelraw Chapter 808 - 790: Minal Heartbroken Again! (2)
Chapter 808 - 790: Minal Heartbroken Again! (2)
Chapter 808: Chapter 790: Minal Heartbroken Again! (2)
Two days remain until Minal’s birthday.
Minal, who loves lively occasions, just has to arrange her birthday to be celebrated in a grand and spectacular way.
So, a few days in advance, those friends summoned by her have already started getting busy with her birthday.
On this side, Pu Sangzhi and Huo Feng spent an afternoon shopping.
On another side, Gu Erhao also went to his store manager sister to order a cake and flirted a bit with the store manager sister.
On yet another side, Mu Mu and Yong Mu teamed up to leave the campus and find gifts for her.
On another side, the lonely Gu Yihao couldn’t find anyone to accompany him, so he had to thicken his skin and seek out Wei Zixuan, asking Wei Zixuan to join him in choosing a gift. For this, Gu Yihao even treated Wei Zixuan to a meal and bought Wei Zixuan a small gift as well.
In short, a small birthday for Minal, under her endless promotion, has managed to make everyone busy for a while.
But while everyone is busy with this, Minal is busy gnawing the hardest bone before her birthday—the Ye Xi bone!
Her birthday is on December 12...
Since the end of November, she has persistently gnawed at Ye Xi, hoping to get Ye Xi to come on her birthday this time!
Back then, the time seemed far away, and it was about once every three days.
Starting December, as her birthday approached closer, it became once every two days.
After December 8, Minal found Ye Xi every day!
On the 10th...
She was still stubbornly looking for Ye Xi!
Despite her frequent searching! She often ended up empty-handed...
The so-called empty-handed state was when she enthusiastically went to find Ye Xi. But in the end, no one was in the dormitory, no one was in the classroom, she couldn’t get into the laboratory...
Sometimes, she would wait for one or two hours, yet wouldn’t find anyone.
Which, honestly, is quite tiresome.
But Minal hasn’t given up!
Because she thinks, a birthday is such a big deal, it only happens once a year, and she is the birthday queen...
No matter how cold Brother Ye Xi is, he wouldn’t let her be sad on such a day, right?
Maybe...
Perhaps heavens took pity on her, because on the night of the 12th, the always unlucky Minal unexpectedly bumped into Ye Xi outside his dormitory building!
Just as Minal was about to leave, she turned her head and saw Ye Xi returning with a single-shoulder backpack...
Hmm...
The coincidence and luck at that moment were enough to make Minal’s happiness blossom!
"You’re back!"
Minal exclaimed excitedly and immediately ran towards Ye Xi!
Ye Xi, facing her across the way, furrowed his sharp eyebrows slightly and instinctively wanted to step back...
Yet after taking one step back, he stopped...
Because Ye Xi thought: he shouldn’t be forced to run away by a little girl.
So, Ye Xi stood his ground and faced Minal who was flying towards him...
Only when he estimated that Minal might pounce on him did he sidestep and retreat two steps.
In the end, Minal pounced but missed...
And his estimation was correct; Minal indeed intended to pounce.
"Hehe... um..."
Minal, for all her fiery enthusiasm, remained optimistic despite missing the pounce, grinning widely with a mouthful of neat white teeth, beaming as she fixated on him, "Brother Ye Xi, I have something I want to give you..."
Then, Minal pulled out the birthday invitation card she had prepared long ago!
She presented it very sincerely with both hands!
Ye Xi, on the opposite side, sighed quietly, knowing full well her intentions.
He lowered his eyelids, glanced at the pink envelope in her hand, but his hands in his pockets were reluctant to withdraw...
"That’s not a love letter."
Seeing him not take it, Minal hastily explained, "It’s a birthday invitation."
"No, thanks," Ye Xi politely and aloofly declined.
"Come anyway..."
Minal’s hands showed no sign of dropping; she pouted slightly, looking at him with a pitiful expression, "It’s not just you, there’s a bunch of people. I know you don’t want to spend my birthday alone with me."
In fact...
Ye Xi didn’t decline wanting to be alone with her on her birthday but didn’t want to spend her birthday at all.
A waste of time, waste of effort, and it would only give her more fantasy and possibility.
Ye Xi doesn’t like her.
So, he doesn’t want to give her even the slightest fantasy.
It can’t be said to be cold-hearted; in a way, it’s actually protecting her.
Protecting her from getting hurt by him.
"I have an experiment that day, I’m not going," Ye Xi refused again.
"So do you have experiments on the 11th, 13th, and 14th too?"
Minal took the opportunity to ask again, "As long as there’s one day without an experiment, it’s fine. I can flexibly shift or postpone my birthday, it’s no problem!"
After she finished speaking, Ye Xi’s brow furrowed imperceptibly, "I’m not going. I have things all those days."
"Then, when are you free?"
Minal, still undeterred, kept asking, her small hands holding the birthday invitation card never lowering, showing great persistence.
"Everyone’s busy," said Ye Xi.
"Then..."
Minal wanted to say something else, but before she could, Ye Xi directly rejected her, "What I’m busy with may not really be something important. It’s just that I can’t spare time for you, that’s all."
An adult’s refusal is either subtle or straightforward...
Ye Xi had already been subtle, but she hadn’t seemed to understand it.
So, Ye Xi could only be straightforward.
Minal was so directly rejected, her heart felt as if she stepped into thin air, falling off a cliff, plunging into an abyss...
Of course, she wasn’t dead yet.
But that feeling of endlessly falling also pulled her mood straight down!
"Then, you don’t have to spare a lot of time for me. Just a little bit will do..."
Minal bit her lip and somehow said something so humble.
"I won’t take up much of your time. I’ll just come to see you once and bring you a cake... that’s it..."
After saying that, Minal put her hands together as if pleading.
Honestly...
In front of Ye Xi, she really was humble enough!
She still held a bit of hope, but Ye Xi’s intention was to extinguish that small bit of hope in her.
Again, it wasn’t because he was heartless, but rather another form of protection, to protect her from being hurt by him.
"Don’t look for me."
Ye Xi’s expression was cold, and he coldly replied to her, "If you insist on looking for me, I won’t come back here. I don’t want you to bring trouble to my life."
"Then... then... then I’ll..."
Minal hesitated for a long time, trying to find an even more humble reason, but surprisingly, she couldn’t think of one!
So, in the end, she just said with a puffed-up pout, "Alright, I won’t look for you then..."
"Mm."
This response was probably the only one from Ye Xi that Minal had ever gotten as an agreement during this time.
However, this agreement only brought Minal three words — "It hurts!"
"Then, then can I say a few more words to you?"
Having been repeatedly rejected, Minal did not dare to make any excessive requests at this point and could only talk to him cautiously.
"Mm."
Ye Xi’s attitude remained consistently indifferent; he wouldn’t treat people this way, unless he wanted to shake them off.
"I just... I just wanted to say..."
Minal nervously clutched at her pants, "Wanted to say, do you think I’m ugly?"
"No," said Ye Xi.
"Then you..."
Minal was still nervously twisting her pants, "Do you have someone you like?"
Ye Xi hesitated for half a minute before answering, "Yes."
"Ah..."
Minal responded with shock, yet it was somewhat anticipated.
She pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Then why aren’t you dating her?"
"That’s none of your business."
Ye Xi took a breath, sighed lightly, and said, "Now that you’ve asked, don’t bother me in the future. I’m very busy, and I don’t have time to deal with you or anything about you."
"Oh, sorry to bother..." Minal said softly.
"Mm."
Ye Xi barely gave her a response.
Then, without saying more, he started to walk past her, decisively heading into the dormitory.
Minal turned her head to watch his silhouette grow more distant, took a deep breath, her cheeks puffed high.
She thought to herself: I thought gentle seniors were the easiest to pursue, who knew, it’s actually so difficult! Hurts one’s self-esteem...
After Ye Xi’s silhouette disappeared completely from view, Minal also rode her bike and left...
She told herself she couldn’t carry a bad mood into her birthday!
So, she still had to be happy in the next two days.
The little matter of heartbreak can wait!
With this mindset, Minal slowly and leisurely rode back to the dormitory, even singing while cycling, her mood as bright as if she’d won the lottery!
...20 minutes later...
At Zijing number five building, the door of Pu Sangzhi’s dorm was pushed open...
Inside the dorm, Pu Sangzhi, Wei Zixuan, and Mu Mu were all chatting about Minal’s birthday.
As a result, the three who were chatting happily turned their heads and saw Minal’s tear-streaked face like a crying cat!
"Waaa..."
Minal came back crying...
"I got dumped, waa... dumped again..."
Truly, her face was covered in tears...