Chapter 41: Abandonment
"Let go." Su Xiao tried again to shake off Gu Mo Ning's hand, scolding loudly.
Gu Mian tightly grasped and refused to let go, biting her lower lip and remaining silent, she just didn't want to release her grip.
Su Xiao used her other hand to forcefully pry open Gu Mo Ning's hand, but he quickly grabbed it back with his other hand.
Su Xiao abruptly flung open both hands at the same time, and Gu Mo Ning was ultimately no match for Su Xiao's strength, forcing him to let go.
Su Xiao took a big step into the school without hesitation, and Gu Mengning's tears fell instantly, she couldn't stop them. She could only squat down and bury her face in her knees, not wanting Su Xiao to see her tears.
The sky had already darkened, and the lamp at the school gate stretched out a long shadow of Gu Muer sitting quietly, so lonely, so helpless.
Su Xiao walked a few steps, saw Gu Mo Ning didn't follow up, so she stopped. Quietly looking at the tree-lined path in the school, there were countless intersecting shadows, like beasts, making the school look eerie after being shrouded in night.
Su Xiao recalled what happened in the lab building last night and clenched her fists. She was determined to find those people and take revenge.
She turned to look at Gu Mo Ning, her fist slowly relaxing, and finally let out a helpless sigh. This was the first time she had lost her temper with Gu Mo Ning, and in fact, she really couldn't bear to make Gu Mo Ning cry.
"Hey, look at that. That seems to be Gu Moning." "Really? What's wrong with her?" "She seems to be crying." "Is that so? I heard Gu Moning and Shen Rui were together and then broke up."...
Several classmates from Class One returned to school from outside and saw Gu Mengning squatting at the entrance crying, whispering to each other.
Su Xiao's face turned darker and darker, her cold eyes slowly scanning the crowd. Su Xiao was tall and slender, and at this moment, she was in high spirits, although the water on her head had not yet dried, but her momentum was overwhelming. Even a few boys were intimidated by Su Xiao's aura, immediately shutting their mouths and hastily retreating into the school with their companions.
Gu Mian was immersed in her own world, constantly wiping away tears, completely shielding herself from the outside. She really had never thought that Su Xiao was bad in any way, she even thought that Su Xiao was the best person in this world. She had just spoken wrongly, she shouldn't have said it like that.
Gu Muer Ning thought and thought, suddenly she didn't care about her image at all, hugged her knees and cried loudly, crying and shouting, "Sorry, Xiao Xiao, I was wrong, don't ignore me."
The voice was faint and barely audible, even if someone was standing next to her listening carefully, they wouldn't be able to hear it clearly. But Su Xiao had heard it.
Su Xiao took a big stride to walk in front of Gu Mo Ning, pulled her up and initially wanted to roughly wipe away her tears before pulling her back to the dormitory. However, upon seeing Gu Mo Ning's tear-stained face, Su Xiao's heart softened.
Treated her like a baby, took out the paper from his pocket which he had taken from the restaurant earlier and gently wiped away her tears. He let out a deep sigh again.
Su Xiao stopped her actions and Gu Mengning looked at her with tears in her eyes, asking very seriously, "Xiao Xiao, can you forgive me?"
Su Xiao sighed and smiled bitterly, "You're right again, it's just that I lost control for a moment."
Gu Mò Níng's tears fell again, and she didn't care anymore. She choked back sobs, speaking in a broken tone, "Xiǎo Xiǎo, from now on, no matter what happens, you mustn't let go of my hand, okay? You're my best friend, my first friend, the only one. Don't push me away, don't abandon me, don't reject me, don't reject me, okay?"
Su Xiao tightly hugged Gu Mo Ning and gently wiped her tears away, his voice also trembling with a hint of crying, repeatedly saying "Okay, okay, okay."
The two of them hugged and cried at the school gate, completely disregarding the onlookers.
After holding her for a while, Su Xiao finally let go of Gu Mengning, wiping away her tears as she smiled, "Alright alright, stop crying, it's so embarrassing. Especially since you're the school flower of No. 1 Middle School, it's really unbecoming. Later on, it'll become the joke of No. 1 Middle School."
Gu Muer Ning also burst out laughing, like a child who had just been given candy. "Hmph, stop crying, it's so uncool."
"Haha, let's go back to the dorm." Su Xiao laughed brightly and held hands with Gu Mo Ning as they walked into school together, heading towards their dorm. Gu Mo Ning was infected by Su Xiao's laughter and smiled happily all the way.
The security guard in the duty room at the school gate had been watching them, originally intending to show some concern for them. Seeing that they quickly made up and walked away together, skipping and jumping, he also felt that there was no need to be concerned, so he picked up the newspaper again.
Su Xiao and Gu Mo Ning returned to the dormitory, both of them simultaneously looked at their phones. Because Shen Rui said that if they found those people, they would immediately tell them.
The two of them opened their phones at the same time and were shocked to see that there were dozens of missed calls, which was a bit terrifying. Especially for Gu Mo Ning, 99 calls, one more would be 100.
Fortunately, apart from the unconnected phone calls, there were also text messages. Gu Mornin received two and Su Xiao received one, all with the same content: "The person has been found, at a street-side bar."
"Xiao Xiao, are we going now?" Gu Mengning's surprised expression twisted into a knot after seeing the text message. Finding someone was good news, but it was so late, were they still going out?
"Go." Su Xiao replied firmly. She didn't think about Gu Mengning that much, she only knew she wanted revenge.
As soon as Su Xiao thought of those people dressing up as ghosts to scare them, she was furious. If those people were targeting her, she wouldn't be so bothered, but unfortunately, she wasn't that popular. Since they wanted to be rude to Gu Mengning, then don't blame her for being rude back to them.
Those girls have been causing trouble for Gu Mo Ning time and again, and now they've done something like this. Fortunately, Gu Mo Ning had a cold last night and wasn't scared, otherwise those ghostly paintings would have made her cut their faces into some kind of shape with a knife.
Gu Merning didn't know what Su Xiao was thinking, she just thought that Su Xiao had been scared too badly and was in a hurry to take revenge, so she followed her. Anyway, she still disliked those girls. They had targeted her repeatedly, and now they had even scared Xiao Xiao, which was simply unforgivable.
The two picked up their phones and walked towards the dormitory at the same time. Su Xiao quickly locked the door and pulled Gu Mengning to run outside.
Two people stopped a taxi at the school gate and hurried to a street-side bar. The security guard was left bewildered, wondering what on earth these two top students were up to today. They were hanging out with bad students, then crying shamelessly in front of the school gate, and now they're taking a taxi out so late - it's unbelievable.
The security guard shook his head in the direction of the departing taxi, sighed, and continued to lower his head to read his newspaper.
The street bar is in the west of the city, and Yizhong is in the east, with an hour's drive in between. Su Xiao rolled down the window to let the wind blow dry the water on her head, chatting idly with Gu Mo Ning.
An hour felt especially long because of the anticipation to quickly go find those girls for revenge. However, the two people chatted and laughed with the driver in the car, and it also passed quickly.
Su Xiao pulled Gu Mengning into the bar in a hurry, even forgetting to pay the taxi fare. The driver's words "Beautiful lady, you haven't paid the fare yet" were left behind and dissipated into thin air.
