39: Chapter 39 Do you like that big guy?

Lin Ci sneered, "You're right, I really wouldn't know. It seems you really do understand me. So, in our past life, I was actually just friends with you?!"

Xu Wanning tilted her head, "What else would it be?"

Lin Ci didn't say anything else. He understood himself; if it didn't work out, there must have been a reason.

Whether he had pursued her and failed, or hadn't pursued her at all, he could understand it. "You like that big guy, right?"

Xu Wanning nodded, "Mm, I like him a lot."

"Alright, I know now. I'm going back to class." Lin Ci turned and walked two steps before looking back. "Thank you for telling me." After saying that, he left.

Xu Wanning met up with Lu Zhiyu and the others to return to school. They first went to find their counselor to cancel their leave, and only then did they go to class.

The classmates looked very happy to see them.

"You're finally back. With the four of you missing, the class felt so empty."

"Exactly. With you four away, the overall attractiveness of our class dropped."

"What do you mean by that? Are you saying we aren't good-looking?!"

"No, no, I'm just joking."

The classmates were noisy and lively—'vibrant' was the only word that came to Xu Wanning's mind. She wondered, after The Apocalypse arrived, which of these people would be lucky enough to survive, and which ones would mutate into zombies. *Sigh*.

A girl from the dormitory next door leaned over. "Wen Shuyang, your boyfriend has come to look for you many times. Did you guys have a fight? You didn't even tell him you were taking leave?"

Wen Shuyang only then remembered she still had a boyfriend. She thanked the girl politely, "We didn't fight. My phone broke, and I didn't have time to replace it. I'll contact him right now. Thank you."

"That's good then." The female student sat back down in her seat.

Wen Shuyang took out her phone. There were many missed calls and her wechat was bombarded with messages. She didn't even want to look at them. She typed out a message and sent it: [My phone broke, I just got it fixed. I'm back at school. Let's have lunch together at noon.]

Jiang Lei replied extremely quickly: [Okay, Yangyang, you're finally back. I was worried to death.]

Wen Shuyang was scrolling through the messages Jiang Lei had sent earlier, one by one. Several of them were about that 300,000. *Hmph*, isn't this just him being afraid she'd run off with the money? Pretending to be so affectionate.

She handed the phone to her friends to see. "Look, I haven't responded to him for the past few days, and this scumbag Jiang is terrified I'll run off with the money."

Lu Zhiyu whispered, "A person as stingy as him definitely treats this 300,000 like his life. You took it, of course he'd be anxious."

Song Yunqing was a bit worried, "If he finds out later that we tricked him, won't he do something bad? He wouldn't want to kill Yangyang, would he?"

Xu Wanning rested her cheek on her left hand and looked at them. "When the country announces news of The Apocalypse, Jiang Lei will definitely come to Yangyang to ask for that 300,000 back. We need to think of a plan."

Wen Shuyang looked indifferent, "What's there to worry about? When the time comes, I'll just go missing. I'll change my phone number and everything, so he won't be able to find me. Isn't that enough?"

Song Yunqing frowned, "What if he calls the police?"

Lu Zhiyu was also worried, "If he calls the police, they'll definitely be able to find us. What will we do then?"

Wen Shuyang still didn't feel much concern, "If they find us, I'll just give the money back. Anyway, didn't we keep some money with the intention of spending it in the few days before The Apocalypse?"

"It's not like I actually want his money. It's mainly to ensure he doesn't have time to hoard supplies. If he dares to kill me, I won't be able to quell my hatred unless he dies."

Seeing that she had already made up her mind, the others didn't try to persuade her anymore. They'd just take it one step at a time.

They finally managed to make it to noon, when classes ended. The four of them walked out of the classroom, and Jiang Lei was already waiting at the door.

Seeing Wen Shuyang, he looked more affectionate than if he were seeing his own mother. "Yangyang, what exactly happened? Why did you take so many days off? You worried me to death."

Wen Shuyang suppressed her nausea and let Jiang Lei hold her hand, "We went hiking and accidentally fell. We stayed in the hospital for a while. Once my leg got better, I came back." She shook her leg.

Jiang Lei feigned deep affection, "How could you be so careless? I know, you must have not told me because you were afraid I'd worry. You didn't let me go to the hospital to take care of you just so you could appear before me in the best state. Yangyang, you're so good."

Xu Wanning and the others couldn't help but get goosebumps all over. *Oh my god*, how disgusting.

He used to be like this before, full of flowery words. Back then, they didn't find it disgusting at all; they even thought the young couple was quite sweet. Aside from being a bit stingy, he didn't have any bad habits.

Now that they knew what he did in The Apocalypse, everything he did looked unpleasant, and everything he did was disgusting.

"Let's go eat first." Seeing that Wen Shuyang was about to vomit, Xu Wanning quickly rescued her.

Wen Shuyang quickly pulled her hand away and changed to linking her arm with Jiang Lei's, "Let's go, let's go, I'm starving."

This time, they still went to the cafeteria, but they went to the second floor. The food on the second floor of the cafeteria was more expensive than on the first floor, and there was a greater variety.

When Jiang Lei was dragged upstairs, he pretended to be unwilling, "Yangyang, let's go eat downstairs. The food upstairs is expensive and not worth it."

In the past, whenever he said this, Wen Shuyang would say she'd treat him. But unexpectedly, this time she didn't follow the script.

Wen Shuyang shook off Jiang Lei's arm, "I just got discharged from the hospital, what's wrong with wanting to eat something good? Aren't you my boyfriend? What's wrong with you treating me to something good? I've treated you so many times before; count it up, how many times have you treated me?!"

Her voice wasn't quiet, and many people around were watching. Jiang Lei's face immediately darkened, but he quickly adjusted, "Yangyang, don't be angry. I'll pay, I'll treat you."

Wen Shuyang then huffed, "And what about my friends?" Hearing him, it was clear he only wanted to pay for the two of them, and the three friends weren't part of it.

Jiang Lei subconsciously retorted, "They aren't my girlfriends, why should I treat them too?"

Wen Shuyang grabbed his ear, "The three of them took such good care of me in the hospital. If they hadn't taken care of me, you would have had to do it. Shouldn't you be grateful to them?"

Jiang Lei tilted his head, "I know, I know. I'll treat them, I'll treat them, alright?" After rescuing his ear, he said, "You guys go up first. I'm going to the restroom and will be back soon."

Wen Shuyang knew he had gone to borrow money, or perhaps to ask his family for money. Regardless of where he got the money from, she was definitely going to eat this meal.

After the four of them went up, they started ordering. The total bill came to 324 yuan. They had already been quite restrained, fearing that if it was too much, Jiang Lei would make an excuse to slip away.

When Jiang Lei came up to pay the bill, his heart was bleeding, and his face was as wrinkled as a bitter melon, "You, you didn't order too little, huh, huh."

Wen Shuyang rolled her eyes, "This isn't even enough to eat. If it weren't for the fact that I just got out of the hospital and can't eat too much, I definitely would have ordered more."

Jiang Lei felt heartache, "Eat, eat then." His 300,000 was still in Wen Shuyang's hands, and he couldn't have a falling out with her yet. He endured it.

The meal gave Jiang Lei indigestion. Whenever Wen Shuyang spoke to him, he was absent-minded, solely feeling heartache for the money.

Xu Wanning chuckled secretly. Her phone rang once, which actually gave her a start.

She opened her phone to look, and it was a message from Lu Chengyue: [What time are you coming?]