CHAPTER 308: CHAPTER 300: CAUGHT SOMEONE’S EYE

Trouble is like dust in the air, omnipresent, it finds someone to bother at every moment; just after solving Liu Qiqi’s problem, here comes Sisi’s trouble.

This trouble is even more annoying than Chang Yunhuan’s. Chang Yunhuan is born petty, Sisi can dismiss him without considering any face-saving, but the person who appeared in front of Sisi this time is different; she can’t treat him the way she treated Chang Yunhuan.

The man is also a student of Tsinghua University, in the same class as Tian Xinhua, his name is Tang Anzhi, a handsome figure, could barely be considered a hero, and judging by his self-satisfied look, his family background should be decent.

However, Sisi has a very bad feeling about this person. Although Tang Anzhi appears very polite and courteous on the surface, Sisi still feels his unruly nature hidden under his scholarly demeanor, and his gaze makes her very uncomfortable.

Tang Anzhi, with a pleasing smile, said to Sisi, "He Sisi, I’m Tang Anzhi, the head of the university’s Arts Department. We are preparing to rehearse the play ’Thunderstorm’ and are selecting actors. I think your image and temperament are very suitable for the role of Si Feng. On behalf of the Arts Department, I invite you, He Sisi, to join us."

A play? Acting as Si Feng? Not interested! I’m not even interested in acting in Principal He’s movie!

Without a moment’s hesitation, Sisi declined, "Thank you, Minister Tang, for your appreciation, but I am not interested in acting in plays, sorry!"

Sisi didn’t linger, she nodded at Tang Anzhi and dragged Zhu Yunxiu off to the cafeteria, unaware that Liu Xuelian was right behind her, smiling and talking pleasantly with Tang Anzhi.

"Brother Tang, what do you think of me? I quite like acting," Liu Xuelian volunteered herself.

Tang Anzhi was squinting his eyes, admiring Sisi’s graceful retreating figure. Hearing Liu Xuelian’s voice, he lowered his head to look at her, a flash of disdain in his eyes. The Liu Family is becoming more and more annoying, who is her Brother Tang? She sure has some nerve!

"You? Play Si Feng?"

"Yes, Brother Tang, what do you think?" Liu Xuelian looked at Tang Anzhi expectantly.

Tang Anzhi, grinning, said, "No way, I’m playing Zhou Ping. With your petite stature, do you think you’d match me on stage? The audience wouldn’t even be able to spot you!"

"Ha ha ha!" The surrounding students burst into laughter.

With hurt feelings, Liu Xuelian’s eyes welled up with tears as she whispered, "Brother Tang, how can you say that about me!"

Tang Anzhi frowned in annoyance but still maintained a polite demeanor though his words were not as pleasant.

"Could you please stop calling me Brother Tang? I don’t recall having such a sister. We are not that close, fellow student!"

Tang Anzhi didn’t even want to keep up appearances with Liu Xuelian because his father had already warned him; he doesn’t mind him fooling around with women, but there’s one rule: don’t mess with people in the circle, otherwise, he’d break his legs!

Tang Anzhi knew better than to mess with people within the circle. Although he found the delicate and exquisite Liu Xuelian somewhat appealing, and fooling around with her might be fun, thinking of his father’s severe punishments, he dared not provoke Liu Xuelian. However, Liu Xuelian kept pestering him, much to his annoyance.

Ignoring the tearfully stunning Liu Xuelian, Tang Anzhi smiled at the surrounding female students, stealing a few more young hearts, full of self-satisfaction as he walked away, but in his mind, he was plotting how to win over Sisi.

He Sisi, the ones I, Tang Anzhi, take an interest in have never slipped through my fingers! Are you playing hard to get? Fine, then I’ll play along!

Sisi: You’re overthinking it!

Because Sisi wasn’t particularly close to Tian Xinhua during the day on campus, and their interactions weren’t very frequent. Plus, Sisi’s dorm mates always thought Tian Xinhua was her cousin, so everyone at school thought the same, including Tang Anzhi, who was actually strategizing on how to carry out his brother-in-law’s offensive!

Since the New Year, Tian Xinhua has been very busy, secretive, and sometimes he would even go out for a few days with He Chengsi, once or twice a month. Sisi didn’t ask too much, she just told them to be careful.

Today, Tian Xinhua was indeed around, he and Mo Liu had already prepared the meal for both Sisi and Zhu Yunxiu, and were sitting at the dining table waiting for them.

"How come you’re late today?" Tian Xinhua passed over the lunch box.

"Don’t even mention it, I bumped into a guy who claimed to be the head of the arts department, inviting me to join their drama rehearsal, but I refused!"

Sisi slowly ate her meal, picking out the meat in the dish for Tian Xinhua. The meat in the cafeteria was mostly fatty slices, boiled in water, greasy and unappetizing to look at.

Tian Xinhua’s smile slightly stalled, head of the arts department? If he remembered correctly, wasn’t that Tang Anzhi from his class? That guy was no good person. According to his investigation, this guy had played around with several female university students in less than two years, not just from their university but also from surrounding colleges.

The most unfortunate one was from Beijing Foreign Studies University, who got pregnant because of Tang Anzhi and under the intimidation of Tang family, this female student had no choice but to have an abortion, nearly losing her life. Also, because of the pregnancy exposure, she was expelled from her university for bad conduct, while the main culprit, Tang Anzhi, got away scot-free.

Hmph! Tang Anzhi, even daring to have designs on my woman? Tired of living, are you?

Tian Xinhua was secretly calculating how to teach Tang Anzhi a lesson, but his face still wore the usual doting smile.

"That Tang Anzhi, Ah Nan, just ignore him, I’ll have a word with him."

"Hmm, I can’t be bothered with him, all slick, doesn’t look like a good person at all."

Sisi nibbled a few bites of boiled cabbage, slightly furrowing her brow, but still forced herself to finish the food in her lunch box, which was relatively good food already prepared by Tian Xinhua: pork with vermicelli, boiled cabbage.

Some classmates could only have a serving of boiled cabbage, and some even didn’t get any vegetables, just dry rice or plain buns, but they still enjoyed their food fragrantly. If she didn’t finish her food, there would surely be many self-righteous people criticising her, calling her a bourgeois madam. Not to mention, Chang Yunhuan would definitely be the first to jump out.

"Next time, let’s bring some vegetables from home, you’ve lost quite a bit of weight!"

Tian Xinhua looked at Sisi’s sharp chin with concern, as she had lost a lot of weight since starting eating only a little rice each meal in the cafeteria.

Sisi was tempted, but all the students were eating cafeteria food, bringing her own food might not look good.

"Wouldn’t that be seen as trying to be different? Maybe we shouldn’t bring it?"

Tian Xinhua said nonchalantly: "No worries!"

Mo Liu and Zhu Yunxiu laughed upon hearing this, Zhu Yunxiu excitedly said: "Sisi, bringing our own food sounds great, we can also enjoy some of that, the cafeteria food is really unbearable!"

Mo Liu also nodded eagerly, frowning tightly, making a face that showed she could barely swallow the food.