Chapter 171: It’s All Chi Qingya’s Fault!

[Appreciated by Both the Elegant and the Common: Caicai, are you alright?]

Even though her head felt dizzy and muddled, Chi Qingya didn’t hesitate.

Dragging her sick body, she sent a message to Caixiangxiang.

Then, feeling a bit exhausted, she leaned back on the sofa to wait for Caixiangxiang’s reply.

If she weren’t waiting for Caixiangxiang’s message, she’d probably already be lying in bed, getting some proper rest.

Her eyelids kept fighting to close, and Chi Qingya half-squinted her eyes, occasionally forcing them open.

But still, no reply.

Sometimes she even wondered if there was something wrong with her network or if her phone was acting up.

Otherwise, why couldn’t her phone receive any messages?

Even as she leaned back on the sofa and drifted off to sleep with her eyes half-closed, Chi Qingya still hadn’t received a reply.

A cold wind swept by, making her shiver. She glanced at her phone—still no response from Caixiangxiang.

Caicai… it must be because she’s hurt that she can’t reply, right?

Thinking this, Chi Qingya looked at the takeout trash left on the table, then finally picked up her water cup and headed to her room.

As for the trash, she’d deal with it when she felt a bit better.

Anyway, leaving the trash on the table wouldn’t be a big problem.

Just pretend…

Just pretend she hadn’t eaten yet.

Stumbling, Chi Qingya made her way to the room. She didn’t know why her fever hadn’t gone down after all this time.

……

Caixiangxiang stayed in the Dormitory, her cheek still burning with pain.

Even her own dad and mom had never hit her.

But now, she’d been slapped by Dafeizhu, whom she’d only met for a few minutes?

Covering her face, she recalled the looks her classmates gave her, feeling utterly humiliated.

And the reason Dafeizhu slapped her was just absurd.

Just because she’d said a few bad things about Su Li.

What, is Su Li her real mother or something?

Even if someone cursed her own mother, she probably wouldn’t react that strongly.

Caixiangxiang really suspected that Dafeizhu just wanted to slap her and was grasping at straws for an excuse.

Did Su Li even know her?

She just wanted to vent for Su Li…

Caixiangxiang felt so wronged by the slap.

She didn’t really care about being hit, but she cared about what her classmates thought.

She didn’t want her classmates to think she was some lowly person anyone could just walk up and slap!

Now, Caixiangxiang was filled with regret.

If only she’d slapped back at that time.

Who knows what her classmates thought of her now.

Back then, all she wanted was to keep the peace, but now, looking back, it just felt humiliating!

[Appreciated by Both the Elegant and the Common: Caicai, are you alright?]

Seeing the message from Chi Qingya, Caixiangxiang felt even more annoyed.

What, is she going to interrogate everyone in the Chat Group because no one replied?

Of course, she wouldn’t directly respond to Chi Qingya.

After all, replying right now would make it obvious she’d seen the message but chose not to answer earlier.

So after glancing at Chi Qingya’s message, Caixiangxiang sent the whole thing to the small group she had with Wei Yanxi and Chen Tangguan.

Maybe it was because the two were still in class, but Wei Yanxi and Chen Tangguan didn’t reply to her message.

At this moment, Wei Yanxi and Chen Tangguan were looking at the messages in the small group.

Their gazes met, and they instantly understood each other.

Just as they’d encouraged, Chi Qingya had gone to check on Caixiangxiang.

“Looks like Xiangxiang isn’t in any real trouble, she just posted a chat log with Chi Qingya.”

“If she was really angry, she’d probably already be cursing Chi Qingya out by now.”

Chen Tangguan analyzed calmly.

From what she knew about Caixiangxiang, if she was really angry, she would already be calling Chi Qingya a clown, calling her stupid.

But Caixiangxiang seemed a little too calm now.

“We’d better pretend we haven’t seen it for now. Otherwise, if we say the wrong thing, Caicai might start blasting us.”

“Caicai’s such a Jiangjing. Who knows what we might say that’d set her off, then she’d let us have it.”

“Let’s wait till dinner to reply to Caicai’s message.”

Wei Yanxi agreed, glancing at the chat messages in the group but staying silent.

Caixiangxiang felt a little bored as she waited.

Listen carefully in class?

She didn’t think her two roommates were actually paying attention.

They were probably swiping through the Little Green Book or playing games by now.

After waiting a bit, Caixiangxiang glanced again at her chat with Chi Qingya.

If you care about someone, just send a Hongbao!

Saying things like this is no different from just asking, “Are you there?”

But right now, Caixiangxiang was honestly a bit bored.

So, after waiting a while, she finally replied to Chi Qingya.

[No Cilantro (Postgraduate Edition): Sorry, Qingya, I just got hit by someone, so I didn’t reply in time. How’s your illness, is it any better?]

Even though typing out those words made her sick to her stomach, Caixiangxiang still had to put on a show of concern to keep up appearances between the two of them.

As for whether Chi Qingya was actually getting better—what did that matter to her?

If anything, she wished Chi Qingya would be worse off than she was.

Why was she the one who got slapped, and not Chi Qingya?

Yeah, it was all because Chi Qingya was sick!

It was all her fault!

Otherwise, if Chi Qingya had gone along to stir things up with Su Li today, she’d have gotten slapped too.

She was only sticking up for her, and that’s why she got slapped!

In the past, their little circle would sometimes talk about Su Li.

But all this talk about Su Li only started increasing because of Chi Qingya.

It was all because she showed up, that they ended up mentioning Su Li more and more!

So, the real reason she got slapped today, at the root, was all Chi Qingya’s fault!

It was her problem!

[Appreciated by Both the Elegant and the Common: I’m much better now. What happened, Caicai? Was someone bullying you?]

Chi Qingya’s reply was almost instant, which irritated Caixiangxiang.

Her quick reply made it obvious Caixiangxiang was at her phone.

If she didn’t reply right away, Chi Qingya would probably start overthinking things.

And then, if she wanted to coax some more coins out of Chi Qingya, it’d be a pain.

She didn’t know what Chi Qingya’s family did exactly.

But she knew Chi Qingya was richer than most college students.

And it didn’t seem like she was some well-bred heiress either—more like the nouveau riche, a country bumpkin who struck it rich.

Just dumb and loaded.

She’d never let go of a goldmine like this!